Ultimate Meteor Spammer, a 4-man group wizard build, 63+ GR capable.

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by kangaxx2890 last updated May 10, 2015 ( Patch 2.2 )

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Skills

Shock Pulse Power Affinity
- Shock Pulse
This is a Signature spell. Signature spells are free to cast.

Release a medium range pulse of 3 unpredictable charges of electricity that deal 194% weapon damage as Lightning.
Power Affinity

Gain 2 Arcane Power for each enemy hit.

Shock Pulse's damage turns into Arcane.
Meteor Meteor Shower
- Meteor
Cost: 40 Arcane Power

Summon an immense Meteor that plummets from the sky, crashing into enemies for 740% weapon damage as Fire. The ground it hits is scorched with molten fire that deals 235% weapon damage as Fire over 3 seconds.
Meteor Shower

Unleash a volley of 7 small Meteors that each strike for 277% weapon damage as Fire.
Blizzard Snowbound
- Blizzard
Cost: 40 Arcane Power

Call down shards of ice that deal 1075% weapon damage as Cold over 6 seconds to enemies in a 12 yard radius. Multiple casts in the same area from the same caster do not stack.
Snowbound

Reduce the casting cost of Blizzard to 10 Arcane Power.
Storm Armor Power of the Storm
- Storm Armor
Cost: 25 Arcane Power

Bathe yourself in electrical energy, periodically shocking a nearby enemy for 175% weapon damage as Lightning. Lasts 10 minutes.

Only one Armor may be active at a time.
Power of the Storm

Reduce the Arcane Power cost of all skills by 3 while Storm Armor is active.
Magic Weapon Conduit
- Magic Weapon
Cost: 25 Arcane Power

Imbue your weapon with magical energy, granting it 10% increased damage. Lasts 10 minutes.
Conduit

Enemies hit by your attacks restore up to 3 Arcane Power.
Hydra Lightning Hydra
- Hydra
Cost: 15 Arcane Power

Summon a multi-headed Hydra for 15 seconds that attacks enemies with bolts of fire dealing 165% weapon damage as Fire.

Only one Hydra may be active at a time.
Lightning Hydra

Summon a Lightning Hydra that electrocutes enemies for 255% weapon damage as Lightning.

Elemental Exposure
- Elemental Exposure
Damaging enemies with Arcane, Cold, Fire or Lightning will cause them to take 5% more damage from your attacks for 5 seconds. Each different damage type applies a stack, stacking up to 4 times.

Elemental damage from your weapon contributes to Elemental Exposure.
Astral Presence
- Astral Presence
Increase your maximum Arcane Power by 20 and Arcane Power regeneration by 2.5 per second.
Glass Cannon
- Glass Cannon
Increase all damage done by 15%, but decrease Armor and resistances by 10%.
Conflagration
- Conflagration
Fire damage dealt to enemies applies a burning effect, increasing their chance to be critically hit by 6% for 3 seconds.

Items

Tal Rasha's Guise of Wisdom

Set Helm

Primary Stats

Critical Hit Chance Increased by 4.5–6.0%
+3 Random Magic Properties
Empty Socket
One of 3 Magic Properties (varies)

+330–524 Dexterity

+330–524 Strength

+330–524 Intelligence

Tal Rasha's Elements
Tal Rasha's Unwavering Glare
Tal Rasha's Guise of Wisdom
Tal Rasha's Relentless Pursuit
Tal Rasha's Brace
Tal Rasha's Allegiance
Tal Rasha's Stride
Tal Rasha's Grasp
(2) Set: Damaging enemies with Arcane, Cold, Fire or Lightning will cause a Meteor of the same damage type to fall from the sky. There is an 8 second cooldown for each damage type.
(4) Set: Arcane, Cold, Fire, and Lightning attacks each increase all of your resistances by 25% for 8 seconds.
(6) Set: Attacks increase your damage by 750% for 8 seconds. Arcane, Cold, Fire, and Lightning attacks each add one stack. At 4 stacks, each different elemental attack extends the duration by 2 seconds, up to a maximum of 8 seconds.
Pauldrons of the Skeleton King

Legendary Shoulders

59 - 68 Armor

Primary Stats

+201 - 230 Vitality
+176 - 190 Armor

Secondary Stats

When receiving fatal damage, there is a chance that you are instead restored to 25% of maximum Life and cause nearby enemies to flee in fear.

+ 2 Random Magic Properties
Tal Rasha's Allegiance

Set Amulet

Primary Stats

Critical Hit Damage Increased by 51.0–100.0%
+4 Random Magic Properties
One of 3 Magic Properties (varies)

+330–524 Dexterity

+330–524 Strength

+330–524 Intelligence

Tal Rasha's Elements
Tal Rasha's Unwavering Glare
Tal Rasha's Guise of Wisdom
Tal Rasha's Relentless Pursuit
Tal Rasha's Brace
Tal Rasha's Allegiance
Tal Rasha's Stride
Tal Rasha's Grasp
(2) Set: Damaging enemies with Arcane, Cold, Fire or Lightning will cause a Meteor of the same damage type to fall from the sky. There is an 8 second cooldown for each damage type.
(4) Set: Arcane, Cold, Fire, and Lightning attacks each increase all of your resistances by 25% for 8 seconds.
(6) Set: Attacks increase your damage by 750% for 8 seconds. Arcane, Cold, Fire, and Lightning attacks each add one stack. At 4 stacks, each different elemental attack extends the duration by 2 seconds, up to a maximum of 8 seconds.
Cindercoat

Legendary Chest Armor

285 - 322 Armor

Secondary Stats

Adds 2 - 3% to Fire Damage
Reduces the resource cost of Fire skills by 23 - 30%.

+ 3 Random Magic Properties
Lacuni Prowlers

Legendary Bracers

Primary Stats

Attack Speed Increased by 5.0–6.0%
+10–12% Movement Speed
+3 Random Magic Properties

Secondary Stats

+316–1160 Thorns Damage
Tal Rasha's Grasp

Set Gloves

Primary Stats

Critical Hit Chance Increased by 6.0–10.0%
+4 Random Magic Properties
One of 3 Magic Properties (varies)

+330–524 Dexterity

+330–524 Strength

+330–524 Intelligence

Tal Rasha's Elements
Tal Rasha's Unwavering Glare
Tal Rasha's Guise of Wisdom
Tal Rasha's Relentless Pursuit
Tal Rasha's Brace
Tal Rasha's Allegiance
Tal Rasha's Stride
Tal Rasha's Grasp
(2) Set: Damaging enemies with Arcane, Cold, Fire or Lightning will cause a Meteor of the same damage type to fall from the sky. There is an 8 second cooldown for each damage type.
(4) Set: Arcane, Cold, Fire, and Lightning attacks each increase all of your resistances by 25% for 8 seconds.
(6) Set: Attacks increase your damage by 750% for 8 seconds. Arcane, Cold, Fire, and Lightning attacks each add one stack. At 4 stacks, each different elemental attack extends the duration by 2 seconds, up to a maximum of 8 seconds.
Tal Rasha's Brace

Set Belt

Primary Stats

+81–85 Resistance to All Elements
+4 Random Magic Properties
One of 3 Magic Properties (varies)

+220–349 Dexterity

+220–349 Strength

+220–349 Intelligence

Tal Rasha's Elements
Tal Rasha's Unwavering Glare
Tal Rasha's Guise of Wisdom
Tal Rasha's Relentless Pursuit
Tal Rasha's Brace
Tal Rasha's Allegiance
Tal Rasha's Stride
Tal Rasha's Grasp
(2) Set: Damaging enemies with Arcane, Cold, Fire or Lightning will cause a Meteor of the same damage type to fall from the sky. There is an 8 second cooldown for each damage type.
(4) Set: Arcane, Cold, Fire, and Lightning attacks each increase all of your resistances by 25% for 8 seconds.
(6) Set: Attacks increase your damage by 750% for 8 seconds. Arcane, Cold, Fire, and Lightning attacks each add one stack. At 4 stacks, each different elemental attack extends the duration by 2 seconds, up to a maximum of 8 seconds.
Tal Rasha's Stride

Set Pants

Primary Stats

+4 Random Magic Properties
Empty Socket
One of 3 Magic Properties (varies)

+220–349 Dexterity

+220–349 Strength

+220–349 Intelligence

Tal Rasha's Elements
Tal Rasha's Unwavering Glare
Tal Rasha's Guise of Wisdom
Tal Rasha's Relentless Pursuit
Tal Rasha's Brace
Tal Rasha's Allegiance
Tal Rasha's Stride
Tal Rasha's Grasp
(2) Set: Damaging enemies with Arcane, Cold, Fire or Lightning will cause a Meteor of the same damage type to fall from the sky. There is an 8 second cooldown for each damage type.
(4) Set: Arcane, Cold, Fire, and Lightning attacks each increase all of your resistances by 25% for 8 seconds.
(6) Set: Attacks increase your damage by 750% for 8 seconds. Arcane, Cold, Fire, and Lightning attacks each add one stack. At 4 stacks, each different elemental attack extends the duration by 2 seconds, up to a maximum of 8 seconds.
Nilfur's Boast

Legendary Boots

Primary Stats

+81–85 Resistance to All Elements
+3 Random Magic Properties

Secondary Stats

Increase the damage of Meteor by 200%. When your Meteor hits 3 or fewer enemies, the damage is increased by 275–350%.
One of 3 Magic Properties (varies)

+220–349 Dexterity

+220–349 Strength

+220–349 Intelligence
Focus

Set Ring

Primary Stats

+4 Random Magic Properties
Empty Socket
One of 3 Magic Properties (varies)

+416–500 Dexterity

+416–500 Strength

+416–500 Intelligence

Bastions of Will
Focus
Restraint
(2) Set: When you hit with a resource-generating attack or primary skill, deal 50% increased damage for 5 seconds.
Restraint

Set Ring

Primary Stats

+4 Random Magic Properties
Empty Socket
One of 3 Magic Properties (varies)

+416–500 Dexterity

+416–500 Strength

+416–500 Intelligence

Bastions of Will
Focus
Restraint
(2) Set: When you hit with a resource-generating attack or primary skill, deal 50% increased damage for 5 seconds.
Sun Keeper

Legendary Mace

Primary Stats

+(610–745)–(731–926) Holy Damage
Increases damage against elites by 15.0–30.0%
+2 Random Magic Properties

Secondary Stats

+51–60% Extra Gold from Monsters
One of 3 Magic Properties (varies)

+330–524 Dexterity

+330–524 Strength

+330–524 Intelligence
Tal Rasha's Unwavering Glare

Set Source

Primary Stats

+(94–118)–(95–142) Damage
+330–524 Intelligence
Critical Hit Chance Increased by 6.0–10.0%
Increases Meteor Damage by 20–25% (Wizard Only)
+3 Random Magic Properties

Tal Rasha's Elements
Tal Rasha's Unwavering Glare
Tal Rasha's Guise of Wisdom
Tal Rasha's Relentless Pursuit
Tal Rasha's Brace
Tal Rasha's Allegiance
Tal Rasha's Stride
Tal Rasha's Grasp
(2) Set: Damaging enemies with Arcane, Cold, Fire or Lightning will cause a Meteor of the same damage type to fall from the sky. There is an 8 second cooldown for each damage type.
(4) Set: Arcane, Cold, Fire, and Lightning attacks each increase all of your resistances by 25% for 8 seconds.
(6) Set: Attacks increase your damage by 750% for 8 seconds. Arcane, Cold, Fire, and Lightning attacks each add one stack. At 4 stacks, each different elemental attack extends the duration by 2 seconds, up to a maximum of 8 seconds.

More Details

Head
- Tal Rasha's Guise of Wisdom
- Stat Priority: Int CHC Reduced Cold Dmg
Shoulders
- Pauldrons of the Skeleton King
- Homing Pads
- Death Watch Mantle
- Stat Priority: Int Reduced Resource Cost Vit AD
Amulet
- Tal Rasha's Allegiance
- Stat Priority: CHD Int CHC Socket
Torso
- Cindercoat
- Stat Priority: Int Socket Vit
Wrists
- Lacuni Prowlers
- Slave Bonds
- Steady Strikers
- Stat Priority: Int CHC Fire % AS
Hands
- Tal Rasha's Grasp
- Stat Priority: Int CHD CHC AS
Waist
- Tal Rasha's Brace
- Stat Priority: Int Vit AR Life
Legs
- Tal Rasha's Stride
- Stat Priority: Int Vit Armor + Socket
Feet
- Nilfur's Boast
- Stat Priority: Int Vit AR Reduced Cold Dmg
Rings
- Focus
- Restraint
- Stat Priority: Int CHD CHC Socket
Weapon
- Sun Keeper
- The Burning Axe of Sankis
- Fulminator
- Stat Priority: Int Reduced Resource Cost Socket
Offhand
- Tal Rasha's Unwavering Glare
- Stat Priority: Int CHC Reduced Melee Dmg

Legendary Gems
- Taeguk
  Taeguk
  
  Gem
  
  Secondary Stats
  
  Gain 2% increased damage for 1.5 seconds when you spend resource on a channeled skill. This effect stacks up to 10 times.
- Bane of the Trapped
  Bane of the Trapped
  
  Gem
  
  Secondary Stats
  
  Increase damage against enemies under the effects of control-impairing effects by 15%.
- Gem of Efficacious Toxin
  Gem of Efficacious Toxin
  
  Gem
  
  Primary Stats
  
  Poison all enemies hit for 2000% weapon damage over 10 seconds.
  All enemies you poison take 10% increased damage from all sources and deal 10% less damage. (Requires Rank 25)

On the gear:

Besides the obvious Tal Rasha set parts, the main items of this build are the Cindercoat with good fire cost reduction and the off-hand with 10% crit + 4 APOC.

Shoulders and bracers are sort of free slots, pick whichever you preffer from that list that suits you.

The weapon is actually sort of a free choice as well, i'm actually using an ancient Chantodo's Will with decent damage, but i think a well rolled sankis axe or a sun keeper could work wonders.

On the gems:

Taeguk : It is an excellent self buff gem and with this build you refresh the stacks with relative ease in two situations :

1) When moving from group to group of mobs -> Just throw a random Hydra or a Blizzard to keep the stacks going.

2) When dpsing a group of mobs -> By spamming meteors and building your tal rasha's set stacks you keep the taeguk at max easily.

Gem of Efficacious Toxin : Awesome gem to buff the overall damage of the party, a Bane of the Powerful could work too.

Bane of the Trapped : Obvious choice, used in most builds.

On the stats distribution (since it doesn't let me pick those):

Reduced Cold Damage = Meteor Damage

Reduced Melee Damage = Arcane Power on Critical Hit

Paragon Priorities

Core

Maximum Resource
Movement Speed
Primary Stat
Vitality

Offense

Critical Hit Damage
Critical Hit Chance
Attack Speed
Cooldown Reduction

Defense

Armor
Resist All
Life
Life Regeneration

Utility

Resource Cost Reduction
Area Damage
Life on Hit
Gold Find

We're gonna need max resource and max resource cost reduction, else are just normal choices, max movement speed, int. Ignore cooldown reduction.

Area damage is pretty good after rcr%.

Build Guide

Main idea:

This is a build dedicated to those poor fellows who did not find a good ancient serpent sparker for 4-man group ranking. The goal of this build is very concise and to the point, spam meteor shower on big groups of mobs without stop, this is assured by a good cindercoat, good rcr% on gear / paragon, and last but not least, 4 APOC on the source (and also some abilities/passives). The style of play also makes keeping up Taeguk pretty easily which is a borderline overpowered gem in most situations. If the group of mobs is big enough, you can just spam meteors the whole duration of your 4-stack Tal Rasha buff. Also the abilities to build the TR stack are almost mana free and do not have a cooldown (wink wink taeguk).

It obviouslt shine not always on well populated high gr's, but it's amazing on trials.

On the abilities:

LMB: Sock Pulse : Power Afinity

This signature spell will restore AP really fast, specially if you're hitting a big group. Will add the arcane TR stack.

RMB: Meteor : Meteor Shower

The main damage dealer of the build. Prepare to eye that big big stunned group of Unburieds, Phasebeasts, etc with a lot of love . You will spam this ability non stop on big(or not that big) groups. Will add the fire TR stack.

1: Blizzard : Snowbound

Low mana cost, devoid of cooldown and with some little utility to the party. Will add the frost TR stack.

2: Storm Armor : Power of the Storm

One of the main reasons why you can spam meteors like a maniac, it also procs the TR lightning meteors, but does not add a TR stack.

3: Magic Weapon : Conduit

Another excelent AP friendly ability which also gives you a damage buff to boot.

4: Hydra : Lightning Hydra

We need to have a lightning ability and here comes the Hydra, a reliable spell with little to none ap cost, no cooldown and makes keeping taeguk in those long runs from group to group pretty easily. Will add the lightning TR stack.

On the passives:

Glass Cannon

Good damage buff, assuming your supports are controlling the battlefield and assuming you know where to stand when dpsing.

Elemental Exposure

The go-to ability in any TR based build.

Astral Presence

We want to spam meteors because meteors are love and meteors are life. This passive helps.

Conflagration

A really nice party buff, 6% crit is not to be sneezed at. I assume you could choose something else like Unwavering Will or Audacity since we're not using a ZEI gem (although you'd be at risk being close to the mobs or RG).

A YouTube video showcasing the build is on the works. At the moment we cleared GR63 today in S3 as Wiz-DH-support WD-support Crusader on the first GR63 attempt. ENJOY !

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