[3.3] CI Wandcultist - League starter - Fast mapper - Guardians on a 5L - Shaper down

I procured every unique in the guide. The character runs great until act 5 after that the nightmare begins, it's almost impossible to not die to Innocence and Kitava a billion times to get past. Hopefully, you post a transitional guide phase at that point (level 38-40ish) as the uniques are great for early burst but the character themselves get one shotted.

Otherwise, the guide is fantastic and extremely fun.

Can you link me poe.trade with good wands? Cuz i think im blind, and can't find any better than my piscator's :/

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The_Guardian wrote:

Hi, Bristoling
That is a wonderful build.

One question, why do you pick Vaal Pact? Unless they reversed some changes, it doesn't work with Ghost Reaver since v3.0:
"Vaal Pact
This keystone will no longer affect Energy Shield in any way. It will only apply to Life Leeched. This is because the higher effective health pool provided by Energy Shield trivialized some encounters where Vaal Pact let you restore all of your pool in under a second, if your damage was sufficient."
(source: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1899919)

I am considering rolling this build on Incursion, and I am testing some lowlife setups on standard. Thanks for the build.

Look at Ghost Reaver, top right. :)

Whad do you think about using voidwalker boots to free up one jewel slot?

GR does work with new Vaal Pact. It was disabled for the old instant version.

Can confirm, VP definitely works for us.

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Can you link me poe.trade with good wands? Cuz i think im blind, and can't find any better than my piscator's :/

http://poe.trade/search/himosinaguhaka

Pay special care to wands with free crafting slots or bad crafts that can be improved, like 17% crit. Majority of these wands should be on par with average rolled Piscators, but there are some gems.
For example: Can have crafted attack speed and be 15% better then 17% AS / 29% crit / 380 acc / 114% ele Piscator's that I'm testing against. Costs 15c atm.
Again, can have AS crafted and be 15% better then very highly rolled Piscators. This one comes with high Int, so for my character it would also be almost 200 extra ES. 10 Chaos. Edit: I actually bought this one ;D
You can craft 30+ spell damage on it and it will be 1.5% more spell dps then high rolled Piscators, but also 170 ES for my char. Costs 3c.

Of course this is based using my gear, the dps outcome for your character might be different. For example if you don't have a lot of flat lightning damage on gear/jewels, then higher flat on your wand will be more important etc.
Finally, some browsers have extensions that allow you to directly copy items from poe.trade to Path of Building for super fast "before you buy" comparisons.

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Whad do you think about using voidwalker boots to free up one jewel slot?

Don't really think its worth it, the ES is very low and it has no resists.

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I procured every unique in the guide. The character runs great until act 5 after that the nightmare begins, it's almost impossible to not die to Innocence and Kitava a billion times to get past. Hopefully, you post a transitional guide phase at that point (level 38-40ish) as the uniques are great for early burst but the character themselves get one shotted.

Otherwise, the guide is fantastic and extremely fun.

Thanks :)
Personally, I haven't died once to Innocence, and neither to Kitava (A10 Kitava died like 10 times, Heart phase was hard for me). Compared to you I also had really low resists.

One thing I've noticed is that you are using KB, I generally don't recommend using it until you get to mana leech nodes or use Thief's Torment.
I would personally keep Storm Prison, get a 2B 1G 1R chest, and use Power Siphon until you do get to leech nodes. You also really need a 4L for your clear skill at this level :)
With 2B 1R 1G you can use PS, EDwA, Immolate and Faster attacks, only switch it around with Barrage + EDwA + Immolate + Ele Focus for bosses. 2B means some kind of ES based chest, which will also improve your survivability.

Get your normal lab done, that's 100 flat ES + uninterruptible recharge that you are missing right now.

For a chest, you might want to look at Zahndethus' Cassock, it's got very decent ES for this level, some flat lightning, and a lot of chaos res which helps greatly on a leveling build that goes hybrid.
If you struggle with resits after getting it, consider equipping an ES shield to cover the loss. This will also improve your ES pool.

Now, im wondering why, u have 2x more DPS in PoB, than me.. :P I compare skill tree, items, and don't know how u done it.
I don't pick point blank yet, but its only 100k in barrage overall, i've got right now 180k you 380 +
Any suggestions?

Opened your character in pastebin. 296k Shaper dps, but I'm unsure which auras you are using so I'll leave it even as it shows up as -25% mana reserved.

You miss 3 skill points from quests. That could be a jewel socket by Scion, if I copy your Morbid Gnarl there, it's 325k.

Add a Silver flask instead of mana. Gotta go fast :D 357k dps.

Next level, get Point Blank - 535k dps.

Get a better wand. Use the poe.trade links that I've added to the guide on the first page, for example, the very first wand listed for 1c (Bramble Branch) can have spell damage crafted on and it's 12.5% more damage then your Piscator's.

Then, you can try go get more levels, recently I've started experimenting with top Power charge node and jewel socket next to it, you can try that too. I've unspec 2 points from Sniper to get there.

https://pastebin.com/Sr7WFvdd - 638k dps, 1 skill point away from jewel socket, which can be another 6-9% more dps.

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Bristoling wrote:

Opened your character in pastebin. 296k Shaper dps, but I'm unsure which auras you are using so I'll leave it even as it shows up as -25% mana reserved.

You miss 3 skill points from quests. That could be a jewel socket by Scion, if I copy your Morbid Gnarl there, it's 325k.

Add a Silver flask instead of mana. Gotta go fast :D 357k dps.

Next level, get Point Blank - 535k dps.

Get a better wand. Use the poe.trade links that I've added to the guide on the first page, for example, the very first wand listed for 1c (Bramble Branch) can have spell damage crafted on and it's 12.5% more damage then your Piscator's.

Then, you can try go get more levels, recently I've started experimenting with top Power charge node and jewel socket next to it, you can try that too. I've unspec 2 points from Sniper to get there.

https://pastebin.com/Sr7WFvdd - 638k dps, 1 skill point away from jewel socket, which can be another 6-9% more dps.

Discipline + wrath

That's still 558k after those changes, after that, gem quality/levels, and just getting better abyss jewels etc.