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

As i see it, a lot of the elemental damage is scaled from the phys damage. So a more modifier affecting phys damage scales both the phys and elemental, that's the upside. And better leech of course.

I have manual cursing, so i have been using HoI with curse on hit and poacher's mark. It work's perfectly! it generates mana (instant, not leech), flask charges and frenzy charges. REALLY useful. Also added culling strike, it boost the damage from HoI quite a lot and cull nearby monster, very noticeable for almost no mana modifier.

Trying blood rage right know, so far so good in combination with the aforementioned HoI setup.

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stevie7ftw wrote:

Is Quality KB worth using?

I got one... assuming it affects the AoE blast of the explosions.

Picked up a reasonable 'maybe' wand upgrade - The damage and crit chance are much higher but has a much slower attack speed. At 7ex it was a lot cheaper than any equivalent Imbued though.



as opposed to my old one


I don't mind the attack speed reduction too much, helps with mana a little and I like the 'one shot - one kill' idea. Does stop my idea to replace faster attacks with slower projectiles though, it's a bit too painful without faster attacks.
I did have to take an int node and a jewel node with int and wand damage/attack speed (Got a nice cheap 3 mod one, but got a roll on the ex!) to equip the prophecy wand. If I can get a nice jewellery piece I can drop one or both though.

If I really don't get on with the wand I can probably still flip it for a small profit too.

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Carlovski wrote:

Picked up a reasonable 'maybe' wand upgrade - The damage and crit chance are much higher but has a much slower attack speed. At 7ex it was a lot cheaper than any equivalent Imbued though.

as opposed to my old one

I don't mind the attack speed reduction too much, helps with mana a little and I like the 'one shot - one kill' idea. Does stop my idea to replace faster attacks with slower projectiles though, it's a bit too painful without faster attacks.
I did have to take an int node and a jewel node with int and wand damage/attack speed (Got a nice cheap 3 mod one, but got a roll on the ex!) to equip the prophecy wand. If I can get a nice jewellery piece I can drop one or both though.

If I really don't get on with the wand I can probably still flip it for a small profit too.

i just got this for 6ex i also saw the other wand but i think crit nulti will benefit me more. any possible upgrade will cost me abt 30 40 ex atleast . so i think ur wand is really good price too. or u can even sell it for 9, 10 ex if u dont like it

So i've leveled this to level 62, and I have to say.. where is the single target? Yeah shotgun is insane but 90% of the time that's not an option. I've tried the frost wall method and it seems to just go straight through the wall so I don't get any shotgun. I fear for maps with this character because I rely on someone else to single target for me.. I absolutely destroy crowds but again, useless against bosses or uniques.

I'm having no trouble with maps, but I'm having big problems with Atziri. I still have to upgrade my wand, the one I am using is only 170pdps, and possibly a rat's nest. So after I upgrade those 2, If I'm still struggling I'm seriously going to shed a tear lol.

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millzzz wrote:

So i've leveled this to level 62, and I have to say.. where is the single target? Yeah shotgun is insane but 90% of the time that's not an option. I've tried the frost wall method and it seems to just go straight through the wall so I don't get any shotgun. I fear for maps with this character because I rely on someone else to single target for me.. I absolutely destroy crowds but again, useless against bosses or uniques.

Are you using pierce?
If so then I believe pierce will cause your projectiles to pass through your frost wall. I agree that this build is not ideal for single target... especially bosses and elites. Using frost wall definitely helps this and I am also trying out decoy totem. When placing the decoy totem near a wall you can hammer the mob. If you can tank it just hug a wall, turn your back to the mob and spam the wall with kinetic blasts. Ofcourse there is also frenzy for ST, if you spam frenzy to keep up frenzy charges and throw in a KB while hitting the boss to keep your power charges up as well you do ok damage (crit damage gem linked to frenzy).

I have also picked up a quality PcOC gem and recommend it to people trying this build. With my 10.16% crit chance wand a 20% quality PcOC gem will give you just over 2% flat crit chance on a gem that is already mandatory in this build. I have now completed the full wand cluster in the north east corner of the tree and with 4 power charges I'm up to 70% crit chance. Next I'll be aiming for more life nodes and extra power charge node. With such high crit chance I'm starting to think that crit damage multiplier will be the best DPS boost.

If anyone is interested in my blood magic iron reflexes duelist kinetic blaster... this is my tree atm:

https://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAwQAAx4FLQW1BiMJoA2NDkgRlhSwFewWvx9BIWAj0yP2JP0mlSmlKgswfDY9P3NDMUSeR35Kmkz_TZJOKlFHU7tVS1uvXfJh4mKsZU1sjGznbWxvJ3BScNVzcHTtdPF1y3rvf8aCHoTZh3aIQonTivCMNo19jX6Nv5phmmqbLZ2qn4iiBKOKsKu1SLe2uR29Nr6nv9XBxcJzxILOcNrB51TndOjW6mLuDvPq9uf67_xk_MX_3g==?accountName=JohnnyV76&characterName=Rennende_Rukker

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millzzz wrote:

So i've leveled this to level 62, and I have to say.. where is the single target? Yeah shotgun is insane but 90% of the time that's not an option. I've tried the frost wall method and it seems to just go straight through the wall so I don't get any shotgun. I fear for maps with this character because I rely on someone else to single target for me.. I absolutely destroy crowds but again, useless against bosses or uniques.

I'am using Barage - faster attacks - increased critical dmg - physical projectile attack dmg for single targets and its quite ok.

I will be also trying Barrage - cast on crit - ethereal knives - increased critical dmg, so i will tell you later how this combo is doing for single target.

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namcuteval wrote:

i just got this for 6ex i also saw the other wand but i think crit nulti will benefit me more. any possible upgrade will cost me abt 30 40 ex atleast . so i think ur wand is really good price too. or u can even sell it for 9, 10 ex if u dont like it

Damn - your wand is nicer, would have gone for that one if I had seen it!
Rejigged a bit more gear too - swapped to my old gloves which aren't as good for DPS but offer more utility, which let me swap to a better ring (Which in turn might let me upgrade my other ring and ammy)

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Morti666 wrote:

why phys proj attack is better than WED? just the physical leech? or am i missing sg?

I am interested in the answer to this question as well. I am thinking of swapping to WED. The red socket also allows for the flexibility of swapping to life leech gem for reflect maps.

I swapped to WED and tooltip DPS for kinetic blast went from 22.3k to 27k. Clearing feels faster without the LESS attack speed from PPAD. Only difference I feel for leech is for mana leech against single target. I feel this has more to do with the increased attack speed than it has to do with the physical damage decrease. I'll need to test some more.