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Wizard - End game group leaderboard chasing

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Skills

  • Electrocute Surge of Power
  • Meteor Star Pact
  • Hydra Mammoth Hydra
  • Blizzard Frozen Solid
  • Slow Time Stretch Time
  • Magic Weapon Force Weapon
  • Arcane Dynamo
  • Elemental Exposure
  • Glass Cannon
  • Prodigy

Items

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  • Legendary Gems

    • Bane of the Trapped
    • Zei's Stone of Vengeance
    • Enforcer

All items other than shoulders required. NO EXCEPTIONS.


IAS required without using Stretch Time:


7% + 50% Pet speed Tasker and Theo

7% Tal Rasha's Relentless Pursuit

7% Lacuni Prowlers or Steady Strikers

7% Focus

7% Restraint


This is the only way to reach the 4.032+ Pet APS breakpoint with the help of the crusader's Laws of Valor and the witch doctor's Slam Dance.


With Stretch Time, IAS is a little more flexible, but you'll have to do the math.


It would be preferable to get the IAS on gear so you can drop Stretch Time for something like Time Warp that will aid the other DPS character, i.e. demon hunter. Unless their BP needs assistance, of course.


Gameplay involves repeated cycling through the elemental rotations.


- 5x Electrocute (1x Tal, 1x F/R)
- Hydra (2x Tal, 1x F/R)
- Blizzard (3x Tal, 2x F/R)
- 5x Electrocute (3x Tal, 2x F/R, initial F/R stack refreshed)
- Hydra (3x Tal, 2x F/R)
- 5x Electrocute (3x Tal, 2x F/R, initial F/R stack refreshed)
- Star Pact (4x Tal, 2x F/R, second F/R stack refreshed)
- 5x Electrocute + up to full AP (4x Tal, 2x F/R, initial F/R stack refreshed)
- Star Pact (4x Tal, 2x F/R, second F/R stack refreshed)
- 5x Electrocute + up to ~75% AP (4x Tal, 2x F/R, initial F/R stack refreshed)
- Star Pact (4x Tal, 2x F/R, second F/R stack refreshed) impact will be post-4 stack expiration
- Electrocute transitioning to next cycle (1x Tal, 2x F/R, initial F/R stack refreshed) you do this while the previous Star Pact has yet to land
- Hydra (2x Tal, 2x F/R)
- Blizzard (3x Tal, 2x F/R, second F/R stack refreshed)
- Continue/repeat


Place all your trust in the WD and crusader defending you. Your priority is DPS first and foremost.


Frozen Solid doubles as an emergency CC ability for when both the WD and sader aren't able to hold something down. This shouldn't be a common occurrence, but if it does come up (and sometimes it will), you can be the difference maker in keeping the team alive and triggering a team wipe.

Paragon Priorities

Core

Primary Stat
Movement Speed
Vitality
Maximum Resource

Offense

Attack Speed
Cooldown Reduction
Critical Hit Chance
Critical Hit Damage

Defense

Life
Armor
Resist All
Life Regeneration

Utility

Area Damage
Resource Cost Reduction
Life on Hit
Gold Find

Assume Paragon 800+


Everything goes into intelligence if movement speed is capped on gear (e.g. 12% from Lacuni Prowlers and Nilfur's Boast). Otherwise reach 25% MS and dump all other points into intelligence.

Build Guide

Designed for chasing group leaderboard positions at the highest level.