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Tal Rasha AOE Storm

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Skills

  • Disintegrate Chaos Nexus
  • Arcane Torrent Static Discharge
  • Blizzard Frozen Solid
  • Meteor Meteor Shower
  • Magic Weapon Deflection
  • Ice Armor Crystallize
  • Unwavering Will
  • Blur
  • Unstable Anomaly
  • Elemental Exposure

Items

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  • Legendary Gems

    • Bane of the Stricken
    • Bane of the Powerful
    • Taeguk

Kanai's Cube

  • Etched Sigil
  • Aquila Cuirass
  • Halo of Arlyse

Description: I've been looking for a fun AOE build that didn't revolve around Archon. Something that felt like a what a wizard build should feel like. I haven't yet tested the real limits of this build, but as is it's a competent and fun build for GR60 without any real investment into the grind. It's actually based on another build I found that used electrocute instead of arcane torrent. I felt like I was losing too much DPS during the resource building part of the build so I swapped the belt for Hergbrash's and replaced Convention of Elements. This also allowed me to use Aquila Cuirass in the cube, increasing my survivability and DPS at the same time. Replacing electrocute with arcane torrent also gave me the damage boost from the Etched Sigil and Deathwish since electrocute doesn't proc either of those.

Paragon Priorities

Core

Movement Speed
Vitality
Primary Stat
Maximum Resource

Offense

Critical Hit Chance
Critical Hit Damage
Attack Speed
Cooldown Reduction

Defense

Life
Armor
Resist All
Life Regeneration

Utility

Resource Cost Reduction
Life on Hit
Area Damage
Gold Find

Core

1. Movement speed for obvious reasons. Since this build lacks teleport or a lot of defensive abilities. Being able to move quickly and reposition is important.

2. Vitality simply for survivability again.

3. Primary stat for the damage of course.

4. Maximum resource not recommended because of the damage reduction of Aquila Cuirass


Offense, Defense and Utility paragon points are all pretty self explanatory. Offense focuses on damage first, Defense and Utility focus on survivability.

Build Guide

Notes: This build is a current work in progress and is likely to change, but it's been quite effective so far as is.


Rotation: The rotation is very simple. Quickly use Disintegrate, Arcane Torrent, Blizzard and Meteor to proc the damage boost from the Tal Rasha set bonus. Once you accumulated the 4 stacks. Wait a second to allow your resources to get back to 90% for the Aquila Cuirass damage reduction. After that simply swap between Disintegrate and Arcane Torrent back and forth constantly resetting the proc of the Tal Rasha set. You will not lose the channeling bonus of Taeguk while swapping between both channeled abilities. Obviously keep Ice Armor up at all times.

Most of your damage is coming from Meteor and Disintegrate. However Arcane Torrent can be used defensively to CC when needed on top of the existing CC from Blizzard and Bane of the Stricken


Tips: The biggest weakness of this build is like most channeling builds... being vulnerable to ranged attacks. Since you're best damage is done while standing still, rifts with a lot of ranged attackers will force you to reposition more than you want to. For that reason this becomes a much stronger build in a group. But it's still very capable as a solo build, but it really shines while grouped.


As far as stat priority goes on gear. It's pretty simple. Meteor damage when you can get it and then tweak for your own liking for damage or survivability. I personally recommend survivability over damage.