Build Guide
Hey boyz! Season One & Two - Rank 1 monk (world) here!
In my opinion/experience this build is currently one of the strongest possible wizard setups for solo competitive greater rift laddering.
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Basic game-play strategy:
- Build Chantodo's stacks and reduce Archon cooldown with Arcane torrent
- Use Archon (only if @ 20 Chantodo's stacks)
- Use Slow Time (just once every time you enter [Archon Form])
- Spam Arcane Blast [Archon Form]
- Hold down Arcane Strike [Archon Form]
- Pull enemies misc with Disintegration [Archon Form]
- Maintain Ice Armour buff
- Maintain Magic Weapon buff
Skill variations:
- Blizzard - Snowbound (Use instead of magic weapon, for Animation canceling technique shown in video guide).
Hellfire Passive:
- Illusionist
Stat Priority:
- Helm: Socket>Crit
- Shoulders: CDR
- Torso: x3 Sockets
- Legs: x2 Sockets
- Gloves: CDR>ChC>CHD
- Rings: Socket>CDR>Crit>CHD
- Waist: 15% Life
- Wrist: 20% Lightning damage>ChC
- Amulet: Socket>ChD>20% Lightning>ChC
- Weapon: CDR>LPH
FAQ:
Q: Why am i getting instantly killed g45+?
A: Make sure your stats look something like this: 1200+ All resistance | 9000+ Armour | 500,000+ Health.
Q: What gem should i put in my helmet socket?
A: Diamond. CDR = Dmg + Survivability!
Q: What normal gems should i put in my chest/pants?
A: Topaz (Diamonds if you're HC).
Q: What follower should i use?
A: Templar. Why? Inspire (x1.1 ALL resource generation).
Q: What procs APD's?
A: Freeze = Stun.
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Q: What follower should i use?
A: Enchantress. Why? Attack speed bonus = more Archon stacks. Defensive bonus. 3% more damage debuff cast.
Hi Quin- thanks for the great build. I finally feel like my wizard is a killing machine!
I'm curious. If your running with Moonlight Ward Amulet. Is Cascade rune better to use with Arcane Torrent then Static discharge?. If anyone can chime in, that would be great.
Used this build to get into the higher rifts. Worked like a charm. I did frozen though because that's whats on my bracers and used furnace instead off fulminator. I actually cleared GR 60 with this a few minutes ago link below if you want to see.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bs-2nr12GpU
Hey Quin, I'm currently using your build and I have one question:
At necklace and Bracer you have priority on %Lightning, but since we use Convertion of Element (Elemental % flutuate ) and Furnace, How it's useful on our build?
Plus, Life on Hit at Weapon is true required? Maybe another status like vit isnt better? (Just asking, i'm noob)
The "life on hit" weapon stat is you gaining life when you hit an enemy. WIth the Attack Speed buff from Archon, it means you can life to offset the life lost from enemy hits. Vitality means you have a higher health pool, but once its gone it takes a lot longer to gain it back.
So...my archon form randomly switched to fire damage today, can't get it back to lightning no matter what I do. re rune, remove all skills and redo them all, re logged...
The Obsidian Ring is likely in the cube because, unlike most legendaries, the Obsidian Ring doesn't have random rolls for primary stats. It always rolls with CDR, CHC, attack speed, and resource cost reduction. You generally don't care about attack speed or resource cost with this build, so a decent roll on Convention or Arlyse with proper primary stats is better than a perfect roll on one of those two, but sub-par primary stats on the ring.
Can you change skill slot while in archon form,? My problem with this is all my character has their run skill (teleport/tumble/spiritwalk) on key 1, while on archon form tp is on 3rd slot, i can't play it well, sad
Yeah it did take many a rift to get that one. I actually fell behind in it :(. The thing that hurt me trying to push 60 was how much damage the monsters took without a mara's. I tried it without the life per hit and I constantly died. The CoE i just feel is too random to depend upon, I only use it in groups.
Edit: One thing to note, in my video it is the first time i actually used the templar this season. I had not yet received the do not die relic, and so i had been using my enchantress who did have it.
Black hole is eating up your Obsidian Ring of the Zodiac's cooldown buff. Thats why he's got frost nova instead of black hole; because it's procced by the Halo ring and therefore doesn't go into cooldown. If you watch the video, he never hits the frost nova key, the ring sets it off pretty much whenever you get hit. Having it on your bar just lets you benefit from whichever rune you choose in there.
My issue with the build right now is I'm not sure Arcane Torrent is the best way to get Chantodos Stacks. It seems like regardless of how archon stacks it goes up at the same rate (when I just stand and spam). Then I just run out of Arcane Power super quick. I have better luck waiting to get hit, spamming till the monsters unfreeze then teleporting further into the rift and repeating. I haven't played around with any other skills though, I saw someone mentioned Blizzard.
Lastly, the only issue this really has in group play is finding density outside archon. You have to be able to teleport ahead of everyone to find enough density to build up stacks and cooldown archon. Not sure if there's any way around this, I am only playing T5-T6 right now (need the Ancient Parathians now to complete build).
Has anyone tried using Schaeffer's Hammer in the Cube instead of The Furnace?
I'm wondering if it might help kill trash mobs easier seeing as that is what we spend the majority of our time killing inside a Greater Rift.
Once Bane of the Stricken is leveled up our damage against a Rift Guardian will scale - possibly compensating for the lack of extra elite damage from the loss of the Furnace.
Thoughts?
I noticed on your Weapon that you reforged it to lightening damage? Is that a must for this build, or does it matter what element your weapon damage is? Thanks
I run the same build but my hellfire rolled cold, so cold I am using. Spam blizzard instead of arcane torrent, doesn't stack as fast but it does the trick
WDs are definately the most flexible class at the moment. You could argue that monks are flexible but the cookie cutter classes are generally the only ones that can run higher level grifts