Wizard - Builds/Discussion - Page 134

On June 17 2012 22:12 daemir wrote:
And once Blizzard fixes Life on Kill - Hydra..

On June 18 2012 05:59 Curu wrote:
Ok how do I do Siegebreaker runs? I've been trying over and over, from what I read I should have sufficient stats but I just can't kill any elite packs at all, even ones with shit affixes.

My stats:
33k DPS unbuffed, 44k with Force Weapon (1.71 attacks per second)
34k life
2.3k armour
~175 all res
12% movespeed

I've tried every single build (Piercing Orb/Blizzard, Magic Missile/Arcane Orb, Arcane Orb/Blizzard, etc) and no matter what I do I simply can't kill elites. I have to kite them for like 5-6 minutes to kill them and if they spawn with any tough affix at all I can't do it at all.

Am I doing something massively wrong? Trying the runs is so frustrating, I almost want to just quit till 1.03 and see if it's feasible then or roll a DH.

On June 18 2012 06:25 Sponge75 wrote:
Is there any decent way to sort off hands on the AH or am I just gonna have to scroll through all the awful ones?

On June 18 2012 04:50 Tt|FaZiNaTe wrote:
Thx a lot, i think so too.
At the moment i try to get some more crit + crit dmg.
Today bought Ring + new claws with crit chance

http://i.imgur.com/pfwvo.png
http://i.imgur.com/AMpMK.jpg

On June 18 2012 10:03 Tula wrote:
After looking at your gear I'd invest in a different mainhand, though it will be expensive. Ideally a rare with 850+ dps, 100+ int and either crit damage (60%) or a socket. Even if it will be quite expensive, it should be worth it damagewise.

On June 18 2012 10:07 Dfgj wrote:

I don't see why you need int on a weapon. It serves the same purpose as dps, so you might as well just get more dps - something you're more likely to easily be able to find than something that has good mods and int.

for some reason it drastically lowers the price Honestly 1 int = 1 dps, but a 1k dps weapon is worth more than an 850 with 150 int. As simple as that why i recommended he should switch. Yes if he finds a weapon without int but with crit damage he can afford he should take that, but so far I have bought 5 weapons with stats on them for my chars and they were always quite a bit cheaper than the highest dps weapons available.

On June 18 2012 10:15 Tula wrote:

for some reason it drastically lowers the price Honestly 1 int = 1 dps, but a 1k dps weapon is worth more than an 850 with 150 int. As simple as that why i recommended he should switch. Yes if he finds a weapon without int but with crit damage he can afford he should take that, but so far I have bought 5 weapons with stats on them for my chars and they were always quite a bit cheaper than the highest dps weapons available.

On June 18 2012 10:56 Dfgj wrote:

Doesn't that assume he's running a certain amount of int already? I think +150dps would be better than going from 1900 to 2000 int (which can be made up elsewhere anyway).

On June 17 2012 21:42 Jacen88 wrote:
So is anyone here running a high crit build?

I got that idea that spamming celestial orbs with high crit and ap on crit would be a lot cooler than the standard orb build.
In my head I was like: If i get 30AP on Crit, with like 30% critchance and hit at least 3 monsters at a time i should be getting 30AP per orb on average + my normal AP regeneration wich should be enough to spam obliteration.

Didnt turn out too well though, my dmg decreased a lot when i switched from a high dmg 2hander to 1h+oh with crit and I get a lot less AP back than i expected.
I even pushed my crit a lot with some cheap crit gear for testing, getting up to 28AP on crit and 44% Crit Chance.
But I'm still running out of AP quite quickly.

So, does anyone have experience with that type of build? Is it worth it to stick to that path and further improve my crit gear or should i just go back to 2h mace and tap the source?

On June 18 2012 11:23 Wonders wrote:


I'm having some success with this. I was originally stacking AP on crit so I could use obliteration, but that didn't work out very well. I've been having way better results using celestial orb since it seems to crit more. Maybe the regular orb only gets 1 chance to restore AP (when it hits) but the celestial orb has a chance to restore AP with every enemy that it passes through. I have 45% crit with 28 AP on crit and I could spam celestial orbs all day if they just moved faster. At the moment it's like: shoot 3 orbs -> run out of AP and start doing regular wand attacks -> the first wave of orbs reach their targets and my AP refills -> shoot 3 more orbs. Actually this might be resolved by using the +20 max AP rune on energy armor. If only force armor wasn't so important. Perhaps stacking max AP on items would work, but a source with decent damage, regular crit %, crit % for AO, max AP, AND AP on crit would be incredibly hard to find.

On June 18 2012 11:26 Soot wrote:


Hi. Are you absolutely sure that your AP comes from the orbs and not your signature/wand attacks? I've been unsuccessful to verify that orb crits give AP..