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The Oculus source has a built-in Teleport cooldown reduction of between 1 and 4 seconds. If you get a 2+ second roll it would allow you to gear for Area Damage instead of CDR and still keep your Calamity rune.

I wanted to tie this build in with my TX speed build, which also requires 50% to 62% CDR.

CDR in this build is more meant to give you some level of damage even without In-Geom active. I feel that a minimum of 50% + cosmic strand will give faster clear speed than with 0% + Oculus.

I would not slot AD though. Last I heard from the 2.4 PTR was that area damage doesnt appy to the extra woh blasts.

Edited build title and summary mention. Forgot to factor in the 30s you have to spend in town with my calculations. Still a lot of DB to be had.

Updated guide to include Orb of Infinite Depth as an alternate option for defense. Due to random drops and not having a lot of mats, I'll be starting this build out with OID + Hoarder + Broken Crown in cube (instead of goldwrap or cosmic strand).

Quote from frizann»

Great guide!

I have 2 itens with lightning damage. So i get 40% lightning damage, but i cant reforge to get fire damage.

So it's worth changing explosive blast to lightning damage?

Thanks, glad you like it.

EB:Flash has a 3s base cooldown, this makes it much harder to manage AP. Plus it applies damage at a slower rate. It would be sub-optimal, that's why I don't recommend it on the guide. The biggest problem with flash + high CDR is AP management when In-Geom is down. You'd likely have to either drop CDR (run w/ oculus) and/or slot APoC. Another problem is Tal rasha elements. You may have to dedicate an additional skill slot to place an AP generator (of lightning or arcane type) with a Flash setup. Teleport already grants the Arcane, and Flash already grants the lightning. This would also be sub-optimal.

I suggest you run Chain Reaction until you get fire bracers and / or amulet. Yes, you aren't using the Lightning% but you need to think about gearing for this build long term if that's what you want to be running anyways. It's better to start gearing for 50%+ CDR then having to swap it up mid-season. You can always dial down the difficulty as needed until you find adequate gear.

Quote from Derzorvadur»

So my question is whether or not I am playing this wrong or to get clarification that I -need- 62% CDR in order to maintain Taeguk

You'll need at least about 60% CDR in my experience before Taeguk will begin to reliably stack, assuming you are using the num lock method. I suggest you check out this video to get that going. I use the numlock to cast diamond skin and EB. There is a slight delay between casts (somewhere in the range of .3 to .5 seconds on top of the ICD) but its better than I could do otherwise.

I noted that closer to 62% is better for Taeguk in the affixes section, but i did not specify that it was needed if slotting Taeguk, I'll update that right away.

Ease of farming is the reason I primarily excluded Taeguk from this particular build. I wanted to keep it as an option though, since it does give a good boost to both damage and defense. If you don't want to run with Taeguk, just gear for 50% CDR and slot a different gem.

A quick note on edits: I've updated the guide's estimated DB per run to include 15s of time on level transitions and loading screens.

Quote from XerikRyokian»

I do not understand why I am going down so quickly as my primary build has about half that toughness and resist yet i take 0 dmg in GRift 63 with it. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Most of the defense in this build comes from goldwrap. The buff from picking up gold only lasts 5 seconds so make sure you are moving enough to pick up nearby gold.

Also note that while the Tal Rasha 6 pc will refresh just from using or alternating two abilites once at max stacks, the 4 piece bonus will not. If you feel you need more defense when engaging elites, make sure you use all 4 elemental abilites to keep the full 4 piece bonus resistance active.

Use your stun and cc abilites when appropriate to interrupt mobs. Also take another look at the defensive swaps section of the guide, you can place GW and OID for even more defense.

Quote from Aleksej89»

What about Primordial Soul off-hand http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/primordial-soul

When you compare the damage bonus provided from primordial soul (20% debuff that has to be stacked on) with OID (20% multiplicative & 60% DR), it's just more efficient to run with the base EE and pick up the extra defense or mobility from this item slot.

When you're killing enemies so fast, you're lucky if you can get 3 stacks of EE on them anyways. It's still one of the best options for damage, that's why it's included. The only other passive I can think of that would have a comparable damage bonus is Conflagration.

As you level up paragon and get ancients that are augmented, you may not even need the damage from this passive anymore. Hope this helps.

Quote from Yokzy»

How do i not run out of energy? What's basic combo? I use Teleport+Diamind skin+EB, but should i spam EB? Or how much should i press this button?

Use DS and EB on cooldown. Putting these on autocast (numlock or otherwise) is recommended. You won't be able to maintain EB unless you are properly casting DS. APoC on source may also be needed, depending on your EB cast interval.

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Is autocast banable? (i personaly think its not, but still, who knows woot blizzord programmers made)

I've been using the numlock method since I started playing wizard with EB. Haven't heard of anyone getting banned for using it either.

I don't see how using a macro that does near the exact same thing as numlock would be bannable - but if you don't want to chance that, then I'd stick with the numlock. With numlock, use force stand to teleport or bind force move to something like scroll wheel.

The only real advantage a macro would give in this situation is more precise casting of EB/DS (slight increase in damage - we're talking about a gap of about .3s here) - which is not 100% required at TX in 2.4.