I pieced together a fire build, off the cuff, left over gear, and have been running this, just T1 soloingmind you, but it's a lot of chaos and fun, good damage condsidering my gears total crap so far, But it is a blast, hehe.
I toss a black hole/blazar which sucks em in and explodes, and before it even explodes I toss a meteor/molten impact, then mirror image mimics for 20% damage, and I use explosive blast/chain reaction and run in circles under their feet while all this is hitting, total chaos, and it melts everything BUT rift guardians. I gotta get my damage up.
No real defensive anything on the build, maybe explosive blast if you want to stretch it. Fan of knives on shoulders. I do have pretty good cooldown rates though, can about spam explosive constantly.
Crazy or what?
Anyone have a suggestion on maybe better passives? Maybe Audacity instead of Glass Cannon?
What kind of feedback do you expect? There are so many things that I would do differently but I don't know your options.
1. I wouldn't use either MMs or EB without their respective overpowered legendaries (Mirrorball and Wand of Woh)
2. Why don't you use something to dump your AP? You run only cooldown based abilities yet don't have much reduction.
3. Get rid of Glass Cannon, that's a relic from vanilla D3.
4. Get a RoRG and craft some set pieces (seen on your WD that you can)
Well, see, that's good feedback right off the bat. ( I am a DH player for a long time, Just branching out to the Wizard/WD mostly.)
1. EB is just plain fun for me, I use chain, with three hits at 320% I think? Someone said they use short fuse, dunno. I do not have either of those legs yet, I do see their benefit, just haven't seen anything drop yet, but I'm just getting going.
2. I have a helm with a socket I could increase CD with, but I lose 8% or better damage if I remember correctly, so I need a better helm for that. It does something to enable mirror images to multiply when they die I think?
3. Audacity for Glass Cannon I think right up front.
4. I have two RoRG's, and I think one's not really being effectively used. Aughild's might be best first use?
Is the Firebird set of any use to pursue, or should I double up on Aughild's and I dunno, Another elite damage/reduction set partial? Is there a crafted that's particularly good for Wizards?
1. EB is fun, I use it (with Short Fuse to be honest). But I have a Wand of Woh, so my EB deals 4x the damage that yours does, which renders your EB rather useless.
2. Don't know, which leg you are talking about. I can only advice an Aughild helm with int, crit chance and (depending on your build) either a socket or a relevant skill bonus. If you can't craft that, take a rare with those stats and use the other 2 Aughild pieces for the time being.
3. Yes. Also don't use Unwavering Will if you "run around like a chicken". Please take Blur (over Conflag). Dominance is also pretty nice on lower difficulties.
4. Yes. Everyone uses Aughild.
5. About your build, let me advice a beginner fire build that's as gear independent as it gets: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/wizard#WdjOSQ!cgiZ!acacZZ
Please change the armor to something else if you have no survival issues, because that -AP is pretty bad if you use Heat Wave. Gear wise you want Heat Wave skill damage and ressource cost reduction (Cindercoat!!). I have played such a build after aquiring a few fire pieces. I think, arcane is stronger with no gear at all. Learned that in 2.0.1 before ROS. For arcane just change the 2 damage skills to Arcane Torrent - Cascade and Electrocute - Surge of Power (edit) and two of the passives to Arcane Dynamo and Unwavering Will.
I'm not as squishy now and am doing better.
My CDR is now at 47%+, my EB does 320% for three hits each, and is right around a 3 second delay, so it's almost a constant spam if I want. Meteor is right at 8 seconds. I might adjust magic weapon again to more damage if I think energy armor is sufficient.
Stole two Aughild's off my WD that really didn't need them, found a rare better thanmy Leg Quex and I'm doing okay.
BTW, we were running t2 with Wizzy's and T3 when he switched to his WD. WAs fun.
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Finiar-1655/hero/42225504
I toss a black hole/blazar which sucks em in and explodes, and before it even explodes I toss a meteor/molten impact, then mirror image mimics for 20% damage, and I use explosive blast/chain reaction and run in circles under their feet while all this is hitting, total chaos, and it melts everything BUT rift guardians. I gotta get my damage up.
No real defensive anything on the build, maybe explosive blast if you want to stretch it. Fan of knives on shoulders. I do have pretty good cooldown rates though, can about spam explosive constantly.
Crazy or what?
Anyone have a suggestion on maybe better passives? Maybe Audacity instead of Glass Cannon?
I am trying to gather up some gear.
WD Season 8 https://www.diabloprogress.com/hero/finiar-1655/Kildare/84509816
Monk season 7 http://www.diabloprogress.com/hero/finiar-1655/MojoJoJo/42225505
DH season 6 http://www.diabloprogress.com/hero/finiar-1655/DeadShot/75655606
Angry Chicken http://www.diabloprogress.com/hero/finiar-1655/WhoDoVooDoo/68187610
What? Me worry?
1. I wouldn't use either MMs or EB without their respective overpowered legendaries (Mirrorball and Wand of Woh)
2. Why don't you use something to dump your AP? You run only cooldown based abilities yet don't have much reduction.
3. Get rid of Glass Cannon, that's a relic from vanilla D3.
4. Get a RoRG and craft some set pieces (seen on your WD that you can)
http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Sol77-2972/hero/66110450
1. EB is just plain fun for me, I use chain, with three hits at 320% I think? Someone said they use short fuse, dunno. I do not have either of those legs yet, I do see their benefit, just haven't seen anything drop yet, but I'm just getting going.
2. I have a helm with a socket I could increase CD with, but I lose 8% or better damage if I remember correctly, so I need a better helm for that. It does something to enable mirror images to multiply when they die I think?
3. Audacity for Glass Cannon I think right up front.
4. I have two RoRG's, and I think one's not really being effectively used. Aughild's might be best first use?
Is the Firebird set of any use to pursue, or should I double up on Aughild's and I dunno, Another elite damage/reduction set partial? Is there a crafted that's particularly good for Wizards?
WD Season 8 https://www.diabloprogress.com/hero/finiar-1655/Kildare/84509816
Monk season 7 http://www.diabloprogress.com/hero/finiar-1655/MojoJoJo/42225505
DH season 6 http://www.diabloprogress.com/hero/finiar-1655/DeadShot/75655606
Angry Chicken http://www.diabloprogress.com/hero/finiar-1655/WhoDoVooDoo/68187610
What? Me worry?
1. EB is fun, I use it (with Short Fuse to be honest). But I have a Wand of Woh, so my EB deals 4x the damage that yours does, which renders your EB rather useless.
2. Don't know, which leg you are talking about. I can only advice an Aughild helm with int, crit chance and (depending on your build) either a socket or a relevant skill bonus. If you can't craft that, take a rare with those stats and use the other 2 Aughild pieces for the time being.
3. Yes. Also don't use Unwavering Will if you "run around like a chicken". Please take Blur (over Conflag). Dominance is also pretty nice on lower difficulties.
4. Yes. Everyone uses Aughild.
5. About your build, let me advice a beginner fire build that's as gear independent as it gets: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/wizard#WdjOSQ!cgiZ!acacZZ
Please change the armor to something else if you have no survival issues, because that -AP is pretty bad if you use Heat Wave. Gear wise you want Heat Wave skill damage and ressource cost reduction (Cindercoat!!). I have played such a build after aquiring a few fire pieces. I think, arcane is stronger with no gear at all. Learned that in 2.0.1 before ROS. For arcane just change the 2 damage skills to Arcane Torrent - Cascade and Electrocute - Surge of Power (edit) and two of the passives to Arcane Dynamo and Unwavering Will.
http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Sol77-2972/hero/66110450
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Finiar-1655/hero/42225504
Made a few adjustments, dropped the mirror images, adjusted magic weapon to defelction and energy armor in place of mirror with prismatic.
I'm not as squishy now and am doing better.
My CDR is now at 47%+, my EB does 320% for three hits each, and is right around a 3 second delay, so it's almost a constant spam if I want. Meteor is right at 8 seconds. I might adjust magic weapon again to more damage if I think energy armor is sufficient.
Stole two Aughild's off my WD that really didn't need them, found a rare better thanmy Leg Quex and I'm doing okay.
BTW, we were running t2 with Wizzy's and T3 when he switched to his WD. WAs fun.
WD Season 8 https://www.diabloprogress.com/hero/finiar-1655/Kildare/84509816
Monk season 7 http://www.diabloprogress.com/hero/finiar-1655/MojoJoJo/42225505
DH season 6 http://www.diabloprogress.com/hero/finiar-1655/DeadShot/75655606
Angry Chicken http://www.diabloprogress.com/hero/finiar-1655/WhoDoVooDoo/68187610
What? Me worry?