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Kheldarn posted:Developer's Note *Update: Initially multiple legendary powers were left uncapped to see how players would utilize them, however we didn't anticipate for Army of the Dead to be able to cast as frequently as it was. This totally dominated how the set was played and also resulted in permanent invincibility. We're attempting to address this and we'd love for players to try out the new changes and provide additional feedback. additional feedback: losing at least an order of magnitude in damage along with the invulnerability makes the army of the dead build completely worthless
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Firebird looks like it will still do well as a traditional 6pc build but Rathma got completely destroyed. Hopefully they revert some of these changes because honestly one was probably enough.
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Mar 5, 2021 09:55
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I tend to pick a class and grind each season. I was hoping Wizard was gunna be good. Why is Wizard always bad? 
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Mar 5, 2021 10:46
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Wizard was my first character and I thought it would be my main one but I've never clicked with a single endgame build. Even the ones that sound like my thing like when they added the hydra set just end up not being fun for me. It's a shame.
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Mar 5, 2021 11:07
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So Rathma's nerfed to oblivion then? Dang, I wanted to go full necro this season.
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Mar 5, 2021 11:11
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I've never been able to click with a necro build. They're all either too weak or too fiddly.
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Mar 5, 2021 11:34
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Meridian posted:I tend to pick a class and grind each season. I was hoping Wizard was gunna be good. Why is Wizard always bad? Wizard has historically been one of the best classes in the game for upper solo GR. Firebird's 6pc is clearing GR150s on PTR.
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exquisite tea posted:Wizard has historically been one of the best classes in the game for upper solo GR. Firebird's 6pc is clearing GR150s on PTR. The 6 piece or the 6 tal 4 fb? 
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Mar 5, 2021 12:28
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6pc since they killed the 6/4 Tal's build. But even without the new FB set, Wizards can clear GR150 with LoD Archon/Twister or even just Twister. I don't think there's ever been a single season in the history of this game where Wizards weren't at least in the top 2 solo GR level. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=my9yymE4iVw
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Oh ok they did not kill firebird they made it even better. Explosive blast firebird looks amazing. E: I don't get the mammoth. The guy was talking maybe just getting rid of mammoth entirely. What's the deal with mammoth? Funky See Funky Do fucked around with this message at 12:58 on Mar 5, 2021 |
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Mar 5, 2021 12:40
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The problem is that right now only the base rune for Hydra interacts with FB 6pc. That might just be a bug however. The cool thing about FB is that your spender doesn't actually matter all that much, only the speed at which you can unload it, so you can select really fast-hitting attack like Blades or Hydra and do mega damage.
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Mar 5, 2021 13:03
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Funky See Funky Do posted:I've never been able to click with a necro build. They're all either too weak or too fiddly.
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Bone Spears from this season was nice, but then I couldn't be arsed to push much so never had to optimise.
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exquisite tea posted:6pc since they killed the 6/4 Tal's build. But even without the new FB set, Wizards can clear GR150 with LoD Archon/Twister or even just Twister. I don't think there's ever been a single season in the history of this game where Wizards weren't at least in the top 2 solo GR level.
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Mar 5, 2021 18:00
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I'm in a similar boat, honestly. The wizard is a class that is thematically and visually appealing to me, ever since vanilla D3. Just about every season that I wind up playing, I try out a build or two and they just don't click with me despite putting the time into gearing one out. It's weird.
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Mar 5, 2021 20:04
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They somehow made the best diablo 2 mobility skill the worst in diablo 3. Its so clunky.
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DeadlyHalibut posted:They somehow made the best diablo 2 mobility skill the worst in diablo 3. Its so clunky. To be fair, it was so overpowered in Diablo 2 that every non-sorceress character had to use an equipment slot to get access to teleport.
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My favorite wizard was the vanilla d3 crystal maiden(?) build. It had a passive that reduced all your cool downs by 1 second when you crit, and at the time frost nova had no DR for stunning stuff. So you would just load up on crit, put explosive blast, frost nova, and diamond skin on auto-cast, and just walk around killing everything and taking no damage. It was kinda like the explosive blast wizard today just more OP.
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CM was for poors, if you were RMAH rich in vanilla Diablo 3 then you ran ARCHON with a lifesteal EF and wrecked MP8 farming runs.
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Remember that brief moment where you could load up the hardest difficulty and break pots in heaven for loot. I made some quick money off that.
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exquisite tea posted:CM was for poors, if you were RMAH rich in vanilla Diablo 3 then you ran ARCHON with a lifesteal EF and wrecked MP8 farming runs. MP8? Lifesteal EF? You were RMAH upper-middle-class at best. The 1% ran MP10 with lifesteal/crit sword archon, the 1% of the 1% made lifesteal sword CM a thing.
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I didn't want to make anyone feel bad but I actually did have a 1%er lifesteal sword.
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:Remember that brief moment where you could load up the hardest difficulty and break pots in heaven for loot. I made some quick money off that. In the patch between vanilla and RoS, I would buy gems, combine them, and sell them for a profit.
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After doing that for a little bit, you really started understanding why most people just bought them.
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After playing with FB 6 piece I don't know how I feel about it. It's a bit clicky if you use the spectral blades version but that version much stronger - I can do a solo 125 with low level gems, under 1000 paragon, and unoptimized rolls. There's a wand of woh version that's set and forget but seems to hit a wall around 110.
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Explosive Blast is a button that you can numlock or just hold down the button for since it has no casting animation. I felt pretty good tagging everything with Disintegrate on right click and leaving LMB to unleash da BLADEZZ. The nice thing about this setup is that you don't even really need good multiplier rolls on your gear, since all you care about is the attack speed. Frag of Destiny, Shame of Delsere, Wand of Woh, doesn't really matter what rolls you get since the IAS% is fixed there. And this all feeds back into your shield stack since that is also dependent on attack speed. All in all, it's a pretty cool build that combines one of my favorite Wizard abilities (Spectral Blades) with one of my favorite things to do in D3 (attacking so fast the animation starts to clip). I cleared a GR130 no problem in all PTR gear and can melt through GR110s in under 5 minutes. It took almost 7 years to get here, but FB now officially stands for Fun Build. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WACj-AUbeyw
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Spectral Blades is indeed one of the cooler animations. I may have to give wizard (another) try (yet again) next season...
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I've doing some tests in the PTR and now Rathma seems aimed to do bone spirit builds, probably focused on long distance sniping. Good damage apparently but not my style. So, gently caress necro, time to do more barb I guess.
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How are people playing the FB spectral blades build with just magic weapon/deflection for a shield? I tried replacing storm armour with black hole to practice in a 110 and I couldn't make it past the first group. I just got destroyed.
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You need the Galvanizing Ward passive and Ashnaggar's Blood Bracer, which should give you a shield stack around ~1mil before you even start hitting stuff. This might already seem obvious but your shields increase as a percentage of total life, so Life % rolls on gear and gems will also help here.
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They're not using blood bracers. I got a lucky primal ball of hate drop. Electrocute procs the fb 6 piece and can hit more things at distance. I don't know how attack speed factors into electrocute but it's definitely a viable alternative for people that don't like spectral blades.
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The clears I've seen have all been using Blood Bracers, there's not much else compelling in that slot for a Flame Blades build besides maybe Krelm's. Example 1 Example 2
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This is the build that pretty much all of the top 10 firebird clears on my PTRs leader are using. I'm using pretty much exactly the same except I've switched out COE with Halo of Karini and black hole for storm armour. Looking at it now and videos you posted I'm kind of thinking the rorg with the other sets is a little obsolete.
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The Electrocute build seems pretty strong as well. Strictly speaking I think it might be better for ~GR110 speedruns since the AOE coverage is a step above Fire Blades, even if it lacks some of the multipliers. Some people have also shown success with Hydra but I found it very finicky at GR130 since you can't really direct them to attack the right target. Illusionist elites are basically an instalose at that level. It's really fun when you can work an EF into your Fire Blades build, you start to approach Frenzy Barb levels of animation clipping.
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exquisite tea posted:This might already seem obvious but your shields increase as a percentage of total life, so Life % rolls on gear and gems will also help here. Doesn't anything that increases your effective hp scale your shields? Like getting 10% more ehp through armor would have the same effect as having 10% more hp.
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I cannot find a necro build I like. Isn't there one where you can just set a swirling whirlwind of bones around and walk through things until they die that was pretty powerful or at least powerful enough to run through t16 bounties etc with ease?
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Funky See Funky Do posted:I cannot find a necro build I like. Isn't there one where you can just set a swirling whirlwind of bones around and walk through things until they die that was pretty powerful or at least powerful enough to run through t16 bounties etc with ease? There is! You want some variation of lazymancer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnphG0rhLCs https://www.diablofans.com/builds/108550-s22-t16-2-6-10-lazymancer-inarius https://www.icy-veins.com/d3/necromancer-generator-build-with-grace-of-inarius There's some room to play around, I prefer using grim scythe.
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paid money to post posted:There is! You want some variation of lazymancer. Yes! Thank you. I was looking at the generator build on icy-veins and it just didn't look right to me. The one on the video is exactly what I was looking for. E: Just tried this out on PTR. I assume for it work the gems need to be decently levelled because I tried it with base level gems and I couldn't kill a drat thing on t16. Funky See Funky Do fucked around with this message at 20:19 on Mar 7, 2021 |
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You'll need gems to be 25+ for sure to see decent results, but also lazymancer isn't really all that powerful, at least last time I tried one, but YMMV
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Unless it got nerfed very recently it looks strong enough to clear out t16 which all I want it for. Really I just want an excuse to play necro since at some point I paid for the drat thing.
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