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It can't proc LOH, which is probably the reason it can't proc ap on crit, or critical mass.
It still increases dmg based on crit because the char screen dps is higher, or at least that's how i think it should be.

You can get high armor without a shield if you spend enough time looking for gear. A good source can give you over 5-6k dps.

I personally found that wicked wind ticks twice as fast as life on hit shows up on SCT, which means that one hit from WW is actually 25% coef, and the life on hit indicator ticks every 2 hits.

I tried belial as well today, with a shield his meteors hit me for 7k each

Life regen isn't any good for this spec because of the buffer diamond skin provides, which means that most of the time you will be at max hp. LOH can tick high when theres multiple procs because they stack together and it just looks that way.

With the amount of information I'm getting every day its as if that video is already outdated though..

I play with a source now, got my crit up to 33%, using force weapon instead of nova so at 27k dps. DPS scales insanely well with this build because of the infinite EB casts.

Decided to try ghom, first time i kill him since they buffed him and it was surprisingly easy even with a source :/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1_4_UUc5x0

You can use terrain to bunch up ranged mobs in most areas and aoe them down. If you don't want to use blur replace it with arcane dynamo it reaches 5 stacks from one spectral blades: deep cuts cast.

Because of diamond skin its more effective to have lower hp and higher resists/armor instead.

The first time i did inferno I only had around 20% crit and 5ap on crit and it was ok for me. I instead focused more on defensive stats to be able to survive longer even if i dont get a string of nova procs or whatever else. What you should look for the most is armor on almost every slot since most of the time people undervalue it, this way you can get higher total damage reduction than if you just stack allresist and it's cheaper. A weapon with high life on hit will probably help you more than anything else and getting 500-700 should not be too expensive as long as there are no other stats on it like crit damage or a socket etc.

In terms of dps it is possible to clear act3 with as little as 10-15k, but as your gear gets better it will increase naturally since this build is focused on crit anyway.

You should try to get more armor on each slot and for belt/shoulder slots armor+strength(since it goes to 300) would get you a lot of extra mitigation and isn't very expensive. Bracers look good maybe you can upgrade to some with more int or resists but they are expensive if they have crit on them.

Look in my signature to get an idea of what you can possibly get on a single item and fit it to your budget.

As you may not have noticed, i don't use frost nova anymore, i find it too tedious to spam it so often so I just do without. Since I don't really need archon when playing with a source I'm trying to decide on what to replace it with. I'm using magic weapon with venom rune because I read that it stacks on itself or something like that, but I'm not sure if i won't replace it with force weapon or maybe even another skill later.

I never got around to trying a source because of how hard it is to find a good one with the AH UI. But since you asked I looked around and here is what I found :

From a gameplay perspective you can definitely feel the loss of 2500armor, the resists and the block by not using a shield. For some packs like phase beasts I had to switch to it. On the other hand the extra dps from the source helps against ranged enemies when you use archon like succubi etc.

The actual dps gained for me was about 4000sheet dps since I can't afford the type of gear that has both insane dps and defensive stats so it doesn't scale as well as say a pure glass cannon wizard. With this much ap on crit archon also starts lagging behind on damage, i might replace it with hydra or magic weapon or something.

In terms of actually getting a source, what I found was that a good source with over 300max dmg, crit and ap on crit goes for minimum 5-6million. However you CAN get an incredibly cheap source if you are persistent since a majority of players who don't play wizard for example have no idea how much to sell them for. As an example while looking around just now and flipping 40pages of sources I ended up getting these 2 for 10k gold each





So as a conclusion you need to have a shield at least as a backup if you can handle it, and use a source for easier packs, trash or goblins.

I use spectral blade because of arcane dynamo, it increases my dps by a lot. I may eventually switch out archon for something else, but don't have any ideas currently. And yeah my EHP is around 1.5million ^^

Archon sweetness

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I'd be interested in seeing how your build works, as I'm rather used to the perma-freeze approach. Would you mind frapsing a simple clip showcasing the playstyle, Aggnog?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnGU4PLX-GQ
Made this over 2 runs tonight but it didn't turn out very well, it still shows that its possible to play without nova at least ;p

I believe they hit more often because they dual wield or it could be my imagination. I received a 19k hit from the elite mallet lord in hell rift, I want to reduce it to 10k or so and I think that's as much as i can go.