Channeling skills do constant damage, and Life Steal does not suffer from "proc-i-ties", so you gain constant life in return. It works well with Blizzard (if you do some damage) and all channeling as the above.
Life Steal is also great with Archon, which is not the topic of this forum topic.
Oh, I didn't see that your weapon is without Life Steal. This is a no-go for channeling builds like this one.
Life Steal works better for Black Ice, Archon and Disintegrate builds than Life on Hit. Life on Hit works better for WW-based builds. In special because Black Ice does a lot of damage, and it can recover a ton of life.
LS on Weapon + Magic Weapon with Blood Magic would improve your survival. More armor too. Should I suggest you to try Ice Armor / Crystallize for a while and see if you can survive a little more ?
No gear advice from me, as I'm not an expert at all. But I think your weapon is a good one, and overall your gear could use a rework. Since you are not using a slow weapon, you must remain with the Stormcrow or a source with APoC, and, if you can, increase your critical hit chance, so APoC procs more often.
I've seem a video with Archon + Arcane Destruction killing Ghom (I don't remember the MP) only with the boom-transformation.
It's a hell of an explosion.
I think Archon would help you a lot with this build, it busts your EHP high and your DPS also. And Archon is fun, with LASERS, LASERS EVERYWHERE (tm).
OK, FOUND THE VIDEO:
(sorry for shouting, but it's fun)
But my 2 cents: I like slow time and meteor. I think a build focused on "Death Raining From The Sky" suits our Wizardry power. Although not very effective for the game, I think its fun to see a huge meteor blasting on the heads of the demons while they're being frozen...
18 APoC and didnt worked for me , sadface ... does rubberbanding prevent u from procing APoC ? i dont see any AP spikes
^^ I actually had some rubberbanding issues last night, but that did not made my APoC suffer. I'm playing with a bad ping of about 350~400ms (Net Virtua).
How much Critical Chance you had when playing with 18 APoC ? Your current gear has 47.5% Critical Chance, that should be enough.
EDIT to add the quote, since I'm on a new page.
0.5 less Crit ... i tried with meteors , RoF and blizzard
Update on APoC issue: It may be the attack speed. I changed my wand today to a faster 1.55 Slorak Madness, and now I'm running out of AP during the fight. Channeling spends more AP if you have higher attack speed.
So far, my test is preliminar, but with 20 APoC, 46% Critical Chance and 1.80 Attacks Per Second, I can't sustain any channeling build (neither Black Ice or Disintegrate).
EDIT: It's the attack speed. I've tested with a Mace (1.4 APS total, including my attack speed gear) and a Wand (1.55 APS total, including my attack speed gear). With the above stats, it's only possible to maintain channeling with the slowest weapon (Mace).
^^ That's strange, I have about the same as you, only 2 more APoC, and I never run out of AP... I did not try to run an uber, but I could manage to kill Ghom on MP5 without problems.
(although I had to use 1 potion before killing him)
How is it with lower LS from a 1hnded weapon? I stand in plague, desecration and pound on reflective mobs if I have a decent amount of mobs on my screen. Disclaimer, I have teleport on the thumb button on my mouse. When the mobs die, I have to hit teleport REAL flippin’ fast or I die IN STANT LEE!!!(insert Jamaican accent).
I'm using 3% on wand plus 1.5% from Magic Weapon. It's working fine with my DPS (about 125~130 kDPS unbuffed). So far, no problems. I don't like to kite, so I'm standing still, channeling and not dying.
I do it with mace + Oculus + Stormcrow and it works fine on MP 3, but my gear isn't great.
18 APoC and didnt worked for me , sadface ... does rubberbanding prevent u from procing APoC ? i dont see any AP spikes
^^ I actually had some rubberbanding issues last night, but that did not made my APoC suffer. I'm playing with a bad ping of about 350~400ms (Net Virtua).
How much Critical Chance you had when playing with 18 APoC ? Your current gear has 47.5% Critical Chance, that should be enough.
I do it with mace + Oculus + Stormcrow and it works fine on MP 3, but my gear isn't great.
Following Maka's inspiration, I've got some cheap Tal Rasha's with 10 APoC + 10 APoC on stormcrow, mixed some Life Steal Wand + Magic Weapon (blood magic), put all together with guide-chun-lis-starfighter-death-blossom-build and changed Black Ice to my favorite spell: Disintegrate / Volatility and voilá: It worked like a charm to me.
But the point is: With 20 APoC and 46% Critical Chance, it's very possible to sustain the Black Ice build with an Off Hand and a Wand. I've never ran out of Arcane Power on MP5 runs with my current gear.
I noticed you got some "mildly" expensive gear, like the Tals Amulet, Strongarm Bracers and Depth Diggers... So, my question is about cost: how much (give or take) did you spend on your gear ?
I think the build is nice, and I think I'll try it later, but I'm feeling a little disapointed with my Wiz right now. I don't like CMWW much (it hurts my hand badly) and archon on higher MP's are just expensive.
Also, by my math, you have about 14 AP/sec, and spends 16 AP/sec using Ray of Frost. That means spending about 2/sec, and if you throw any blizzard, it means you have about 50 secs to spam it before running out of AP.
How much kiting you have to do with this build ?
Thanks! And congratulations again!
(edit: I just saw you have reduced cost to blizzard)
Take a look here: http://us.battle.net...opic/7004036888 (I strongly suggest you to read)
Channeling skills do constant damage, and Life Steal does not suffer from "proc-i-ties", so you gain constant life in return. It works well with Blizzard (if you do some damage) and all channeling as the above.
Life Steal is also great with Archon, which is not the topic of this forum topic.
You can find the Proc Coefficients for all classes/skills here: https://docs.google....ZJcHdkN0E#gid=8
EDIT/Off Topic: Life On Hit versus Blizzard, an illustration:
If you have 1000 life on hit, and Blizzard's Proc Coefficient is 0.050, then you gain 50 life points per hit.
What I don't know is how many hits Blizzard ticks during its cast.
Wizard | Demon Hunter
Life Steal works better for Black Ice, Archon and Disintegrate builds than Life on Hit. Life on Hit works better for WW-based builds. In special because Black Ice does a lot of damage, and it can recover a ton of life.
LS on Weapon + Magic Weapon with Blood Magic would improve your survival. More armor too. Should I suggest you to try Ice Armor / Crystallize for a while and see if you can survive a little more ?
Wizard | Demon Hunter
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No gear advice from me, as I'm not an expert at all. But I think your weapon is a good one, and overall your gear could use a rework. Since you are not using a slow weapon, you must remain with the Stormcrow or a source with APoC, and, if you can, increase your critical hit chance, so APoC procs more often.
Wizard | Demon Hunter
It's a hell of an explosion.
I think Archon would help you a lot with this build, it busts your EHP high and your DPS also. And Archon is fun, with LASERS, LASERS EVERYWHERE (tm).
OK, FOUND THE VIDEO:
(sorry for shouting, but it's fun)
But my 2 cents: I like slow time and meteor. I think a build focused on "Death Raining From The Sky" suits our Wizardry power. Although not very effective for the game, I think its fun to see a huge meteor blasting on the heads of the demons while they're being frozen...
Wizard | Demon Hunter
Wizard | Demon Hunter
Update on APoC issue: It may be the attack speed. I changed my wand today to a faster 1.55 Slorak Madness, and now I'm running out of AP during the fight. Channeling spends more AP if you have higher attack speed.
So far, my test is preliminar, but with 20 APoC, 46% Critical Chance and 1.80 Attacks Per Second, I can't sustain any channeling build (neither Black Ice or Disintegrate).
EDIT: It's the attack speed. I've tested with a Mace (1.4 APS total, including my attack speed gear) and a Wand (1.55 APS total, including my attack speed gear). With the above stats, it's only possible to maintain channeling with the slowest weapon (Mace).
Wizard | Demon Hunter
(although I had to use 1 potion before killing him)
I'm using 3% on wand plus 1.5% from Magic Weapon. It's working fine with my DPS (about 125~130 kDPS unbuffed). So far, no problems. I don't like to kite, so I'm standing still, channeling and not dying.
Wizard | Demon Hunter
You nailed it. I said Volatility, but I really use Chaos Nexus... My fault... LASERS, LASERS EVERYWHERE!!!
Wizard | Demon Hunter
^^ I actually had some rubberbanding issues last night, but that did not made my APoC suffer. I'm playing with a bad ping of about 350~400ms (Net Virtua).
How much Critical Chance you had when playing with 18 APoC ? Your current gear has 47.5% Critical Chance, that should be enough.
EDIT to add the quote, since I'm on a new page.
Wizard | Demon Hunter
Following Maka's inspiration, I've got some cheap Tal Rasha's with 10 APoC + 10 APoC on stormcrow, mixed some Life Steal Wand + Magic Weapon (blood magic), put all together with guide-chun-lis-starfighter-death-blossom-build and changed Black Ice to my favorite spell: Disintegrate / Volatility and voilá: It worked like a charm to me.
But the point is: With 20 APoC and 46% Critical Chance, it's very possible to sustain the Black Ice build with an Off Hand and a Wand. I've never ran out of Arcane Power on MP5 runs with my current gear.
Wizard | Demon Hunter
I noticed you got some "mildly" expensive gear, like the Tals Amulet, Strongarm Bracers and Depth Diggers... So, my question is about cost: how much (give or take) did you spend on your gear ?
I think the build is nice, and I think I'll try it later, but I'm feeling a little disapointed with my Wiz right now. I don't like CMWW much (it hurts my hand badly) and archon on higher MP's are just expensive.
Also, by my math, you have about 14 AP/sec, and spends 16 AP/sec using Ray of Frost. That means spending about 2/sec, and if you throw any blizzard, it means you have about 50 secs to spam it before running out of AP.
How much kiting you have to do with this build ?
Thanks! And congratulations again!
(edit: I just saw you have reduced cost to blizzard)
Wizard | Demon Hunter