I've gotten not-so-terrible rolled Woh recently and I'm wondering which should I replace for socket? Should I keep cdr for pure Explosive Blast build, or should I go with ias instead for more generic weapon? Is EB build even viable for higher (t3-t4+) torments to build entire set around it? Are there any other cdr requiring builds that this Wand would work in? I'd imagine Archon focused would work, but I already have Orpheus with int/2,15k/20%/socket that would prolly be better for them.
Personally, I would roll the cdr because I prefer a more general weapon. That doesn't mean I'm not being shortsighted though and perhaps someone more clever than myself will come along and find some super-awesome-game-breaking cdr build down the road. Of course... that build will likely et nerfed. I don't know, I prefer more choices, and the AS gives me that.
Damm every person I see getting a wand of woh makes me more and more jealous I found the shrine gloves and set bonus ring within 10 mins of each other yesterday from bounty bags both sick rolls.. I'd happily trade both of them plus my vyr set for that darn wand, anyway rant over, id personally keep the ias and swap out cdr but at the end of the day it's your character and you know how you prefer to play..
theres a guy in my clan with wand of woh who has gone for toughness over dps with somthing like 1mil dps and 16mil toughness solo'ing t6 'easily' in his words when the rift mobs are act1-3, when the rift mobs or act4-5 he said it is a little harder but still easy.. hope that helped you out bud and gratz on your sick wand
I would reroll the cdr because it suffers from diminishing returns and you can get it from passive / other items. The explosive blast will take a snapshot of your main hand dps after the ias is applied so i think it's better to roll the cdr. Keep the ias. GZ on the perfect int roll too... so awesome *drool
I am currently using a wand of woh build, and the majority of my damage comes from explosive blast. The cooldown reduction is incredible and the most op stat for EB builds. You can get an easy 60% from gear plus use the shrine gloves for empowered shrine and easily do 50M effective dps with 1m sheet dps. So my advice is reroll attack speed which mostly shows up as only a sheet dps boost and not a real dps boost (due to AP limitations).
IAS does not increase your weapon damage (which is what skills are based off of). If it did then it would be double dipping (increasing both how fast skills hit and how hard they hit). You are assuming that the game uses your character sheet dps for the "weapon damage" on a skill's tooltip and that's simply not true. It's very easy to prove this in game:
Take off all your gear and use a low level weapon with a small damage range.
Go hit some mobs and take note of the damage (with no gear and a weapon with a small damage variance the numbers should be all about the same).
Equip some blue jewelry that only has IAS as a stat (harder to find now without the AH, but not impossible), and repeat said test.
You will attack faster, which means higher dps, but your skills will hit for the same amount.
If your theory was correct (which it is not) then you should attack faster and your skills should hit harder.
Your test says that you equip ias from a different source other than your weapon? That's not what i said. Afaik, the skill takes a snapshot of your weapon dmg post ias, that's why ias on a weapon does indeed increase your skill dmg.
Quite a bit conflicting opinions. Decided to keep IAS, since it's my best weapon atm for more than one build and I like fast stacking Flame Blades/Wave of Force casts. It is absolute monster indeed, melts everything <3. I can now farm t3 rifts <10min which is bit faster than previous t2 with Frozen Orbs, and I'm still rocking few unoptimal pieces.
Your test says that you equip ias from a different source other than your weapon? That's not what i said. Afaik, the skill takes a snapshot of your weapon dmg post ias, that's why ias on a weapon does indeed increase your skill dmg.
If you enchant a weapon and it gains IAS the weapon's damage stays the same and the number of attacks per second increases. This is why the weapon's dps goes up. How did you even come to the conclusion that IAS (from any source) increases weapon damage?
Now I'm not saying Vitality is bad by any means, but it's easy to get Vit on other pieces compared to attack speed. If you were not using a signature skill I would say re-roll the IAS, but with a Mirrorball build I think you might be better off re-rolling the Vit.
Drop the IAS. Save the CDR. You'll appreciate it come the day you can remove CDR on your shoulders and add 100 AR on it instead. Weapons can have up to 10% CDR, whereas other slots are capped at 8%.
roll the IAS....that wand is meant for exclusive use of explosive blast and you want that to be castable as fast as possible. Every one saying keep IAS because of increased DPS, don't listen to them. Your sheet DPS is increased, true, but lowering the cooldown making explosive blast cast more often would increase your real DPS. Sheet DPS is just a general number and means nothing.
Yeah...you definitely should have kept the CDR. The whole point of using Woh is for an EB build, and IAS does not help much with that, where as CDR is a HUGE dps increase. Ah well.
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This is an amazing roll OP. Gratz.
I would reroll the cdr because it suffers from diminishing returns and you can get it from passive / other items. The explosive blast will take a snapshot of your main hand dps after the ias is applied so i think it's better to roll the cdr. Keep the ias. GZ on the perfect int roll too... so awesome *drool
IAS does not increase your weapon damage (which is what skills are based off of). If it did then it would be double dipping (increasing both how fast skills hit and how hard they hit). You are assuming that the game uses your character sheet dps for the "weapon damage" on a skill's tooltip and that's simply not true. It's very easy to prove this in game:
http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Nivrax-2801/hero/36267564
Btw gratz @Nivrax it's awesome now.
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/12504711447
Now I'm not saying Vitality is bad by any means, but it's easy to get Vit on other pieces compared to attack speed. If you were not using a signature skill I would say re-roll the IAS, but with a Mirrorball build I think you might be better off re-rolling the Vit.
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