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

@Bristoling:
Here's my full gear and jewels. You've made suggestions before, and I've implemented what I could.

Gear:


Flasks:


And Jewels:
and I spent all my money (2ex 50c) on this

Do you think it would be worth incorporating Apep's Supremacy into this build?

I gave this build second try on HC and no, it's not playable at least until you gave ascendancies that refresh your ES shield fast.

I just died on Kitava act 5 - 800 HP + 1050 ES. I had all recommended gear like Thiefs ring etc.. Doesn't matter what ES u have, kitava degen just cancel ES refreshing and than you are just 800 HP boy, which means you die on one hit. You can't start with ES nodes because its totally useless. Before you hit lvl 60 you must go totally different passive tree, maybe lifesprig and boost your spell dmg, and HP AND HP. And on 60 level finish cruel lab, take your ascendancies and then totally rebuild your passive treee and end up on 3k-4k ES with CI. This is just my feedback to HC play, maybe somebody with more skill have better option.

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Thats my review, I will think if i give it one more chance cause i am only HC player. And I actually fell in love with power siphon, I never use this skill and its nice :) So maybe i try to find out build with PS.

Even bad feedback is good to have. Yes leveling with this build is a frequent issue, I've seen some people do it in HC but how, I have no idea myself. Maybe leveling with Frost Blades or spells and then respeccing is the way to go.
Vaal constructs stop becoming an issue once you transition into CI since a lot of their damage is based on chaos. This also makes it harder to level since we are pretty much hybrid with minimal amounts of life during leveling. I'd skip early Incursions in HC for this reason until you transition into CI.

Once you hit level 70 and get majority of required gear the build does work quite nicely, personally I don't have any issues surviving in any map tiers with my 7.7k ES (or 8.5k depending on which nodes I take on the tree), although a word of warning - for a wander (of any kind, life based included) it requires some investment to be able to run highest tier of maps, and I imagine on HC these requirements are even higher.

Still, it's a great build for fast running maps.

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nasud wrote:

Would it be better to sacrifice some es/life nodes for charisma and eldritch battey to run HoI? Feel like instant freeze would be better than 400 es (im at 6.17k rn). Also is Vaal regalia better than incadescent heart? esp if I use eldritch battery

Eldritch battery means damage bypasses ES and goes straight to your life, and being CI, we'd die in an instant.
Some people do take mana reservation nodes to run HoI (especially if they like the MTX), it is a loss of damage, although not a big one. Don't know exactly where but I've suggested it some pages ago.


@Nomnaut
All looking good, I'd probably change Foul Sight and Ancient Weaver jewels in the near future, but I'm not saying those are bad jewels, just look/wait for some better ones to pop up for a good price on poe.trade. Don't overpay if there's nothing available yet, just check it now and again. For example, right now there's this one:
up for 40c, and this one with Blind for 7c:
, or this one with Blind for 20c:

You can also buy this wand for 10c:

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Do you think it would be worth incorporating Apep's Supremacy into this build?

We don't really scale chaos damage, free anti-bleed is ok and so is the possibility of +3% max res, but I don't know how reliable it is. Recharge is great but it's not the main defence of the build.
I'd prefer getting a rare with resistances, so that you can get more ES/damage on other pieces without paying through your nose.

double post

how do you go by getting enough STR after replacing lioneye's paw?

Should I just look for it in Jewelry and Belt?

Do you think taking 1 30 STR passive point is worth it too if it helps balance requirements / damage? For instance if I find a really great Ring / Amulet / Belt but it sacrifices STR, therefore I go ahead and take a STR passive point so I can wear everything together?

how do you go by getting enough STR after replacing lioneye's paw?

Should I just look for it in Jewelry and Belt?

Do you think taking 1 30 STR passive point is worth it too if it helps balance requirements / damage? For instance if I find a really great Ring / Amulet / Belt but it sacrifices STR, therefore I go ahead and take a STR passive point so I can wear everything together?

If you replace them for Rainbowstride's, so after level 52 at least, you should have Written in Blood, 2x +10 strength node and Primal Spirit, putting you at 64. 64 strength will support lvl 7 Damage on Full Life or lvl 17 Elemental Damage with Attacks.

Afterwards, yes it's best to find some strength on rest of the gear, like implicit on a amulet or belt/rings.

If you really cannot spare a suffix for strength on gear, then by all means take +30 node. As long as you balance it out it shouldn't matter, but you should be ok getting enough strength on gear.

How does the build go by generating power charges after switching from Power Siphon to Kinetic blast?

You will take Forbidden Power as your 3rd ascendancy, this will give you unlimited Power charges :)