Just a quick Q can you facetank siegebreaker with this? He has reflect damage archon is not always viable without enough LL

I can face tank seigebreaker in archon mode, but maybe in 1.0.5 it won't be viable in high MP lvl.


I've not been able to get on PTR, and testing in the current patch is hard to judge since storm chaser still have a massive proc.

However I don't get why a lot of people are saying mistral breeze is the solution.
Mistral is 20 AP per twister.
Storm chaser is 35 AP for the starting twister, and you can click a sig skill to release the stored twister. Meaning it's really 17.5AP per twister.

I currently spam 1 SC 1 Sig anyway, feels like SC will be able to spam twisters at a lower cost. Also I get to release an additional sig attack, which for me is already healing blade and in the 1.0.5 patch this will only get more power (dps buffed, range buffed, healing buffed a lot).

Also the sig twister at some point used to have a higher proc rate to the storm chaser base twister proc, Haven't been able to get on PTR to test if they lower sig twister's proc rate. The only downside is the stored twister travels in a straight line and quickly away from you, which could mean it's not hitting as many enemies.

How do you facetank siegebreaker in archon? How much LL?

2.9%LL, wiz can't really stack too much LL anyway, it's just that 1 weapon. Unless you go for 2h which can stack more LL.
Barbs have mighty belt + passive (and most of them dual wield) so can have much more LL.

even no LL is ok, he drops globes and you can pop potions. So basically you can still just stand there and kill him.

i will post this also here (sorry for posting in 2 place) but i'd need a "quick" answer for this one
my currently one is
699 armor / 69 int / 155 vit / 69@ (no sock)

if u have that much money for use, W would buy tal rasha chest with allres.

isn't it worse?
3 zunimassa pieces give me an exta 55@?


picking the first one for the moment, might update later


1k@ now

This post was edited by mxO on Sep 25 2012 02:56am

zuni chest second one is better, almost impossible for 4%, 73 vita. you'd need to already have insane vita for 4% > 73vita. and that's if your other gear doesn't also give life% (mempo, ice climbers have base life %).

as for 3 peice zuni, massing that much res is an overkill. you want more dps if you want to not be there for ages. Anyway more ias = more dps = more lifesteal so it's not all bad for survivability as well. Not to mention the faster the mobs die the less they hit you and the more often you get health globes.

thanks a lot for the tips, i will be upgrading to tal armor later when i can afford a decent one
picked the first one because i wanted fire res, azmos fire ball kills me in 1 hit and it makes me rage :/

purching also new shoulders for the last 10m
177 vit / 171 int / 10 % life

This post was edited by mxO on Sep 25 2012 03:27am

Reflect dmg ist fucking retarded again.
I have like 1200-1300@ in archonmode, 190kdps(buffed), 42k life and 2.5ls. Cant kill "dmg reflect" champs in a2, it drains my hp so fucking fast.
Its nice that they reduced the dmg that the enemies do by 25% but that doesnt affect the reflected dmg I do to myself, the prisma nerf wasnt a help either lol.

Tested on plvl4.

Btw, Meteor is ass if you want to use it to reduce the archon cooldown. Before I could reduce the whole cooldown I already killed 1-2 champ packs with meteor.

overall, huge nerf for archon wizards imho.

This post was edited by zgnade on Sep 25 2012 03:42am