Vyr Archon Wizard Nephalem Rift Speed Farming Variation
Nephalem Rift Speed Farming
The Vyr Archon Wizard can deal reasonably well with Nephalem 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.
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
When you are speed farming regular rifts, parts of your playstyle will adapt to the lowered challenge and focus more on speed and utility.
Before starting the farming run, apply the two protective buffs —
Storm Armor
Scramble and
Magic Weapon
Deflection. Prior to your
first
Archon activation, strive to max out the
Chantodo stacks to their 20 stack
cap via
Explosive Blast and
Arcane Torrent, then enter
Archon form. From then on, Archon stacks should be overlapping due to
The Swami effect and the ease of demolishing the difficulty, so for any
subsequent
Archon re-activations you will not need more than a few
Chantodo stacks.
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 cross over great distances faster and more efficiently take precedence.
Archon naturally stays as the focal point of the build, taken with the Cold rune
Slow Time.
- Swap the progression-oriented
Black Hole to the extra maneuverability of
Teleport
Safe Passage (or even
Wormhole). You can turn this skill into a spammable spender with a Cubed
Aether Walker, assisting this build in bounties (although we do not recommend it for the purpose).
Storm Armor will be retained in the build, but you should alter the procs-oriented
Shocking Aspect rune to the additional movement speed of
Scramble.
Arcane Torrent
Static Discharge and
Explosive Blast
Flash will be used mostly as Chantodo buildup material, finishing off the occasional enemy in your Archon downtime.
Magic Weapon
Deflection and
Galvanizing Ward will be maintained as staple pieces of your protective lineup. As for the remainder of your passives, the multiplicative close range buff of
Audacity and the Cooldown Reduction of
Evocation remain cornerstone inclusions. Add to them the speed farm mainstay
Illusionist for a nice movement speed increase every time you teleport or slow time.
Adapting Gear
You will still be taking advantage of the full 6-piece set bonuses of Vyr,
but you will only take 5 set pieces and get the complete bonus through a
Ring of Royal Grandeur. This allows you to wear
The Swami
on your character, and take advantage of the near-infinite toughness of a
Goldwrap in the Cube armor slot. To complement the Archon build, you
will maintain the Chantodo's Resolve set —
Chantodo's Will and
Chantodo's Force as your main- and off-hand.
You will maintain the combination of Squirt's Necklace and
Halo of Karini from the progression build, but you should alter the
timing-sensitive damage bonuses of
Convention of Elements to the weaker,
but consistent elemental damage increase form a Cold
Stone of Jordan.
When farming for keys in solo games, you will be using the extra movement
speed from the environment destruction-based boosts of
Warzechian Armguards in the place of the overly defensive,
progression-oriented
Ashnagarr's Blood Bracer. When key farming in groups
you lose your follower utility, and will need to spawn extra elites yourself by
wearing
Nemesis Bracers. You should also wear your own
The Flavor of Time to extend the effects of Pylon pickups; we still
recommend using
Squirt's Necklace for the damage amplification however, so
this means one of these amulets will be cubed and you will lose out the
toughness utility of
Goldwrap outlined below. This should have no
significant impact in a well-equipped farming group.
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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, and it should be complemented with a
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.
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
Goldwrap.
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For more information about gems, please refer to our guide on gems.
Adapting Kanai's Cube
You have some room for choice in your weapons Cube slot; both cooldown
reduction powerhouses, Messerschmidt's Reaver (early in a Season) and
In-geom (on a fully realized character) are good choices, and can allow
you to chain
Archon form. Certain rift layouts however, and especially
bounties, can counter a kill-based reset mechanic with bad density. If you intend
to do bounties on Archon, it is worth considering a slower reset (by a second or
two) by wearing an
Obsidian Ring of the Zodiac instead of one of your rings
and using
Aether Walker in the weapon cube slot for the consistent
mobility.
Stored in the armor Cube slot, Goldwrap synergizes with
Avarice Band and
Boon of the Hoarder for a gold-based triumvirate
that makes you richer, speeds you up and renders you practically invulnerable,
allowing you to focus on killing and looting without regards for your safety. On
a fully optimized character, you can consider replacing this slot with
Krelm's Buff Belt for the additional movement speed.
Ring of Royal Grandeur will be necessary in order to complete the 6-piece
bonus of Vyr's set without losing out on utility legendaries in 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 standard rift farming for keys is the Enchantress due to her numerous utility bonuses, allowing you to smooth out your speed runs even further.
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: Page added.
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