Diablo 3 - Reaper of Souls

Neki_sl said:

Judging by your profile, you should be hitting like a wet noodle

You have gone overboard and are way way too defensive. Guardian set is very good defensively but will not help you at all in dealing damage. A better idea would be crafting the Aughlids set for the reduced dmg and the bonus to elite dmg.

You definitely need more +crit dmg. You have none on your neckless (potential 100% there) and none of your magefists (50%). Your belt slot of wasted using the guardians belt whilst you can use either String of Ears (defensive), Witching hour (offensive) or Harringtons (mixture of both).

Thunderfury and +2 Mirrorball is nice but try to reroll the area dmg to +dmg to magic missile.

Try and find a SoJ (I am trying myself.. QQ)

With right resists and armor, you really shouldn't need more than 350k (imo) life.

Asheara set is decent but you really shouldn't be relying on your followers to do dps. You could get away with it on lower torments but for T5/6, their dps would be insignificant.

Try and build up a Vyr set to use with your Mirrorball. MM/Archon is very solid for higher torments.

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Neki, thanks to your help and advice I reconfigured my gear and build and hit 1.2 million dps with 14 million toughness and gained 20% more dmg to elites. I took your advice on the skills and when the longer cooldown meteor hits with that 60% dmg buff, the crits could be up to 85 million damage. It seemed to work great for t4 and t5 but not strong enough for t6.

Last night I completed the Vyr's set but haven't used it yet. The chest piece is rolled poorly but I'll work for a better one. I can go two ways on this one, either a fire build or an arcane build using the mirror ward, any idea which is better? The fire using magefist may be more consistent but the arcane with mirror ward would free me up to use the nemesis bracer and the gloves that let shrine buffs last 10 minutes. That seems like it might be pretty strong with archon.

I do notice that when in archon form with this build, both my health AND my dps is lower than the standard mm/meteor build.

Wizard is just in an odd place I think, Im all arcane now and was all fire with every possible Wizard setup except Woh and it feels weak =(

Krassus_sl said:

Wizard is just in an odd place I think, Im all arcane now and was all fire with every possible Wizard setup except Woh and it feels weak =(

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Hmm i find fire wizard to be pretty rape - Arcane was pretty boring but it was tanky for me. If i bothered to use archon im pretty sure i could roll t6 easily as either but atm only my fire wiz can handle it. Still no royal rings which saddens me but whatever f bliz and that RNG on it -

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Since you are using TMF and WP, stack fire probably

Get spirit barrage off that serpent

Probably lose the Jade gloves for Magefist if you go fire

Get Aughilds set bonus, must likely from mantle and bracers

For now, maybe go for blackthorn bonus on legs and boots

Change SoH to Rheno'ho

You neck is pretty bad, losing like 50% crit damage and it doesn't have elemental damage on it


You can also go poison with TMF...in that case, stack poison, use rhenho with addling toads, grab +poison legging.

Rolling T6 is hard for me to believe, I buff to insane defensive stats and am at 64% CDR with Vyr's.

Invite me to the guild. Balroc#1636. I'm progressing HC if anyone wants to party around lvl 20.

Krassus can you link your profile? I need to know what to work for. Going to try both vyr's fire and arcane tonight and see which is better. I think fire will be more dps but I would love to make arcane work just to get some use out of my moonlight ward. Also, rerolling amulets really sucks.

attog_sl said:

Krassus can you link your profile? I need to know what to work for. Going to try both vyr's fire and arcane tonight and see which is better. I think fire will be more dps but I would love to make arcane work just to get some use out of my moonlight ward. Also, rerolling amulets really sucks.

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Honestly man I dont even try on my Wizard, the pet DH build runs circles around it =(

Its in my sig though, should be saved as arcane. I tried arcane on a lot of t5 rifts and it felt just as slow as fire.

Krassus_sl said:

Honestly man I dont even try on my Wizard, the pet DH build runs circles around it =(

Its in my sig though, should be saved as arcane. I tried arcane on a lot of t5 rifts and it felt just as slow as fire.

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Depressing

Do you think Born's is worth giving up TF for? Does triumvirate actually work right in this build? Seems like it should but comments that I read from folks said that only the highest % damage was figured in, IE: you didn't get the cumulative effect from cold/fire/electricity.

Krassus_sl said:

Mud out of which 2 of the quivers with %Sentry & %CA hit the hardest? I think they are different slots if I'm remembering right except for the quiver.

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I go for +sentry, as it increases damage of both cluster arrow AND multishot fired by sentries. I'm starting to think the best way to go is 5 piece marauder + rorg, hexing pants of mr. yau and so on. One interesting build I've seen forgoes any hate builder for spiked trap and chanon bolter. I've been going without any hate builder so that I can use marked for death (contagion). It feels weird, but I've been soloing T6 with it with no problems, just have to watch the hate expenditure and be smart about grabbing health globes.

I use an SoJ, marauder 5 piece + cindercoat, my best dps ammy, reaper bracer, rorg/SoJ, Kuul-aide (Oh yeah!), the best dps 2h crossbow I have (you want one with dex, +10% dmg, socket and as high damage range as possible), bombadier's rucksack. Keep in mind though if you can get the hexing pants, you can go marauder chest, which opens up the possiblity of up to +45 sentry skill (shoulder chest quiver) and +30 cluster arrow skill (helm, boots), with +60 fire on bracer/ammy/rings if you can find top notch gear. Hexing pants give you another +25% damage or so, assuming you keep moving (which is pretty easy with sentry build) . I don't yet have hexing pants though. :-(

For skills I use sentry (guardian), vault, pet, marked for death (contagion), multishot(arsenal), cluster arrow(loaded for bear), numbing traps, awareness, steady aim, and either archery or perfectionist. Note that the extra 40% damage from ambush is NOT multiplied by the bonus from Harrington's. Strange but true.

Link your profile again attog so I can take a look at your updated gear and skills.

As people mentioned, wizards are in a weird spot at the moment. If you have close to perfect gear then you could tackle T6. Emphasis on 'tackle' and not 'face roll'. There are only a select few wizards builds that can go into T6 and they involve some pretty hard to get items like +2 Mirrorball, Wand of Woh, Serpent Sparker (maybe) with magistrates and frostburns. In terms of facerolling T6 at the moment, Shotgun crusaders and WDs are way out in front of everyone else.

If you are interested in going Arcane then Arcane Torrent / Vyr is a popular build. Have to get the stat '+Arcane Power on Crit' on your gear for it to shine though. Not too sure about Disintegrate / Vyr as I haven't looked too much into that build.

Most popular Fire builds are Woh / Vyr, Chainpocalyse Woh and Magic missile / Vyr I think...

I personally at the moment am using Woh / Vyr to do T6 with unity rings and still I can't comfortably do it. I need some better rolls on some of my gear like the helm and boots and also still need to find that goddamn fire SoJ so I can take down elites faster. My amulet is decent but preferably want to find a Tal Rasha one for the set bonuses or a decently rolled immunity amulet.

T6 is all about the right balance between survivability and dealing decent enough dps to take down mobs. Go too far one way or another and you will find it difficult.

Neki - Community - Diablo III- My profile at the moment

Bear in mind, this is not the build I use for T6. I was using this to faceroll through T4 for fun this morning and didn't change my gear back.

T6 is change to Black Hole - Event Horizon (very useful in T6 for those nasty elite AoEs), Teleport - Safe passage for the 25% dmg reduce buff (near constant uptime due to decent CDR), swap my Tal Rasha belt to String of Ears and my Bul-Kathos ring to Unity ring to use with my immortal sorceress.

attog_sl said:

Depressing

Do you think Born's is worth giving up TF for? Does triumvirate actually work right in this build? Seems like it should but comments that I read from folks said that only the highest % damage was figured in, IE: you didn't get the cumulative effect from cold/fire/electricity.

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Well the Borns has 10% CDR and the set adds 10% more so for Archon thats mandatory. My Trium has arcane at the highest % so its a winner but even then it still feels really weak and believe me I wish it didn't. Wizard was my primary main, the reality is they are super strong at lower levels to even T5 but there is no point when my other 3 classes make it easier. For me personally DH is like a pet doctor with nukes, its my easiest to roll T6 with until I figure something else out.

One thing I didnt try and really want to is Arcane Orb. I want to try using the orb in the short time Archon is down and also my old Orbit / Calamity build with MLW and unity might get it done.

Maybe dropping shrine gaunts and belt and using cains will help me also.

Here it is again Neki.http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/a.../hero/44442173

Don't make too much fun of the chest piece, it was actually the first leg I got at 70 and I didn't know how the reroll system worked at that time. I'll be working on another one as my next Kadala piece. This was obviously the fire geared build, I'll try out the arcane one tonight.

Another question - does elemental exposure work correctly with the fully powered up Archon? Does it trigger all of the stacks?

Any rough estimates put out on when they will be doing 2.1? I really wish theyd tweak some of the less desirable wiz abilities or have more legendaries that interact with them to make them more appealing to use.

My guess would be its not out till september.

penalty_sl said:

My guess would be its not out till september.

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Oh man i hope that was a joke.