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Kanai's Cube

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  • The Furnace

  

  Legendary Two-Handed Mace

  • Primary Stats
  • • +(39–47)–(47–59) Fire Damage
    • +3 Random Magic Properties
  • Secondary Stats
  • • Increases damage against elites by 40–50%.
    • One of 3 Magic Properties (varies)

    • +192–245 Strength

    • +192–245 Intelligence

    • +192–245 Dexterity

  The Furnace
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  • Crown of the Primus

  

  Legendary Wizard Hat

  • Primary Stats
  • • +270–299 Intelligence
    • +3 Random Magic Properties
  • Secondary Stats
  • • Slow Time gains the effect of every rune.
    • Empty Socket
  Crown of the Primus
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  • Ring of Royal Grandeur

  

  Legendary Ring

  • Primary Stats
  • • Attack Speed Increased by 2.0–3.0%
    • +27–60 Life per Hit
    • +2 Random Magic Properties
  • Secondary Stats
  • • Reduces the number of items needed for set bonuses by 1 (to a minimum of 2).
    • One of 3 Magic Properties (varies)

    • +24–29 Dexterity

    • +24–29 Strength

    • +24–29 Intelligence

  Ring of Royal Grandeur

Typical Del Rasha, this build works as a frantic teleport-all-over-the-place as well as a chilled cautious strategic playstyle. Depending on the situation, you can use whatever suits best. This is a build for the solo Wizard.

you can of course intermix the Helm//Chest/Legs slot between Delsere's and Tal Rasha's pieces.

focus/restraint work well enough with piercing orb and meteor swarm, it deals a ton more damage than the mammoth hydra I used before meteor swarm. Needed to change it because mammoth hydra does not trigger F/R buff. Crown of Primus, 4/6 Delrasha and Nilfurs was not possible before 2.3 and this really rocks. CotP makes Slow Time just much better as a defensive option.

In this particular build I use a Ancient Parthan Defender with +20% cold damage. Since it is my only item with +elemental damage, slow time does cold damage, and adds a TR stack.

I like Molten Wildebeest's Gizzard but you can of course substitute it with any (damage) gem. Zei's and BotT are mandatory and too good to pass for this build.

The playstyle is a mix between aggressive Tal Rasha Sort of "port in and wreak havoc" but with the added security the Slow Time bubbles offer. There is a lot of stunning going on, so Ancient Parthana Defenders will skyrocket your defenses without much work.

EDIT: after reading the comments and some experimentation in game, there is one very nice option for this build: switch Evocation for Illusionist (passive skills). It was unknown to me that Slow Time was also affected by Illusionist and this works very well for a more offensive reckless playstyle.

This also allows to change Piercing Orb against something that you like better, my choice was Electrocute.

Stat priorities

Paragon Priorities

Speed is life, resource is quite important because Meteor Swarm is absolutely capable of running you dry if you don't watch your mana.

Stat priorities:

- Crit Damage / Chance are the most important by far. (keep those in a 10/1 ratio, as in +380% crit damage for 38% Crit chance. Use your paragon points to fine tune this. So if you have +400% chd and only 21% chc, then you should definitely choose chc over chd for your paragon points)

- Int, because damage and defense

- CD reduction helps with laying more slow time bubbles

- attack speed doesn't do much for this build. It's nice for having shorter casting animations, but nothing you should gear or skill for.

For defensive stats, this is my order:

- VIT. I feel it gives the best returns, also it inflates that toughness rating the most

- Regen. I love regen. But the Wildebeest Gizzard gives so much of it that I prefer VIT on my gear when possible.

- Armor.

- Life %. Since I don't exactly have lots of VIT on my gear this tends to net a lot less +life than pure VIT. Just take a look at your toughness rating and compare a +15% roll vs. ~700 VIT. In my case, VIT always won by a large margin.

- life per hit.