After 1700+ hours I just had my worst poe experience

Started the 2weeks turmoil on HCSSF as templar-hierophant, died lvl 58 because i was careless against invasion boss but everything was smooth.

Then I just had my worst poe experience, I decided to make a kinetic blast assassin on standard turmoil in order to reach 90.
What a mistake lvling and doing early maps as a wander or a bow user is disgusting:
-no damage at all, I was enable to kill any rares, rogue, invasion boss without taking too much time.
-very squishy, as there is no life nodes on the right side of the tree.
-Bosses take one hour to kill with their elemental resistance.
-even with op lvling wand kinetic blast don't do enough dmg.
-You have to spend so much passive in the tree for damage nodes and still having inferior dps to any melee or spell build is crazy, the remaining passive can't even be invested into life nodes as there isn't any.
-Unlike melee who can use white weapons,white weapon+essence or white+phys dmg recipe, it is way to hard to craft a good wand to lvl up.(same shit with bow).

So unlike my templar I could not enjoy the event at all, could not do breach, beyond, invasion and rogue modes; hence I could not loot any items while lvling.
I'm usually able to lvl up up to 80+ on hc without too much difficulty but here at lvl 86 I had about 200 deaths and decide to not go 90, even when I got really decent gear and clear speed.


That's crazy to see that I had easier time on HCSSF than standard...
White melee weapon +sunder do more dmg than any rare or unique wand with strong stats.

Recently i made a slayer who could do T11 or more at lvl 55, then playing this shit disgust me from the game; even my traper with lightning traps had more dmg.

My char has 15k dps on std turmoil and it is really not good

I still dont get why wands are phy damage when a wand is a magic/mage/int/spell weapon

Trying to do breaches with low damage is shit and takes to long if you dont die

Life needs to get buffed across the board or something as even my block build has shit life because i have to take damage nodes or i may as well not play it

We should get x2 passive points.

Lower max level to 90 and give us 91-100 points from quests that give shit rare gear

Neat

This is your fault. Wander is one of the most gear dependant builds out there, not a good idea for a SSF starter.

Wander really shines with Pathfinder and I could see how it would be an issue as an Assassin, although not for the reasons you mention. The problem with KB is that it generally does TOO much damage and you find yourself get one shot from a reflect pack. If you don't have enough DPS consider a couple of things:

Ignore tooltip as your final DPS number, around 30k on tooltip should be roughly 250-300k for explosions which is very reasonable for pack clearing. Even 15-20k tooltip DPS will be fine for all maps south of T11s.

Do you have a 5L+ for barrage? That's your single target, your boss killer.

Your wand should have AS, flat lightning, lightning/ele/phys as priority rolls.

The wand cluster up top is where you'll convert most of your phys to wand dmg.

You can do KB in a pair of gloves and it works just fine, Thunderfists is the BiS for budget.

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golan4840 wrote:

This is your fault. Wander is one of the most gear dependant builds out there, not a good idea for a SSF starter.

you didn't read properly, my wander was on standard turmoil where i bought good gear, but even with the bought gear it was so bad comparing to my templar on hcssf.

i leveled my turmoil kinetic blast to 90 in 2 days and it was the strongest character i ever played. Like billions of dps flurry was fun oneshotting shaper and blade vortex prenerf was strong too, but nothing that versatile and efficient.

PS 4.3 k hp, 11 deaths, 5 levelling, 4 yoloing uber trials and 2 at maps.

I agree melee is OP.

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innervation wrote:

I agree melee is OP.

I thought the same ^^

Facebreaker sunder or eq, or any blue lvling weapon allow you to lvl up to 80-85 quite easily.