[2.2] Poor Man's guide to big wand CoC - 200K Dps and Atziri on a 5L

Scion Assassin: The +1 Base Crit is the most incredible buff for this build. However you will need to generate power charges somewhere somehow. Pick Assasin First regardless of what other subclass you wish.
Scion Deadeye: If you are going to specialise in Projectile Spells which is my recomendation, this class is ridiculously good, the up to 30% More Multiplier combined with 50% pierce. I have no words. This should be your second Ascendent Choice

Current Gear in Talisman


I don't understand why the restless ward is so damn cheap you can by a 5L for way way less than an exalted!

Don't be a gear snob. Rare's are great! You can run a full set of rares without a single unique other than your chest and have incredible results. Trying to fit a Rat's Nest and Maligaro's Virtuosity is incredibly stupid and incredibly expensive. Just don't bother. You'll have the same results with Rare's only you'll have way more life and resist. So you won't die anywhere near as much.

With the Introduction of the Restless Ward and Blasphemy Voll's Protector is obsolete in my opinion. By Running Blasphemy Assassins Mark, you very quickly build your charges up and with Restless Ward you never run out of charges, you can full clear and entire map and ever once drop your charges including stopping to pick up gear and running between packs of mobs.

Required Chests Armor


Wand Discussion


Helm Options


Glove Options


Boots


Jewellery


Belt


Pots

Volley Fire
This is a great Jewel, you want to run at least one of these, two is ideal. It gives you a surprising amount of coverage and additional proc's of your spells. These are a very strong DPS increase against packs of mobs, nearly zero gain against single target bosses.

Rare Jewels
You will want to run 4-5 Jewel Sockets for your CoC build 1 or 2 will be Volley Fire the rest will be rare jewels these must have increased maximum life, if you don't have this on your jewel you're doing it wrong. Other useful stats on your jewels are as follows:
+ Mana gained for each enemy hit by your attacks
+ Knock Back Chance
Increased Damage
Increased Spell Damage
Increased Spell Damage while Dual Wielding
Global Critical Strike Chance
Global Critical Strike multiplier
Increased Accuracy Rating

Revised 2.2 Level 90
https://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAABAAAAAQHBbUHHgj0DdEOSBGWG8ggbiP2JP0mlSoLKlstHy2oMHEwfDWSNj031DpCOlg64UGWRnFJUUrIS1dLeEyzTZJN41AwUUdS7FVLVcZd8mHiYqxjQ2pDaxdsjG1sbqpvnnBSdwd7w3_Ggl6C5IMJg9uHE4nTiq-MC4w2jX2Nv5ARkyeVIJUunKSdqqEvoqOkeKZXrrOxkLQMtMW18rfWuXy86r6Avoq-vMBUwOPB1cHzwuzK08_d0B_Q9dQj2L3bWdte3aje-OOE51TssO0_7-vw1fGK8bPyRf4K_o__3g==

Level 80

Level 70

Level 60

Level 40(Can run Barrage Cast on Critical from here as your main attack)

Normal: Kill All or Help Oak
Cruel: Kill All
Merciless: Help Alira

Blood Rage! Use this! It gives you increased attack speed and free frenzy charge generation. Offset this with life regen nodes on the tree, the investment of 3 nodes will give you 32% increased attack speed and 12% more damage. Best three point investment in the game.

lvl 1 Barrage: Gets a rating of Flaming Boss Ninja 10/10. This is by far my favorite skill to proc spells with. The reason for this is that it's proc's are completely predictable and does not decrease or change between single target and mobs. It also costs next to nothing so can easily be sustained, and with the right Elreon jewellery it is possible to run a Zero mana cost setup.

Video Demonstrating Barrage
https://youtu.be/D_zMexms260

lvl 1 Kinetic Blast: Gets a rating of Monkey with Top Hat 8/10. This skill is incredible for clearing packs, it is literally the most amazing thing ever when confronted with a large group of monsters the number of procs you can achieve is stupidly high. However it has two major draw backs which stop me from using it. It has a very high mana cost, which makes it prohibitive to use when running Voll's protector. It can also be annoying against single target bosses, your procs reduce a lot, unless the boss happens to be standing by a wall or in a group of monsters.

**Please not that whichever skill you use, barrage or kinetic blast, you want to use a lvl 1 skill. Leveling your Barrage or Blast offers you absolutely no gain in dps, but will put your mana cost through the roof.


I do not recommend any other skill for procing spells using a wand.

The best Gem Setup is as follows:
lvl 1 Barrage or Kinetic Blast > Cast on Critical > Greater Multiple Projectiles > Spell > Spell (5L) > Spell (6L)

In [2.0] There is no requirement for a Life Leech gem. We get all out leech through Atziri flasks.

Artic Breath: Rated '4Kg of Pancakes baby!' 10/10, this skill cannot be beaten for Cast on Crit, it does a metric ass load of damage, it chills everything it touches so it also has a huge defensive element. It also looks pretty damn sweet. It does have two negatives, it's low crit chance at only 5% and that it is a ground hugging projectile meaning it doesn't fly over terrain obstacles.

Bladefall Rated 'Don't feed it after midnight!' 10/10. This skill is insanely good. It rains down such fury it makes thor look like a little girl. Massive area coverage, can hit multiple times and does physical damage which is so much better than elemental in most cases.

Arc: Rated 'Jessica Biel in blade Trinity' 10/10 rating upgraded in 2.1. This skill WTFpwns in 2.1, the flat 20% increase in damage at all levels + 7 chains! It can touch mobs more than once, it shocks everything and just ramps your clear speed to infinity and beyond.

Fireball: Rated 'the ducks nuts!' 9.9/10, many people complain about fireball not having a large enough AOE etc etc. But plain and simple there isn't a spell that delivers more projectile damage. With it's high base damage and 6% crit chance, along with a moderate AOE, this skill tears the ass out of any bosses underpants.

Freezing Pulse: Rated 'Kings of Leon before they were famous' 9.6/10 Upgraded in 2.1. Freezing pulse is a tooltip warriors dream, no other projectile skill is going to give you as large damage per hit numbers due to the 1.25 damage multiplier attached to the skill. The added projectile speed on level helps over come this skills biggest weakness the damage drop off at range, adding projectile speed on Jewels/Wands will really aid this bad boy, this skill can seriously WTFpwn. On the plus side it has 6% crit chance and 100% pierce. Negatives are pretty much required to use a 20% quality freezing pulse.

Ice Spear:Rated 'ice cold beer on a hot summers day' 9.5/10. Ice spear is fantastic, especially a quality one. Quality on Ice Spear is projectile speed, when you combine that with it's 7% crit chance and the fact it is all cold damage your Ice Spear will be the first projectile spell to hit any target it's fired and it will almost always crit meaning your target is frozen. It also pierces nearby enemies allowing it to hit multiple targets. Great offensively and defensively.

Glacial Cascade: Rated 'Philly cheese steak' 8.5/10. Solid Damage, it's true damage is basically double the tooltip as it will likely hit enemies twice. It also has physically damage which is super nice. However it got nerf'd into the ground in 2.0, had it's balls cut off with it's crit chance dropped to 5%. So I find it hard to recommend this skill. It is kind of just a good spell but not a great one.

Ice Nova, Shock Nova, Flame Surge: Rated 'The three Amigo's movie' 7/10 These three chaps are solid entertainment, but they just lack that special something to take them over the top.

Magma Orb: Rated 'your weird cousin' 7/10 This skill is fireballs strange cousin, you know the one you shouldn't like but still kinda do but you aren't actually going to tell anyone. Yeah that's magma orb. Stick to fireball he's a lot more normal.

Ball Lightning: Rated 'the rodeo clown' 7/10 this is just good for a laugh, chuck in a bunch of knock back and enjoy the show. But it doesn't deliver enough damage per hit to shock blue/rare mobs/bosses and so it isn't worthwhile running.

Firestorm: Rated 'not as good as last time' 6.5/10 Remember when you went to a restaurant and it was awesome! It changed your world. So you take a date there... and it sucks... like really sucks and you worry she will never see you again. That is how firestorm feels when you use it. It's pretty and there are great expectations but it doesn't deliver.

Discharge: Rated 'sorry what did you say?' 6/10 Anyone who has ever used this skill will understand what I am talking about. I value my ears too much for this spell. It delivers massive damage, but in a really annoying way that is kind of hard to setup in a reliable way without spending an absolute ass load of currency on a Voll's devotion.

Spark: Nope

Probably forgot a skill or two but if it is not in here it isn't worth using.

Blasphemy - Assassins Mark
Herald of Thunder - Curse on Hit Assassins Mark
Herald of Ice - CoH Assassins Mark
Low Level Clarity if required

Many many damages
(Screenshots to come)
Fireball: Damage per hit currently 7K

Arctic Breath:damage per hit currently 6K

Total Damage of 13K Per Hit multiplied by around 16 procs per second = 208KDPS Not Bad for a 5L my friends...

Adding a 6th Link adds an additional spell for roughly another 100K DPS

I personally prefer to Dual Wield wands, this has several benefits, attack speed, spell damage, projectile speed, crit multiplier, flat elemental damage for spell rolls etc. However if you feel like you're a bit squishy you can invest in a spell damage and spell crit shield, that also has resist and life. So it depends if you want more DPS or more life/survive.

With the shield above, I lose about 2K damage per hit when compared to the two wands above.

We are a glass cannon for the most part, you're probably not going to be able to do Uber Atziri or Core Malachai with this build but you are going to be able to do pretty much everything. I have torn regular Atziri several new ones, and have run high level maps all the way up to level 81. Our biggest defense is a large life pool, I currently have 5.7K Life. This is achieved by stacking as much life as I can on every single piece of equipment and running life on Jewels.

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