Diablo Immortal - Best Wizard Builds and Gameplay Tips

Ice Crystal reduces the damage from Disintegrate and Ray of Frost for 30%, try to put it behind your targets especially against bosses. (Not recommended for most bosses!)

Against a Boss (Immortal, Challenge Rift), switch your Electrocute to Magic Missile and one of your mobility or CC skill to Arcane Torrent to increase your solo target damage output.

The decoy from Teleport with Mask of Illusion can help to pack the mobs easier or to manipulate the Bosses and avoid their attacks.

Firestorm can be activated using any fire source including that from other players and/or mechanics in the game.

Though we may not use it that much, when in need and all skills are on cooldown, your Primary Attack can be very useful. Electrocute is great at helping to finish off mobs while Magic Missile is amazing single target damage both useful against Bosses and in PvP.

Fire Disintegrate loses the “up to 10% bonus damage” but gains the Damage over Time (DoT) effect. In Raids and Shadow War, it’s helpful that if there are multiple Wizards that one runs regular Disintegrate for the damage bonus.

For the gem “Chip of the Stoned Flesh”, “total loss of control” is procced by Stun, Freeze, Fear, and Taunt. “Loss of control” would be all the other forms of Crowd Control (CC) like Chill, Trap, Knockback, etc.

Channeled skills used with ice crystal can only hit a mob 1 time. If a mob is hit by a direct beam and a refracted beam, the mob will take damage from only the direct hit. Phantom Ray of Frost is an exception as it is not a channeled skill. it can multi hit mobs with direct hit and refractions.

Best Wizard Builds

Firestorm Chasenado

Magic Missile – No legendaries
Arcane Wind – Legendaries: Windshaper (main hand)
Meteor – Legendaries: Starcaller’s Breeches (legs), Shoulders of the Cataclysm (shoulder)
Lightning Nova – Legendaries: The Siphon (off-hand), Ellora’s Fevor (chest)
Teleport – Legendaries: Mask of Illusions (head)

Advised Set: 4p Grace of the Flagellant
Advised Gems: Everlasting Torment, Beserker

Use the decoy from TP to manipulate the enemy and pack the mobs. Unleash the Meteor Rain and Arcane Wind to proc the Firestorm damages buff. Lightning Nova is both an offensive skill with the burning damages that can proc Firestorm and a Defensive skill with the movement speed increase.

Crystal Double Beam

Magic Missile – No legendaries
Ice Crystal – Legendaries: Frostweaver’s Garments (chest), Crystal Guards (legs)
Disintegrate – Legendaries: Searing Judgement (shoulders), Entropic Edge (main hand)
Ray of Frost – Legendaries: Cryomancer’s Helm (head)
Teleport – No legendaries

Advised Set: 4p Grace of the Flagellant
Advised Gems: Pain of Subjugation, Everlasting Torment

Use the Crystal to gain max distance for using Disintegrate and Ray of Frost. This will allow you to keep away from enemies while being able to use Teleport to get out of any tough spots. Mostly used for PvP!

Fire & Ice

Magic Missile – Legendaries: Force of Harakas (main hand)
Scorch – Legendaries: Angmar’s Repulsive Burden (shoulder), Vision of the Frozen Path (head)
Meteor – Legendaries: Frostwalkers (legs)
Lightning Nova – Legendaries: The Siphon (off hand), Ellora’s Fervor (chest)
Teleport – No legendaries

Advised Set: 4p Grace of the Flagellant
Advised Gems: Pain of Subjugation, Everlasting Torment

Pack the mobs in a line, throw the ice Scorch that will work as a black hole and use Meteor to burst. The Fire Nova will help you turn around the enemies and keep them in the chill area. This build allows a great CC of mobs by slowing them.

Speed Farm

Magic Missile – No legendaries
Disintegrate – Legendaries: Searing Judgement (shoulders), Entropic Edge (main hand)
Meteor – Legendaries: Starcaller’s Breeches (legs)
Lightning Nova – Legendaries: The Siphon (off hand), Ellora’s Fervor (chest)
Teleport – Legendaries: Mask of Illusions (head)

Advised Set: 4p Grace of the Flagellant
Advised Gems: Everlasting Torment, Beserker, Fervant

Cast Continous Meteor from a distance on a mob, then use Fire Nova with Teleport to jump from mob to mob to hit as many as possible with Nova. Use Fire Disintegrate to clean up.

Shadow War

Magic Missile – No legendaries
Teleport – Legendaries: Riftdancer’s Stride (legs)
Lightning Nova – Legendaries: Quiet Downpour (chest), The Siphon (off hand)
Disintegrate – Legendaries: Arcane Intensifiers (shoulders), Entropic Edge (main hand)
Scorch – Legendaries: Memory of Xiaoyu (head)

Advised Set: 4p Issatar Imbued
Advised Gems: Everlasting Torment, Beserker, Fervant

This build is designed to help you keep up with a mobile Immortal. Teleport with damage and Supernova with Speed will help keep you in range for Scorch Orbs and Instant Disintegrate.

Magic Missile (PvP)

Magic Missile – Legendaries: Force of Harakas (main hand)
Teleport – Legendaries: Riftdancer’s Stride (legs), Csur’s Fortutious (shoulder)
Lightning Nova – Legendaries: Regalia of the Archmage (chest)
Ice Armor – No legendaries
Black Hole – Legendaries: Cowl of the Abyss (head), Devouring Void (off hand)

Advised Set: 4p War Rags of Shal’baas
Advised Gems: Ca’arsens’s Invigoration, Pain of Subjugation

Spam Magic Missile as your main DPS source and use your soft CC to proc Pain of Subjugation damage buff.

Arcane Tsunami

I like channeled builds and I’m f2p, so here are three variations on a similar theme that work great with no 5 star gems. They all give you space to channel by setting a roadblock for enemies and are useful in all PvE content. You can make fun and competitive builds on a budget!

Electrocute – No Legendaries
Scorch – Legendaries: Vision Of The Frozen Path (head), Angmar’s Repulsive Burden (shoulders)
Arcane Torrent – Legendaries: The Aimless One (main hand)
Disintegrate – Legendaries: Chaos Nexus (legs)
Lightning Nova – Legendaries: The Siphon (offhand), Zann Esu Elemental Weave (chest)

Advised Set: 6p Grace of the Flagellant
Advised Пems: Trickshot, Bloody Reach

Gather mobs in a large group on one side of your character, using Ice Nova to slow mobs for easier gathering. Launch Frozen Scorch and immediately hold down Arcane Torrent. The auto-targeting will follow the Frozen Orb, destroying mobs en masse. Use Disintegrate after Frozen Scorch if mobs are too scattered to easily pack together, and/or to cause the stacking damage bonus. This is my personal build!

Arcane Inferno

Magic Missile – No Legendaries
Scorch – Legendaries: Vaetia’s Resourceful Countenance (head)
Meteor – Legendaries: Starcaller’s Breaches (legs)
Disintegrate – Legendaries: Searing Judgment (shoulders)
Lightning Nova – Legendaries: Regalia of the Archmage (chest), Thunderbird’s Bite (main hand), The Siphon (offhand)

Advised Set: 6p Grace of the Flagellant
Advised Gems: Trickshot, Bloody Reach

Gather mobs using Fire Nova for movement and to soften them up. When you have a large group, use lightning scorch on the frontmost mob to create a chokepoint with the stun, followed immediately by Meteor, and then channel Fire Disintegrate until all are dead. Each Fire skill refreshes its own Burning damage, so you can have 3 sources of burning happening at once.

Icebound Torrent

Electrocute – No Legendaries
Black Hole – Legendaries: Devouring Void (offhand)
Ray of Frost – Legendaries: Shiversent Stare (head), The Enervators (shoulders)
Arcane Torrent – Legendaries: The Aimless One (main hand)
Ice Crystal – Legendaries: Frostweaver’s Garments (chest), Crystal Guards (legs)

Advised Set: 4p Grace of the Flagellant, 2p Feasting Baron
Advised Gems: Trickshot, Bloody Reach

High Challenge Rifts give few opportunities to channel unless you control mobs well, so the 2 pieces of Feasting Baron will extend freezing time by 30%. You get two independent sources of freeze…the Shiversent hat and the stacking chills from Ray of Frost + Enhanced Ice Crystal. Gather a pack of mobs and place the crystal ahead of them. Ray of Frost will permafreeze any mob that’s within the Crystal’s AoE. Then sweep away any remaining mobs with Black Hole, channeling Aimless Arcane Torrent into the pack.

Challenge Rift CC

I love pushing the limits of my character and creating builds that will do max damage. Below are two builds that I created to use to push higher levels of Challenge Rift and also a Boss build to try and burn them down as fast as possible! Enjoy!

Magic Missile – No Legendaries
Lightning Nova – Legendaries: Zahn Esu Elemental Weave (chest)
Black Hole No – Legendaries
Arcane Torrent – Legendaries: Aimless One (main hand)
Ray of Frost – Legendaries: Shiversent Stare (head), The Enervators (shoulders)

Advised Set: 4p Grace of the Flagellant
Advised Gems: Berserker, Fervant Fang, Everlasting Torment

This build is for lots of CC while using Arcane Torrent and Ray of Frost to deal the damage. Use Black Hole to gather up your mob and instantly cast Arcane Torrent which will cast directly on top of the Black Hole. Finish off with Ray of Frost to freeze the enemies. For bosses, switch out Nova for Ice Armor and Ray of Frost for Disintigrate. Use Halestone (off-hand) and Chaos Nexus (legs).

Burn Boss, Burn!

Magic Missile – No Legendaries
Meteor – Legendaries: Starcaller’s Breeches (legs), Starcaller’s Drapery (chest)
Arcane Wind – Legendaries: WIndshaper (main hand), The Unrepentant Gale (off hand)
Arcane Torrent – No Legendaries
Disintegrate – Legendaries: Searing Judgment (shoulders)

Advised Set: 4p Grace of the Flagellant
Advised Gems: Berserker, Fervant Fang, Everlasting Torment

This build was designed for tons of damage on mobs and the boss (specifically those with adds). Using Meteor Rain and Arcane Wind (Chasendo mod) to ignite Firestorm while then channeling back and forth between Arcane Torrent and Disintegrate.

The Disco Phantom (Dungeons, Raids, Challenge Rifts)

In all games I play, I am a theorycrafting enthusiast and love min-maxing the game to create the strongest out of the box build as possible. I wont ever hesitate to recalculate all the game damage calculations to ensure I fully understand all the game mechanics and its nuances to create my builds.

Magic Missile – No Legendaries
Ray of Frost – Legendaries: Waking Invocation (Chest), Cryomancer’s Helm (Head), The Enervators (Shoulders)
Disintegrate – No Legendaries
Arcane Torrent – Legendaries: The Aimless One (main hand)
Ice Crystal – Legendaries: Crystal Guards (legs)

Advised Set: Flexible (Grace or Shepard)
Advised Gems: Flexible (summon gems or normal wiz gems)

Shine your blue and purple lights into the ice crystal ball and watch the action! This build is mathematically the highest DPS build of all wiz builds, and possibly any build of any class in the game. However it is approx 12x stronger on PC than on mobile and may be nerfed if not nerfed already.

It works off two RoF interactions – Rof can multi hit enemies each tick and multihit enemies with ice cyrstal (normal channel skills cannot). This build maximizes Phantom RoF damage by further buffing the damage with normal disintigrate for a further 10% buff. Ice cyrstal gives a further multiplicative hit damage bonus. Use Arcane torrent while other skills on CD.

Death by A Thousand Bolts (PVP)

Magic Missile – No Legendaries
Arcane Torrent – Legendaries: The Aimless One (main hand), Ninety-Nine Wild Arcana (leg)
Lightning Nova – Legendaries: Regalia of the Archmage (chest), The Siphon (offhand)
Black Hole – No Legendaries
Teleport – Legendaries: Mask of Illusions (head), Csur’s Fortuitous Ward (shoulders)

Advised Set: 4p Grace of the Flagellant
Advised Gems: Berserker, Fervant Fang, Everlasting Torment, Bottled Hope, Seeping Bile, BSJ

Aimless Arcane Torrent is the highest DPS single target wiz skill. This is a pvp build which utilizes this skill and uses remaining skills to support it. Use lightning nova to immobilize a whole screen of enemy targets. Then black hole when they cannot move. Kill them all with Arcane Torrent. Arcane Torrent has a small AOE, so multiple enemies in a single black hole can be killed with AOE. Otherwise, try to engage enemies from a distance so that only one enemy is targted by Arcane Torrent.

The Little Wiz Who Could (Low CR XP Farming)

Magic Missile – No Legendaries
Arcane Torrent – Legendaries: The Aimless One (main hand), Ninety-Nine Wild Arcana (leg)
Scorch – Legendaries: Vision Of The Frozen Path (head), Angmar’s Repulsive Burden (shoulders)
Black Hole – No Legendaries
Lightning Nova – Legendaries: The Siphon (off-hand), Ellora’s Fevor (chest)

Advised Set: 4p Grace of the Flagellant
Advised Gems: Berserker, Fervant Fang, Everlasting Torment, Bottled Hope, Seeping Bile, BSJ

Undergeared? No problem. This build allows you to solo farm for XP saftely and relatively quickly while you are underleveled. Alternate between scortch and black hole to cc/group mobs. Kill them with Arcane Torrent and fire nova. Fire nova helps with repositioning for a good cc, as well as killing the small, low hp mobs to help arcane torrent focus on the larger mobs/groups.

Thank you for your time and I hope this little tutorial was helpful to you.

Diablo Immortal – Best Wizard Builds and Gameplay Tips

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