D3 Wizards: The Arcanum

Looks like these are the legendary gems for this class

- Bane of the Powerful
- Gem of Efficacious Toxin
- Zei's Stone of Vengeance / Bane of the Trapped

Given my current build, I'll be going for BoP, GET, BotT
 
That Zei's is a great gem! Had it on my DH towards the end and can definitely see it being useful here too.

I'm probably going to go with the Firebird set as it is the most popular although I don't know (yet) what skills go along with it. I was initially going to just dupe my non seasonal wizard but that might be a mistake. I've seen guys running with a hydra on this Firebird set.

Anyway, have always loved the wizard and am definitely keen to overpower this one too!
 
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Agent_Smith said:
That Zei's is a great gem! Had it on my DH towards the end and can definitely see it being useful here too.

I'm probably going to go with the Firebird set as it is the most popular although I don't know (yet) what skills go along with it. I was initially going to just dupe my non seasonal wizard but that might be a mistake. I've seen guys running with a hydra on this Firebird set.

Anyway, have always loved the wizard and am definitely keen to overpower this one too!
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Apparently Firebird is the set (6 piece bonus) - I've been lucky and already have the helm and pants :D

Still have a long way to go though - need a RRoG, rings and ammys with sockets, gloves, a decent weapon - running with a yellow weapon in T3 just feels wrong
 
AfricanTech said:
Apparently Firebird is the set (6 piece bonus) - I've been lucky and already have the helm and pants :D

Still have a long way to go though - need a RRoG, rings and ammys with sockets, gloves, a decent weapon - running with a yellow weapon in T3 just feels wrong
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I have the gloves on my Non Season character. Still, half the fun will be hunting for them. Same boat as you though. Need pretty much everything.

Interested to see your preference for gem of efficacious toxin. Is that amplified by stats that increase poison damage? You gonna run a poison build?
 
Got an RRoG yesterday, now just need to start finding some Legs and Greens :)
 
Agent_Smith said:
I have the gloves on my Non Season character. Still, half the fun will be hunting for them. Same boat as you though. Need pretty much everything.

Interested to see your preference for gem of efficacious toxin. Is that amplified by stats that increase poison damage? You gonna run a poison build?
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Nope - Gem poisons critters then critters take extra 10% damage from all sources. Win.

Got socket on weapon that reduces slow time bubble by 60% - now for a decent source.
 
Heh! :o

Midnight run (actually, more like 00h30 to 01h15 yeilded the following

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s2-magefist.jpg

Now of course I need to get ChC rolled into the gloves and the source - pity the source doesn't have a socket but beggars can't be choosers.

Although Fire Damage is now at 50%, my base dps is too low without the ChC on these two items, so solo will have to be T1 - T2 is okay from a survival perspective but kill much too slowly - groups with a DPS dealer I'm probably ok at T3.

So that's 3 pieces of Vyr obtained - need a RoRG now [T1 split bounty runs - sigh...]

:D
 
Nice haul. I tried my luck at Kadala for that same off hand but no luck (stuck with a Chantodo's for now). It was towards the end of my stint last night though so didn't put too much effort into it. I'm not bothering with the RoRG now as I don't have enough set items to make it effective. Bounties are more about rift key fragments at the moment.
 
I found all of the ancient set pieces for the Firebird, and an ancient Magefist. Gotta start playing wizard again...they are seriously overlooked by many people but I feel they can do the most DPS when played correctly.
 
SnowWar said:
Mr Druid the Wizzard lol :D

Get that firebirds up and enjoy the fun!
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Ha ha

Nice running with a couple of peeps this afternoon but my RNG was diabolical.

10 rolls later, no ChC on gloves or source, still running a yellow bracer and non socket ammy, nothing from Kadala, 10 caches with no legendary in it....

Sigh, at least I can moan here...
 
Shaun108 said:
I found all of the ancient set pieces for the Firebird, and an ancient Magefist. Gotta start playing wizard again...they are seriously overlooked by many people but I feel they can do the most DPS when played correctly.
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That's awesome. In my little experience it appears that little tweaks make a big difference.
 
Got my second Firebird set piece last night (Firebird's Down - the pants) but still have a long way to go. Battling to solo T2 at the moment but that's to be expected I guess. Was fighting the Butcher last night as one of the bounties and eventually had to drop the difficulty down to T1 to finish it.

What passives are you guys using? Currently I'm using:

Conflagration
Cold Blooded
Elemental Exposure
Prodigy.
 
Keep at it, with the Firebird set complete things become so much easier and I do like that playstyle for the Wiz.

Remember you can, with luck craft a nice Devastator also
 
D3 Wizards: The Magic Circle

Heh!

Slowly, slowly - got the Shoulders tonight.

Chest, Boots, Gloves left...

Such a noob I am, didn't realise there are 7 pieces - so with a RoRG one could in theory do Cindercoat+Magefist+5 Firebird :eek:

Great runs with Jaco tonight - also, picked up two TalRash pieces and he gave me an ancient sword - need a Rama for my Intel, but even so it's an upgrade.
 
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Wizard looking good there AT. Didn't get a chance to play last night as I went to quiz night. Tonight got a friend arriving from JHB so probably won't get any game time either :(
 
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