[2.2] Hybrid Synergiser Wander

Derp that's true, shows how good I am with chaos res version :D

Changes from latest Closed Beta patch:

1. Blood rage lost its lowlife bonus.

http://cb.poedb.tw/us/gem.php?n=Blood+Rage

20/20 blood rage now gives 6% life leech (down from 10%) and 20% AS always (down from 54% at low life).

2. Herald of Ice and Thunder lost a good chunk of +damage:

http://cb.poedb.tw/us/gem.php?n=Herald+of+Thunder
11-170 down to 19-76

http://cb.poedb.tw/us/gem.php?n=Herald+of+Ice
53-70 down to 38-56

3. Arctic armour reworked - 13% reduced fire and phys damage while standing, 25% mana reserved:
http://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/38lr6b/cb_spoiler_new_arctic_armour_lvl_18/

Some random thoughts:

1. Less reasons to be lowlife, unless you're running Blood Magic. Comparing Shavs and 800+ES chest, Shavs allows you to run 2 or 3 additional auras, and one of these - Discipline - is there to make up for lost ES (roughly, 400 shavs + 400-450 discipline = 850 es chest).

The gap between lowlife and CI is narrowing.

Maybe it's time to stock up a good Vaal Regalia? (:

2. Blood Magic users now can get AA.

Perhaps going BM will be the best in 2.0, like stzbttln does here:

http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1012231

As he states, there will be a jewel to help BM sustain HP cost of KB:

http://cb.poedb.tw/us/unique.php?n=Miser+of+Misery

We'll see.

3. Losing low life Attack Speed bonus means Faster Attacks and Haste aura suddenly become much more appealing.

too many changes to make a judgement atm.

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Skyforth wrote:

too many changes to make a judgement atm.

Indeed, everything is changing so much, guess it's gonna be best to try theorycrafting something simply just before beta ends :)

Ok I had a go at trying to make a viable build for the low life wander in the 2.0 era.
The two main changes we have to adapt to is 1) Blood Rage will become very difficult to sustain + BM lost its low life attack speed bonusand 2) AA got nerfed and became a mana reserved skill instead of a mana drain skill.

So we lose attack speed and we lose defenses. We do get jewels however and some of them can get quite strong for Wanders and Aura's were buffed (which we rely on heavily).

I came up with the following aura setup (Anger, Wrath, HoI, HoA, HoT, Discipline and lvl 15 Clarity):

I have 90 mana left to cast than with currently a mana regen of 189 mana/sec and 1 attack costs 61 mana. This should be enough to sustain a few attacks.

I am still debating on the passive tree though, at the moment I believe we have two options, either we get high ES boots with resists and MS OR we use Lioneye's Paws and skip Unwavering stance.

The high ES boots build goes as follows:
(needs some more crafting)

As you can see we have to travel all the way down to Unwavering stance and don't pick up anything really great on the way there... It just feels inefficient in my opinion. However we get a nice ES boost from some 200 ES boots.

The second build I came up with was using Lioneye's paws with +1 level corrupt:

The build would look like this:


We can now pick up a lot more attack speed and ES from the tree but we do lose resists (mainly made up in tree) and movement speed. I'm hoping that one of the new movement skills (flame dash?) can be used with wands so we could neglect this...

I'm not sure on either, I'm looking for some feedback on this.

Not using Blood Rage - Enhance - Arctic Armour - BM anymore does free up a 4L. In here I would use either a 4L single target skill or a power charge generator (assasins mark COH) so we can free up a slot in our 6L for either crit dmg or faster attacks (5 off-colour shav).

The rest of my gear is here btw:


Without further testing my links would be KB + GMP + LL + WED + Pierce + PCOC. We migh switch PCOC for something else though as mentioned above.

I'm looking for feedback!

Traveling to Unwavering stance seems really bad for me, I'll rather use Lioneye's paws. +1 level provides nice benefit for new Enlighten also.

Use +1 rainbowstrides. Running with lioneyes paws on low life with -40% is a goddamn nightmare, and I would only recommend that if phase run ends up being really fast or the other flame dash movement skill is actually good.

My unique didn't make it into this patch. Maybe revamp later.

Sorry ..

How is the tree of skills now?... Thank You

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djlaauol2 wrote:

Sorry ..

How is the tree of skills now?... Thank You

He will be updating it soon™

'til then just play the new leagues.