Wizard Meteor Build With LoD

The LoD Meteor Wizard is a high-burst, timing-sensitive build that is able to bring devastating damage in group GR progression. This build excels at clearing massive amounts of grouped up monsters and elites, and brings a mechanically and visually satisfying playstyle to GR pushing — both solo and in parties. The base build presented on this page is the Greater Rift Solo Pushing Variation, but this build also has a Nephalem Rift Farming Variation, Greater Rift Speed Farming Variation, and a Greater Rift Group Trash Killer Variation; follow the links above to the respective alterations.

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

Active Skills
Spectral Blade Barrier Blades Meteor Star Pact 1 Storm Armor Shocking Aspect 2 Magic Weapon Deflection 3 Teleport Wormhole 4 Black Hole Spellsteal
Passive Skills
Illusionist Arcane Dynamo Galvanizing Ward Audacity

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

• Helm: Mempo of Twilight
• Shoulders: Pauldrons of the Skeleton King
• Gloves: Stone Gauntlets
• Chest: Aquila Cuirass
• Belt: The Shame of Delsere
• Pants: Blackthorne's Jousting Mail
• Boots: Nilfur's Boast
• Bracers: Ashnagarr's Blood Bracer
• Amulet: Squirt's Necklace
• Ring 1: Convention of Elements
• Ring 2: Halo of Karini
• Weapon: The Grand Vizier

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, a good candidate for Sanctification is your weapon, The Grand Vizier.

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

• Weapon Slot: The Smoldering Core
• Armor Slot: Ice Climbers
• Jewelry Slot: Unity