Well for anyone who's not too busy mocking my poor wiki-reading skills, here's an update on the build.

DPS is lackluster. Not terrible, some pretty decent hits and having both auras tick helps. Survivability is good, at lvl 20 I was running around Thunderholme solo without too much trouble, In a full raid group it was unwise for me to get seperated, but I could handle 2-3 mobs pretty easy(keep in mind this is a lvl 20 character in a lvl 29 explorer area).

Cloudkill turns out to be really powerful. I have massive acid spellpower/crits. Cloudkill and Ice Storm are doing a really great job together, combined with 3 cleave attacks and I really don't have any more buttons for spells. Later on I may try to find some good fire spell power items and do flame walls.

noamineo wrote on Jul 25^th, 2016 at 3:19pm:

I was too used to the old Cloudkill to believe it myself, on my last Wiz. life. I kept switching it out but eventually coming back to it. Cloudkill is the real deal, now. Still, surprise probably has me overestimating it. It's on par with Ice Storm & Wall of Fire, and that's enough.

Revaulting wrote on Jul 25^th, 2016 at 10:21pm:


When I get a few more levels and go back to bastard sword/orb it'll be hitting a lot harder. ATM I'm sortta going through a rebellious greataxe phase.

Build Update, again for anyone who cares: At the moment it is not overly survivable. Even with displacement, death aura, and lesser death aura, I am having some trouble staying alive in EE content. That will imrpove with level as I start having space to slot PRR items and get my spellpower up higher. Being on a poor destiny certainly doesn't help, but I have to re-fill the karma pot in the

I've got about 650~ hit points and around 50 PRR, AC is also depressingly low but frankly I cannot figure out AC still. On my Sword and Board build a few lives ago I think I still just went for high PRR.

Character is currently level 22. I think when I can get negative Energy Burst to land for a full heal I'll be in good shape.

If I had that belt it would help a lot, I had actually intended to grind one out but I'd need to be off-potion before I can do it.

Having a MinII greensteel HP item will also help, I JUST finished shroud-runs to make one, but am hopelessly far away from cleansing it(2/18 ). I am only doing GS HP and MP items, I have a cleaned MP item... that is a cloak, wearing it would mean giving up my abashai set bonus, which admittedly I may do anyway. Irregardless, gear layout is always a hassle.

I'm seeing more Heroic Shroud runs these days, maybe I can pull off 20 this life and cleanse another GS, not that that helps me for now. I'm gonna try for that belt I guess, do you have any idea what the drop rate is like? Can I get one in a few runs, or is like the stuff from Devil's Gambit?

noamineo wrote on Aug 1^st, 2016 at 1:40pm:

This is your problem. 

For melee in EE, you either have to go full-retard dodge+concealment+ghostly+evasion or go full-retard PRR+MRR.  You can't half-ass the defensive stuff on a melee in EE.

You should have 100+ PRR on a medium/heavy armor melee build in EE.

Starkjade wrote on Aug 1^st, 2016 at 6:26pm:


You always have to log hot turbine wont even let anyone TALK about the drop rates on shit. Short answer: If you have to hide it, you're doing something shitty.

Revaulting wrote on Aug 2^nd, 2016 at 5:17am:


It occurs to me that I could run the quest on an alt to avoid wasting a potion Unfortunately I irrevocably fucked up my farming alt a while back /sad day.

Anyway I finally got some time to play last night - I am actually hitting more like 75 PRR, and again that's without even really trying. A little re-spec and re-gear and I should be golden.

Sadly even if I manage to grind out that belt I won't get to use it for a bit, I sacrificed my resistance salad to get an essence of cleansing, then used it on my conc belt. Now I have a cleaned SP item and a cleansed HP item, but no more resistance salad (I hadn't used it in 3 lives anyway, and I can always make another. Cleansing it was a mistake.)

Digimonk wrote on Aug 2^nd, 2016 at 2:11pm:


Agreed. I mainly wear the conc item for the SP at this point (Wizardry VI and some insightful SPs), its the best SP item for now, though I will switch it out in a few more levels.

Digimonk wrote on Aug 2^nd, 2016 at 2:11pm:


Will be trying for the belt sooner or later, would definitely have been great especially during that first crawl through heroics *shiver* even know I lust for it but simply can't spare the time to go farm for the damn thing. I'll be doing AT LEAST 2 more wizard lives including a full-blown Palemaster life sooner or later, so it'll be worth grinding out.

The hat is definitely nice, would not say no to it. At the moment I am using an Epic Darkstorm helm which has Negative and Electric power on it + 16% crits. Add epic rock boots for acid spell power / lore and I've got all the SPs and lores I need(I only use Negetive, Electric, and Acid spells really)

Digimonk wrote on Aug 2^nd, 2016 at 2:11pm:


Build is enormously fun. I think a better player in a group wouldn't have much trouble doing EE content. LE is another matter.

Digimonk wrote on Aug 2^nd, 2016 at 2:11pm:


-I went strength-based because I had so much STR gear that it simply made more sense. I think i put every point into INT and STR still ended up higher, +7 tomes help a bit.
-went robot because I have almost a full inventory bag of docents. My last caster-life was fleshie and I ended up using a lvl 14 robe all the way to lvl 24. I didn't have anything better and couldn't find anything.
-medium armor is easy enough to cancel out arcane spell failure. Probably could have gotten away with heavy but didn't feel like taking the effort.

Tree-wise I went mostly into Eldritch Knight to get the full-time tensers. A lot more in PaleMaster for Wraith Form.

I am actually currently into harpers for int-to-damage but am going to throw all that to Stalwart instead for the extra PRR.

THF v SWF was a VERY tough call, but I ended up going with THF for the same reason as robot: available gear. I have a huge collection of greataxes, greatswords, and bastard swords. On the flip-side, I have an equally nice collection of SWF blades left over from my bard life. THF won out because combined with Cleave it means more AOE DPS. Plus you can get all the AOS benefits while still going bastard sword and orb.

Digimonk wrote on Aug 2^nd, 2016 at 2:11pm:


Am not fire based. Acid was easier to slot, and fewer things are immune to acid.


Digimonk wrote on Aug 2^nd, 2016 at 2:11pm:


Melee DPS is not terrible. I'm not leading the board on kill counts but I do ok. I'm not hitting as hard as say a barbarian, but I do some pretty good hits and fairly frequently. It'll only get better as more powerful weapons become available to me.

I'll probably go farm on hard or nomal with a lvl 20 alt. I just hope the drop rate is not retardedly low

I usually farm heroic gear by joining random eliteBB pugs with an iconic warlock mule.

So, build update:

Survivability is improving. Higher levels have given access to better gear, which has led to more HP. Sitting at around 800 I do pretty well with 100 PRR/displacement/wraith/both auras ticking down. DPS is also pretty decent. The spell damage could be a lot higher, but slotting better spell power/crit items has been a huge pain in the ass, not to mention the best gear would require undue hours of farming.

The build definitely won't be soloing EE content, but does well in groups on EE. I did even take it into some LE content, and did about as well as you'd expect. Then again, I wouldn't expect most builds to fair too well in LE when still in the early 20s

Just hit 26 yesterday, will be 27 tonight(was about 10k off ) so will see how the build preforms once I get my Deathwyrm Cloak equipped. Yeah I'd have been happier all these levels with the belt from Search and Rescue, but that will have to be farmed out on a later life.