Sunday, 20 May 2012

Wizard lvl 45 - Beefy Mage or Anti-Belial build

So I get to Nightmare Belial with my jumper build and set of items giving me ~1500 damage. This was pretty sweet run throw nightmare so far with perfect escape abilities (teleport, mirror, diamond skin) and enormous damage from my passives and disintegrate. However Belial proved my build weakness - I've died ~20 times before realizing it's not mechanics but build that is not good :)

So I took a deep breath (it was at 4am) and started looking through my skills again. I realized, that teleport and mirror doesn't help me that much in this fight. Also, since I was hunting intelligence and magic find (which I got up to 80%) on my items, vitality was quite low (~3000hp). Luckily enough, I didn't throw a single rare item that had high vitality, which allowed me to come up with the following solution:

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/wizard#iRXjST21bYaaaaZ!YfX!aZZbZZ

After wearing all vitality items I got my HP bumped to.. 9000! Moreover, with Galvanization Wand passive I also got 100/s health regen!! That sounded promising. But what about damage? Well, it got significantly down, but look - I have enhanced Magic Weapon in place of teleport now! This boosted damage up to 1200, which I figured is OK.

Finally, I noticed new rune on Familiar which I didn't see before - Ancient Guardian. I couldn't bypass it for this fight..

As a result  - with this new build I was able to one shot Belial!! Of course numerous failed attempts in the past gave me a lot of mechanics understanding, which I completely ignored on Normal due to OP Tornadoes ;)

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