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To be honest, kinda feel a little frustrated/triggered by a lot of the stuff, well mainly the shaper and elder rares, and how they apply to wanders. I mean don't get me wrong, the new jewels, belts, and a couple of the uniques are fantastic, Tombfists especially. Free Maim+Intimidate in addition to % max life and flat life, damage, attack speed, etc. However, after having a couple weeks to really analyze the new Shaper/Elder rares and the mods they roll... definitely left me feeling like wanders got left out.

First issue, the "socketed gems" that can roll on gloves, helms and boots are really lackluster. Boots are a joke, but gloves and helms basically have one "good" gem, then maybe one or two decent one. I did use slower proj gloves for a while, and actually ended up putting barrage in there and KB in 6link chest to farm, but eventually wanted to give those up for tombfists. So that leaves us with helms... Ended up going with Elder over Shaper just because of the +3% crit to attacks, but other than that the additional gems arn't too good. There's also this weird problem in that I have no idea why they'd add spell mods to both, when one seems more for spells and the other for attacks. I really wish they made like Elder Rares for attack builds and Shaper for Spells, so that elders helms could roll flat dmg to attacks instead of spells. Anyway, don't get me wrong the stuff is nice too have, it's just when you start comparing the new affixes towards say a spell build, or even better a PHYS spell build or mine build, it's no contest. Even the shield and chest mods are more or less meh. I do like the proj damage on belts and the curse on hit rings with multi/proj damage, but even then, think of what kinda stats a two-stone would need to compete with an opal.

Anyway, the REALLY interesting new affixes are all on the wand itself... which inherently already is a problem... that being it's already hard as fuck to roll a good attack wand. With the new affixes theres over 70 possible mods! If you include the tiers im sure it's something like 300-500! The other thing is, our suffixes are pretty much used up, well at least two, since you simply need attack speed and crit chance. Plus, you still need damage on your wand! Basically it's going to be hard as hell for anyone besides the top 1% to actually get to use these mods.

But for those curious who haven't taken a good look yet... here's the new wand affixes that would be fantastic for the build.
Socketed Skills Supported by Lightning Penetration level 16-20... the interesting part is the hybrid portion though, which adds 45-60% increased lightning damage and counts as one mod all together.
Gain 10-20% of elemental damage as EXTRA chaos damage. Pretty self-explanatory.
Adds 1-6 Lightning Damage to Attacks with this weapon per 10 INT. This one's really interesting, but let me tell you, it took 3000 alts on a ilvl 85 Shaper Imbued Wand before I saw it just one time.
Gain a Power Charge after spending 200 mana. This would be really nice, but it is a suffix
Damage Penetrates 10% elemental resists. Again really nice, but suffix.
There's also some other stuff like projectiles pierce additional times, and phys converted to elemental, but those above are the really nice ones.

Anyway, that's my two Cents so far. The build still owns though and easily one of the best out there.