Diablo 3 Vyr Archon Wizard Build

Meet our new Diablo 3 Build cheat sheet. This time we will tell you about Vyr Archon Wizard. What gear to collect, what skills and runes to take and even more useful information to have the best Diablo 3 Wizard build.

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Vyr Archon Wizard build suits the most the players who’d like to solo farm greater rifts. It is powerful, fast and has good damage on single targets. As it was mentioned these types of guides are cheat sheets so you wont’ see the explanation why and how to use these skills and gear, but you will see the exact list of things need for the best Vyr Archon Wizard variation.

Skills

Active Skills
Arcane Torrent Static Discharge		Archon Slow Time
Black Hole Absolute Zero		Slow Time Time Warp
Storm Armor Shocking Aspect		Magic Weapon Deflection

You can see the list of active skills for Vyr Archon Wizard and the name of runes to activate for each of them. For example, Spectral Blade will go with Barrier Blades rune etc.

Passive Skills
Audacity	Evocation	Galvanizing Ward	Unstable Anomaly

Passive abilities will make Vyr Archon Wizard build even more powerful thanks to good mana regeneration speed.

Gear

Slot	Items	Stat Priorities
Head	Vyr's Sightless Skull	Intelligence Socket Critical Hit Chance
Shoulders	Vyr's Proud Pauldrons	Intelligence Cooldown Reduction Vitality
Torso	Vyr's Astonishing Aura	Intelligence 3 Sockets Vitality
Wrists	Ashnagarr's Blood Bracer	Intelligence Critical Hit Chance Cold Damage
Hands	Vyr's Grasping Gauntlets	Intelligence Critical Hit Chance Critical Hit Damage
Waist	Fazula's Improbable Chain	Intelligence Vitality Armor
Legs	Vyr's Fantastic Finery	Intelligence 2 Sockets Vitality
Feet	Vyr's Swaggering Stance	Intelligence Vitality Armor
Amulet	Squirt's Necklace	Socket Critical Hit Damage Critical Hit Chance
Ring (1)	Halo of Karini	Socket Critical Hit Damage Critical Hit Chance
Ring (2)	Convention of Elements	Socket Critical Hit Damage Critical Hit Chance
Weapon	Chantodo's Will	High Damage Intelligence Socket
Off-hand	Chantodo's Force	High Damage Intelligence Critical Hit Chance

The Stat Priorities column gives you the hints for crafting the item. The goal is to get priority number one. But if you don’t want to spend too many resources second and thirds priorities are good too.

Gems

Slot	Gem
Amulet	Bane of the Stricken
Each attack you make against an enemy increases the damage it takes from your attacks by 0.80%.
Ring	Gogok of Swiftness
Gain Swiftness with every attack, increasing your Attack Speed by 1% and Dodge by 0.50% for 4 seconds. This effect stacks up to 15 times.
Ring	Bane of the Trapped
Increase damage against enemies under the effects of control-impairing effects by 15.00%.
Weapon	Flawless Royal Emerald
Helm	Flawless Royal Diamond
Torso	Flawless Royal Topaz
Pants	Flawless Royal Topaz

The first three gems you can get for greater rifts and upgrade them there as well. As for the other ones, you can find less powerful gems anywhere as loot from mobs or bosses. After that, you should maximize the level of jewel crafter and upgrade the gems to the maximum level.

Kanai’s Cube Powers

Weapon	Armor	Jewelry
The Furnace	The Swami	Obsidian Ring of the Zodiac
Increases damage against elites by [40 - 50]%.	The bonuses from Archon stacks now last for [15 - 20] seconds after Archon expires.	Reduce the remaining cooldown of one of your skills by 1 second when you hit with a resource-spending attack.

Paragon

Always maximize one skill in the category and only then move to the next one. What paragon skills you should level up for Vyr Archon Wizard build you can see in the table above.