Enki's Arc Witch Memorial Page

Thanks for this guide. My first POE guide that I followed and was great until about T14 with about 3ex investment. You're able to do T15-T16 but you'll die alot even with 5.5HP and the damage was very low like 500k if even. Wasn't able to kill Sirus AL1 on this guy, unfortunately. You get one shot by even basic Sirus attack. People saying you just need to get good, expect unreasonable amount of skill for that to happen, especially since this is a "noob" friendly guide.

Swapped over to FB cyclone champion, which did T16 + AL6 easily. about 6.6k HP and 1mil boss dmg. About 2-3EX investment as well. A lot tankier and than Enki Arc Witch, and I stopped dying on T16 completely. You have like 25K armor, which means it make its much tankier than enki arc witch. So don't be fooled by the HP alone.

Damage was kind of low, so I swapped LL hierophant SB, which is the winner for this league. It'll probably be nerfed next league though. This guy did 8k EHP, easily 4-5Mil boss dmg per brand. This was guy that made AL8 a joke without much investment, probably 5ex for budget version will easily do everything. High end just adds extra 2K ES with watcher eye for 35ex, but unnecessary at all. With LL hierophant sb guide, I was able to complete ALL content 20/20 simulacrum, AL8, Uber Elder, T16 60% delirum (reasonably), T16 100% (do-able for the challenge, you can definitely kill stuff, but rippy), EXTREMELY fast mapper, 2min T16 juiced promenade. If you have 5EX and is hitting a wall, this is the guide to try. However, there's only 2 weeks left for the league.

Finally went over to herald stacking 200ex+ build and the only advantage over this compared to LL hierophant SB was it's a lot more tanky and can stand in delirium death explosions.

After trying 4 builds, this being my first league, 40/40 challenges and 800 hours. I think this guide shouldn't really be advertised as all content. You cannot reasonably say you can do T16 with even 60%+ delirium, or AL4+ sirus, with reasonable skill. As a league starter, I think it's fine, but even with 30ex investment, I don't think it'll even compare to some of the other meta builds.

Just wanted to bring it to people attention that you should not expect this guide to be able to do ALL content and to expect to hit a wall around T15-T16 that will NOT be worth spending 10ex+ on doryani or 5ex+ staff, which would not make this guide THAT much better. I almost quit POE cuz after spending 200hour on this enki arc, which the wall was too damn high, after expecting this guide to be able to do EVERYTHING, which was a lie.

All in all, thanks for the guide.

Hi Fallen Panda,

I share your thoughts that this league is a pain in the ass with selfcast, which is quite a pitty. Came back to Delirium after my last league which was Betrayal so a year ago. Did had many problems from the get go but managed somehow to reach T14-16 maps, as you pointed out death is real there. Believe me old arc witch builds were quite powerful in doing all content, guess was back in 3.3 Incursion were Arc got finally buffed.

But I don't think it was enki's intention that the current build is so weak in this league, as the golems are intended to be useless which is a shame. All in all without a buff of the Elementalist acsendency, the time for elemtalist is pretty done.

Cheers.

Love your Arc witch guides,ive gotten pretty far with my character and really its just my lack of experience thats holding me back from further success, thank you for these :)

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I44I MustaSurma wrote:

All in all without a buff of the Elementalist acsendency, the time for elemtalist is pretty done.

Agreed with you, current Elementalist is mostly viable for playing golem minion builds so basically feels like a reskinned Necromancer spec.

Elementalist / Inquisitor for elemental spell builds fall behind Assassin, Hierophant and Trickster, especially in the defensive department.

"Glass cannon" ascendancies don't offer much when others offer comparable dps and some defensives on top of it. Especially Assassin after buffs is top pick for anything that can crit.

Fast AF (youtuber) made an assassin arc build that was basically 1-shotting content. But keep in mind that guy has crazy amounts of currency so his gear is always insane (don't try to copy him "on a budget").

i bought a stygian belt with aspect of the spider b/c it was one of the mods in the guide. Just a note to others...you can't use it b/c you don't have enough mana reserve. Maybe I'm just an idiot for not realizing it in advance and following the gear blindly.

Waste of money on the belt. =(

A quick question: for the gloves you recommend 2 red sockets (linked) and 2 blue sockets (linked). In the red sockets I put the Cast when damage Taken & Steel Skin, but the guide says that flame dash should be in the glove as well. But the support for flame dash is green, so shouldn't the gloves be 1g+1b (linked) and 2 red (linked)?

On the boots, you will have 4 sockets. 2 red, 1 blue, 1 green

link the two reds
link the blue and green

don't do a 4 way link

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JonnSnow wrote:

i bought a stygian belt with aspect of the spider b/c it was one of the mods in the guide. Just a note to others...you can't use it b/c you don't have enough mana reserve. Maybe I'm just an idiot for not realizing it in advance and following the gear blindly.

Waste of money on the belt. =(

Once you have enough Es without Discipline you swap to Aspect of the spider, and use the free socket for vaal grace for more dodging.

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JonnSnow wrote:

On the boots, you will have 4 sockets. 2 red, 1 blue, 1 green

link the two reds
link the blue and green

don't do a 4 way link

Assuming this is a reply to me: the guide shows 3b1r 4L on the boots though? Thats why assumed the gloves were used for the steelskin + cast when damage taken combo, but like I said then we'd need 2red L + 1g1b L :/

So... arc arcanist brands?