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Quote from Loroese

My recommendations for MP10 are somewhere around 200-250k dps and 87-89% mitigation, which means around 4k armor and 800-900 resists. Using crystal shell will make it work with lower but you lose out on a good 10-20% effective dps over using DS. 125k dps is fine for MP7, maybe even MP8 but you'll want more like 150-175k for MP9 to make it efficient. This assumes you use SA, which you do, and which every CMWW wizard should for solo farming.

It's going to be hard to reach high dps with the nats combo because of the very low dps on the boots. Since you're using Wormhole, you can swap to Ice climbers and trifecta ring. You'll gain dps, hp, and keep mitigation about the same but lose 3-6%CC, which will hurt your freezing strength a little so it's up to you if you want to do that.

If you really want to keep at the 2.73 breakpoint I'd consider swapping to an IAS wand instead of an OS. That could let you swap your ammy to a CC/CD one and drop your bracers for a crafted or rare pair. The downside is you'd have to upgrade your rare ring to a 9% IAS one and find a 1.79 APS wand, which can be hard to find or expensive. If you also upgraded your chest to 9% IAS you could use a 1.78 wand and keep at the 2.73 breakpoint.

If you want to drop a breakpoint, 2.5 works well for a lot of people for solo farming. That would let you make the same changes mentioned above with an IAS wand, which would let you gain quite a bit of dps and EHP. I really don't recommend running at 2.73 APS with an OS wand without high end gear, which includes a high end trifecta. You can look over my CMWW guide if you want more details about my recommendations for reaching the 2.5 or 2.73 breakpoints.

i have problem finding an affordable tal chest with AR bonus!. those are like 50 million up in the market.



Otherwise, if you just want to upgrade some pieces and get some extra mitigation, chest and pants are good places. Just replace the extra roll with +armor rolls, so get AR+armor versions. I wouldn't pay for anything under 600 total armor for the pieces though, so you might have to be patient to find a good deal.

In terms of pure dps upgrade, your OH has a lot of room for more dps. I like the extra vit but sometimes you can get more dps out of one without higher int but with much higher average damage, so I'd check like 230 ave damage, 200+int, 50+vit and 250 ave damage with 50+vit and use a spreadsheet or dps calculator to see which gives you the best dps gains for your money.

EDIT: on a side note I really disagree with the suggestion of dropping IAS on gear and using slow time to reach the breakpoint. First off, if you want to use slow time, you're much better off using Time Warp for 20% dps, so you're basically losing 20% dps to reach that breakpoint. It's much easier to gear for the extra IAS then to raise dps by 20%. Second, for solo play wormhole is arguably more useful then slow time, and in this case the OP is using wormhole. Swapping teleport for slow time changes game play significantly. It also limits gearing to some degrees in that dropping movement speed from gear is much more noticable without teleport but hardly makes a difference with teleport.

Quote from ffs9

just my 2 cents on survivability:

I think your HP are way too low. some folks would disagree but I think 40k AT LEAST, along with high mitigation, is needed for mp10 unless you're super sadomasochistic and find pleasure in dying all the time. personally I'd aim for 50k.

as loroese said 4k armor and 800+ all resist is a good benchmark concerning mitigation. as far as making up for lower values, in your case raising LoH would be a good first step as both your LoH sources are pretty low. the more LoH, the more you can get away with lower armor/all resist.

it's also worth mentioning that diamond shards adds a lot of DPS only vs many targets, even more so than shocking aspect.. so if you can clear big trash mobs easily (or easily enough -- dps is a different issue) and only die vs fewer targets or elite (unless you skip them), then switching to crystal shell is a perfectly viable option, and imo really underrated to make up for survivability issues as the DPS loss in many cases is smaller than the DPS loss by switching to more defensive equipment.

as an example, in my case, shards gives me around 20% of my DPS vs 10 targets, but only 8% vs single target -- and few strong monsters are the only problem you run into anyway. I'm using DS, but crystal shell would definitely be the first thing I'd switch to if I felt I needed more survivabiltiy.