Diablo – Wizard CDR builds

I've been playing Inferno in a group and solo. This is my build: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/wizard#aZcXlQ!WTX!aZbZaZ

Act 1 Hell isn't really a good gauge if your solo build is doing really well... My build has changed several times because the later acts and difficulties required more CC and escape mechanisms.

You need a lot of control if you want to solo the hard champion packs, but they are all entirely doable with a good wizard build. The 60% slow on blizzard is a godsend and all but 'fast'-modified champion packs will be hard pressed to close the distance on you if you kite properly.

The main problem is fast, or mortar monsters. With fast you just need to do more running than usual.. Diamondskin-Frostray to single target the close ones when skin is off cooldown (Diamond skin with the reduced cost rune makes these ray abilities take almost no arcane power), teleport around if you're getting chased too close.

With mortar the best way is to KEEP RUNNING as far away from them as possible. Drop blizzards and arcane orbs behind you (If you pop diamond skin you can get off 5 or 6 arcane orbs instead of like 3 or 4, due to the cost reduction...it's amazing). If you have a circular area you can kite, use that; if it's just a single hallway when you reach the end you can wormhole-teleport to the other side and resume kiting.

Never stand still against mortars, those things hurt. I use magic missile & frost ray to pick units off. Again...diamond skin + frost ray is amazing.

I cannot emphasize enough how important something that controls the monsters is. I like blizzard but you might be able to get away with the 30% passive slow for arcane spells (but that's half as much as blizzard provides) or other forms of slow/cc.

Good luck!

The Wizard will default to using their weapon if you are out of arcane power and attempt to use a left- or right-click bound skill that requires arcane power (i.e. not a Signature Spell). If you have a melee weapon equipped, your wizard will then run towards them to attack. If you have a wand, your wizard will shoot at the enemy.

Q1) This sounds like a bug, unless you have a spell bound to your left click that requires arcane power. I haven't seen this behaviour.

Q2) There is no way to change the "out of arcane power" behaviour of using your equipped weapon. You can hold down the Shift key to avoid running into melee an enemy if you are wielding a melee weapon but that only mitigates the behaviour, it does not change it.

Q3) You can bind the default attack to a left or right mouse button by removing that button's binding to any other skill (How do I set a mouse button to a regular attack?).