I can’t ever tell you sure what to do with your attributes bc it will depend on your gear, but you will need over 120 int by the end, so grab a healthy amount of that
I can't even express how much I appreciate these build guides, they are so clear, so easy to grasp! Amazing job making POE more understandable for noob like me!
This was the build i was already running pretty much with a few improvements......big ups to my man Raxx.....when it comes to aarpgs me and my best friend treat your stuff like the literal bible......god teir content creator for sure!!!!!!!!!
Also when you infect enemies with contagion, when they die, contagion stays on the corps. So when those little scorpion minions appear, they are all infected automatically by contagion, then they continue to spread as they attack. Such a great loop!
Not sure if this is a bug or not, but when you get the passive skill, "Lord of Horror" (Minions have 12% reduced reservation) you need to click off all of your minions and then click them back. The game doesn't factor in the reduced reservation on active minions and that should get you at least 1 if not 2 additional minions.
I was 80% there, but i was using the build all wrong, i was struggling with a couple bosses in act 2. With the few tweaks i made from this video i went in and melted them with no problem. Crazy how a few small things can make a huge difference. I didnt follow your build to a tee but i got the gist of it and used the info you provided to help me along. Thanks! Im a new sub.
I was having problems with my Witch minion build near the end of act 2, since switching to your Skill/Gem loadout I beat 5 bosses at the first attempt and i’m towards the end of Act 3 with ease. Thank you!
As a POE noob I am proud to say I made this build before seeing any guides. Love my minion witch! So much fun especially when you watch the monsters burn 🔥
I love your philosophy in building! Now we get to see you take these classes into endgame and watch you make slight tweaks. Looking forward to seeing your tier 10+ builds!
This was so well broken down in the clearest way possible that anyone who has never even heard of this game could grasp it easily. Thank you man. Im only in act 2 but I learned a ton in such a short time watching this. Easiest sub.
bro i gotta tell, one of the best poe videos i have seen so far if not the best, you r covering absolutely everything ppl need to know in a very easy way to understand.
I was working with an extremely similar build that I put together that I was trying to figure out why it wasn't working. Then realizing swap the wand for the shield.. oh my god. Plus this build with a controller is perfect. I'm using unearth while I work on gems for extra minions and with the shield, it points to the closest enemy which is usually in front of a bunch of dead monsters, so now when I use unearth, it doesn't go to a random wall with nothing, I unearth the monsters directly behind my target which usually spawns max minions.. It's fantastic. Thanks Hooded man.
Minion survival becomes a big issue when you get to maps and you WILL need to invest into survival. The problem is the revive timer resets if a minion dies. So if you fight something that can kill your minions (which is a lot if you dont make them tanky) you will lose one, your damage goes down and the enemies have less targets, which means you lose the next one before the revive and the timer resets, and it cascades until you are alone for the full revive timer and at that point you're probably dead. For personal survival ES stacking and grim feast is well known to be busted and you can take it easily with this build because there honestly arent that many minion nodes we need to worry about and you can pump your ES up a ton. Secondly consider taking the right side of that block tree and find yourself a shield with a high increased block roll. You can pretty easily be hitting over 60% block with just a few points. My witch is at 68% right now and combining that with grim feast means you dont die unless all your minions do first in maps
@goatyord you're on a 24 minute long build video for a game about autisticly over analyzing and optimizing numbers and you cant read a concise comment with a few build suggestions? You lost?
Great info Purple! im new to POE and was already running this type of build and wondered how endgame would be! I was getting worried about the survival side.
While you raise valid points, this is explicitly a levelling build. I agree with you though and think this build does more harm then good - it gives the player (especially a new one) a false sense of security that will perish in the end game. Also this build and playstyle have serious visibility problems that I think are worth mentioning.
@@APurpleSpyI think his issue was lack of paragraphs. I kind of see where he's coming from. Itsonlyonestepawayfromnotusingwhitesoaceatallwhywouldyounot
And as always raxx is the hero who saves poe2 for me. I will try rhis build. Keep up your good work. Watching your guides is great. You always learn something.
I know it's probably suboptimal, but I went Bloodmage in hopes the Leech stuff worked and to be a Cold caster but never made it to the build before the nerfs. I think Minion Witch as Bloodmage going down the right side of the tree is pretty good. Makes you really tanky, and the minions do all the work so you aren't sacrificing life to do any damage. I'd recommend people try it out before rerolling their Witch that may feel bricked.
Thank you man, this is EXACTLY what I've been looking for since realising Blood Mage isn't really viable yet. Barely need to change anything to change over from a bare bones minion DOT build to this. Very much appreciated 😀
I had actually just started this but my tree is a mess so this will totally come in handy to help me clean that up, thanks! Also the wand skill that turns corpses into heat seeking fireballs just makes this insanely fun as well :)
Great guide, this is actually what i been building on my own. But i see now i made some mistakes getting spell damage. Easy fix...and i see i at least chose the right kind of gear too so im happy about that. Thanks for the help!!! Will fix the build on my next day off 😊
Hey Raxx, appreciate the content. I know lots of people are looking for build guides and whatnot, and I enjoy them to see whats possible, but I mostly like to make my own... any chance you can make some "PoE2 for Dummies" videos, like what to do in the end game, tips for crafting and trading, things like that? Would be useful to new players like myself - I'm getting all my info from the global chat right now.
Opposite for me as a warrior. I cant see what the enemies are doing due to the fire walls. The skeletons look like enemies. You can't turn off the allies VFX.
Firewall+skulls just clutter up screen and make it hard to see enemy dmg zones.. also after testing i realised it adds little to dmg overall. I use enfeeble now which means i'm taking less dmg and so are minions...with the added bonus i can see ground !!!
Appreciate the info brother! I was close to this as a newbie beginner in POE, but there were a few parts of your build that helped me become tankier and do some more dps. Thanks for the info and build. I am level 20 now and have made it to the rolling caravan in act 2. I'm liking the game and the minion witch so far. Just going to keep grinding on the campaign and leveling. I'm thinking about maybe merc which was my first choice pre-launch, but back to my favorite type in the minion realm at launch. Seen your content on ranger and that is my 2nd favorite type of toon. Enjoying the game so far. My first ARPG was D4 and I still enjoy it (1200hrs playtime), but this is also fun and challenging in a different way. Enjoy your videos and streams. Keep it up!
Dude, i can't believe I found this video yesterday after suffering to level 30 with a chaos hexblast build that stalled out at the end of Act 3. Within a few hours I had obliterated Act 3. Thank you sir.
sadly GGG will raise the spirit cost of the Arsonits soon. This is what is written in the forum "Skeletal Arsonists Spirit costs now match the other two Skeleton Mages, this should result in a slight decrease in the number of Arsonists at a higher level." 😒
Congratulations on the 0 deaths! And thank you for all the content that you provide to help others and us to learn from and mostly enjoy playing the game! keep up the great work!
Yo thanks a bunch. I have a feeling this will get boring but cant but cant deny how OP this looks. Only had to make subtle changes with my level 25 witch to get the ball rolling with this.
I am completely new to ARPGs (okay I played like an hour of D4 when it came out) and I was doing this build basically without even trying! I just had fire wall spawn raging spirits and skeletal archers (which I’m gonna switch out for arsonists now!) I’m glad this is a good build because I have no clue what I’m doing but I’m progressing nicely!
This video is great, thank you. Any chance you could please post a screenshot of your passive tree too? I know there's a maxroll link, but it doesn't show what to allocate the many many attribute nodes. I'm new to the game, so I don't know if I should just be focusing on intelligence or strength or what since I don't know if minion damage scales on. You don't seem to have any mana issues in the game, so what should I focus on?
Just a note on UNEARTH CONTAGION interation. if trash dies with contagion raise them with unearth they will carry the debuff from contagion really helpfull early.
Very interesting construction, but for those who are just starting with the first construction, it is extremely difficult to realize, realize, somehow you lack spirit, I am at level 10 and I have not found anything with which I can jump to spirit Anyway congratulations for the very explicit video in the understanding of everyone
As a witch I’ve done everything in my power to avoid this build but it seems to be the only build anyone recommends. A chaos/disease blood mage would be cool
This is exactly what I tried to do on EA launch. I don't recommend it at all. Bloodmage is one of the worst, if not the worst, ascendancy and chaos dot for damage just doesn't feel smooth. You really need to delete the enemies instantly like the fire minion build does or else you start to see the glaring weaknesses of the minion AI compared to enemy AI. The enemies almost completely ignore your minions. The mobs go straight for you and you're left running around waiting for the disease to spread. Someone else referred to the build as a "backpedal simulator".
@@cranknnutz ya I’d like to avoid having any minions it’s just not my thing. Blood mage is the only reason I picked witch and I’m lvl 42 so I’m too deep to go back
Thank you so much for this guide. Easy to understand and follow for a newbie. One favor I would ask if you ever get around to it is time stamps so we can go back and forth but not a big deal. Cheers!
damn you are so educational when you describe everything. Im new to the game and I love it so far, and guides like yours makes a huge difernece. thx alot and plz keep posting!
love minion builds. I use Malice sceptre and go crit with skeleton warriors. I do not really use SRS anymore. The fire can cause a problem by you not seeing what is on the ground.
I was skeptical about using a malice scepter, but I got one with 18% spirit, 53% ally damage, 19% ally crit chance, and 14% ally crit damage. All max rolls. It’s been working out so far lol
"Fill the area flame easily" on the discussion on spell cascade. Just as an FYI, you cant have more then three flame walls up. You'll notice every time you cast with cascade, the old walls disappear. The benefit with cascade would be that it it automatically spread out and not overlapping. So you have better field coverage. Though as you notice, its random on which axis it will use.
Personally just transitioned into an ES version after leveling the campaign. This is by far the fastest version to campaign with, ignore most boss mechanics, just double flame wall before boss, flam into offering, then just spam flamewall whilst running. Melter. you will die, it has legit 0 defences. Nerf removed like 2 arsonists for me, went from 10-8 with a decent amount of spirit on my gear. (~+200).
Liked Fire Necro in Last Epoch, and also love this Infernalist Ascendancy. Something between this mad flying fiery skulls, infernal rings of doom and loyal hellhound just fit together thematically. And u can switch to freaking demon caster if u get bored of minions. And the splashart cool af :D
I think a missed opportunity in your excellent guide (for beginning players) is to explain that Raging Spirits is NOT a witch spell. In fact, if you are following "suggested" spells, you will/can miss the ability from the boss that gives you your first SPIRIT gem, and accidently spend it on a witch aura, instead of Raging Spirits. This was my fail, when I just did my own minion build.
One thing to note is that the Raging Spirits do actually contribute to your overall defenses. While they cannot take aggro, they do have hitboxes, and will eat projectiles. The rest of your minions reduce the number of enemies targeting you, while your RS minions reduce the number of non-penetrating projectiles you and your other minions have to worry about.
Balancing the life nodes on minions with detonate is something to consider, you have to summon the rs to check their life if it’s above the threshold they won’t detonate on skill activation. My first ARPG and I’m enjoying it so far…the on death effects are annoying…
I really wanted a "plague witch" to work with no minions. Spreading chaos damage and watching the mobs melt, but there seems to be something off with the scaling. It works really good at the start but from the end of act 2 it starts to regress and the damage just doesn't cut it anymore. I would really like to see your take on a build like that.
Nice build, Im tryin made something like Blood Witch, Minion, Chaos damage. But your fire looks so great, so much better. But Im having fun, so thats the most important for me. TY
U can save 3 Passive Points if you go North (120 , then left and up and down to Minion Skills, Rather than going left at Raw Destrucction U Save 4 actually as you go North later
Refine by: 1. Spamming flame wall more than 2x simply resets the spirits already there away from targets and reducing their dps 2. In between 2x firewalls it is MUCH more efficient to be spamming gas arrow and detonating. - it's better than flammability in between because it 1shots all normal groups. - it's better than arsonist sacrifice because in boss fights you end up sacrificing your minions - it's better than ANY other skill - on yellows you curse with flammability and 2 shot with gas arrow. 3. AND it's more fun, otherwise you are running and right clicking mindlessly and the game goes way slower
Thanks for the builds! As a noob I appreciate it. Along the subject of hand holding… can you do a vid about mechanics and strategies about ritual, breach etc?
you can get cold damage on scepter and it enables your srs and arsons to freeze enemies.. just for an extra line of defense.. btw.. for late game i'm gunna try to get lightning too , ontop of storm mage maybe so everything will have shock on it :)
Raxx are you planning to give a Hexblast or Chaos DOT build a try for Witch? I feel like it's in a not so great place right now but if anyone could make it shine, it'd be you!
I reached Act 3 on my witch and was getting really bored of my skelly snipers and bonestorm. This is so much more fun. ❤ I did not even have to respec my passive skills. 😂 Great build!
I started leveling my witch yesterday and using sorc skills early on is just better until you get better minions, spark + flamewall is insanely good for first 10 levels
Thanks for the guide as always red rax. Following this guide. What level did you guys take down the mad wolf boss? I am at 15 and struggling a lot with that boss :(
Update: Campaign cleared - still 0 deaths!
what attribute should i go for the +5 on the passive tree? all int or should i have some others?
Holy shit
@@justsomeguywithagrin840 Same Question!
I can’t ever tell you sure what to do with your attributes bc it will depend on your gear, but you will need over 120 int by the end, so grab a healthy amount of that
love the build but if you don't go left of Raw Destruction and instead go left at the top of the first attribute you will save 2 skill points
I can't even express how much I appreciate these build guides, they are so clear, so easy to grasp! Amazing job making POE more understandable for noob like me!
Poe2 is pretty easy to understand if you are willing to put effort into it, people expect big result without even trying anything themselves
@@AKmumu says the guy visiting other channels instead of being out in the field making something by himself lol
This was the build i was already running pretty much with a few improvements......big ups to my man Raxx.....when it comes to aarpgs me and my best friend treat your stuff like the literal bible......god teir content creator for sure!!!!!!!!!
Anyone that's new to PoE is blessed to have you make content for it now. These are the best structured guides by far.
Also when you infect enemies with contagion, when they die, contagion stays on the corps. So when those little scorpion minions appear, they are all infected automatically by contagion, then they continue to spread as they attack. Such a great loop!
Contagion also scales in damage the more it spreads
is contagion worth using?
@@donaldwalley2450 Yeah its very strong especially early on
I think this is a lot less likely to be nerfed. It's a combo of simple things working together to pack a big punch. Nice work man.
They may change the cost of SRS
If this got nerfed I'm gonna be done with the game.
@@subzero308Same!
@@subzero308 they are going to nerf it with upcoming patch. you will have only 5 raging spirit and some other sht to destroy this built
@@randomized8900 Isn't that in already? I have one and a few days ago it was already only summoning 5.
Not sure if this is a bug or not, but when you get the passive skill, "Lord of Horror" (Minions have 12% reduced reservation) you need to click off all of your minions and then click them back. The game doesn't factor in the reduced reservation on active minions and that should get you at least 1 if not 2 additional minions.
Good lookin out
I was 80% there, but i was using the build all wrong, i was struggling with a couple bosses in act 2. With the few tweaks i made from this video i went in and melted them with no problem. Crazy how a few small things can make a huge difference. I didnt follow your build to a tee but i got the gist of it and used the info you provided to help me along. Thanks! Im a new sub.
I was having problems with my Witch minion build near the end of act 2, since switching to your Skill/Gem loadout I beat 5 bosses at the first attempt and i’m towards the end of Act 3 with ease. Thank you!
I really love these guide videos! Thank you so much!
As a POE noob I am proud to say I made this build before seeing any guides. Love my minion witch! So much fun especially when you watch the monsters burn 🔥
Been playing this build since day 1. Biggest weakness is FPS. In breach it drops to 27 because of all the fire effects
The stutter is the real boss
@@ronon93 you playing on console/tv or pc?
Try playing on console, the whole game runs at sub 20 fps almost all the time.
Really that Bad on console?
@@WolfeNInfernalisnot on series x
8:09 This is huge. I had no idea there was an actual difference between ‘more’ damage and ‘increased’ damage.
I love your philosophy in building! Now we get to see you take these classes into endgame and watch you make slight tweaks. Looking forward to seeing your tier 10+ builds!
This was so well broken down in the clearest way possible that anyone who has never even heard of this game could grasp it easily. Thank you man. Im only in act 2 but I learned a ton in such a short time watching this. Easiest sub.
bro i gotta tell, one of the best poe videos i have seen so far if not the best, you r covering absolutely everything ppl need to know in a very easy way to understand.
I was working with an extremely similar build that I put together that I was trying to figure out why it wasn't working. Then realizing swap the wand for the shield.. oh my god. Plus this build with a controller is perfect. I'm using unearth while I work on gems for extra minions and with the shield, it points to the closest enemy which is usually in front of a bunch of dead monsters, so now when I use unearth, it doesn't go to a random wall with nothing, I unearth the monsters directly behind my target which usually spawns max minions.. It's fantastic. Thanks Hooded man.
The way you walk through a build is the best I've seen from guides on UA-cam. Thanks for taking the time to help us noobs!!
Sounds tempting. Guess I'll put my main monk aside for a day and try this out. Thanks, Raxx, always a pleasure to watch.
Dude this is really one of the best Build Guides I have seen so far. Thank you for all your work.
Minion survival becomes a big issue when you get to maps and you WILL need to invest into survival. The problem is the revive timer resets if a minion dies. So if you fight something that can kill your minions (which is a lot if you dont make them tanky) you will lose one, your damage goes down and the enemies have less targets, which means you lose the next one before the revive and the timer resets, and it cascades until you are alone for the full revive timer and at that point you're probably dead. For personal survival ES stacking and grim feast is well known to be busted and you can take it easily with this build because there honestly arent that many minion nodes we need to worry about and you can pump your ES up a ton. Secondly consider taking the right side of that block tree and find yourself a shield with a high increased block roll. You can pretty easily be hitting over 60% block with just a few points. My witch is at 68% right now and combining that with grim feast means you dont die unless all your minions do first in maps
Not reading all that.
@goatyord you're on a 24 minute long build video for a game about autisticly over analyzing and optimizing numbers and you cant read a concise comment with a few build suggestions? You lost?
Great info Purple! im new to POE and was already running this type of build and wondered how endgame would be! I was getting worried about the survival side.
While you raise valid points, this is explicitly a levelling build. I agree with you though and think this build does more harm then good - it gives the player (especially a new one) a false sense of security that will perish in the end game. Also this build and playstyle have serious visibility problems that I think are worth mentioning.
@@APurpleSpyI think his issue was lack of paragraphs. I kind of see where he's coming from. Itsonlyonestepawayfromnotusingwhitesoaceatallwhywouldyounot
And as always raxx is the hero who saves poe2 for me. I will try rhis build. Keep up your good work. Watching your guides is great. You always learn something.
Bro... If all of your build guides are this good, you have just officially became my new favorite POE2 youtuber. Subscribed!!!
I know it's probably suboptimal, but I went Bloodmage in hopes the Leech stuff worked and to be a Cold caster but never made it to the build before the nerfs. I think Minion Witch as Bloodmage going down the right side of the tree is pretty good. Makes you really tanky, and the minions do all the work so you aren't sacrificing life to do any damage. I'd recommend people try it out before rerolling their Witch that may feel bricked.
That's me lol
Thank you man, this is EXACTLY what I've been looking for since realising Blood Mage isn't really viable yet. Barely need to change anything to change over from a bare bones minion DOT build to this. Very much appreciated 😀
Best build for beginners AND the entire Top 10 / Top 5 on all the leaderboards lol Love to see it
thats why the nerf hammer will smash on their heads soon
I had actually just started this but my tree is a mess so this will totally come in handy to help me clean that up, thanks! Also the wand skill that turns corpses into heat seeking fireballs just makes this insanely fun as well :)
Great guide, this is actually what i been building on my own. But i see now i made some mistakes getting spell damage. Easy fix...and i see i at least chose the right kind of gear too so im happy about that. Thanks for the help!!! Will fix the build on my next day off 😊
Hey Raxx, appreciate the content. I know lots of people are looking for build guides and whatnot, and I enjoy them to see whats possible, but I mostly like to make my own... any chance you can make some "PoE2 for Dummies" videos, like what to do in the end game, tips for crafting and trading, things like that? Would be useful to new players like myself - I'm getting all my info from the global chat right now.
As in his descriptions, meanwhile you can also try to look at maxroll. There are also a few resources to at least some of these questions.
Sure I can make that, good idea
This build still viable and worth doing since the changes in the recent patch?
When I co-op and I see the fire circle and all the Minions I breath a sigh of relief and say it's going to be a good day. 😂
Opposite for me as a warrior.
I cant see what the enemies are doing due to the fire walls.
The skeletons look like enemies.
You can't turn off the allies VFX.
@@JoshTheMadLadmy friend just jumps in and hopes for the best
@@lucasgil9618 a true Chad warrior
Very true!
Firewall+skulls just clutter up screen and make it hard to see enemy dmg zones.. also after testing i realised it adds little to dmg overall.
I use enfeeble now which means i'm taking less dmg and so are minions...with the added bonus i can see ground !!!
Great video was about 75% on the same track. 1 QUESTION: what were you speccing into percentage wise, INTELLIGENCE, STRENGTH, AND DEXTERITY?
What I did was: as much Int and Dex as you need for the gems and the rest goes into Strength
Mostly int as the spells are expensive to upgrade at 14
Appreciate the info brother! I was close to this as a newbie beginner in POE, but there were a few parts of your build that helped me become tankier and do some more dps. Thanks for the info and build. I am level 20 now and have made it to the rolling caravan in act 2. I'm liking the game and the minion witch so far. Just going to keep grinding on the campaign and leveling. I'm thinking about maybe merc which was my first choice pre-launch, but back to my favorite type in the minion realm at launch. Seen your content on ranger and that is my 2nd favorite type of toon. Enjoying the game so far. My first ARPG was D4 and I still enjoy it (1200hrs playtime), but this is also fun and challenging in a different way. Enjoy your videos and streams. Keep it up!
Really appreciated this guide. I found it very easy to follow knowing nothing about poe2. Thank you!
GD dude, watched stream yesterday and you'd said you'd do it last night. How you work on all this content so fast is amazing, thank you.
Dude, i can't believe I found this video yesterday after suffering to level 30 with a chaos hexblast build that stalled out at the end of Act 3. Within a few hours I had obliterated Act 3. Thank you sir.
Let’s go. As a brand new player to Poe I thought minions seemed cool and have been looking for a good video
sadly GGG will raise the spirit cost of the Arsonits soon.
This is what is written in the forum "Skeletal Arsonists Spirit costs now match the other two Skeleton Mages, this should result in a slight decrease in the number of Arsonists at a higher level." 😒
Unfortunate :(
Congratulations on the 0 deaths! And thank you for all the content that you provide to help others and us to learn from and mostly enjoy playing the game! keep up the great work!
Raxx to the rexcue. Nice guide man. Hope you keep it up to date!
your arsonist bros really helped leveling my DoT witch on single target. Thank you
Yo thanks a bunch. I have a feeling this will get boring but cant but cant deny how OP this looks. Only had to make subtle changes with my level 25 witch to get the ball rolling with this.
This build rips. Finally got it 100% set up. It's sick. Thank you!
I’m running a similar build with all minion damage but I’ve gone with the minion crit nodes also. Noticed you used a few of those. Great build dude
Such a great video and so well explained. You make the video as if I've never played the game before, and you'd be right. Thanks!
I am completely new to ARPGs (okay I played like an hour of D4 when it came out) and I was doing this build basically without even trying! I just had fire wall spawn raging spirits and skeletal archers (which I’m gonna switch out for arsonists now!) I’m glad this is a good build because I have no clue what I’m doing but I’m progressing nicely!
This video is great, thank you. Any chance you could please post a screenshot of your passive tree too? I know there's a maxroll link, but it doesn't show what to allocate the many many attribute nodes. I'm new to the game, so I don't know if I should just be focusing on intelligence or strength or what since I don't know if minion damage scales on. You don't seem to have any mana issues in the game, so what should I focus on?
Same very new too and haven't a clue
Use your points on Intelligence mostly and a few on Strength and Dexterity, depending on the items you might be using.
So well done. So well explained. So well thought out. Thank you for making it possible for me to like this game.
Dude this was awesome, thanks for making it!
Just a note on UNEARTH CONTAGION interation. if trash dies with contagion raise them with unearth they will carry the debuff from contagion really helpfull early.
Very interesting construction, but for those who are just starting with the first construction, it is extremely difficult to realize, realize, somehow you lack spirit, I am at level 10 and I have not found anything with which I can jump to spirit
Anyway congratulations for the very explicit video in the understanding of everyone
I just respecced my entire minion build into this and this effin rocks. Thanks. :)
I really like your explanations of everything. Helps me understand my build better. Great video, thanks!
Thank You Rax, you really helped me understand this class with so much insight. Appreciate ya!
As a witch I’ve done everything in my power to avoid this build but it seems to be the only build anyone recommends. A chaos/disease blood mage would be cool
This is exactly what I tried to do on EA launch. I don't recommend it at all. Bloodmage is one of the worst, if not the worst, ascendancy and chaos dot for damage just doesn't feel smooth. You really need to delete the enemies instantly like the fire minion build does or else you start to see the glaring weaknesses of the minion AI compared to enemy AI. The enemies almost completely ignore your minions. The mobs go straight for you and you're left running around waiting for the disease to spread. Someone else referred to the build as a "backpedal simulator".
@@cranknnutz ya I’d like to avoid having any minions it’s just not my thing. Blood mage is the only reason I picked witch and I’m lvl 42 so I’m too deep to go back
Was this build nerfed with the latest update?
Yes, you cant have as many arsonists as you could, I went from 10 to 8. Not a gamebreaker
@jonathanhawken unbelievable they nerfed this . Twice this happened to me now . Glad to know it's still viable 👍🏻
Thank you so much for this guide. Easy to understand and follow for a newbie. One favor I would ask if you ever get around to it is time stamps so we can go back and forth but not a big deal. Cheers!
Started with sorc and Im dying heaps. I've been eyeing witch from the start. Might finally make the switch.Great guide!
damn you are so educational when you describe everything. Im new to the game and I love it so far, and guides like yours makes a huge difernece. thx alot and plz keep posting!
love minion builds. I use Malice sceptre and go crit with skeleton warriors. I do not really use SRS anymore. The fire can cause a problem by you not seeing what is on the ground.
I was skeptical about using a malice scepter, but I got one with 18% spirit, 53% ally damage, 19% ally crit chance, and 14% ally crit damage. All max rolls. It’s been working out so far lol
Awesome build my man! I really appreciate.
"Fill the area flame easily" on the discussion on spell cascade. Just as an FYI, you cant have more then three flame walls up. You'll notice every time you cast with cascade, the old walls disappear. The benefit with cascade would be that it it automatically spread out and not overlapping. So you have better field coverage. Though as you notice, its random on which axis it will use.
Personally just transitioned into an ES version after leveling the campaign. This is by far the fastest version to campaign with, ignore most boss mechanics, just double flame wall before boss, flam into offering, then just spam flamewall whilst running. Melter. you will die, it has legit 0 defences. Nerf removed like 2 arsonists for me, went from 10-8 with a decent amount of spirit on my gear. (~+200).
Liked Fire Necro in Last Epoch, and also love this Infernalist Ascendancy. Something between this mad flying fiery skulls, infernal rings of doom and loyal hellhound just fit together thematically. And u can switch to freaking demon caster if u get bored of minions. And the splashart cool af :D
Top notch guide, thank you Raxx, you da best!
5 am at work and waiting for another build! keep it up my guy!
I think a missed opportunity in your excellent guide (for beginning players) is to explain that Raging Spirits is NOT a witch spell. In fact, if you are following "suggested" spells, you will/can miss the ability from the boss that gives you your first SPIRIT gem, and accidently spend it on a witch aura, instead of Raging Spirits. This was my fail, when I just did my own minion build.
Good point I should have said that
SRS Is minion’s and +skill to minion’s affects SRS also, if I’m not mistaken you refer to them as a spell.
Sorry if I misspoke, yes they have the minion tag
One thing to note is that the Raging Spirits do actually contribute to your overall defenses. While they cannot take aggro, they do have hitboxes, and will eat projectiles. The rest of your minions reduce the number of enemies targeting you, while your RS minions reduce the number of non-penetrating projectiles you and your other minions have to worry about.
This build straight up cooks. I started it today and I’m already on act 3.
Balancing the life nodes on minions with detonate is something to consider, you have to summon the rs to check their life if it’s above the threshold they won’t detonate on skill activation. My first ARPG and I’m enjoying it so far…the on death effects are annoying…
Great Build Raxx. ..Smash through every Act ,now made into Cruelty.
OMG I was struggling playing zombies until I watched your guide, GAME CHANGER🙏🙏!!!!
This one is fun and got me out of the log jam. Thank you
Will this build be updated after they nerf it?
@Raxxanterax how is this build now with the arsonist spirit change?
Thanks Raxx. That was super useful for me.
Thanks so much!!! no ones make guides for newies start is my first poe2 game ever!
Thank you Redsantaraxx! You even made a guide on how to make a guide, just on the side.
Always a great starter, and it should remain strong because I think it has a lower ceiling in the ultimate endgame as it should.
I really wanted a "plague witch" to work with no minions. Spreading chaos damage and watching the mobs melt, but there seems to be something off with the scaling. It works really good at the start but from the end of act 2 it starts to regress and the damage just doesn't cut it anymore. I would really like to see your take on a build like that.
I think the 3rd ascendancy will be some sort of bone/chaos solo spellcaster thing.
Nice build, Im tryin made something like Blood Witch, Minion, Chaos damage. But your fire looks so great, so much better. But Im having fun, so thats the most important for me. TY
U can save 3 Passive Points if you go North (120 , then left and up and down to Minion Skills,
Rather than going left at Raw Destrucction
U Save 4 actually as you go North later
Refine by:
1. Spamming flame wall more than 2x simply resets the spirits already there away from targets and reducing their dps
2. In between 2x firewalls it is MUCH more efficient to be spamming gas arrow and detonating.
- it's better than flammability in between because it 1shots all normal groups.
- it's better than arsonist sacrifice because in boss fights you end up sacrificing your minions
- it's better than ANY other skill
- on yellows you curse with flammability and 2 shot with gas arrow.
3. AND it's more fun, otherwise you are running and right clicking mindlessly and the game goes way slower
If you're using arsonists, you won't have gas arrow
Thanks for the builds! As a noob I appreciate it. Along the subject of hand holding… can you do a vid about mechanics and strategies about ritual, breach etc?
you can get cold damage on scepter and it enables your srs and arsons to freeze enemies.. just for an extra line of defense.. btw.. for late game i'm gunna try to get lightning too , ontop of storm mage maybe so everything will have shock on it :)
What stat do you put your skill points on for this build? Dex, int? Which affected damage the greatest ?
Raxx are you planning to give a Hexblast or Chaos DOT build a try for Witch? I feel like it's in a not so great place right now but if anyone could make it shine, it'd be you!
I reached Act 3 on my witch and was getting really bored of my skelly snipers and bonestorm. This is so much more fun. ❤ I did not even have to respec my passive skills. 😂 Great build!
Does it still work after nerfing Arsonist?
Got a sub from me bro… your LA build saved POE 2 for me
You can save 3 passive points by connecting things above the spiral nodes instead of below and up through it.
0 deaths entire first act, then hyena man gave me some trouble, no deaths since. Great build!
Raxx to his minions: "Some of you will die, but that is a sacrifice I am willing to make."
I started leveling my witch yesterday and using sorc skills early on is just better until you get better minions, spark + flamewall is insanely good for first 10 levels
thnx rax you saved my build of the witch
He done what 4 characters , Igve still got my first that only just got into cruel. Crazy
That's a good build. For campaign... You definitely need a lot more tankiness for maps.
Thanks for the guide as always red rax. Following this guide. What level did you guys take down the mad wolf boss? I am at 15 and struggling a lot with that boss :(
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