If I change the weps for Chantodo's set and helm for Storm Crow, will I be able to play a CM Wizard? At which MP? Any other pieces I should get? Running a very very low budget lol
Thanks!
Edit: As Jaetch stated, my DPS is buffed by Pierce the veil. It is actually 78k.
CM? With your set-up, I say you skip the Chantodo's, keep your main-hand, grab a decent Triumvirate (way cheaper than Chantodo's), put on a crit helm and you're good to go with an Archon build for MP1-3.
Edit: Er... on closer inspection, it looks like your BNet profile shows buffed DPS from Soul Harvest and Pierce the Veil? If I'm not mistaken, you should be around 60-65K unbuffed DPS, which is perfectly fine if you run Archon with Sparkflint Familiar, Force Weapon, and Glass Cannon—those would put you at 85K DPS or so. Still good enough for MP1-2.
I agree, if you're just looking to farm xp/loot. Archon will be much more efficient at low MP levels than CM at any mp levels for solo farming.
If you're dead set on CM, say because you want to farm high MP keys and ubers, you'll have to cut some of your dps for some extra crit (easiest is swapping your amulet since you can get an easy 8+crit). I'd personally go with a black weapon and Triumvirate with APoC over the chanto set since they give you higher dps at the cost of some attack speed, which is useful but not as important as crit and EHP in my opinion. When you get a storm crow, I'd go for one with resist all on it, unless you have the gold to buy one with crit. That, with the rest of your stats, should let you run MP5-7 pretty easily and you can probably run MP5 with the full SNS build and MP7 ubers with full defensive build.
A black weapon is a weapon with all physical damage, so no Arcane, Poison, etc. damage.
Also, farming MP1-2 as Archon is VERY fast. You press a button and everything in front of you dies. Elites take 5-10s tops to kill and almost everything else dies in 1 hit to archon beam. You can farm higher MP, but we say to stick to lower because it is more efficient. You'll get probably double the xp and loot per hour at MP1-2 as you would at MP4+, with Archon or CM.
As for CM guides, there might be some floating around these forums, though they haven't been updated for 1.0.5 that I know of. Maybe I'll write one for kicks sometime, if I have the time. So much to do, so little time.
If it's just for higher MP, then I recommend the CM. For amulet, CC and AR are good, as is vit, armor, and Int. CD or IAS are also good, but I'd say secondary. If you keep the zuni chest, you can probably get away with neglecting most of the defensive stats on the amulet (especially if you get some on your helm), which will help your dps quite a bit. If you can manage it, aim for an amulet with CC, Int, IAS. Extra vit/armor/AR is great but probably not needed too much and CD will give more dps but IAS will give dps plus extra survivability, so IAS > CD.
To run Archon at lower levels you can just swap back to your current amulet, or just run with all your CM gear, especially if your CM dps is around 80-100k dps. Higher Archon dps just means you can farm higher MP (I run MP2 with 200k dps or so, and my CM is 105k or so).
I've been playing a WD and I've been thinking lately how much profit I could take of rolling a Wiz with CM build.
My current gear in WD is this:
http://eu.battle.net...2841/hero/68054
If I change the weps for Chantodo's set and helm for Storm Crow, will I be able to play a CM Wizard? At which MP? Any other pieces I should get? Running a very very low budget lol
Thanks!
Edit: As Jaetch stated, my DPS is buffed by Pierce the veil. It is actually 78k.
Edit: Er... on closer inspection, it looks like your BNet profile shows buffed DPS from Soul Harvest and Pierce the Veil? If I'm not mistaken, you should be around 60-65K unbuffed DPS, which is perfectly fine if you run Archon with Sparkflint Familiar, Force Weapon, and Glass Cannon—those would put you at 85K DPS or so. Still good enough for MP1-2.
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If you're dead set on CM, say because you want to farm high MP keys and ubers, you'll have to cut some of your dps for some extra crit (easiest is swapping your amulet since you can get an easy 8+crit). I'd personally go with a black weapon and Triumvirate with APoC over the chanto set since they give you higher dps at the cost of some attack speed, which is useful but not as important as crit and EHP in my opinion. When you get a storm crow, I'd go for one with resist all on it, unless you have the gold to buy one with crit. That, with the rest of your stats, should let you run MP5-7 pretty easily and you can probably run MP5 with the full SNS build and MP7 ubers with full defensive build.
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Loroese, what do you mean by black weapon? Any good guide on CM builds in 1.0.5?
Also, farming MP1-2 as Archon is VERY fast. You press a button and everything in front of you dies. Elites take 5-10s tops to kill and almost everything else dies in 1 hit to archon beam. You can farm higher MP, but we say to stick to lower because it is more efficient. You'll get probably double the xp and loot per hour at MP1-2 as you would at MP4+, with Archon or CM.
As for CM guides, there might be some floating around these forums, though they haven't been updated for 1.0.5 that I know of. Maybe I'll write one for kicks sometime, if I have the time. So much to do, so little time.
Crusader DPS and EHP Spreadsheet, meant for Crusaders
My Wizard
I think I'll get a Triumvirate and a Storm Crow then. About amulet, CC and AR, right? This should be pretty good for both right?
To run Archon at lower levels you can just swap back to your current amulet, or just run with all your CM gear, especially if your CM dps is around 80-100k dps. Higher Archon dps just means you can farm higher MP (I run MP2 with 200k dps or so, and my CM is 105k or so).
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