80% of the items are bought off the AH, the orb was the most expensive at 135m.
The point being I found enough gear I didn't want, to sell and buy things I did want. Without the MF on my items I doubt I would have found the same level of gear that I have been selling. For example, in one day I found both, Litany of the undaunted and wailing host with good rolls. 60 and 70m respectively. That bought me my Zunnimassa gear.
nice, you should definetly get some zuni boots to go with the rest!
It's a long time since people needed nova, its a waste of dps to use it, not like people die nowadays.
people still use frost nova, especially if they are running diamond shards AND shocking aspect. You have insane defenses and still uses ugly energy armor lol and also have no wormhole for movement, you must clear act 3 slower than an old spec glass cannon does nowadays....
looks alright, I would try and get some loh though and maybe change blur for cold blooded since ur defenses look fine as is(maybe a little more resists). Can I ask u roughly the budget on your wiz as I have a friend who wants to build one?
You seem to have pretty low resists according to your profile. Could you please tell me how much, because you seem to roll on act3 ^^
Thanks in advance
They are about 400 right now, but that is actually slightly overkill. I am on my phone so i can't link you the thread, but look around this forum and you'll find loroese's thread on the 1.04 update to how much ehp you need for force armor, and it'll have the link to my earlier thread describing it.
I did, I reached 125K EHP, where 117.5K is required, but I still get owned on act3 pretty much every time
It's down to 100k or so now after the 1.0.4 changes, but that's just to make force armor optimal. For Archon, more is recommended unless you can kill elites before they get to you.
Yeah archon needs more all res because u dont have def skills while in archon form like diamond skin or teleport. Also u can go with 120k ehp with force, its pretty good but you will still get owned by elemental ticks like fire chains arcane sentry and molten. However if you have shitloads of DPS like OP then u dont really need much resists or armor cuz ur gonna be nuking everything...
cm build, if shocknadoshards greatly outdeal archons damage, you just need the all res/armor/life to survive a couple of hits. As for your build its nice but archon prolly deals more damage.
so a couple of people have touched on this here and there - best thing you can do is swap out your Wicked Wind rune for Storm Chaser - and yes - even in melee - keep everything else the same...
Right now, it looks like 40% Crit Chance is the number to get to - however, another stat has been creeping up more and more - Attack Speed... If you can get your attack speed approaching 2.0 attacks per seconds - you'll notice this build working like it used to (even to some extend with wicked wind)
The thing with Storm Chaser is that it appears that the proc coefficient of this rune has NOT been reduced - we're not sure if this is working as intended or not - but until we hear otherwise from Blizzard - this is what we can work with. The actual ability of the rune itself goes wasted (since we're not using a primary ability in the basic CM build) but that doesn't matter to us, because we like the higher proc coefficient on Storm Chaser...
And I'll continue to stand by using Teleport with Wormhole - it makes for much faster farming, as well as getting out of bad situations during a fight - and you almost always have it available to work with.
Good luck and happy hunting
what he said, remember exactly same build with storm chaser isntead of ww, I have been running with storm armor myself for more facemelting cheese, enjoy it while it lasts cuz its not gonna stay for long, you have been warned, just so people know this rune(storm chaser) actually has now a higher coefficient than ww ever had.
Armor is harder to max compared to resists. 90% armor vs 105% combined armor/resists from prismatic is not a huge difference, considering you also get a slow proc on hit that can proc cold blooded if you skip frost nova, which is quite useless nowadays. If you still cant survive inferno after so much time then yes you can use prismatic, but what's the point of playing a melee spec if you can't tank.
not even close, the melee build is still doable and frost nova is still very helpfull, but now u need more crit, loh, aponcrit, also u wont be perma freezing everything. However this ice armor should offer more than just that if u are going by more crit procs than u can just use storm armor(if u have high armor/res) which also boosts your dps tremendously.
As for me Im using energy armor pinpoint barrier until I get more crit%, and since I have very high resists as is I dont suffer much without prismatic.
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if you are gonna go glass cannon style your prolly better rolling with a wd
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nice, you should definetly get some zuni boots to go with the rest!
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people still use frost nova, especially if they are running diamond shards AND shocking aspect. You have insane defenses and still uses ugly energy armor lol and also have no wormhole for movement, you must clear act 3 slower than an old spec glass cannon does nowadays....
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Yeah archon needs more all res because u dont have def skills while in archon form like diamond skin or teleport. Also u can go with 120k ehp with force, its pretty good but you will still get owned by elemental ticks like fire chains arcane sentry and molten. However if you have shitloads of DPS like OP then u dont really need much resists or armor cuz ur gonna be nuking everything...
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As for me Im using energy armor pinpoint barrier until I get more crit%, and since I have very high resists as is I dont suffer much without prismatic.
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