Stacking Arcane Dynamo is too slow for speeds. You drop it for a different passive. Astral Presence is nice to keep your Arcane Power up for all that teleporting with Aether Walker.
In T16 I generally don’t bother casting Blizzard except on the RG and maybe the odd elite. You don’t need the damage from Blizzard to kill stuff on T16, Typhon’s 6p + Serpent’s Sparker + Magistrate is more than enough.
For GR speeds, you’ll want to cast Blizzard more frequently for the extra damage. That’s a big reason why Typhon’s is a great T16 build but starts to drop off in GR speeds above a certain tier, because you need a bit of setup time to kill stuff vs. something like GoD or UE that just blasts everything instantly. It’s not too bad on lower tiers (e.g. GR90) where you can at least kill trash without Blizzards and only need to cast Blizzards on elites, but it starts to really fall behind on 110+. You can drop Aether Walker at that point to pick up Fragment of Destiny for some extra damage, but then it slows down a lot, and Tal’s ends up just straight up better for 110+ (and especially 120+).
I could maybe record a couple T16 rifts and GR90/GR100/GR110 speeds tonight as a quick playstyle demo.
I saw the video you posted in another thread… I’ve been trying it out in HC and it’s amazing. No problem at all doing T16 bounties/Neph’s but my current set up is struggling a bit around GR85. With a few tweaks to my gear and some practice I’m sure it’ll be good to GR90. Thanks very much… Looks like I’m going to be having a blast playing wizard this season.
Okay, here’s some example Typhon’s runs (plus a couple Tal’s w/ Aether Walker) I recorded if you want to see the playstyle and speed. (quality might be kinda low until youtube finishes processing the higher resolution version, depending on when you see this post)
2x T16 rifts Typhon’s with Aether Walker:
2x GR90, 2x GR100, 2x GR110 Typhon’s with Aether Walker:
And for comparison, here’s 2x GR110 with Tal’s with Aether Walker:
I know it’s only a couple rifts each, but you get the idea. The Typhon’s T16 rifts and GR90 runs are blazing fast, but I start to slow down noticeably in GR110. You’ll notice I cast Blizzard a lot more in GR110 and stand around to wait for stuff to die, whereas in T16 and GR90 I just drop hydras and keep moving.
Typhon’s is noticeably faster for GR90, but Tal’s is a decent bit faster in GR110.
Tier
Build
Times
GR90
Typhon
1:13, 1:26
GR100
Typhon
1:58, 1:41
GR110
Typhon
2:15, 2:46
GR110
Tal’s
2:03, 1:44
The actual tier you’ll be running in S28 will vary a bit depending on your paragon/S28 buffs etc., but I think the trend will stay the same. Typhon’s is faster for GR90-100, Tal’s is faster for GR110-120+.
So something’s come up in S28 that may affect the equation a bit for Typhon’s vs. Tal’s speeds:
pet kills (including hydras) don’t trigger the +1 orb from the Altar.
This does improve Tal’s a bit by comparison for GR90 speeds, since Tal’s gets an extra orb per elite kill and Typhon’s does not. I’ve been running GR90s with Tal’s Lightning Meteors with Aether Walker.
That’s insane! Shouldn’t it be posted in the bug forum? There is already a topic about the extra orbs not showing. I couldn’t see the extra orbs playing Typhon’s (and I haven’t really looked closely when playing Tal’s), but some say that the extra orbs are just hard to notice.
Other builds will suffer from this too. (Marauder?).
It’s easier to test on yellows. You don’t get the bonus orb until you kill all the minions, and it spawns on you instead of the enemy. Kill the main yellow, collect all the orbs, then kill a minion at range and see if you get the extra orb or not.
I use hydras for bounties and keys. With aether walker and serpent sparker. Don’t need all the damage and the huge mobility of aether walker makes it one of the fastest in the game. Bad maps become almost a non-factor if you can teleport permanently. Another small detail is in bounties when you need to teleport out to another area, just place your hydras where you stand and most of the time nothing can come near you and interrupt you. Same thing with those bounties that you need to free a prisoner, for example, where you need to stand still and channel for a few seconds. It can save you a couple of seconds from these annoying enemies that land on you and interrupt your channeling. By the way, with the exact same setup doing GR105 in 2 minutes is a piece of cake. For GR110+ you get rid of the aether walker and cube the fragment of destiny. Again 2 minutes is an average clear time. Tal is way stronger if you decide to farm high GRs. I am doing 4 minutes GR130 easily. Whereas with Typhon hydras I need double the time to clear a GR130, but with worse gear.
