Diablo 4’s Loot Reborn update was a tremendous success, with a ton of new features and quality of experience improvements to existing systems and mechanics that have brought the game to life and a large influx of players.
People are already looking forward to Season 5, and the official PTR server was recently opened for PC players to allow players to test out some upcoming features before Season 5 launches, which also allows fans to see new unique gear and mechanics in advance. In this post I will mainly take you through one of the interesting items introduced in the season 5 PTR-Vox Omnium.
Vox Omnium Can Enhance Basic Attacks And Skill Synergy
In previous seasons, Vox Omnium was very uncoordinated and needed more support, perhaps other useful legendary aspects or something like that. For example, it can trigger those Frost Bolts, or it can trigger Sparks for buffs, or even Fire Bolt for burning. In fact, many Sorcerer builds run through burning, such as from Firebolt Enchantment, and you can probably free up an Enchantment Slot here.
But it seems to be designed as a basic attacks build in the Season 5 PTR, because it will enhance the damage of setting basic attacks, which is a very powerful basic attack item, and basically all basic attacks are used, such as using a new Rafael or directly placing Aspect of the Moonrise on your two-handed weapon. It also has the added benefit that you can cast other skills while casting basic attacks. Finally, it is undeniable that the design of Vox Omnium is very attractive.
Enhance The Effect Of Paingorger’s Basic Attacks Through Charged Bolts
If you want Paingorger’s Gauntlets to be a very powerful basic attack tool, you can run this tool in the setup, and then you can use spamming Charged Bolts to apply the shock effect. Unless there are some special situations that do not apply, such as Fire Bolt, already have its own gloves, so you can’t use it.
But for most basic attacks builds, hitting an enemy once every 3 seconds with something that isn’t a basic skill is the main thing, and you can just send Charged Bolts to apply this debuff to all enemies on the screen.
Frost Bolt DPS Build
But the same synergy doesn’t work well with a Frost Bolt build, Paingorger will only copy the first attack, and when hitting four times like a Vox Omnium spark, only the first attack will be copied, and it won’t do any significant damage.
Vox Omnium with Fire Bolt already has its own build, and it’s basically unnecessary and can’t be used in conjunction with anything else. For example, Flameweavers Gloves can split Fire Bolt into multiple ones, but in fact it doesn’t even interact, so you basically only have one choice, which is to use a Frost Bolt DPS build to send a core skill and try to deal damage with it.
Challenges Of Frost Bolt DPS Build And Potential Of Vox Omnium
You can try to use a Frost Bolt DPS build to send a core skill and deal damage with it. But few players seem to notice that the Sorcerer is the weakest class. Frost Bolt is almost nowhere to be found in this build, because it just slightly enhances the non-existent Frost Bolt build, which basically does nothing.
If you want to see any type of viable option here, you may need to equip a Raphael’s gun, equip Ring of Starless Skies, and equip Crown of Lucion. Maybe you can use Frost Bolt DPS skills to make a better Sorcerer build than using Vox Omnium. If you have enough Diablo 4 Gold, you can trade it for any equipment you want.
But because it is so weak, maybe there will be no other support, such as Rapid Aspect, or you talk about Aspect of basic attacks or Aspect of the Moonrise. And Frost Bolt doesn’t start from anywhere, so a lot of extra strength needs to be added to it.
Ailments Mechanics During Boss Fights
Besides that, you have the same old problems as when it comes to boss damage. You see, it’s just typical ailments, same as with Rogue, you can only do any kind of damage during the stagger phase of the boss. If you have any kind of long boss fights or you can’t stagger them well, you really won’t have a lot of fun. Maybe something like a general class redesign where there’s less reliance on stagger, or maybe a stagger redesign that doesn’t do damage, it just has no purpose when it comes to this item. It’s kind of like a death on arrival item.
To sum it up, while he looks cool, he’s really weak. Vox Omnium can only do Frost Bolt DPS builds, so it’s pretty low viability, regardless.
