Wizard set suggestion for patch 2.7

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@XelNagaIvan-1363

The major problem of the class is that channeling skill supporting items are too powerful. Deathwish provides 325% increased damage and Etched Sigil provides free spender and 150% increased damage. These 2 items make non-channels build obsolete. The solution is to make wizard items similar to necromancer one, there are multiple powerful items to support non-channels builds.

Another solution would be make Deathwish and Etched Sigil to only channelling skills.

Also, the proced skill from Etched Sigil can be un-effected all the damage multipliers from other items and maybe only get an additional buff from Etched Sigil.

E.g.:

Deathwish
° Increases the damage of your channellling skills by xxx%
—remove that it effects the damage of all your skills while channelling.

Etched Sigil
° Increases the damage of your channelling skills by xxx%
° Every second while channelling, you also cast one of your other Arcane Power spenders for yyy% increased damage.
----e.g. if the proced skill is Meteor, then this proced Meteor will not be effected by Nilfur’s Boast (legendary boots that buff Meteor) and also not by The Grand Vizir (legendary staff that buffs Meteor), but only by the damage multipler of Etched Sigil. That will make it much easier to balance.

@XelNagaIvan-1363

Winter Flurry: Enemies killed by Cold damage have a 20% chance to release a Frost Nova. Frost nova gain Bone chills rune and its effect is increased to 150%

Winter Flurry is such a great thematic item, but sadly it is mostly useless in its current form.

I really like the idea to give Frost Nova the Bone Chill rune, but I am afraid that even with the buff to 150% it might not be enough, when you compare it to other Wizard Off Hands.

So I also would increase the %cold damage affix on it by an amount that makes it more viable, like maybe 40-50% (or probably even more when you compare it things like Triumvirate, which gives Arcane Orb a bonus of up to 1200% with 3 stacks)

° increases cold damage by ~40-50% (large buff to cold damage)

Or maybe add it to the Legendary Affix and make Cold Skills deal 300% more damage (or more, or less, or whatever is needed to make it useful) if that is necessary.

@XelNagaIvan-1363

Mirrorball: projectile skills fire 2 extra projectiles, all projectile deal 100% increased damage.

This is interesting. So not just Magic Missile, but all missiles, including things like Arcane Orb? Or Hydra missiles? What about Wave of Force? 3 novas?

Could be be very interesting to play around with.

@XelNagaIvan-1363

Fragment of destiny: Your primary skills attack 50% faster and deal 300% increased damage

This is overdue.

@XelNagaIvan-1363

Gesture of Orpheus: Reduces the cooldown of Slow Time by 30%. Enemies affected by Slow Time take 150% increased damage, Damage over time skills gain triple effect.

An additional or alternative effect could be that the slow effect of Slow Time clings on enemies for a few seconds after they left the bubble.

@XelNagaIvan-1363

These changes will allow Tal Rasha to be the only class that maximizes the effect of Stone of Jordan and convection of element.

Now that you have mentioned the Stone of Jordan, I just wanted to trow in here that the new special affix is really useless in its current form, since you can get the same bonus by simply only stacking the %elemental bonus to the element you need and still have a free ring slo.

So by utilizing SoJ new feature, you are basically just giving up a ring slot that can be used for much, much better rings like Unity, CoE, F&R, etc just to gain something that you could otherwise get by ust stacking the right affixes.

It would be better if the SoJ allows you to accumulate all the different %elemental damages into one and on top of that increase the %elemental damage roll on the ring itself from 15-20% to maybe 40-50%.

@XelNagaIvan-1363

Firebird’s Finery
(4) Set:
Dealing Fire damage with one of your skills causes the enemy to take 3000% weapon damage as Fire per second until they die. This effect can stack multiple times with different skills.
(6) Set:
Your damage is increased by 6000% and damage taken reduced by 60%.
Each ignited enemy also increases the damage of your damage over time skills by 3%.

Atropy: Blizzard deal 1200% increased damage

This will bring back the only herding and grouping build of the firebird set. I have also removed the requirement of using 3 fire skills. One can go for 4 skills for 12000% increased fire damage or just use 1 skill only for other Mayhem.

Firebirds is (mechanically) the worst set in the whole game, but I do not think this a perfect solution, due to you still having to group up enemies, which is not desirable in lower level GR’s, XP farming, most of solo play, bounties, normal rifts, etc.

Don’t get me wrong: the removal of requiring the fire skills to ignite an enemy is great, but it comes back through the backdoor on the 6 piece sets.

I gave an extensive feedback thread about Firebirds which includes possible solutions both from me and the Wizard community as well:

Fixing Firebird's – the set with the worst mechanics in the game

I thought we could have some fun in this thread and brainstorm some ideas on how to fix/change the Wizard’s Firebird set, because if there is one set in the game that is the most in need of a redesign, probably most of us would agree that it is the Firebird set, because of the annoying playstyle that its mechanics results in. I have some ideas that I will share below, but I would like to see your ideas as well, because you might come up with something better. The problem with the mechanics of …

@XelNagaIvan-1363

Ray of Frost has be replaced by its rune sleet storm. All other runes now modify sleet storm with the same effect. Sleet armor is renamed to storm armor, which provides 30% damage reduction.

I like this change, but I wouldn’t want to see Ray of Frost completely removed.

Ray of Frost, (Numb rune) can replace the Volatility rune of Disintegrate, but I would not completely remove RoF.

Also, if possible and if it wouldn’t take too much time/effort to animate this stuff, the new Sleet Storm skill could have various elemental effects based on the rune.

Sleet Storm (base skill)
what you suggest Sleet Storm is currently

Fire Rune
increases damage further

Storm Armor (Lightning Rune)
reduces damage taken while channelling by 30%

Arcane Rune
increases the AoE further

Frost Rune
increases the slow effect, gives the skill a chance to freeze enemies and enemies also attack a bit slower

Last Rune (wildcard element)
can reduce resource costs, or maybe another Lighting Rune that causes several Lightings to strike from the sky ever second you channel.

@XelNagaIvan-1363

Frost nova now deal 430% weapon damage.

but I hope you want it to keep its freezing effect?!

@XelNagaIvan-1363

Disintegrate now has the base damage increased to that of Ray of frost, its resource cost has also been reduced to 16.
Volatility has changed to bare the original effect of Ray of frost Black Ice.

Ha, sorry that I am reading this just now, I have written down my response as I have gone through the thread and this just came up.

Yeah, Black Ice can also work, but I think that Numb is thematically more fitting and the animation looks better as well.

Maybe this RoF rune on Disintegrate can freeze enemies and increase frost damage against enemies effected by it by 15% and look like the Numb Rune…?!

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One more thing regarding Teleport.

I wonder why you didn’t mention it, but it really could have 2 charges on the base skill instead of a coolodown with an ~8 second recharge time, similar to Dashing Strike, and it also could rework the Wormhole rune to give the skill a third charge.

That is such an important change! it would make Teleport so much more flexible, while still not making it overpowered like in Diablo 2.

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Thanks for the whole thread btw.