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Jackdaws7

3.0 Ele Wander theory crafting.

Build

So I'm starting the league with an ele wander and have been messing around with a few different builds.

This is a Scion tree that I played in beta and it has been working really nicely. Elementalist + Deadeye.The tree is probably not at all optimized but I wanted to make scion wander work and I think I succeeded somewhat. Mapping with a Storm Prison was super easy on lower tiers.

Now I decided to get a little more serious and theory craft a ranger version because I know it'll out-perform Scion.

This is the Ranger version. I've swapped between deadeye and raider and surprisingly Deadeye nets the build around 67k more dps on barrage.

Note: In both trees I have configured it for power/frenzy/onslaught/point blank/lucky crit chance all on and with a 6L and Piscators. So essentially this is the damage you'd see with a Tabula, Piscators, and Silver + Diamond flask up in PB range.

Is the deadeye configuration accurate? Or is it doing something funky with the Powerful Precision node and projectiles returning to you?

Was not expecting deadeye to have higher DPS than raider.

Conclusions:

Scion is slightly more defensive. Has higher ele-reflect reduction from elementalist ascendency, higher HP % on tree, but has lower damage and movespeed.

Raider has 10% less life on tree than scion, more damage, ease of frenzy charge generation and drops the need for a Silver flask. Also the juicy move speed. Zoom Zoom.

Deadeye has the same tree as Raider so same defenses but has the highest damage out of the three but not the mobility of the Raider or the ease of charge generation and requires a silver flask.

Any opinions? Suggestions? Critiques?

....Wanders are my favorite :|

Posted Jul 31, 2017, 2:32 PM UTC

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