[2.1] Piscator's ele wander
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This is by no means a comprehensive guide. Just wanted to share my character and experience so far and get some feedback.
I wanted to make a Piscator wander, but couldn't really find any updated guides, so I just winged it. I feel the result is decent, but probably poorly optimized.
Pros and Cons
Pros: - High area and single target damage - Amazing clear speed - Cheap - High accuracy and crit rate for consistent clear speed Cons: - Not much defense - Heavy mana costs - Dependent on auras and heralds (not much unreserved mana) - Exposed to reflect
Key Item
Build
Quick explanation of build: - The most important part of the build are the leech nodes in the duelist area. Why? Because Kinetic Blast has a very high mana cost (71 for my six link) and very fast attack speed it drains your small pool of unreserved mana quick and requires heavy leeching with increased leech rate. We also need a lot of life leech to counter reflect. - The increased mana nodes we pick up also boosts our flasks and as you all know, flasks are OP. - The reason I still take the wand nodes in the witch area is because the build is short on intelligence as Piscator's Vigil requires 212 int. Even if I invested the points elsewhere I would still have to waste points on int. - Lastly, you can do this build without vaal pact. This requires you to make sure you have a topaz flask up whenever you encounter reflect. In return you get a good, solid regen to counter the Blood Rage degen. - With this setup you should have 200-250 unreserved mana and decent regen, so even if you don't hit anything in a few attacks and run out of mana you will quickly be able to attack again and leech back up.
Skills and links
- Main skill: Kinetic Blast - Weapon elemental damage - Faster attacks - Added lightning damage - Increased critical damage - Greater multiple projectiles - Single target skill: Barrage - Weapon elemental damage - Faster attacks - Added lightning damage - Golem: Ice golem - Buffs: Vaal haste and Blood rage - Heralds: Herald of lightning and Herald of ice with a curse on hit - assassin's mark setup to generate power charges - Aura: Wrath - About aura choice: An anger (lvl 20) gem in Alpha's Howl (for +2 levels) gives approximately the same amount of damage as the two heralds we use, making the heralds clearly superior
Current Gear
My DPS with 3 frenzy charges and 4 power charges
Jewels
Use the Static Electricity unique jewel in the slot near the Vaal Pact node for a good chunk of lightning damage
Leveling
Yes, you can level as ele wander. This is all thanks to Storm Prison which is available from level 12
Leveling speed really takes off after lvl 28 when you aquire the Kinetic Blast gem. Before then I recommend Barrage IGN: Tufz Last edited by PuppySatan#3039 on Feb 19, 2016, 3:27:55 PM
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Have you ever considered using EB with some '+X ES on hit' jewels to deal with high manacost? I think it's a really nice idea since KB hits tons of enemies all the time. Or maybe even some '+X mana on hit' jewels and/or passives will help a lot.
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