[3.4] Arc Mines Hall of Grandmasters Farming Build

I think that you underestimate the effectiveness of Mind over Matter, what it does is if you take lets say 1000 damage, that you get -700 life and -300 mana.
This means that the life to mana ratio isn't 10:3 but 7:3.
Your PoB link has 4989 life and just 1463 mana which's almost 600 mana short for making full use of MoM.
Of course it's not possible to bridge that gap within the limitation of the used items and maybe you shouldn't even want to for the Divination Destillate, but it'd be good to at least recommend to try to include mana on the amulet.

Is this build hc viable?

cant yoiu drop tier 8 maps comepltely so you get more t9-12?

Hey I've been testing out your build, and was just curious on the ring choice, how do you feel about swapping ventors for Le Heup ring with decent rolls? Thanks for the build I'm loving it as a league starter.

Hi, what better for this build on 86+? I have rats nest and devotos (all with additional 3 arc)

Can you add a list of your other builds (though I only know of the VD/BS Elementalist) on the bottom of your build guide? I'm really enjoying this build so far (just got to Act6) and would love to see your other boss specific builds.

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ThunderBiome wrote:

Can you add a list of your other builds (though I only know of the VD/BS Elementalist) on the bottom of your build guide? I'm really enjoying this build so far (just got to Act6) and would love to see your other boss specific builds.

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2136554

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I have been playing this build for a little while now, and got it to lvl 90 and thought i would share my thoughts and gearing. I decided not to play it as a MF character due to the price of decent ventors and the increased price of HOTGM. I wanted the build to be able to map effectively as well

I left the skill tree the same.

Sarkonjas, devotos or rats nest are all fine as a helmet with the arc enchant. sarkonjas gives life, dex and crit. Rats gives a lot of crit, and move speed. devotos gives dex, move speed and chaos res. If i could choose again id take sarkonjas


For gloves i took meginords with temp chains. They give 100 strength and nothing else useful. they make it easy to wear kaoms without insane gear.


I was able to get an amulet with 25% spell damage. Tora can craft up to 20% mine damage on a rare belt as a suffix.

Tremor rod is good as it lets you use your mines twice, near instantly. It has saved my ass plenty of times.


Instead of linking my helm, boots of gloves for scorching ray, i put a balefire on switch with burning damage, efficacy and elemental focus. I swap to it for gubben, dynuss and friends but i dont need it outside of HOTGM. It also does more damage than a four link setup as it is effectively a 5 link in a three link weapon.


Not needing a scorching ray setup in my gear means a item of gear is freed up. I used kaoms roots as my boots instead of taking a new skill as i didnt need any different skills. Its gives cant be stunned so we dont need it on our armour as well as the life and cant be slowed.

An important note about boot enchants. This build does not "kill" or "crit", our mines do for us so enchants that occur when we haven't crit or killed are up 100% of the time. I am using added lightning damage if you haven't killed recently as it is basically half a wrath gem of damage added on its own although lightning penetration could be good as well

I have used this build for mapping up to tier 14 and 15 comfortably and quickly most of the time i use a six socket dalla's malefication to lvl gems in instead of kaoms as it isnt necessary most of the time I am comfortably able to farm uberlab. I havent died yet on HOTGM and i dont think Ive gone under half hp once

Currently lvl 90. 5423 life, 1551 mana, 15,614 damage per mine

Doesn't control destruction reduce critical chance of arc when it is used from trap?