I'll just copy/paste my post in the official forum thread:
Well since the video is live....
Build: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/wizard#UPQabO!aceY!YYZaaZ
Power Hungry was the method used to maintain 100% uptime on the focus+restraint buffs on single target. Though even with that, on single target, we sometimes still drop below max arcane power, and since that is a huge dmg loss I used reaper's wraps to speed up our slow passive regen to overcome bad RNG in globe spawns and our power hungry stacks being used up.
Prodigy is useless in the RG fight, but critical when things get hairy while moving through the rift, cleaning up whites chasing you that got missed by the zDPS. Each individual meteor shower ball would crit for ~4.5 billion on the RG for me. Molten impacts around 33bil, star pacts around 45 bil.
I was using ancient devastator, meteor boots, magefists, focus+restraint, and tal's in other slots. Shoulders could be anything.
I've got a working prototype spreadsheet for calculating this builds dps w/infinite power hungry stacks and so far it is looking like it will be improved by an ancient furnace once we get a 7th tal piece. That might be enough to keep up with the power increases that M6 also saw, but as others have said, outside of an infinite health globe situation I don't see us being quite as close to DH in dps as that video would suggest.
I could see room for improvement by adding a mammoth hydra to the build, but honestly with the PTR as it was (or maybe just because of all the meteor spam) that would lag the framerate too much and kill us. We actually dropped hydras for this clear for that very reason.
If it weren't for the lag, and Nyan needing to go, we could've definately cleared much higher.
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Well if you go into necro solo and look at those with asian clan tags that cleared 110+ with skeletons for extra CDR and obsidian ring. I am willing to put money on you can ban those. The build is unplayable without D3helper or worse... and the 117 clear guy that was no1 had for weeks had so shitty gear/para that it would have been a joke for top200. (think he is no3 EU season now, but you can notice for yourself by inspecting, also notice lack of played hours)
I do know that some players burn 1000 keys to get solo top 20, but this guy burned some yens on his bot subscription..
I do think Blizz need to start new banwaves, ASAP.
If nothing else let them all buy new accounts, Blizz wins, and the honest players wins...and who cares about the botters and their emotions, apparently they dont play the game at all, but pay some software to do most the playing. Never understood the concept.
Necro relies heavy on CDR timing, both zdps and trag and pesti, so scripting and perfect casting of multiple spell does warrant results that are unachievable for even best humans. After all we do live in an age where AI beat both best chess players and also humans in poker, so do think its more than "likely". Proof is more or less on the bots forums, not going to link those and promote anything, but they are bragging a lot.
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Just for info 2.6.1 is live on US, so hopefully coming later https://us.battle.net/d3/en/blog/21115840
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Well I hope you are right Demonmonger and "your facts" in pointing somewhere new and shiny, playing D1, D2 and sucking it up with D3 through all the fixes and Eras, just taught me to believe that it's actually not going anywhere quick. I wish they would charge us more for more content, I am sure we are many D3 players active or not, that actually would enjoy paying for regular new content. Not sure how the Blizz business model works, not sure if they know anymore either.
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Yeah dream on nothing will come except some halfhearted january dungeon and eventually the necro and armor rack late 2017, which is fine.. but not really what the game needed.
Blizz and a few of the dedicated D3 players could have taken this game somwhere, but Blizz is a big machine and I guess pets, transmog and the occasional useless legendary gem is what the game has come to. Sure necro looks cool, but the armory is really stuff anyone with 1000 hours D3 woudl have implemented years ago for free.
I do enjoy the game, but Blizzard is fuck all passionate about it..we used to get weekend buffs and events.. now they dont even care to change anything for new seasons except a new portrait or pet. Stop dreaming its not a conspiracy to make something grand new and shiny, its just a big corporation, killing its game slowly while selling as many D3 copies on post like this.