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Quite on the spot for my toons aswell :Thumbs Up: good stuff

I'd swap out that EF for the best Lifesteal weapon you can afford, and swap storm armor to energy-prismatic firstly.
As you are playing a hardcore wizard, I'd worry more about survival (ehp) than sheat dps.

Inna's pants and Tal's chest can both be replaced with cheaper high ehp rare items, (or BT pants+high vit/int zuni robe)

Most of all from D2 I miss the Runewords.

They provided a way to farm and craft gear that had mostly fixed stats.
When RNG was of a concern it was for the endgame runewords. (cta/enigma)
The only problem with the runeword system, was those few "BiS" runewords were too strong(popular).
And it wasnt due to no alternatives, but just that they gave your character such strong skills (warcry/shout & teleport)
But the midrange and lower runewords were excellent to use compared to most blue/yellow drops. (and way more fun)

Farming countess and hellforge is a viable way to farm for enigma(or other high end runewords), without any use of bots and whatnots for endgame.


Else Some of the bigger features i miss from D2 would be:

- Ladder resets
- National chat rooms (before bots)
- Significant XP loss on Death (encourage to not leech in Publics)
- A2 merc auras, A1 merc with Lightning Hose
- Gems (160/60armor on wfzon)
- Horadric Cube
- The option to turn hostile.
- Hammerdins
- Furyzons

Great post sticky please.

Replace your triumvirate for a new one with APoC and higher average damage. Secondly buy a cheap Storm Crow helmet with socket, which you want to have an exp gem in. You should be ready for CM build at low MP. Save your big bucks for zuni boots, witching hour, mempo etc.

the obvious upgrades would be to try to get (snipe) a witching hour belt, or a lacuni prowlers bracer.

Anyone who played Diablo 2 knows how duping shows up ingame when it becomes "rampant".

And by that statement it is safe to say that duping is by no means rampant anywhere in D3 (yet).

Make it so that you are only allowed to play with your own credit card would get rid of all the hate-filled teenragers.

Would be interresting to see avg Paragon level by class, to see the gap between barbs and other classes.

Prices on EU gold AH is quite much steeper than on US, i'd guess atleast 3-4 times the prices on high end gear.

The D3 server software is the same regardless of which IP adress (server) your current game is hosted on.

Hot IP's will not be interresting until they add some sort of pandemonium (server) events or similar.

RNG RNG RNG Bananaphone

Try to swap out the prismatic rune for force armor, this should make you less squichy.

And swap Fracture for Wormhole as you dont want mobs chasing mirrors.
+you get a huge speed boost when it comes to farm efficiency.


Smart positioning as EyeBrows said makes a ton of difference.
Run into a corner, let em all come to you > Nova > Port into middle of herd > Gung Ho.

LoH is nice, but you can manage very well with just a little bit of it.

- Use atleast 2 items with AP on Crit. (Helm+OH, 1k+dps weaps with IAS/Crit X/APoC is expensive)
- Buy a cheap Storm Crow helmet, gives enough LoH so you can use a 1k+dps weapon w/o LoH.
- add IAS, and more IAS on other gear.
- Then add more Crit chance > Crit damage for dps, or @res for survivability.

Dont be afraid of getting a couple 100's of DEX either to get your dodge up abit.

10armor does not equal 1 all res.

Damage reduce from armor hits diminishing returns at 50%, which equals to abit above 3k armor.
Adding another 2k armor, adds another 15% of mitigation, to achieve the same with all res you only need about +100

Your gear is more than good enough to farm a3, but abit more all res wouldn't hurt.

I recommend getting some AP on crit items, and go for a CM/SC build - it is situationally even stronger than the old CM/WW.