Diablo® III

Ive been using this build sinse the start of hell and am loving it so i thought i would share it.
im a level 55 wizard 20khp 1.3k armour 6.8k base damage.

For starters you will need elective mode enabled doing this will allow you to choose whatever spells you want rather then one defensive or one force. because of this i cant link a skills calculator build.

(left click) - Ray of frost + cold blood
(right click) - Blizzard + Stark winter (frozen solid works pretty good aswell)
1-Diamond armour + crystal shell
2-Teleport + Fracture (or energy armour + force armour if i need more survivability)
3-Magic Weapon + force weapon
4-Familiar + Sparkflint

Passives
1-Glass Cannon
2-Cold Blooded
3-Astral Presence

The arcane regen is enough to almost perma run ray of frost.

This works well against a pack of blue/champion mobs?

Because atm Im stuck and can't get passed 4 blue spiders with plague mortar and vampric, too much damage and not enough room to kite.

This works well against a pack of blue/champion mobs?

Because atm Im stuck and can't get passed 4 blue spiders with plague mortar and vampric, too much damage and not enough room to kite.

Thats the beauty of Diablo :)
Hit the wall with had, skip or relog.

Thats the beauty of Diablo :)
Hit the wall with had, skip or relog.

Thing is, If I relog, I lose the progress from where I'm at right? and have to start back at the start of the quest I'm on?

Hello! I'm a lvl 46 wizard and I am wondering how you can have 2 spells from 1 skill category. for example frost nova + diamond skin.

elective mode in options

Thanks!

I tired this build and im very satisfied...clearing act 3 on hell like nothing...thank you for inspiration

Thanks! Just tested this build and it works really good! :)

This build is working really nicely on Hell for me as well, but i've replaced Diamond Skin with Mirror Image(Extension of Will) because without Energy Armour it's not performing so well.

Try it with Mirror Image, it's working wonders for me.

Thanks a lot ..

Im pretty sure that sparkflint + force weapon doesn't stack, which would allow you another spell instead of the familiar ;)

They appear to be stacking for me.

well Daniel i allready tested that and they are stacking

http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/wizard#ZlXQSj!XWY!bYaYZa

Here's the build, you can use the calculator, you just need to move the skill branch over using the arrows at the top.

http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/wizard#ZlXYSj!XWY!baaZZa

I'm using this version to meet level requirements, and because I think that teleport is very fiddly.

personally i don't use teleport, or archon. if i only use something SOME of the time (and not often at that) then its a waste of a slot. if i need to get away i just armor up and run! i'm a medium-close fighting wiz, but ive had to get a little further away now in hell..

It seems great minds think alike!
I was using the exact same build (sans teleport, had frost nova instead). I tried fracture and im really digging it...

Still, tele SUCKS, should be 10s c/d (like leap), with leap's pathing...

Love this build, made a few tweaks to make it suit how I like to play more (in co-op with a tank, usually a monk)

http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/wizard#ZlXYSj!bWY!bYZZZa

I chose frost nova with the cooldown reduction in place of teleport (I don't like not being able to get around corners!) and took the prism rune for the arcane power reduction when diamond skin is up, since with a tank I should hardly be getting hit anyway.

This meant I was able to take evocation instead of the mana regen passive, enabling me to soak any damage I accidently take as I should be using diamond skin whenever it's off cd for the mana reduction! In addition to this I can use frost nova for any 'oh crap' moments, I guess the rune for that could be changed to bone chill to make them go down faster..

Anyway, I really only wanted to say thanks to the OP for the original build as it inspired me to make this one! :) So thanks!

Edit: Has anyone else noticed the tooltip for the rune cold blood (for ray of frost) is wrong on the calculator? It reduces it to 12 or something, not 0! Which is why I took prism in diamond skin so I cold spam that all day whilst diamond skin is up!)