Support zWiz Guide

1. Do the Challenge Rift for the materials to cube Legendary Powers. You can complete this once a week for additional resources and we always update the guide for you!

2. This is a support build, meaning we deal zero damage and need to farm the pieces/materials with a different build/character. We'll use BloodShards and Crafting Materials to acquire the remaining pieces outlined in the steps below.

3. Gamble from Kadala in this order:

1. Gather 3 pieces of the Delsere's Magnum Opus set. Do not salvage any duplicate pieces you find! Instead convert them to another part of the set with Recipe 4 in Kanai's Cube. If you have extra materials you can use Recipe 3 to craft the remaining pieces, but this is expensive and not recommended for new players.
2. Crown of the Primus
3. Strongarm Bracers, Nemesis Bracers and Ranslor's Folly
4. Aquila Cuirass
5. Oculus Ring and Obsidian Ring of the Zodiac
6. Orb of Infinite Depth

4. Craft using Recipe 3 in Kanai's Cube in this order:

1. Create a level 1 Demon Hunter and upgrade Bows to get Yang's Recurve
2. Wands to get Aether Walker
3. Rings to get Oculus Ring and Obsidian Ring of the Zodiac
4. Anything from the Gamble list in Step 3 that you haven't already acquired.

5. Do Bounties to acquire several important items for this build:

• Act 1: Ring of Royal Grandeur
• Act 2: Gloves of Worship
• Act 4: Can drop any bounty item from any act
• Bounty Turn In: Recipe for Captain Crimson's Trimmings
  

6. There is one final required piece that is difficult to acquire, The Flavor of Time. With amulets being so expensive to gamble or craft, we'll have to search for it to drop in Nephalem and Greater Rifts. The biggest hint is to party up with other players and kindly ask them to drop any duplicates they find.

7. Use Primordial Ashes in Kanai's Cube with the new Curiosity of Lorath Nahr recipe to obtain a free Crafted Primal Ancient. Since you can only equip one of them, choosing the right item to focus matters! Great candidates are Weapons, Offhands, Jewelry or any item with an important multiplier. With that in mind, we recommend getting one of the following items:

• Oculus Ring
• Obsidian Ring of the Zodiac
• The Flavor of Time

• Gem of Efficacious Toxin is a staple for each support build granting 10% additive damage (stacks) and 10% damage reduction (does not stack). Other supports can also wear this gem because the damage buff stacks.
• Iceblink provides 10% increased Critical Hit Chance to the damage dealers. This effect does not stack and is applied both by Frost Nova as well as Ice Armor Frozen Storm.
• Gogok of Swiftness gives 15% Attack Speed, 15% Cooldown Reduction and up to 30% Dodge based on the amount of stacks you have. You gain a stack with each hit up to a maximum of 15, and all stacks are refreshed if you attack every 4 seconds.
• Esoteric Alteration for additional toughness or Invigorating Gemstone for Crowd Control Immunity when away from the group can replace Gogok of Swiftness if needed.

• Ice Armor Frozen Storm grants 12% melee damage reduction and continuously activates Cold Blooded and Iceblink from the whirling storm of ice.
• Teleport helps us to get where we need to be and can use either Safe Passage for additional damage reduction, or Wormhole for more mobility.
• Slow Time has all runes via Crown of the Primus. Exhaustion (25% damage reduction), Time Warp (15% additive damage multiplier) and Stretch Time (10% Attack Speed) are great bonuses to the group. Unfortunately Point of No Return applies a 5 second long hard Crowd Control effect, which means we have to cast and place Slow Time cautiously.
• Frost Nova Bone Chill grants 33% additive damage to our damage dealers. This effect applies even when the target is CC immune.
• Energy Twister Gale Force provides a pixelpull via Ranslors Folly. The Fire rune is selected to proc Conflagration.
• Black Hole Event Horizon activates Strongarm Bracers and removes unwanted Elite Affixes. The slower your runs are, the more impactful this ability becomes, but it is preferably avoid anyway because of Crowd Control Resistance in order to pull and group monsters freely.

• Cold Blooded gives 10% additive damage to our group when a target is hit with Frost Nova or Ice Armor Frozen Storm.
• Conflagration debuffs our enemies, increasing their chance to be critically hit from any player by 6%. This effect is applied once we hit with a Fire ability.
• Astral Presence regenerates Arcane Power helping us keep Aquila Cuirass active. This comes in handy if you don't have gear with plenty of Resource Cost Reduction rolls. If you have no trouble with Arcane Power, Blur is a fitting substitution.
• Illusionist provides a significant Movement Speed buff after casting Slow Time and using Teleport. It's common for DMO builds to utilize this passive, but if you feel like it has limited value for your playstyle feel free to include Unstable Anomaly instead.

¹ Put all points into Vitality until you reach 3 million HP, then put the rest into Intelligence for All Resistance.
² Do not take Area Damage as we deal no damage and it will lag the game.

• Maintain your Buffs: Cast Ice Armor when you enter a Greater Rift. Make sure that this buff doesn't time out on you. Also place a Slow Time right at the entrance to gain the damage reduction.
• Prepare a Pull:
  1. Place an Energy Twister to create a pixelpull in locations where you and your group want to DPS. Since Ranslors Folly does not pull Elites, you should cast on them to pull trash monsters on top of the Elites.
  2. Cast Slow Time after you created the pull with Energy Twister.
  3. Do not randomly cast Twisters on your way to the next pull since it unnecessarily increases the Crowd Control Resistance of the monsters.
• Damage Phase: When the pull is prepared and you are sitting on top of it in a Slow Time, you'll have to time your buffs with your DPS players.
  1. Cast Frost Nova right before you expect your DPS players to actively start damaging the pull.
  2. If you don't have to remove dangerous Elite Affixes with Black Hole Event Horizon, cast it so it clips the pull (not exactly in the center). Any enemy that Black Hole attempts to suck in will be debuffed with Strongarm Bracers regardless if the target is moved or not.
  3. Recast Energy Twister Gale Force in the center of the pull to re-apply Conflagration, if needed.
• Scout and Pull: Scout for Pylons and body pull monsters with Ice Armor Frozen Storm (not Energy Twister).

The playstyle is definitely something you have to get used to; it's fast paced, strategic and follows a specific rotation. The biggest mistakes you should avoid are the following:

• Don't cast Energy Twister all the time, and especially not randomly while moving. The ability is meant to be used moderately and precisely when setting up to DPS a pull.
• Don't place Slow Times everywhere. The Point of No Return rune makes it hard for you and your group to create density. Use it when it's clear that your group will set up for a pull in a specific location.

Rotate out Astral Presence for Unstable Anomaly. Additionally, you can also rotate out Gogok of Swiftness (or Iceblink if someone else already provides it in the group) for Esoteric Alteration to tank up even further. Don't forget about Black Hole Event Horizon as it absorbs Elites Affixes, which considerably reduces the incoming damage on you and your group. Check out our dedicated Hardcore Survival Guide to learn more about how to succeed in this game mode!

• Frost Nova with all runes but Frozen Mist does not chill and only freeze targets.
• Frost Nova Bone Chill pierces CC Immunity and always applies a 2 second debuff for 33% increased additive damage even if the target is not frozen.
• Cold Blooded is a 3 second debuff applied when a target is successfully frozen or chilled. This means Frost Nova Bone Chill alone does not proc Cold Blooded if the target is CC immune.
• However, if Iceblink is equipped, Frost Nova Bone Chill applies a chill, which activates Cold Blooded.
• Ice Armor Frozen Storm continuously applies a chill that activates both Iceblink and Cold Blooded (even if you are in Archon form).

• The 60% damage reduction of Delseres Magnum Opus (4) Bonus applies to you with either Slow Time or Archon's Slow Time. This effect does not stack.
• The 30% damage reduction granted to allies of Delseres Magnum Opus (4) Bonus applies to them with either Slow Time or Archon's Slow Time. This effect does not stack.

• Black Hole only attempts to apply a knockback to a monster, if the monster is clipped by it and not already standing in its center. Monsters in its center will get hit by Black Hole, however it will not attempt to knock them back.
• Strongarm Bracers apply their debuff if a monster was attempted to be displaced. Any displacement constitutes a knockback. Whether or not the monster was successfully displaced is irrelevant, as long as an attempt was made to displace it.
• A Black Hole that clips any monster (including Juggernaut Elites and Rift Guardians) will attempt to displace it and therefore successfully debuff the target with Strongarm Bracers regardless if the target is moved or not.

• Pulls normal monsters only and pixelpull them ignoring their hitboxes. Ranslor's Folly tries to pull enemies within 30 yards twice a second. This is extremely useful to benefit from Area Damage.
• This will usually work best when cast on an empty spot somewhere between all of the monsters you would like to pull. Certain monsters does not stack very well when the spot you cast on is already occupied.
• Due to the Crowd Control Resistance, you can't pull enemies together endlessly. Try to get everything in with a single cast.
• Monsters that are not displaced by Ranslor's Folly (such as Bosses, Juggernauts or CC immune monsters) does not trigger the damage buff from Strongarm Bracers.