elemental hit vs power siphon wanding

no not really just looking for opinions based on experiences really. ty though

You use elemental hit 18-70+ because wand damage is pure garbage until you have a really good wand and gear with +static damage (thunder fist unique, jewellry with +elemental damage and % weapon elemental damage).


You will generally 1-2 shot stuff as elemental hit up to merciless, power siphon on the other hand is lolworthy at the early levels in comparison.

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Fluttershypony a écrit :

You use elemental hit 18-70+ because wand damage is pure garbage until you have a really good wand and gear with +static damage (thunder fist unique, jewellry with +elemental damage and % weapon elemental damage).


You will generally 1-2 shot stuff as elemental hit up to merciless, power siphon on the other hand is lolworthy at the early levels in comparison.

You must suck at siphon then.

[edit] It's the damage effectiveness % that makes siphon IMO. An average wand will do.

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Herpy_Derpleson a écrit :

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Fluttershypony a écrit :

You use elemental hit 18-70+ because wand damage is pure garbage until you have a really good wand and gear with +static damage (thunder fist unique, jewellry with +elemental damage and % weapon elemental damage).


You will generally 1-2 shot stuff as elemental hit up to merciless, power siphon on the other hand is lolworthy at the early levels in comparison.

You must suck at siphon then.

[edit] It's the damage effectiveness % that makes siphon IMO. An average wand will do.

300 base lightning damage >>>>>>>>>>>> 25% more effectiveness on whatever trashy mods you have below 70 and without top end gear.


>m-muh power charge

Can't take real advantage of it till later on.

Hi,

I have a lvl28 PvP wand Shadow.

In my personal experience EH is far superior to PS, mainly because PS has an insane manacost, although overall, with good gear it is probably the better ability later in the game, primarily due to Culling Strike and Power Charge on kill.
The 1,25 dmg-multi is very good, especially with Static Blows. But while PS starts out with 15 Mana(!) per shot, Elemental Hit starts at 4 and is 7 for a lvl 4 gem.

I use my wand-attack on this chestpiece:



Atm it is stripped, but regularly I use EH linked to Faster Projectiles, Weapon Elemental, Increased Critdmg, Additional Accuracy. That means, my EH peaks at 18 Mana/shot, which is still much higher than most melee-abilities at lvl28, but it is sustainable with Mana Geyser and Clarity.

Power Siphon was linked to the same supports and was at 37 Mana/shot. That is horrendous. I had to go for Eldritch Battery, which reduced my hp by roughly 20%.

Even dmg-wise EH trumps PS, mainly because of the incredible quality bonus of 4% Critchance/1% quality, which synergizes perfectly with the quality bonus from Additional Accuracy (2% Critchance/1% quality).

On EH I am somewhere at 2.5k screen-dps atm, which is even lower than the real dps, as the added elemental dmg is not factored in.

So imo: Elehit >>> Power Siphon

For lategame PvE this might be different though.


regards

final bumpp

I don't think you will be able to support the mana costs of EH at all. At least not with the same gem set up with the usual power siphon build. With power siphon you can stop leveling the gem which keeps the mana cost reasonable.

It might be doable if you take a bunch of reduced mana nodes and have mana regen on every piece of gear or are using mana leech.