What is the most efficient way to improve my wizard?

[steviechan]

Armory: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/S...6/hero/5891212

Critical mass Frost nova Energy twister build.

I am farming act 2. It is pretty easy now but I have not try act 3 yet.

This build is doing fine in coop game but it is probably doing to little damage.

I want to improve damage without sacrificing defensive stats.

What is my priority considering my current gear? (parts/stats)

Thank you.

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4/9

I tried solo act 3 and apparently I can only solo some maps efficiently.

The problem is still dmg.

I teamed up with a BB and I think it works much better than solo.

[RazeBarb]

Chest/Belt/Pants need to go.
You got nice res on them and in case of the pants nice int, but otherwise they aren't good.
Try to find all those items with 150 int minimum, max sockets on chest and pants. Should be possible with 5 mill for everything depending on how much res the pieces have.

Also your source is nice but has low +dmg. Weapon is really very nice but the dps aren't.

[VAliDiTY]

You could also try to work in the Archon rune that explodes if you can go without teleport (or something else). I have been farming act III with a similar CM build and i find that i don't really miss teleport that much and the archon crits for over 600k sometimes (with my measly 20 something k dps) which really helps my damage, especially in larger groups where you can get the explosion 2 or 3 times in one skirmish.

[steviechan]

Please delete

[steviechan]

Chest/Belt/Pants need to go.
You got nice res on them and in case of the pants nice int, but otherwise they aren't good.
Try to find all those items with 150 int minimum, max sockets on chest and pants. Should be possible with 5 mill for everything depending on how much res the pieces have.

Also your source is nice but has low +dmg. Weapon is really very nice but the dps aren't.

Thank you for the advice. I think I'll cut total all resist on the three parts by 30 sth for better int and sockets. I gonna need to maintain same vit because I am playing outside US and this much hp is needed to give enough buffer if things go wrong.

Generally speaking it is the dmg part that bothers me. I wish I can have better source and weapon but all of them with similar stats but higher dmg is like few hundreds millions gold. = =

When is my turn to loot sth worth a billions? =P

[steviechan]

You could also try to work in the Archon rune that explodes if you can go without teleport (or something else). I have been farming act III with a similar CM build and i find that i don't really miss teleport that much and the archon crits for over 600k sometimes (with my measly 20 something k dps) which really helps my damage, especially in larger groups where you can get the explosion 2 or 3 times in one skirmish.

I have heard about it but how does it work? Freeze, cast twister, drop the nuke, cancel archon, freeze... Loop? Or do the normal routine, freeze, twister until elite are low on hp then drop the nuke?

It seems dangerous to drop it at the start because I only have 400 hp/hit, 200 hp/sec.

[wutevaplaya]

I think getting a wand with AP on crit will help. You should be able to get a decent one with a socket for a fairly good price. If you can keep things locked down your dmg shouldnt matter that much. My wizard had your current dps before 1.0.4 and could farm it just fine.

Also I think you could use some more armor. Keep that in mind when you are searching for your new chest piece and pants.

[steviechan]

I think getting a wand with AP on crit will help. You should be able to get a decent one with a socket for a fairly good price. If you can keep things locked down your dmg shouldnt matter that much. My wizard had your current dps before 1.0.4 and could farm it just fine.

Also I think you could use some more armor. Keep that in mind when you are searching for your new chest piece and pants.

I can keep things locked down, mostly, but longer time needed to kill elites means getting tired easier =/

Armor is definitely not enough but each piece with a little more stats than mine are much more expensive. Current chest + belt + pants worth about 3 millions.