If you enjoy playing wizards and you'd like to roll them as your seasonal character. I wanted to share with you that Support wizard is a thing and it's reliable.
Where's toxin!? Why no EB + Conflag? Why snarl/impede pulls and strongarm buffs with Halo of Arlyle ? (I've never found arlyle setups to be optimal for zwiz - buff costs two active skills and a ring, has low uptime, and lovks out other buffs and pulls)
I've used a similar spec and it holds meta promise and is quite nice for speeds.
Where's toxin!? Why no EB + Conflag? Why snarl/impede pulls and strongarm buffs with Halo of Arlyle ? (I've never found arlyle setups to be optimal for zwiz - buff costs two active skills and a ring, has low uptime, and lovks out other buffs and pulls)
I've used a similar spec and it holds meta promise and is quite nice for speeds.
Toxin? the barbs takes it
EB not needed since i'm procing conflagration with twisters and EB would be a loss for the group , there aren't a lot of space for spells. (Twisters lower de cooldown of blackhole significantly so you can spam blackhole to use event horizon)
Snarl/implede ?????
2 actives ? no you need you'd take ice armor either way and frost nova is only for the buff not for the ring
I have tested it and you'd have to show me more in depth what's on your setup but it doesn't look better
Fire twister puts mobs in random positions after the first pull (not a huge deal, but better off with WW and fire EB imo).
Especially in the version with no teleport (also a substantial problem in my view as you can't aid in agro), halo will freeze things and ramp cc resistance. In addition you are snaring them with iceblink. Area dmg matters. Pulling monsters matters. Needlessly ramping cc resistance and hampering pulls is a problem for party edps.
Just my opinions having played a lot of zdps wiz specs and pull specs.
This build is pretty optimised I can assure you , we've tested it with an unoptimised group (really unoptimised) and it was really great. It would replace the monk , but even then , it could take the place of the barb but it would be a bit less effective since IP on gargs is really nice.
But, i've found that this build : http://www.d3planner.com/296790524 (optimise it the way you want) is really good as a 2nd dps in groups.
With WD the twister buffs 6% crit (and helps us with our cooldowns) but with monk playing mangle it increases fire damage by 15% so the wizard buffing is pretty insane!
if any dps build (now after the WD nerf) for the wiz has a chance to jump into the 4man meta it's still related to the Swami/Fazula (Archon) Buff and make it work with either FB or Tal/Vyr. It's still a seperate 300%++ multiplier (up to 700-800% on average during double stacks)
Ideas that come to my mind are Mammoth Hydra and still ET (Gen Monk will anyway be in a party for RG kill) since Chantodo won't be strong enough.
Need a skill that can be utilized also during archon so I think it must be Hydra or probably nothing comes close to other classes dps specs.
Then again the Serpent Sparker is just so weak nowadays. Would at least need a Hydra Skill dmg boost not just the extra cast.
If you enjoy playing wizards and you'd like to roll them as your seasonal character. I wanted to share with you that Support wizard is a thing and it's reliable.
For speeds : http://www.d3planner.com/872509914
for pushing with oculus :
http://www.d3planner.com/728811818
for pushing without oculus :
http://www.d3planner.com/604340987
(swap thunderfury for solanium if barbs already has it)
I have personnaly tested all those builds and they work. on ptr we have done a Gr92 in 11 minutes with an unoptimised group!
don't judge a book by it's cover boys
So fellow wizards, enjoy!
Double check those links. I think two are broken.
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Where's toxin!? Why no EB + Conflag? Why snarl/impede pulls and strongarm buffs with Halo of Arlyle ? (I've never found arlyle setups to be optimal for zwiz - buff costs two active skills and a ring, has low uptime, and lovks out other buffs and pulls)
I've used a similar spec and it holds meta promise and is quite nice for speeds.
Toxin? the barbs takes it
EB not needed since i'm procing conflagration with twisters and EB would be a loss for the group , there aren't a lot of space for spells. (Twisters lower de cooldown of blackhole significantly so you can spam blackhole to use event horizon)
Snarl/implede ?????
2 actives ? no you need you'd take ice armor either way and frost nova is only for the buff not for the ring
I have tested it and you'd have to show me more in depth what's on your setup but it doesn't look better
Toxin stacks.
Fire twister puts mobs in random positions after the first pull (not a huge deal, but better off with WW and fire EB imo).
Especially in the version with no teleport (also a substantial problem in my view as you can't aid in agro), halo will freeze things and ramp cc resistance. In addition you are snaring them with iceblink. Area dmg matters. Pulling monsters matters. Needlessly ramping cc resistance and hampering pulls is a problem for party edps.
Just my opinions having played a lot of zdps wiz specs and pull specs.
didn't know about toxin stacking , it's no problem , we can easily swap goguk for toxin , we have way a lot enough cdr
Vox do you have any builds for zdps? And do you think it will be viable for decent lvl grs this season/ what support would it replace barb or monk?
l4Dream
This build is pretty optimised I can assure you , we've tested it with an unoptimised group (really unoptimised) and it was really great. It would replace the monk , but even then , it could take the place of the barb but it would be a bit less effective since IP on gargs is really nice.
But, i've found that this build : http://www.d3planner.com/296790524 (optimise it the way you want) is really good as a 2nd dps in groups.
With WD the twister buffs 6% crit (and helps us with our cooldowns) but with monk playing mangle it increases fire damage by 15% so the wizard buffing is pretty insane!
This is what I would use for 2 man (while it may not be the best for top leaderboards, it's still pretty good) : http://www.d3planner.com/993856026
Edit: particularly playing with raiment generator monk
FB EB.
MW ignite, SB flame, EB with WoW.
Try it.
if any dps build (now after the WD nerf) for the wiz has a chance to jump into the 4man meta it's still related to the Swami/Fazula (Archon) Buff and make it work with either FB or Tal/Vyr. It's still a seperate 300%++ multiplier (up to 700-800% on average during double stacks)
Ideas that come to my mind are Mammoth Hydra and still ET (Gen Monk will anyway be in a party for RG kill) since Chantodo won't be strong enough.
Need a skill that can be utilized also during archon so I think it must be Hydra or probably nothing comes close to other classes dps specs.
Then again the Serpent Sparker is just so weak nowadays. Would at least need a Hydra Skill dmg boost not just the extra cast.
My mistake, misunderstood thread about group only.