@posters above me: I agree that Jaetch seems to have INSANE LUCK when it comes to legs (full Tal's set, Moonlight Ward with 10% crit) - but what makes this really work aren't the legendaries, but 1) good movement and awareness during the fight and 2) insanely high mitigation.
It's something that most wizards could achieve as well; you don't necessarily need to go for marquise diamonds, but this just goes to show how powerful a wizard can become if you don't go for glass canon but stack resistances and other defensive stats. If you'd replicate that, the kill speed would just be a bit lower, that's it. None of his legendaries grants him immunity or w/e.
@Jaetch: Have you tried to tank Ghom on T6? I've been looking for a build/defense gear set to use my WoW on Ghom, but since I need to be in close range I need insane tanking gear. I can fight Ghom on T6 w/o lifesteal while standing in his farts - if there's a tank. But I wonder if it's possible to ramp up mitigation and LoH to really tank Ghom as a wizard. I've tried a setup with similar mitigation as yours, more LoH, and proc-efficient spells. I haven't tried Belial yet, maybe I should've gone for that guy...
Yeah, Ghom goes poof pretty easily. I do end up having to walk out of his farts when my HP dips below 50% or so, just to reposition and resume channeling. My LOH and passive regen heals me back to full during the "fart-less" period of time. The adds that Ghom spawns also give me a free 6K heal from my LAK.
I recently swapped out Icicle Familiar for Frost Nova - Frozen Mist (thanks to my clan mate EmperorMao). Since Frozen Mist lasts 8 seconds, that's one Comet from the Tal set on cast, and one more Comet upon Frozen Mist's expiration. I also have 40% cooldown reduction, so it's pretty much pseudo perma-cold (except when in Archon form).
Some of us only get Butcher's Sickles without sockets, so I wouldn't complain about getting a Thunderfury! I am not sure whether you play 24 hours a day or just have unbelievable luck. Do you do the lottery? Hah.
I actually don't play as much as the standard hardcore gamer. I put in a solid 2-3 hours of intense grinding (as in mid-high Torment levels actually killing things in hopes of loot drops) each day. These days I spend most of my time running through Halls of Agony on low Torment levels, speeding through (thank you Warzechian Armguards), ignoring all trash, killing only elites, and popping all the Torture Tools for common debris. That I also do for a couple of hours at a time. On a good day, I'll put in 5-6 hours or so of farming.
If I remember correctly, I got my Tal Rasha's Brace and Nemesis Bracers during one of these debris runs. Obviously my crafts all came from them, too. I must have burned through about 10,000 Exquisite Essences already, likely much more.
Very good. Ok your gear is godly but still, your whole setup and research contributes to the community! I had some reservations on your latest video since I saw you using life steal weapon (and I commented that on your youtube channel) but now things are changed.
You still use Cascade even to bosses? Thought Disruprion might be better for single target fights. Do you feel that arcane torrent is the only spec that can do so well in such high torment levels?
Thanks for the Ghom runs. But yeah, you're running around and repositioning, which implies that on high Torment builds any kind of melee (or at least mid-ranged) wizard seems to be out of the question, and that makes me sad :-( I can stand in the cloud 100% of the time if Ghom doesn't attack me, but his hits are just too hard to sustain even with high mit & LoH.
Oh, and a TF. Of course. Phoenixscar and I have been playing at least as much as you (if what you say is true even more) and besides my WoW and his Moonlight Ward (just yesterday) we haven't found shit, one absolutely useless Tal's offhand, so essentially 0/4 Tal's, 0 TFs, and so on... *weep*...There's something about the mechanics of RNG that you know that we don't
Why do you need to force melee wizard to such high torrent levels? I mean, that used to be the case with on CM. Pure melee wizards with no cheesing were never vailable above some difficulty levels! This is normal
Well, my favorite spells (Spectral Blades, Wave of Force, Explosive Blast) just happen to work in close range only and my favorite passives support close range+tanking (Audacity, Unwavering Will) as well. It would be kinda sad that just because I like these spells I'm forced to play on low Torment levels all the time, wouldn't it? :-)
Well, my favorite spells (Spectral Blades, Wave of Force, Explosive Blast) just happen to work in close range only and my favorite passives support close range+tanking (Audacity, Unwavering Will) as well. It would be kinda sad that just because I like these spells I'm forced to play on low Torment levels all the time, wouldn't it? :-)
Here's Melkor doing the same thing I did (he started this whole thing, actually, :P).
No audio, though. But yeah, your favorite Spectral Blade, Explosive Blast + Wand of Woh. No life steal. No APoC.
Each of Belial's explosions also take him to about half health, so his level of mitigation is very similar to mine.
Spec: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/wizard#UemjSO!cbZ!YcbZYc
Buffed stats:
- 262K DPS
- 1683 to 1906 resistance
- 5265 armor
- 105K HP
- 2.3K life regeneration
- 1.5K LOH
- 2K life after kill
- 17K potion/globe bonus
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@posters above me: I agree that Jaetch seems to have INSANE LUCK when it comes to legs (full Tal's set, Moonlight Ward with 10% crit) - but what makes this really work aren't the legendaries, but 1) good movement and awareness during the fight and 2) insanely high mitigation.
It's something that most wizards could achieve as well; you don't necessarily need to go for marquise diamonds, but this just goes to show how powerful a wizard can become if you don't go for glass canon but stack resistances and other defensive stats. If you'd replicate that, the kill speed would just be a bit lower, that's it. None of his legendaries grants him immunity or w/e.
@Jaetch: Have you tried to tank Ghom on T6? I've been looking for a build/defense gear set to use my WoW on Ghom, but since I need to be in close range I need insane tanking gear. I can fight Ghom on T6 w/o lifesteal while standing in his farts - if there's a tank. But I wonder if it's possible to ramp up mitigation and LoH to really tank Ghom as a wizard. I've tried a setup with similar mitigation as yours, more LoH, and proc-efficient spells. I haven't tried Belial yet, maybe I should've gone for that guy...
I recently swapped out Icicle Familiar for Frost Nova - Frozen Mist (thanks to my clan mate EmperorMao). Since Frozen Mist lasts 8 seconds, that's one Comet from the Tal set on cast, and one more Comet upon Frozen Mist's expiration. I also have 40% cooldown reduction, so it's pretty much pseudo perma-cold (except when in Archon form).
Well, I also just got this earlier:
Oh, perfect. Life after kill, just what I need. And, oh, cooldown reduction? I guess that works for Archon.
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Running ~221K unbuffed sheet DPS.
Ghom has 447,509,216 HP on T6. Best kill time so far was 1 min, 53 seconds.
Comes out to around a 21x multiplier (~4.9M eDPS, with limited repositioning to get out of multiple fart stacks).
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If I remember correctly, I got my Tal Rasha's Brace and Nemesis Bracers during one of these debris runs. Obviously my crafts all came from them, too. I must have burned through about 10,000 Exquisite Essences already, likely much more.
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You still use Cascade even to bosses? Thought Disruprion might be better for single target fights. Do you feel that arcane torrent is the only spec that can do so well in such high torment levels?
Oh, and a TF. Of course. Phoenixscar and I have been playing at least as much as you (if what you say is true even more) and besides my WoW and his Moonlight Ward (just yesterday) we haven't found shit, one absolutely useless Tal's offhand, so essentially 0/4 Tal's, 0 TFs, and so on... *weep*...There's something about the mechanics of RNG that you know that we don't
No audio, though. But yeah, your favorite Spectral Blade, Explosive Blast + Wand of Woh. No life steal. No APoC.
Each of Belial's explosions also take him to about half health, so his level of mitigation is very similar to mine.
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