Crit / meteor build

[Concillian]

One AP on crit item is all I can really fit in.

Contrary to Quark's post, You can get class specific skill damage increases on shields, but resource generation only happens on class specific items. I've done enough AH searching that this is pretty defnite.

This limits you to Wiz hat as your staple AP on return. Wand if you get lucky.

I've been using this build for Inferno Act I:
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/wi...aXg!aZaZac

I initially had Evocation passive, but I found that the Astral Presence passive was superior in every way. More meteors = more DPS = more crits = faster cooldowns, especially on single target.
With Evocation I barely made the DPS check of the Butcher. I died several times at 9600 DPS, then I swapped in some more offensive gear and killed him during the full floor enrage at 10600. With astral presence, there is so much more meteor usage that enrage is not a problem at 10k DPS, and cooldown usage is better.

Wave of force + stun helps in three ways,
- It provides an out in most situations... helps clear a path for a mobility limited build
- It helps with ranged who run, it's a ranged stun that can be used in addition to frost nova to keep them stationary long enough. Pre-cast meteor where they look to be going, stun them when they're in the path, cast a meteor, FN them again.
- It provides an additional interrupt (for act I, this is primarily dark berserkers)

Overall, the monster types in act I are pretty easy.
Gearing wise I've found a couple upgrades that put me about 6700 / 500 on armor and resists physical, fire, and arcane are over 550. Got a nice pair of pants with 40+ fire / 50+ all resists. Pretty moderate INT, but 86 VIT.
Crit is 31% with Lyndon,
Crit damage is +199% and INT is 1250ish.
Life on hit is around 490.
Still using a plain blue shield that's 9% crit + armor.

Affixes I die to regularly:
Arcane enchanted + anything mobility limiting (waller, vortex)
Fast + fire chains alone is bad
Fast + molten can give issues if there's no choke point.
Invuln minions usually hurt too much to survive, not enough cooldown ticking, though if I can get somewhere where only 1-2 are hitting me and they don't have anything else too crazy, I can usually kill the boss.