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    posted a message on A Wizard's Dear Abby Letter: Stuck In A DPS Rut
    ^^ Agreed with Bagstone here. Right now I'm doing my runs with a Tal's Helm and I was so pleased with the result that I bought another one with All Resistance.

    The INT amount + Critical Chance (5~6), %Life and Open Socket makes this helm very competitive on cost/benefit. Obviously a Mempo with Critical will net more DPS (and possibly more EHP), but the cost is just to high for medium-geared players as I am.
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    posted a message on Thanks, and a question to improve myself
    I'm using none of these. My armor nowadays is Ice Armor/Crystalize, due to 60% +Armor buf and 12% less melee damage.

    It does offer a damage boost to mobs too close, due to Cold Blooded passive, and it gets my armor to 8000 when in Archon and 6000 without Archon. The damage reduction is very good (about 89% without Archon and 92~93% with Archon).

    For me, it's more cost-effective than Energy Armor and Storm Armor, because I need the armor buff. The damage buff is a bonus for those mobs who are stupid enough to attack me. :P

    EDIT: Fully buffed with the 3 stacks, I can take 2 Bulls charge without dying and they are usually frozen after they hit me, so I can recover life fast.
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    posted a message on WTF is it with all the "party build" threads lately?
    Quote from maka

    Quote from Zero(pS)

    I'm actually leaning heavily towards group play as being vastly superior these days.

    If people know what they're doing, and aren't complete douches, this is absolutely true.

    Couldn't agree more. I run on a group with a well geared WW-Hammer barb, a poorly geared monk and myself. The monk, knowing he is incapable of doing more DPS right now acts as a tank and buffer (he has nice healing and DPS group buffs).

    The playing experience for all of us is great, and so is the XP. We do carry the monk with us, but it's not a burden. Alone the barb plays MP9, with us MP8 or 7. Alone I play on MP8, and the monk plays MP3 (because he can't kill anything fast).

    Before learning a little more how to play Archon correctly, they carried me on lower MPs. And slowly we are gearing the monk so he can play by himself on higher MP's, allowing our group farm to run faster.
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    posted a message on Question: Does Arcane Dynamo buff Archon ?
    Too bad. I was hoping to keep the buf until out of Archon Mode. Thanks Loroese!
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    posted a message on Question: Does Arcane Dynamo buff Archon ?
    I've done some runs today on MP3, to test an hypothesis, and, as I'm not a theorycrafter anyhow, I think my conclusions are wrong, but I'd like to hear from you guys.

    Here's my test:
    1) Enter MP3, Act 3, Kill Ghom Quest.
    2) Kill Ghom on Archon mode in 15 seconds;
    3) Rinse and repeat.

    This test was done 4 times in a row, always on this time: 14~15 seconds.

    Next test:

    1) Enter MP3, Act 3, Kill Ghom Quest.
    2) Bufs Arcane Dynamo (5 stacks), out of Archon Mode;
    3) Kill Ghom on Archon mode in 11 seconds;
    4) Rinse and repeat.

    This was also done 4 times in a row, with timings between 11 and 12 seconds.

    So, I may (and very likely I am) wrong, but, "Does Arcane Dynamo buff Archon ?"
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    posted a message on Grumpy Wizard
    He, this made me chuckle. Totally on the mood of a Wizard...
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    posted a message on Getting from mp8 to MP10
    What are you finding difficult right now ?

    Are you dying much ? Are you taking longer to kill the monsters ? Are you running out of arcane power while casting the spells ?

    You got great gear, and without more information I find it will be difficult to help... :)

    The only 2 things I find odd at your toon on Battle.Net is that you have low life on hit for a CMWW Wiz, and you are using Conflagration as a passive, without a single fire spell. Is this because the Chantodo generates fire damage ? Does it boost your damage, measurably ?

    By the way: Nice Chantodo Force!
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    posted a message on [Guide] Black Ice
    I've seem a video with Archon + Arcane Destruction killing Ghom (I don't remember the MP) only with the boom-transformation.

    It's a hell of an explosion.

    I think Archon would help you a lot with this build, it busts your EHP high and your DPS also. And Archon is fun, with LASERS, LASERS EVERYWHERE (tm). :P

    OK, FOUND THE VIDEO:

    (sorry for shouting, but it's fun)

    But my 2 cents: I like slow time and meteor. I think a build focused on "Death Raining From The Sky" suits our Wizardry power. Although not very effective for the game, I think its fun to see a huge meteor blasting on the heads of the demons while they're being frozen... :P
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    posted a message on [Guide] Black Ice
    Nice video! Some high tension moments! Were you on MP8 ?
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    posted a message on Contest: Free Archon Set - Come Play
    ^^ No problem, my guess was far from the right one ! :) (210 million off, to be exact)

    <rant>
    As a side note, one thing made me sad: We wizards have to spend way more gold than other classes in order to be able to farm higher MP's...
    </rant>
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    posted a message on Contest: Free Archon Set - Come Play
    Late thanks is late, but is true. Thanks Jaetch, this was fun. And I by comparing this set with mine I've learned a lot. After some spending this weekend I'm almost at the same DPS and a little more EHP.

    New Triumvirate and Sword, new Gloves and Bracers and I'm now able to farm at MP8. Heck, I'm even killing Ghom on MP8 without much skill.
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    posted a message on Contest: Free Archon Set - Come Play
    And remembering: for those wanting to check the set, please look at http://d3up.com/b/598017
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    posted a message on Contest: Free Archon Set - Come Play
    Quote from Jaetch

    @Bribous & Zero - You guys can guess, but how does it feel that even if you guess the EXACT number, you still can't win? :P

    No problem whatsoever! Just by creating the build on D3UP I will be able to learn something useful, like, why the inferno couldn't I reach this kind of DPS so far ? :P

    Quote from Jaetch

    And just patting myself on the back; looks like I timed this giveaway perfectly with the new patch. Winner will be announced at the end of the week and my Archon video guide should also be completed by the weekend as well (no guarantees, just Soon™).
    Hehehehe, I guess you have some kind of insider information! :)


    EDIT: You could link the build on your first post, I guess it would help people to analyse the set...

    EDIT2: Like I said, I've learned a few things already from this set. I'm about 60 Critical Damage low and 24% Attack Speed below the set. If I add this stats to my char, I can get to the 250kDPS (or very near) as Archon.
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    posted a message on Contest: Free Archon Set - Come Play
    My turn! I'm not eligible at all (although my main is a Wizard, I'm at 63% uptime with him, due to playing some DH and Monk last months).

    Quote from "Jaetch" »
    - No purchase necessary
    Check!

    Quote from "Jaetch" »
    - North American server
    Check!

    Quote from "Jaetch" »
    - One guess only, but you are free to edit your "guess" post.
    Check! (below)

    Quote from "Jaetch" »
    - You must main a wizard, e.g. approximately 80% of your playtime is on your wizard (80% is arbitrary, but basically most of your play time should be on a wizard).
    Fail. I'm at 63% right now, due to playing some monk and DH last couple of months. But who knows ? Maybe Jaetch feels sorry for me being a low-medium wizard for months... :)

    Quote from "Jaetch" »
    - You must have a fresh wizard, not a paragon 100 one crawling around Inferno.
    Somewhat fail. I'm paragon 40, with some hours spent... So not fresh, but not P100 yet.

    Quote from "Jaetch" »
    - You must have <40,000 elite kills in your total play history (I can adjust this number according to my own discretion).
    Check! ~17k total.

    Quote from "Jaetch" »
    - You must be an active wizard and not a loser.
    I guess I'm never going to know what this means. :)
    But, I do have some history to tell:
    http://diablostats.c...php?id=25590481


    Quote from "Jaetch" »
    - You must use this set yourself (i.e. do not give the set to your needy friend).
    Ok, agreed!

    Quote from "Jaetch" »
    - You must not sell this set for profit. I will keep track of your battletag and I will be watching you and the items via DiabloProgress and D3up. Don't mess with my generosity. When the time comes and you want to upgrade individual pieces, I will understand. Point is to use and learn from the gear set.
    Ok, agreed too!

    Anyway, here is my guess: 530 Millions gold coins.

    Battletag: machado#1633

    And, even if I don't qualify or win, this set has some very interesting ideas, and it's worth to put this on D3UP for comparison purposes. I'll see if I can do that and post a link.

    EDIT: Done creating the build on D3UP: http://d3up.com/b/598017
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    posted a message on [Guide] Black Ice
    Quote from kahaneck

    Quote from Bribous

    Quote from kahaneck

    18 APoC and didnt worked for me , sadface ... does rubberbanding prevent u from procing APoC ? i dont see any AP spikes

    ^^ I actually had some rubberbanding issues last night, but that did not made my APoC suffer. I'm playing with a bad ping of about 350~400ms (Net Virtua).

    How much Critical Chance you had when playing with 18 APoC ? Your current gear has 47.5% Critical Chance, that should be enough.

    EDIT to add the quote, since I'm on a new page. :)

    0.5 less Crit ... i tried with meteors , RoF and blizzard

    Update on APoC issue: It may be the attack speed. I changed my wand today to a faster 1.55 Slorak Madness, and now I'm running out of AP during the fight. Channeling spends more AP if you have higher attack speed.

    So far, my test is preliminar, but with 20 APoC, 46% Critical Chance and 1.80 Attacks Per Second, I can't sustain any channeling build (neither Black Ice or Disintegrate).

    EDIT: It's the attack speed. I've tested with a Mace (1.4 APS total, including my attack speed gear) and a Wand (1.55 APS total, including my attack speed gear). With the above stats, it's only possible to maintain channeling with the slowest weapon (Mace).
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