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

was wondering if someone could help me out on what would be the easiest to upgrade first. I have 0 problem clearing any trash from any map, harbinger packs are a joke, but bosses end up ruining me from t11 on. I know the problem is with the gear I just don't know where would be the best place to start the upgrades. I tried using opals over diamonds and it just feels better with the diamonds but that could have been the fact the rings were rolled for my RF toon instead of kb, but still had a nice light dmg to attacks on it. here is the gear and the toon name for any who wanna look there is dp_time_baby



also with the boots, I have had honestly a faster clear speed with them and added light in the kb links than I did using pierce gem so I'm not sure that that is where the problem is, just ended up having a pair lying around and it felt faster lol.

Heyas sedateisland, this is only my 2nd attempt at an ele-wander ever, but I can try to help.

First off, do you have Path of Building? If not, you can find it here;
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1716360

dp_time_baby lvl 90 Scion
https://pastebin.com/JNYjJWZi

Prodigiously_Projected lvl 91 Scion
https://pastebin.com/Uu4vivsa

Open both up in separate instances, and compare the two characters. You have two main issues; lack of damage and lack of life. You have 4k life whereas I have nearly 6k. A volatile flameblood in a red map does around 5k damage with no damage mods present.

You NEED to get life on all rare pieces of equipment. Neither of your rings have life. I would also suggest altering your tree a bit to get more life, as well.

Your jewels need upgrading as well. For now, look for a jewel with life, a res, and a damage/attack speed mod. Here is a search I used looking for jewels for my scion;
http://poe.trade/search/ahonimonareina

I see that you want to use a QotF. At this point, I feel that a 6link rare will serve you better than a 5l Queen (unless you can afford to purchase a 6l QotF). The chest I am currently using cost me a whopping 60c. And, as a bonus, you can get some good life and res rolls. Links in the chest should be Barrage/EDwA/Add Light/Ele Focus/Light Pen/Slower Proj. Try to get Q20 on all when you can.

Another quick and very cheap damage boost for now, is to replace the jewel nearest Vaal Pact with "Static Electricity" viridian jewel.

You will notice that I use a rare wand instead of Piscator's. I self crafted that wand using Shrieking Essence of Wrath (I did actually try Deafenings, but ran low on chaos lol), then annul'ing all mods off until left with just the lightning damage (other mods were pure crap!). Then I simply multi-modded and master crafted. You can find similar wands on poe-trade for around 5ex. The good wands......well.....they WILL cost! The reason I went rare wand over Piscator's was the Int requirement. The rare wand allowed me to drop the 30 int node and put it somewhere useful, while still being able to use a Bisco's ammy.

Hope all this helps. Feel free to catch me in-game!

Is it ok to use a rhoa yriels fostering for more damage?

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DragonSlayer256 wrote:

Is it ok to use a rhoa yriels fostering for more damage?

Yes.

(did you read the OP's "Gear" section?)

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Phosphenez wrote:

Also don't forget that HoI + CoH + Assassin's Mark is basically useless for T16+ fights as you won't be shattering stuff easily, so you should replace that for HoT and something like OoS + CoH - Proj weakness/Culling.

Dafuq are you talking about...? :)

I am completely new to wander attack builds, help me out here, you who have had more experience :)
I am having a hard time understanding the source of damage in case we use Piscator's Vigil.

It generates no DPS, Kinetic Blast also generates no DPS. Neither does any of its 3 supports (WED, Pierce and GPM).

Where does the damage come from? Does it come only from Thunderfist (Adds 1 to 100 Lightning Damage to Attacks) or The Tempest's Binding (through Innervate and Ice Bite)? And any rare gear with added WED you happen to have?

Similarily for Barrage, does the damage only come from the above gear and the Added Lightning Damage support?

2nd question - with Harbinger going away in 3.1, The Tempest's Binding will probably become unavailable or very expensive. Is the build going to lose a lot of DPS by running without it? (I know we should wait for 3.1 patch notes, but let's speculate a bit :)

Thanks!

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Jadran wrote:

I am completely new to wander attack builds, help me out here, you who have had more experience :)
I am having a hard time understanding the source of damage in case we use Piscator's Vigil.

It generates no DPS, Kinetic Blast also generates no DPS. Neither does any of its 3 supports (WED, Pierce and GPM).

Where does the damage come from? Does it come only from Thunderfist (Adds 1 to 100 Lightning Damage to Attacks) or The Tempest's Binding (through Innervate and Ice Bite)? And any rare gear with added WED you happen to have?

Similarily for Barrage, does the damage only come from the above gear and the Added Lightning Damage support?

2nd question - with Harbinger going away in 3.1, The Tempest's Binding will probably become unavailable or very expensive. Is the build going to lose a lot of DPS by running without it? (I know we should wait for 3.1 patch notes, but let's speculate a bit :)

Thanks!

You get flat damage from Wrath/Herald, Tempest's Binding helps a ton, Thunderfist is alright.

Flat +lightning is just as good as %WED and it's a lot cheaper.

Pretty much yes, just the Auras/Gems will give you a ton of lightning which then gets scaled by +lightning dmg on tree, wand damage, wand aspd, crit chance, multi etc.

Tempest's Binding is only for KB so your KB will definitely be weaker, it also gives Frenzy Charges for like Pathfinder, without Tempest's you need to either run blood rage or skip Frenzies, you can run it on Thunderfist/Essence Gloves if you need the damage, otherwise a 4l on common Gripped Gloves will most likely be enough damage.

Thanks for the explanation!

I am wondering how viable it will be to play this wander in Turmoil tonight... Probably not very, although we should get a ton of uniques on the market from increased drop rates due to special area mods. I'm hesitating between this one and SRS.

Hi everyone,need your help. I have problem with boss killing on tier 10 and higher,can easy clear tier 10/11 map with kb but bosses hard for me.And i can't undestand why. This is my gear

Decided to try this build on the 10-day Turmoil league. Got lucky with a few early unique drops, but managed to get it going after having to pick up a few extra mana regen nodes early on.

Now that I'm into maps, I should be able to start picking up gear with a better balance of stats.

One thing I have noticed is a HUGE lack of life pool so far... but getting better gear should help with that (getting a Belly instead of a Tabula for instance...)

Minor suggestion for the leveling section, I found myself reallocating points fairly frequently trying to follow the recommendation in the OP. I have seen several builds that include leveling sections with trees by point totals (20 pt tree, 40 pt tree, etc...). Something like that may help clarify what nodes are most important early on in the build.