This is a quick video I made for a friend. Basically, when you cast frost nova (Shatter rune) and Shock Pulse (Explosive Bolts rune) your target afterwards, the AoE damage from the explosion also reaches enemies within the 10 yard radius of the explosion. Case in point, the 50% chance to release another frost nova is applied to all enemies within that radius of the explosion. You can see enemies approaching get caught in another nova during the first clip. This could prove to be extremely useful in higher difficulties when you are surrounded by more mobs than one should be comfortable with. Obviously you wont be able to "one shot" targets like I did here in hell and inferno, so the idea would be to use the nova once your closest enemies are at low health, kill them with explosive bolts, and follow up the next row of mobs with your main damage ability or another round of explosive bolts if they are at a low enough health percentage. Quite a chain reaction! The second clip was just "for teh lulz". Even so, at the bottom right of the crowd, one of the skellies is re-nova'd, and then slain, releasing a third nova! Triple CC! I wonder how many novas can be chained together from one original cast?
I gotta admit...seeing skeletal limbs fly across the screen is the most satisfying thing from a wizard perspective in my opinion. I'll definitely be making a build like this, even if its just to mess around. Slain enemies EXPLODE!?!?!?! FUCK YEA VIABILITY.
Diablo 3 Frost Nova Ability Overview
Level Unlocked: 4
Cost: No Cost
Cooldown: 12 Seconds
Category: Defensive
Effect: Blasts nearby enemies with frost, stunning them for 3 seconds
Rune: Shatter. Unlocked at level 12. Frozen enemies that are killed have a 50% chance to release another Frost Nova.
Diablo 3 Shock Pulse Ability Overview
Level Unlocked: 3
Cost: No Cost
Category: Primary
Effect: Releases 3 electric pulses along the ground which travel randomly across a medium range, dealing 105% weapon damage as lightning.
Rune: Explosive Bolts. Unlocked at level 9. Enemies slain by Shock Pulse explode, dealing 70% weapon damage as Lightning to all enemies within 10 yards
this combo definitely has its niche, i was just interested in what you guys thought of it, and if you had played around with it.
Wizard players, I have a couple challenges for you!
How many nova's can you proc? So far, my biggest combo of nova procs is 3. if someone could get 5 that would be really impressive!
Whats the biggest "blow" you can get with explosive bolts? So far, my biggest mighty blow was 16. Lets see someone hit 20, or even higher! I think it would be easier to reach higher numbers if you cornered yourself.
It would be really cool to see some screenshots and videos of what you guys can come up with. the release date is less than a month away, and beta is coming to a close, i think this would be a cool combo to toy with before the termination of the client.
i suggest having at least 60 base dps, in the video above i had a little more than that.
same whit a certain rune for barbs Cleave, exloding is to me one of the best rune effects to have, will clean up SOO good
this combo definitely has its niche, i was just interested in what you guys thought of it, and if you had played around with it.
Wizard players, I have a couple challenges for you!
How many nova's can you proc? So far, my biggest combo of nova procs is 3. if someone could get 5 that would be really impressive!
Whats the biggest "blow" you can get with explosive bolts? So far, my biggest mighty blow was 16. Lets see someone hit 20, or even higher! I think it would be easier to reach higher numbers if you cornered yourself.
It would be really cool to see some screenshots and videos of what you guys can come up with. the release date is less than a month away, and beta is coming to a close, i think this would be a cool combo to toy with before the termination of the client.
i suggest having at least 60 base dps, in the video above i had a little more than that.