I understand the frustration. I run into it in many many places in my gaming and professional life. In addition the easiest assumption is laziness. What I have found though is that what sometimes seems lazy is a fear of appearing inept in another way. I have noticed over the years(12ish since google exploded) that some people just are not naturally good at searching. Knowing the right thing to search for, recognizing the tools available, and parsing information in an efficient manner while natural for many, are alien to others.Quote from Giterdun
I can understand that my comments may have come across as harsh and I do apologize if anyone was offended. I am sorry. I'm by nature usually a kind person.Quote from xspeedballx
Wow, the sheer toxicity in this community in this thread is awful. A person wants to discuss a specific aspect of a popular build and he reamed for it? A number of you should be ashamed of yourselves. All you are accomplishing is pushing people out of an already insular group. If you don't want to answer a question, then don't. Berating a person for asking it is counter-productive in almost every way. You want to play with better players? Help them be better players. Don't just say research it yourself. Question answered somewhere else, or whatever else. You could start with: "Did you see this video?" then follow up with: "Testing is difficult without damage meters in a game like this because of a number of variables, here are some popular assessment methods!".
This accomplishes both your goals: Not answering the question, promoting exploration and creativity.
I simply get really frustrated with a lot of people asking for answers without actually trying to search them out first. I often have a question but try to look for the answer before posting to make sure I'm not "cluttering" the threads with a repeated question or look ignorant for not scrolling down a bit or looking a bit harder.
In regards to my answer to the OP's question, had they actually looked at the top builds for Wizards in the build section, they would have seen the guide for the build and seen the other viable options to their question they were asking. That is all I was trying to convey.
And then even with all that, sometimes that little nugget you just want to know eludes you still. It may exist, but it isn't easy to know where.
I know, this does sound very apologetic on the behalf of people, but I find it is often the case. On the upside it is a self solving problem if people willingly answer questions that are asked. The more ways a question is answered, the more ways an indexing services picks it up making things more easily found, and raising confidence in the searchers.
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The FB DOT tick value depends greatly on the following:
- Speed of your weapon. A 3800 DPS 2h mace will always result in much stronger FB DOT ticks than a 3800 DPS 2h sword, because sword's DPS is so high only because of the attack speed, but FB DOT doesn't scale with it.
- Target type: elite or non-elite. Since most top wizards run the Furnace + Bane of the Powerful + SoJ + Unity, they deal 2x more damage vs elites or even more. And since people like to show off, they'll tell you they hit for zillions of damage without clarifying that it's only vs elites. So you should take their replies with a grain of salt.
- Legendary gems. Lots of people use Zei's Stone of Vengeance and the numbers they tell you are most probably from 50+ yards away from a target (yet people rarely mention that when they tell you they deal zillions of damage per tick). This is another reason why you should take replies with a grain of salt.
- Buffs/debuffs. FB DOT snapshots those when being applied. This means that with exactly the same gear your FB DOT can tick for 100M or for 1B depending on what buffs you had and what debuffs were applied to your target before your first fire attack landed on that target. People usually tell you the highest tick they got even if that was in a group with +200% damage buff and +200% incoming damage debuff.
Why I'm saying all this stuff? Because it's really easy to get upset and discouraged to play FB wizard after some guys on the forum tell you something about 1B+ ticks without specifying ANY details whatsoever, while you only deal 50M+ per tick. 50M per tick with a 1hander and a gear like yours is totally fine. The number will get much higher once you find a decent 1 APS 2hander (preferrably the Furnace).1
- Get a perfect Cameo and wear it all the time. However, you have to be extremally lucky.
- Do what all top 100 people do: farm 39+ till you get a sequence of good rifts. That's how people get to top 10. Sad but true.
Edit: In fact, there's no other option but #2, since Cameo won't protect you from being insta-gibbed by Thunderstorm.1
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There are 12 blasts, but some of them overlap, so it looks like there are only 6 of them. Drop all your IAS and check again.
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http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/wizard#UcQjSO!WdSR!cccccc
- Still no AP stats needed.
- It's extremally tanky. If you feel it's too tanky for you, I suggest replacing Deflection with Force Weapon or Ignite (if your weapon doesn't have +fire damage affix).
- With +fire damage weapon (or Ignite rune) you provide constant +30% incoming damage debuff, which makes you one the best party DPS buffers in the game.
I like to alter the build depending on what I need by replacing Magic Weapon with:- Archon, if I want some burst against elites @ T2+.
- Slow Time / Time Warp for even stronger party DPS buff.
Old (level 60) build:Remember the good ol' "blizzard + venom hydra + piercing orb" cookie-cutter AP-less build? It was so popular after the release, since crappy gear couldn't support Archon and CMWW. Since my legacy Archon gear doesn't have APoC or any fancy legendary affixes, I've decided that I'll run some build that doesn't need any of that.
http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/wizard#UlQjSO!WdZ!cbccZZ
Pros:
- Doesn't need APoC, AP regen, max AP - nothing.
- Doesn't depend on any legendaries.
- Nice party DPS buffer.
Cons- Doesn't depend on any legendaries - not as fancy as single-element builds.
- No huge crits.
Why Electrocute + Arc Lightning?Its scaling coefficent is rather high for a signature spell, it's free, it's AOE and it hits WAY faster than blades, which means your Familiar/Cannoneer turns into AOE machinegun. Also, it makes a wizard look like a badass jedi.
Why Cannoneer instead of Sparkflint?
Because it kicks ass.
Why Blizzard?
Because with Snowbound it's dirt cheap. Because it's nearly passive fire-and-forget source of sustained damage. Because with Cold Blooded it gives +10% damage to you and your party. Because it lets you kite when you need to survive those seconds until your potion goes off the cooldown.
Why Magic Weapon + Force Weapon?
Because there's never enough damage.
Why Calamity instead of Wormhole?
Personal preference. Teleport and Illusionist are optional here, I just like to have that escape + control + AOE damage on one button that's almost always off the cooldown when I need it. Take anything you want here.
Why Blur?
I hate dying.
Why Energy Armor?
I hate dying. And I like crits, so...
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Also, I personally hate face-tanking as a DH. I'd like to see CA changed to something like +500% CHD, - 50% Vit, -50% AR, -50% Armor. I mean, I want to play as a fragile kiter that relies on huge crits from range at MP10, but right now I can't play DH as a glass cannon, since there's simply no cannon (yes, RF is nice, but it still requires face-tanking).