Power Siphon Mechanics??

I have been wanting to make a PS build lately but I haven't been able to find a recent build guild since the SoTV update. How do the mechanics for PS work. What nodes will it benefit from, does ele nodes work for it, what kind of gems are you wanting to link it to, etc...Thanks for your help.

Take a peek in the class forums and look at some of the builds that have "Wander" in the title. Pretty much everyone using a wand to attack, outside of cast on crit, is going to be using this. There will be detailed guides as to builds, nodes, and links there.

Short answer: this is a skill that works very well for both physical and elemental builds. Both will use high crit wands and stack critical strike, critical damage multiplier, and power charges. The main difference is that physical wanders want high physical damage mods from their wand and gear, stacking physical wand nodes from the tree. Elemental wanders want elemental damage auras, aura nodes, and WED/flat elemental damage rolls from nodes and gear. The physical build will have some elemental damage, but it is scaled from their physical through Added Fire, Hatred, and the elemental conversion nodes in the north part of the tree. The elemental build will have almost no physical damage to speak of. Elemental wanders are much cheaper to gear, due to the extreme rarity and cost of high physical damage wands.