Diablo Immortal: The New Meta Damage Wizard

Burst Meteor Wizard Skills and Equipment:

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Skills

1. Magic Missile (primary attack)

2. Meteor

3. Arcane Wind

4. Slow Time

5. Lightning Nova

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Main Hand

Thistle Bloom - Arcane Wind now creates a storm that draws in enemies and deals damage over time to enemies.

Note: This main hand essence makes Arcane Wind one of the best crowd control Wizard skills in the game.

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Off-Hand

Trifling Piffle - When Lightning Nova hits a Shocked enemy it releases another Lightning Nova.

Note: With the addition of the Skybreaker's Bolt set the Meteor Wizard can now use Lightning Nova.

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Main Hand 2

Ossified Chromotera - Slow Time now also increases your skill damage for a duration.

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Off-Hand 2

The Siphon (PvM) - Lightning Nova temporarily increases your movement speed.

Weathering Eye (PvP) - Arcane Wind now also reduces enemies movement speed.​

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Helmet

Terminus Facade - Slow Time causes your non-channeled skills to decrease cooldowns and increase movement speed.

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Shoulders

Stag of Ill Omen - Meteor now also increases your damage for a duration.

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Chest

Coat of the Astrum - Lightning Nova now arcs between enemies dealing extra damage against Shocked enemies.

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Legs

Apocalypse Root - Gives Meteor 3 charges which recover very fast with the Terminus Facade helmet essence.

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Recommended Sets

1. Skybreaker's Bolt (2 Set) - Shocks enemies when they are damaged and deals damage over time.

2. Grace of the Flagellant (4 Set) - Increases continuous damage and channeled damage, deals bonus damage every 5 times you deal damage to an enemy, and gives a 4% chance to deal high damage with a 40 second cooldown.

2. Vithu's Urges (2 Set PvM) - Increases the duration of all beneficial effects by 30%.

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Best Curses

1. Lashed - Use at least four items with this curse to make primary attacks cause three damaging whips on cooldown.

2. Wired - Optional to create a surge of lightning on kill that jumps between enemies with a medium length cooldown.

​3. Ghosted (PvP) - Optional for PvP to summon a minion to take some of your incoming damage.

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Best 5 Star Legendary Gems

1. Roiling Consequence - Increases your critical hit chance and causes critical hits to burn enemies.

2. Blood-Soaked Jade - Increases damage, reduces damage taken below 50% life, and gives movement speed.

3. Blood Floe - Strong gem that increases damage, critical hit chance, critical hit damage, and causes bleed.

4. ​Golden Firmament - Casts multiple wind blades at nearby enemies and increases your evasion.

5. ​Starfire Shard - Deals AoE damage to nearby enemies and stuns enemies inside the Maw of the Deep gem effect.​

6. Colossus Engine - Gives increased skill damage, increased area of effect, knockback immunity, and increased size (which increases your movement speed) for a medium duration with a 20 second cooldown.

7. Wulfheort (PvM) - Marks enemies for a duration causing them to take extra damage when they're hit on cooldown.

8. Maw of the Deep (PvP) - Draws enemies in, damages them, stuns them, and shatters enemies armor for more damage.

9. Void Spark (PvM) - Deals massive AoE damage that's effective for challenge dungeons, terror rifts, and speed farming.

10. Seeping Bile (PvP) - Gives a 4% chance to poison enemies on hit and slows enemies' movement speed.​​

11. Stormvault (Optional PvP) - Deals damage over time and at rank 5+ it also slows enemies' movement speed.​​

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Best 2 Star Legendary Gems

1. Pain Clasp - Gives high increased damage against enemies that have a continuous damage effect on them.

2. Mother's Lament - Increases your critical hit chance and releases a blood spike that causes enemies to bleed.

3. Specter Glass - Increases the damage taken by enemies after critical hits and increases your critical hit chance.

4. Fervent Fang - Gives a stacking damage increase and increases your damage against elites and bosses.​

5. Mourneskull - This legacy gem increases your damage and deals damage but it's also drop disabled.

6. Igneous Scorn (PvM) - Deals damage on critical hits and increases your damage after critical hits. Igneous Scorn is the lowest priority 2 star legendary gem and should be the first to be replaced with a ranked up five star gem.

7. Crimson Behelit - Strong legacy gem with increased damage and reduced damage taken that's drop disabled.

Note: Viper's Bite isn't needed to trigger the damage increase on Pain Clasp from there being damage over time on the enemy because the Arcane Wind skill with the Thistle Bloom weapon essence already deals damage over time.

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Best 1 Star Legendary Gems

1. Berserker's Eye (PvM) - Increases all of your damage and critical hit chance but also increases your damage taken.

2. Entropic Well - A strong budget 1 star legendary gem that increases your skill damage and attack speed.

​3. Everlasting Torment - A great budget gem that deals damage over time on critical hits and increases your attack speed.

Note: Berserker's Eye is a great one star legendary gem that requires a high ranked up 5 star gem to match its damage.

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Best Familiars

1. Savior Duskprowler - Look for a 170+ Resilience legendary Duskprowler with the Savior passive skill which provides a cheat death and temporary damage immunity. The 170+ Resilience on the familiar lowers the cooldown of Savior.

2. Broodtalon/Skitterwight - Look for Savior which provides a cheat death and Lingering Wounds for increased damage.

3. Any Savior Familiar - Look for any 170+ Resilience familiar with Savior for a cheat death and great passive skills.

4. Rare Duskprowler - Relentless Strikes is the next best skill because it gives a chance to cast the Duskprowler shield twice. Innervate which gives a chance at resetting one of the player's skill cooldowns, Steel Hide which gives a chance to block, Precision which gives critical hit chance, and Tenacity which lowers the cooldown of the shield are also desirable.

5. Magic Duskprowler - Duskprowler shields are hard to replace so a rare or magic ability Duskprowler is the budget option.

Note: Broodtalons and Skitterwights have status effects over a duration which increases the duration of Lingering Wounds.

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Normal Gems

Prioritize Tourmalines for added damage in red sockets and your highest refinement Citrines and Topaz in yellow sockets. Citrines should be used in PvP for harmful effect duration. You should also use your highest refinement Aquamarines and Sapphires which give increased armor and armor penetration in blue sockets. You can optionally combine all of your bound Rubies which give life and socket them into your equipment if they give higher refinement. Gems give refinement based on their quality and refinement is used to increase the attributes on the pieces of equipment the gems are socketed in.

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Gem Notes

The new Haunt Coil five star gem isn't recommended on this build because damage is more important than defenses for this ranged caster. The fairly new Blood Floe five star gem is strong when it's combined with multiple sources of critical hit chance and critical hit damage. The Colossus Engine gem is excellent for this build because it provides high burst skill damage, increased area of effect, and increased movement speed from its size increase. The Seeping Bile gem is great for PvP because it has the added benefit of slowing opponents. When using increased critical hit chance legendary gems you should also consider rolling critical hit damage on every piece of equipment using Reforge Stones for more damage.​

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That's all for the Meteor Wizard Guide. For a strong Wizard PvP build you can also click here Disintegrate Wizard Guide.

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