What Can I Buy That is Better Than This Wand

Since wands and staffs don't have a DPS number associated with them in the trade store, and it's a little confusing with the many % based damage types, what can I buy that would be a significant DPS increase for my CoC spark stormweaver? I'm looking to drop up to 1k divine on this and I want to keep wand/focus

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beerus3335 months ago1

Something with higher crit, maybe more sockets and flat extra damage as an element instead of that hybrid mana roll. A higher +spell skill would also be nice.

Your wand could look something like 30% as extra lightning 30% as extra fire High Spell damage% 70%+ crit on spells +4 all spell skills Cast speed

3 sockets 1 to all spell skills 5% as extra all elements Either spell damage or crit on spells

Quality 20%

You can craft something like this for around 500/700 divs if you get maybe a crit on spells base fracture, all spell skills chaos role and a desecrated suffix, then 1 by 1 you can add your prefixes and when they’re done and rolled you can omen of light the suffix until you get cast speed

I’m no expert but I’ve made a few nice wands and staffs in the past, although my explanation might not be the best method it usually works for me

Asfalod5 months ago1

Adonias ego is the best wand ig right now if you bother with setting up the power charges.

If you don't want to bother with adonias ego Generally you want max + to spells for wands/staffs and add extra from the elements you use. Normal damage modifiers you usually want at most one line because you get them a lot through other means like skill tree. Crit modifiers and cast speed are nice to have depending on your build but come with a premium.

eijaman5 months ago1

Use poe.ninja to look at what other builds are using. The link below will get you to coc spark stormweaver builds.
https://poe.ninja/poe2/builds/vaal?class=Stormweaver&skills=Spark&allskills=Cast+on+Critical

Slightly more than half of builds are using staff, while only 20% are using wand + focus. You don't seem to need the spirit from a sceptre, so I don't think it's worth comparing to those builds. By selecting "Rare Wand" in the Item filter, it will then show the distribution of weapon base type and most common mods. You can click on profiles to see exact items that you'd want to copy.

Wr0Ec13375 months ago1

It's hard to say without checking pob, but in general you would want a +4 to all spell skills, then spell/elemental damage and two %gained as prefixes. Crit chance and cast speed come last. They are "premium" affixes that give a smaller dps increase but higher QoL.

I can give you a step by step crafting explanation if you want to try making it yourself, but it's highly likely you will run out of divines half way through, the craft it guaranteed but the cost is rng.

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