D3 S28 Wizard Fresh Level 70 Guide | 2.7.5

What three Legendary gems? L25 them ASAP.

Your next goal should be getting at least L25 on your three most important gems. Just get repeat the cycle of Nephalem Rift for a Key -> Do a Greater Rift until you get them, and do the absolute minimum level you need to level them up. Get them and level them quickly – do not feel pressured to “maximize” your rift keys by inflating the difficulty.

Legacy of Dreams is mandatory, as mentioned in the basics segment! Level this up as much as you can.

From here you have some choices

Honestly, double defensive gems will serve you best FOR NOW. Molten Wildebeests Gizzard and Moratorium (L25 only) are the best pair for Wiz IMO.

If you need more DPS later on, Gogok for CDR, Powerful for a good cheap gem. Trapped is probably the best scaling DPS gem, while Stricken would only be considered for lategame depending on content.

Can’t ever go wrong with leveling up a Boon of the Hoarder for speedfarming.

Legendary Items in ALL SLOTS

LoD gets stronger with each legendary item you have equipped – so get to it! You should aim to get this done “passively” by natural item drops, but you can also craft items if you’re desperate.

Simply wear whatever junk you find eventually
replacing them with useful pieces as you get them!

Spending Blood Shards is “OK”, but only use Death’s Breath to fill up the slots if you’re absolutely desperate. You’ll get an item for each slot in no time (you can even craft them). Save your resources for finding SPECIFIC items that will greatly boost your power. We talk more about this in the next segment, refinement.

Ancients DOUBLE this bonus, and they’re a welcome boost to consider.

Defense Type & Gems

Wizards / WD’s / Necros are INTELLIGENCE classes (they get free ALLRES from INT). So, in the face of all this free allres, your prime defensive stats are ARMOR > VIT. So try to reroll Armor on your gear if you need defense – it’s your best defensive stat by FAR. REMOVE AS ALLRES (it’s pretty useless as a rolled-in stat).

Slot in your best Rubies or Emeralds, as they give Armor.

Basic Rerolls

Since legendaries are a little expensive to reroll EARLY ON, try to make the most by REMOVING GARBAGE STATS, and getting anything “remotely usable”.

Life per Hit is decent early on. Even if it appears on weird pieces of gear, it’s very welcome in the early game.

Archon% is NON EXISTENT. So don’t go for ANY skill percent rolls.

Remove useless stats

• Life Regeneration – garbage for any build.
• Attack Speed – it usually an endgame tune-up stat.
• Excess Resource Cost Reduction – Is a crutch, and only niche builds need it.
• Excess Cooldown Reduction – Only useful for an endgame “need”.
• Unused skill% – literally USELESS.
• All Resists – Useless for us, take Armor and VIT instead.

Take better stats

• INT VIT– can’t go wrong with these. Your core stats!
• ARMOR Life% Great defensive stats.
• Sockets are essentially MANDATORY.
• Life per Hit – Great early game sustainability.
• CRIT Stats (CHC / CHD) – More for endgame, but I’d take this over garbage stats.
• Skill and Elemental% – that you use. Again, there’s no Archon%.

Full Build Preview: LoD Archon

This is a giga-flex build with the only item you WANT are Messerschmidt’s Reave >> The Swami > Fazula’s.

Full Build Preview: Vyr6 Archon

Old school wizards would know Archon by heart! If you’re a newer one, don’t sweat it. It can be a little jarring at first but Archon is actually one of the “sane” and “simple” wiz speedfarming builds… I honestly don’t want to recommend Tal Rasha here…

As a reminder, the Guardian set is CRAFTED.

Here’s advice on how to spend your blood shards with Kadala, roughly in order of importance:

The Swami – Helm. You can also get a Leoric’s crown here for LoD use. The Swami is a ridiculously good “defensive” item that helps keep you alive when you’re a human.

Fazula’s Improbable Chain / Goldwrap – Belt. Great items in general.

Ashnagarr’s Blood Bracer / Nemesis – Bracer. Nemesis is great for follower. Blood Bracer is a great temporary item.

EVERYTHING ELSE IS FILLER,
and pretty much only used for the LoD version

St. Archews Gage – Glove, Aquila Cuirass – Chest, and pretty much any other “temp items” you can find in the LoD Archon full build preview.

You can get your Vyr 6 pieces from here as well!

Here’s advice on how to get your weapons from Deaths Breath rare item upgrades (Kanai’s Cube Recipe: 25x Deaths Breath convert a rare into random legendary of same type), roughly in order of importance:

2H Axe for Messerschmidt’s Reaver is really really important for your build, early on at least. For the most part it can single handedly allow you to keep spamming Archon, “if you’re not unlucky”. You can use Zodiac for “backup” later on.

1H Wand and Source for Chantodo’s weapon set. You can only use this when your Vyr6 is up and running. It’s a low priority pickup, but it’s something you should inch towards. It is extremely powerful, and actually the main damage source for archon.

You can reroll set items to another slot (example, Helm to Shoulders)
using DB’s FS’s in the cube. Just a reminder, if you want your Vyr 6.

Nothing else is really WORTH spending DB’s for, and would rather spend to try and get jewelry you might not have yet. Aether Walker, In-geom and all that are nice, but not that important.

Rings and Amulets are tough to get from either BS or DB’s (due to the large amount of possible outcomes), but if you’re done getting your core items from these currencies – and you haven’t got your core accessories, it’s a viable way to spend them. Typically you’ll just find these as you grind – then use currency if you’re desperate. Anyway, if I had to rank the importance of your rings and ammys…

Halo of Karini is an ULTRA powerful defensive buff that needs a little work.

Zodiac is another way to cheat more Archons. Use it WITH Messerschmidt’s to ensure your uptime, or use only one of them.

Unity is a decent defensive option, but you need the follower immortality relic, and another Unity for the follower!

As an aside – Ring of Royal Grandeur and Avarice Band are BOUNTY ONLY rings (respectively ACT I and III), which DO NOT APPEAR FROM any other source. They, like any other bounty item, DO NOT DROP from monsters, gambling, upgrades or any other source outside of their respective BOUNTY CACHE.