What is the best primary skill for wizards?

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RuthlessAB forum junky total posts: 89 since: May 2011	May 17, 12 at 4:38pm ^ What is the best primary skill for wizards?
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bobbonew Snoochy Boochies! NeoXtreme since: Dec 2002	May 17, 12 at 4:52pm ^ re: What is the best primary skill for wizards?
	I can't speak from first-hand experience as I'm not a huge level Wizard yet (its my main), but researching builds is something I do quite frequently. There are quite a few here that may be of interest to you. Perhaps someone else can throw some feedback your way first-hand. ^^ ------------------- Questional
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Shiris NEET high on "N" total posts: 780 since: Oct 2007	May 18, 12 at 2:11am ^ re: What is the best primary skill for wizards?
	It really depends on your build/setup with the other skills. ------------------- Currently playing: Guild Wars 2 Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers Fire Emblem Awakening in Lunatic+ (waiting on DLCs)
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Aerotrunks Resident Neo total posts: 2565 since: Jan 2002	May 18, 12 at 2:40am ^ re: What is the best primary skill for wizards?
	So far I'm loving electrocute with the chain lightning rune active. Spectral blades is beastly too though. They are all fairly useful given the right situation. It also helps to pick a good secondary to compliment your primary. For example I use the electrocute for mobs coupled with arcane orb blasts to demolish mobs. ------------------- PSO2 \| Diablo3 \| Dark Souls 2
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Tancuras Live free. Run free. Resident Neo total posts: 3243 since: Oct 2006	May 18, 12 at 6:24am ^ re: What is the best primary skill for wizards?
	Just a protip: With Elective Mode active, you can select two, three, or even all of your primary skills to use at the same time. It's in Options under Gameplay, and when you check it off, if you click on a skill category, you can change the pages and put a skill from another category in that slot. You can have any possible skill combination this way. So if you wanted to use two primary skills, that's perfectly fine.
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Shiris NEET high on "N" total posts: 780 since: Oct 2007	May 18, 12 at 5:34pm ^ re: What is the best primary skill for wizards?
	I went arcane missles (split to 3 for 50% dmg each so 150% when all 3 hits) and disintegrate with votality for ages I just switched arcane missles to shock pulse with piercing orb passive, since I needed the extra piercing/extra aoe for all those annoying rare monster packs. ------------------- Currently playing: Guild Wars 2 Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers Fire Emblem Awakening in Lunatic+ (waiting on DLCs)
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RuthlessAB forum junky total posts: 89 since: May 2011	May 18, 12 at 10:57pm ^ re: What is the best primary skill for wizards?
	I thought spectral blade was the strongest with 135%+AOE for the sacrifice of long range.
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Shiris NEET high on "N" total posts: 780 since: Oct 2007	May 19, 12 at 2:20am ^ re: What is the best primary skill for wizards?
	quote RuthlessAB I thought spectral blade was the strongest with 135%+AOE for the sacrifice of long range. The problem with that skill is certain mobs start hitting you way too hard for you to be in melee range. I'm near the end of act 3 in hell mode (lv 58), and I have to kite the rare mobs like the whole map even with 28468 hp, 51.58% reduction (4102 armor), 10.7% dodge, and a shield that blocks 820-947 at a 23% rate. That's also with the 20% melee reduction passive, and the can't take more than 35% dmg lol. A lot of the bosses and rare spawns (with certain modifiers) just hit way too hard for that short range vs shocking pulse with piercing passive travels insanely far. Edit: May 19, 12 7:00am ------------------- Currently playing: Guild Wars 2 Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers Fire Emblem Awakening in Lunatic+ (waiting on DLCs)
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RuthlessAB forum junky total posts: 89 since: May 2011	May 19, 12 at 11:26pm ^ re: What is the best primary skill for wizards?
	quote Shiris quote RuthlessAB I thought spectral blade was the strongest with 135%+AOE for the sacrifice of long range. The problem with that skill is certain mobs start hitting you way too hard for you to be in melee range. I'm near the end of act 3 in hell mode (lv 58), and I have to kite the rare mobs like the whole map even with 28468 hp, 51.58% reduction (4102 armor), 10.7% dodge, and a shield that blocks 820-947 at a 23% rate. That's also with the 20% melee reduction passive, and the can't take more than 35% dmg lol. A lot of the bosses and rare spawns (with certain modifiers) just hit way too hard for that short range vs shocking pulse with piercing passive travels insanely far. So which primary skill do you recommend for me? I'm a lvl 36 wizard. I'm debating between spectral blade or electrocute/lighting blast. It only does 80% but has rapid speed. Your armor is only 51% reduction? 0_0 mine is 50% reduction at 1856 armor
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Shiris NEET high on "N" total posts: 780 since: Oct 2007	May 20, 12 at 9:08pm ^ re: What is the best primary skill for wizards?
	your stats only show your reduction against enemies of the equivalent level I use shocking pulse (piercing orb), I've tried electrocute (lightning blast) but for some reason my shocking pulse hits over twice as hard as 1 electrocute. That and when you're kiting, you don't have time to take advantage of the rapid speed so I rather have slower speed but hit harder. You can only tank up to a certain point, inferno mobs (even the trash mobs) can kill you in 3 hits (with energy armor) so I've been working on switching my gear from int/vit to int/hp regen (and switched shield to offhand focus for more damage since even with shield I take the max 35% damage anyway) ------------------- Currently playing: Guild Wars 2 Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers Fire Emblem Awakening in Lunatic+ (waiting on DLCs)
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Spastic Hooked on Neo total posts: 4178 since: Sep 2002	May 20, 12 at 11:54pm ^ re: What is the best primary skill for wizards?
	Nightmare A3 level 45 Wizard here... Disintegration seems to do the most efficient damage:cost ratio. The runes make it almost imbalanced. I'm using the one that splits off for arcane damage, but all of them are nuts. I also use chain lightning for my signature spell with the +1 energy per hit rune. +1 to the guy who mentioned advanced skill design. I find the mastery tree useless, so I use that invul spell and teleport at the same time. One more thing, Blizzard/disintegration is a nice combo. bobbonew, add me you n00b ------------------- It's a mad, mad world
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joku29 unwashed heathen (guest) IP: Logged	Jul 02, 12 at 1:41pm ^ re: What is the best primary skill for wizards?
	I'm level 60 wizzy and i got arcane missile with +4 arcane power on hit, also have meteor with meteor swarm rune with 15 ap on crit and high crit rate. arcane dynamo, glass cannon and critical mass are my passive since archon can be buffed with dynamo it is pretty hilarious . I hate low hp on wizzy and even switched off my armor since i die 2-3 hits anyways armor or not ( frost nova to that slot)
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MarkusK Neo-newbie total posts: 9 since: Jul 2012	Jul 08, 12 at 11:41am ^ re: What is the best primary skill for wizards?
	Shocking pulse is quite good for me. I kinda of depends which spec I'm running with though. Blades are nice to play around with but really bad for massive farming trips. Arcane missiles are not that bad either!
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Shiris NEET high on "N" total posts: 780 since: Oct 2007	Jul 08, 12 at 3:01pm ^ re: What is the best primary skill for wizards?
	I used disintegration until inferno, after that you hardly have time to channel a spell in there in the harder acts (when soloing) unless you have godlike gear. For partying though, disintegrate is still fine when you have tanks. Edit: Jul 09, 12 12:12am ------------------- Currently playing: Guild Wars 2 Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers Fire Emblem Awakening in Lunatic+ (waiting on DLCs)
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bigben4879 starting to like it total posts: 50 since: Jul 2012	Jul 12, 12 at 12:29pm ^ re: What is the best primary skill for wizards?
	quote Shiris I used disintegration until inferno, after that you hardly have time to channel a spell in there in the harder acts (when soloing) unless you have godlike gear. For partying though, disintegrate is still fine when you have tanks. Disintegrate works well for most solo/group engagements
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