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Arc Archmage
Latest update: 3.25 – Day 10 – August 4, 2024
My 3.25 league starter. Archmage was buffed in 3.24 and not nerfed in 3.25. I used to despise archmage because of the high cost of spells and when I ended up in a pool of degen, I would loose my mana and wouldn’t be able to escape. Now, you don’t need to raise your mana cost to deal damage so I wanted to give it a new try.
Obvious choice would have been Goratha Ice Nova Frostbolt or UberDan Ball Lightning of Orbiting which are the 2 meta skills to play archmage in 3.25. But Ice Nova would have fried my graphic card and made eppileptic. And Ball lightning of orbiting needs to be played at melee range. And I’m a morron and wanted to have fun with Vaal Arc.
So I made my own build with a mix of Goratha’s build, UberDan’s build, and Anime Princess Spark Archamage build + other people playing Arc on poeninja. But it’s pretty much a cheap standard Archmage Hierophant archetype.
Smooth levelling, start hitting a wall on red maps with not enough DPS and not enough survavibility. I soldier on dying way too many times to push my Atlas and get my first 2 stones. I had swapped to crit too early and lost survavibility for a moderate gain of DPS.
Then I switched 2 gems to Ball Lightning of Orbiting and Slower projectiles support and my DPS felt like it tripled and I was able to do my last 2 stones. So this was the end of the adventure with Vaal Arc.
How doe this build compare to the others?
TLDR: Ok to league start, quickly outclassed, follow a real guide!
Path Of Building with Gear and Gem Links
What I believe is reasonable to be ticked on:
- Endurance and power charges (ascendency), 20% shock, unnerve (glove implicit), 3 stages for sigil and frost shield, arcane cloak automated
Conditional buffs not ticked:
- Flasks, last stages of sigil and frost shield, vaal arc
Please visit this Google Sheet to see the main information and POB data I kept track of compared to the other builds.
Real Build Creators
Goratha’s video update for 3.25 Frostbolt Icenova Archmage.
UberDan Ball Lightning of Orbiting’s video and POB in description.
Anime Princess Spark Archmage
Popular Builds on poeninja
Beside the 2 meta builds, Spark, Arc are being played. Archamge being in a pretty good position, any skills could be played.
My experience, my choices, my results, etc.
DEFENCES & RECOVERY
Defensive layers
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- HEALTH POOL. Life, Mana, ES, Arcane Cloak when active.
- MITIGATION. Res and endurance charges
- AVOIDANCE. Nothing but dual wielding block
- RECOVERY. Mostly ES and life leech, Mana regen and recoup, Life flask
- AILMENTS. freeze, shock, chill and ignite partially, Corrupted blood immunity
- STUN. Brine King
- HEALTH POOL. Life, Mana, ES, Arcane Cloak when active.
HC viable?
Some people can but I couldn’t. I died 5 times in the campaigns because I was rushing it, maybe another 4-5 times until red maps, again, rushing the league start and atlas completion regardless of map mods. Then another 50 times to get my 2 stones. I think HC is doable by taking your time but I don’t see surviving red maps without investing in spell suppress, evasion bases and Grace, a bit of phys taken as. If I would do it again, I would follow UberDan build for a more tanky approach.
DPS
3,1 millions with Arc when in the Sigil of power, frost shield, Assassin’s mark, etc. But it does not feel great, some tanky rare can take a long time and the pinnacle bosses take a long time too.
BOSSING
Normal pinnacle bosses – only 2 stones
The Feared – not tried but no
Uber bosses – not tried but no
T17 – not tried but no
MAPPING
A mix of Frostblink of wintry blast which can clear most packs, Arc for big rares, Vaal Arc is always satisfying. Pretty fast map clear.
VISIBILITY
It’s good when mapping but on bosses, I had a hard time to see ground effect with the Sigil of power and Frost shield.
SPEED
I favoured speed with Haste. Again Frostbling of wintry blast is … a blast.
DIFFICULTY
Pretty easy to put the build together. A bit more difficult to get optimal DPS as you need to target while putting yourself in the Sigil of power and frost shield.
Special interactions?
Nothing much. I had to keep in mind that I was archmage and I need mana on all my gear. I tried to used Corrupted Soul but it was a bit better but not that much to justify the investment, so I revereted back and ES leech does the job. I had to invest in mana regen as I felt it lacking. Looking back, I should I got the mastery « 10% chance to recover 10% of mana when you use a skill ».
Oh! One thing to note is the mastery « Hits have 25% chance to treat Enemy Monster Elemental Resistance values as inverted ». No curse wiht -res, no exposure, just this mastery and lightning penetration. Low investment and almost as good that dual curses + exposure.
BUDGET?
Cost?
Pretty cheap, 12 divines on day 10 of the league all included (8 if excluding gems).
Economy is ever changing so you should take this with a grain of salt. Early leagues might see sometimes way cheaper or way more expensive. Visit the Google Sheet below to see all items and gems cost.
League starter?
Yes
SSF viable?
Yes, the few uniques I used are common and not mandatory
FUN
Yes, it was fun, the only frustrating was hitting the wall because of the lack of DPS and survavibility.
Levelling?
I started using Arc at lvl 12 (Rolling magma + Holy flame totem + Flame wall until then). I added Orb of storms as a secondary skill. I started using archmage support after lab 3 when I had enough of a mana pool and the 3rd ascendancy.
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