@MadChickins: LS weap is not necessary, blood magic is sufficient provided you have sufficiently high DPS and EHP. Although it could be painful to run archon in high mp's without godly stats, which isn't achievable with LS weap.

sigh, dude, that's kinda unbalanced. Why did you have to use mempo for that budget? That's a crappy mempo, just 3 cc, versus 6cc storm it sucks. Believe me, you could get 72 ias from gear with storm crow, that is without crappy Inna's, crappy zuni ring, etc. and just use bubble for 3,003 bp. And if you are that stubborn, go with 10 ias wand. Breaking 200k dps with glassy cm/ww is just retarded imo, you will be stuck to crystal shell and low cc (meaning deep freeze and slow cooldowns) forever. Your effective dps suffers. Just my 2 cents.

yup i know..i was stubborn and dont wanna rely on bubble so i can either use teleport or meteor

as of my current gear..what do you suggest i change if i wish to try what you suggested?

guys im looking for improvement ideas.
something that improves dps and armor at same time.

http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Simba-2186/hero/8111104

i dont really die now, but i sometimes need to do some maneuvering to kill certain packs.
i was thinking of searching pox with ias instead of litany, and then zuni boots with res and armor, and after i compensated ias and ms - diggers or good rare pants. Hard to replace that -7% on litany though. And also similar rare ring but with loh to improve that a bit.

Have you got any other ideas? (please dont say bt pants )
Thanks in advance

Hey guys I have been gone from D3 for about 5 months or so. This is how I left off: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Koston-1229/hero/4003106
What kind of gear do I need to be looking for to make the most efficient wizard? Whats the deal with IAS now? Must-have items?

@nong: Yea you want to maintain teleport for sure. Best spell for SNS edps And no point running without shocking aspect, it's a very huge % of your dps, some have said 40%!
@Drake22: Please upgrade your int gems! Cheap and quick upgrade. For your gear, it's pretty tough to upgrade without changing many items as I'm sure you know. The easiest thing to upgrade is your tal armor. it's the least significant impact and will not affect anything else. You can get a tal chest with ~800armor with higher int, vit and maintain AR as well.

This post was edited by ElijahBailey on Mar 21 2013 07:39pm

I will ask mods to sticky this, cba answering wiz questions in millions of separate threads.

depends on your dps.

correct me if i'm wrong, but i believe blood magic provides about 1.5% life steal. you figure if you're pushing out 450k+ dps buffed up, it should be enough. there are few archons i know that run higher than mp6 tbh. i'm sure they're out there, but when i think archon, and when i have run archon, i face blast the crap out of everything, never dropping archon, no life steal, and run on globes. RD monsters i just wait til their shield drops and blast away. in full archon config i push out 385k dps buffed and ran mp3 no problems.


THOUGH i have done some testing lately, and tried to figure out ways that archon in higher mp (5-8) is viable and i came to this conclusion: maintaining full CM gear (56.5cc 2.77aps etc etc), and just switching skills to archon, allows me to toss up twisters to reset archon cooldown, and instead of spamming disintegrate, i run arcane strike and arcane blast. my attack speed + CM proc cooldown on arcane blast, and my LoH keeps me alive. imo and from observation, the edps using this method is a substantial amount higher than just spamming beams at monsters. thoughts?


hope this answers your questions. i can't say anything about eHP viable for not running life steal. i just focus on max dmg and "decent" eHP stats and push for blowing out monsters before they come close

@Visaria - I concur that extremely high dps is necessary for archon to be even viable and I wouldn't consider/advise doing higher mp's unless gear was fairly close to something like this:
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Jaetch-1861/hero/4136297

In regards to the skills, I do not agree with utilizing cm gear (most tiered archons use a black weapon and accompanying equipment to boost dps far higher than the typical chantodo set) and skills (don't use twisters to reset archon) to run archon mode. Although ofc at your gear levels you can just subtitute archon for the teleport slot and magic weapon/blood magic for the eb slot and be better than most normal archons - that's what I do when I'm lazy to switch There's a post by schenko in the wiz forums (hybrid archon guide) with a pretty good set of skills IMHO to use for max archon and refresh (I believe Jaetch's profile, which I point out above) is also running that set of skills.

This post was edited by ElijahBailey on Mar 23 2013 01:40am

For higher mps (5-10) you need weapon with life steal. Now im running mp5 roha runs with 443k dps with 2.9ls from weapon and force power rune and i have no problem with reflect elites (ofc if you dont want to tank full pack).