[2.0] Kinetic Blast Wander | Physical and Elemental | HC Viable [BOTW S4E6]

Are Imbued Wands still the best wand base? According to the wiki, Propechy wands have the highest base dps and have an extra 1% crit over imbued.

I'm currently using power siphon over KB. My power siphon is linked to GMP+CHAIN+PPD+ICD+FA and im sitting at 23k dps. I think power siphon with chain is better than KB with pierce.

I spent less than 7 exalts for the gear here.


Level 82
My current gear

The wands I swap between

I'm currently sitting at 4k HP with 40% evasion on top of dodge.
by level 90 I should have 4.5k+

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jbmcarth wrote:

I would go daresso's over hyrri's ire. With daresso's you get 3 endurance charges worth of damage reduction, a pre-nerf version of CWDT-Immortal Call, and occasional onslaught. The extra flat evade is nic on ire, but you get 3000 flat from evasion flask (with high uptime thanks to surgeon's) and can get well over 1500 on shield, so +/- 1000 on chest isn't a huge chunk of our evade. I'd probably go belly of the beast over ire too.

With proper build this flask easily gives 10k+ eva on use (it boosts me to overy 21k eva ~61% eva.

I just found one problem with Sydin build - it is not the best for HC and I think he is not playing on HC. No IC, no EC so RIP on Tempest is more than certain ;). Of course it can be adjusted and I will try that as soon as I get right gear.

Also making RRRGB in Daresso's can be hard :/. A lot of chromatics will be needed :P.

A note on gloves:

In addition to single resist, life, accuracy, attack speed rare gloves and maligaro's, you can run southbound. They're cheap and are effectively t1 cold res, t1 life (~ish), and up to 36-50 cold dmg.

I don't have attack speed on my gloves yet, so these gave me about a 500 dps boost. Although the atk speed gloves will probably be better, the flat cold damage will greatly benefit from WED whenever I manage a 6L (i run pierce from tree).

The downside isn't at all noticeable in the couple of maps I've tried so far. Your golem can still kill anything that gets stuck at 1 hp because its not frozen, meaning that as long as you've kept the screen reasonably clear, bosses still die at the same rate. You can link IIR to ice golem for a nice boost to drops.

So yeah, 13.7k dps at lvl 83. I shuffled some gear around to cushion my resists for any 2 of rat's nest, maligaro's, and a huge evade shield. If I do decide to go with southbound, I can run rat's nest and a huge evade shield (although the same is true with rare gloves). I'm clearing 74-77 maps, although I do occasionally die (rarely, but often enough to slow leveling). It's tough to make myself run the 71-72 maps that are so much safer and better exp, but a lot of my upcoming dps boosts are from the tree.

With a 6L, the planned upgrades I just listed, and lvl 90+ I should have no problem breaking 20k.



^^These are the gear pieces I've added since my last post.

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Fixtion wrote:

Are Imbued Wands still the best wand base? According to the wiki, Propechy wands have the highest base dps and have an extra 1% crit over imbued.

Imbued are the best wands for elemental wanders, since the flat added elemental Damage from Auras and such only scale with high attack speed.

So, i got some currency now and im about to buy a daresso or a belly, which one do u recommend and why ?

Belly is a lot more expensive. Daresso's is better against physical damage (evade + dodge + 3 endurance charges + the corresponding improved CWDT), while belly is a more robust, general defense via higher life, some resists, and faster life flask rate. I'm using daresso's and i love it.

With everything up my KB is @ 16.2k now.

Thought it was looking good so gave Atziri a go. Got my teeth kicked in lol.

Hi guys, I've been reading the thread but it's quite a lot of work to reply to everyone. I'm glad you're all enjoy it, seems quite popular this season.
If you have any questions that nobody in the thread has replied to, you can PM me on the website or in game @Oos. But I'll mostly not be posting in here as much as I used to, it's just too much work and pretty much everything has been said.
Gear advice is better in game too.

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Fixtion wrote:

Are Imbued Wands still the best wand base? According to the wiki, Propechy wands have the highest base dps and have an extra 1% crit over imbued.

Prophecy Wands are good, but a lot slower and have a much higher INT requirement. Having a fast attack speed will help you move and clear faster, late game you'll be 1 shotting packs solo/in small parties anyway so you don't want to be locked in animation. If you find a good Prophecy Wand and can support the INT req then use it, but an equivalent Imbued is prefered.