1.1 Feedback for Void Mage [Rework]

Feedback and Suggestions
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For this cycle I decided to change up which hero I used, instead of acolyte I ran void knight, specifically the VOID SPELL version. This spec is severely lacking. Here some ways to improve it for the rework that I think this class will get along side forge guard.

Sentinel

Corrupted Idol: 10 Points, lowest path: + 1 intellect per level. 5 Bonus: +2 HP per point, 10 Bonus: Your void spell damage scales with intellect instead of attunement or Vitality

Void Knight Passives

Void Will: time rot can be stacked infinitly

Void Touch: You gain ward 1 ward per, 2 of mana replenished by void smite**[ tier 1.]**

Void Blast: Void Smite gains a chance to afflict time rot [1% per 1 intelligence]  **[tier 2]**
Void Leach: 1% of time rot damage, is leached to health  **[tier 2]**

Void Potion: Pots grant you %toInflictTimeRot, loose ability to heal from them. Lasts 20s
Void Overload: at 10 stacks of time rot on you, you create a void wave [spell damage]
Void Step: Using void potion, grants 5 stacks of void aegis.
… Above are all tier 3

Spell rot: + 15 base spell void, while wielding a wand [doubled with 2handed] [tier 4]

Void Step: +20% spell cast recovery, if standing on a void fissure
Fissure: [from smite[ is fully converted to void, and deals time rot over fire [tier 5]

New Skill Nodes

Smite: Void puddles: If void step is selected: Heal 3% of max health on puddle
Void Missiles: smite becomes [frost claw], but deals void, similar tree.

Warpath: Void tree: Warpath becomes an aura like aura of decay. Applies time rot [1% per intellect] scales with spell damage, and area [is considered a hit]. Warpath can trigger void missiles with 1% per hit [max 5%]

Devouring Orb: Path of Orobos: Orb now is cast along side smite, and circles in a spiral from point where it was cast, max 5 orbs can be summoned at once.
Insatiable Hunger: You gain 1% movement speed per orb globally while its spawned.

Volatile Reversal:
Warded Void: No longer takes you back in time, instead causes large wave of void, 10% of
damage dealt is absorbed as ward.

Abyssal Echos: [void wave]: Deals 300 base void + 1 base void per stacks of time rot consumed at 200% effectiveness. [other nodes do not work]

The New Play Style

New Void mage focuses on stacking large amounts of time rot stacks with void smite / miss and devouring orb, warpath, then nuking those stacks with void wave. In some ways this makes it similar to sorc, but still make it feel unique.

New Uniques

Hand of Calamity: Your void spells have a 1% chance to afflict you with time rot. [2H staff]
Hand of Ruin: Your void spells have +10% void shred [wand]

Thanks

Edit: I forgot to put the uniques, and main talent

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How so? I’m somewhat surprised that you didn’t convert Smite to Void, or have a better than lvl 14 weapon and maybe 2 rings? At lvl 47 you could equip a Spriggan Branch wand base which would give 36-44 base damage compared to 8-13 from your current wand which would be ~180% more damage.

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I am not talking about gear. Gear is a different can of worms i dont plan to touch. I think if a spec seems to lack in build diversity at the level of the tree, wanted to add to it

And yes i know about void smite, why i specified it. Dont want this working with a regualar paladin. That be insane

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So you’re doing a non-void Smite void Smite build then complaining it sucks? I’m all for “niche” builds, going off the beaten path (2h melee Rogue in 0.8 when Rogue came out, 0 support for 2h melee) & setting limits for myself, but I don’t then complain that it’s hard/bad if I’m not even attempting to use the tools that the game gives me.

I don’t think Pallys go void Smite. You’d also have to have all your suggestions be above the line in VK.

Some of them I like, tbf. I just find the thread confusing.

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In game i did convert to void. For the purpose of this thread for one of the points. When smite is converted to void, the fissure nodes converts to void puddles, [in game they dont, and continue to do fire damage].

Now this rework is meant to be used with the converted to void smite. Maybe the way i wrote it is complicated making it harder to understand.

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