im making an archon wiz with 24% move speed, 200+k dps, 700+ all res, 40k+ life

i need to know if i need life steal or not, because i cant afford a gg 1hander with life steal.

I have to choose int skorn with 1400+ dps and life steal or 1100+ dps 1 hander with crit and socket.

Can i survive w/o life steal? The 1 hander + triumvarate will give me around 10% + more dmg. Is the life steal from blood magic(magic weapon rune, 1,5% life steal) enough?

also, is the difference betewen the attack speed of 1 hander and skorn an issue?

bought it for 278m I thought it was a good buy.

also @ zare i'll try to find one

does CM work in archon form?
made a wiz to play on side and farm mp1-2 and doesnt seem like crit hits r reducing my teleport cd when in archon

teleport isnt affected with cm, but the first explosion skill is.



the lifesteal from the blood magic rune (magic weapon) does not apply to your archon laser ability. its probably a bug or something but its been like this for months.
you can cheap out on ur 1 handers and get a 1200 dps 90+crit/lifesteal base no socket for under 50m (can hold its own simliarily the same dps as a 1100 dps 50crit/lifesteal socket base. up to a certain point until u can buy that 1150 socket/crit/ls)
make sure to use a black weapon when using triumvirate

This post was edited by MadChickins on Nov 15 2012 08:11am

life steal is pretty a must for an archon! without ls can be hard to get rid of reflect damage to mp 3 and higher.

they fixed blood magic rune lol

just recently? =D isnt that good news for all of us? lol

1.0.5 fixed it fyi

ok level mp1 or farm mp5 zzz

This post was edited by Yazuki on Nov 15 2012 08:16am

I know you said they fixed it, but! It just doesn't seem to be doing anything for me while I am in Archon form...

I did look at the patch notes though, and it is explicitly stated that they fixed blood magic for archon...

Could the patch notes be wrong?

I will readily admit that it's also hard to really determine, since it is such a low percentage...