Enki's Arc Witch Memorial Page

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acerexx wrote:

Any advice on what to do with this? is the life leech buff worth it all for us? should I sell or try to annul something/benchcraft?

You have "0.5% of elemental damage leeched as life" from Paragon ascendency node, so the leech is helpful. (I am not 100% sure it affects this leech, just put it on and check your Misc "life leech" stats.

You have a few choices without going into too much detail: If you want the best amulet you can get the meta crafting mod "lock all prefixes" a 2ex craft (I think your +1 intel and +1 lightning are both prefixes). When they are locked you can try to remove the suffix 15dex without risking the tier1 prefixes. Then youll be able to multimod what you need.

You need to convert at least 40% of your lightning damage to cold damage when in higher tiers. You need to build around crit, this way you are freezing your enemies with Arc while still applying max shock.

With the new cluster notables, we can really make this shine.

Key notables:

Sadist
15% increased Elemental Damage if you've Chilled an Enemy Recently
20% increased Elemental Damage if you've Ignited an Enemy Recently
25% increased Elemental Damage if you've Shocked an Enemy Recently

This gives us 40% extra elemental damage from one node.

Supercharge
Lightning Damage with Non-Critical Strikes is Lucky

Even with 60% crit, when I don't crit I am probably criting.

Stormrider
10% chance to gain a Power Charge when you Shock a Chilled Enemy
25% increased Cold Damage with Hits against Shocked Enemies
25% increased Lightning Damage with Hits against Chilled Enemies

50% increased damage in one node

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Thunderstruck
20% increased Lightning Damage
Your Critical Strikes Knock Back Shocked Enemies
30% increased Critical Strike Chance

For higher level tiers this helps kill those fast Delirium jerks that jump and stun with every hit.

Chiling Presence
Nearby Enemies are Chilled

Self explanatory but helps freeze those fast little buggers

Blast-Freeze
20% increased Cold Damage
Freezes you inflict spread to other Enemies within a Radius of 12

Key for survival with Arc or Stormburst

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This notables are the new must for the problem people are having in higher tier maps and the new jewel clusters make Ice and Lightning work perfect.

Also Call of the Brotherhood Ring can convert 40% of your lightning damage to cold.

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iSevenStarSword wrote:

You need to convert at least 40% of your lightning damage to cold damage when in higher tiers. You need to build around crit, this way you are freezing your enemies with Arc while still applying max shock.

Also Call of the Brotherhood Ring can convert 40% of your lightning damage to cold.

Thanks for all the info, those jewel notables sound great!

I decided to give it a go, bought a load of jewels and tried it out. The problem is, to get all those notables you have to take so many points away from the main skill tree. After spending 12-15 points to get all those great sounding notables my damage drops by about 1/2.

Another problem I have with a single call of the brotherhood ring: if you are converting 40% lightning to cold damage I think thats cold damage which has 0 penetration (because we are using lightning pen support).

Maybe others can get those jewel clusters to work, but I have failed to beat what is on the main skill tree so far (except with herald stacking to some extent).

hello,

Just wanted to share my progress, spend around 1ex or so on this character and POB tell me i have around 800k arc dps, with a 1.3M vaal arc burst
took a choir of the storm and a cluster jewel to add some crit and about a 100k dps from the lightning bolt
Survability is a bit of an issue (for the golems too) but DPS is fine

Got a nice +3 lightning +94% crit chance to spell staff with a single aetheric+metallic combo
I still need the socketed gem craft on it, and an assassin mark ring

Hi, I have a question about Auras and ...gear sockets ;)

Until now and as per the guide I was running 4 Auras (socketed in my helmet The Devouring Diadem) - Discipline, Wrath, Zealotry and Flesh and Stone. But I just got my hands on an item (a Stygian Belt) with Aspect of the Spider (AotS) and as per the guide, I replaced Discipline with AotS.
This aura changes left me with one free socket in the helmet as Discipline has gone bye-bye.

So what am I to do with this empty socket? Can't put more Auras as there is not enough mana. Sould I put Empowered? Or something else may be...?
I am sorry if the answer is in the guide, but I couldn find it.

Thanks,

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Jinxxxed wrote:

Hi, I have a question about Auras and ...gear sockets ;)

Until now and as per the guide I was running 4 Auras (socketed in my helmet The Devouring Diadem) - Discipline, Wrath, Zealotry and Flesh and Stone. But I just got my hands on an item (a Stygian Belt) with Aspect of the Spider (AotS) and as per the guide, I replaced Discipline with AotS.
This aura changes left me with one free socket in the helmet as Discipline has gone bye-bye.

So what am I to do with this empty socket? Can't put more Auras as there is not enough mana. Sould I put Empowered? Or something else may be...?
I am sorry if the answer is in the guide, but I couldn find it.

Thanks,

1: After you remove discipline, make sure (life x 0.43) is greater than your total energy shield. (if it is not, then keep discipline else mind over matter wont work)
2: The gem to replace is Vaal Grace. You cant run the grace aura but vaal grace is a skill that can be used for x seconds to temporarily heighten defences. (if you dont know, the skill only becomes available after you kill x number of monsters like vaal arc)(search the guide for it)

I am sure it is in here, but I can't find it. What is the math to make sure eldritch battery and MoM work together properly? like what is my health pool to my ES supposed to be?

Hi, thank you for this build. I've been playing it in my first proper league of PoE. I'm level 88 and acquired a cluster gem that has given me "Disorienting Display", which frequently blinds nearby monsters. In this case, should I still run "Flesh and Stone", or is there something else I could replace it with?

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Zeeul wrote:

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iSevenStarSword wrote:

You need to convert at least 40% of your lightning damage to cold damage when in higher tiers. You need to build around crit, this way you are freezing your enemies with Arc while still applying max shock.

Also Call of the Brotherhood Ring can convert 40% of your lightning damage to cold.

Thanks for all the info, those jewel notables sound great!

I decided to give it a go, bought a load of jewels and tried it out. The problem is, to get all those notables you have to take so many points away from the main skill tree. After spending 12-15 points to get all those great sounding notables my damage drops by about 1/2.

Another problem I have with a single call of the brotherhood ring: if you are converting 40% lightning to cold damage I think thats cold damage which has 0 penetration (because we are using lightning pen support).

Maybe others can get those jewel clusters to work, but I have failed to beat what is on the main skill tree so far (except with herald stacking to some extent).

Right, I forgot this build is Witch. I started with this build but switched to Inquisitor for Inevitable Judgement which really helps with the build I am working on since that node ignores all resists for both lightning and cold giving me 100% pure penetration with crits. This allowed me to use Assassin's Mark as an aura since I don't need any penetration nodes or penetration support gems/aura's.

I thought maybe I could help with suggestions for the higher tier problems with survival forgetting I switched ascendacies.

(btw this is a great build to get started on, essentially what I have now evolved from this build)

Hey Enki! for starters great guide! pulled me through 2 leagues so far. But i am upgrading my gear now, and i have bought the devouring diadem, respeced passive points as mentioned in your guide. but i dont have enough mana for flesh&stone, zealothry, wrath and grace :/

did i miss a special step?