How much damage you guys deal for Electrocute? Which skills INT affect better?

I only get around 50 damage for Electrocute at lvl 19.

I solo final boss with wizard using

- Diamond Skin - Activate this when you're in pinch or you want to combo with Disintegrate.
- Magic Weapon -
- Hydra - Bosses hurts alot from this. Really.
- Disintegrate - Main skill to kill boss.
- Archon - When the boss is dieing use this at a far distance and use your laser.
- Teleport - Tele away whenever your diamond skin is on CD

My weapon is a double handed wand around 67dps + 15% increase damage + add life per kill + other stats.

My total damage is 804. (with Magic weapon up) - this is not included my INT. INT is around 700. So, magic has 700% increase damage.

Wiz is of course weak. If you feel like you're dieing too much, throw your INT armor and get those with + VIT (around 60+) which will give you about 1k health.

This post has been edited by Nels: May 17 2012, 08:25 PM

That's is true that +Str increases your armor. But, wizard have a skill called Energy Armor which increase your Armor by 65% and I still find it useless because I still need Diamond skin to survive.

Just IMO, wizard don't really benefits from the extra armor. It's better for you to go for Shield with a decent 'damage block'. I have over 1500 armor with Energy Armor but I still die easily without Diamond skin.

Well this is for Solo mode btw (:

Item with Magic Find stats/Gold Find

Oh yes I do that too early in the game (: Well you're right. With a tanker, those extra armor are benefitial. Less damage receive, more survival survivability since you don't need the extra health, its better to go for armor.

On a side note, Wave of force deals out a crazy amount of damage. Especially chances on getting critical magic hit. Anyone notice?

There is a rune to increase it by 20. I find that is more then enough to spam double meteor.

HP is not that all to it. Once you reach a certain level, you would've a familiar with ancient rune, energy armor with energy tap rune, meteor with comet rune, Diamond skin with enduring rune- around 1.8k armor + 1500 damage + 1000 int + proper critical hit damage increase items = 9-12k damage of meteor storm. you will be awesome in nightmare - lvl 49

Lvl 25 you would be able to use it. As for the runes level 29, 34, 43, 48, 58.


*Guys please make sure you use Magic Weapon skills + Force weapon runes = the damage increase is superb.

I solo without any mercenaries. (reason because I usually play with a team of 4 with my buddies) - Solo if only they're not around.

I find it pretty much good with this skill build. One thing because I deal tons of damage with Meteor and Disintegrate and I able to teleport away + clones everytime needed.

Eg : A mob trying to hit me, I teled away with clones distracting him I cast Meteor + Disintegrate. When he tries to go for me, I activate Diamond skin + Disintegrate (usually this finishes it) if you're hit - usually bosses in nightmare or hell mode or inferno will deal you more then 15% damage to you per hit this immediately reset your teleport skill so you can teleport again and repeat all the steps

Here is my build.



Currently in Hell Act 1.

Thanks for sharing. That's a good read alright.

Can (:

enable elective mode.

2 hand weapon are usually stronger then 1 handed. Unless you found a good 1 hand weapon with a strong DPS. Wizard need Damage over Int so more damage more powerful your spells will be. But never neglect your INT of course (:

You can use any weapon as long it is strong

But of course the wizard style is Wiz Hat + 1 hand staff + Source

Finally inferno..i hate hell.

sometimes solo sometimes party. But mostly party (:

Star pact. With 20 arcane passive - forgot the name. 3 Star pact drop vs 1 meteor drop (not worth it to get meteor)

Owh this is new for me. Mine elaborate I never touch this two skills. Any build for this?

the best combo in inferno, frost hdyra + Blizzard with unreletting storm?

Does ASPD affect hydra attack speed?

Whatever you see in the item description is your damage.

Thou they said with 2 handed hand weapon your aspd is slower thus your AP consume is lesser then 1 handed weapon.

Better understanding of how Wizard damage is calculated is through the post that TS stated in first page. Its very clear.

Exactly my build right now but I did it without using the signature spells + arcane recovery per attack. Its viable and I believe it will works even more wonder if I added the signature spell as well.

Thou I'm using it in Inferno mode it should be a lot better in Hell.