From: foolm0ron | #438
Yeah, on lower difficulties, 2Hand works really well because you can just sit there and spam high-AP skills at a slower rate, and since AP regenerates at a constant rate, you get higher DPS. In Normal and Nightmare right now, AP is definitely my DPS bottleneck. That's why my build focuses on reducing AP cost, so I can spam more. In this case, a 2Hand works the best. But I can imagine in Hell/Inferno, you can't just sit there and blow everything up, even with Diamond Skin, so AP management won't be your biggest issue.
Right I'm starting to feel like teleport and Hydra are going to be a necessary party of a high end Wizard's kit.
But I'm not sure if which Hydra to go with and if I want to drop a passive spot to enhance the hydra. (Give it a chance to stun w/ electricity, slow with arcane, or increased DPS with fire).
I basically got through Nightmare using Disitintgrate + Decreased AP Use on Lightning Shield + Decreased AP Use on Diamond Skin, but I don't think that's going to fly anymore.
Although I did fun stuff vs Diablo.
Arcane Hydra (+ Slow on Arcane damage passive) on right click.
Frost Beam (with reduced cost)
Teleport (with the 2 illusions rune)
AoE Knockback (with stun)
Diamond Skin (increased duration)
Frost Armor (with chill aura)
My DPS was very slow since it relied on frost beam for most of it, but diablo was incredibly easy to kite to death on nightmare. But using the passive that gives you 20 max AP and 2 AP/second means that you can afford to make frost beam your Left click without ever running dry effectively.
But yeah he would run up to me and get slowed by the arcane hydra and beam and chill aura.
Or he would get near me and get pushback/stunned.
Or he would get closer to me and I could TP away.
Or he would actually hit me and usually get frozen.
Also I learned that you can reflect Diablo's scream back with the pushback. I wasn't sure it was a projectile ^_^
But I'm definitely going to be doing a lot more tinkering during my Hell runs to figure out what I think is actually most practical/best.
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