Vyr Archon Wizard Greater Rift Speed Farming Variation
Greater Rift Speed Farming
The Vyr Archon Wizard can deal reasonably well with Greater Rift Speed Farming, mostly thanks to the great mobility offered by the Teleport rune of Archon gained via the 2-piece bonus. 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.
Before starting the farming run, apply the two protective buffs —
Storm Armor
Shocking Aspect and
Magic Weapon
Deflection. For your
first Archon rotation, get some
Chantodo stacks (10 should be
more than enough, no need to fully stack) via
Explosive Blast and
Arcane Torrent, then enter
Archon form. Focus on trash enemies on
your first rotation; while elite kills are nice, you depend on the
Messerschmidt's Reaver for cooldown resets, and its power hinges on number,
not power, of monsters killed. For subsequent
Archon re-activations, you
should get to the 20 stack cap of Chantodo's set. This will be assisted by both
Explosive Blast and
Arcane Torrent, as their effects persist
between forms and still get you stacks for the next activation.
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.
Archon naturally stays as the focal point of the build, taken with the Cold rune
Slow Time.
Explosive Blast
Flash will take the place of the GR progression-oriented
Slow Time to build you up Chantodo stacks faster. This goal will be shared by
Arcane Torrent
Static Discharge and
Black Hole as well, with the latter adding a decent damage buff via the Cold rune
Absolute Zero.
Magic Weapon
Deflection and
Storm Armor
Shocking Aspect will remain at the core of your defensive setup, each bringing its own flavor of damage mitigation to the build — the former in combination with
Galvanizing Ward, and the latter — through its interaction with
Halo of Karini.
- The core of your passives, the multiplicative close range damage buff of
Audacity and the Cooldown Reduction of
Evocation, remain part of your passive lineup.
Galvanizing Ward adds a hefty shield to protect you and your
Squirt's Necklace from unlucky bursts of damage, while
Unstable Anomaly will grant you a cheat death whenever something punches through said defenses.
Adapting Gear
You will still be taking all six pieces of the Vyr's Amazing Arcana set for
its immense Archon-related bonuses, and you will keep the Chantodo's Resolve set
— Chantodo's Will and
Chantodo's Force as your main- and
off-hand. Stat priorities will remain largely the same, with a focus on Toughness
stats across gear, cooldown reduction wherever possible, and eschewing all Area
Damage bonuses, as they do not work on Archon skills. With the opportunity to
equip
The Flavor of Time and
Nemesis Bracers on your follower and
use their powers via the Emanate mechanic, you can still maintain the valuable
bonuses of
Squirt's Necklace and
Ashnagarr's Blood Bracer from the
progression build.
Equip The Swami on your character in order to free up Cube space for
other utility legendaries.
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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 helpful in ramping up
Chantodo bonuses and keeping your CDR sky-high in order to return to
Archon form as soon as possible; if you are well-optimized on CDR on gear
however, you should use
Zei's Stone of Vengeance to maximize damage.
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
Messerschmidt's Reaver is a cooldown reduction powerhouse that allows
you to reduce the perilous
Archon downtime through trash kills —
a trivial task once you get stacks going inside lower tier Greater Rifts. An
even more daredevil, but nevertheless viable alternative for this slot, is the
attack- and movement speed amplifier
Echoing Fury.
Storing Frostburn in the armor slot of the Cube nets you another
source of additional elemental damage and, more importantly, a powerful crowd
control effect for your Cold skills (synergistic with this Cold version of
Archon).
In order to complete the 6-piece bonus of the Vyr set, you will have to use a
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 cooldown reduction- and increased attack speed bonuses, both of which are helpful to the needs of an attack speed- and CDR-heavy build such as this one.
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 Tower, whose
Armor-increasing properties complement the naturally high All Resistances stat
of Wizards (due to Intelligence scaling resistances) for optimal
survivability.
Changelog
- 14 Apr. 2022: Guide reviewed for Season 26.
- 06 Dec. 2021: Added Season 25 Soul Shard recommendations.
- 14 Sep. 2021: Enriched the guide with additional information.
- 22 Jul. 2021: No changes necessary for Season 24.
- 02 Apr. 2021: Adjusted gear recommendations, added follower information.
- 16 Jan. 2021: Overhauled variation to reflect the necessities of GR speed farming specifically.
- 20 Nov. 2020: Added Cube recommendations for Season 22.
- 01 Jul. 2020: Slight revision of wording to better match its progression counterpart.
- 12 Mar. 2020: No changes necessary for Season 20.
- 22 Nov. 2019: Substantial rework of the speedfarm guide in order to include gold utility legendaries.
- 23 Aug. 2019: Item recommendations are revised for Season 18.
- 17 May 2019: Guide was revised with additional recommendations for Season 17.
- 26 Nov. 2017: Text revisions to reflect the changes to the main build.
- 27 Oct. 2017: Revised the speedrun variant to reflect its Patch 2.6.1 buffs.
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