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The delivery was not the problem. The total absence of work to show on content the fan base would actually be interested in was the problem. If they had even cursory news to share on PC diablo titles present or future, content patches, expansions, anything at all to show the community hey we've been doing something on the franchise you love in the 17 months since we released necromancer, and we're going to be doing other things in the future, it would have been ok. The complete absence of that, coupled with a transparent cash grab for a totally different audience, and the tone deaf jokes from the presenters trying to blunt the disappointment in the room lead us to where we are.

Not sure what your latest build out of this is, but if you are going to run Simplicity's and rely solely on scythe damage rather than proc gems like PE and Mirinae you will gain significant damage by dropping Stone of Jordan and making room for RoRG and Depth Diggers. If you have no elemental damage, and no elite damage than Stone of Jordan is 1.2*1.3*1.09 = 1.7004 or a 70% damage increase. The 100% damage increase for Depth Diggers is stronger. Even if you use the legendary gems I suspect Covention of Elements will be stronger in that slot.

Seems to me that Aura of Frailty is providing you with a fairly static ~17% damage increase having things die after 85% of their HP has been removed, while a corpse fueled poison skill like Corpse Explosion (Close Quarters) or Corpse Lance (Ricochet) would provide a 33% damage increase by adding a 4th stack of Nayr's.

This is a good question. My pick:

Get the leoric's crown from story mode skeleton king at level 20 to speed up leveling. Cube it after your first set of bounties at 70. Craft your yellows to get maximum offensive stats and cooldown reduction on every available slot (Shoulder, Weapon, Source, both Rings, Amulet, Gloves). Focus your gold on leveling up diamonds and your early offensive paragon on cooldown reduction.

Spend blood shards on sources and use DB's to hope of cain on wands.

If you get triumvirate, unstable scepter, chantodo's set, wand of woh, orb of infinite depth, serpent sparker, etched sigil, mirror ball, or fragment of destiny in the course of doing these you have a build essentially chosen for you.

If you don't, stack up that CDR and use archon/slow time, audacity, bane of the trapped, and any weapon damage proc gems you can get your hands on (Pain Enhancer, Mirinae, Wreath of Lightning, Efficacious Toxin)

Buffed Archon and/or DMO4 w/exhaustion will make you super overkill durable for GR20, so its just about doing the damage. Buffed archon and multiplicative stacks should get you there, especially combined with the buffed legendary gems.

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Depends on a lot on how you were running the build before.

Assuming the following sources of DIBS:

DMO version

Magic Weapon (not force weapon rune) - 10%

3x 15% Spectral Blade Damage Affix - 45%

Tal Rasha Version

Magic Weapon (not force weapon) - 10%

3x 15% Spectral blade Damage Affix - 45%

Elemental Exposure - 20%

Previously DMO would have a 215% DIBS boost solo for Spectral Blade and Tal would have a 235% DIBS boost solo for spectral blade assuming 60% in both cases from Simplicity's Strength.

This is now at 396% boost for DMO and 460% boost for Tals

Making them multiplicative will increase spectral blade damage by 57% for DMO and 67% for Tal Rasha. The more sources of DIBS in your build (Sparkflint, Glass Cannon, dozens upon dozens of group play buffs) the more pronounced the increase will be.

Thanks for these by the way, very helpful in getting through the 4 wizard's sets. Tal Rasha is definitely the easiest in my book if you have the pieces for it. Firebirds can be very frustrating due to mob health and having to lower your sheet damage to avoid killing them too fast.

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not all dmg increases are multiplicative, like magic weapon and taeguk are additives

There are a lot of speed farm builds but they can be summed up with the following build fragments:

1) Damage - either straight TalRasha6, or TR6/FB4. TR6 builds will normally use arcane orbit/Trium/Unstable, or Chain Reaction/Wand of Woh. TR tends to use Focus/Restraint, Hybrids tend to use Convention/Defensive Ring (Halo or Unity)

2) Unlimited Teleporting - either Aether Walker + Resource Management or Ingeom

3) Movement Speed - Scramble, Warzechian, Illusionist

4) Defense - Goldwrap/Boon or one of Aquilla or OoID and one of Halo of Aryse or Unity

5) Utility - Sages, or Nemesis Bracers, or Both

Take some combination of 1 through 4 and as much of 5 as you can fit. Tailor skill loadouts to taste.

Tradeoffs Between Fragments

Damage

Hybrid spends less time killing enemies, because with TR6 if you even graze a mob with your fire spell they burn forever and die within a few seconds. Straight TalRasha can actually fit in utility items like the Sage set.

Teleporting

No real tradeoffs here. Aetherwalker requires you to slot in some arcane power management systems, Ingeom does nothing for your offense if you don't run EB as your primary damage source, and requires you to find the first elite before you can infinite teleport, and may fall off while you are collecting loot

Movement Speed

Scramble is in anytime you aren't using Halo for defense. Illusionist is always in. Warzechian competes with Nemesis and I basically always take Nemesis especially in Ingeom builds.

Defense

Goldwrap/Boon is less reliable than Aquilla/Orb in their respective builds, but it takes the lowest commitment of resources. Defense rings are hit or miss, they are the most reliable but straight TR builds usually need Focus/Restraint to get the damage to the point where everything is exploding on contact while FB4 does that for the hybrid builds with the mild inconvenience of occasionally backtracking to pick up a legendary dropped by a white mob who was burning in your wake.

As for your particular flavor, I'd strongly recommend dropping FB2 for Deathwatch Mantle and the TR source so you can use an alternate legendary that a TR or sage piece is currently occupying the slot for, like Nilfur's boots, Shame of Delsere, or a nonset source like Orb of Infinite Depth.

I'd also drop Warzechians for Nemesis Bracers to improve DB yield per run and make Ingeom more reliable at low density.

For those interested set dungeons only for the season journey requirement to master one of them, which of the wizard set dungeons would you say is the easiest to master?

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Are you maintaining the correct rotation?

Do you keep casting EB and Blades till Dynamo 5 stacks to cast your AOrbit?

Are you staying under your Slow Time bubble all the time?

Besides that... What was already said, Area Damage and Endless Walk

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I'm really not sure about this, Blizzard never did provide a full clear listing of possible affixes and the associated damage ranges, but, as someone mentioned a few posts ago there are 3 affixes:
+min dmg
+max dmg
+min-max dmg
As far as i can see the min-max range does not produce the same DPS as the 2 separate affixes do. (you can check in the diabloprogress all the top DPS items are 2 separate affixes +min and +max damage not the min/max range?) Also, i would seriously question the correction of the maximum possible 1'500 DPS wand - the game has been out for what? 6 months? With millions of players farming, billions of wands have been identified so far, yet the highest DPS ever detected so far is 1420ish which i linked earlier. May be there is an astronomically small probability of that item rolling, but with astronomical number of drops so far - there should have been at least a few coming close in the 1'480-1'490 range.
I think this is more of an issue with us not knowing what exactly is the min-max ranges are on the damage rolls.