[3.17] Beginner Friendly Arc Mines Guide | All Content on 5L | Lvling Guide

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AnActualHorn wrote:

Hello everyone,

Just gave my thoughts about the patch notes and my thoughts about them under the 3.8 updates spoiler. Will be testing some of the new mines this league and will hopefully go more in depth with the guide after seeing what works the best with all the new updates.

Feel free to ask any questions/give feedback!

As usual, I'm waiting for your update on this build for 3.8.

Thanks mate, for the previous great guidance. Can't wait for the updated arc mine for 3.8.

Hey man, great guide. Could you post the updated PoB link? Have to scroll way in to see the new tree.

Any ideas for annointments?

can we still fit essence worm on the build? I imagine that the +40% mana reservation also applies to mines, so the cost of spamming mines might get quite high

and also, what about skitterbots? not worth the dmg % + mine explosion/reactivation?

Can anyone help with rare weapon filter on poe.trade/off. trade?

Been mapping for a day, my gear is as follows (about 30c investment):



I was initially running 2x heartbreaker (given divinarius were 1.5ex each yesterday), but the shield dropped and it gave me an extra ~200ehp and bumped me up to ~4.5k ehp).

For ascendancies, I took Born in the Shadows, Bomb Specialist, Explosives Expert, and will take Pyromaniac as the last.

Leveling was very smooth, I experimented with lightning trap instead of ice spear mine and found the single target can be a bit more reliable, but ISM is very satisfying.

The only issues I have with blight content so far are when blight bosses spawn during map encounters. Overall DPS wouldn't be an issue, but I can't usually kill them before they reach the node and destroy it. I'm sure that's just due to poor gear and would be resolved by the usual upgrades (gear stats, 20/20 gems, 6L ice spear, etc etc). I also find sometimes that throwing arc mines can feel a little sluggish.

Having a lot of fun with this. Would be interested in ideas/opinions from others playing this in 3.8.

I want to 6L my arc and use it as my main skill, any ideas for last link? I'm thinking lightning pen or added lightning, but i don't know. Also would like to know opinions on annointment for amulet. thanks d00ds

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RapidFawn52830 wrote:

I want to 6L my arc and use it as my main skill, any ideas for last link? I'm thinking lightning pen or added lightning, but i don't know. Also would like to know opinions on annointment for amulet. thanks d00ds

Your character tab isn't visible, so can't see what you're running at the moment, but we'll assume it's:

Arc - Minefield - Trap and mine damage - Added Cold damage

A shaper helm would add Blastchain and an additional mine ideally.

If we have a look at poe.ninja (https://poe.ninja/challenge/builds?class=Saboteur&skill=Arc), the top supports for arc are:

- Trap and mine damage
- Blastchain mine
- Increased crit strikes
- Lightning pen
- Minefield
- Added lightning
- Controlled destruction

So I guess you'd pick one from that list (going top to bottom in decreasing order of popularity). Probably also worth going into POB and comparing a 4L arc in a shaper helm with blastchain + additional mine to a standard 6L with some of these options to compare DPS. Off the top of my head, I don't know how much dps an extra mine adds compared to a 6th support gem link. Perhaps someone else can weigh in with opinions on that.

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RapidFawn52830 wrote:

I want to 6L my arc and use it as my main skill, any ideas for last link? I'm thinking lightning pen or added lightning, but i don't know. Also would like to know opinions on annointment for amulet. thanks d00ds

If you show your character tab on your profile I can check PoB for you to see which is the best 6L for arc

Off the top of my head its probably
Arc - Blastchain mine - Increased Critical strikes - trap and mine damage - lightning penetration - added lightning damage

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RapidFawn52830 wrote:

Any ideas for annointments?

Looks like there are a few useful options for mine damage annointments:

- Destructive Apparatus
- Successive Detonations
- Blast Waves
- Efficient Explosives