Wizard Mammoth Hydra Build With LoD

The ancient item-driven counterpart to the Typhon's Veil playstyle, this fiery reconstruction of the Hydra build takes advantage of the Legacy of Dreams versatility and a slew of synergistic legendaries to create a tough and adaptable summoner spec. This steadily paced, sustain damage build is meant for Greater Rift solo progression.

The basic skill setup of the LoD Hydra Wizard is displayed below. Read the dedicated Skills page for detailed information on choices, alternatives and build customization.

Active Skills
Spectral Blade Barrier Blades Black Hole Spellsteal 1 Teleport Safe Passage 2 Blizzard Unrelenting Storm 3 Hydra Mammoth Hydra 4 Storm Armor Shocking Aspect
Passive Skills
Galvanizing Ward Elemental Exposure Arcane Dynamo Audacity

The required gear setup for the LoD Hydra Wizard is listed below. Check the Gear page for detailed information on choices, alternatives, gemming, Kanai's Cube and Paragon distribution.

• Helm: The Magistrate
• Shoulders: Pauldrons of the Skeleton King
• Chest: Aquila Cuirass
• Bracers: Ashnagarr's Blood Bracer
• Gloves: Tasker and Theo
• Belt: The Shame of Delsere
• Pants: Blackthorne's Jousting Mail
• Boots: Ice Climbers
• Amulet: Squirt's Necklace
• Ring 1: Unity
• Ring 2: Convention of Elements
• Weapon: Serpent's Sparker
• Offhand: Winter Flurry

This Season comes with the theme of Angelic Crucibles — consumable items that empower Legendary items with perfected Ancient-level stats, as well as infuse them with one of three unique, powerful, class-specific abilities at random. For this build, we recommend aiming for the Storm Armor Sanctification, which adds the following power to your build:

• Storm Armor Sanctification: Your Storm Armor charges over 30 seconds. Casting Storm Armor at full charge releases a powerful thunderbolt, instantly killing a random enemy within 30 yards. Bosses and Elites are not killed but take significant damage.

Use Angelic Crucibles on an item that crosses over most (if not all) variants of a build, and is also an item that is relatively harder to perfect than other slots (since sanctifying an item maximizes its stats). In the case of this build, good candidates for Sanctification are your weapon ( Serpent's Sparker) and your off-hand ( Winter Flurry).

You can read more on Angelic Crucibles and the sanctification process in our dedicated Angelic Crucible Mechanics guide.

The former Season 28 theme, the Altar of Rites, has been revised and re-added to Diablo 3 as a permanent character progression mechanic. — For virtually all builds and players of all skill levels — from casual to advanced — we recommend progressing through the Altar tree using the path outlined below. The suggested path is geared towards maximum quality of life first, then amplifying damage, and then mopping up the tree with defensive and edge case utility nodes.

Note that while they require reaching them with a Seal, Legendary Potion Powers are not part of the Seal cost system; Potions unlock with a separate resource called Primordial Ashes, obtained from salvaging Legendary or Set items of Primal (red bordered) quality. Upgrade them as soon as possible, and in the order shown below (courtesy of Caleko's Altar of Rites planner).

You can read more on the Altar of Rites, Seals and Legendary Potion Powers in our dedicated Altar of Rites Mechanics guide.

• Legendary Gem 1: Legacy of Dreams
• Legendary Gem 2: Enforcer
• Legendary Gem 3: Bane of the Stricken

• Weapon Slot: Fragment of Destiny
• Armor Slot: Stone Gauntlets
• Jewelry Slot: Halo of Karini