Kinetic Blast. problem solved for Physical Wanders?
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hmm not really.
it is a very good gem and very fun to use, but the thing is Wanders are all about insane gear or bust. for example, I'm using a beautiful wand - not too shabby by any means - and have used my Scion's free re-spec to take pretty much every Wand node and Crit node I could get my hands on... well while it clearly does more damage than the measly ~3.5k DPS on 5 Power Charges, my tooltip shows me - it's not comparable to the insane Tornado Shot, on a bow with less damage. what do you guys think? can KB be made better without becoming broken? can Phys Wander be a build which isn't necessarily restricted to the "rich" only? Alva: I'm sweating like a hog in heat
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It's just one of those things. Getting the right mods on wands is harder because they roll from a broader pool and that makes good physical wands rarer and more expensive. I don't think it's prohibitively bad, I've seen people streaming in the new leagues with wand characters that seem fairly effective already. Wands have their merits. There are always going to be characters and skills that work better with fewer resources, and wanding tends towards the expensive and established side of the spectrum.
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Kinetic blast is great. I've managed to get really good damage just messing around with a really bad wand. The trick is to make sure you are piercing with it to proc many explosions.
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In my opinion, wanding is in a really weird spot. It's pretty much the epitome of late blooming. It's just fucking awful until your gear is amazing(ly expensive) and then it wrecks everything.
The fact that wands can be rolled as physical weapons at all bothers me to an irrational degree; I get SO pissed when I find a wand with great casting mods and a bunch of stupid attack mods clogging up the affixes. ...and then I think about how even that great casting wand is beat by a blue dagger with a mediocre spell damage mod. I'm rambling, but wands are totally my sore spot when it comes to itemization in POE. A comprehensive, easy on the eyes loot filter:
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Actually i find KS insane..with non expensive gear i've got to 50+k dps with LMP
Clear speed is much much higher than Power siphon..also using pierce u can easily clear offscreen Последняя редакция: Freud88#2789. Время: 20 дек. 2014 г., 10:10:47
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Meh, the same with physical attackers. Life sucks.
@Freud88: Using the Elreon mod is not precisely a cheap option. John plays self found, so it's worse for him. Add a Forsaken Masters questline
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" I no longer play self-found so that's inaccurate. a better definition is I'm a 90% player 10% trader (buyer), with very limited resources and only a couple of characters that are fully-self found. nonetheless, the gear Freud88 posted fits the "non-expensive" definition, sort of like various "budget Uber Atziri viable" builds I saw in this forum, fit the word "budget"... on-topic: I assume you mean physical melee attackers, and if so that's not quite true. phys melee has plenty of ways to scale with Auras and nodes (mainly from the Marauder/Duelist/Templar parts), to get a good amount of effectiveness without having an insane weapon. and when I say "effectiveness", it's not necessarily DPS. it can be lots of stun, attack speed, or good application of status ailments, for example. Wands? as posted in OP, I took all Wand, crit and projectile nodes I could get my hands on, and still feel underpowered compared to other ranged skills, simply because my Wand is good but it's not "BiS". Alva: I'm sweating like a hog in heat Shadow: That was fun Последняя редакция: johnKeys#6083. Время: 20 дек. 2014 г., 11:25:01
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GGG please remove OP skill just released. Thanks.
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" Ah, ok. Then I guess it's doable. Yes, it was physical melee. Maybe the problem is bows and spells because they are less gear dependant? Who knows the logic behind itemization in PoE... Add a Forsaken Masters questline
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Works great on elemental budget wander too, using Piscator. Have around 75% more DPS than a Power siphon setup.
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Ofc it will be nurfed (after they put out a MTX ;), cause fun = not allowed. Especially if it's cheap fun. When night falls
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