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Just for fun I decided to go for my highest possible single hit. Didn't spend a lot of time on this, so I might have been able to get closer to 15mil.

My Skills were Arcane Destruction, Sparkflint Familiar, Force Weapon, Pinpoint Barrier, Bone Chill, and Time Warp. My passives were Glass Cannon, Cold Blooded, and Critical Mass.

To get this crit (13,972,336 damage):
1. I Used Time Warp for 20% increased damage
2. Used Frost Nova for 15% increased damage from Bone Chill and 20% from Cold Blooded
3. Activated Archon Form for the 1600% weapon damage hit

I have 475% crit damage. I'm guessing the Time Warp, Bone Chill, and Cold Blooded damage calculates additively but I'm not really sure. I think the damage calculation would look something like this:
(weapon damage * 16) * 4.75 crit damage = base hit = y
actual damage = y + time warp .20(y) + bone chill .15(y) + cold blooded .20(y)
actual damage = y + .55(y)

My unbuffed DPS is 355k. I was able to 1-shot Azmodan on MP3 using this setup. Obviously it's an impractical build, but it was fun to do. I know there are wizards out there with a lot higher DPS, has anyone been able to beat this?




link to my character sheet: http://www.diablopro...gitated/1109314

Try sever and you can beat that easily. There's some vids floating around with that somewhere.

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Try sever and you can beat that easily. There's some vids floating around with that somewhere.

I used to use a Sever til I upgraded. Yeah, you can get higher numbers at the end of the kill but it's just some sort of buggy interaction with the 'Slain Enemies Rest in Peace' modifier. Not real damage.

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Try sever and you can beat that easily. There's some vids floating around with that somewhere.

I used to use a Sever til I upgraded. Yeah, you can get higher numbers at the end of the kill but it's just some sort of buggy interaction with the 'Slain Enemies Rest in Peace' modifier. Not real damage.

I'm not saying it's the best dps weapon to use or anything, just that if you want to see the highest numbers possible, a sever will get you HUGE numbers.

Also, CB is multiplicative with all the other buffs. All the other buffs are additive, including MW, Sparkflint, GC, Time Warp, and Bone Chill. So with all of those buffs active your dps looks like y*(1+0.15+0.12+0.15+0.2+0.15)*1.2 = y*1.77*1.2 = 2.124*y

So with all those buffs you do a bit over twice the damage as without. Your max possible hit would be something like (max weapon damage+sum(max bonus damage))*(1+Int/100)*4.25*(1+sum(bonus ele damage))*2.124. I'll let you insert your own stats to calculate it yourself though.

bonus ele damage includes zuni boots, tal ammy, etc where applicable.

Thanks for helping out with the math.

Try this one Sever

I need to try this Highest I've gotten with my wiz was ~9 mil.