POE2 ||| GAMBLING 200 DIVINES TO CRAFT WAND UPGRADE -- Archmage Spark Wand -

[@Snugs_TTV]

Update: I Decided to keep the wand I pointed out in the video. Ended up being a decent damage upgrade! since the video released all wands have sold. Broke about even while keeping the big spell damage wand. Also Wand bases were traded for, not self farmed! Just something I forgot to mention in the video. They ranged from 13 divines to 25 divines depending on the roll and availability.

[@p.h.904]

If you arent chasing cast speed as a mod on the Wand you could use the greater lightning essences to force a %increased lightning wand instead. I had to cut cast speed on items due to the increased mana cost :/ sitting at 9k mana with 3.6k regen

[@Snugs_TTV]

So actually funny enough, my cast per second is at .18 casts per second. Equipping a 23% wand from a 32% has little to no effect for me. That was the main reason I opted to take the big spell damage wand over my current wand. Totally true though. Sometimes people actually don't want a 30%+ cast speed wand or even any. Only problem is it could force the as extra lightning too

[@cryptomango4787]

With 2 gain 2% mana on kill gems and malestorm flask it fixes that. I. Up to 6 cast a second its wonky lol

[@domi9249]

Butt how 🤔 to buy or find base wand with 5 to skill and mana ??? Thx

[@NotGettinHatch]

This games chalked for anyone who does more than sit in a chair for 10 hours

[@MsPatricos]

​ @Snugs_TTV is there any cap to cast speed on spark? or diminishing return on stat? whats optimal amount and what is too much when u start"loosing" dmg?

[@p.h.904]

the optimal amount is whatever you can afford to sustain with mana regen^^ my spark eats 400mana/s and i cast around 6 per second. right now ive 3.4k mana regen. so just sparking is fine. but if my cast on shock setup procs often enough i will drain. good thing bosses insta die^^

[@fortuna5962]

idk if mana on a wand is good or not. lvl 21 archmage gives 9% per 100 mana, so u will prob only gain 9%. i think more% lightning or spell dmg is alot better

[@leonarduskrisna4588]

My gamble was like : - Light Radius T7 - Fire spell - Cold Spell - 55 Mana - decreased Attribute Req

[@Snugs_TTV]

lol

[@shredmonkey686]

I found a T4 siphoning wand in sekema trial last night and forgot to id it for a few hours. turned out to be a wand worth about 100div. best drop ive ever had.

[@Snugs_TTV]

hell yeah! nice man gz

[@MrJaywalk]

What were the mods on that wand bud?

[@DedetAhyani]

woah finally i made it, i just craft storm bane attuned wand with good stat 135% spell damage 204 mana +4 lightning spell 29% cast speed gain 20 mana perenemy killed

[@jusibai813]

gain extra damage is better than spell damage?

[@Snugs_TTV]

watch the video. it explains why spell is better....

[@EventHorizon8-p3g]

Gain extra dmg is multiplicative no?

[@Snugs_TTV]

@@EventHorizon8-p3g since there is not much spell damage on the tree, spell damage is a bigger increase since you get a lot of damage as extra from archmage. That damage as extra gets multiplied from your base spell damage. So if your base spell damage is significantly higher. all damage as extra gets boosted.

[@EventHorizon8-p3g]

@Snugs_TTV super helpful, thank you. Do you have a rough idea or where spell dmg becomes more interesting than +skill levels? Like would a +100% spell dmg +3 skill be better than a +60% spell dmg +4 and +20% spell dmg +5 skills?

[@Snugs_TTV]

@@EventHorizon8-p3g that is the issue with not having path of building yet. The math gets tricky because of so many factors.

[@PapaDealt]

So how did you get the lvl 81 wands?

[@Snugs_TTV]

Forgot to mention it in the video. The pinned comment and description explains this.

[@p.h.904]

secret strat ive been making bank with. buy ventors with negative rarity. scale this further with the ring scaling belt. -100 iir is more than enough. farm high quant, low rarity t17maps (t16maps+regular +breach tablets). i get around 5-20 white ilvl 81+ wands per map. if you inculde other bases (stellar amulets, sapphire rings) u make around 3d/map

[@raptorak1]

People are nuts if they are paying such prices. +4 all spell skills wands are way cheaper and more likely to survive the upcoming nerf bat to shock as well.

[@Snugs_TTV]

when you get to a point where your gear is all stacked, you kinda splurge.

[@shredmonkey686]

if spark gets nerfed just go to lightning orb/ lightning warp and use orb of storms for electrocute Cc. its way more fun than spark and better for breach

[@Snugs_TTV]

@@shredmonkey686 Spark is just an AOE vehicle for archmage really. Plus poe has a long history of scaling spark in pretty much every league. I don't think that spark itself is necessarily in risk of a nerf but the interactions around it certainly are. (I'm looking at you archmage.)

[@p.h.904]

@@Snugs_TTV tbf the strongest part in that build isnt spark, nor archmage. its a combination of things. CI, EB, MOM is the best defense in the game. Lightning Conduit scaling is absurd. Double shock with now real downside is absurd etc. just nerfing archmage by 50% will not kill the build. the higher investment ones will prolly not even notice

[@EventHorizon8-p3g]

​@p.h.904 that's the big issue isn't it. For mere mortals still playing with items bought with exalted orbs and 30k tooltip dps on spark, the nerf will be immense. Whereas the 200+ divines builds will still have a cake walk with every end game content. GGG cannot nerf from the bottom up. They need to look at how the interactions scale and make sure a BiS spark build doesn't reach 200k dps while leaving alone the peasants like me with 30k dps. Too much damage witg godly items means bad game design decisions in the scaling.

[@marvinreyes4407]

Nice video but then lightning may get heavily nerfed, it looks better to craft fire or cold damage wands with the upcoming patch....

[@Snugs_TTV]

a few of them have already fortunately. I recouped about half of my investment plus kept the big spell damage wand. So I am happy enough with the results. -edit: another one just sold. have made up about 3/4ths of investment

[@CeKa88]

Where did. you get the magic bases

[@Snugs_TTV]

Check the description of the video.

[@p.h.904]

the one with 10life per enemy killed you can whittle that off no? should be really low lvl req on that mod

[@Snugs_TTV]

So I was looking at it and I am actually not sure. I need to verify. It's not the lowest tier mod that is removed it is the lowest level requirement that is removed. Really bad wording on the whittling however I am a little scared to hit it lol.

[@awaitingchaosband]

@@Snugs_TTV You definitely can, you can check it on poe db, it's only a lvl 22 roll.

[@p.h.904]

@@Snugs_TTV on poedb u can check the level requirement for mods. thats what the whittle looks for. not the tiers. it required lvl 22 to appear on the wand. every other mod should require a higher lvl. therefor its safe

[@fotza1768]

When he used exalts on the god roll wand and not a greater caster essence I knew life per enemy killed was coming >_

[@Snugs_TTV]

if you use caster essence it doesn't guarantee cast speed. wand value drastically decreases without it.

[@leonirspaz540]

It’s not 200 div, not enough %dmg nor any mana regen

[@leonirspaz540]

@ yeah I just saw the title and thumbnail and as a sorc main I know that’s far from a 200 div wand, needs like spell + lightning dmg total 185%+ and mana + mana regen + cast speed + 4-5 skills then it’s 200 div

[@Snugs_TTV]

@@leonirspaz540 What you discribed is basically listed for a mirror. haha. I get your point though.

[@Snugs_TTV]

@@leonirspaz540 and no I spent 200 divines on this video mostly on the bases. not that the wand *in the thumbnail) is a 200 div wand.... Would be kind of silly to post the final result in the thumbnail before people had a chance to watch right?

[@crosdremz]

Can you craft me a wand please 🙏

[@vgorp3849]

0 of them will sell

[@Snugs_TTV]

Some already have.