i had someone get really upset with me and my wizzard blizzard metor build, they said i was using the metor to much? that is the first and only time anyone has ever mentioned that to me. does this build lag all players? if so then why would it even be in the game? it seems if that is true this build is bad for group play, this is really my first season carrying a wizzard this far , still only 2k points, but i am finished for the season just wanted to know what the issues are with playing a metor wizzard i have seen many wizzard using metor full time and it did not affect me or my game except make it hard to see where to navagate
Meteor Wizard causes lag due to Area Damage% and damage over time effects on the ground meteor leaves as a residue of impact point. Give a watch to this video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3T-4tb5mp1w
You won’t feel a negative effect until you really overdo it but server has to synchronize the information you see with the other clients connected to the same session as you. This takes time when there are so many calculations to consider and so little frame of response.
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i started from the first time d3 came out, but i used to play many characters , decided a few seasons ago to concentrate on only one character per season, this season was a wizzard. so i had never ran into tht issue. i have quit this season . for one i dont want to start up another character for a short time, but its really sad that a character could cause such a negative playing exp for others in a party, to the point they dont want to play with a wizzard, i know i heard several complaints against wizzards last season but those complaints were because the wizzard died to often, i have not had this issue this season .
I had no lags with Star Pact meteor. No lags nor any survivability issue - honestly, I think that wizard is the tankiest class in the game.
Wizard can cause some lag, but only in really high density nowadays. But server side lag should affect all players → If you don’t notice any lag yourself, then it shouldn’t affect other players too much either. Maybe their own device or internet connection could cause problems. Anyway, wizard meteors is META this season and almost every damage dealer plays one or another variant of it.
Visual mess is another thing. I played a lot of Wiz + Nova combo this season and it’s almost impossible to see anything. from whole screen.
I would say take away your area damage from your paragon points before joining a public game. That should help. Same goes with any class/set/build.
Yes and no. Meteor wiz lag has multiple factors:
- low paragon, bad gears & low raw damage from wiz
- excessive density. Usually done by inexperienced zB lack of experience in gauging what does & doesnt lag the group base on DPS dmg output
- cross server players
- some servers are known to have bad bandwidth or routing.
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