[3.10] Elemental Hit Wandslinger Assassin - Very tanky, fast and fun wander

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thedeathbeam wrote:

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Bento_ wrote:

Hi Deathbeam. You already gave me the PoB on Discord yesterday, in case you remember me :)
I think I will league start with this and I also like the idea of staying tri Element so I will probably go that route.
Thanks so much for providing such high quality guides. Your SA Pathfinder has been great last season and I am sure this one will be awesome aswell!

Yeah I do remember you. I forgot to link you the guide after I created it, oops :d

Surprisingly a lot of people like the tri-element approach more, and no doubt that it definitely has way cooler visuals than just staying fire. I will probably try to experiment with tri-element endgame a bit more during this league and try to make the damage on par. (currently its about 10-15% damage loss, what is I guess actually not big).

Aside from the damage, does a tri element give any other bonuses though? it can freeze and shock too right? Is that not worth the 10-15% DPS loss in itself?

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Nevzat wrote:

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thedeathbeam wrote:

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Bento_ wrote:

Hi Deathbeam. You already gave me the PoB on Discord yesterday, in case you remember me :)
I think I will league start with this and I also like the idea of staying tri Element so I will probably go that route.
Thanks so much for providing such high quality guides. Your SA Pathfinder has been great last season and I am sure this one will be awesome aswell!

Yeah I do remember you. I forgot to link you the guide after I created it, oops :d

Surprisingly a lot of people like the tri-element approach more, and no doubt that it definitely has way cooler visuals than just staying fire. I will probably try to experiment with tri-element endgame a bit more during this league and try to make the damage on par. (currently its about 10-15% damage loss, what is I guess actually not big).

Aside from the damage, does a tri element give any other bonuses though? it can freeze and shock too right? Is that not worth the 10-15% DPS loss in itself?

Yeah, from tri-element we get 3 empty slots for more life/mana (2 jewels, amulet). And of course freeze + shock on top is very nice. But also I completely forgot that we lose Covered in Ash from Xophs with tri-element, so its probably more like 20-25% damage loss, what is a bit more significant. But the upsides are very good too.

Again, I think it needs some testing, I will definitely make sure to test both approaches in endgame this league and update the build accordingly.

Small build update:

- Replaced Starkonja with Crown of Eyes in starter setup
- Replaced Cinderswallow with instant life flask in starter setup

Crown of Eyes is easily farmable and thanks to a lot of external sources of spell damage we have it is actually second best helmet DPS option after Indigon. So better than starkonja for sure (what I used before in starter setup).

Cinder->Instant life flask is mostly because starter setup wont have indigon for life recovery.

I'll give this build a shot, it will be my starter . Great job !

was actually thinking about starting as animate weapons but this build made me interested... have you tried a pre 3.10 spellslinger lvling a1-10? if you did how did it go?

cause the dmg should be pretty good aswell as clear... just wondering how painful the first few acts will be^^

Doing this as my starter! Thanks for the build!!

this will be my league starter,thx!

any reason you cant just use the new kinetic bolt skill in place of ele hit?

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DotsandDashes wrote:

any reason you cant just use the new kinetic bolt skill in place of wandslinger?

Yeah, because kinetic bolt requires flat. And ele hit doesnt, so that makes the build a lot easier to scale and gear as league starter.

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thedeathbeam wrote:

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DotsandDashes wrote:

any reason you cant just use the new kinetic bolt skill in place of wandslinger?

Yeah, because kinetic bolt requires flat. And ele hit doesnt, so that makes the build a lot easier to scale and gear as league starter.

Fair enough. I like the idea behind this build but also want to try out that new skill instead so thought maybe it would work