I finished up act two of cruel last night with no difficulties. I did grind out a level by running level 1 of The Chamber of Sins 4-5 times, and I did the Felshrine quest before finishing the act. Other than that I just went through the act like I normally would. I didn't feel like I was rushing, but I might have gotten back to being right at zone level if I hadn't done Fellshire before going into the Vaal pyramid.
The dual Arc Totems worked great against the Vaal Oversoul. I never had to get into Vaal Smash range, and the way Arc works, I was killing the monsters the Oversoul spawns almost automatically. Now there are certainly builds with much higher DPS that could have killed the Oversoul more quickly, but it felt like a very safe kill.
I did run City of Sarn twice, because I was very close to leveling after making it to the Sarn encampment. I also picked up a higher level robe and got pretty good resistance by Alching it, which didn't matter too much since I was already capped, but it will help as I shift into Merciless difficulty and allowed me to play with the links supporting my Zombie gem. I think faster attacks will really boost their attacks quite a bit. I plugged in a LMP gem for my Spectere gem while I was rearranging things.
I'm looking forward to getting this character into Merciless difficulty. I actually came upon the idea of Arc Totems after an attempt at a Spork Witch was killed in Hardcore League by Cruel Dominus. I went back and tried some different skills in Standard, and Arc worked really well.
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