In Diablo 3 the Wizard is the most similar to the Sorceress in Diablo 2. In my personal experience I always tried to master this type of class because they are fast, very powerfull, and I could get to(teleport) bosses and get the best loot.
The changes that have been made to this class would be the disappearance of the mana and the emergence of the Arcane Power Globe.
The character is able to attack continuously, but is not that strong and cannot sustain a lot of damage. Instability attempted, unsuccessfully, to create this by making her "more blasty and more vulnerable." Jay Wilson talked about this when discussing the new design of the Wizard in October 2009.
Jay Wilson: "Well for the Wizard we want to enforce the fact that
she’s a glass cannon. I don’t think it’s fun to ever run out of mana.
I’m not really interested in an extended resource for her. For the Witch
Doctor we’re okay with mana, since he’s got some pretty good skills to
recover mana that also double as attacks. And he’s not defenseless when
he’s out of mana. He's got pets and ways to attack with them that aren’t
mana intensive. For him that makes mana fairly interesting."
"For the wizard, when she’s out of mana she just dies. And that’s not fun. So if anything, we want to encourage how she plays. So she’s the kind of character that blasts first and asks questions later. Very vulnerable. So we want to implement a system that makes her more blasty, but even more vulnerable. We want to make that a choice for the player. "Do I want to make myself more vulnerable in exchange for being more blasty." And that’s a cool gameplay pull there."
"For the wizard, when she’s out of mana she just dies. And that’s not fun. So if anything, we want to encourage how she plays. So she’s the kind of character that blasts first and asks questions later. Very vulnerable. So we want to implement a system that makes her more blasty, but even more vulnerable. We want to make that a choice for the player. "Do I want to make myself more vulnerable in exchange for being more blasty." And that’s a cool gameplay pull there."
Arcane Power is in a nutshell a resource that enables the wizard to be able to cast his/her low skills. However you will need to be selective on using the higher skills as they will require more Arcane Power.
The most important thing for building a Wizard will be developing skills.
The Active skills have Signature Spells that are free to cast but do lower damage than non-signature skills.
This will be the first character that I am planning on mastering. I love the power that this class brings as well as the mobility. Look for my progress to be tracked on here!
Wizard Footage:
Look for updates weekly on my progress and tips.
Update: 5/22 - Level 15 still on normal.
So far I have a few hours put into this class. I like a lot of the skills and am very impressed at how blizzard has designed this character.
My Build is listed here....My Build
I enjoy playing this build and so far I am doing some very nice damage.
For my first 2 skills I choose the Magic Magic Missile which costs no Arcane power and Arcane Torrent that costs some Arcane power.
The Magic missle is good because it costs nothing and I can spam it at enemies. The Arcane is good because it does a lot of damage and can take down enemies.
The next 3 skills that I selected is Diamond skin, Wave Force and Frost Nova.
The Diamond skill makes you virtually invincible for 3 seconds and then I execute a Wave force that blasts all enemies in the vicinity of me.
Video of Wave Force:
As Seen above this is a truly devastating mob attack. The last skill that I have selected is Frost Nova which I pair with the Wave force to do the same thing.
Have fun and I will keep updating my progress throughout my experience building the wizard.
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