Quote (Mad1Lee @ 11 Jan 2013 04:59)
Well, you got more expensive wizard than me, that's obvious, but I don't understand how are you making it work with Meteor and 20 apoc. How often do you spam meteor? Because my guess is it eats ap pretty quickly, ap that you need for wicked winds and blasts. Do you spam it like once in 6-7 seconds?
In terms of life, I did quite a few mp10 uber runs, I never die to siegebraker and ghom duets, with magda I just need to be careful, that's all. I doubt extra 10k life will save me there, because leoric's moonwalk or magda lasers deal huge damage. Key is to stay close to magda and freeze her - Leoric will join anyway. Otherwise you are bound to eat her projectiles and sentries.
I tried going shards-nado-shock today, I do pretty ok vs reflect and double reflect packs. I have to be extra careful. What really killed me like 2-3 times at mp5 were hands of pestilence, without prismatic health goes down dramatically quicker. Gotta get trifecta zuni, but I don't know if I ever save enough gold for it. But Litany of the Undaunted I sniped for 100 mill does wonders.
About Unity Ring - I dunno, man, it got 8 ias max and no resists, not sure about it.
EDIT: With prismatic and shards I just don't die.
I just wanted to show a second alternative using 2,73 aps breakpoint and a different route in terms of item combination (mempo instead etc.), wasnt about better or more expensive or sth.!
the gameplay with meteor is as following:
you build up few winds quickly, then cast few meteors until you realise arcane not refreshing as before, then refresh few winds, then again meteors.
You should have meteors up quite constantly, which is especially important for the conflagaration effect.
i bet you made the uber runs with diamond skin crystal shell right? because otherwise magda or leo 1 shot you with less than 30k life. and even with it you get 2 shotted definitely.
Of course you can play super cautious etc, but in my opinion the cm wizz should always be able to stand its ground and perma stun, even with projectiles and leo spinning around, so that others are able to do dmg or avoid being hit. But thats just me.
Hands of pestilence is just imba dmg in any way, same as a few other monster effects, which are just hilarious in terms of dmg output.
And about unity, look at the stats again:
- the average dmg is a HUGE dps boost
- high int on it as well
- high loh on board, even up to 3xx
- crit on house
- elite dmg on house, which is a few k dps as well
- 1 free affix, which can be ias or critdmg, depending on rest equip
the only downside is no res as you mentioned, but seriously, there is nearly no comparison dps wise to this ring, period!
and you just dont wanna use prismatic, you will lose about 50-70% dps without storm armor, its just not worth it, then rather switch diamond skin
check this topic about dps comparisons:
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/7004691927This post was edited by Mesmerise on Jan 11 2013 12:34pm