05-21-2012, 12:15 AM
(This post was last modified: 05-21-2012, 12:18 AM by MongoJerry.)
Nice, thank-you! That definitely gives me some ideas. Archon is so fun. It's hard to go without it, but I'm having to run without it most of the time in hardcore, because I don't have access to my defensive skills when in Archon form (Diamond Skin and Teleport in my case at the moment). It is a very fun skill, though, and I do switch it in on occation when I know I'm going to be safe -- like say, when I'm roaming with Frag (massive barbarian tank) and two Lurker witchdoctors with billions of minions out. It's so tough to not have it in general, though.
I recently replaced Frost Nova with Teleport-Wormhole as one of my two defensive skills, and Teleport is already feeling natural to me. It's already gotten me out of a lot of jams with bad combination champions and bosses. You might consider it.
There's a display bug with Magic Weapon. You might not have seen my post in the general forum. The display applies Magic Weapon twice, so a 10% gain from Magic Weapon shows as a 21% gain in the display. However, I did test it out, and the real damage output is the listed 10%. I'm going to put up a bug report on Blizzard's forums on Monday, when more Blizzard employees are likely to read it.
With that said, I keep going back and forth on Sparkflint versus Magic Weapon-Force Weapon. They're very close, with Sparkflint providing more single target damage while Magic Weapon-Force Weapon is better in aoe situations, where you'll hit a lot of mobs. I actually think that in general, Sparkflint will provide just a hair more damage overall, since even in aoe situations, you have to mix in some magic missles due to AP considerations, but it's very close.
What are your passives, btw?
I recently replaced Frost Nova with Teleport-Wormhole as one of my two defensive skills, and Teleport is already feeling natural to me. It's already gotten me out of a lot of jams with bad combination champions and bosses. You might consider it.
(05-20-2012, 10:08 PM)Skandranon Wrote: 4) Magic Weapon-Force Weapon
Same damage theory as Familiar-Sparkflint except this is better. Even the people running Inferno squeeze this into every build they can. Magic Weapon seems to have a greater effect than 15%, and I'm now thinking that it is not the multiplicative interaction of effects but just Magic Weapon which is the source of most Wizard damage.
For example, with just Glass Cannon I have 13200 displayed DPS. Sparkflint alone at a nominal value of 12% takes it up to 14600. Magic Weapon alone at a nominal value of 15% takes it up to 17200.
There's a display bug with Magic Weapon. You might not have seen my post in the general forum. The display applies Magic Weapon twice, so a 10% gain from Magic Weapon shows as a 21% gain in the display. However, I did test it out, and the real damage output is the listed 10%. I'm going to put up a bug report on Blizzard's forums on Monday, when more Blizzard employees are likely to read it.
With that said, I keep going back and forth on Sparkflint versus Magic Weapon-Force Weapon. They're very close, with Sparkflint providing more single target damage while Magic Weapon-Force Weapon is better in aoe situations, where you'll hit a lot of mobs. I actually think that in general, Sparkflint will provide just a hair more damage overall, since even in aoe situations, you have to mix in some magic missles due to AP considerations, but it's very close.
What are your passives, btw?