viability of siphoning trap w/other skills

Hello,


I know there are a lot of tools out there for assessing the potency of certain builds, though I have not tried them out. I just am so curious about this skill "siphoning trap" mainly because.....it looks cool. lol I want it to work so much but right now they have it as a wussy skill. It's like the Arc for cold elemental builds. Right now I am using it alongside vortex and linked to bonechill, hypothermia, trap and mine damage,and deadly ailments. I also have some chilled ground from arctic breath on a spell totem. . However you can tell I am not that good at making builds because I am a deadeye ranger trying to work out traps. haha. I know you need to be a shadow sabateur to have fun with traps (supposedly). The siphoning trap skill does kind of help in boss encounters to quickly regain life and mana and hinder the boss. I just think they need to boost this gem and maybe make it a totem instead of a trap. It is fun to use. Are any of you running this skill ??? Does it help?

Siphoning Trap isn't good enough for actually clearing things no matter what you do with it.
At most it's utility, but even then it's not very useful as far as traps go.
Why just slow an enemy down when you could kill it with arc trap or something else?

I'd probably just use Decoy Totem if I were you. Gives you a breather against bosses

duration too low area coverage too low charges too low cooldown too long -> it's pretty bad utility as well.
It doesn't say anywhere but you can only have 1 of these out at once as well (even unactivated as a trap)

Need to link it up a ton to get it almost usable for just utility, beef up the duration and cooldown and if you miss/it gets destroyed it's instead only 0.8 seconds instead of 1 second to try again.
Even for trapper vortex is comparable, can get you arcane surge sometimes too and for 0 cast time for tradeoff of a some life/mana regen (and you get mana regen from arcane surge too...) and maybe range

oh definitely agree with all of this but why even release a gem like this that is just dead and unusable? I hope they revamp this cuz like is aid before it looks awesome.

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xOx_Andrew_xOx wrote:

oh definitely agree with all of this but why even release a gem like this that is just dead and unusable? I hope they revamp this cuz like is aid before it looks awesome.

It´s worth using as utility skill that chills enemies and help you with life/mana recovery.