[3.0] Wand’s Guide to Wanding – Comprehensive Overview of Wanders

How do you deal with bleeding, if you don't have any staunching flasks?

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Vessious wrote:

How do you overcome the massive amount of mana KB takes to cast? costs me 81 of my 157 mana (unreserved) to cast, which leech can't keep up with.

I'm wondering too. Currently need to pop mana flask all the time.

Hi , i have acscendant level 81, wander (unfortunatly fail mathil build) i was thinking to respec to ur build , do you have any thout about that ? have you ever try to play as Scion wander with this build ?

feels for me that scion doesnt lose much DPS but can get MUCH MORE TANKIER and that great for late game contect.


i would like to get opinion for that or should i go raider anyway ?

any idea on upgrades ? And what is your hideout damage ?

is belly vs yriels a huge dps loss? has anyone tried?

@imythic: you could maybe switch out the first opal + the ammu? I feel you need more wed-rolls with a rare wand then otherwise. And some crit multi on the ammu, if possible.

the life/accuracy/wed opal, belt + boots look great though! Maybe you could get a good enchant on the boots as well?

How would you deal with being frozen? specially from strongboxes

I'm wondering how do you deal with (as an ascendant)

1) The no freeze flasks ?
2) The 50% increased damage taken from vinktar? do you have any immunite shock property somewhere that I didn't see?

To the ones with mana issues: What I did is take 1-2 MORE of the mana nodes from the wheel we all path too. As I got better gear and my dps more then doubled, I would drop 1 node at a time until I had plenty of dps with what he lists in the tree to easily keep up. It gets way better as your gear gets better.

About flasks: You need a staunching and a freeze removal mod on your non unique flasks. If you don't have these, you are going to hate yourself. I guess you COULD use death's door boots but you loose too much hp that we badly need. It's just not worth the resistance, life and dps boost (getting WED on boots) to ignore using it on a flask.

We technically only use 2 unique flasks in endgame. This leaves 3 open flasks, diamond, health (he doesn't use one in the guide but I simply CANNOT run a life build without 1 flask), and a quicksilver. I personally have my quicksilver with staunching because popping quicksilver while missing bleed is a deathsentence. I make sure to have inc duration/charges/speed on my quick. My life flask I have as freeze removal and diamond as shock removal. Swap one of these with a curse removal for certain map mods.

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Vessious wrote:

How do you overcome the massive amount of mana KB takes to cast? costs me 81 of my 157 mana (unreserved) to cast, which leech can't keep up with.

My KB is 4L in the thunderfists and the 0.4% mana leech node in the build works just fine for me. My damage isn't even that high yet. Of course, I actually have to hit more than one target for that to work well. If there aren't multiple targets to hit, then obviously use barrage. It's possible your max mana pool is too low if you skipped the few mana nodes in the build, like soul siphon. Vaal pact doesn't work on mana, so the leech rate does depend on your max mana. That may not be a big deal though, since KB isn't meant to be spammed. A cast or two to deal with packs should be all you need and then barrage to kill anything special that survived. I spam KB on harbinger and other trickle spawning encounters, but only because I'm too lazy to wait for stuff to spawn. If mana were a concern, I'd wait a moment for a few things to spawn.