Season 3 Tal-rasha Wizard Team discussion

[Magicme]

I've been messing around with Wizards at the moment in preparation for 2.2, running Firebirds instead of Tals.

ATM I'm hitting the CDR with Leorics/Shoulder/Gloves/Evocation/Paragon. As you said that means I can't use FnR, but I'm planning on trying Halo+RoRG w/ APD. The Arcane Dynamo/Spectral Blade build that is seeing use in Season 2 at the moment is essentially what I'm going for, adjusting to Tals instead of FB. I've tried it in non season w/o Halo, and survivability in melee is a bit sketchy even at GR35. It's fine when a bunch of things are CCed, but when everything's dead I'm pretty squishy. That's trying the Spectral Blade build - usual kiting w/ blizzard and blackhole round robin is safe and of course the RG is perma-cced in both cases. Haven't tried higher than 35 yet.

My gear can definitely get way better though, but I'd expect to run into the same problem again higher up with better gear. So I figured I'd start really defensive and work from there.

My first thoughts on gear are this: http://ptr.d3planner.com/703190639 (shoulders can be whatever)

Can swap WH out for Tal belt to run a 2h, and can swap Illu boots to Meteor boots if the damage is needed (I'll probably do this on the Season 3 team).

Regarding skill setup, everyone seems to have their own ideas. I'd like to run Flame Blades + Arcane Orbit + Flash w/ Frost proccing from Armour/Frost Nova, but I'm not sure if that works or if it will drain too much AP. Maybe Calamity instead of Arcane Orbit.

As for Serpent Sparker vs Wand of Woh, no idea what Hydra is going to end up like on live after the 49x multiplier shenanigans so that's a tough call to make. At the moment (live) Hydra is a large % of Wizard DPS and I'm expecting it will stay that way, so SS will probably be the way to go.

It's hard to find decent info at the moment, all the Wizard forums are just filled with tears. I didn't actually try this build out on the PTR but I did see variations of it which looked promising. Most were before the first Tal nerf though, so I'm not sure what the DPS will be like w/o FnR.