Crit / meteor build

[Concillian]

Last couple days I decided to just clear Inferno before the 1.05 patch. It was fun, and I learned some stuff.

I had been having some difficulty in Act 3, but would farm it regularly since it wasn't as lame as Act 2. I really don't like some of the monster types in Act 2.

My link is what I settled on, but initially I had a much higher DPS wand without LoH, only having ~500 from other items. I hit a brick wall at Rakinoth, I just didn't have enough healing, even with ~1000 resists and 7700 armor with the enchantress. I ended up clearing Act 4 with a mace I had stashed that had 666 DPS and LoH and Crit damage (no socket). Kinda cool to kill Diablo with a 666 DPS weapon.

Seeing how much that improved my survivability, I bought a <500k high LoH wand to play with, which is what is currently equipped. Man, Act 3 is much easier now. My offense is pretty low, but now I can survive just do not die anymore. Gemmed int instead of VIT had me about 43k life and I would get stuck occasionally, but I haven't died since I re-gemmed VIT at 50k+ life. Screen DPS is under 20k, but with so much AP on crit and using the Prism rune, I VERY rarely use spectral blades. I've actually considered trading that for Ray of frost with the low resource rune for some of the more annoying ranged opponents.

With high AP on crit, the meteor coefficient reduction should be fine, as the faster landing should increase it's efficiency and have it hitting more often. I think even some other meteor runes become viable due to the difference in coefficient... though if I stick with Prism rune for Diamond Skin, the Arcane meteor is still going to be the best, I think. The spectral blades nerf is going to be rougher though, I'll see how it plays out. At 1200+ Life on Hit, I'm pretty committed to proc coefficients for survival. I don't see my DPS being high enough for life steal to be a viable alternative for a while.

I did have to give up Prism for the extra health amount on Diamond skin, I just couldn't hold up to Diablo with only 10k DS, 20k DS gave a lot more breathing room. He ran around so much that prism wasn't really doing much for offense anyway. I don't think I'd have to do that with my current weapon though. The extra LoH is a pretty big boost when you have ~1000 resist and almost 8k armor.