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On November 13 2012 04:00 alQahira wrote:
Charger, the only thing I would say is look into lacuni's with crit prices. They have come down a lot and should be within your budget. If you want to boost your dps, Zunimassa's boots are the next logical upgrade, but they are pricey with AR, which you really want.

On November 13 2012 04:51 alQahira wrote:
Well, you can't make up the AR since you're basically full other than pants, but you can definitely make up the EHP loss. Your boots have no vit, and if you're not wedded to firewalkers you can get rare boots with 150+ int, 50+ vit, 70+ AR and movespeed for dirt cheap (5 million or less).

Also, your vile ward doesn't have vit, and those have also come down a lot in price. I think you could get similar stats + 80 vit for around 8 million?

Then you could use the EHP gain from those two slots to take an EHP hit for the crit lacunis. Or just go without int on them. I think you can find vit + some AR + crit for reasonable prices.

On November 13 2012 05:08 Charger wrote:


EHP is so confusing to me :|

So if I got ~200 vit from shoulders, boots, and lacuni's, you think I could take a 60-75 all res hit?

edit - I'm not asking you to go to d3up or diabloprogress for me and calculate it out, I can do that myself given the time to do so. Just looking for a gut impression.

On November 13 2012 02:04 Charger wrote:
I think I got my wiz to a pretty good place that I'm happy with but does anything stand out to the TL wiz experts?

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Charger-1101/hero/23424110

2.61 aps / 49.5cc with pinpoint

On November 13 2012 10:31 Eschaton wrote:


What is your survivability like with 300 AR? Seems rather low to me.

On November 13 2012 09:53 Charger wrote:


Just a thought - what is the goal for crit chance to stop using pinpoint barrier? I could probably completely drop the all res if I could switch to prismatic armor. Is 48%cc enough with 2.61 aps (no scoundrel)?

I could also switch the diamond skin to the rune for extra damage absorption maybe?

edit - Of course the more I think about it, if I do the switch I'd actually end up equal to where I was (assuming 4%cc lacunis), maybe 20 more all res but thats not worth the cost.

On November 13 2012 13:10 alQahira wrote:
There is no definition of "enough", it is whatever feels best to you. Try dropping pinpoint barrier for spectral with your existing setup and see how it feels. As to vit/AR, on my character 1.3 points of vitality equal 1 point of AR, but I have a bit more AR than you, so it is probably 1.5 vit for you. However, it's not quite an equal comparison since your rate of damage vs lifegain is affected by AR, whereas vitality just gives you a bigger health pool while not affecting the rate of damage you take.

Anyway, if you can sub 2-1 vit for AR, then you will probably feel it is about equivalent. For any normal hits, vitality is a fine substitute for AR, but just remember that for things like sustaining through ghom's poison, or desecrator, or things like that losing AR will hurt your sustainability a bit.

Also, apparently prices haven't fallen as much as I thought. I guess I just lucked out on my int+vit+crit chance bracers for 11 million. But regardless of if you get lacuni's with crit or not, you'll get a big survivability boost by adding vit to your boots and shoulders.

On November 13 2012 02:04 Charger wrote:
I think I got my wiz to a pretty good place that I'm happy with but does anything stand out to the TL wiz experts?

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Charger-1101/hero/23424110

2.61 aps / 49.5cc with pinpoint

On November 14 2012 02:17 ximae wrote:
PS: guys dont use garbage energy armour for cm, use shocking aspect its the biggest dps increase i bet you have the mitigation for it. If u dont for the higher mps switch wormhole for fracture and see how your ehp shoots up and makes it viable. The only time i use energy armour is if im doing high mp uber runs, then i switch to force armour and with our ias-> loh its back to god mode... well except for the arcane sentries and twisters which are dots.

On November 13 2012 23:54 jESUIT wrote:
All gravy you went w/ the socketed chantodos Will but I disagree with that option. I prefer the IAS wand w/ 1.76 attacks per second. BECAUSE since you are only @ 2.61 aps you arent at the optimal breakpoint for the build which is 2.74 so you need to be as close to that or IDEALLY over... Other then that you just need to squeeze in some more cc, so you can drop the pinpoint and go for Prismatic for higher MP levels..The extra UMPH is always really helpful..even an extra 100 resis you can drastically notice it in survivability.

On November 14 2012 03:03 skatbone wrote:


Yea Storm Armor/Shocking Aspect and diamond shards are the way to go if you have enough mitigation. I like using pinpoint for mp8+ Ubers unless I totally trust my group in which case I'll use SA on mp8 ubers. Really, SK and Magda are the only problem (I'd use Storm Armor vs the other pairs in a heartbeat) and I find that, while Force Armor works great, it slows everything down as it provides no offensive boost whatsoever. Pinpoint + high armor/AR works fine vs all ubers.

I also prefer Safe Passage to Fracture vs Ubers. Porting allows me to tank that nasty combo damage from Mag's bugs and a sentry at the same time.

On November 14 2012 04:12 skatbone wrote:
Yea, I hate dying. Especially in groups. And like you, I chat if I know the people I am running with so I, too, would rather focus on surviving rather than DPS. I'll freeze and they can do the DPS.

That said, freeze wizard is not especially conducive to chatting what with all the button smashing going on.