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Wickerman3

(Beta) Low Life Wander Build (9 auras)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PFBXVKqScg

This is my Low Life Wander Build for Closed Beta (The Awakening) This build covers every aspect of my build as well as a map run through to show its effectiveness. I apologize for the lengthy video. (It was the first video I ever recorded) The first 20 minutes explains what my build does and the remaining is a high level map run through

Kinetic Blast dps= 42467 (With 3x Frenzy and 6x Power Charges)

Power Siphon dps= 53082 (With 3x Frenzy and 6x Power Charges)

Frenzy dps= 52257 (With 3x Frenzy and 6x Power Charges)

Links: Wand: Summon Ice Golem, Minion Life, Fortify

Helm: Discipline, Herald of Ash, Hatred, Arctic Armour

Shield: Wrath, Haste, Anger

Chest: 4L- Kinetic Blast, Weapon Ele Damage, Greater Multiple Projectiles, Phys Projectile Attack Damage

5L-Kinetic Blast, Weapon Ele Damage, Greater Multiple Projectiles, Phys Projectile Attack Damage,Increased Crit Damage

6L-Kinetic Blast, Weapon Ele Damage, Greater Multiple Projectiles, Phys Projectile Attack Damage,Increased Crit Damage, Pierce

Boots: Power Siphon/Frenzy, Faster Attacks, Phys Projectile Damage, Weapon Ele Damage

Gloves: Herald of Ice, Blood Magic, Curse on Hit, Assassin's Mark

(i put in Herald of Thunder in the extra 6th slot in my armor)

Gear:

Wand: High phys dps (180+)/Local Crit(10%+) /Attack Speed(1.4+ aps)

Helm: Alpha's Howl

Shield: Prism Guardian

Chest: Shavronne's Wrappings

Boots: Blood Dance

Gloves: ES gloves with 250+ accuracy, resists, and room for life or mana leech craft

Amulet: flat phys roll, strength, crit/multi chance, %max energy shield (or room for max% es craft)

Rings: Resists, flat phys, accuracy, life/mana leech, attack speed, room for max %es craft

Belt: Rustic Sash or Chain Belt with resists, es roll, weapon ele damage

Flasks: you can use all utility flasks, preferably with Surgeon's Roll (gain 1 charge on crit)

Total Reduce Mana reserve from tree+jewel+alpha's Howl= 44%

Tree: http://poeurl.com/zplPrXI (use JSON's offline tree builder and paste link in there)

Screen Shot of Tree: http://i.imgur.com/qnwFmqx.jpg

Posted Jun 11, 2015, 7:43 AM UTC · edited

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Wickerman3OP•

I know the title may be misleading since heralds and arctic armour are not auras. They're still buffs, but I just called them auras by mistake.

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RG_PankOYes, I am back @ twitch.tv/rg_panko•

I have to be honest here.
For the exalts put into gear in this char, it performs unimpressively in a 76 map.

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CantGetRidOfABombHardcore•

On what planet is one shotting every pack unimpressive? Sure OP plays a little slowly but the build does a craptonne of damage.

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Mundy94•

IT does seem people are forgetting these mobs have more life in the beta

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SkrllIexHardcore•

I agree, the nerf to blood rage and blood magic gem quality nullifies the main attraction of going attack based low life.

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cratirc•

shouldn't blood rage changes be better since low life practically means -60% chaos res, and by changing it to phy dmg, the "degen" doesn't actually get amplified.

Or are are you refering to the "low life attack speed" boost gotten from linking quality BM gem?

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valakut_•

Blood rage now also degens 4% ES.

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cratirc•

no....not exactly, 4%ES degen implies that it will affect CI, but from what we know it's a 4%physical degen base on max hp. So in CI case 4% of 1hp is effectively(still stop ES recharge though) 0.

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anapoe•

I'm pretty sure he's just referring to attack speed. Also, if you're playing anything other than lowlife, the new BR is AMAZING.

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SovietBear666Poison Arrow•

Do you even understand shavs? You still take 100% chaos damage, but it doesn't apply to your HP before es is gone.

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blekanese•

CI makes you immune to chaos damage, Shavronne's only makes so that chaos damage doesn't bypass Energy Shield.

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anapoe•

Yeah, I'm a bit surprised - my life-based protector wander with no aura nodes is currently sitting at a slightly higher dps (iirc it's 74k/39k).

My guess is that he doesn't have much WED on gear to scale the auras up before crits and if he got a couple T1 or T2 WED rolls on gear the DPS would double.

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evilwookie•

You need to have a way to deal with reflect

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Wickerman3OP•

The best way to deal with reflect is to just be careful. The only real threat is the thornflesh bloodlines PACK. the single thornflesh rare is pretty easy to deal with. The best way to deal with reflect packs if you want to just blindly work your way through the map/zone is to either get vaal pact or atziri gloves.

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MrShyPandaBest at being the worst•

I'm not sure how you can even survive reflect if you accidentally hit it. I was running a kblaster in beta with like ~20k dps with vaal pact/life leech gem and if i hit a reflect pack I would die within a second.

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AllHailBlobsGud1•

The one way I dealt with reflect when I was playing my Kinetic blast character was running phase acro and potting before hand. I would survive but be down about half my life although I did not use crit damage gem.

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FallenDeus•

Isn't the only way reflect can be on a pack is the bloodlines mod now? Because reflect in rares is only a self buff not a pack buff

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Frajmando•

I have a 60k kinect blaster on standard, and reflect packs is no problem at all.

For reflect map I change to lifeleech gem insted of WED, and it's very easy

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madmooseman50% DREAD THICKET HYPEEEEE•

Pierce Kinetic Blast (I find) often offscreens packs. The only way to be careful would be to drop pierce.

Even at 40% pierce chance (just off the tree), it still happens a lot.

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Vulpix0rWarband League (NEKO guild)•

What's the advantage of doing low life for a wander? Do wanders get a damage boost from something for being on low life? Spell casters get attunement for that damage boost on low life, but what about wanders?

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Wickerman3OP•

Funny you should say that. That thought was running through my head earlier. A major benefit in running a low life build was the massive gain one would receive with Blood Rage (pre beta change). I was originally running my low life wander build with the old blood rage and sadly the change came and basically nullified the elusiveness of going low life. The only real advantage of going low life now is the ability to gain extra auras/buffs.

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Vulpix0rWarband League (NEKO guild)•

Hmmm I see. I was running a wander on beta too before the wipe and getting the 2 aura clusters allowed me to run Wrath + Anger + Herald of Ice on mana, and Clarity on life. It was pretty doable.

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Tr0j4nIGN: Sogono•

They scale really well with auras. And going LL gives access to more aura's.

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TechercizerDrop the Rain•

aura's what?

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jiggymei0418•

only benefit i see now running low life wander is for the auras. wander's rely heavily on auras for deeps

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Vulpix0rWarband League (NEKO guild)•

But if you pick up 2 of the major clusters in the tree, you can run Herald of Ice, Wrath and Anger on mana, with Clarity on life, which is usually like a level 6 or 7. It will only take like 300 life? I don't really see the advantage.

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AliveGhost•

Consider a Lori's Lantern. The unlucky hit thing is surprisingly strong/OP.

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Umbrall•

I don't know the enemies' damage distributions, but if they're fairly average it's only going to be 10-15% less damage, which isn't bad, but isn't incredible.

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KarvarouskuGamingKarvarousku = Woolly Milk-Cap•

During the video (3:49->)

"Since you are using a low life build, the 6% increased dmg against enemies on low life per frenzy charge definately helps out....."

While looking at how you start this sentence (might also be just my bad understanding on what you're trying to say), it sounds like you're understanding that the blood dance gives the increased damage against enemies when you are on low life, when it actually increases the damage against enemies that are on lowlife, making the boost in most cases (excluding high life mobs in parties) fairly useless.

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Wickerman3OP•

no, i know its increased damage when enemies are on low life. not me as the player

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KarvarouskuGamingKarvarousku = Woolly Milk-Cap•

Aight, didn't doubt it in the first place.

Just the phrasing of the sentence made it sound like it, since it starts with highlighting that while playing lowlife build the affix in the boots is useful, and therefore questioning it's usefulness with life, hybrid or CI builds.

Since after all, it's effect is the same, no matter what kind of build you play (well, culling strike or similiar mechanics make a difference).

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Wickerman3OP•

i have actually made some adjustments to my build and have been able to reincorporate blood rage so now im wanting to replace my blood dance for a high es boot for more overall es. after everything is fixed, my build will have around 5.8k-6k es

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EgrenIGN: JuanInAMillion•

Nice to see what a LL Wander looks like in the Beta.

However, I think the concessions you make to run all those auras are just not worth it. I think you would be better off cutting either the shield or helmet for something with more ES. 4.2k ES is very little. I would want something like 7k, and you can clearly cut some damage and still be fine.

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Wickerman3OP•

i tried what you said and i replaced my alpha's howl with a 300 es helm and move some auras around and ended up 5154 es. I kept all the same auras, but swapped arctic armour for a level 3 clarity. I could drop the clarity and swap it with a vaal discipline. the dps remained about the same. good tip

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madmooseman50% DREAD THICKET HYPEEEEE•

7k es? Jesus, how much is that from the tree?

And in a ranged build? I would have thought 5k to be sufficient.

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EgrenIGN: JuanInAMillion•

I mean, 7k would be considered good. 5k could be fine for a lower level character since this is softcore and dying doesn't hurt as much as on higher levels. A high ES pool becomes even more important for this version since it doesn't have instant leech and thus can take large bursts of damage even when not being hit by an enemy.

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madmooseman50% DREAD THICKET HYPEEEEE•

5k could be fine for a lower level character

What do you consider "lower level"? My LL wander (No Shavs, Chaos resist and life regen instead) has around 4k life at level 85.

It's all ES from here though.

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KappaSevzzenTrumpet Skeleton of the Abyss•

Mine has with legacy shavs 6k not hard to get around 7k with gear

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MethrammarStandard•

The reason he cant get much es is, he needs lots of uniques to work,I mean he can get 300 flat es from headgear (high end) and more es from using es/armor or pure es shield(350+).

I wouldn't consider this build worthy, its way too fragile considering currency you put.Unless there are some jewels to buff low life builds, (in my opinion) going low life is not worth at awakening.

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EgrenIGN: JuanInAMillion•

...which is why I suggested getting more ES.

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alt0172•

why shadow over witch?

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Wickerman3OP•

i prefer shadow over witch because it has better early nodes for level progression without having to spend a bunch of points on respecs later

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EgrenIGN: JuanInAMillion•

I think there is merit to this. Shadow has an easier time leveling, and also yoy can respec between life and ES at a later stage. But witch's start is definitely superior for low life wander, not only because the ES nodes are good conpared to Shadow's fairly on-par starting damage nodes. Also you gain access to the two higher spell damage nodes if using Crown of Eyes.

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madmooseman50% DREAD THICKET HYPEEEEE•

if using Crown of Eyes.

Which you should probably do if going an ES-based Wander. It seems like it was designed for them.

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EgrenIGN: JuanInAMillion•

It depens. It really only shines when you have a shield with lots of spell damage, since you won't likely get that much from the tree or other gear. Amulet + wand could net you around 40% spell damage, and while that is nice, i don't see it as the biggest of dealbreakers. You are giving up alot by using it after all. Resists, up to 200 or so more ES, resists, higher accuracy. Also there is leech om there, whose value again comes down to the rest of your gear. A Blood Magic version won't care about the mana leech obviously, and then the life leech isn't as important if using Blood Rage.

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jiggymei0418•

i'm playing LL kinetic blast in live server. currently having 55k dps on KB. how do u manage reflect maps w/o VP?

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Wickerman3OP•

i just roll over physical/elemental reflect maps because its pretty much impossible unless you want to run it super slow. You would be able to run a temporal chains map faster than if you were to run say a reflect map.

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jiggymei0418•

that's a bummer that you can't do reflect maps anymore.i'm not used to seeing very slow attack speed. maybe you can try out blood rage with your blood dance and grab zealot's oath and taking heart of oak, use vitality aura and take another frenzy charge to negate the degen?

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Wickerman3OP•

I was thinking of finding a way of including blood rage into the build but if I were to take Zealots Oath, Heart of Oak, and pick up and extra frenzy charge, i would be looking at 11 passive points which would end up granting me 5% regen with all charges. I wouldnt be able to level my vitality gem very high due to high strength requirements so if i were to equip that i would gain an additional 1% life regen. That would total me with 6% regen. Sadly blood rage drains 8% so i would still be degen'ing and all those passive points and replacing an aura/buff for an additional 20% attack speed and 6% life leech didnt seem worth it. I would rather spend those 11 passive points elsewhere and raise my attack speed with Haste (17% attack speed and 9% move speed)

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meripor2•

Blood rage drains 4% of maximum life and 4% of maximum es, not 8%. With the life and es you have in your video it would drain roughly 5.4% of your es per second.

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madmooseman50% DREAD THICKET HYPEEEEE•

Phys crit wand? Or with Piscator's?

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h4ns_wmJuly 10th, 2016!•

I apologize if you explain any of the following in the video, can't watch it right now.

You are defenseless against reflect and leech at a very slow rate.

FA is way too good to pass up, it grants a much healthier playstyle

What's your reasoning behind not using anger and wrath in the alpha's howl? looks really senseless to be.

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Wickerman3OP•

im not using wrath and anger in alpha's howl because of reservation costs. i cant swap a 50% reserve gem for a 35 or 25% because i wont have enough mana or life. I did make a lot more adjustments to my build in the past couple hours and i will most likely provide a new video with the changes i've made. i added like 1k es, incorporated blood rage again, and also incorporated vaal discipline with increased duration.

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jforce321Twitch.tv/jforce321•

if you got blood rage going again are you gonna drop those blood dance boots? seems like a good idea to me, but I wouldnt know probably.

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meripor2•

I'd wager he needs those boots to sustain blood rage.

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kamil1210(ツ)•

great build

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morphl•

not sure if this is viable on beta, but im currently running my wander with bloodmagic keystone + frenzy charge corruption blooddance for life sustain on live. at least for me this was a nice way to completely skip any manaregen and the unreliable acuitiy mana leech. did you test something like this?

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inkube•

How much accuracy do you have?

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RaicoronQualityPlayer•

I don't know why it took 17 minutes to show the gear/tree. There is no way you couldn't have done that in 2 minutes tops. Here's a tip on how to fix that. Rather than mouse over everything for 6-9 seconds apiece, just mouse over each thing for a second. The players that are curious can easily rewind/pause the video to read.

How much WeD do you have on your jewelry? You need more WeD to scale all that aura damage.

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carlovski99•

Hmm, My KB char in live only does about 17k damage, and absolutely breezes through maps. I did spec for speed/reflect safety over dps though. Must wreck things with that dps.

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Live42Long•

Are you using mantra of flames? (srry, I didn't watch the whole vid.) It seems like a good option since you have a lot of buffs up.

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JizzerWizard•

If you're serious about making better videos for next time, treat it like a 3-5 paragraph essay. Come up with a concise intro (build name, what it does/the goal of the build, hover over gear, fluff). Then break the build down into different points and what makes each point work. Again, keep it short and precise. And for the last part, show your build in action. Although, keep in mind you don't have to go in this order. The point is, though, to keep the video short and to the point because people have short attention spans.

One thing I would highly suggest, as well, is make a timestamp for the video in the description. As for everything else, it can be posted here in your thread.

Besides all that...a shavs..out of my league =(. I'm a peasant, lol.

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