Kripparrian's wand Templar?

That's so crazy to find these gems. You have to drop them as everybody want them. I am still early in the game, but do we get them as quest item or is the only way to get them is drop/buy ?

Please forgive me that I do not have time to read this long topic right now. I just have a couple quick questions.

1. Why is the main attack Power Siphon and not Elemental Hit? Using Power Siphon to keep up Power Charges and then spamming Elemental Hit seems stronger to me on the first look.
2. Has anybody tried the Soul Siphon passive cluster instead of Eldritch Battery yet? I used these passives a lot in the closed beta, and I think they are very powerful and generally overlooked. +25 mana each kill is very strong.

I am at the Deal with the Bandits Normal HC and dont know what reward to choose. Any higher level wanders know what is better reward in retrospect?
(permanent increase of +8 to all elemental resistances, permanent increase of 30 Mana, permanent increase of 45 Life or 1 passive point)

He went with HP, Passive, Power Charge (there are different rewards of the same quest on the different difficulties).

How does he get 3500+ HP?

The Oak reward was reduced from 45 to 40. You can no longer have 4x45 HP, but just 1x40.

I counted all the life nodes in his passive build it's "only" 230% or so.

I can only guess he must have very high life bonuses on every single piece of gear. Even so by my estimates he must have 380+ flat life from items and 230%+ to get closer to 3.5K HP. There is no aura that gives life is there?

I am curious if anyone can answer a question I have had about this build.

It seems like there is a lot of work put into getting Power Siphons' damage up through tons of mana to get auras etc, what is the driving reason for choosing Power Siphon instead of building around something that already does a lot of damage like Ice Spear?

Definitely not knocking the build, I see it works great, just curious what I am missing.

Thanks!

 

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Jaex написал:

For softcore i think need to get different reward for second difficulty. He getting skill point so he can get more life node. But instead i must get attack speed or physical damage i think but not sure which one will increase my dps more in softcore.

Suggestions about softcore quest reward selections?

You can just spend the passive elsewhere. Or, pick physical damage, almost all damage he deals is weapon-based physical, so it's just the 12% versus 4%.

EDIT: Sorry, messed up the quote-tags.

does anyone know if stopping to level skillgems at some point is usefull?
i am really mana starved as i am still pretty low level and dont have eldrich battery yet.

Is it ok to start with wand like this at lvl ~50?