[3.13] Power Siphon/Kinetic Blast Poison Assassin - Very fast and tanky poison wander

Hello again!

I wanted to ask for a few clarifications, here's my current PoB:
https://pastebin.com/aEwJE9Vm

Do you use Kinetic Blast for clearing and Power Siphon for bossing? Also is the mana really sustainable? It seems that I am running out of mana even with that mana leech node in my tree. So should I use this setup or return to the leveling setup for the time being?

Thanks for the reply in advance :).

EDIT: Also it seems that you are keeping Wither and the totem support at level 1. Is the reason behind this the mana cost or something else? The totem dies to any cleave damage at all and makes it sort of useless :(.

KB for clear, PS for bossing.

reduced mana cost is nice, but it i'snt required if you run with an endless mana pot.

Has anyone looked into alternate gems and awakened gems to see whats ideal? Anomalous KB with 2 pierce looks nice, I bought one awhile ago.

There arent any new awakaned gems are there?

im using divergent power siphon and then 3 awakened gems

Im using

(missing slot is awakaned deadly ailments)

Would be good to have a scaling level of power and what are the best damage mods that we benefit from.

Which should be the best cluster jewel combination in your opinion?

Thanks

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OTTOGIGA wrote:

Would be good to have a scaling level of power and what are the best damage mods that we benefit from.

Which should be the best cluster jewel combination in your opinion?

Thanks

I agree... upgrade order of importance would have been very useful.

I am currently on T16 maps.. and my single target is still trash, but the biggest upgrade I made was the 60% poison wand. And then cluster jewels.

The awakened gems didn't really do much at L1.

I don't have the dual clusters yet but I bought some single ones which seem ok ish. wasting affliction mediums, and fuel the flight/martial prowess large, gems for cheap. Its kinda working. I lost 400 hp~ after respeccing to that.

Clear is great, single target is so bad. I won't be playing this build again, most other builds ive played are deleting T16's by now. My single target DPS feels like 500k DPS, kite burst for a second before i need to move again.. same and same again.. bosses insta kill you if you stand still which is needed.. and the ramp up time is so slow :-/.

if you move, cast, move cast, move cast whilst dodging boss attacks, you literally do 0 DPS making every single boss a risk, even on maps..

I think im missing something here but some disclaimers need to be added onto this build. We are tanky for mapping, but for bossing we are abysmal.

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Nevzat wrote:

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OTTOGIGA wrote:

Would be good to have a scaling level of power and what are the best damage mods that we benefit from.

Which should be the best cluster jewel combination in your opinion?

Thanks

I agree... upgrade order of importance would have been very useful.

I am currently on T16 maps.. and my single target is still trash, but the biggest upgrade I made was the 60% poison wand. And then cluster jewels.

The awakened gems didn't really do much at L1.

I don't have the dual clusters yet but I bought some single ones which seem ok ish. wasting affliction mediums, and fuel the flight/martial prowess large, gems for cheap. Its kinda working. I lost 400 hp~ after respeccing to that.

Clear is great, single target is so bad. I won't be playing this build again, most other builds ive played are deleting T16's by now. My single target DPS feels like 500k DPS, kite burst for a second before i need to move again.. same and same again.. bosses insta kill you if you stand still which is needed.. and the ramp up time is so slow :-/.

if you move, cast, move cast, move cast whilst dodging boss attacks, you literally do 0 DPS making every single boss a risk, even on maps..

I think im missing something here but some disclaimers need to be added onto this build. We are tanky for mapping, but for bossing we are abysmal.

You can maybe try maw of conquest + golden rule, that increases the DPS by quite a bit especially when you are doing short bursts of damage. But i also never really had that big issues when just standing still against bosses outside of like sirus, you just stand close to boss, start using power siphon, dash/charge when he shoots anything, start firing again and boss will melt easily, you just have a bit of rampup time. Only thing with this build what can be an issue is sustained damage with bad mana sustain. But also you have 2x feast of flesh so you should be already mostly facetanking most of bosses so the playstyle you described sounds like losing DPS for no reason, if you just continued attacking you would recover the HP back easily.

I seem to be very big problems with ST damage and survivability in boss fights. I think I'm closely following the guide, but kind of at a loss as to what to do to get through these fights. I'm currently at 4-watchstone conquerors. Do you guys have any suggestions looking at my build? Or is it just more of a "get better" thing?
Thanks in advance!

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I agree, I love this build. The AoE is amazing but single target is lackluster even with a good crafted multi-mod wand. I have all awakened gems minus GMP.

Is changing shield charge for dash a bad idea for this build?

And what is verdict on using that yriel's chest instead of kintsugi? Saw it mentioned a ton until recently. is there a reason it's not listed on front page or POB?

I really don't see how the past few posts are saying that single target is bad. If you following the recommendations and get the gem levels, 6l and helm enchants, single target is through the roof. I'm talking 20M Sirus DPS and this isn't a joke. I played this build in Metamorph, Delirium and Harvest. Each league the DPS went up. For last league, import my character named HeyLookAnotherLeague from Standard into Pob. I didn't play much after killing Sirus at A8, so my awakened gems are low level. Import DotsMoreDotsMoreDotsNow (Onyxia DKP Minus meme reference) from Delirium. Import KBPoisonWands from Metamorph, so no Cluster jewels. Tooltip DPS for Power Siphon on this toon while in the hideout with no flasks is 4628. KB is 14,188. If I used the wand from the Delirum toon, tooltip for PS would go to 5200.



At the moment, PoB isn't recognizing the new curse on hit mods, which are a huge boost to DPS. I used completely different Cluster jewels than the OP. I went a little extreme with the two Threads of Hope on my Harvest toon (HeyLookAnotherLeague), but I wanted the passives that GGG moved around from the passive tree update from Delirium to Harvest.

I'm not playing this build this league. Went with poison blade vortex instead.

@lvlotorbreath @Kennywasafk Look into getting +2 PS enchant on helm and level 21 PS. Those together add 3 projectiles. Major dps increase. Curse on hit despair, curse on hit temp chains, whispers of doom for dual curse. Circle of Nostalgia Ring, Aul's Uprising, despair on hit for the rare ring. Yriel's Fostering with Rhoa IMO is a better DPS choice for us. Kenny, you need to move away from an Obliteration Wand and get a fossil crafted poison wand. An upgraded wand will increase your DPS immensely.

@Nevzat Go the cluster route now. It's more DPS and the life gain on hit small cluster is very nice to have. That coupled with a lgoh/despair curse on hit ring is great.

Poison DPS is slow at first because you need to build the stacks, the longer you are able to hit them with a decent poison duration, the poison ticks eat a bosses health away. I was deleting Kosis in 100% Delirious T14 maps in less than 10 seconds. Sirus, easy once you get the rhythm and mechanics down.

Hope this helps.