Wizard Meteor Build With Tal Rasha

Tal Rasha's Elements set is one of the signature sets in the Diablo franchise, and has been used in numerous builds and metas over the years in its Diablo 3 iteration. The Tal Rasha Meteor playstyle ties directly into the set's own mechanics and offers a burst-heavy, visual feast of a build — one that calls upon the elemental powers to descend from the skies and decimate the enemy ranks. The base build presented on this page is the Greater Rift Solo Pushing Variation, but this build also has a Nephalem Rift Farming Variation and a Greater Rift Speed Farming Variation; follow the links above to the respective alterations.

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

Active Skills
Spectral Blade Ice Blades Meteor Star Pact 1 Black Hole Spellsteal 2 Familiar Sparkflint 3 Teleport Safe Passage 4 Storm Armor Shocking Aspect
Passive Skills
Audacity Arcane Dynamo Illusionist Elemental Exposure

The required gear setup for the Tal Rasha 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: Aughild's Power
• Gloves: Tal Rasha's Grasp
• Chest: Tal Rasha's Relentless Pursuit
• Belt: Tal Rasha's Brace
• Pants: Tal Rasha's Stride
• Boots: Nilfur's Boast
• Bracers: Aughild's Search
• Amulet: Tal Rasha's Allegiance
• 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: Esoteric Alteration

• Weapon Slot: The Smoldering Core
• Armor Slot: The Shame of Delsere
• Jewelry Slot: Ring of Royal Grandeur