Continuing from the last video, today I explain how to effectively lock down elites/bosses with this pseudo-permafreeze wizard build. Slight skill modifications and proper spell rotations allow you to take Diablo out of action. With more cooldown reduction and faster attack speed, this build will be even more efficient.
It may be quite possible to do something similar, if not exactly the same.
Think 'chain reaction'. 4x3 = 12 explosions if this works how I think it will, by which time you can cast it again. Combine that with Blast Wave and you have a beast nova sorc.
first of all glacial spike worst pick you can have since ray of frost makes familiar shoot insanely faster and take blizzard with freeze rune second of all the dps IS HORRIBLE omg its just bad and if you need a shield to survive delete this build now
stop creating pathetic cookiecutter builds and play the game you dont need perma freeze if you can wipe mobs fast enough its just pointless
create a effective build and you wont need this so cold "permafreeze" its pointless and this isnt 1.0.8 anymore move on...
It may be quite possible to do something similar, if not exactly the same.
Think 'chain reaction'. 4x3 = 12 explosions if this works how I think it will, by which time you can cast it again. Combine that with Blast Wave and you have a beast nova sorc.
Yeah, I'm running that now. This wand is one of the biggest DPS boosts wizards can get right now, besides Moonlight Ward. But what's this got to do with the topic? Nowhere allows the WoW any stunlock/permafreeze, and it's damage is quite high, but has limitations (it's a melee wizard which is something that'll get you killed on high Torment levels, I'm running 2m toughness on T5).
It looks similar to CMWW because EB was the main DPS spell for CMWW, but that's it, all other spells are different and the CC mechanic of CMWW is 100% gone. It's also not the same in terms of "pressing 4 keys all the time until you go crazy", it's up to 3 keys and 2 of them can't be pressed all the time (WoF needs AP, EB has a cooldown).
The problem there would then be having enough weapon damage to make Explosive Blast do enough damage to be worthwhile and having enough survivability to be in melee range. There is definetely a build to be built around Wand of Woh, but I don't think it's one that stacks cooldown reduction and freeze items
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Can anyone confirm if Wand of Woh procs Explosive Blast with the rune you're using or just the base spell?
Yes, you need high survivability. I'm running 2m toughness on Torment 5, but that's really enough to get healed from my ~1000 LoH and stand in lots of bad elite DPS affixes without moving (I'm lazy). I also have the belt Goldwrap, which is imho the most underrated belt in the game. Since there's constantly money somewhere to be picked up, I'm above 4m toughness most of the time, which helps a lot. If I'd use Teleport and would play with a bit more attention (and not just stand in the middle of shit, ignoring everything) I could easily play T6 as well, but I'm lazy.
And yes, WoW uses the rune you have; the damage of each wave is the damage that each rune gives. The 12 waves of Chain Reaction all deal the same damage (usually 1-2m for each wave on each enemy, so go figure the amount of DPS) and Short Fuse on Ghom once gave me 4 crits all between 7m and 9m. And I don't have insane gear yet. WoW is awesome, especially combined with a Cyclone Strike monk one activation of EB kills every pack of trashmob on T5.
But... it kinda sounds we're really going off-topic here. If you have more questions about WoW we can put this in a separate thread. In fact, if people are interested, I can post my experiences with it in a new thread tonight. Now let's get back to OP's topic!
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It may be quite possible to do something similar, if not exactly the same.
Think 'chain reaction'. 4x3 = 12 explosions if this works how I think it will, by which time you can cast it again. Combine that with Blast Wave and you have a beast nova sorc.
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stop creating pathetic cookiecutter builds and play the game you dont need perma freeze if you can wipe mobs fast enough its just pointless
create a effective build and you wont need this so cold "permafreeze" its pointless and this isnt 1.0.8 anymore move on...
It looks similar to CMWW because EB was the main DPS spell for CMWW, but that's it, all other spells are different and the CC mechanic of CMWW is 100% gone. It's also not the same in terms of "pressing 4 keys all the time until you go crazy", it's up to 3 keys and 2 of them can't be pressed all the time (WoF needs AP, EB has a cooldown).
And yes, WoW uses the rune you have; the damage of each wave is the damage that each rune gives. The 12 waves of Chain Reaction all deal the same damage (usually 1-2m for each wave on each enemy, so go figure the amount of DPS) and Short Fuse on Ghom once gave me 4 crits all between 7m and 9m. And I don't have insane gear yet. WoW is awesome, especially combined with a Cyclone Strike monk one activation of EB kills every pack of trashmob on T5.
But... it kinda sounds we're really going off-topic here. If you have more questions about WoW we can put this in a separate thread. In fact, if people are interested, I can post my experiences with it in a new thread tonight. Now let's get back to OP's topic!