I had a good day yesterday, that's for sure. I got a few interesting legendary quality items on my 70 Wizard. Got my Barbarian power leveled from 4-68 in about 2 hours by a friend's 70 DH. He took us through a significant portion of Act I on Torment 6, so much exp heh.
So back to my Wizard, I've been having a hard time finding a spec I really want to lock in build/gear wise. I really like Arcane but then I got a really nice offhand source that lets freezing ray pierce. So I messed with cold spells for a bit, but I just didn't like it. I hear frozen orb is still good despite nerfs but I just don't see it. It's expensive, not super impressive damage, and you need to have the end of the spell near the pack so positioning can be hairy when kiting packs on higher difficulty.
I got that cindercoat drop, which is nice and I have been wearing to mix in some fire damage. I then got an interesting wand that allows the use of 2 hydras at once instead of the normal 1. 2 Mammoth hydras actually does legit damage. I have a damage rating of 516K on my sheet right now, and that damage on each ticks for 1-2 mil per sec, per hydra. Not bad at all considering they can't be destroyed. Helpful too if you can circle-kite tougher packs through the AoE.
Then I got a drop for Azurewrath, with a socket, with a perfect 20% bonus cold damage. It didn't have any main stat on it (Int) so I will be re-rolling that from time to time to try and get it. I got a second Azurewrath drop later that day with a sockey, with 18% cold but with slightly lower base damage but with a ton of INT on it, so it's overall damage was much higher. I re-rolled the cold damage since I don't really like cold spec, and got some more crit IIRC. I'm using this currently, it looks fantastic. I slapped a 120% crit damage gem in that bad-boy.
So as if my day couldn't get any better, I had a lot of blood shards to spend on Kadala. She gave me 2 sets of decent gloves (was trying for magefist) - one set is awesome for tanking, saving for my barb - and the other has really high crit and crit damage, and a fun passive that grants bonus goal for massacre sprees.
Anyhow, I had like 60 some shards left, I figured, screw it, I'll buy 3 amulets. Then, BOOOOM!
MOOOOOONWARD I couldn't believe it, I figured it'd be a while before I got this. I didn't get a great roll on the bonus arcane damage, just the minimum 20% (can't be rerolled) but it has perfect crit bonus and 69% bonus crit damage as well (which I will reroll as the max is 100).
So I'm sitting at 55% crit chance. And I can play my Arcane build and nuke things. I'm mostly fine in torment II and III solo. I die, but I can eventually clear without too much of a problem. My Arcane Torrent is doing ~2.5-3.8 mil per missile, and I use black hole to group them, then drop a hydra on them for that Conflag fun for another +6% crit against the pack. It just melts stuff. I can channel that spell for a long time. Not much outside Rift bosses and the really tanky elites can withstand it. I'm going to give Chaos Nexus with Disintegrate a chance later tonight.
I still have a few slots with unremarkable legendary/rare items in them, so I'm slowly looking to replace those too. I have a good group of guys I'm farming II and III on, It's been fun. Looking forward to gearing my barbarian as well.
Just realized I can link my profile, heh.
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