Is Wizard's good to run with?

[Gastrix]

If so what gear setup & stats needed are we talking about?

Anyone that have experienced some wizard botting and mby could tell me what ~ equipment I have to get to be able to
run in a1, a2 or a3?

Any useful help would be lovevly!

or is it barbarian all the way?

 

[tehuser]

i've botted a bit with my wizard, but i had to use a specific spec. as for a barb, i use pretty much what i want to, belphegor auto detects wich skill i use and voila

 

[mythe]

I'm running a wizard with a CM build in act 2, I've botted overnight a few times without any deaths at all. Gile's combat routine is a must, it works much better than the default routines.
With prismatic armor on, I have roughly 9k armor, 800 AR, 30k health, 30k dps, 45% crit chance, 18apoc, and a shield with 20% block.
I just have the standard CM build which is
diamond skin - crystal shell
frost nova - cold snap
explosive blast - chain reaction
energy armor - prismatic armor
energy twister - storm chaser
spectral blades - deep cuts

I know having both spectral blades and ET is a bit weird, but I saw it recommended in another thread and it works surprisingly well for botting. Occasionally the bot will mess up and run out of mana or something, and the spectral blades are a great saver because they still have decent crit chance, do good damage, and also proc the extra tornado from storm chaser.
A wizard champion farmer could probably be made for pretty cheap, although I haven't really tried setting up a new one with cheap gear. Since the wizard's survivability is based off of skills so much, it could theoretically be pretty cheap to make one. I'd say that if you just get a chantodo's will plus a helm with apoc, grab a decent shield, and then stack crit chance up to 40%+ and get a bit of vitality/AR you should be fine. The interesting thing is that you don't need any LOH, my wizard has absolutely zero loh or lifesteal and it doesn't really affect his deaths at all.

 

[sparks]

before 1.04 you could use anything with about 350+ loh and just go, bot or manually and almost never die.
of course bliz fucked it up and now I find its 45%+ crit chance to make up for their nerf, ok thats just me, I am not saying mythe is not correct with his 40%+ statement.
he has more armor than me too.

I know that I was using a macro manually that spammed my keys and I have read some post here that say the bot is not fast enough.

 

[mythe]

before 1.04 you could use anything with about 350+ loh and just go, bot or manually and almost never die.
of course bliz fucked it up and now I find its 45%+ crit chance to make up for their nerf, ok thats just me, I am not saying mythe is not correct with his 40%+ statement.
he has more armor than me too.

I know that I was using a macro manually that spammed my keys and I have read some post here that say the bot is not fast enough.

Are you using the storm chaser rune on your ET? Blizard halfed the proc coefficient on everything but that, which was untouched for some reason. For me it procs just as much or even more than WW.

 

[Gardettos]

Are you using the storm chaser rune on your ET? Blizard halfed the proc coefficient on everything but that, which was untouched for some reason. For me it procs just as much or even more than WW.

It was actually not touched. It was doubled and was obviously a mistake. It will be fixed.

 

[PKSays]

wizard is absolutely terrible, you need godly gear. monks/barbs are much easier to gear (cheaper) and better overall farmers.