pointless in the current metagame to be honest

also teleport - calamity is one of the worst spells I have ever seen

www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPCQYHEjwck&feature=youtu.be

and finding the perfect spec for calamity as a challenge is part of the fun. I'm also very low geared for mp6 but I still solo it in full. It takes longer, but who wants to play an easy game? I like it being very difficult. I love the chance of actually dying each elite pack.

Its not pointless if its fun, and the spec works and it actually IS quite fun.

Also, Calamity crits like crazy and makes good use of critical mass. Why don't people here just suggest a realistic change and try it themselves. If you're all that much better than me at that spec, make a youtube video with twice the gear and try it for yourselves then I can say okay, go ahead.

Also, this is quite a good pvp spec in my opinion.

This post was edited by shilofreeze on Sep 12 2013 07:16pm

you're right, i have been a bit dismissive

there is nothing wrong with being creative with making fun wizard builds, but because this game allows unbounded customization skill-wise, and with such woeful balance, the value of theorycrafting is really diminished

the day that these type of threads pop up all over the place, and are actually VIABLE, as in, competitive when compared to current cookie-cutter builds, will be the day this game can be called a good game.

it's really a pity, that blizzard ruined a game with such potential.

I honestly still believe in this spec. I know it will be viable with specific gear. The gear would display lower dps, but I`d actually pull more damage. I need an ias increase and a critical hit damage in crease, mostly ias. I can afford to drop crit chance. I do NOT need the tals set any more. I need a mempo and a witching hour and a nice rare amulet and I CAN farm them myself. My dps will never display what I actually pull. When I pull it off right, I get 500k back to back crits and just the regular hits are minimum 90k. Overall I`m at least over 250k dps. It says I only pull 138k dps, but that is inaccurate.

Pllus, there`s 3 changes I am makiing to finalize it. I found out that explosive blast also applies to archon, and has a very high crit chance. So I can get back into archon when I want and the damage will be a substantial increase without even a gear chance, at least 70k more dps because there is 2 more changes to make. I will drop the conversation because people do not see the potential in it that I do. I will drop it and if it work, which I know it wiill with the right gear, I will just keep to myself or only share with friends.

Youtube is screwing me around withy monetisation, so I may be boycotting posting my own youtube vids and avoiding the site all together.

End of discussion.

P.S. All it would take is getting rid of the 15% cooldown reduction and replace it with temporal flux. Then I would need increased attack speed, about 40 more. I would drop all of the increases to arcane regeneration and arcane on crit. Explosive blast would mean that I can get back into arcane in seconds, it would replace the diamond skin and I would put in a rune that would fit in with archon.

Calamity crits frequently, sometimes for 500k even, and the range is wide and its a cc.

I would need a witching hour, a mempo of twilight with a socket, 3.5% crit, and at least 160 intellect. I would need a good rare amulet or decent unique. I would need to keep crafting for better gloves until I get high int, ias, critical hit damage, and at least small crit, and all res. I would need a better off hand than the triumvate. I would need to put good gems in every socket.

Small drop in crit. a little bit more all res, a fair bit more critical hit damage, and whalaa, we have a successful skill spec. Keep in mind that I was making at least seven mistakes per minute of the videos I showed of 5.0.

I`ll cya in arena when its released. And people are more than welcome to play with me because my spec is quite good in groups as there is a perma (and often 2 at a time when timed right) bubbles where inside the bubble the mobs are slowed like crazy and take 20% more damage.

Message me any time.

This post was edited by shilofreeze on Sep 13 2013 12:28am

Archon or perma freeze would both be a lot better and more efficient.

If youre just talking about "fun" build's have at it .

But to be honest it sounds like you were terrible at d2 for your entire career. Not using an enigma on a trapsin, lol oh you!

I was actually pretty good believe it or not. I was very good at pvp as a foher. I chose to not use Enigma. I also set it up so I could outrun anyone who teleports. With my trapsin, I was able to out position and outmaneuver without the use of teleport. I was very fast and beat a lot of level 99s who were way more geared than me.

I was never terrible at all.

On my hammerdin I ran with enigma every time.

On my sorc, I used teleport every time.

I made a fire trapsin for fun.

I honestly played way better without teleport on my trapsin. I basically wouldn't get hit at all. Teleport only goes so fast. I would have had to sacrifice too much in my playstyle to use enigma. And also, that was the fun of it. I was VERY fast. The one non cookie cutter thing I did that worked with my trapsin was to be able to outrun teleporters with my spec and gear. Once I practiced, I never got scratched.

This guys comes in and assumes you are a noob because you don't use Enigma. Fuck Enigma haha wtf is that shit anyways broke the game

Here is 5.0 footage
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYgdAq-0r3k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0nzb_s7YgY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYgdAq-0r3k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPCQYHEjwck
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0srEwUfEZs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkWhDnTzez4

I played like crap though, I stayed up too long. I made about 14 mistakes per minute and I have 3 things wrong with that current spec.


I'm going to try 5.1 on mp4 tonight because to be honest, had too long of a day. I just want an easy chill run. I'm going to run act 2 instead though. I think some variation would be nice. It happens to be a day when I am very tired; I was requested to lower the monster power level so people can see how much this spec works. 5.1 will be mp4 act 2.

I should mention here that I actually finally found the spec to stick with as far as "telestomper" goes. I will be posting footage once I have good enough footage to post. Its a very fun spec, and I'm having to alter my gear quite a lot. I getting rid of the tals including the set bonuses so it will take time to get the right gear for the spec. I will release the spec itself in 3 days, and 2 days after that I will start posting footage of it. Keep in mind when >I< post footage, you see the whole truth. You will get to see the failures alongside the successes.

I believe that this spec will actually be amazing once arena is in place because of how much control you have over your opponents. I believe that the patch and expansion will only make the spec better.

Please don't knock the spec until you try it for yourself

Even if it isn't 100% successful... its fun as hell.

This post was edited by shilofreeze on Sep 23 2013 04:16pm