The proc chance of Critical Mass is based on each spell's proc coefficient with its coefficient of 0.5, each tick of Energy Twister: Storm Chaser that crits has a 50% chance to lower your cooldowns for each enemy in its area. If you combine that with a high critical chance, you can rapidly reset the cooldowns on Diamond Skin, Frost Nova, and Explosive Blast to provide damage reduction, keep enemies frozen, and deal insane area-effect damage. The core of the build is the Critical Mass passive, which lowers all active cooldowns by one second every time you get a critical hit. The Storm Chaser rune unexpectedly had its proc coefficient doubled instead of halved, making Energy Twister builds more powerful than they were before the patch. 1.04 nerfed the proc coefficient on Energy Twister in an effort to discourage use of this build, but the nerf didn't turn out as planned.
In this guide, I detail three highly effective Wizard builds and give tips on gearing for each of them following patch 1.04.īefore the patch, most Wizards were running Critical Mass tank builds that allowed them to stay safe in melee range and deal 10 times the DPS stated on their character sheets. So how should you build a solo Wizard in 1.04?
Energy Armor is still a mandatory skill, most Wizards are still running Critical Mass builds, and the new legendaries aimed at Wizards don't seem to make any sense from an itemisation standpoint. The Energy Twister nerf backfired hilariously, and all of the underpowered spells and runes that were buffed are still pretty useless. Wizards, on the other hand, weren't so lucky.įor all the buffs described in the 1.04 wizard preview devblog, not much has really changed. Barbarians definitely made it out of the patch in the best shape, with huge buffs to Bash and Rend, buffs to two-handed weapons, and a whole host of new legendary weapons to aim for. Every class was buffed in the patch, and only a small handful of skills and items were nerfed, leaving everyone to pore over the skill windows and come up with new builds. With patch 1.04's new paragon level system, there's been a definite increase in the number of people getting back to playing Diablo III.
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