Accelerated Growth...yay or Nay for Entangle build?

I noticed some Path of Exile acronyms in this post:

• DPS - Damage per Second

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When I was running my entangle coc comet build, I was using ataluis bloodletting, branching fissures, considered casting, zenith II, and uul netols embrace. My tooltip dps topped out at slightly over 900k with my new staff. Entangle cleared everything without any issues and comets rained down plenty. I was doing t3 xesht in like 2sec. That was a fun build. Rakiatas was in my coc comet. I only used accel growth early on when I was running water my plants build with entangle, slapping vines, and coc thunderstorm.

I'm also interested in this as I feel my entangle druid has hit a wall in DPS and I'm too poor to buy more gear.

Swap to mana stack and u’ll reach 1m dps easily.

Accelerated Growth is always better, if you bother keeping Thunderstorm up and don’t one shot everything.

Each single explosion deals around the same base damage as the initial hit of the fissure, so it literally doubles your damage.

Is it just to avoid watering?

I need to look it up but doesn't it cause an explosion radius and blindness after delay? If you aim to kill on the first hit (s), it probably won't help very much

It depends on if you’re running thunderstorm in CoC or not, or if you’re regularly casting it manually to consistently overgrow your plants. It took me a while to realize that AG 2 has a separate damage number that you only see if you hover over the support gem and those bombs scale damage with the level of your entangle. If your entangle is lvl 30+, the bombs hit like a truck and significantly help with clear speed. Even though they aren’t included in your entangle sheet DPS.

The supports i use in entangle are AG 2, branching fissures 2, considered casting, Uul Netol’s embrace (this does give you the bonus chaos damage idk what you meant by losing it), and Dialla’s. Rakiata is kind of a waste in entangle since most of the damage is physical. I didn’t use rakiata at all until i rolled a blood mage for the CoC comet build. My entangle (i think lvl ~38) sheet dps was around 450k unbuffed (~200-250k per hit) using a wand and dreamer scepter with archmage. It was enough to immediately pop almost all monsters in my fully built 1400% effectiveness temple running solo. Sure, i could’ve squeezed out some more damage with 2 more spell levels on a staff but i didn’t feel like i needed it and the dreamer scepter popping enemies is so satisfying to me.