Enki's Arc Witch Memorial Page

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pitrek46 wrote:

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Damoochie wrote:

Played this build to lvl 93 and found it's great for solo mapping - fast, smooth and straightforward playstyle. But once you start doing some end game maps in groups (approx. T12+) you really start to feel the lack of single target damage output. It becomes painfully obvious in scenarios where I can be zapping away furiously at a rare/unique enemy only to have someone else swoop in and quickly finish them off with their proper single target skill (incursion bosses in groups also comes to mind as one of the more obvious examples of bad single target damage).

I don't want to shit on your build as it's an extremely well written guide and I am still having fun with it. I just can't shake the feeling that my end-game, regarding single target, is not going to improve much beyond the point I'm at now (and at end-game, damage is practically our main focus - softcore especially).

Please feel free to look at my gear (Name: Doosra). Maybe I'm doing something wrong but I'm sure there's not a great deal of headroom left to reach the desired damage output I would expect from a well geared build (stat stick builds for example).

Thanks though. And good effort with the build and guide.

Look at my profile, im sitting at ho with 68.600 damage with golems up, so i suppose you have a lot to improve.

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Enki91 wrote:

@Damoochie: It's true, Arc got much better in that regard with the buff but it's still not a Molten Strike or Blade Flurry. That said, you still have some room for DPS improvements there.
Biggest ones would be a Lv21 Vaal Arc and Empower Lv4, I know that both are costly but where others have to invest into a better weapon for base damage, we have to raise it this way. Then there's also enchantments, i'd recommend to farm the penetration enchant on boots, for helmet you can consider buying Watcher's Eye and replace MotC with a rare with the Arc chains enchant, or farm for it.

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Damoochie wrote:

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pitrek46 wrote:

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Damoochie wrote:

Played this build to lvl 93 and found it's great for solo mapping - fast, smooth and straightforward playstyle. But once you start doing some end game maps in groups (approx. T12+) you really start to feel the lack of single target damage output. It becomes painfully obvious in scenarios where I can be zapping away furiously at a rare/unique enemy only to have someone else swoop in and quickly finish them off with their proper single target skill (incursion bosses in groups also comes to mind as one of the more obvious examples of bad single target damage).

I don't want to shit on your build as it's an extremely well written guide and I am still having fun with it. I just can't shake the feeling that my end-game, regarding single target, is not going to improve much beyond the point I'm at now (and at end-game, damage is practically our main focus - softcore especially).

Please feel free to look at my gear (Name: Doosra). Maybe I'm doing something wrong but I'm sure there's not a great deal of headroom left to reach the desired damage output I would expect from a well geared build (stat stick builds for example).

Thanks though. And good effort with the build and guide.

Look at my profile, im sitting at ho with 68.600 damage with golems up, so i suppose you have a lot to improve.

I've actually looked at your profile already from a previous post you made xD There's not much of significance there really, apart from extra cast speed and the +1 chain on helmet (I've never needed helmet enchants that are stupidly rare to enable a build for end game). I'm sitting at 50k in my hideout which i expect would rise to a comparable figure of your dps as my gems reach 20/21. I still don't think it will be enough for high hp mobs in high tier areas with a full group.. but we shall see.

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Enki91 wrote:

@Damoochie: It's true, Arc got much better in that regard with the buff but it's still not a Molten Strike or Blade Flurry. That said, you still have some room for DPS improvements there.
Biggest ones would be a Lv21 Vaal Arc and Empower Lv4, I know that both are costly but where others have to invest into a better weapon for base damage, we have to raise it this way. Then there's also enchantments, i'd recommend to farm the penetration enchant on boots, for helmet you can consider buying Watcher's Eye and replace MotC with a rare with the Arc chains enchant, or farm for it.

I just know that by this stage of my last few serious builds I was absolutely carving up bosses and anything with decent HP; even with extra mob HP from full groups and even with only a 5l. Unfortunately, Arc doesn't feel anywhere near those builds in terms of damage potential; at least not without a lot of extra effort perfecting things that generally should only be considered gravy (helm enchants, high lvl corrupted gems etc.). I'm tired of stat stick builds... but dammit i'll make another one if it's the simplest way to get real damage.

I will, however, persevere with your build to see what it feels like when it's mostly complete. It's still a fun, fast mapping build :>

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pitrek46 wrote:

Look at my profile, im sitting at ho with 68.600 damage with golems up, so i suppose you have a lot to improve.

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Damoochie wrote:

I've actually looked at your profile already from a previous post you made xD There's not much of significance there really, apart from extra cast speed and the +1 chain on helmet (I've never needed helmet enchants that are stupidly rare to enable a build for end game). I'm sitting at 50k in my hideout which i expect would rise to a comparable figure of your dps as my gems reach 20/21. I still don't think it will be enough for high hp mobs in high tier areas with a full group.. but we shall see.

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GraissE wrote:

How do you guys manage to have this much damage? I have gathered I believe a lot of + % lightning damage but am not getting anywhere close from your tooltips :)

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GraissE wrote:

Thanks! You have no idea on how much I am enjoying the HH aha