I'm still as skeptical about using this as I was a few days ago with another crit post, the inital damage is too low, Disintegrate/AO/Meteor/RoF all do more than this even if they don't crit and all but Meteor use less ap... Whoever said it earlier was right.... Ice armor does suck for this, Lightning armor with alabaster could get 319% weapon damage crit as well. Mirror images without illusionist I think isn't nearly as good.... The only smart thing I see in that build is RoF and Diamond skin which are strong enough that they don't need the jigsaw puzzle of maybes disguised as a "strategy."
Stark Winter Blzzard is 900% wpn dmg in 22 yards.
And its Wpn Dmg per AP is more than Meteor.
Arcane Orb + Arcane Torrent is better, but its pretty much better than everything all the time.
Seems a bit fishy to me...we are obviously missing information.
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I think 80% crit is enough, unless there are diminishing returns, which I don't think there will be in PvM. I wasn't aware of this rune, but I was aware of alabaster rune on storm armor. Obvious synergy is obvious, so here's a pretty sweet build: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/wizard#dlOZgi!YdV!babZaa
Since the synergy is so good, I favored spamming blizzard over a harder-hitting blizzard, hence the gold familiar. Alabaster nova is overkill, but crimson seems super good for this build as does gold, which could keep everything locked down nearly all the time for really dense packs of mobs to blizzard.
Kind of just glossed over the responses, but my main criticism is that in order to guarantee a crit on Blizzard you probably don't even need the Frost Nova proc. Just on the beta alone, on my Barbarian with 5% crit from passives I had 11-12% crit, so seeing as thats level 13 I'm sure you'll get more than 10% more crit by level 13. Either way, its interesting to see that crits can be essentially guaranteed from runes and skills alone.
I think 80% crit is enough, unless there are diminishing returns, which I don't think there will be in PvM. I wasn't aware of this rune, but I was aware of alabaster rune on storm armor. Obvious synergy is obvious, so here's a pretty sweet build: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/wizard#dlOZgi!YdV!babZaa
Since the synergy is so good, I favored spamming blizzard over a harder-hitting blizzard, hence the gold familiar. Alabaster nova is overkill, but crimson seems super good for this build as does gold, which could keep everything locked down nearly all the time for really dense packs of mobs to blizzard.
Shocking aspect says that it is per cast though.
So it might only proc one time via blizzard, or it might proc 1 time per blizzard per mob.
Either way it seems ridiculously unlikely that it will proc 3x per mob.
+AP on crit is in the same boat.
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We simply don't know what is the best dps build, because it depends on how much AP/regen is possible, how and if the same skills can stack multiple times, how spells such as Mirror Image act (smart or stupid)... among other things, like how difficult Inferno is.
Most of this is merely speculation as of now.
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We simply don't know what is the best dps build, because it depends on how much AP/regen is possible, how and if the same skills can stack multiple times, how spells such as Mirror Image act (smart or stupid)... among other things, like how difficult Inferno is.
Most of this is merely speculation as of now.
Really, how did you figure that out? Not doubting you, just curious.
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A QUADRILLION MAGIC FIND is worthless if you can't kill shit!
Stark Winter Blzzard is 900% wpn dmg in 22 yards.
And its Wpn Dmg per AP is more than Meteor.
Arcane Orb + Arcane Torrent is better, but its pretty much better than everything all the time.
Seems a bit fishy to me...we are obviously missing information.
A QUADRILLION MAGIC FIND is worthless if you can't kill shit!
Since the synergy is so good, I favored spamming blizzard over a harder-hitting blizzard, hence the gold familiar. Alabaster nova is overkill, but crimson seems super good for this build as does gold, which could keep everything locked down nearly all the time for really dense packs of mobs to blizzard.
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So it might only proc one time via blizzard, or it might proc 1 time per blizzard per mob.
Either way it seems ridiculously unlikely that it will proc 3x per mob.
+AP on crit is in the same boat.
A QUADRILLION MAGIC FIND is worthless if you can't kill shit!
We simply don't know what is the best dps build, because it depends on how much AP/regen is possible, how and if the same skills can stack multiple times, how spells such as Mirror Image act (smart or stupid)... among other things, like how difficult Inferno is.
Most of this is merely speculation as of now.
Really, how did you figure that out? Not doubting you, just curious.
A QUADRILLION MAGIC FIND is worthless if you can't kill shit!