Hello and welcome to our Support Wizard guide! While every Wiz dreams of becoming DPS – you can always go for the support route while gaining power – they’re not so bad!
D3 Support Wizard:
Builds | Rerolls | Effects List | Key Notes | Role
ZDPS Support Wizard Builds
| ZDPS Support Wizard Build Basic Template | ||||
| Equipment | Skill | Rune | ||
| Head | Crown of the Primus | Energy Twister | Gale Force | |
| Shoulder | Dashing Pauldrons of Despair | Frost Nova | Bone Chill | |
| Chest | Harness of Truth | Teleport | Wormhole (Safe Passage) | |
| Hands | Fierce Gauntlets | Black Hole | Event Horizon | |
| Legs | Leg Guards of Mystery | Slow Time | Any / All | |
| Feet | Illusory Boots | (Open) Ice Armor | Crystallize | |
| Belt | String of Ears (Shame) | – | ||
| Bracer | Strongarm (Nemesis) | Passives | ||
| Amulet | Etlich (Hellfire) | Cold Blooded | ||
| Ring | Oculus Ring | Conflagration | ||
| Ring | Obsidian Ring of the Zodiac | Evocation | ||
| Weapon | Aether Walker | Blur (Illusionist) | ||
| Off-hand | Stormshield | (Unstable Anomaly) | ||
| Legendary Gems | Kanai’s Cube | |||
| Esoteric Alteration | (Open) Ahavarion, Solanium | |||
| Iceblink | (Open) Cindercoat, any… | |||
| Gogok of Swiftness (Toxin) | (Open) Halo of Arlyse | |||
I don’t think there’s a build which has enough variance from the first to warrant this – “reserved for future use”…
I can probably put a Solanium setup here…
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ZDPS Support Wizard Rerolls & Stat Priority
RCR is worth it on 1 or 2 rolls.
| ZDPS Support Wizard Build: Rerolls & Stat Priority (Basic) | ||||||
| Head | INT | VIT | APoC | CHC | LpH | Any |
| Shoulder | INT | VIT | CDR | Life% | Armor | RES |
| Chest | INT | VIT | Life% | Armor | Elite% | – |
| Hands | INT | VIT | CDR | Armor | Any | – |
| Legs | INT | VIT | Armor | RES | Any | – |
| Boots | INT | VIT | Armor | RES | Any | – |
| Belt | INT | VIT | Armor | Life% | Res | |
| Wrist | INT | VIT | Armor | RES | LpH | CHC |
| Neck | CDR | VIT | Life% | Armor | LpH | Any |
| Rings | CDR | Any | VIT | Armor | RES | CHC |
| Main | INT | VIT | CDR | LpH | Any | – |
| Off | INT | VIT | CDR | Life% | Any | CHC |
Support rerolls aren’t as strict as DPS classes, but here’s a good idea of what you need. This also varies wildly on the needs of your specific group setup and skills.
Solanium on Wizard is “possible” but isn’t great unless specifically setup for. If you plan on using it, get Crit (CHC) wherever you can.
Excess INT on gear ain’t so bad as it gives you RES. Don’t roll it out of everything.
ZDPS Support Wizard Buffs, Debuffs & Notable Effects
Here’s a list of desirable effects for support Wizards
| Name | Note | Effect | Effect 2 | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Slow Time | NORUNE | Slow | A notable mega CC, also, ASDown | |
| Slow Time | Exhaustion | Weaken | Slow | Also, ASDown |
| Slow Time | TIme Warp | VULN | Slow | Also, ASDown |
| Slow Time | Stretch Time | ASPD | Slow | Also, ASDown |
| Frost Nova | Bone Chill | VULN | Slow | Also, ASDown |
| Wave of Force | Impactful Wave | Reflect | Turns projectiles "friendly" reflects | |
| Wave of Force | Debilitating Force | Weaken | ||
| Energy Twister | Gale Force | Fire+ | Enemy recieves increased Fire damage. | |
| Blizzard | Lightning Storm | Lightning+ | Enemy recieves increased Lightning damage. | |
| Ray of Frost | Snowblast | Cold+ | Enemy recieves increased Cold damage. | |
| Disintegrate | Intensify | Arcane+ | Enemy recieves increased Arcane damage. | |
| Black Hole | Event Horizon | SPECIAL | Suction | Removes elite affixes and projectiles! |
| Black Hole | Spellsteal | Weaken | Suction | |
| Conflagrate | Passive | CHC | ||
| Cold Blooded | Passive | VULN | ||
| Temporal Flux | Passive | Slow | ||
| Crown of the Primus | Helm | Slow Time gets ALL RUNES. | ||
| Delseres 2 | Set Bonus | - | Slow Time gets a zodiac effect. | |
| Delseres 4 | Set Bonus | DReduc | - | Slow Time grants friends toughness. |
| Aether Walker | Wand | - | - | Massive mobility. |
| Ahavarion | Staff | SPECIAL | RNG, but powerful... | |
| Ranslor's Folly | Suction |
ZDPS Support Wizard Key Notes
Don’t leave home without Black Hole-Event Horizon and all-runed Slow Time. These two are leagues above anything else you can bring to the table. Aside from this, there aren’t many (super meaningful) choices when customizing your ZDPS Wizard.
Since you have all-runed Slow Time, Delsere’s 4 becomes mandatory.
You NEED to have at least 1 cold and 1 fire skill – to trigger Cold Blooded and Conflagration.
Try to pack as many of the “+Elemental Damage” debuffs as your group can use. Sadly there is none for Physical, Holy or Poison.
If you’ve ticked the above boxes – you’re good to go!
ZDPS Support Wizard: Your role in the rift
A unique addition to your team’s defense: this is by far the most powerful aspect of Wizard. Black Hole-Event Horizon (removing elite effects) and Slow Time simply add to group toughness in a way no other class can. It isn’t simply an “increase in stats”, but a large increase to group safety and survivability. It’s a whole new VECTOR of defense that cannot be emulated any other way.
Aside from the above, there is no “Wiz specific” role, as any other class can do
other support actions much better than Wizard can.
Offensive group buffs: Wiz ZDPS has some of the best offensive effects.
Scouting: Is possible with Teleport and Aether Walker, but make sure your team will live without your awesome defensive capability.
D3 Support Wizard:
Builds | Rerolls | Effects List | Key Notes | Role
Check this out to learn more: D3 Directory Guide for Wizards and other D3 classes.
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