Wizard can use both hand weapon or not?

anyone is playing melee wiz ?
what item to aim if going for melee wiz

thanks guys

The real problem here is meeting those extra health, molten, invulnerable minions, shielded and mortar mobs. When i see that = kiss floor. 

And kiting is taking a lot of time. I mean a lot a lot of time. What is the best way to increase my dmg as of now? Very difficult for me to get it up to that level also. And that is also with assistance of magic weapon.

IMO= in my opinion?

you need crit chance for critical mass to refresh cooldown of your that crystalize thing, and life on hit.

meelee wizard needs crit chance, crit damage increaase, critical mass,
veeery fun to play. but veeery hard in later modes of inferno.
the price of gear crazylah...
the fairest prices that i've found so far are in hardcore mode.
where people dont sell for stupid prices and the market actually has good affordable items. (affordable meaning u can buy them with normal play through at your level)

tried melee wiz, just dun go well... maybe my item sux

I been playing melee since inferno, tanking almost act 1

Here the combo
MOuse left : Spectral blade - deep cut
MOuse RIght : Meteor - reduce AP
1 - Diamond SKin - Increase absorb
2- FrostNova - Reduce Cooldown
3 - Hydra - Poison
4 - Energy Armor - Increase All Res

Passive
1. Critical mass
2. Astral
3. Reduce cooldown

See mobs/boss, cast diamond skin, run up, hold right click, spam inbetween frost nova or diamond skin whenever possible.

Stat to look out
At least 25% Critical Chance
At least 600 HP per hit
At least 15 AP gain per critical hit to ensure continuous stream of meteor
At least 20k hp, 15k dps, 600 all res and 6000 armor.

You wont be killing every elite or boss, but most are managable, need lot of button spamming and microing depending on bosses

Goodluck

If you refer his posts just 2 post above the one you quoted, he's in inferno.

How's melee build in act3/4 btw? If it's working decently, can share your stats (the detailed one)/equips here? Done with Diablo, thought if this is fun and doesn't cost too much, I could try regear to this for the heck of it

whoa thanks to you guys' suggestion. Yesterday i went AH, spent around 70k golds bought an yellow katana with 750 dmg. (and plus 200-450 arcane dmg). My output jump from 8.4k to 21k. Woo hoo now Hell Act 1 became piece of cake...
(except my hp still 5.6k, any elite/ champion touch me then gone case again )

tq for the replies 

he did some extent of kiting in hell difficulty, but at the same time he also tanked with diamond skin when mobs are near. i'm not sure how well he would coupe with both play styles.

any recommended skill that he should try out? any inputs regarding the skill he uses??

currently the setup he's using is something like

1: diamond skin
2: frost nova
3: some spinning satelite balls/ blizzard
4: some shield
5: i forgot this one D:
lclick: normal attack
rclick: pew pew lazar!!!!!!!!!!!!

thx again 

Hi,

My most generic build:

L. Magic Missle (seeker)
R. Arcane Orb Tap Source
1. Tele (wormhole)
2. Force weapon
3. Venom Hydra
4. Force armor

P1: Glass cannon
P2: Temporal Flux
P3: Illusionist

Channeling in inferno is suicidal, unless you have unbelievable gears I guess
Yay nice, wizzies around here can use the calculator, and update values accordingly so you know what your purchase is gonna do for you in terms of DPS :claps:

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Added on June 14, 2012, 4:50 pm

Allows you to 3 hit kill any elites? Y so imba?

Or you're talking about being 3 hit killed by an elite

Wah saved up so much, deff enough to regear decently

Channeling in inferno is suicidal, unless you have unbelievable gears I guess
Yay nice, wizzies around here can use the calculator, and update values accordingly so you know what your purchase is gonna do for you in terms of DPS :claps:

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Added on June 14, 2012, 4:50 pm

Allows you to 3 hit kill any elites? Y so imba?

Or you're talking about being 3 hit killed by an elite

Wah saved up so much, deff enough to regear decently

not 3 hit kill

3 hit killED~

yea, planning to get around 20mil before 1.0.3 , then waiting 3 days after 1.0.3 while farming myself and get the gear that i dont have

Depends on how your bro wants to play. His built seems to be halfway between a melee wizard and a kiter tho. If he wants to melee, there are some builds a few pages back. But here's what I think:

1. Diamond skin - keep this if you really want to melee, otherwise, teleport with fracture/wormhole is better. Get the illusionist passive skill too.
2. Frost nova - again, a melee skill.
3. Arcane orb shield thingy - really only for melee builds, and even then, not the best you can have. Explosion would be better. Blizzard - this is for kiting.
4. some shield - I hope this is Energy armor with force rune

rclick laserpewpew (aka Disintergrate or Ray of frost?) - These are good skills if you can stand still and shoot. Problem is, inferno is almost impossible to tank, so standing still means dying.

damage return? i don't really quite sure what you meant.... is it stat or skill?

well, sort of a mix of both

i watched him play most of the time while nagging him to go offline so i can play WoW in peace when he's in hell difficulty. usually he burns his arcane power with the laser beam skill and use frost nova/ diamond skin to escape while activating the satelite balls to aoe mobs

seeing that mobs are indeed crazier at inferno difficulty and earlier corpse running attempt, especially when elites are tagged with stupidly imba perks

so, i should advise him to use other spells other than the beam ones? any advice on spells he should use?

^ canot mehhh. im using similar stats but can tank in act 3-4, with critical mass/ frostnova

just elites u have to adjust a little bit (desecrator mobs u have to move a little bit then frost nova, keep on moving +nova when u see fire under u)

arcane u have to time your diamondskin presses when the bar is coming. more than 2 bars, u have to move out of range from 1 of them.

invlunerable minions also we can tapau cos can freeze the minions so no difference.

others all should be able to tank. if u dont have enough mobs/ run to side mobs and lure them in so ur critical mass will proc more.

vs range tanking, since i used time bubble i have no problems with range tanking d.

some u have to feeze, and kite them a little bit then should be able to!

glass cannon wiz very pain on pocketlah this patch...

^^ bros tried the wicked wind build.
fantastic. multiple casts of twister on 1 spot do stack. but the critical numbers for some reason are white in color so u cant see them proc very clearly. but confirmed that they do proc kaukaukau. Wixked wind is like blizz dmg 280% over 6 seconds but just imagine the damage like stacking 5 blizzard on 1 spot lol. my dps only 13k and act 3 with 4 players in party no problem for me to go jalan jalan exploring alone! (except some elites still abit tough) gargoyles kite me kaukau...

using this exact build recommended by myriel.
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/wiza...;gab!YZccYa
only diff is i changed Evocation -> Temporal Flux

^wow very nice dps items. I recommend finding a high life on hit weapon (800+ LOH) but it will be superduper expensive....
not sure what other things you should change. the biggest change will be if u change your weapon.
others all minimal changes only.

btw bros heres a super useful link my fren gave me
http://www.d3rmt.com/guides/diablo-3-item-...maximum-values/

Seems we cant go for both glass cannon or tanker wizard unless we are ultra rich.
Imagine a item with
150int
150vit
+70 resistance to all
+ crit chance by 5%
+ crit damage by 50%
these kind of item normally cost 100m atleast  :sweat

Btw im a tanker wizard with 7k armor, 800 physical resists, 650+ all resists, 30+% damage reduction from melee.

Re-geared my wiz for more def now

HP 30k
Armor 5k
All Resist 800

DPS
- 31k unbuffed
- 35k + Force Weapon
- 39k + FW + Sparkflint

act 1 & 2 is easy mode for me now but still can't make the transition to act III D:<

I think I will drop the all resist to 500 (so that it will be 1:10 ratio) and get more DPS but I just not sure where to start!
I'll post my gears later so you guys can halp me on which item to upgrade. 

Inferno act 1 ,I farm like hell just repair. My all armor almost 31k,my wizard damage13k armor 7600 within energy armor i was press hp20k regeneration per second life 1550 do u all think i inspect any problem?

i got 1 900+ dps weapon lvl reduced 14 so it will help u to boost ur dps to make ur lvling easier offer me a price if u are interested i can sell it to u...

if i use bliz/hydra, my mana is almost everytime full...1 crit with magic missile gives me 20 arcane...i can almost spam blizz with unrelenting storm

Ok...Build check

What is the trend now for wiz ?

Chii is still stacking Attack speed as #1 priority for DPS....is that good ?

Currently using 2H 1379 Blue weapon.

have 41k dps (force weapon)
30k hp
600 all resist (prismatic armor 800)
armor 3.7k (energy armor)

btw, force armor or prismatic armor better ?

keyboard warrior  , not sure that can we use 3rd party software that bind the frost nova and diamond skin together, meaning i button for 2 skill..  

Walao if got 2in1 button make easy lol..not like now press the button like crazy somemore need focus mob enemy n my ap....third party must say u ply insane... Haha..

razer keyboard use macro
ahahaha

i used to be stucked in act 2 inferno at the beginning.

but gradual upgrades of gear lets me get pass it, now i can play finish act 4 even with average gear .
keyword = 103 (wicked wind)  104 (storm chaser)

Have a very dumb question
My wiz almost ding 60 and now scouting gear.
I wonder the LOH does it work with spell?
Or only if u are a melee wizard with spectral blade?

Its not my skill problem but its the weapon....wait i ss the weapon and let u see.

edit: i havent really test how it could happen so if u buy sever dont blame me lol.

this weapon deal those dmg

this weapon which more dps than sever but never get this kind of number

The ss