[BSC] Lategame Arc Ele help

Quick background: This is my first character since playing a little during closed beta (love what they have done with the game). I didn't do a lot of research into the current meta, but found a theory craft someone did talking about Arc with partial damage conversions. I came up with the general areas I wanted to land on the passive tree and just started winging it.

75 levels later I was still SSF. POE.trade scared me (oh how ignorant I was), but I hadn't found a CotB yet which is pretty much the core of my build. Even with my limited understanding of the currencies, I found one to buy and right away had a huge boost to my DPS. Splitting my damage into lightning, cold, and fire into a ratio somewhere around 2:1:2 is a lot of fun especially with Shaper of Desolation Ascendency.

I am now level 88 and am feeling the pains of not being one of the current OP meta builds. I've cleared Esh and Xoph breaches, I can solo normal Atziri and Merc lab, and I easily clear Tier 12 at a really good pace unless I get lazy and die to some porcupines (I have yet to find any Tier 13). The issue I have is that I feel like my clear speed is good in general for maps and such, but most bosses are just a long, drawn out DecoyTotem-FlameDash-Zap-Zap-DecoyTotem-FlameDash-Zap-Zap ad nauseum until I miss one dodge and then RIP.

Disclaimer: I am running a hybrid Life/ES and I generally like how this has played out so far.

I have accumulated 41 Regrets and am looking to tweak a few areas to gain some better Boss DPS as well as survivability. One change I have considered is adding Crit. I don't know what the most efficient change is that I could make to accomplish that. Is it switching passives or do I just need to switch up gear or both? Specific recommendations would be awesome. I have about 1.5 ex to work with for gear atm.

Also, I have considered going for Vaal Pact and lifesteal. For about 20 Regrets I could switch some passives to that side of the tree and still get about the same Life/ES and Jewel sockets, but my DPS would take a hit. Is this worth it for the life steal survivability? What do you think the tree should look like after that change based on what I am currently running?

I appreciate any feedback you guys have and look forward to being flamed for being hybrid. Also 6L in 40 fuses for this chest (not a streamer lul).

TLDR: Noob player w/ noob build at level 88 looking for pro strats.

Profile:https://www.pathofexile.com/account/view-profile/Drewter/characters

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Drewter написал:

Specific recommendations would be awesome.

One simple recommendation - change a build. Arc (ele\\crit) is not suitable for end-game content. You can level with it, you can play in low-mid game content and have a fun with it, but.. arc is just not good enough. I know this very well - i start with arc (crit) in 2013 and use it until Breach league starts. First breachlord domain shows me, how bad is this skill and any builds, based on this skill..

You can look at coc-vortex (cwc, coc) builds - insane clear-speed, insane dps on multi and single targets, smooth gameplay, relative cheap..

At this point the build is working just fine. It isn't a question of viability as I've already proved that it is more than capable. Again, cleared two breach domains with only the boss being the annoying part. Anyone can point to another build and say how it's better. I'll make a separate post the next time I am interested in playing a different build.

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1147951
Its about the most useful arc build there is. If you cant find the information you need in it, you're not likely to find it at all.

That being said, Arc doesnt have "late game" I love arc, being playing it for some time, it however isn't viable beyond Normal Atziri, which is basically a joke at this point. You'll be fine mapping, and likely be able to clear most maps, but in a party, or bossing you will be useless.

There's nothing wrong with arc, people just don't know how to build, like that guy's guide you linked, and arc isn't suppose to be a single target spell to begin with, just use a different spell for single target.

@Drewter

Here some motivation, there is always hope !
You gonna need 4L Arc and 6L lightning tendril for boss.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ljA_ay-Gd0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGIu5Cz5kZ0&t=1175s (he died two times because of bad gameplay)

Drewter, why you scale flat dmg?
Summ of flat lighting dmg:
(8+132+10+132+19+76+20+378)/2*.6 = 232,5
(47+886)/2 = 466,5
(232,5+466,5)/466,5 = 699/466,5 = 1,498392282958199 => 1,5

Elemental focus:
(47+886)/2 * 1,49 = 695,085

Have you enough penetration for boss?

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Wasfill написал:

Drewter, why you scale flat dmg?
Summ of flat lighting dmg:
(8+132+10+132+19+76+20+378)/2*.6 = 232,5
(47+886)/2 = 466,5
(232,5+466,5)/466,5 = 699/466,5 = 1,498392282958199 => 1,5

Elemental focus:
(47+886)/2 * 1,49 = 695,085

Are you saying I should swap out my lightning damage passives for elemental damage? Since I am converting my damage from lightning into cold and fire as well, I wasn't sure if those damage types would benefit more from the additional lightning damage before the conversion or if I should grab more elemental damage nodes. I haven't looked into how all of that math works, but I could definitely spend some regrets if you think it's worth it.

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Dagenais написал:

@Drewter

Here some motivation, there is always hope !
You gonna need 4L Arc and 6L lightning tendril for boss.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ljA_ay-Gd0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGIu5Cz5kZ0&t=1175s (he died two times because of bad gameplay)

I leveled using lightning tendril a bunch, but I didn't realize it could still have potential. I'll look into that, thanks for the tip!

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Drewter написал:

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Wasfill написал:

Drewter, why you scale flat dmg?
Summ of flat lighting dmg:
(8+132+10+132+19+76+20+378)/2*.6 = 232,5
(47+886)/2 = 466,5
(232,5+466,5)/466,5 = 699/466,5 = 1,498392282958199 => 1,5

Elemental focus:
(47+886)/2 * 1,49 = 695,085

Are you saying I should swap out my lightning damage passives for elemental damage? Since I am converting my damage from lightning into cold and fire as well, I wasn't sure if those damage types would benefit more from the additional lightning damage before the conversion or if I should grab more elemental damage nodes. I haven't looked into how all of that math works, but I could definitely spend some regrets if you think it's worth it.

I think you can change your build from "ele status aligment" to "pure dmg".
Something like that:
Arc + ele focus + echo + cold to fire + contr. destr. + life leach/empower/fire pen
Take "avatar of fire" or use "x'oph blood"; use call of brotherhood; use wrath; use hysteria essence.
But you can't apply shock,freez,ignite =\