The witch. Pros and cons

[Pierre]

So I wanted to try the witch out but I want to know her pros and cons first and also a few question. Is the witch good at PvP and what is her main advantage? Are here minions a sufficient way to fight in both PvP and PvE? Is she hard to play? What is here gameplay style? Thanks for the help!

[Psyringe]

PoE does not work that way. There is no specific playstyle for "the witch". There are many builds that the witch has easy access to (summoner builds, elemental damage caster builds, aura and curse based builds ...), but those can also be played with templars, shadows, or scions. Characters in PoE aren't locked into specific builds or playstyles. You can do a melee build with a witch if you want to, or a summoner build with a marauder - they won't be extremely efficient, but it's definitely possible and playable. Even if you stick to the "popular" builds, the variety per character class is immense - for example, a summoner with zombies/spectres plays radically different from a Raging Spirits summoner, which again plays very different from a summoner built around Vaal Summon Skeletons, and all that isn't even taking into account the various choices of defense (life, energy shield, hybrid, chaos inoculation).

It's better to first decide on a playstyle that you want, and then choose one of the character classes that supports that playstyle.

[Remy]

? this is not diablo 3

[deathmaster snikch]

this game does not work that way

[Josh]

Since no one is answering his question directly (if a witch based summoner is good in pvp or PVE?), ill just, scoot right in

So, Summoners are generally a PVE skill, because of the damage output, but not the damage mitigation, Witches in general have low defences (despite EB/MOM) so you're most likely better off going as Templar and grabbing the life nodes available there, you will still be able to take the Witch nodes because, Templar is close to the witch :)

If you would like an example tree for a Templar Summoner, please, let me know and ill brew one up ;)

Josh.

[Pierre]

Originally posted by Josh:

Since no one is answering his question directly (if a witch based summoner is good in pvp or PVE?), ill just, scoot right in

So, Summoners are generally a PVE skill, because of the damage output, but not the damage mitigation, Witches in general have low defences (despite EB/MOM) so you're most likely better off going as Templar and grabbing the life nodes available there, you will still be able to take the Witch nodes because, Templar is close to the witch :)

If you would like an example tree for a Templar Summoner, please, let me know and ill brew one up ;)

Josh.

Yeah sure thank you so much

[Pierre]

But say I want to play a marauder build. From what I have heard about PvP is that defense is the best strategy. Since the marauder is built around strength should I think he would be an ideal choice but it doesn't seem like any other class competes with him for pvp skill :/

[Josh]

http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAwUATwRDyFugp1V8Dmjyr2zwH3xLxYqiAJZ0fLsEszrYPQ_AZicvr6dFR5BVHM6IQLUEMtEaOCtQpqzkIuvuDc2QMxpsHNynCJrg_lQ26Y8auJOPRtgk2QtFnSSqKPpR-zbFhW0qmFNSFm-Cx80WHwLVgfqA42r56NP7HxgEByTYQYeofYPb6-RMs7c-WpFVxl8q0B9r2_4Kaqw6WO_rfRjsiti98kWsmG0ZNZI64ffXCPQi9P6PplfMvMBUbAtN46rEakPJPZMnhWC_l3_GTbnyHsHF7BhYWnC7UilV4NkTL28=

Thats a general templar summoner tree, theres some life there, a fair bit of mana, enough to use MoM (if you want, thats why i left it out) and you got plenty of summoner damage :)

[Pierre]

wow thanks!

[Josh]

;) just doing my job :D