S3 Wizard Team Progress

[Yelgis]

Yea basically. I tested it during the PTR and couldn't see it stacking at all across wizards. Everyone you ask on official forums will say it doesn't stack too, so I tend to feel that is the case. I also tested Cold Blooded and couldn't get it to stack either. It really sucks that none of the Wizards buffs stack, but you have WD's that have cold Zdogs, Piranhas, Posion Haunt, and Mass Confusion and they all stack. Seems a little unfair considering.


That means I only run EE on a single and Cold Blooded on a different one. My third wiz in the team might run Glass Cannon, Audacity or the one dmg buff where you stand still to get it. Haven't really settled on which one yet. My 4th character is now a Zdps Sader. I am still gearing him up (only ni the mid 60's for CDR atm). Having the run speed of Wings of Angels is amazing for my clear times in T6 and I can swap it to the crit Valor when pushing harder grifts. His shield glare damage buff and the crit from Judgement are also very nice and almost makeup the damage loss from not having a 4th Wizard. Overall group damage will be higher when running the Valor Law with the CHD buff both because of the 100% CHD and because of the 23% attack speed it gives (which scales crazy with dual Hydra).

Running the sader allows me to gear for attack speed easier and not have to run Gogok or too many ias rolls to reach the 3.07 breakpoint. I still need to map out how much cdr I would need to get the next breakpoint above that.

[Devile]

Yea basically. I tested it during the PTR and couldn't see it stacking at all across wizards. Everyone you ask on official forums will say it doesn't stack too, so I tend to feel that is the case. I also tested Cold Blooded and couldn't get it to stack either. It really sucks that none of the Wizards buffs stack, but you have WD's that have cold Zdogs, Piranhas, Posion Haunt, and Mass Confusion and they all stack. Seems a little unfair considering.

After reading about this, what I understand is that BUFFS with different runes can stack, but EE and CB are debuffs and that will only get REFRESHED and not stacked when another party member applies that same debuff. Just like Monk's Mantra of Conviction, it's a debuff and it won't stack with other monks. That's why EE and CB don't stack and make's no sense to have them as passives for all your chars in the party. Have EE in 1 char, CB in 1 and that's it.

There seems to be very few debuffs that can actually stack and basically just from items (Strongarms, Gem of Efficacious Toxin, etc.). Are u sure WD debuffs stack??? IE: Barb hits a mob and does X damage. WD1 casts Haunt Poisoned Spirit on that mob and applies the 20% damage debuff. Same Barb hits the mob and does X + Y damage cause of the debuff. WD2 casts Haunt Poisoned Spirit on the same mob and applies 20% additive damage debuff. The Barb hits the same mob and does X + Z (where Z > Y) because the 2 WD debuffs stacked???

That seems very strong IMO, even if the debuffs are additive and not multiplicative, that's a TON of %damage.