D3 Wizards: The Arcanum

One of my season wiz also gets over 2mil weapon DPS.
But in real fight situation you don't even see a lot of procs happening compared to my DH.

It seems what ever he touches nothing wants to die.:D
 
I'll just throw this here also for Wizards interested.

Quick Tx farming build:

My idea started as a DB farm build with Sages before it went mainstream, but I saw Quin69 has made a practically identical build, with video that you can check here: http://www.diablofans.com/builds/70681-flash-fire-wizard-t10-speed

My farm toon: http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/LimpNoodle-2379/hero/43754953 (hope its updated)
Build is the same, gear a tiny bit different (better I think). For Leg farming I use Firebirds parts, for DB farming I switch it out for Sage set. (obviously Tal's stays)

Quick and tons of fun
 
Thanks Snow... also saw the Quin one last night, although a lot of people complaining was not his idea even after he mentioned it... lol, never the less you think the build will be viable without in-geom, I have the wand of who and still farming for in-geom and few tal peaces to get the farming gear going...

Not sure how easy the gameplay is but the vid looks redicilously quick in farming...
 
Beavis said:
Thanks Snow... also saw the Quin one last night, although a lot of people complaining was not his idea even after he mentioned it... lol, never the less you think the build will be viable without in-geom, I have the wand of who and still farming for in-geom and few tal peaces to get the farming gear going...

Not sure how easy the gameplay is but the vid looks redicilously quick in farming...
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I have a Placeholder version going at the moment, while I get in-geom and the Tal set.

Basically I have the Source of infinite depth for the 60% damage reduction stack.
Wand of Woh for extra EB goodness.
Cubed Cindercoat because the first one I found was trash.
Goldwrap for the DR.
Cubed some sword that has a chance on attack to explode for 2000% weapon damage as FIRE.

Using Disintegrate and Explosive Blast as my two attacks. EB is to fill in the weakness of disintegrate. Because disintegrate has so much attack speed, the 2000% weapon dmg as fire procs often. Which is basically the damage of 1.3 extra EB's instantly.
Using illusionist means that once the pack is down, teleport is usually up to move to the next one.

It is not as fast by any stretch of the imagination. But it does a decent job of matching the gameplay.
 
Beavis said:
Thanks Snow... also saw the Quin one last night, although a lot of people complaining was not his idea even after he mentioned it... lol, never the less you think the build will be viable without in-geom, I have the wand of who and still farming for in-geom and few tal peaces to get the farming gear going...

Not sure how easy the gameplay is but the vid looks redicilously quick in farming...
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Yes someone in his chat aparently mentioned it, but that person in the chat just saw it somewhere else. What people need to understand is that 99% of Quin's builds he gets from other people who make them. He then just test and maybe tweaks it and the make the vids for the masses.

By the time Quin had his video up I already had already worked out my build & gear a while ago and talked about it with a guy on Diablofans who had the same thing for DB farming.

On to your question. It will work but be slower and less dmg. With 60% CDR and without In-Geom active you will have about a 4 sec CD on Teleport and you will also have less EB explosions and so on.

I get that when I don't find elites within 12 secs of each other, which is just about never except when I'm screwing around.

I guess you can get around the Teleport CD with an AW or that offhand, but you will still do less dmg.
I think there are some non In-Geom builds around, you'll just have to go check Diablofans.
 
Just copying this post here before it gets lost in the generic thread.

Firebird's is very awkward.
Disintegrate-convergence is the staple spell for it. But honestly the straight line play style annoys the crap out of me. Monsters constantly flanking me slows the run down. I have switched over to Wave of Force - Heat Wave. With Explosive blast - Chain Reaction (Wand of Woh equipped, Focus farmed out of the cube recipe).

My other 4 slots are Teleport with stun, ice armour, familiar - arcanot, magic weapon - deflection.

It allows me to teleport into a pack and spam until everything around me is dotted up. Which is pretty quick. Then when they turn around and hit me, my Illusionist passive procs, which resets my teleport cooldown. So I just blast into the next pack and drag the dotted up stragglers with me.
The damage is slightly less on a single target than Disintegrate is. But because you dot up everything, without fancy kiting and positioning, you clear a rift much quicker than with Disi.

The only two requirements aside from the Firebirds set are Goldwrap for defenses and WoWoh to increase EB damage by a lot.

Some things that help me are the Scourge weapon enchant in my cube, and cindercoat also in the cube. They improve my efficiency but they dont make or break the build.


I do however suggest Scourge enchant for any firebird's build if you can find the weapon and haven't gotten one of the wizard specific high tier enchants yet. It procs 2000% fire damage in a radius equal to EB, with a 45% chance on attack. Even if you like Disintegrate, this enchant works wonders. It helps to take care of those pesky flankers.
 
I must say I like how you have improvised with what you have while collecting gear for the other builds. It is refreshing to see ppl trying to make things work and not just go copy and paste.

Thanks for posting, I'm sure it will help other people!
 
SnowWar said:
I must say I like how you have improvised with what you have while collecting gear for the other builds. It is refreshing to see ppl trying to make things work and not just go copy and paste.

Thanks for posting, I'm sure it will help other people!
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The poor and the desperate are often the best innovators. In D3 I am both. :D
 
Okay just picked up In-geom. So destruction is on its way. Still need some Tal's items, so only running Firebird's for now. But Firebird's still does massive damage with the EB spam. Will start crafting the DB farming items soon I think.
Also picked up a Halo of Arlys and cubed it, so now I have that awesome item for when I get my GR slow time gear.

Coming along slowly. Need to do some Act 1 bounties on TX tonight to get RORG for the cube.

Also have both focus and restraint, so will change some stats on them and put them on too.
 
SoulTax said:
Okay just picked up In-geom. So destruction is on its way. Still need some Tal's items, so only running Firebird's for now. But Firebird's still does massive damage with the EB spam. Will start crafting the DB farming items soon I think.
Also picked up a Halo of Arlys and cubed it, so now I have that awesome item for when I get my GR slow time gear.

Coming along slowly. Need to do some Act 1 bounties on TX tonight to get RORG for the cube.

Also have both focus and restraint, so will change some stats on them and put them on too.
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Nice! almost there!
 
Twister sword still wont drop. Starting to get annoyed.

On a positive note, I have managed to push the TX speed farming build all the way to between GR50 and GR55. GR55 was doable, but one or two deaths. The speed is still immense so no trouble there really.
GR50 was basically 3 minutes and some change. So for speeding gems to around level 45 or so, this I think is the way to go.
 
SoulTax said:
Twister sword still wont drop. Starting to get annoyed.

On a positive note, I have managed to push the TX speed farming build all the way to between GR50 and GR55. GR55 was doable, but one or two deaths. The speed is still immense so no trouble there really.
GR50 was basically 3 minutes and some change. So for speeding gems to around level 45 or so, this I think is the way to go.
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Just craft it. I've crafted maybe 30+ of the, but just to one ancient I'm using atm.

Regarding the speed build, I think I pop that Aquila Cuirass chest in the cube, and use Orb of ID and easily do speed 60's in 4 mins to upgrade gems :) It's awesome
 
SnowWar said:
Just craft it. I've crafted maybe 30+ of the, but just to one ancient I'm using atm.

Regarding the speed build, I think I pop that Aquila Cuirass chest in the cube, and use Orb of ID and easily do speed 60's in 4 mins to upgrade gems :) It's awesome
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I think we have established that your gear is a bit better than mine though :o Not to mention my level 25 legGems. Curse my lack of playtime.
Good to know it can push much higher though.

Going to try crafting it tonight. Have been building up my materials for just that purpose.
 
SoulTax said:
I think we have established that your gear is a bit better than mine though :o Not to mention my level 25 legGems. Curse my lack of playtime.
Good to know it can push much higher though.

EDIT: going to try crafting it tonight. Have been building up my materials for just that purpose.
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Hehe. Yes curse that playtime! Wish you where around more.
But yes the post was just to show what it can do easily.
 
SnowWar said:
Hehe. Yes curse that playtime! Wish you where around more.
But yes the post was just to show what it can do easily.
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Well last weekend was my kid's birthday party, this weekend is an in-law's 21st. I will probably be online tonight and friday night though. Hopefully a little earlier than usual.
Been needing to work into the nights too. Which has put me online at around midnight SA time. Which usually means everyone is asleep or offline by then on a work night. S6 will possibly be better for me whenever it comes around. As that will be in the Summer months over here, which only has a 1 hour time difference with SA instead of the current 2 hours.
 
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