Wizard thoughts

[Concillian]

The build stands on the "damage tripod" of Familiar-Sparkflint, Magic Weapon, and Glass Cannon. Together the three multiply off each other to increase your damage tremendously. This is not, so far as I can tell, unintended or a bug. Without stacking these three together your damage just does not cut it, especially in 4-player multiplayer Nightmare. A friend let me know about the interaction, and after trying it myself and having success I let other people I know who are playing Wizards know about it, and they too have found a lot of success with it.

I think the stacking is intended, for a 4 player game, that last one can be just about anything. You can also use ray of frost with 0 AP rune and the cold passive for big single target damage that also stacks with all the other damage buffs.

There's a lot of flexibility in a group where you often have others taking hits for you.

Gearing becomes doubly important... with all those modifiers, base weapon damage is important. Moreso than 2H vs. 1H is having rings and such adding more to base damage. In NM, with all those damage buffs, a ring with +5-7 damage can be equivalent to 80 or 100 INT.