Do I have to swap to Comet? (Entangle Oracle)

First, my build: https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/Drakonath-2370/character/PolpoGiovanna

Some notes; I'm using coc arc to apply 51% shock on everything using drenched from thunderstorm (lv18) and shock conduction II. Also storm procs plants. I'm using boneshatter to move, so I can take unwavering stance to not get stunned. Timeless jewel is giving me 60% crit chance and %40 increased phys. I currently have 50% crit chance, and I aim to stay there, so I average 1 reroll to crit per hit.

Hey all, I'm playing a "pure" entangle Oracle build, as you can see on the above link. My build obviously has enough horsepower to do "all content" alone with HH but I need more damage. I'm playing in a party with an mf culler friend, and we are doing a full juiced (73 rooms) temple, and my build just doesn't have enough damage for it. If I'm alone and I equip a HH, I can go through my temple pretty quickly even though it's still not buttery smooth. But when my mf culler friend comes in, HH goes out the window (I use an ingenuity with 60+ effect on rings) and mobs HP/dmg increases a lot. Which in turn we go very slow and die a lot. We can survive most of the hits that we take from overpowered rares but they outlast us because my damage just isn't enough.

It's obvious that I don't have a mirror tier staff and +3 to all entangle skills. I also need to buy a spirit amulet with more mana so I can fit in convalescence and maybe 1 more aura. On pob staff and jewel together double my damage in theory. But seeing how my build plays currently, I don't know if those will be enough and/or if I ever will be able to afford them. Yeah 70+ room temple drops a lot of currency with an mf culler (we average 50 divs per run because half the rooms are not fully upgraded yet) but it takes around half an hour maybe more to clear it on our current setup. And it's really frustrating to die a lot. Therefore, we aren't "printing mirrors" to buy aforementioned items in an instant.

So my question is, should we keep grinding for a better staff (thinking 200+ both spell and spell phys) and a +3 entangle gem or switch to a coc comet setup? Or something else that can scale to do full juice temple in a party? Temple is on my Oracle, so I have to play this char.

Comments

thejiang•5 months ago•1

Honestly you should swap to Doedre undoing ele weakness COC comet. That build clears juiced temples without breaking a sweat. It's the next strongest after bloodmage and stormweaver with Adonia's Ego.

Plumplydumps•5 months ago•1

Disclaimer: I am just a random player, I make no claims of expertise or good advice.

I have some questions about your passive tree and weapon set 1. Do you use attacks? I assume you use bone shatter on primed enemies as your only attack? Do you use it often? If not, I would recommend changing your passive tree a lot to drop all attack nodes (unless there is something I am missing which is certainly possible!).

I use entangle as my main skill end game, but I do use CoC comets/living bomb and CoA double Arc. I also removed thunderstorm and accelerated growth. Things tend to be dead before the plants would bloom and the benefit of wetting enemies is meh.

My build is all life taken from mana (no mind over matter), arch mage, and mana stacking.

Embitter in entangle freezes everything, generating fire infusions for comets. The loss of levels for comet (not a physical spell and my wand is +phys) is more than offset by fire infusing. The living bomb in CoC generates more fire infusions.

https://poe.ninja/poe2/pob/1972b

I am not sure what is up with my entangle dmg, but in game it is around 145k dps on the tooltip.

Plumplydumps•5 months ago•1

I wanted to add in a separate comment, you might look at swapping arc/shock in CoC for Bone cage and astral projection. I notice your arc is low level, but I have not seen arc used like that often, as you need it to hit hard to do dmg. I think you are just using it to shock enemies, but I think you are better served by hitting them with something harder, rather than priming them for dmg from entangle/vines.

AdorableTuck•5 months ago•1

Comet hits really hard. You can continue to use entangle as your main spell. Buy a lvl 21 comet and slot in place of arc on coc.

sobercrossfitter•5 months ago•1

Try ice wall CoC instead of comet for survivability help. I run just entangle for all content. I recently moved thunderstorm to spellslinger and added ice wall. Tier 3 SIM as my testing ground

https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/L0L-breh-1628/character/ShapesofWrath

Forgot to mention blasphemy with temp chains is op

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