So I have been fortunate to get every piece of gear that a Wizard wants in ROS. I have about 75% CDR with 45% Explosive blast damage and have been T6 farming with wand of woh pretty easily. There are some affixes and times where I am too squishy since I am in melee and I know I will need to change for greater rifts.
I switched back to MM Conflag with Blackhole and am using tal rasha 4 set bonus. I use cold snap still for when things get close and for elemental exposure/meteors, but I just kite and keep at a distance. I have to say it is so easy to farm t6 and not die using MM instead of WOW. Serpent sparker with tal rasha meteors and perfect mirrorball is gonna be the way to go in 2.1 You can always stay at a distance and kite and the hydras will do the killing for us when mob density is too high and we stutter step.
Just because no one else did it, I want to add the following two cents to the discussion (not directed at either of you in particular, but just a general observation after reading many comments in recent days):
1) MM Conflag and WoW+EB are completely different playstyles (stationary, long-range damage spell that gets better over time and when mobs don't drop dead in an instant versus mobile, melee spell that works best if you kill everything really quick)
2) Whenever you make any claims about 2.1 please please please stop speaking in absolutes such as "this is how it's gonna be in 2.1". We are still miles away from seeing the final class balancing, GR difficulty balancing, we haven't even seen the new Firebird's set bonus yet (the current change on PTR is a joke and will not be the final one). What if they make the dot from Conflag non-stackable and add a Hexing Pants-like affix to the 6 piece Firebird's set? OH; all of the sudden WoW >>> MM. So pleeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaase phrase your "predictions" about 2.1 as such and don't talk in absolutes that might lead other players to throw away certain items just because they think "oh it might as well be rubbish in 2.1".
Not everything is simply "black and white" as it seems, and if anything ever is going to be black and white Blizzard will make it colorful. That's why it's on PTR, and that's why I said multiple times the PTR will be around for a bit longer than usual. We're talking about a current snapshot here, but we have no idea yet what the final build will look like.
After testing the current patch and reading about the current gems on data mine, i realise we need something awesome that other class envy.
We do not have anything that the other class wants to have in the current ptr patch.
1. Archon sucks
2. EB+Wow sucks compared to hydra
I tryed to suggested on the d3 forums for a new spell:
Name: Dragon Slayer
"Consumes the energy around you and blast the enemy in a 40yd radius with 10.000 weapon damage"
Cost: 100 Arcane power
Cooldown: 5 sec is decent
Then i promise other class envy the dragon slayer spell.
What Blayreau said and the fact with CDR and resource cost Reduction seems like a pretty overpowered spell. Assuming you could get to 50% CDR that's possibly a 100M aoe hit every 2.5 seconds. So I believe you're right with the assumption every other class would envy the spell. Also considering it doesn't rely upon a set of gear similar to a jade doctor. And considering that jade docs have to be in melee range to nuke things since it's a 16 yard radius and not a 40 yard radius...
I enjoy playing EB and WOW most for sure. If wizards did not take 30% more damage than other classes I could gem AR and maybe stay alive longer in GR.
Tal Rasha Meteor and EB are pretty insane damage outputs with 80-100% fire and near full cdr. Short fuse is strong and the conflag mm on PTR is raping mobs for me just as fast as my Hydras and Conflag. I die less using hydras
I have the Wand of Woh, Mirrorball, and new Depth Diggers on PTR, so I run a MM + EB build.
I'm here to say that having both is actually pretty awesome, especially MM with the new Depth Diggers.
I gave away the only Serpent Sparker I found 2 months ago because I saw no use for it. I wish I had kept it now to at least try it out, but no big deal, I guess I'll just have to find a SS and a WoW on live (my current WoW is PTR only, still quite bitter about that).
I switched back to MM Conflag with Blackhole and am using tal rasha 4 set bonus. I use cold snap still for when things get close and for elemental exposure/meteors, but I just kite and keep at a distance. I have to say it is so easy to farm t6 and not die using MM instead of WOW. Serpent sparker with tal rasha meteors and perfect mirrorball is gonna be the way to go in 2.1 You can always stay at a distance and kite and the hydras will do the killing for us when mob density is too high and we stutter step.
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/ZeN-1931/hero/16382058
My gear for explosive blast is perfect, my gear for this has a few flaws, but so much toughness it is ridiculous.
Just because no one else did it, I want to add the following two cents to the discussion (not directed at either of you in particular, but just a general observation after reading many comments in recent days):
1) MM Conflag and WoW+EB are completely different playstyles (stationary, long-range damage spell that gets better over time and when mobs don't drop dead in an instant versus mobile, melee spell that works best if you kill everything really quick)
2) Whenever you make any claims about 2.1 please please please stop speaking in absolutes such as "this is how it's gonna be in 2.1". We are still miles away from seeing the final class balancing, GR difficulty balancing, we haven't even seen the new Firebird's set bonus yet (the current change on PTR is a joke and will not be the final one). What if they make the dot from Conflag non-stackable and add a Hexing Pants-like affix to the 6 piece Firebird's set? OH; all of the sudden WoW >>> MM. So pleeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaase phrase your "predictions" about 2.1 as such and don't talk in absolutes that might lead other players to throw away certain items just because they think "oh it might as well be rubbish in 2.1".
Not everything is simply "black and white" as it seems, and if anything ever is going to be black and white Blizzard will make it colorful. That's why it's on PTR, and that's why I said multiple times the PTR will be around for a bit longer than usual. We're talking about a current snapshot here, but we have no idea yet what the final build will look like.
Tal Rasha Meteor and EB are pretty insane damage outputs with 80-100% fire and near full cdr. Short fuse is strong and the conflag mm on PTR is raping mobs for me just as fast as my Hydras and Conflag. I die less using hydras
I'm here to say that having both is actually pretty awesome, especially MM with the new Depth Diggers.
I gave away the only Serpent Sparker I found 2 months ago because I saw no use for it. I wish I had kept it now to at least try it out, but no big deal, I guess I'll just have to find a SS and a WoW on live (my current WoW is PTR only, still quite bitter about that).
I'm back, and a little salty.