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Very boring patch. Did you really need to wipe my characters for that?

the beta is very boring in general, don't see how wiping characters makes much of a difference.

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Quote from Keiser

I thought everyone was saying runed Arcane Orb is the strongest skill right now?

Sorry for my english, I typed it in hurry yesterday.

Yes, maybe it is the best AOE spell which a Wiz left, but with three casts you out of mana.

Which is fine, because you only need one to kill a pack of mobs presently.

http://us.battle.net...jgTm!YcX!aaZZYc
My take on an lightning/arcane wizard build.

1. It's offensive heavy relying on Electrocute (Chain Lightning [6 targets] rune) as the primary attack.
2. Arcane Orb (with the gigantic 20yrd radius Arcane Nova rune) was chosen as the secondary AoE fire-and-forget ability.
3. Defensively, it relies on Teleport (with Wormhole rune for double use) and Slow Time (with +20% damage Time Warp rune) for consistent snares.
4. Storm Armor was chosen for its additional passive damage (combined with scramble +25% movement speed) and defensive mobility.
5. Lastly, Archon (with Improve Archon +25% damage rune) was chosen for on-demand damage increase.
6. Glass Cannon (+15% damage), Prodigy (+4 arcane power gain when using Electrocute) & Astral Presence (+20 Arcane Power & +2 Regen/s)

Unfortunately, from my experience thus far @ lvl 13 (cap), 1h crossbow + quiver > 2x 1h crossbow for dps if you are going by the stats.
Doesn't make any sense to me, but it is what it is.