Firebird Flame Blades Wizard Greater Rift Speed Farming Variation
Greater Rift Speed Farming
The Firebird Flame Blades Wizard can deal excellently with Greater Rift Speed
Farming, with versatile and unconditional damage at its disposal and great
mobility offered by the Teleport-resetting powers of the Firebird
set.
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.
During lower tier Greater Rift farming, the balance between defense, damage and utility can be shifted to favor the latter two aspects of character building.
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Adapting Rotation
When you are Speed Farming Greater Rifts, your playstyle should at least partially reflect the circumstances by focusing on massive pulls, generic bonuses against enemies and chaining pylon effects.
In GR speeds, you will basically be doing an accelerated version of the core
rotation. You will still put priority on establishing defenses first thing in
the rift — channeling Disintegrate for stacks, activation of
Magic Weapon
Deflection, and hitting enemies with
Explosive Blast
for the
Orb of Infinite Depth interaction. With that handled, you will
simply alternate between Combustion stacks upkeep with
Disintegrate, as
well as its spread of the Ignition effect on enemies, and actually mowing them
down with
Spectral Blade. Manipulate your enemies into large pulls with
Black Hole, and reposition smartly with
Teleport —
that's everything necessary in GR speed farm.
Adapting Skills
Parts of the skill and passive selection will overlap with the base Greater Rift progression build, but others will have to change according to the task at hand. Ability to burst down enemies quicker takes precedence.
Your entire active skill selection will match the base GR solo progression
setup, with the interplay between Disintegrate
Chaos Nexus and
Spectral Blade
Flame Blades forming the base of the build by ramping up
Combustion stacks and bursting them down, respectively. You will augment this
damage by taking
Audacity and
Elemental Exposure in your passives,
as usual.
As a non-channeling fire-based skill in its own right,
Explosive Blast
Chain Reaction will bring its own damage value to the build,
but it is largely taken for the
Orb of Infinite Depth protective
interaction.
The protection offered by Magic Weapon
Deflection and
Galvanizing Ward in conjunction with the worn
Ashnagarr's Blood Bracer is too valuable to pass up, especially to keep the
damage bonuses of
Squirt's Necklace intact. Note that in Season 25
Magic Weapon will have to be replaced by
Frost Nova
Bone Chill
in order to get a proc for the CC-reliant Remnant of Pain Soul Shard.
Pulls will hasten runs by a large margin, so Black Hole
Spellsteal will
still find a place on your bar, and the inclusion of
Teleport
Safe Passage
is non-negotiable in speed farming, where mobility is a primary concern. To
smooth out the uptime of both skills in quick farming runs, you will be taking
Evocation as your final passive.
Adapting Gear
You will be equipping 5 pieces of the Firebird set, and will be adding the
CDR and RCR utility of the craftable Cpt. Crimson set on top; of course, both
sets will be complete via a Ring of Royal Grandeur in the Cube. Stat
priorities will remain largely the same, with a focus on Toughness stats across
gear, as well as Attack Speed and a smattering of Cooldown Reduction.
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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 speed farming;
Gogok of Swiftness is also universally helpful
with its Increased Attack Speed, Cooldown Reduction, and scaling Dodge
bonuses.
Within the limited challenges of Speed Greater Rifts,
Bane of the Stricken should be replaced by
Bane of the Powerful for
its well-rounded damage increase and damage mitigation bonuses; its limited
duration should be of no consequence when you are demolishing the difficulty.
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For more information about gems, please refer to our guide on gems.
Adapting Kanai's Cube
With Elite and Rift Guardian fights being much less of a threat and
bottleneck in Speed Greater Rifts, you should replace our base build
recommendation of The Furnace for the attack- and movement speed
amplifier
Echoing Fury.
As this remains a Spectral Blade-centric build when it comes to
delivering the bulk of your damage,
The Shame of Delsere is still a crucial
part of the build that simply gets moved off the worn pieces and into the armor
slot of the Cube.
As previously mentioned, in order to tie the set bonuses of Firebird and Cpt.
Crimson together, you will have to put Ring of Royal Grandeur in the
jewelry slot of the Cube.
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 GR speed farming is the
Enchantress, due to her increased attack speed bonuses (helpful for
the attack speed breakpoint-reliant methods of dealing damage in this build)
via Focused Mind, as well as the elemental damage bonus from
Amplification and damage reduction from
Powered Shield.
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
Your recommended potion is Bottomless Potion of the Unfettered, which
renders you immune to Crowd Control effects for a brief time after consuming it
— valuable bonus to a build that lacks means to break away from CC outside
of straight up evasion via teleporting.
Changelog
- 14 Apr. 2022: Guide reviewed for Season 26.
- 06 Dec. 2021: Added Season 25 Soul Shard recommendations.
- 22 Jul. 2021: Added S24 Ethereal recommendation.
- 23 Mar. 2021: Guide added.
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