This so-called build has been around for a very long time. Besides that, what happened to the good ol' guides with exceptionally well written text, background information and no ridiculous pseudo-faq (bold and underlined makes me sick.)? This is nothing more than a well hidden advertisement for your twitch channel.
When did personal attacks in the form of poorly veiled insults become acceptable on the boards? For the record Google has posted that English is not his mother tongue and that he was doing his best with trying to express his views in writing.
His guide is to the point and covers everything in a concise manner, from gear, spells, passive choice and videos (ever hear of the expression a picture is worth 1000 words). If you don't like his guide don't read it, but when you write a better one please post it, I would love to provide you with a critique.
As for the Twitch comment...Twitch is one of the most accessible ways of posting videos, if he had posted it on YouTube you would have said the same thing. Do you attack every person who posts a guide in the forums with a link to twitch the same way?
If one attempts to write and post a guide, he/she should take at least a few minutes in order to format and correct the written information. Sure, eliminating all mistakes is hardly possible but a certain quality should be reachable for everyone. Twitch, YouTube etc. it is always the same: attention by using derivative content. We had many posters over the years here which did the same but, as I can see, you have been around here for a very long time and I guess you know that already. You would love to provide me with a critique of a guide which I have written? Have fun then.
Based on what I see in his post, he is trying his best to write a guide in a foreign tongue. I find that commendable and yes I agree he has more to learn but that will come with time. He even takes criticism well and is trying to improve the guide and accommodate readers based on their feedback (the bold and underlining).
That said, you seem to be reading something into this guide that I'm just not seeing. Where you see "attention by using derivative content", I see an honest attempt to shine a spotlight on the fact that, when your strip away all of the bullshit (Vyr's set, Archon, Meteors ect..ect), spamming MM conflag is the best way for a Wizard to DPS in higher torment levels. This guide if nothing else is a testament to how sad the Wizard class has become in ROS, as MrWinkel and Tampix seemed to have figure out by reading it.
If his true intention was to drive traffic to his twitch site, I would have at least expected a donate button.
As for your guide I'm not sure if you're trying to troll me or not. But if you want an honest assessment I have no problems providing you one either via PM or in game, my tag is BykeMG#1863 (Americas), as providing you one in my reply would only detract from Google thread further.
Anyway if you don't play HC you don't know meaning of toughness.
Off topic: this is a line that vexes me everywhere I go. It's like... if someone plays Hardcore (exclusively or not), they're automatically better and more knowledgeable players in and out than anyone who voluntarily chooses not to play Hardcore for whatever reason. Huh?
Toughness in Hardcore is the same as Toughness in Softcore. It's not like there's a different formula used for EHP calculations depending on game mode. Damage reduction calculations are done the same way no matter what gear or class you use. It's just that most Softcore players forgo the necessary mitigation stats that many Hardcore players employ for obvious reasons.
Item Requirement
(can just copy my item in my profile for best end game gear for this build) Magefist
Andies
Cindercoat
Cain's Pants&boots
Any high DPS weapon (prefer Sankis or a 2.3kdps TF)
Fire Soj
Aughild : Chest,Bracer,Shoulders
Belt : Fleeting Strap or WH or Harrington
Offhand : Mirror ball with 10CC
Any high CC/CD ammy with IAS or Fire is ok
2 Unity 1 for your follower and 1 for you
That is your Wiz and the following is based on your account, the quote and the text.
Anderial's Visage, 2x Aughild, Mage Fist, Witching Hour, SoJ/Unity/RROG, Mirror Ball, amulet and Weapon are all items that makes sense.
However Cindercoat and Cain's are two items I highly disagree with for this spec.
With Cindercoat you are using a primary,in order to gain 15-20% fire skills, and wasting a secondary. Further more this forces you to use Aughild Bracers which offers NO legendary affixes. Trading the Cindercoat for Aughild chest and getting Strongarm is a much better setup, even for solo play.
Results:
- 15-20% fire skill damage
- Resource reduction
+ Reduces damages from elites by 11.0%
+ Strong Arm secondary, resulting in Black Hole further increasing the damage by 25-30% each time you use black hole.
In my gear I have absolutely no issues with anything that isn't elite, with a very few extreme exceptions on T6, so that means I will always have black hole up for elites. So that results in 11% LESS damage taken, and about 10% more damage against elites and targets that I use black hole on.
Using Cain for endgame is ridiculous in my opinion, unless IAS is beyond every other stat, and it is NOT for this build.
An easy options are Asheara's to gain 100 AR and 20% life instead of 8% IA or Vyr/Firebird for 500int.
However by favourite to use for these two slots are Blackthorne, because it is much better than anything else. 2 items with RROG gives you 250vit, 10% damage against elites and 10% damage less damage from elites. Blackthorne boots are always terrible rolled, due to 3 fixed primaries, so that means you will always end up with armor and movement% on them, but what you loose is nothing compared to what you gain. The movement also frees up a few paragon points.
Comparing Blackthorne to Cain:
- 8% IAS
- +XP and MF
- 1 primary on boots
+ 10% damage against elites
+ 10% less damage from elites
+ 250vit
Damn, vanilla CM Shocknados was so much fun back then
That said, you seem to be reading something into this guide that I'm just not seeing. Where you see "attention by using derivative content", I see an honest attempt to shine a spotlight on the fact that, when your strip away all of the bullshit (Vyr's set, Archon, Meteors ect..ect), spamming MM conflag is the best way for a Wizard to DPS in higher torment levels. This guide if nothing else is a testament to how sad the Wizard class has become in ROS, as MrWinkel and Tampix seemed to have figure out by reading it.
If his true intention was to drive traffic to his twitch site, I would have at least expected a donate button.
As for your guide I'm not sure if you're trying to troll me or not. But if you want an honest assessment I have no problems providing you one either via PM or in game, my tag is BykeMG#1863 (Americas), as providing you one in my reply would only detract from Google thread further.
Toughness in Hardcore is the same as Toughness in Softcore. It's not like there's a different formula used for EHP calculations depending on game mode. Damage reduction calculations are done the same way no matter what gear or class you use. It's just that most Softcore players forgo the necessary mitigation stats that many Hardcore players employ for obvious reasons.
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That is your Wiz and the following is based on your account, the quote and the text.
Anderial's Visage, 2x Aughild, Mage Fist, Witching Hour, SoJ/Unity/RROG, Mirror Ball, amulet and Weapon are all items that makes sense.
However Cindercoat and Cain's are two items I highly disagree with for this spec.
With Cindercoat you are using a primary,in order to gain 15-20% fire skills, and wasting a secondary. Further more this forces you to use Aughild Bracers which offers NO legendary affixes. Trading the Cindercoat for Aughild chest and getting Strongarm is a much better setup, even for solo play.
Results:
- 15-20% fire skill damage
- Resource reduction
+ Reduces damages from elites by 11.0%
+ Strong Arm secondary, resulting in Black Hole further increasing the damage by 25-30% each time you use black hole.
In my gear I have absolutely no issues with anything that isn't elite, with a very few extreme exceptions on T6, so that means I will always have black hole up for elites. So that results in 11% LESS damage taken, and about 10% more damage against elites and targets that I use black hole on.
Using Cain for endgame is ridiculous in my opinion, unless IAS is beyond every other stat, and it is NOT for this build.
An easy options are Asheara's to gain 100 AR and 20% life instead of 8% IA or Vyr/Firebird for 500int.
However by favourite to use for these two slots are Blackthorne, because it is much better than anything else. 2 items with RROG gives you 250vit, 10% damage against elites and 10% damage less damage from elites. Blackthorne boots are always terrible rolled, due to 3 fixed primaries, so that means you will always end up with armor and movement% on them, but what you loose is nothing compared to what you gain. The movement also frees up a few paragon points.
Comparing Blackthorne to Cain:
- 8% IAS
- +XP and MF
- 1 primary on boots
+ 10% damage against elites
+ 10% less damage from elites
+ 250vit
Here is my Wiz:http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Bllets-2974/hero/2964269 (Group spec, already another Wiz with EE)