Dr. Ten Fixes Your Build II, March 2021 Fixing Witch/CoC Builds
18Have you ever struggled with a build and wondered what went wrong and how to fix it? Then this is the series for you!
In this series I break down various viewer submitted builds and fix them. (Sub / watch for community polls to submit a build for the next one!)
If you want to help me make more content like this:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeMKNO3_483uucNM3fIrQKg/join
Join the Discord to hang out and talk with other PoE players:
https://discord.gg/dE7FShVWEs
I found one big trend between the builds most needing help is they were all around L85, and this is a very common thread 85-90 is about where your deaths and exp loss due to death out-strip your exp gain when mapping. This is also when people try harder content but may not have the gear or levels they need to take it on. It's normal and natural to struggle around 85 and these builds gave me some good opportunities to talk about that.
I did have to use Textuploader for a couple of the PoBs, because I hit my 24h Pastebin limit, if you want to import those just go to the link and copy the text then paste into PoB's build code section.
In today's episode, Ep 2 March 2021 I'm going to be looking at 4 different builds:
Stormcall Elementalist
Before: https://pastebin.com/S9wYDr2R
After: https://pastebin.com/m20SKjgy
Overall recommendation: Do one thing, don't split between Archmage on a phys skill, and also a lightning skill. Also while Replica Loreweave might add a lot of damage to archmage it strips too many defenses. Going MoM + ES + Life also felt like too much of a stretch for how budget this build was.
CoC Cospri Occultist
Before: https://textuploader.com/18vyt
After: https://pastebin.com/bGxppAtr
The main thing I learned here: Probably don't play Cospri's CoC IN on Occultist. Stick to either Assassin or Inquisitor, especially on a budget. The Low life and defensive portions of this are good but it feels like it's constantly held back by building around Cospri's if anything I'd rather see this as a Low Life Ball Lightning Occultist using a rare weapon of some sort. Once I added in an ES on block shield, and added proper scaling for the ES leech then it started to look even better and while I feel the end version is pretty decent it took quite a bit of work.
CoC Cospri Assassin
Before: https://textuploader.com/18vyr
After: https://pastebin.com/XQb6DAsn
Similar to the above recommendation, Cospri's CoC + IN is not really a good boss killer. If you put enough money into it then yes you can do it, yes it is probably 10 way viable now, the biggest change being to add ICR to hit the 52% cap and increasing the APS to get as close to 10.1 APS as possible. https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/fh8bnh/spellslinger_cooldown_thresholds_and_all_other/ But if you want a boss killing CoC build I suggest Purifying Flame CoC assassin instead. It will also scale way better with headhunter since base phys and require no accuracy, and less damage scaling on gear meaning more affixes to push into defenses.
Archmage Cremation Necro
Before: https://pastebin.com/M0MF3yXY
After: https://pastebin.com/McvaiyYd
This build looked solid even before I started looking at it, I made only a few very minor tweaks most notable of which was adding spell block to the shield as if you want to get as close to 75/75 as possible this is key, and also messing with some gem options (Lightning Pen could be good) Finally I replaced Kitava's Thirst because it triggering is OK but cwdt or self-cast can replace the triggers and allow you to wear Crown of the Inward eye which scales damage and defense way better.
-----
So overall those are the 4 builds, and I hope you enjoyed.
https://www.pathofexile.com/account/view-profile/tenkiei/characters
Intro Song: What If feat. Fuslie by Harris Heller
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAgIMP43ALo
00:00 - Intro song
05:00 - Introduction/Build #1 Stormcall Elementalist
45:00 - Build #2 CoC IN Occultist
1:30:00 - Build #3 CoC IN Assassin
1:58:00 - Build #4 Archmage Cremation Necromancer
Other Videos By Tenkiei
Other Statistics
Path of Exile Statistics For Tenkiei
There are 12,121,014 views in 605 videos for Path of Exile. His channel uploaded over 18 days worth of Path of Exile videos, or 57.33% of the total watchable video on Tenkiei's YouTube channel.