Last night I spent a good while playing this build. I can't take credit for the build itself but it seems to be the best build for a fire Wiz now. To start off I tried a Woh build with EB and Blizzard but it just didn't seem to have enough synergy between the two and getting up close and personal with monsters in a grift isn't fun, ask any wizard that has been to lvl 25+.
Gear I knew that I wanted to have a 6 piece bonus from Firebird's. I chose the Helm, shoulders, pants, boots and Source. Couldn't choose the chest or gloves because of Magefists and Cindercoat. As for bracers, I started with Strongarm but saw after a few rifts that I was standing still for my AP to regen. Came up with the making some Reaper's Wraps. This provided much better casting of spells. As for Rings and Ammy, I took a fire SOJ, RoRG and ammy from past fire build. The belt that I have now was found in a Rift, Jang's Envelopment.
As for a 1h weapon, there are a few choices. I started with the Woh at the start but I wanted something with +fire%. I looked at the fire axe, sorry forgot name, but I didn't like the damage for it. I thought about using a TF and a Sun Keeper I found later on, but I still wanted to have more +fire%. I eventually settled on a Devastator. Took a few tries till I got the one that I am using. Better damage than the fire axe and higher +fire%. Ending up with +122% Fire skills
Skills
Active -
Black Hole with Blazar
Teleport with Wormhole
Emergy Armor with Prismatic Armor
Magic Wepaon with Deflection (Providing a little more armor)
Blizzard with Apocalypse
Meteor with Molten Impact
Wouldn't a hydra deal more damage than blizzard? Can't help but think that the damage of blizzard is a bit low. Also, with molten impact and blizzard.. You don't have a filler? Or am I missing something here.
my other damage is Black Hole. With Jang's it will be slowed if it doesn't die while being hit by falling fire. Last night I couldn't see the damage or crits from Blizzard, so I went to settings and turned on view damage. I'm not sure if it was from Firebirds or actual damage but I was seeing non crit damage as high as 102 mil.
I´m pretty sure the 100+ mil hits/crits are from meteor. Blizzard deals 1000% weapon damage over 6 seconds. Which isn't really that much, The problem with your build is that blackhole, meteor and blizzard all have a cooldown (blizzard can be seen as 6 second cooldown since recasting it doesnt actually do anything).
Exactly what do you do after you cast those 3 spells? Just run around in circles for a few seconds?
Another quick piece of advise: You mentioned 120%+ fire damage. Don't forget that the more % element you stack the more powerful other stats become. Once you have +100% damage, getting another +20% item will effectively only give you a damage increase of 10%.
I´m pretty sure the 100+ mil hits/crits are from meteor. Blizzard deals 1000% weapon damage over 6 seconds. Which isn't really that much, The problem with your build is that blackhole, meteor and blizzard all have a cooldown (blizzard can be seen as 6 second cooldown since recasting it doesnt actually do anything).
Exactly what do you do after you cast those 3 spells? Just run around in circles for a few seconds?
am i missing something? firebird bonus though a bit nurfed is causing the blizzard non crit huge dmg? with my crappy gear i can get as high as 50+mil ticks ( in ptr ) in live i still dont have enough of the set lol.
and yes? casting blizzard and just run while everyone dies, i dont even use a primary, it is there just for show, three buff spells and teleport and thats it.
Gear
I knew that I wanted to have a 6 piece bonus from Firebird's. I chose the Helm, shoulders, pants, boots and Source. Couldn't choose the chest or gloves because of Magefists and Cindercoat. As for bracers, I started with Strongarm but saw after a few rifts that I was standing still for my AP to regen. Came up with the making some Reaper's Wraps. This provided much better casting of spells. As for Rings and Ammy, I took a fire SOJ, RoRG and ammy from past fire build. The belt that I have now was found in a Rift, Jang's Envelopment.
As for a 1h weapon, there are a few choices. I started with the Woh at the start but I wanted something with +fire%. I looked at the fire axe, sorry forgot name, but I didn't like the damage for it. I thought about using a TF and a Sun Keeper I found later on, but I still wanted to have more +fire%. I eventually settled on a Devastator. Took a few tries till I got the one that I am using. Better damage than the fire axe and higher +fire%. Ending up with +122% Fire skills
Skills
Active -
Black Hole with Blazar
Teleport with Wormhole
Emergy Armor with Prismatic Armor
Magic Wepaon with Deflection (Providing a little more armor)
Blizzard with Apocalypse
Meteor with Molten Impact
Passive -
Blur
Evocation
Unstable Anomaly
Astral Presence
Would love feedback on this build
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Emi4Ghosts-1893/hero/32201400
Exactly what do you do after you cast those 3 spells? Just run around in circles for a few seconds?
and yes? casting blizzard and just run while everyone dies, i dont even use a primary, it is there just for show, three buff spells and teleport and thats it.
not fun and boring but good to clear?