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

I started reading the comments and see a few concerns related to squish and DPS.

I've played wander league SC almost exclusively for the last year and have experienced bad leveling, squishy mapping etc. I can say this looks good. I'm going SSF.

What I do to try and avoid headaches related to instadeath, hour long pack fights and having to YOLO run through the content:

-Level story mode with +1 gem wand or scepter(s) (magic scepter, alteration and resist ring recipe).
-Use spells- Volitile dead is strong and works like a swarm of homing missiles.
-Use blood rage- MOAR damage is strong.
-Grab mana leech nodes as needed. Respec out later.
-Cap resists
-Use a 5l when you find one and ditch tabula at that point. Roll high life and/or res.
-Run CWDT/IC starting in act 4
-Socket a decoy totem so you have it when you need it.
-Get labs done sooner rather than later.
-Get your side quest points as soon as they are easy (pantheon bosses).

-Map leveling- Clear speed is king! faster = better. Even if you have to run white maps till 80. You WILL get there faster compared to running t8 and dying every other map.
-Skip the bosses for the most part. They might kill you, they rarely drop good loot and they take too long.
-Chain your maps. Put a handful in your inv and run them back to back to back without stopping to ID every rare. Gotta get in the zone.

Remember even Grimmz is windripping 999,999 TIER THREE Burial Chambers this league. While he is looking for Doctor cards, the point is you don't need to run t15 for currency drops.

I chose SSF for this char mainly to reset my atlas, but it's nice to be able to play without thinking what you can sell and what you need to buy. Turning off the trade switch in your head is nice.

Hope that helps someone.

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born2bemonday wrote:

Loving this build so far, only thing is i'm at a loss at what to upgrade next with my gear (you can check my profile please) every wand i put into POB isn't giving me more dps (currently at 700k shaper dps) Please and thank you for your time.

Did you go elementalist?, this is occultist build I thought. See if respec ascendency increases your DPS?

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scabchewer wrote:

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born2bemonday wrote:

Loving this build so far, only thing is i'm at a loss at what to upgrade next with my gear (you can check my profile please) every wand i put into POB isn't giving me more dps (currently at 700k shaper dps) Please and thank you for your time.

Did you go elementalist?, this is occultist build I thought. See if respec ascendency increases your DPS?

I think he rerolled into BF/Reave Inpulsa Elementalist with Heralds :)

Thanks for this build. I've been wanting to play a KB build for a while but haven't been able to find one that I've enjoyed. Loving this one though, so thanks again!

Hi, I've been playing with this build for few days, it's my first wander and I love this build.

I've a question. Crown of eyes is mandatory or we can easily switch to a good hubris circlet?

CoE gives us good amount of ES and leech, but his principal "power" is to apply increased and reduction to spell to attack. However, only path of the savant (16%inc spell damage + 20 int+ 20mana) and coldhearted calculation (12% spell and attack damage,20% inc mana regen and +20 intel).

We can easily remove path of the savant from the tree. So, a good hubris circlet can gives us many possibilities like : take 2 pts instead of alira choice, so we can take DPS nodes, crit node or faster start of ES regen,a jewel slot. whatever you want.

With hubris circlet we can go for a MF version too, resistances are really not the problem (they aren't with CoE but you'll need very expensive ventor's gamble).

Barrage enchant is easier to find on hubris than CoE, so, if you are rich you can just buy one instead of farm uber lab to get the enchant (atm 0 CoE with barrage enchant).

There's also implicit spell damage on wands (33-37%), which brings this number to 65% increased damage with 37% implicit wand, and also it makes gearing and buying totally amazing wands much easier and cheaper. If someone sees a wand looking like this:

3-110 lightning damage
11% attack speed
27% crit chance
25% crit multi

Then it's a good wand, but worse then perf rolled Piscator's (or even an average one). Now add 50% spell damage on it (and CoE) which doesn't add any extra value to the wand for 99% of the people, but for us it adds 10% more damage compared to almost total perf (ignoring accuracy) Piscator's, which are like 2-6+ ex - http://poe.trade/search/inakinesenimar - I've included offline listings as well.

With Crown of Eyes you can buy a 15c wand that will beat total perf rolled Piscators: http://poe.trade/search/anasanorahikit
Corruption Gnarl listed for 15c would be 6.6% more dps in my example.


And my current wand that I bought for measly 2ex has 18.3% more dps then total perf Piscator's. Without CoE it would actually be 3% less dps.

It also opens up option of just crafting spell damage on a wand for added damage. Altogether, I believe that it is a very decent option. You can play with a Hubris, it becomes a question if you prefer:
- more ES on Hubris / spending a lot more currency on a good wand / spending more nodes for damage / spending less for Barrage enchant, OR
- less ES on CoE / spending a lot less on a good wand / spending more nodes for ES / spending more for Barrage enchant.

PS: even if there are no CoE with Barrage enchant, you can buy a rare/magic/normal Hubris and buy Trash to Treasure prophecy.

How about 2 Void Battery and Forbidden Power ascendancy, is 400% increase spell dmg worth it ?

Void Battery has terrible attack speed and you'd need to use both to get even close to a rare wand or Piscator's. Losing a shield is a bad idea since you will need those resistances and additional ES.

Good guide, much better than the popular ones that tell you you need a six-link, dying sun blah blah, really useful and shows you can level as a wander and not as an archer. CI is great and it's silly that people ignore it in favour of life.

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Chalk_Circles wrote:

Good guide, much better than the popular ones that tell you you need a six-link, dying sun blah blah, really useful and shows you can level as a wander and not as an archer. CI is great and it's silly that people ignore it in favour of life.

Hey man, thanks for good words. I would say CI is in a good spot but only for specific builds, like HoWA, Brutus or Doon with Shapers Touch and Geofris Sanctuary, other then that it's only good for specific ascendancies made for ES like Occultist or Trickster. Still not bad to be honest but could use a slight direct buff other then expensive Watcher's Eye.