Archive for the ‘Skills’ Category


New Popular Inferno Build – Critical Mass

As you’ve probably seen (if you watch Diablo videos on Youtube or browse the forums) this new Critical Mass build is becoming more and more popular. Although this build was being used shortly after release, it was hotfixed when Blizzard decided it was overpowered. However, in patch 1.0.3 they brought it back (it’s just not [...]

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Melee Wizard Build and Strategy with Barbarian

The Critical Mass build is back! Once again, wizards on youtube are showing off this newly viable build that requires a high crit chance and a few key spells. This build came well before 1.0.3 but was hotfixed because Blizzard felt that critical mass was working too well with some spells. As of 1.0.3, critical [...]

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Wizard Inferno Act 2 Build – Skills and Gear

Are you one of the many people who have made it through Act 1 of inferno, only to hit a wall and get stuck on Act 2? If you’re not there yet, you probably will be. It seems that the difficulty jump between acts in inferno is much more dramatic than it is in the [...]

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Get 200k Gold an Hour with a 60 Wizard in Diablo?

Videos about gold farming in Diablo 3 have been filling up YouTube the past few weeks.  Claims all the way from 100,000 gold an hour to 500,000 gold an hour, from several different farming strategies.  However, almost all of these videos have huge dislike ratios… indicating they probably don’t work quite as well as the [...]

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Wizard and Barbarian Inferno Act 1

This video shows a Wizard and Barbarian doing the Skeleton King quest on the Inferno difficulty. While playing through the cathedral, they discuss their skill builds and 2 person strategy for inferno mode. They also mention that the elites and champions tend to be more difficult than the boss fights, and even fight a group [...]

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Choosing Skills and Gear for the Wizard in Diablo 3

Having trouble killing guys quickly, and need to do more damage on your Wizard?  Or maybe your damage is great but you can’t stop getting 1-shot by Elites and Champions?  Either way, Archon’s newest Wizard Strategy video should be able to help. He goes through the skills he suggests using from Normal Act I, all [...]

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Diablo fight on Hell – Easy Mode for Wizards

Archon posted a new video today, where he shows a Wizard build that makes the Diablo fight very easy (albeit a little more time-consuming).  He shows the entire Diablo fight (spend up to save on time), where he uses only 1 offensive ability – Hydra. This seems like a great build for challenging fights where [...]

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Level 60 Diablo 3 Wizard Gameplay and Strategies

This video contains level 60 Diablo Wizard gameplay footage and strategies. Less than 3 days after the release of Diablo 3, Archon and DreadNought of Inferno Friday have hit level 60. This is there first end game video, and while they’re still working their way through Hell mode, there is plenty of excitement and difficulty [...]

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Creating a Diablo 3 Wizard Build / Skill Combination for Leveling

Inferno Friday’s second video was posted today. This week’s video talked about created a leveling build (or skill combination) for a Wizard in Diablo 3. They go over some things to keep in mind when creating a build, and then shows some sample leveling builds that might work well at level 20 and level 40 [...]

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Diablo Wizard Strats to Know Before Release

The first video of a new series called “Inferno Friday” was posted last week. The series will be covering strategies for beating bosses on the Inferno Difficulty of Diablo 3. This channel specifically will be covering Wizard strategies and builds. This first video, however, goes over 5 things any Diablo player will want to know [...]

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