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On 26/06/2019 at 5:20 PM, Cailco said
I’m trying to make an Arc build and I would like other players that know what they are doing when it comes to build making to go over mine and let me know if I’ve made a complete A*** of my self. And if it’s possible can you let me know why you would make some of the changes that you would make.
I would like to keep Eldritch Battery, Mind over matter, Elemental overload, as well as the Constitution, set behind the Marauder.
On 26/06/2019 at 5:20 PM, Cailco said
I’m trying to make an Arc build and I would like other players that know what they are doing when it comes to build making to go over mine and let me know if I’ve made a complete A*** of my self. And if it’s possible can you let me know why you would make some of the changes that you would make.
I would like to keep Eldritch Battery, Mind over matter, Elemental overload, as well as the Constitution, set behind the Marauder.
You have a lot of wasted points in your tree, for starters. Personally, I would be going something more along these lines if I was setting up a basic
Arc build. Is there any particular reason you’re set on Eldritch Battery and Elemental Overload?
Arc, in general, plays better as a proper Critical Strike build than with Elemental Overload. If you are set on sticking EO, I would drop the Crit notables like Annihilation since you are pathing through Lightning Walker anyways. You have 3.5k Mana in your build, but you’re only reserving 1.2k of that — for your Life pool, the optimal amount of Mana (unreserved) is 1561, which results in about 5.2k effective health. Any more than that is entirely wasted, so you could be getting all that Energy Shield as extra defense, or increase your Life pool and make more use of the unreserved Mana.
My recommended links for
Arc are 
Spell Echo Support, 
Unleash Support, 
Lightning Penetration Support, and 
Increased Critical Strikes Support (if you were playing without EO). The 6th link could be a lot of different options; 
Hypothermia Support is the best overall, but you need Cold damage to spells on at least one thing in your build to make it work. 
Empower Support is also great at Level 3 or 4. If you are set on playing EO, you should definitely be using
Controlled Destruction Support (replace 
Arcane Surge Support) and drop 
Added Lightning Damage Support for 
Energy Leech Support if you’re going to stick with Eldritch Battery. I don’t have enough time on my hands to do an in-depth breakdown of everything, otherwise I’d just write a new build guide :P but let me know your thoughts and I’ll try to fire off some advice.
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Thank you for the reply Furty
I don’t mind dropping EO is it’s getting to get me that little bit of extra damage. I also cannot remember why I picked EO.
To start with, I want to use EB as I had used a build in the last league that made use of the skill and mind over matter and it just clicked with me. The extra mana might be from the Items I have selected, will look into that one. The energy leech support will help with the new energy shield recharge.
Hypothermia should be set off by Holy Dom. but I’ll look to see if I cannot add in cold damage somewhere through items for changing out a skill gem.
is there any jewel type you would recommend I search up,or do I just get rid of the jewel slots and spend the point elsewhere?
I do mind the help, in fact, it would probably make me a better player of PoE and probably force me to complete the game on either this or next league.
Thank for send advice my way.
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On 27/06/2019 at 1:59 PM, Cailco said
Thank you for the reply Furty
I don’t mind dropping EO is it’s getting to get me that little bit of extra damage. I also cannot remember why I picked EO.
To start with, I want to use EB as I had used a build in the last league that made use of the skill and mind over matter and it just clicked with me. The extra mana might be from the Items I have selected, will look into that one. The energy leech support will help with the new energy shield recharge.
Hypothermia should be set off by Holy Dom. but I’ll look to see if I cannot add in cold damage somewhere through items for changing out a skill gem.
is there any jewel type you would recommend I search up,or do I just get rid of the jewel slots and spend the point elsewhere?
I do mind the help, in fact, it would probably make me a better player of PoE and probably force me to complete the game on either this or next league.
Thank for send advice my way.
One of the main benefits of Critical Strike based ailment builds is also that crits have a 100% chance to inflict Shock, which plays into the build, despite the fact that your base chance to shock is pretty high.
Eldritch Battery is fine to use, you just need to set up the rest of your build around it. You should definitely be reserving a lot more of your Mana if you have that much Energy Shield to use as a buffer. As a general rule of thumb, whenever you are using Mind Over Matter, you want a ratio of Mana to Life equivalent to the tooltip (30% of damage taken from Mana) — in other words, 30/70, or multiply your Life by 0.4285 to find the ideal unreserved Mana value.
With Eldritch Battery using
Arcane Surge Support is a big no-no, simply because procuring the effect must come from Mana spent and not any other source — even the ###item:blood-magic-support### gem will not allow Arcane Surge Support to trigger. In any case, even without Eldritch Battery, caster builds will typically prefer to have Arcane Surge Support for free by linking it to a mobility skill such as 
Flame Dash. For non-EO, Jewels you want will have stuff like Multiplier with Lightning Skills, Global Crit Multiplier, Spell Damage with a Shield/While Dual Wielding (Setup Dependent), Global Crit Chance, etc. If you are sticking with EO just stack Spell Damage as much as possible and Lightning Damage where you can get it. Always try to get Maximum Life or % Maximum Life on whatever pieces possible (this will also make balancing your MoM a lot easier).
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On 27/06/2019 at 9:23 PM, Furty said
One of the main benefits of Critical Strike based ailment builds is also that crits have a 100% chance to inflict Shock, which plays into the build, despite the fact that your base chance to shock is pretty high.
Eldritch Battery is fine to use, you just need to set up the rest of your build around it. You should definitely be reserving a lot more of your Mana if you have that much Energy Shield to use as a buffer. As a general rule of thumb, whenever you are using Mind Over Matter, you want a ratio of Mana to Life equivalent to the tooltip (30% of damage taken from Mana) — in other words, 30/70, or multiply your Life by 0.4285 to find the ideal unreserved Mana value.
With Eldritch Battery using
Arcane Surge Support is a big no-no, simply because procuring the effect must come from Mana spent and not any other source — even the ###item:blood-magic-support### gem will not allow Arcane Surge Support to trigger. In any case, even without Eldritch Battery, caster builds will typically prefer to have Arcane Surge Support for free by linking it to a mobility skill such as Flame Dash. For non-EO, Jewels you want will have stuff like Multiplier with Lightning Skills, Global Crit Multiplier, Spell Damage with a Shield/While Dual Wielding (Setup Dependent), Global Crit Chance, etc. If you are sticking with EO just stack Spell Damage as much as possible and Lightning Damage where you can get it. Always try to get Maximum Life or % Maximum Life on whatever pieces possible (this will also make balancing your MoM a lot easier).
Thanks for the help. I’ll make some more changed then see about trying to put it in practice and see where it takes me. Nothing like trial by fire to see what works and what doesn’t. I’ll also be dropping EO
Edited by Cailco on June 28th, 2019
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Yeah, i was so disappointed when my arcane surge didn’t proc with BM keystone.
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