There is little doubt that this deserved the nerf,
but I do wonder if inferno beyond act1 will ever be able to be truely farmable becuase if the auction house is any indicator of what top end gear can look like; there will never be a point where you can out-gear the content and use conventional builds without stat stacking secondary stats to an extreme to interact with abilities, but every time we've done that so far it has resulted in a way too op build that did need nerfing.
What playstyle are they trying to shove wizards into? Glass cannons Noodles?
So what shall we try next? Stacking +hp on hit and attack speed paired with the Living Lightning, Venom Weapon, and Force shield?
Pretty sure that is the point, they don't want you farming inferno (especially solo), at least not in the first 2 weeks. Inferno isn't for everyone, get over it already
...Wizard either takes that ability or they are just gimping themselves...
It will get nerfed for the very reasons you stated, as word of this build spreads, every wizard and his dog will be crit based nova freeze lockers, you are fooling yourself if you believe this won't get hot fixed in a day or two.
not even close. My two wizard friends are currently farming act 4 inferno and they detest this build. They've seen me use it and it's not their playstyle.. They love kiting and they do it really good.
I just find it hard to believe that Blizzard will go from saying there will be a lot of whacky over the top builds, to "wizard should just stand back and nuke, anything other than that will get nerfed"
Like I said, FA was 100x stronger than this build. This build still demands the wizard to properly gear, as in, get Int, get Vitality, get resistances, get armor. All FA asked you to do is "get a ton of dmg and succeed". That's why they're very different. By your philosophy, the build one of my wizard friends is using should get nerfed to. He has 65k HP and using Illusionist with mirror images and teleport fracture. The SECOND he gets hit he unleashes teleport and mirror images, having the minions almost never touch him. I swear if his health in inferno gets below 50% he's either lagging or just slacking, by how I've seen him play. Nerf illusionist too? Because he can spam teleport and mirror images having 7 images out running around and he can just sit there and destroy packs?
Like I said, nurfed. And how your friends play is irrelevant to what we were discussing, i never said 100% of wizards will do this. I simply stated a good number would because it's op, that is why it will get nurfed and has been nurfed.
...Wizard either takes that ability or they are just gimping themselves...
It will get nerfed for the very reasons you stated, as word of this build spreads, every wizard and his dog will be crit based nova freeze lockers, you are fooling yourself if you believe this won't get hot fixed in a day or two.
Just killed Inferno Diablo with this build. I didn't think it worked at first but I forgot Magic Weapon (Venom). Yet another Wizard build waiting to be nerfed... How could Blizzard have missed all this testing?
I just love the fact it is wizard, which we all knew was going to be tough to play as, is the one with the most awesome nerfing potential, props to the guys who figure this shit out, it is certainly fun to play OP builds while it lasts.
This build is so silly! I had to create a curse acct just to say thanks for the amazing fun this build brought me. Theres no way this build will not get nerfed in the next day or two. ALSO it your hand is cramping, simply assign a macro to launch nova blast and skin with one click, super helpfull, then u only need to spam living lightning. I wonder how they'r going to nerf it? What would you do?
They will change the chance amount of critical mass to reduce cooldowns, no idea what the chance% is now, but it will get upped to a point where you can't freeze lock bosses in combo with nova.
They will also probably look at how and why venom weapon crits so often, but yeah, don't bother spending money on this, the chance of nerf is 100%
Pretty sure that is the point, they don't want you farming inferno (especially solo), at least not in the first 2 weeks. Inferno isn't for everyone, get over it already
Like I said, nurfed. And how your friends play is irrelevant to what we were discussing, i never said 100% of wizards will do this. I simply stated a good number would because it's op, that is why it will get nurfed and has been nurfed.
It will get nerfed for the very reasons you stated, as word of this build spreads, every wizard and his dog will be crit based nova freeze lockers, you are fooling yourself if you believe this won't get hot fixed in a day or two.
I just love the fact it is wizard, which we all knew was going to be tough to play as, is the one with the most awesome nerfing potential, props to the guys who figure this shit out, it is certainly fun to play OP builds while it lasts.
They will change the chance amount of critical mass to reduce cooldowns, no idea what the chance% is now, but it will get upped to a point where you can't freeze lock bosses in combo with nova.
They will also probably look at how and why venom weapon crits so often, but yeah, don't bother spending money on this, the chance of nerf is 100%