Future of Storm Chaser dudes

[Deleted]

Hai so I've been enjoying the storm chaser build and after seeing the patch notes I'm somewhat curious. Is it going to be THAT horrible with Wicked Wind compared to Storm Chaser?

Is the gear that I recently bought for wizzard in order to make nice amout of crits, damage and stuff going to be worthless when the patch kicks in?

Thanks and I would like to know what you fellow wizzards are going to be doing in the next patch farm-wise

[Resentful]

I've talked a few hell even in person lolol anyway SC is pretty much identical to WW hence they went OH HELL NAW we can't let that happen, Most of what told me is that if your gear is pretty much high high tier or even super high crit as they've stated. It's still viable however low tier and such is going to be a little troublesome

So yes It's viable if you have a decent amount of gear

[Dacien]

I'll stay a meteor wiz. My build is actually getting a buff.

My build, in case you're interested. Don't ask me about Magic Missile, I'm still deciding on a signature spell.

[KinG-JaVs]

Lemme put it this way buddy, I do fine in inferno right now as it is.
Stats not great, as I have 200+mf on gear.
Doing the good ol SC build: diamond skin(shreds), frostnova(increased attack while frozen), chain reaction, energy armor(prism)
Passive skills: glass cannon CM and cold blooded
DPS:31-40k(depends on a lot things)
AS: 2.04
critical chance ~37%
Armor without buffs: 2.5k around 5k with buffs
AR: no buff ~700 with buffs around 1050
I can farm inferno act 3, dying maybe once every hour.


I play PTR just last night,
I changed my CC from 37 to 45%
Also changed all my spells because I needed to, not because I wanted to.

This was my build after all the changes
ET:mistral blaze(20 AP instead of 30)
tried both nova cold snap(9sec cooldown) and deep freeze.( for about 2 hours each one)
diamond skin cristal shield.
kept chain reaction
Storm armor:Power of storm.( reduces all skills by 3 AP)

had to chance my passives to
astral presence( for that extra 20 arcane+2 regen)
and evocation
CM


note: I also tried WW and it was a bigger fail than mistral breeze. =/

I died about 10 times, and I did not even finish one run on act 3 MP2

TL;DR
Even with 45 CC and over 2 (2.15 to be precise) AS, I still wasnt getting enough Critical hits to keep my build running. It was fine when a bunch of mobs clumped up, but one on one with champs or rare packs, very hard to do.
Deep freeze helped, but as soon as it ended, I was back at kiting for like 25-35 secs to kill a rare or champion pack