When you run archon spec, you have to kill monsters fast, in order to keep up archon time. This means lots health globes, which in my opinion makes Life after Kill close to worthless for this build.
There are three reasons why Life After Kill is worthwhile.
The first is that it's cheap. Its basically a throwaway stat for the majority of people.
The second is that it is not limited by not having +pickup radius on gear. Your Archon beam weapon has a significantly farther range than trying to pick up orbs.
The third is that it works even when you are trapped by wallers, jailers, surrounded by illusionists, etc etc. The Archon beam passes through all of it, and can kill a group of crawlers even while you are trapped on top of a desecration.
Your argument is even less valid when you consider Life Steal. You already point out that Archon is based on killing hordes of monsters, creating a lot of health orbs. With so many health orbs, why even have Life Steal, or Life on Hit? When you're fighting a reflect damage mob, why can't you just run over a little bit and pick up the orb left from the last mob you killed?
Nearly every single one of my deaths has occurred while there are health globes on the screen, but for some reason I wasn't able to get them.
What do you guys use for your second +movespeed item? I'm guessing it comes down to either Tyrael's Might or Lacuni Prowlers. Tyrael's seems like the better choice to me, due to the bonus to demons and that its significantly cheaper. But just looking at a few profiles (Aesthia in particular) it seems like Lacuni is better if you can afford it.
Inna's Temperance, the monk pants, also works. It comes with 1% crit, 8-9% attack speed, 12% movement speed, and 2 sockets base. The only downside is you don't have a lot of options for the random stat. It's just one roll with no base Int so it's basically either Int or Int/vit. They're also pretty cheap now so you can get more dps out of these pants+normal bracers with crit%, assuming you have a lot of crit damage. If you have the money for crit prowlers, that will give more dps than rare bracers, of course, but costs more than the set pants.
Just for a comparison, I used to have 180 int/180 vit/70 all resist/2 socket Depth Diggers pants before I switched to my current Inna's Temperance. Even though I lost a hefty amount of EHP (about 60K, if I remember correctly), I did gain over 20K DPS and fully capped out my movement speed.
The difference? I sold the Depth Diggers for 400M and bought the Inna's Temperance at 550M, which was still a ton of extra gold from my side. It's really hard to find Inna's Temperance for wizards if you want decent vitality, good int, and maximum attack speed. A better pair of Lacuni's is my next target... though I have no gold for it at the moment since I just geared up my monk
I'm not entirely sure about the worthiness of Tyrael's Might. A good set with 3 sockets and great int won't come cheap, especially when you throw something like all resist in there. I'd rather get the huge DPS boost from Inna's.
I didn't realize that you had both Inna's and Lacuni, plus Zunimassa's Trail boots. That seems... excessive. Then I thought about it, and I guess no other armors can have that high of dps stats.
I guess my current issue is trying to figure out which "major" upgrade to get next. I put major in quotes because I'm planning on spending 50-100m on it (depending on the final sale price of a couple of auctions). I can run the usual act 3 route on MP0 in archon, but the buff tends to drop in areas like the Core and Fields of Slaughter, which both have some distance to run between packs. I've been running with Blood Magic as my only life steal, which is doing the job, but I'm loathe to give up any EHP without getting better health recovery.
http://us.battle.net...53/hero/3275686
Feel free to laugh at my chest piece. In my defense, it was a drop I got on my second ever inferno run, before I even cleared act 1. But you can see why I was leaning toward Tyrael's chest. Whichever upgrade I choose, I'm upgrading whatever gems I can with leftover monies.
What do you guys use for your second +movespeed item? I'm guessing it comes down to either Tyrael's Might or Lacuni Prowlers. Tyrael's seems like the better choice to me, due to the bonus to demons and that its significantly cheaper. But just looking at a few profiles (Aesthia in particular) it seems like Lacuni is better if you can afford it.
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There are three reasons why Life After Kill is worthwhile.
The first is that it's cheap. Its basically a throwaway stat for the majority of people.
The second is that it is not limited by not having +pickup radius on gear. Your Archon beam weapon has a significantly farther range than trying to pick up orbs.
The third is that it works even when you are trapped by wallers, jailers, surrounded by illusionists, etc etc. The Archon beam passes through all of it, and can kill a group of crawlers even while you are trapped on top of a desecration.
Your argument is even less valid when you consider Life Steal. You already point out that Archon is based on killing hordes of monsters, creating a lot of health orbs. With so many health orbs, why even have Life Steal, or Life on Hit? When you're fighting a reflect damage mob, why can't you just run over a little bit and pick up the orb left from the last mob you killed?
Nearly every single one of my deaths has occurred while there are health globes on the screen, but for some reason I wasn't able to get them.
I didn't realize that you had both Inna's and Lacuni, plus Zunimassa's Trail boots. That seems... excessive. Then I thought about it, and I guess no other armors can have that high of dps stats.
I guess my current issue is trying to figure out which "major" upgrade to get next. I put major in quotes because I'm planning on spending 50-100m on it (depending on the final sale price of a couple of auctions). I can run the usual act 3 route on MP0 in archon, but the buff tends to drop in areas like the Core and Fields of Slaughter, which both have some distance to run between packs. I've been running with Blood Magic as my only life steal, which is doing the job, but I'm loathe to give up any EHP without getting better health recovery.
http://us.battle.net...53/hero/3275686
Feel free to laugh at my chest piece. In my defense, it was a drop I got on my second ever inferno run, before I even cleared act 1. But you can see why I was leaning toward Tyrael's chest. Whichever upgrade I choose, I'm upgrading whatever gems I can with leftover monies.