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""We’re always striving to improve the balance of the game, but we’re not trying to do it by explicitly and constantly nerfing the most powerful build simply because it’s popular. The fact remains that we’ve buffed underused skills FAR more than we’ve toned down powerful ones, and our general rule will be to buff rather than nerf whenever possible.""


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Just tested PTR finally.

- Blood magic nerf to the buff hasn't been put in yet.
- Blood weapon fix for archon hasn't been put in yet either. I'm assuming the rest of the updated 1.0.5 changes aren't in either.
-triumvirate in new patch will give more dps

Killing white mobs to maintain archon isn't a problem if you have 200k+ dps, even in MP10 it's ok-ish and your archon down time isn't too much (in solo).

Killing elites in MP10 is madness, the hp is insane and they hit really hard in act 3. HP on it's own isn't a problem a 20-30mil hp elite can still be killed in under a minute, IF i don't die. Some mobs i can kite or dodge their attacks manually and it's alright. The fast ones that i can't dodge I'm dying a lot.

Saw 1 rare monster on 50mil hp on solo, crazy HP.

MP5-6 is quite manageable and I'm playing it similar to act 3 in the current patch. 7-10 gets tough. I've got 230k dps, 1k all res in archon mode (not using prismatic armor), 2.9% LL. Not able to maintain hp against some elites if I have to tank too many hits and can't manually kite. I guess with some 1.0.5 rings/amulets I might be ok, will try to stack ias/cc/res instead of trifecta.

/e biggest problem is a sustainable life source. Stacking Loh isn't really a good option since almost everything have low loh proc, stacking LL at high DPS is ok until you run into elites on high MP level and since we can't stack enough of it we've got a problem. It would be good if wiz source can also get 3% LL then i think all problems can be worked around.

This post was edited by RedV on Sep 28 2012 03:23pm

guys im trying a 1h weap with archon at 200k dps with 3.00 lifesteal, i dont seem to be getting any life back from this set up even with a good source offhand as well. im saying this compared to int skorn with lifesteal, still seems to be the way to go for lifesteal to be useful, even with this triumverate trend ppl are talkin bout

you do get life back and that's probably the best way of getting life back as a wiz with 200k dps. This is our biggest problem, can't get enough life sustainability. Forced to use 2handers to try and get more LL% is going to really limit wiz play and annoying as hell since it's slow and you'll drop a lot of CC.


I saw this guy in act 1 and i was like O_O

lmao so whats the answer use lifesteal and loh or something haha

well, 1h weapons can have up to 3% lifesteal, and affix lvl 63 amus can get up to 600 loh. rings can also get up to 300 loh.
so in theory, it should be possible to get 2.5% lifesteal and ~800 loh without paying billions.

This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Sep 28 2012 03:48pm

gonna wait till the blood weapon fix hits the server, 4,5% might be enough.
5% dmg drop is imho worth it. especially if you already kill fast enough.

does that come out to 4.5 tho

mixing loh and lifesteal sounds inefficient

This post was edited by omegaash on Sep 28 2012 04:53pm