Last wish for sorc?

So i was playing with my

Vengeance paladin, who’s merc is sporting Last Wish, and i notice the charged

Bolts are coming out fairly regularly. It’s a lvl 20 chance to cast on attack-not even on striking!

So that’s a fairly high level, I suppose you could build all the synergies on a sorc, make her attack speed as fast as possible… give her Last Wish, maybe an immortal

Energy Shield gal.

Anyone ever try that?

It sounds like a curiosity at best - but I haven't run the numbers in any detail

I think that the fastest attack speed you can get on a normal attack is 10 frames and the proc chance is 20%, giving you an average of one

Charged Bolt release per 2 seconds, as opposed to

Charged Bolt cast rate of 7 or 8 frames (depending on if you go for the 105 or 200 FCR breakpoint), meaning 3-4 casts per second. Plus a level 40

Charged Bolt will probably do more 3-4 times the damage of a level 20 proc'd from Last Wish.

But I mean, if you have a high level sorc and a Last Wish laying around, feed her a token and see how it goes

EDIT: For the record, I have been contemplating making a "Charged Boltress" at some point, I have no idea how well it would perform, just an idea I've been toying with.

That honestly sounds ... horrid ...

Even in a PB and with fana, you

Cap out at 10 frames as a sorc. With a 20% proc chance, that's one cast every 50 frames on average as compared to every 7-8 frames on a real sorc.
Relatively speaking, that puts you at around 15% the dmg of said real sorc.

Additionally, you're looking at lvl 20

Charged Bolt as opposed to the high 40s which gives you something like 20% of the comparative dmg.

Combined, that's dropping you to ~3% of real sorc dmg.

The lower lvl also means a couple less

Bolts which takes the ~3% to ~2.75% on close targets.

Or maybe expressed in a more 'fun' way:
You'd need to show up with >36 Last Wish sorcs to get the damage of a single real

Charged Bolt sorc.

[The above is ignoring the impact of facets thrown into the real sorc's weapon/self-infinity which the LW one can't do either so actually, LW is even worse still]

The only saving grace is that the proc is on attack, rather than on striking, so at least you don't have to worry about hit chance and block and all that.

Yea tried it out with a

Crown of Ages with 2x+15ias jewels, Chains of Honor, all other IAs gear and Phoenix shield.

It’s not amazing in that it’s fast (I tried it out on P8), because it’s not fast, it’s amazing in that it can handle it at all. With the CoA, Phoenix (

Redemption),

Energy Shield, the merc’s holt freeze aura,

Fade,

Life Tap, slows target and crushing blow it turns out to be a really tanky build. It’s a decent boss killer too - but anything wielding Last Wish is.

I tried swapping the CoA for a griffons… made it worse

Maybe using Hustle armour might be better… meh

And turns out the Phoenix’s

Firestorm was procing more often (should’ve seen that coming!) maybe that’s a better option… meh might as well just play Druid then

Well it was an interesting experiment