I recently came back to D3 casually, I left at the end of july 2012, pre-paragon levels. When I was playing I remember how the melee wizard builds starting with spectral blades, meteor storm, frost nova, cm, etc were the cheap option. Eventually these migrated into CM/WW builds as patches continued and better understanding of proc rates by the community became common knowledge. At some point near perma archon builds became available and they were all expensive. Surviving in act3 inferno in Archon builds required better gear than I had available at the time.
Now I return 8 1/2 months later and find that a high uptime Archon build is in many ways cheaper to run than a CM/WW build. I got a Skorne for a few million that is a nice upgrade, a cheap Tyreal's Might chest and now am leveling on MP3-5 with a wrist friendly Archon build. (BTW, thank you Bagstone for the great gear guide and TheDemoKin for the Archon guide, very helpful). I am still experimenting and looking for good follower gear but I feel much happier about playing then when I left back in July 2012.
I also feel the AH isn't as bad as it was when I left. I found easy upgrades using buy it now on the AH and wasn't able to do that with the gold I had in July. I haven't spent even half of the 50M I had sitting on my wizard. Unfortunately since legend updates have occurred since I left all of my old gear is a mix of random rares and hard to sell.
I am looking forward to some paragon leveling and seeing what is next.
Welcome back! I came back several weeks ago (about 1-2) and I had less than 200k to my account. After some farming and help from people in these forums, I was able to start back on track. I don't know about you, but I'm very excited for the itemization update because I think it's got the potential to open up new builds for the Wizard (and other classes).
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Now I return 8 1/2 months later and find that a high uptime Archon build is in many ways cheaper to run than a CM/WW build. I got a Skorne for a few million that is a nice upgrade, a cheap Tyreal's Might chest and now am leveling on MP3-5 with a wrist friendly Archon build. (BTW, thank you Bagstone for the great gear guide and TheDemoKin for the Archon guide, very helpful). I am still experimenting and looking for good follower gear but I feel much happier about playing then when I left back in July 2012.
I also feel the AH isn't as bad as it was when I left. I found easy upgrades using buy it now on the AH and wasn't able to do that with the gold I had in July. I haven't spent even half of the 50M I had sitting on my wizard. Unfortunately since legend updates have occurred since I left all of my old gear is a mix of random rares and hard to sell.
I am looking forward to some paragon leveling and seeing what is next.