Diablo 3

[ffr212]

Re: Diablo 3

The obvious choice for Archon CDR is to use 2 piece Captian Crimson set bonus and 3 piece Born's. But in using the two, no matter how you do it (even if you use Ring of Royal Grandeur) you give up a really important DPS item and Vyr's 4 piece.
For example to get Captain Crimson you need to use the legs and boots in order to wear a Witching Hour, but then you can't use Vyr's set. For Born's, you need to use the chest and shoulders in order to use Gesture of Orpheus wand, but then you can't use Vyr's set. In each case, having Vyr's set trumps the 10% CDR because the flat 20 second reduction in CD from gaining the Pure Power rune is better than 10% CDR (only 12 second reduction)

For me, I'd rather have 20% more dps and a minor 4 seconds wait between archons, but it's a choice you have to make for yourself.

My ideal set would be:
Andy's helm - arcane damage, int, AS and socket for diamond (can't roll crit but that's ok)
Moonlight Ward - arcane damage, int, crit, reroll attack speed to crit damage
Born's shoulders
Born's chest - Born's is the better of the two 10% CDR set bonuses because it comes with the 2 piece %life bonus
Vyr's gloves - int, crit, crit damage, CDR. CDR is more important than attack speed in slots you can get it.
Strongarm Bracers - archon form melee has a built in tiny knockback, these are OP with archon
Witching Hour belt
Vyr's pants
Vyr's boots - Disintegrate damage. The only place I get +skill damage because there's literally nothing else to roll here. Very useful for the 4 seconds I'm not an archon.
Ring of Royal Grandeur - required to get both Vyr's and Born's because they share a slot. int, Crit, Crit damage, and CDR
Stone of Jordan - arcane damage, %damage to elites, int, and crit. Can't roll crit damage but the arcane and elite damage are better so that's just fine. My only slot that can roll CDR that won't have it.
Gesture of Orpheus wand - arcane damage
Triumvirate - arcane damage

This gives Vyr's 4piece, one of the two 10% CDR sets, every item in the game with +arcane damage, and the most crit and crit damage you can get while wearing the sets.

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/GoodIdea-1513/hero/35650591

Here ya go, you are right about 2 piece Crimson and 3 piece Born, think the only reason this is two peice Born is because everything else is highest CDR role.

and that bet is being swapped out for the witching hour when it drops.

[hi19hi19]

Re: Diablo 3

GIG uses both and that's because for some reason he's REALLY horny for the idea of perma archon. Probably so he can put "perma archon" in his stream title and get viewers.
I also have no idea why he uses Tal's, because Andy's and Vyr's chest has more DPS on it. 20% arcane damage outweighs 5% crit and 5% arcane damage, I've checked using a character builder (unless I did my math wrong?)
Maybe he wants Tal's 3set for the all res? He has perma archon so there's literally no reason to do that for the AP regen...
Believe me I've watched his stream a bit and I am not a fan of his gearset.

I'm fine with a wait between archons, so I want Vyr's. I'm also not a huge fan of Gloves of Worship even though I know they are BiS for basically everything, so once again I'm fine using Vyr's gloves.

[ffr212]

Re: Diablo 3

GIG uses both and that's because for some reason he's REALLY horny for the idea of perma archon. Believe me I've watched his stream a bit and I am not a fan of his gearset.

I'm fine with a wait between archons, so I want Vyr's.

Yeah, I love that constant Arch, and it doesn't actually always need to be on, partially considering you aren't in combat a good percentage of time, so yeah something in place of the extra archon time like dmg output or something else like Vyr would be perfect.


also--edit,

could you link your gear? I'm in the process of gearing my wizard right now and love all the help I can get.

[hi19hi19]

Re: Diablo 3

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/hi19hi19-1232/hero/42626847

Nothing here is final except my Moonlight Ward which is almost perfect, and my Witching Hour which is probably as good as I'll ever get.
Wearing Captain Crimson's at the moment because I don't have a Ring of Royal Grandeur. I keep getting the damn shoulders from my act1 bags...
Also don't look at my build, this is what I use for farming exp (Ghom and T6 bounties) and not what I usually use in rifts.

I also have frost and lightning sets I'm building for fun.
I have so much good fire gear (great Cindercoat, Magefists, 19% Firebird's Eye) but fire builds never appealed to me despite it being OBVIOUSLY the best of the elements for raw endgame damage. Most of them are really plain, or are Wand of Woh builds that never interested me (I've already had that experience back when CM was a thing rofl)

[hi19hi19]

Re: Diablo 3

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/wizard#WRmQSO!cUbh!bYbZcc

This is normal rifting build, way less damage, way more survivability. Depending on torment level I swap Prismatic Armor for Power of the Storm so I can Disintegrate longer.
I'm too much a fan of Unstable Anomaly to use Unwavering Will or Audacity, I like my free Aatrox passive.


EDIT- found it, this is the streamer that uses a set I like. He recently got a Moonlight Ward btw
This is what I would run if I was going for a no-CDR Vyr's build.

http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/avoid-2691/hero/19239557

It's pretty standard but really effective, easily do T6.
I'm debating between this and the CDR build I linked above, because CDR is fun but honestly less effective.

[ffr212]

Re: Diablo 3

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/h.../hero/42626847

Nothing here is final except my Moonlight Ward which is almost perfect, and my Witching Hour which is probably as good as I'll ever get.
Wearing Captain Crimson's at the moment because I don't have a Ring of Royal Grandeur. I keep getting the damn shoulders from my act1 bags...
Also don't look at my build, this is what I use for farming exp (Ghom and T6 bounties) and not what I usually use in rifts.

I also have frost and lightning sets I'm building for fun.
I have so much good fire gear (great Cindercoat, Magefists, 19% Firebird's Eye) but fire builds never appealed to me despite it being OBVIOUSLY the best of the elements for raw endgame damage.

Holy shit that Witching Hour, and thanks, I'm fairly new but caught on quick being a D2 player and watching a lot of different streamers. It helps too with the boosted gear drops and bloodshards and shit.

[choof]

Re: Diablo 3

Wish I could give you my monk lol, I'm starting to not like her.

[Reach]

Re: Diablo 3

Yeah, I think you're right Hi and going for 100% archon is really dumb. You sacrifice way too much. I think even waiting more than 10 seconds is fine...20-30 is probably fine for most bounties and rifts anyway because: 1. you can have way higher stats this way and 2. If you want to farm optimally in most areas you can just spend time between archons getting everything to chase you and group it up so you can kill it even faster.

[L.B.D.D]

Re: Diablo 3

slowly climbing

[Hakulyte]

Re: Diablo 3

What would be worth doing at this point on Wiz?

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Khaotix-1591/hero/17540787

[Reach]

Re: Diablo 3

So I was playing for an hour just now. I did two rifts, got 14 legendaries, two set pieces.

I spent 50 blood shards at Kadala and got 5 legendaries o_o

Of those 19 legendaries in a single hour, 10 of them were two handed weapons. Despite the fact I've been desperate for a good weapon.

The rest were almost exclusively bad other than a pair of fire walkers.

The set pieces were both pretty nice though. Vyr pants I was looking for

Yet I tried to reroll 2 sockets on them...15 times, and have thus far failed 15 times. Only once did I roll socket despite there being only 6 options, and it rolled a single socket.

What the hell is going on here o_o

[Hakulyte]

Re: Diablo 3

Drop chance for legendary "in rifts" changed from 25% to 100% from the original value. (which means it's not really 100% but 4 times higher than before)

[L.B.D.D]

Re: Diablo 3

RNG baby

i rolled my IK hat for 6cc like 15 times too and i only have 4.5 cc

[Reach]

Re: Diablo 3

Yeah, but I've never had something like that happen before (I ran almost 10 in a row the other day without getting a single legendary).

And then most of them being two handed weapons and the mystic fucking with my pants.

Strangest hour of diablo I've ever played.

[L.B.D.D]

Re: Diablo 3

What would be worth doing at this point on Wiz?
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/K.../hero/17540787

go for diff class or set builds

you have like no set items