POE Betrayal Latest Popular Witch Builds - Necromancer, Elementalist, Occultist
The Witch is Path of Exile's pure intelligence class, making her an unmatched master of the elemental and dark arts. In addition to pure damage-based magic, the Witch can also cripple and kill her enemies with curses and diseases. Build your most powerful Necromancer, Elementalist, Occultist league starters by browsing the Poe 3.5 Build we collected for you!
Witch Elementalist Builds
POE Betrayal Elementalist Blade Vortex Starter Build - Good Clear Speed, High Damage, Cheap Gear
Pros
- + Good clear speed
- + Good single target damage
- + Fairly cheap to gear, not gated behind rare/expensive uniques. Good league starter, SSF is possible.
- + Scales exceptionally well in the end-game.
- + Witch
Leveling
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25 points
Don't forget to level blade vortex gem is a spare slot. You'll need to get some extra dexterity on gear (jade amulet) or take Precision node earlier.
Take Herald of Ash as a quest reward and start using it.
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63 points
84 points
Buy Hrimsorrow gloves and switch to aura-less Warlord's Mark setup described in the Gems and Links section and start using all three heralds. It is probably a good idea to get MoM after that.
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There are several possible variations of the tree
Single duration cluster tree with Acrobatics and Phase Acrobatics (level 90): https://pastebin.com/igBYd2qd
Single duration cluster tree focusing on life and damage (level 91): https://pastebin.com/qsiimQQj
Two duration clusters tree (level 92): https://pastebin.com/GNtqxei1
POE Betrayal Elementalist Arc Starter Build - Cheap, Safe, Fully SSF Capable
Pros
- + cheap & fully SSF-capable
- + smooth gameplay & progression
- + capable to do all content & mapmods
- + immune to all kinds of reflected damage
- + fairly safe, lots of damage reductions & ranged playstyle
Gems Setup
This is the endgame setup, for Act 1-10 check out the Leveling Section!
Arc, Spell Echo, Controlled Destruction, Lightning Penetration, Added Lightning Damage, Hypothermia
Orb of Storms, Arcane Surge, Increased Duration, Mana Leech
Cast when Damage taken, Immortal Call, Cold Snap
Shield Charge, Fortify, Flame Dash
Clarity, Enfeeble, Cast when Damage taken
Decoy Totem, Summon Lightning Golem, Minion and Totem Elemental Resistance
Summon Flame Golem, Summon Stone Golem, Summon Chaos Golem
Witch Necromancer Build
POE Betrayal Necromancer Skeletons & Zombie Starter Build - High Clear Speed, Cheap, Relaxed playstyle
A pure melee minion build using fast moving Skeletons and Zombies. Stay alive the easy way. Beefy life based defenses, with high regen and decent mitigation from all damage sources. Clear fast with 100% increased movement speed, and few button pushes.
This build makes a great league starter, Noob friendly, easy to acquire items and gems, and with a super relaxed playstyle.
Gems Setup
Vaal Summon Skeleton (in Weapon) Brutality > Minion Damage > Melee Splash > Melee Physical Damage > Maim
* For boss fights swap melee splash with ruthless or multistrike, but really this is optional, it only shaves a short time off already fast fights.
* If you manage a 6 link, We recommend minion speed. While this does not give maximum tooltip damage, it keeps your effective damage high, because they will start hitting the enemy sooner, will be harder for fast enemies to kite, and will switch targets faster.
Raise Zombie (In chest) Minion Life > Brutality > Minion Damage > Melee Physical Damage
* If you manage a 6 link, solid options would be minion speed, empower, fortify, faster attacks, ruthless.
Purity of Elements in an unset ring
Enfeeble with Blasphemy + Desecrate and Summon stone golem (in boots or glve)
CWDT with incresed duration, phase run, immortal call (in boots or glove)
Animate Guardian + Raise Spectre + Minion Life + blood magic (in helmet)
* The blood magic gem is for the carnage and host chieftans who have a really low mana pool. With blood magic they spam mass frenzy and mass empower a lot more frequently.
Decoy totem *optional* Set in a voideye ring for preference.
POB link: https://pastebin.com/s7iQUgw2
POE Betrayal Necromancer Summon Phantasm Starter Build - Fast Clear Speed, Cheap, Safe For Boss
Pros
- + Relatively high effective health and sustain: 4k+ ES and 4k+ Life, allowing you to heal yourself for over 700 ES for every maxed Spirit Offering (9 corpses).
- + Safe for most bosses: Even if your phantasms die, you can quickly resummon them as meatshields or to focus targets at a distance and keep them at bay.
- + Fast clear speed: Not a top-tier clearing build, but comfortable nonetheless. The new minion nodes in the passive tree allow for faster leap slams.
- + Cheap startup: You don't need a 6-link to start dishing out your damage (although of course a 6-link chest will greatly increase singletarget damage).
Gems & Gear Setup
Weapons: Soulwrest
Gems: Minion Damage Support, Vile Toxins Support, Summon Phantasm on Kill Support, Controlled Destruction Support, Faster Projectiles Supportm, Lesser Projectiles Support
Body Armor: Lightning Coil
Gems: Raise Spectre, Minion Life Support, Blood Magic Support, Maim Support, Withering Touch Support, Raise Zombie
Jewels: Ghastly Eye Jewel
Gloves: Allelopathy
Gems: Temporal Chains, Spell Cascade Support, Cast while Channelling Support, Desecrate
Threshold Jewels: Spreading Rot *2
Boots: Two-Toned Boots (Fire and Lightning Resistance)
Gems: Faster Attacks Support, Leap Slam, Fortify Support, Dominating Blow
Helmet: Bone Helmet
Gems: Blood Magic - Blood Rage - Increased Duration - Flame Dash
Jewellery
Citrine Amulet, Sapphire Ring, Gloom Whorl Two-Stone Ring, Stygian Vise + Ghastly Eye Jewel
Get most of your life and resistances here. If you don't have an Envy amulet, switch out a ring for an Unset Ring with Haste.
Flasks
Seething Divine Life Flask Of Animation, Avenger's Amethyst Flask Of Staunching, Rotgut, Witchfire Brew, Avenger's Granite Flask Of Curing
Despair aura helps you nuke down nearby targets faster. Rest is utility and can be any combination you desire.
POB link: https://pastebin.com/ctepsfJD
Witch Occultist Builds
POE Betrayal Occultist Herald of Agony Starter Build - Good Clear Speed, Easy, Cheap
Pros
- + 180%+ peak increased move speed.
- + Super curses. Mobs barely dent you with the super enfeeble and temporal chains.
- + 7k+ life.
- + Easy to maintain fortify.
- + Strong recovery via LGoH.
- + Agony Crawer does all the work.
- + Can handle EVERY map mod in the game
- + Good clear speed via minion augmented profane bloom explosions.
- + Good league starter. The base gear is dirt cheap and no six links are required.
Gems Setup
Herald of Agony + Pierce + Minion Damage + Vile Toxins + Damage on Full Life or Minion Speed
Enfeeble + Blasphemy
Static Strike + Ancestral Call + Chain + Fortify (+ Poison)
Molten Strike + Multistrike + Greater Multiple Projectiles (+ Poison) + Withering Touch + Ancestral Call (if you can get it)
Convocation
Shield Charge + Faster Attacks (+ Fortify + Poison)
NOTE: You could also fit in desecrate/spirit offering instead of fortify/poison on shield charge, but I don't think it's worth it.
NOTE: for Static and Molten Strike, if you don't use Mortem Morsu you need to add poison support through Elder pseudo 5 links.
POB Link
- Early mapping: https://pastebin.com/hUzn8gRQ
- Endgame: https://pastebin.com/asAUQDB0
POE Betrayal Occultist Rain of Arrows Starter Build - Good Clear Speed, Cheap, Funny
Pros
- + Good clear
- + Good single target (Elder, Shaper and Uber Elder down)
- + Great survivability, with over 10K ES, three curses, and very quick start of ES recharge
- + Cheap to get started - all required uniques are cheap, and ES gear is on average cheaper than their life counterpart
- + Can do all map mods
- + No need to worry about resummoning your minion, he's invulnerable to damage and summons/unsummons itself
- + Fun to play
- + Can take everything down up to Shaper without heavy investment, and can take down Uber Elder with some further investment (a faster start of ES recharge Watcher's Eye is almost mandatory)
Gems Setup
Herald of Agony + Damage on Full Life Support + Minion Damage Support + Vile Toxins Support + Vicious Projectiles Support + Added Fire Damage Support
Damage on full life does apply to the Crawler's attacks (confirmed by PoB). Since the Crawler is immune to damage, it will always be full life. Concerning Vile Toxins, the Crawler doesn't deal any poison damage, but we poison enemies, which makes the Crawler deal up to 45% more damage against enemies affected by 9 poisons. It provides a nice damage boost against target we poison a lot, i.e. in single target.
Note on level 21 Herald of Agony
Virulence grants several buffs per stack to the Crawler, one of them being attack speed. It goes from 2% at lvl 1 up to 3% at lvl 20, and at lvl 21 it goes up to 4%. That means that the overall attack speed buff from virulence increases by 33%, which is huge. In PoB, a lvl 20 gem displays around 750K dps, and with the lvl 21, it's over 1M. Plus, quality is useful on HoA, but not mandatory (it's minion movement speed), and there are cheap-ish lvl 21 gems (I bought mine for 1ex mid league), so it's a valuable late game upgrade.
Rain of Arrows + Poison Support + Curse On Hit Support + Temporal Chains + Enfeeble + Projectile Weakness
The Poison Support gem, along with the HoA buff, puts us at 80% chance to poison, which is more than enough. If you can only have a five or a four link for this, drop one or two curses, according to your preferences, although I wouldn't recommend taking out Projectile Weakness when packs have a decent density.
A six-link Herald of Agony reserves a lot of mana, so we only have the mana for another aura. Of course, we use Discipline
Note that, in order to use both Herald of Agony and Discipline comfortably, you'll need to either have a lvl 3 Enlighten on Discipline, or take the 4% reduced mana reserved node near Chaos Inoculation.
Summon Chaos Golem + Summon Lightning Golem
For the Golem, you can use either a Chaos or a Lightning golem. I started out with a Lightning golem, but I found I was always at maximum virulence anyway, so I opted for a Chaos golem to try and compensate the fact that we have no armour.
Blink Arrow + Faster Attacks Support
For mobility, Blink Arrow linked with faster attacks is perfect.
In the Cast when damage taken (level 1) setup, Immortal Call is used to allow the ES recharge to start more easily, and Phase Run for invisibility / mobility.
Immortal Call + Cast when damage taken + Phase Run + Increased Duration Support
For the other gems, feel free to use whatever you like using (Fortify setup, golem in another, high-level, CwDT setup, ...)
The following is an optional setup for single target, if you struggle to sustain Virulence with Rain of Arrows (see next part for more details).
Barrage + Poison Support + Lesser Poison Support + Faster Attacks Support
POB link: https://pastebin.com/jHPLkTub
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POE Betrayal Occultist Herald of Agony Starter Build - Good Clear Speed, Easy, Cheap
This build hit enemies with static strike to get poison stacks going, hit quicksilver and phase run or shield charge to run through packs. Have good clear speed via minion augmented profane bloom explosions. This is not a super expensive build by nature.The build relies primarily on gem and tree interactions so you don't strictly need any specific gear.
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POE Betrayal Slayer Sunder Starter Build - Fast, Cheap, Easy To Leveling
Sunder is the vital skill in this build. Sunder is a melee attack creating a wave that travels forward and damages enemies in a straight line. This build completely immune to phys reflect enemies or maps. You can face-tank the entire Uber Lab in under 5 min’s while collecting keys and shrines along the main path. You can do this over and over and over again with basically no risk of death.
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POE Betrayal Guardian Dominating Blow Starter Build - All Version Viable, Cheap, Endgame
Dominating Blow is the vital skill used in this build. Dominating Blow is a melee attack that applies a debuff which causes the monster to summon a Sentinel under your control when killed.
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POE Betrayal Deadeye Elemental Hit Starter Build - Cheap, High DPS, Endgame
Elemental Hit is an attack skill, executing a basic attack with added damage of a random element. An Elemental Hit may be performed with any weapon. Combat Focus now causes Elemental Hit to deal 50% less damage of the prevented element, including damage that gets converted from the prevented element to a new element. This build need a low budget, and it will cause an impressive damage. A good choice for novice players.
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POE Betrayal Juggernaut Consecrated Path Starter Build - Low Start Cost, Easy, Endgame
Consecrated Path is the core skill in this build. The build goes straight to the enemies neck. Very few things cause an immediate threat as you stun most mobs, even also on some bosses. This is a 100% Fire based elemental damage melee build that utilizes the synergy between the Juggernauts endurance charge oriented ascendancies and the Nebuloch mace's properties.
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POE Betrayal Pathfinder Viper Strike Starter Build - High DPS, Cheap, Fast Speed
This build is based on the skill, Viper Strike. Viper Strike is an attack that hits the enemy with chaos damage and applies poison. This build have crazy DPS - up and beyond 5,000,000.000 DPS! No matter what, the build will be cheap because of common uniques.