Void Sphere

Seems like it's been a long time since anyone talked about this skill, but I've been trying to PoB it since affliction with no luck. It just needs love. Sure the rending version exists, but you can't beat the theme of just opening a giga black hole then watching everything get sucked in.


I guess this goes for all the orb skills, but they just sort of feel like they should have been the self-cast archmage-style spells. Huge, persistent screen effects.

Numerically, archmage is in a corner where you can only really build it if you're planning on abusing arcane cloak or indigon. Meanwhile, the only spells with the actual mana numbers to maybe be something in a mana-cost build can't be supported by archmage, and archmage does freaking lightning damage for some reason, instead of doing something like making it a more modifier based on the cost of the spell but stating explicitly something like "skills supported by archmage cannot be triggered, or used by traps, totems or mines, or used by minions, or w/e."

Add its poor damage scaling effectiveness and it's just a dead skill.

Anyway, thematically this spell gets me super excited, but trying to make it work is buns.