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It's pretty unclear what build you're trying to run so I'll give you a list of potential upgrades that you could choose from
CM/SNS - swap weapon and offhand to chatnado's set - this will bring you to the 2.5atk.sec break point
Archon - Zuni's Pox/TR's amulet/Inna's pants would probably have the greatest dps increase in that order. If you need more survivability as archon, you could swap out your boots.
Some arbitrary blizzard kite build - I don't know if anyone plays these builds anymore but you seem to be running the cm build from the release days so who knows - probably the same as archon
@Cascade - the current build isn't exactly a lightweight ww/cm build, its the really old version of cm from release when living lightning's proc coeffecient was significantly higher(I almost want to say it was 100% but could be wrong)
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pants with vitality
lacunis with crit
helm with crit
zuni shoes with a lot more vitality (this is a really easy, very cheap upgrade)
easiest upgrades i can think of
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I want to stay archon build but when i go mp4-5 Archon goes off so fast .. With the scoudrel im at 40% cc and about 300% cd
Should i wait to buy big piece with CC like lacunis or mempo? For now ill upgrade boots and pants with better stats!
Thanks for helping me guys..
Btw Cascade i paid about 80m for echoing fury.. like all my economy...:S
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On February 07 2013 06:08 b0yer8402 wrote:
I want to stay archon build but when i go mp4-5 Archon goes off so fast .. With the scoudrel im at 40% cc and about 300% cd
Should i wait to buy big piece with CC like lacunis or mempo? For now ill upgrade boots and pants with better stats!
Thanks for helping me guys..
Btw Cascade i paid about 80m for echoing fury.. like all my economy...:S
Archon isn't really the best build for running higher monster powers. You would need to increase your dps by quite a bit in order to be able to kill stuff fast enough. Weapon with cd/socket, zuni's pox, tr amulet, or inna's pants would probably be your best bet for an upgrade in dps depending on how much you are willing to spend.
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On February 07 2013 06:08 b0yer8402 wrote:
I want to stay archon build but when i go mp4-5 Archon goes off so fast .. With the scoudrel im at 40% cc and about 300% cd
Should i wait to buy big piece with CC like lacunis or mempo? For now ill upgrade boots and pants with better stats!
Thanks for helping me guys..
Btw Cascade i paid about 80m for echoing fury.. like all my economy...:S
One obvious upgrade would be the Hellfire ring, but yeah we all know how that can go. DPS-wise I think you could do better if you switched that mempo to a 6% crit helm like Tal Rasha. But there are certainly other things you could change up as well. Have you tried d3up and d3bit? You should check them out if you haven't. You could load up your profile and see how new items would change things without buying them. I'd imagine you could upgrade those gloves fairly easily and the amulet looks kinda awful too...
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I need advice from more experienced player. assuming this setup: http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Waritko-2774/hero/7067735
how much dmg would I gain if I switched to socketed chants will (or 80+ crit dmg)? if I managed to find decent one with 1,65 aps, got innas pants and switched one of rings to 9 ias one, I would stay at 2,73 breakpoint. (or I would settle with 2,51 break, as I have only like 150M) . so again, how much dps would that be? (I am no friend with spreadsheets). thanks in advance
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On February 07 2013 12:42 kes wrote:I need advice from more experienced player. assuming this setup: http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Waritko-2774/hero/7067735 how much dmg would I gain if I switched to socketed chants will (or 80+ crit dmg)? if I managed to find decent one with 1,65 aps, got innas pants and switched one of rings to 9 ias one, I would stay at 2,73 breakpoint. (or I would settle with 2,51 break, as I have only like 150M) . so again, how much dps would that be? (I am no friend with spreadsheets). thanks in advance
Assuming 80% crit damage on weapon keeping its other stats, you would gain ~25k dps, give or take a bit. You shouldn't need to swap any of your rings to stay at the 2.73 breakpoint since the 8/9% on inna's should make up for it. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be any clear upgrade path you could take for your gear without changing multiple pieces at a time. Aside from weapon and inna's pants changes, swapping to zuni's 2pc set seems like the other viable change before going for apoc OH and mempo
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25k would be something to thing about. just dont like idea of losing that much of ehp (I worked pretty hard to increase armor). i am actually looking for rare helm or rare pants with some stupidly high stats (700+ armor, 170+int, 220+vita, 65+AR, single res (understand physical res) and at least one socket pants for reasonable price would make my day  )
about zuni combo: its again losing ehp. like finding solid iceclimbers with movementspeed, zuni boots with armor and AR is too much gold for me now. i am not even familiar with prize range for zuni rings.
and apoc source and 170int cc mempo is even further in future 
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Hey guys, I'm coming back to playing my wiz after a looong break, two quick things:
I've been reading alot on the forums, what the hell is mp10 or mp3? what does it stand for?
Heres my profile:
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Premier-1532/
Any advice on gear/builds would be greatly appreciated
Edit: I got a shit ton of gold lying around, so I think I'm going to snag Chant's Will+Force... Thoughts?
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MP is monster power. essentailly same as /payers X in d2. So higher MP gives you tougher monsters, but also more exp, MF and GF.
There are two wiz builds around: archon for low MP, and cm/ww for higher MP.
For farming XP/items, archon and low MP is generally better (unless maybe if you got godly gear...), while cm/ww is better for farming keys and hellfire ring. Archon is pretty cheap to get going, you can get farming act 3 at MP0 with just a few M essentially, while cm/ww is more expensive. There is a guide on the cm/ww build if you just scroll down a bit in the diablo forum here on TL.
I think I made a post with some general archon tips a few pages back if you have the patience to go back and find it, otherwise just find a guide on youtube.
chants set is great for cm/ww, while for archon people in general recommend black weapon + triumvirate.
Before buying anything, you should probably decide what build you want to go, or how you want to split your money if you want to do both. You can have some common gear between the two builds, but you will have to switch several slots. The lower level, they more slots will you probably have to switch between the two builds.
Looking at your gear, you can get huge upgrades on every slot for 100k gold. How much gold you got?
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Thanks for all the help!
Ive got about 500k left after buy chants will/force which a friend recommended I buy.
Also, how do you increase MP? Is it just based off how many players are in a group?
And I'll be sure to check out your archon tips, thanks again.
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On February 12 2013 02:46 Premier wrote:
Thanks for all the help!
Ive got about 500k left after buy chants will/force which a friend recommended I buy.
Also, how do you increase MP? Is it just based off how many players are in a group?
And I'll be sure to check out your archon tips, thanks again.
Under Option > Gameplay > last one on the right side. Then you should be able to select a monster power when you chance quest
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Long story short - I used to play D3 a lot until last September when I abruptly lost interest in the game. Came back in November for a week or so - the last build I used to run was a typical budget CMWW using the Chantodo set.
With the launch of 1.0.7 I've decided to give D3 another serious chance - I've found a really cheap Skorn on the AH and I wanna transition into an Archon build for farming XP/recipes/gold on MP 1-3.
My current DPS seems almost OK to me, but my EHP and speed seem way too low.
I would really appreciate any suggestions from more experienced/active wizards on how I can improve my gear and skill build in order to make my transition smoother and more effective. Also, what's the minimum budget I'd need to upgrade my current setup for smooth farming MP1-3?
Thanks in advance to anyone who's kind enough to provide constructive feedback or criticism.
http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Ixithra-2176/ - profile link.
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On February 15 2013 04:02 Ixithra wrote:Long story short - I used to play D3 a lot until last September when I abruptly lost interest in the game. Came back in November for a week or so - the last build I used to run was a typical budget CMWW using the Chantodo set. With the launch of 1.0.7 I've decided to give D3 another serious chance - I've found a really cheap Skorn on the AH and I wanna transition into an Archon build for farming XP/recipes/gold on MP 1-3. My current DPS seems almost OK to me, but my EHP and speed seem way too low. I would really appreciate any suggestions from more experienced/active wizards on how I can improve my gear and skill build in order to make my transition smoother and more effective. Also, what's the minimum budget I'd need to upgrade my current setup for smooth farming MP1-3? Thanks in advance to anyone who's kind enough to provide constructive feedback or criticism. http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Ixithra-2176/ - profile link.
If you're having problems staying alive, I would change your kills passives first. swap glass cannon to something more defensive. Probably galvanizing wind but I haven't tried the new unstable anomaly yet and that could be better. As far as gear goes, 24% movement speed seems to be quite important for archon. Your AR seems to be quite low. Shoulders would probably be the best piece for you to change to grab a decent chunk of AR (Vile Wards are a good option). Helm is another option to add AR without a huge investment. Next, your weapon should probably change. 1h black weapon +trivarium is probably the best set up for achon. You could probably get a decent set to farm mp1 for <3mil. As far as higher mp goes, I'm unsure the gear requirement since I have never played archon past mp1.
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There is also the blizzard build especially since it got buffed to 500% damage
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Archon guides:
Summary on skills for archon:
On January 28 2013 10:23 Cascade wrote:In summary, the skills for archon are: 1. archon - rune that make archon better. (teleport for speed, improved archon if you suffer on dps) 2. Whatever buffs you while in archon form: a) magic weapon - (blood magic for life steal, or force wepaon if you feel you don't need life steal.) b) familiar - sparkfint c) an armour (often with galvanising ward, to make it last longer, as you cannot refresh your armour in archon form). Storma rmour -scramble most common (for speed), but I guess prismatic can be used while you are getting proper gear and you die a lot. d) Glass cannon if you feel it doesn't make you to fragile (specially vs reflect damage). I personally don't use this (as I don't have life steal on my weapon), but I know many do. e) blur if you want more defense. shouldn't really be needed once you get your gear up (reflect damage will be your main enemy at that point, which blur wont hep you with), but if you have a slot free, why not. 3. remaining slots to help you reset archon cooldown asap, and to progress as fast as possible if you lose archon. People choose kindof different things here, but msot common are but apparently teleoprt and healing blades can also be used. You should spend almost all of you time in archon form, so shouldn't matter much what you pick here. a) critical mass (shortens archon cooldown, and also works on your archon explosion. Will work on archon teleport as well after 1.0.7). I think most archons use this. b) Wicked wind to trigger critical mass. Some us others, second most common maybe living lightning. c) diamond skin to help you stay alive while not in archon.
With the exception that now with the patch I use living lightning and blizzard as non-archon skills.
Looking at your gear, you can get big upgrades for less than a million per slot.
My suggested course of action to get to an uber-wizard asap is:
1) get to a point where you can archon farm your favourite route on MP0 comfortable, while very rarely loosing archon form. I currently run:
core of arreat lvl 2 --> skycrown battlements --> keeps lvl 2 --> rakkis crossing
which are all very dense areas (<3 keeps) where it is easy to keep up archon. You will probably need a sheet dps of about 100k (or slightly above if you want to be even more comfortable), 30k-40k life, 3.5k armour and around 600AR. You can ofc shift between the three defensive stats as you want, sometimes you can get armour cheaper than AR, etc.
In your case, I would replace the skorn with a black weapon + triumvirate, which will give you more dps. What the skorn can do that no black 1h can do, is give you up to 6% life steal, but it will not have as much dps. So since you probably don't have the budget for a high LS and high dps skorn, I'd go with the black weapon + triumvirate. Look for dps/int/cd/socket on the weapon, and mainly average damage on the triumvirate (should be able to find at least 230 average damage with 150 int for pretty cheap). You want 12% move speed on your boots (VERY important to maintain archon!) and another 12% move speed on an off-slot, for example lacuni prowlers. You need more life and AR. Maybe get a cheap mempo (from 200k at the AH) as you don't need the apoc. The ias on your jewelery are making them pretty expensive for their dps (leftovers from your cm/ww maybe?). try to go for cc (maybe even a bit higher rolls than you have) with int, and then go for cd or +damage as you can afford. Specially +damage is usually a cheap way to get dps, but see what you find and how the prices are. A non-legacy tal rashas armmour would add a ot of dps I think, and you will get the AR on the mempo, and you should also add AR to your pants.
2) While not going down in stats (too much) get to 300% MF. So as you get money farming, go through slot by slot and get a similar piece, but with MF. If you feel rich (or are lucky with what you find on the AH) you can even get some upgrades while doing this. You may want to start with your ammy, as it can roll up to 45% MF. Another cheap way is to get a helm with MF and socket that you can socket for even more MF. Another (very) cheap way to get some MF is to get an anchantress with a sunkeeper (legendary weapon with high MF) and MF jewelery (ammy up to 45%, rings up to 20%). You will not get any dps to talk of from your enchantress, so focus mainly on vitality otherwise so she can stay alive to provide the MF for you. I see you already do that with the templar, but not sure if there is a MF weapon that the templar can carry. Anyway, if you want to keep the templar, at least give him jewelery with close to max MF (like 42%+ on ammy, and 18%+ on rings) and decently high vit rolls. you should be able to find that for well below 100k a piece on the AH. Also, maybe depthdiggers pants can be a good option.
3) Once you are farming MP0 at 300% MD comfortably, you can start upgrading your gear as your paragon level give you increased base MF. Maybe try to get a good hellfire ring and replace the topaz in the helm for a +XP ruby (You may even want to use a ruby before you hit 300% MF if you are in a hurry with the XP compared to the extra MF).
gl, cheers.
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Dissenia & Cascade - thanks for the tips - I just got a pretty cheap Tyrael's Might for 12% move speed and some extra AR and I've also switched Glass Cannon for Unstable Anomaly (which is a great passive now btw - it basically gives you an extra life each minute - I think it's even better for melee builds) and now I'm at roughly 550-600 AR, with 115K DPS, 3800 Armor and 24K DPS. The move speed makes a huge difference, I'm having a breeze through the Alkaizer route, though it's gonna be much better when I add another 12%.
I'm thinking my upgrade path should now be something in the lines of: 1h black weap + Triumv -> Boots/Lacuni -> Helm -> Pants -> rings/ammy. Of course, I might be wrong since I've been on this long hiatus and I don;t have much experience with Archon builds - please suggests any different course of action you might find better.
I'm having a tough time deciding between Mempo and Andariel's for my helm though and as far as I've seen so far, preferences go both ways... any tips on this?
One more question - regarding black weapons now - is a black weapon only + Physical, or is + Arcane ok as well (ex. Wizardspike)?
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On February 16 2013 02:21 Ixithra wrote:
I'm thinking my upgrade path should now be something in the lines of: 1h black weap + Triumv -> Boots/Lacuni -> Helm -> Pants -> rings/ammy. Of course, I might be wrong since I've been on this long hiatus and I don;t have much experience with Archon builds - please suggests any different course of action you might find better.
I'm having a tough time deciding between Mempo and Andariel's for my helm though and as far as I've seen so far, preferences go both ways... any tips on this?
One more question - regarding black weapons now - is a black weapon only + Physical, or is + Arcane ok as well (ex. Wizardspike)?
The upgrade path seems fine. 1 thing to consider when grabbing boots/ring would be to get zuni's 2pc set since that would give you an additional 130 int.
For helm, I would suggest mempo since it inately gives you the AR and a socket. This would allow you to run with Storm Armor - Scramble over Energy Armor.
Black weapons are only + physical damage so wizardspike will not work.
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On February 16 2013 05:44 Dissenia wrote:Show nested quote +On February 16 2013 02:21 Ixithra wrote:
I'm thinking my upgrade path should now be something in the lines of: 1h black weap + Triumv -> Boots/Lacuni -> Helm -> Pants -> rings/ammy. Of course, I might be wrong since I've been on this long hiatus and I don;t have much experience with Archon builds - please suggests any different course of action you might find better.
I'm having a tough time deciding between Mempo and Andariel's for my helm though and as far as I've seen so far, preferences go both ways... any tips on this?
One more question - regarding black weapons now - is a black weapon only + Physical, or is + Arcane ok as well (ex. Wizardspike)? The upgrade path seems fine. 1 thing to consider when grabbing boots/ring would be to get zuni's 2pc set since that would give you an additional 130 int. For helm, I would suggest mempo since it inately gives you the AR and a socket. This would allow you to run with Storm Armor - Scramble over Energy Armor. Black weapons are only + physical damage so wizardspike will not work.
There is a great guide at the DiabloFans.com forum specifically on gear for the inferno Wizard:
http://www.diablofans.com/topic/84199-guide-wizard-gear-guide/
I found it extremely useful for deducing what would be ideal/BiS for my Wizard even though I don't use CMWW or Archon builds. If you want to know why certain items are better than others and figure out what should be upgraded next, this guide can't be beat.
Cheers,
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guys you can check the effect on your dps, by posting the item in the chat and then going ingame and look at it.
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