Still have to get Tals Helm and Amulet but I'm working on it. My question is, why is it recommended to go with +% Fire Elemental Damage on Bracers and then Magefists/Taskers? I believe Blizzard does more damage than Mammoth Hydra so why not go +% Cold Elemental Damage and +% Blizzard Damage?
I have a pretty amazing Thunderfury and I don't think losing 800 weapon Damage for one extra Hydra is very smart if I switch to the Serpent Sparker...
it's because Hydra has the best DPS in the game once you reach the 4 AP/s Breakpoint and with the correct gear.
Not sure if you know or not. Do some research and you will see what you need to find gear wise, what skills to use and what affix's to look for. But a quick sum up, You need 7% Attack speed on your rings, bracers, Need a TnT with the right amount of AS on it, including the AS from the special affix, use bubble for 10% more AS and you need a Serpent Sparker with AS to reach the Break point without using Gogok. Your 3 gems you want to use.. Zies, bane of trapped, and Enforcer. But if you don't have the right amount of AS on gear to reach break point you can use Gogok over Enforcer.
Now you can only reach the 4 AP/s Breakpoint in group play with a WD using voodoo and Sader Law. Not sure if you play solo or group more. But in the end Hydra is the best build for both for the wiz. This is why you want to stack +Fire% and Hydra damage on your gear.
How does hydra damage hold up in dels/TR combo builds? Meaning to T&T and no fire damage on bracers? Would it be better to just run meteor shower?
I haven't fully tested this, but I get better damage when I do TR+TnT or Del+TnT than I do with TR+Del. But like I said, I haven't been able to fully test this setup because I'm still missing the Tal's neck.
How does hydra damage hold up in dels/TR combo builds? Meaning to T&T and no fire damage on bracers? Would it be better to just run meteor shower?
Depends on what you're running, for T6 and speed grifts i actually dropped both because the delay between casting and actually doing damage was driving me crazy. I instead threw on a little CDR and grabbed Black Hole Blazar, does decent damage and works wonders for pulling elites into your Slow Time bubble. A nice little side effect is that you can now focus more on casting Energy Twister which groups up all the trash for meteor hits and allows for better Slow Time coverage, assuming you're running seasons.
So I've been working on my Wizard for a few days now and currently have this gear; http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Kyle-1422/hero/61327817
Still have to get Tals Helm and Amulet but I'm working on it. My question is, why is it recommended to go with +% Fire Elemental Damage on Bracers and then Magefists/Taskers? I believe Blizzard does more damage than Mammoth Hydra so why not go +% Cold Elemental Damage and +% Blizzard Damage?
I have a pretty amazing Thunderfury and I don't think losing 800 weapon Damage for one extra Hydra is very smart if I switch to the Serpent Sparker...
it's because Hydra has the best DPS in the game once you reach the 4 AP/s Breakpoint and with the correct gear.
Not sure if you know or not. Do some research and you will see what you need to find gear wise, what skills to use and what affix's to look for. But a quick sum up, You need 7% Attack speed on your rings, bracers, Need a TnT with the right amount of AS on it, including the AS from the special affix, use bubble for 10% more AS and you need a Serpent Sparker with AS to reach the Break point without using Gogok. Your 3 gems you want to use.. Zies, bane of trapped, and Enforcer. But if you don't have the right amount of AS on gear to reach break point you can use Gogok over Enforcer.
Now you can only reach the 4 AP/s Breakpoint in group play with a WD using voodoo and Sader Law. Not sure if you play solo or group more. But in the end Hydra is the best build for both for the wiz. This is why you want to stack +Fire% and Hydra damage on your gear.
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/russell3773-1387/hero/22070364
also max Paragon to 10% Attack speed and you also need 6-7% on your tal chest, depending on how good your TnT is, sorry forgot about that one.
You can also use the Hydra calculator to help you see where you are.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/22021340/mammoth_hydra_aps_calc.html
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/russell3773-1387/hero/22070364
How does hydra damage hold up in dels/TR combo builds? Meaning to T&T and no fire damage on bracers? Would it be better to just run meteor shower?
Until I reach the breakpoint and find a suitable Serpent Sparker to replace Thunderfury, wouldn't it be better to run with Meteor Shower over Hydra?
I haven't fully tested this, but I get better damage when I do TR+TnT or Del+TnT than I do with TR+Del. But like I said, I haven't been able to fully test this setup because I'm still missing the Tal's neck.
Depends on what you're running, for T6 and speed grifts i actually dropped both because the delay between casting and actually doing damage was driving me crazy. I instead threw on a little CDR and grabbed Black Hole Blazar, does decent damage and works wonders for pulling elites into your Slow Time bubble. A nice little side effect is that you can now focus more on casting Energy Twister which groups up all the trash for meteor hits and allows for better Slow Time coverage, assuming you're running seasons.
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Chesterfried-1611/hero/61076011
Referring to pure progress builds. Non-season so unfortunately no twister pulls.