I don't understand all the complains, what did you expect? This happens with every new game after release, they need to balance those overpowered spells or otherwise there is no build diversity.
When Diablo 2 came out a lot of things get nerfed and you could not even change your build! So a lot of people got stuck with bad abilities.
Second other classes are getting nerfed/balanced too. It's not wizard only.
@Hoolydruid
Do you use 1H or 2H weapon? I currently have a 1H with approx 800 dps and a 2H with 1200 dps. I use the 1H because of the stats, even tho my dps is not as good.
Currently I get about 35k dps (buffed) and I am at Balial in Inferno. It feels solid, but I can't get Balial to Phase 3 without spawning adds. Which makes the 2nd phase difficult.
As far as I can tell it does not. The Venom Weapon does not proc with every spell. I think it's just working with Signatures spells (needs more testing)
Reading all this, i get quite confused by how ppl explain it, here is mine:
Lets say, you have 30k HP -> 35% is 10.5k dmg taken on a hit over 10.5k.
Mob x hits you in the shield (since thats in front of your face), 35% goes trough, 65% gets absorbed.
As the absorb is in this case capped at 30k, this means that 65% of the dmg is 30k, that leaves a total hit of about 46k to reach the cap.
As far as i see it, any point of dmg over that 46k mark is added directly to the 35% dmg that goes trough.
so if mob y hits you for 56k (46k + 10k) you will take 10.5k+10k=20.5k dmg.
conclusion:
A hit of 235% of your max hp will 1 shot you, a hit of 153% of your max HP will be reduced to 35% of your max hp and in the most optimal situation you can take a total of 335% (153%+153%+29%) of you max HP in dmg without any healing in 3 hits and still live.
Reading your post makes me confused ;-)
It is really simple, if you have 30k HP and something hits you for 60k+ the armor won't work and you get 1hitted.
The shield activates at 35% of your HP and deactivates at 200% of your HP
Just found this screenshot on a German Diablo 3 Fansite. Could be another sign of the release date.
I think this built gets burned on the Diablo3 CD's and we see another batch to download on the release date itself.
Hope that's not already old news for you...I couldn't find any posts on diablofans about it.
When Diablo 2 came out a lot of things get nerfed and you could not even change your build! So a lot of people got stuck with bad abilities.
Second other classes are getting nerfed/balanced too. It's not wizard only.
And yes, I play a wizard too.
Do you use 1H or 2H weapon? I currently have a 1H with approx 800 dps and a 2H with 1200 dps. I use the 1H because of the stats, even tho my dps is not as good.
Currently I get about 35k dps (buffed) and I am at Balial in Inferno. It feels solid, but I can't get Balial to Phase 3 without spawning adds. Which makes the 2nd phase difficult.
Reading your post makes me confused ;-)
It is really simple, if you have 30k HP and something hits you for 60k+ the armor won't work and you get 1hitted.
The shield activates at 35% of your HP and deactivates at 200% of your HP
Wizard/Electrocute
Think it should be: Increases the number of enemies hit to 6, up from 2
Did you already see those Ketchup Cain's?
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.355428301145573.79692.151544258200646&type=1
It's also a contest to win a beta key, pretty amazing what some people did!
Just found this screenshot on a German Diablo 3 Fansite. Could be another sign of the release date.
I think this built gets burned on the Diablo3 CD's and we see another batch to download on the release date itself.
Hope that's not already old news for you...I couldn't find any posts on diablofans about it.
Don't you have to do a bunch of quests beforehand which results in experience and level ups?
I will edit this farther when I have more ideas & time