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

Hi all,

In case somebody is interested in a Duelist (Champion) variant of a wander build, I posted a rudimentary build showcase here: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2032280.

Perhaps the OP might want to include this variant in the guide (in case people don't think it's terrible ;)). All Guardians deathless + Shaper down (though not deathless so far). Barrage tooltip can easily reach 70-75k dps without mirror-tier gier (currently I have 65k). At the moment 1.3m Shaper dps with just Dying Sun + Diamond Flask; no charges, no curse, no Vaal Haste.

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Phosphenez wrote:

Raider scales Ice Bite a lot better, 15-23 cold damage per Frenzy charge at level 20 gem, there's also Essence of Horror that gives "Ring: Adds 4 to 7 Cold Damage per Frenzy Charge", fire/cold should be more CONSISTENT as the average damage is better, but lightning should scale easier/better and have better potential max damage

Ah I see. Thanks for the explanation. I do notice lightning damage usually has a wider range. I wonder why that is.

Did anyone try this build in Turmoil? If yes, what was you leveling / gearing experience? Were you able to reach the late game (Guardians, etc.)

I'm thinking about attempting Mayhem with this one, it's more fun to play than SRS.

This is my current setup, but I struggle to kill bosses or sometimes even rare mobs.
Did I miss something obvious? Right know I can only think of changing rings, will they do that much of a differnce?

Mapping with Esh's Mirror, but switching to Lycosidae does not help killing bosses.

Update:
I sold Yriel's. Also bought this thing

and added this


Should I got for QotF or Belly? I would like to atleast kill Atziri.

Hey guys, im loving this build. First time that i play with wander.

So, please.. how can i improve it? Tips?

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Cubinho1 wrote:

Hey guys, im loving this build. First time that i play with wander.

So, please.. how can i improve it? Tips?

Upgrade rings, ammy, boots (17 life, that's not worth using). Also, get Barrage enchant on helm, it adds incredible amount of dps to barrage. Later on, replace piscators with good imbued and drop thunderfists for nice gripped gloves. Dps will drop a bit, but you won't die that easily (I consider you have really low life with this gear?)

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Lynes wrote:

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This is my current setup, but I struggle to kill bosses or sometimes even rare mobs.
Did I miss something obvious? Right know I can only think of changing rings, will they do that much of a differnce?

Mapping with Esh's Mirror, but switching to Lycosidae does not help killing bosses.

Update:
I sold Yriel's. Also bought this thing

and added this

Should I got for QotF or Belly? I would like to atleast kill Atziri.

Get QoTF. Movespeed is a king.
Tempests Binding is doing nothing for you singletarget (also even no enchant on it).
I would drop Retch for decent rare belt with WED, life and resists, since the build doesn't benefit much from this belt.
Decent 3 mod rare jewels are better than Static Electricity, also you can get extra life from there.
Both rings need replacement ASAP. It's garbage, man, literally no offensive rolls (and jewelry is where you boost your dps by a chunk.
The wand... It's probably even worse than piscator, eventhough pisc is not even really endgame wand. You can easily buy way better one really cheap (even any low-end properly multicrafted one would be better).
And finally, you got the wrong version of Vinktars (added to spells does nothing for the build, absolutely).

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d3s0 wrote:

Get QoTF. Movespeed is a king.
Tempests Binding is doing nothing for you singletarget (also even no enchant on it).
I would drop Retch for decent rare belt with WED, life and resists, since the build doesn't benefit much from this belt.
Decent 3 mod rare jewels are better than Static Electricity, also you can get extra life from there.
Both rings need replacement ASAP. It's garbage, man, literally no offensive rolls (and jewelry is where you boost your dps by a chunk.
The wand... It's probably even worse than piscator, eventhough pisc is not even really endgame wand. You can easily buy way better one really cheap (even any low-end properly multicrafted one would be better).
And finally, you got the wrong version of Vinktars (added to spells does nothing for the build, absolutely).

These are my changes so far. Same gloves, but changed the crafted resistence.

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d3s0 wrote:

The wand... It's probably even worse than piscator, eventhough pisc is not even really endgame wand.

For real? I used it yesterday and the difference feels like night and day. Had no problem with any rare mob. But that could have also been Static Electricity.

What would you recommend are must MUST haves on a wand? I tried playing around in poe.trade and this is the one which had most of the mods mentioned in OP.

Which Vinktar after "... to attacks" would you recommend? The to attacks one is quite expensive.

Wand priority list order: T1 Flat light -> t1 critchance -> aspeed -> t1-3 cold/fire (depends what exact build are you following really) -> critmulti -> wed/3rd flat ele

Best vinktars is "adds x-xx to attacks", 2nd one is penetration. The two last ones do absolutely nothing for wanders.

Thank you for this guide, this helped me a lot.

Most of the guides only show either rly budged or rly expensive versions of wander....you show all possible items here on the way from cheap to BIS.

Keep up that great work, hope to read more of your guides with the same overlay/quality.

Where can I see all your guides or is this yor only one?

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So what are peoples opinions about wanders in 3.1? We lose Vaal Pact, but are we able to move to a faster leech version? will the build need Atziri's Acuity to handle leech? or other options iam just not aware of.