Wand shadow guide by Ykysha.

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0.9.11 70lvl Build
For passives needed balance between dps, survive and mana managment. I recomend get some mana and critical chance\damage for begining, then pick energy shield and elemental damage.

Core items and mods:
Any dex int or int chest with 5 or 6 links
with 2 green 2 blue 1 red sockets.
Maligaros virtuosity gloves.
High crit damage amulet.
x2 flat eledamage or ele damage+atack speed rings.
Near 200 or higher energy shield armor pieces.
For weapon high phys damage wand or x2+ ele. damage and crit damage wand with fast atack.

Skills.
Must have skills.
Power siphon with critical damage+weapon elemental damage+manaleech+lesser multiple projectiles.

Wrath and discipline auras.

Hatred aura for phys wand.

Anger aura for ele wand.

Bloodrage

Optional skills.

Grace aura if can use 4 auras. For having no problems vs archers flicker and puncture mobs.
Elemental hit with crit chance, crit damage and weapon ele damage supports. For fast killing ES and high hp rares.
Any curse that u like.

Items in video
This items temporary as u can see in video i have only 3.2k ES but have gear that need reroll sockets and links 6k+, and well doing chaos with current gear.

Curent items lvl 70



As you can see i swaped weapon elemental damage support on power siphon with faster atacks. Its cause in maps 99% of monsters oneshotable with single crit without ele damage.

super interesting for me as I have a quality power siphon gem to try out. Question, how much DPS do you get ?
Have you tried both physicial and elemental ? which one is best ? because you seem to mix both in your final skilltree, so its confusing.

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marquis51 wrote:

super interesting for me as I have a quality power siphon gem to try out. Question, how much DPS do you get ?
Have you tried both physicial and elemental ? which one is best ? because you seem to mix both in your final skilltree, so its confusing.

5k to solo target with power siphon, and ele hit not counting right think its 12-14k. With wands ele damage give slightly more dps, with out hatred and slightly lesser with this aura. Also reason for using high phys for me is manaleech mod on amy. About mixing phys and why its better i answered here with screensot http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/35290 in 7th post.

My next character will be a wand shadow (different set of skills than you´ve picked though), just afraid I will play it pretty much the same way as my bow-templar. That´s what really keeps me playing this game, the ability to try out different base classes/specs.

UPD. added build for new skilltree.

Really cool! what level are you at and how's the end-game feel? I'd love a non-traditional shadow build...especially a nice ranged one!

Curent lvl 70 end game is easy, for a while not playing this char.

Great to hear. I may take a look at this in-game.

Love the shadow's position of a fast-hitting, semi-magic user, but super not a big fan of melee combat. A quick-hitting wand user looks like it could be fun.

Wish I could get my hands on some of the gems a bit earlier though. It looks like it could be boring up through the mid-20's

Just wondering, would this be a better build? I moved around those 4 int and 1 +10% spell damage node points into the 2 +2% block chance while dual wielding and the +12% attack speed while dual wielding nodes, and the 2 other to get close enough to the next +1 power charge node that you could grab it with just 1 level. It seems like this would be better, since you're just losing 20 int and 10% spell damage that seems to do nothing in this build for added block, attack speed, and +50% critical strike chance.

Also, correct me if I'm wrong but I thought that at level 70 you had 80 points? 69 points from levels and +11 from the quests? If so I believe the build you have up is actually a level 71 build correct?


Edit: Seems when I thought this out I was thinking this was a dual wand character. I guess this doesn't work after all. That is unless you're fine with those 3 dual passives wasted, and that 20 int doesn't really matter to you.

That could be better if you plan on dual-wanding. I thought the original build was 1 wand and a shield

Dual-wand could work, it just doesn't feel like many of the skills actually use both weapons. :-/