Explosive Blast Farming Wizard Greater Rifting Variation
Nephalem Rift Speed Farming and Bounties
The Tal Rasha Explosive Blast Wizard is pretty good at Nephalem Rift Speed Farming, thanks to the versatility of the Tal Rasha set that allows you to mix and match helpful bonuses during farming. We have solo speed GR rankings and solo speed T16 rankings if you want to know more about which builds are best for speed farming.
Within the limited scope of regular difficulties, the necessary damage and toughness to triumph over the enemy is significantly smaller. Thus, your best course of action is to improve utility and speed.
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Adapting Rotation and Skills
You will maintain all the skill and passive selections from the
Greater Rift speed farming
build — as all the skills chosen, as well as the general playstyle
will be identical in standard T16 Nephalem Rifts; they will simply go even
faster, due to the smaller enemy health pools. One small change you can consider
is to alter Magic Weapon
Deflection to
Storm Armor
Scramble, if you
feel that you comfortably overwhelm the content and would like to include even
more movement speed into the build.
The rotation stays the same; refresh Magic Weapon (or
Storm Armor) at their 10-minute cooldowns, and re-apply
Diamond Skin
Prism as soon as it comes off cooldown — meaning to
spam it, as
In-geom procs will ensure you can constantly abuse its potent
Arcane Power reduction. Spamming is par for the course for the remainder of the
build, as
Explosive Blast
Chain Reaction will be your main damage dealer,
and
Frost Nova
Frozen Mist needs to be cast regularly to maintain the Tal
Rasha /
Elemental Exposure buffs. Zap left and right with
Electrocute for Tal Rasha and Bastions of Will set maintenance, and
Teleport
Calamity from fight to fight with reckless abandon.
Adapting Gear
The Tal Rasha's Elements set
remains gloriously adaptable in T16 farming, and you should largely keep the
same split between pieces as you do in Greater Rift speed farming: 5 pieces of
Tal's, plus utility inclusions. It is recommended that you keep wearing the 2
pieces of the craftable Cpt. Crimson set ( Captain Crimson's Silk Girdle and
Captain Crimson's Waders) when you farm on your own, since your follower
can wear the craftable sets Sage's Journey (doubled Death's Breath drops) and
Cain's Destiny (chance for extra Greater Rift Keystones) and emanate their power
as if you were wearing them yourself. When you farm in groups however, drop the
Cpt. Crimson's pieces for
Sage's Ribbon and
Sage's Passage, as you
will have no follower and have to take care of the extra Death's Breath drops
yourself. Ideally, you will also carry 2 pieces of Cain's set (i.e.,
Cain's Habit and
Cain's Insight) in your inventory and right before
the Rift Guardian kill, you will swap to them for the chance of additional GR
keystone drops.
Utility slots also vary according to solo or group play, as you have to take
care of certain bonuses that are usually relegated to the follower yourself when
partying up. The bracer and shoulder slots that are occupied by Aughild pieces
in the GR speedfarm variant are better taken by Warzechian Armguards (for
the speed boost), and either the Act I bounty cache legendary
Pauldrons of the Skeleton King (for the extra cheat death proc in solo play),
or
Homing Pads (for the safety during town portal when partying up).
The jewelry can stay on Bastions of Will set, Focus and
Restraint when you solo. When grouping up however, you need to equip
Avarice Band yourself for its valuable interaction with
Boon of the Hoarder and
Goldwrap. Pair it with a Fire damage
Stone of Jordan for a steady source of additional damage.
Similarly to the Greater Rift speed farming setup, your weapon and offhand
need to stay on the Explosive Blast-dedicated legendaries
Wand of Woh and
Orb of Infinite Depth.
Adapting to Bounties
While we do not recommend this build for Bounties, it can be worked with, if
you desire to. Note that many bounty
objectives will have too few elites to justify In-geom in the weapon Cube
slot. It is best replaced by an
Aether Walker, which turns
Teleport into a spender and allows near infinite mobility. To
accommodate the AP spending of
Teleport, you can also swap
Elemental Exposure from the standard setup for
Astral Presence's
passive AP regen.
You can also cube Krelm's Buff Belt over
Goldwrap in the
armor Cube slot. Its movement speed bonus will be frequently triggered during
the long distance runs associated with Bounties.
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To help you with farming the gear you need for your builds, we have two very useful guides that you can access by clicking the links below: a Salvage Guide to help you quickly check whether or not you can safely salvage a piece of gear and a Legendary Farming Guide to help you efficiently farm legendaries and set items.
Adapting Gems
Bane of the Trapped still bring excellent damage multiplication value to
the build in T16 rifts, and remains in the build.
Bane of the Powerful can
also remain from the GR speed farming build if you feel the need for its
toughness and damage boosts, but once you grow comfortable with the build, you
should take
Wreath of Lightning in this slot for its movement speed
bonuses, and lightning procs which decimate nearby destructible environments,
and trigger your
Warzechian Armguards constantly.
Round out your standard Nephalem Rift farming gems with
Boon of the Hoarder, which increases your movement speed and provides
near-infinite Toughness through its interaction with
Avarice Band (either
worn by yourself in groups or by your follower in solo play), and the cubed
Goldwrap.
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For more information about gems, please refer to our guide on gems.
Adapting Kanai's Cube
Both In-geom (for its tremendous cooldown-resetting powers) and
Ring of Royal Grandeur (for its set piece requirement reduction) are
invaluable for this build and remain in the T16 farming variant as well. If you
desperately want to take this build into Bounties, either communicate with your
group that you want to take high kill count, elite-heavy bounties, or — as
a last resort — consider taking
Aether Walker in
In-geom's
place.
When farming normal rifts, the preferable item for the armor Cube slot is
Goldwrap. Synergizing with
Boon of the Hoarder and
Avarice Band,
Goldwrap will render you practically invulnerable
and allow you to focus on killing and looting without regards for your
safety.
The Kanai's Cube can be used for much more than simply extracting Legendary powers from items. Please refer to our Kanai's Cube guide for more information.
Follower
The recommended follower for this build during standard T16 rifts farming
is the Enchantress due to her vast array of bonuses that complement
this build; most notably, Prophetic Harmony for the Cooldown
Reduction and
Amplification for the elemental damage
increase, both of which you can attain by using a
Hand of the Prophet.
For more information regarding followers, we advise you to read our Follower Guide, which contains detailed advice for choosing the skills and the gear of your follower.
Legendary Potion
The preferred potions for this build are
Bottomless Potion of the Unfettered (giving you a brief window of CC
immunity to counter your lack of reliable crowd control breakers), or
Bottomless Potion of the Tower (whose Armor-increasing properties complement
the naturally high All Resistances stat of Wizards). Pick whichever you feel
helps you out the most.
Changelog
- 14 Apr. 2022: Guide reviewed for Season 26.
- 06 Dec. 2021: Added Season 25 Soul Shard recommendations.
- 23 Oct. 2021: Revised gear recommendations for the current state of the game.
- 22 Jul. 2021: Added S24 Ethereal recommendation.
- 02 Apr. 2021: Added follower recommendation.
- 20 Nov. 2020: Added Cube recommendations for Season 22.
- 01 Jul. 2020: No changes required for Season 21.
- 12 Mar. 2020: No changes necessary for Season 20.
- 22 Nov. 2019: Reviewed for Season 19.
- 23 Aug. 2019: Reviewed and approved for Season 18.
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