Build Guide
Hey boyz!
In my opinion/experience this build is currently one of the strongest possible wizard setups for pushing SOLO greater rifts!
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Basic game-play strategy:
- Slow Time both you & your enemies
- Cast Explosive Blast on CD (when enemies are in range)
- Use Teleport At-least every 5 seconds
- Maintain Ice Armor 24/7
- Use Arcane Orbit (every time you are at 5 stacks of Arcane Dynamo)
- Hold down Spectral Blade
Skill variations:
- Magic Weapon - Deflection (Replace Explosive blast - For a Cubed Furnace setup, Swapping out the orb of infinite depth)
Legendary Gem variations:
- Taeguk - Swap out Esoteric Alteration for max DPS setup (only recommended for super tryhards)
Kanai's cube variations:
- Furnace - Swap out Orb of infinite depth for a higher elite damage build, with less survivability/trash clear
Skill Passive variations:
- Unwavering Will (Swap out UA - for more Recovery but no cheat death)
FAQ:
Q: Why do we use Arcane Orbit?
A: For questionable reasons, it seems to do ALOT more damage than the rest of the AO runes!
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Fixed it <3
It's basically for redunancy and safety. If you are outside of a bubble you lose 50% damage reduction, 2000% on a bunch of spells, etc. Knockback, etc. Gives you some places for to run. Bubbles don't last forever, so if you lose your bubble, you are pretty much dead. Nothing worse than thinking you're doing a ton of damage to realize your slow time went away and your damage was pitiful. Or losing your slow time and dying. It does not stack, afaik.
Ok, so I don't know if it's something I'm doing but this build while incredibly powerful feels really slow to me, I managed to do grift 60 with it but I finished with 7 seconds left. I can actually run higher grifts with my t10 Explosive blast speed build. Is there something I'm missing?
It's because you hit it once, then you can keep spamming your Blades and other spells while it automatically hits stuff nearby. It synergizes well with Slow Time, which requires you to be in it as well as the monsters as well.
Question about Orb, Just got me an ancient death orb,
464-560 damage
964 int
9.5 crit
18 area damage
The 5th stat is what im rolling for. in the buttload of vit still worth it over shooting for the 15% arcane orb damage. right now i have it sitting at 997 vit.
Hey Quinn,
Im a casual player for the most part, but I luv this build works great. I'd like to make a suggestion for you to try and tell me what you think. I've replaced triumvirate with fragment of destiny and put the triumvirate on in the source slot... I got rid of the explosive blast and run magic weapon with the run that give 20% dmg boost. What interesting here is you get the 50% attack speed boost from the belt plus another 50% attack speed from the wand in the cube.. put that with the 200% increased dmg for spectral blades and WOW... Spectral blades is amazingly fast... and is also doing billions in dmg. Im only about 469 paragon right now.. have clear GR 60 solo with absolute ease... never been that way before for me.. What are your thoughts on this for Higher level GR.. is that extra bit of dmg reduction that you get from the eb really that necessary? or would the increase in dmg offset it.
SYRaptor
Seems great build but what about Ice Blades and Blur instead of Illusionist or Unstable Anomaly? Alos i wonder is this build better then DH Marauder build cos i started whit DH as main but maybe i just should start over whit Wizard?
how good is kanai Fragment of destiny + magic weapon?
To me it seems to be quite a bit better than exp blast, plus the magic weapon is boosting dmg even more. What I would be concerned with and haven't gotten feedback on yet... is whether or not giving up the orb and exp blast for fragment in the cube is worth it for higher level GR. There's a trade here for some additional Dmg reduction vs DPS. In many cases in TX and sub GR 50's my blades will kill the mobs sometimes before they'll trigger the orb explosions.. the blades have a longer range than orb with orbit rune.
At high Gr you need that extra 60% damage reduction from the source. Thats why its recommended for this build. The people who keep questioning its use and purpose aren't hitting content that actually needs the DR, but come 70+ that DR becomes much more important. The primary damage is from arcane orbit, blades are there to keep you topped off on resources and getting life shield.
Quin, would Crown of the Primus not be a viable option for cube with a build that revolves around slow time? Just curious on your thoughts.
Yep,
If u use Orb of Infinite Depth on char, you´ll need to replace it for a Triumvirate, Furnace on cube, and Magic Weapom instead of Explosions.
What about chc or chd on shoulders?
Quinn
Any idea what WD build would work well with this build if you run 2's?
Great build, thanks.
Just to clarify - in the Ring section "Stat Priority: CHD, CHC, AD" all of these stats over socked?
Hahahaha. From video - "punching them in the dick". Sorry, but THAT'S funny...
Question on gear stats... AD - Is that Area Damage or Arcane Damage?
I rolled a fresh 70 wizard last night, and used the gear I found over the past few
weeks with my other wizard, and with subpar gear, EASILY cleared GR60 with
several minutes remaining... Huge fan of Quin. Thanks for the build and
explanations by Quin and other posters... I've been away from D3 since the AH
was eliminated, but am now having fun again...
Truce
Why it's not a good build for group Grift?