New Unique Wand: Void Battery Theory Craft

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mazul a écrit :

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thinkingofaname a écrit :

Its a good unique item, one that actually cater to a niche build while being powerful, but has massive downside if you can not fulfill the said niche requirement.

This is a well designed unique, unlike that thuderfist bull crap that basically says BiS for all elemental weapon builds.

People should not take power charge for granted. First you need to spend many many points into actually acquire the ability to hold that many charges. Second, you need very high innate crit chance into to keep the power charges stacked, which again require many many points spend in crit chances. Last but not the least, you need damage specifically crit damage and a good amount of base damage as well to actually make the crits count, this again require many many points spent.

In the end, when properly build, you will have very very high damage, especially crit damage, but at what cost? You will be a glass canon because you definitely do not have the points to build all that AND be tanky. Also, insane high burst damage is extremely bad vs reflect. Against a pack of reflect mobs if you crit you will basically 1 shot yourself. And if you don't crit you will be losing your stacks, a lose lose situation.

You would be surprised how tanky you can get while having high enough crit to make critical hits skillpoint-efficient. This is though a lv90+ build to be sure it works. The key is to use efficient crit nodes. I.e. you can't really start as marauder or dualist to get the crit nodes easily while traveling to your other main nodes.

There shouldn't even be a question there is almost never a downside. If anything you have a swap weapon set, put an ele wand on there and use power siphon if you have to. Even without using that tactic though, you only suffer a penalty of -160 (-120 after the + spell power) until you get 3 charges, and each one after the first gets easier to attain. by the 3rd charge you're already up 30% damage, with 6 more charges to go.

Personally I see really great things coming out of this wand in 2 different ways. The first is the obvious crit+fire/ice/lightning witches, the second would be swap weps for a wander to pump out some huge damage with a spell of choice once at 7 power charges w/ PCoC on it, to get to the 9 charges and blow some stuff up. I assume you'd lose the extra 2 PCs once you switch back, but it still might be viable.

Either way, 2-3 power charges is hardly a downside, I'd only get a max of 150% crit chance here from passives, because as my math above says, you'll end up with 62% crit base from hitting 9 PCs.

Is the drop rate extremely low on this item? I have yet to see another hit the market

that the most greatest unique on this game so far so OP ( for me ) i wnat it
no i want two


Ps : don't forget ... with dual wand you lose energie shield too

Thanks everyone for the inputs...Now to see what builds to make for this...

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PRlDE a écrit :

Thanks everyone for the inputs...Now to see what builds to make for this...

1 - Get power charges on critical/ use voll's protector;
2 - Use Ice Spear;
3 - No reason to be worried about running low on power charges.

It can be interesting with a Power syphon + Discharge build.

You can build up the charges with PS, since its attack, not cast, and when ready, discharge the F**K out of everything.
Also if CI+ Vaal Packt you dont have to worry about reflect either.
Guess i would do it with moonsorrow in the other hand.

Edit: only thing im not sure, if its worth to complicate the PS build with it, or its just simpler and not less effective without it.

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Daxora a écrit :

It can be interesting with a Power syphon + Discharge build.

You can build up the charges with PS, since its attack, not cast, and when ready, discharge the F**K out of everything.
Also if CI+ Vaal Packt you dont have to worry about reflect either.
Guess i would do it with moonsorrow in the other hand.

Edit: only thing im not sure, if its worth to complicate the PS build with it, or its just simpler and not less effective without it.

Vaal pack leech is applied before reflect, If you were to crit a reflect mob that would 1 shot you at full es, you will leech nothing and then get 1 shotted by the said reflect. Also Vaal pack is located in a place very very far from es or spell casting in general. Unless you plan to spend like 20 points just to get there I would not touch it.


Also power siphon require you to actually hit, with accuracy. Even a dedicated power siphon user will have a hard time reaching 85% accuracy in maps without good gear. You as a spell caster ... don't even bother.

It is also not very practical to switch weapons. Each swap takes about 1 sec, basically a self stun, switching back and forth takes 2 seconds. Duration this time you can not move, can not leech (and no leech in power siphon mode), need to face tank incoming mobs and basically not doing anything productive other than keeping your charges up. While you do get much stronger after you finish the setup, a normal caster will already be moving on to the next group.

If you want to make good use of power charge, use ice spear. It has a innate 45% chance to crit assuming you positioned yourself correctly, a very high base chance of 7%, and actually freezes your enemies so you aren't face tanking the mobs while you power up your charges. Also since you are already a caster, it will actually do some damage as well.

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Suzumiyaharuhi a écrit :

Keeping power charges up will be really annoying.
If you ever lose the charges, your damage will sink like a rock.
That's the only issue.
This is basically a Freeze pulse/sparker/discharge
Could be fun though.

With a 5+ link volls protector keeping up charges is never an issue add in passives and use spells like ice spear and you will always have power charges. ZANG!

What do you use to release the power strikes?
I'm a Tri-totem spork templar... crit build.
what would I use to discharge the power strikes? Never used it, but sounds kinky.
Can someone please explain how it works please?

Thanks!

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Torontocanada a écrit :

i like the quote on the wand, is that GGG company motto ?

LOL