Enki's Arc Witch Memorial Page

Hey Enki!

First of all, thanks for this build! I played a bunch on PC back between OB and Awakening and Arc was always my favorite skill. When I came back to PoE on PS4 I followed your guide in Synthesis and really liked it so I did another Arc Witch in Legion and still loved it!
In fact I'm pretty happy as this is by far the highest level and best geared char I ever had on PoE, so many thanks for this <3

I'm currently level 98 and I'd like to push this char to 100 in Standard when I'll be done with Blight.
I see you dropped some things for 3.8, like Clarity and Hypothermia/Unleash for gems ; and Breath of Lightning in the tree.

I don't understand all of the depths of theorycrafting a build gem/tree-wise so I was wondering what should I be looking to change on my current char for him to be effective when the patch hits PS4.

Also, I'm currently using a CwDT for Golems as I find it smoother on PS4 (also using Flame Dash instead of LW for that reason) ; I think I can drop the current Minion Life link for a third golem but is there a way I could use all 3 golems with CwDT and Meat Shield (5-link helmet maybe)? Or should I just manually cast them for 3.8?

You can check my account for the character "Arcoholith".
I'm using a Watcher's Eye with "10% chance to recover 10% mana w/ Clarity" on the bottom right of the tree. Don't pay attention to the Timeless Jewel as I'm testing some stuff.

Thanks again and I hope you have a great Blight league!

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Enki wrote:

@KymiBwo: You got a pretty nice setup there, would honestly not change too much. The new tree isn't much different, if your mana sustain is good enough you can save 3x passives from Essence Extraction and put them into more life/mana, Aqueos Accelerant or Breath of Lightning instead. Speaking of which, its loss is somewhat made up by the 30% ailment effect added to Beacon of Ruin. Generally i'd go for the survivability options at this point, you really don't wanna lose that 10% now.

Unfortunately there's no real option for golems that wouldn't require some big gear changes, so your choice has to be between Meat Shield or CwDt. Definitely wouldn't drop off a golem, especially the addition of Chaos Golem somewhat fixes one of this builds biggest weaknesses.

I found the current Arc setup works more consistently that Hypo/Unleash, especially when you also use Vaal Arc. Arcane Surge is especially useful now that mana sustain got hit. You can decide to keep Hypothermia instead of Controlled Destruction, it only really feels worse in ailment avoidance maps.

Other than that i'd just change Arcane Surge to Culling Strike on Orb of Storms and Wave of Conviction instead of Purifying Flame.

Good luck with hitting Lv100, please let me know how it went :)