What about when you get vortexed and hit for more than your Max hp?
Or mortar/Reflect damage, if u leave blizz/hydra up and kite, you will just kill yourself unless u have semi-decent HP regen.
Diamond skin is my solution to both of that. Illusionist procs above DS, so If i see myself flying to a pack of rares due to a vortex I press DS and spam Teleport until i'm out, sometimes Diamond skin is not Up, then It's just damn luck. Sometimes I can teleport out even without diamond skin because i got hit by something in the way or the other mobs were just slower to hit me than the first.
Regarding reflect damage, hydra damage takes a bit to ramp up and I'm only taking damage when I'm doing damage, so if i have to do damage i wait for DS to be out of CD and burn them as much as i can while it's up, If i'm about to die (less than 40% of my health) I pop the hydra again far away from the rares and keep running around until I regen some health.
Even tough these are probably the hardest mob it's an improvement over fast mobs and vortex mobs when you don't have ilussionist and teleport.
Been using this build since early inferno (A3 now). The build consists on anything you like with teleport (fracture rune for me, for some extra seconds of dps while they attack my clones) and ilussionist.
With enough HP to make FA work I can use Teleport every time I get hit, with a decent amount of life regen and a pot I can effectively kite everything. There is no counter to this (I can teleport out of jails and walls or vortex which are usually the nightmare for wizards).
If you never tried this go ahead, the only downside for me is that now I can't play any other way.
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Diamond skin is my solution to both of that. Illusionist procs above DS, so If i see myself flying to a pack of rares due to a vortex I press DS and spam Teleport until i'm out, sometimes Diamond skin is not Up, then It's just damn luck. Sometimes I can teleport out even without diamond skin because i got hit by something in the way or the other mobs were just slower to hit me than the first.
Regarding reflect damage, hydra damage takes a bit to ramp up and I'm only taking damage when I'm doing damage, so if i have to do damage i wait for DS to be out of CD and burn them as much as i can while it's up, If i'm about to die (less than 40% of my health) I pop the hydra again far away from the rares and keep running around until I regen some health.
Even tough these are probably the hardest mob it's an improvement over fast mobs and vortex mobs when you don't have ilussionist and teleport.
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Been using this build since early inferno (A3 now). The build consists on anything you like with teleport (fracture rune for me, for some extra seconds of dps while they attack my clones) and ilussionist.
With enough HP to make FA work I can use Teleport every time I get hit, with a decent amount of life regen and a pot I can effectively kite everything. There is no counter to this (I can teleport out of jails and walls or vortex which are usually the nightmare for wizards).
If you never tried this go ahead, the only downside for me is that now I can't play any other way.
Is anyone else using this?
This is the build: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/wizard#bRQXSO!dfb!bbYaZY
Like I said, everything except Teleport and Illusionist is user preference.
Cheers!