If you really don’t want to keep making the same mistakes, why not make gems dormant? I saw that viewers were advising you of this since you were thinking of destroying your bottled hope for gem power. Especially if you’re finally satisfied with 5k reso, the amount of additional reso you can get from destroying a gem vs making it dormant is practically insignificant at 5k+. And you never know when your opinion will change, based on either rethinking or changing preferences, or game changes. Plus, you can now socket a lot of gems inside other gems now that you can easily get all slots awakened. Of the gems you mentioned destroying: 1) phoenix ashes is bad in general because of the cooldown, but can be good in vault or other permanent death PvP modes, where the cooldown is irrelevant. 2) frozen heart and chip of stone flesh are both top 8 for the types of pvp builds you tend to play imho. 3) echoing shade is far from bad. In every pve summon build, auroth mentions it’s one of his highest damage sources. Now you’ve played tempest, a class with 3 summons in every build, and echoing shade could take that to 6, allowing you to max the bonus of 4 shepherds. Lots of summons (plus high attack speed) are especially good in dot purge builds (eg crusader and necro dps metas) when running with a crusader with fire banner, as they ensure that the dot is reapplied before every hit. Even without a dot purge build, more summons will melt bosses when running with a fire banner crusader. I have gone increasingly towards auroth’s preference for versatility. I got my 5k wings a long time ago, but am much more effective running around 4k reso with a more optimal gem selection (including select 1 and 2 stars) for the particular class and build I’m playing at the moment. I have several 5 stars dormant at any given time, and just got a 5/5 echoing shade I’m excited to rank up and use for any pve summon build. PS I’m not trying to bash on you. I have used and benefited from multiple of your wizard builds, and I think you’re the top DI wizard content creator atm. I simply can’t bear to watch your videos where you destroy perfectly good 5 star gems that you could make dormant instead, so I thought I’d offer my opinion and advice. Cheers, and keep making great build videos.
Pps I know I haven’t uploaded in ages, and my only current video is my movement speed one. I’m looking forward to the crunching of daily and weekly tasks I’ve been hearing about. Hopefully that’ll make it easier for me to make time for more videos.
Sorry but Barbarian never went anywhere. 70% of pvp whales play barb. Any class that gets taken to 1 HP, then becomes invulnerable and then gets 80% of their life back is gonna stay at the top.
You can buy nowadays a 6 to 7k res account for 3k$ no wonder wales are pissed when they spend over 50k to get same level. I don’t see it a problem though the only problem I see is fking Susan destroying markets in the game.
Tempest nerf was impactful. Wizard nerf, not so much. I feel like wizards got more powerful from the last update. The nerf to scorch is negligable 😂. It is still working as intended. Try using frozen wellspring instead of arcane wind for insta freeze. Because of the buff to the frozen wellspring, damage happens instantly.
A good gem but not a must have that fits with all possible builds like you're saying. Considering how it's difficult to make plat right now, leveling up all rounders gems like BH, BSJ or Roiling are better priorities. If you can level up this gem and start from the beginning then good for you :)
Yes, Stormvault has some decent synergies, but inquiring minds really want to know what that new 5* gem is pictured in the priority drop rate part of the update notes. It looks like a spider wrapped around a dark green gem, and it's not seeping bile which you can see behind and below the other gem. Blizz has already replaced the picture file attached to it with another unrelated one. Give it up! What do you know? LOL :)
Genius man! I guess people don’t understand you are using this synergy with a Wizard in Frost Spec. Its not for every Class and for every other build. This synergy is amazing for Wizard using this Frost Spec. That is what Apollyon is trying to tell ya, it works for a Frost Wizard. I appreciate your video! Be not discouraged by those people who just don’t seem to understand how the gems you have chosen synergizes well with Wizard in a Frost build utilizing Arcane Wind that freezes players instantly. (^_^)
Hey!! They removed entirely the win rate form the BG leaderboards!! WTF!! The only value we had to evaluate players’ performance!!! Can you reach out to dev to ask what is going on?!?? 😢😢😢😢😢
This gem with starfire and maw > gg. Cant believe ppls dont still realize The value of this gem, top aoe gem and 90% players thinks ITS trash 🐔 Any cc skill or gems like starfire + maw works well together with this gem Myself have it 5/5 rank6 and definetly going for rank7.
This is how gems SHOULD be. Good to great for specific builds and synergies.. not just 'good' for everything. That makes it boring when everyone runs the same gems. Nice perspective on this gem thank you. In addition to the damage synergies, this gem also adds another layer of area control for wiz. Arcane torrents, floating blue orbs, and storm vaults coming at you where you gonna stand?
Funny how everyone said it was shit when it came out! Meanwhile i loved it, grabbing all the copies at 16k plat 😀 Now people wants it and the price is increasing!
@@ApollyonGaming Awesome mate! I was lucky pulling a 5/5 in the stormvault event. And then the cheap copies gave me rank 6 almost 7. The gems trigger all my other gems so fast! 0.5 seconds is no joke!
The gem is okish for some niche builds (tried lvl5) But… from all leg gems he could be in 7th/8th place at best. Long term with new versatile gems coming this will be a gem food anyway…feeded it myself.
This is how it SHOULD be. Gems should be ranked differently depending on your class, build, synergies. Lets not have another pure damage gem that gives +50% damage for all. Then there would be no thought or decision making in the game and everyone runs the same gems
@@bobbyleeacn in Ideal world yes, but it’s not gonna happen in reality. Blizz will need more incentives players would buy, so gems will be more and more op. Look how it went with 2 last gems, sales were catastrophic. Next one will be big one…
Do not worry about people mate! I was wrong about Stormvault, this is not trash gem. But also this is not one of this gems what i want build ;) Anyway, you are a Wizard and for Wizard this gem shine for sure !
@@R0nde1 yes brother. Pve is ok. But in terms of pvp, wizard with his current build mostly the lash dont hit the target. U cant have the best of both world though
The fact that you have to dodge it will cause you to lose time, possibly a cd and positioning. In addition to arcane torrents, scorch orbs this would be a pain for large groups to be forced to dodge
