Disclaimer: This guide is the Season 30 Guide for the Tal'Rasha Explosive Blast Build which is no longer maintained since it became a niche and weak build with the Tal Rasha's Elements rework. For up-to-date Tal'Rasha guide, go to the Tal'Rasha Meteor Guide!

Introduction

Tal Rasha's Elements Explosive Blast Solo T16
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The Explosive Blast Wizard is one of the most iconic Wizard builds since the expansion Reaper of Souls and the introduction of Wand of Woh. Ever since Wizards around the world have been, quite literally, blasting their way through hordes of enemies in Sanctuary. The build can technically be played as a Legacy of Dreams, Firebirds Finery and even Delseres Magnum Opus variant, however it is most commonly played with Tal Rashas Elements due to its crossover capabilities with Aughild's Authority, Sage's Journey, Cain's Destiny or Captain Crimson's Trimmings.

All variants have one thing in common: they are incredibly reliant on Cooldown Reduction and therefore In-geom dependent. Your goal is, after the first elite kill, to ride on a 'wave of consecutive In-geom procs' straight to the end of the rift.

In terms of playstyle Tal Rasha's Elements Explosive Blast (Tal EB) plays uniquely. You are continuously teleporting, running and mindlessly spamming Frost Nova, Explosive Blast and Diamond Skin plowing through hordes of enemies. Those three skills do not have a casting animation, meaning your character won't need to stop running to cast them and you'll be granted shields from Magic Weapon Deflection. This synergy allows you to blast your enemies comfortably.

High Mobility ✔
Beginner Friendly ✔
Unique & Flavourful ✔
Extremely Easy Playstyle ✔

❌ In-Geom Dependent
❌ Requires Good Gear
❌ Incapable of High GRs
❌ Clunky and Weak at Rift Start

Core Setup

Core Item Build

Items

Tal Rasha's Elements provides us with a 8,000% separate global damage multiplier but requires us to juggle four abilities with four different elements Arcane, Cold, Lightning and Fire.
Wand of Woh grants us 3 additional casts of Explosive Blasts and is also a 400% separate damage multiplier.
Orb of Infinite Depth provides up to 80% damage reduction and a 40% separate damage multiplier.
In-geom requires us to kill Elites in quick succession, however provides us with flat -10 seconds on all cooldowns, which is insane for Explosive Blast.
Nemesis Bracers spawns an Elite pack each time we click a Shrine or Pylon, which tremendously helps with In-geom uptime. Our follower wear them for us.
Squirts Necklace is a default inclusion for Wizards in any build due to their shield strength. Protecting our HP pool for a 100% global separate damage multiplier with continuously refreshing shields is a Wizard speciality.
Ring of Royal Grandeur lets us wear one fewer Set item, allowing us to equip additional legendary items.
Captain Crimsons Trimmings not only reduces our cooldowns by additional 20% but also grants us a separate damage multiplier based on our overall Cooldown Reduction.

Global Stat Priorities

The overall Cooldown Reduction (CDR) you have significantly impacts your overall damage output, especially when In-geom is not active. Therefore, your highest priority is to incorporate CDR on all slots except the Amulet. Attack Speed does not scale our damage output, which is why we reroll it from Tal Rashas Relentless Pursuit with the Mystic. You prefer Critical Hit Chance (CHC) and Critical Hit Damage (CHD) over Area Damage (AD) because Area Damage unfortunately only works on self-cast Explosive Blasts — additional casts from Wand of Woh cannot proc Area Damage.

Crowd Control Reduction (CCR) is an incredibly valuable secondary Affix to roll on both Rings, Amulet and Helmet as we are very sensitive to Hard Crowd Contro l effects and mitigating these will ease up our gameplay significantly. Make sure to get the Primary Affixes locked in before attempting to get CCR though.

Assembling the Build

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. Gather the full Tal Rasha's Elements set. Each piece can be gambled from Kadala for Bloodshards. 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 your last missing set piece is Tal Rasha's Allegiance - don't gamble for it! Instead gamble for a cheap and easy item, like the Pants, and once again convert it with Recipe 4. 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.

3. Gamble from Kadala in this order:

The full Tal Rasha's Elements set
Orb of Infinite Depth
Goldwrap
Nemesis Bracers
Homing Pads

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

Wands to get Wand of Woh
Create a level 1 Demon Hunter and upgrade Swords to get In-Geom
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 and Pauldrons of the Skeleton King
Act 2: Gloves of Worship (for your follower)
Act 3: Avarice Band
Act 4: Can drop any bounty item from any act
Bounty Turn In: Recipes for Sage's Journey, Cain's Destiny, Captain Crimson's Trimmings and Aughild's Authority

6. There is one final required piece that is difficult to acquire, Squirt's Necklace. With amulets being so expensive to gamble and 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:

Wand of Woh
Convention of Elements
Orb of Infinite Depth

Item Stat Priorities

SLOT	ITEM	STAT PRIORITY
Main-Hand	Wand of Woh In-geom (Cubed)	1. Damage Range 2. Socket Ramaladnis Gift 3. Cooldown Reduction 4. Damage % 5. Area Damage 6. Intelligence
Ideally, you want a Lightning Damage Range in order to get an additional stack of Elemental Exposure.
Off-Hand	Orb of Infinite Depth	1. Critical Hit Chance 2. Explosive Blast Damage 3. Cooldown Reduction 4. Area Damage 5. Intelligence 6. Arcane Power on Critical Hit
Helm	Tal Rashas Guise of Wisdom Sage's Apogee (Crafted) Cain's Insight (Crafted)	1. Socket Flawless Royal Diamond 2. Critical Hit Chance 3. Intelligence 4. Vitality
Gloves	Tal Rashas Grasp	1. Critical Hit Chance 2. Critical Hit Damage 3. Cooldown Reduction 4. Area Damage 5. Intelligence
Shoulders	Pauldrons of the Skeleton King Homing Pads Aughilds Power (Crafted)	1. Explosive Blast Damage 2. Cooldown Reduction 3. Area Damage 4. Intelligence 5. Vitality 6. Resource Cost Reduction 7. Armor
Chest	Tal Rashas Relentless Pursuit	1. Sockets Flawless Royal Topaz 2. Explosive Blast Damage 3. Intelligence 4. Vitality 5. Elite Damage Reduction 9. Armor
Pants	Tal Rashas Stride	1. Sockets Flawless Royal Topaz 2. Intelligence 3. Vitality 4. Armor
Boots	Captain Crimsons Waders (Crafted) Sages Passage (Crafted) Cain's Travelers (Crafted)	1. Intelligence 2. Vitality 3. Armor 4. All Resistance
Ring 1	Avarice Band (Bounties A3) Focus	1. Socket 2. Critical Hit Damage 3. Cooldown Reduction 4. Critical Hit Chance 5. Area Damage 6. Intelligence
Ring 2	Ring of Royal Grandeur (Bounties A1) Restraint	1. Socket 2. Critical Hit Chance 3. Cooldown Reduction 4. Critical Hit Damage 5. Area Damage 6. Intelligence
Bracers	Nemesis Bracers Aughilds Search (Crafted) Warzechian Armguards (Cubed)	1. Fire Damage 2. Critical Hit Chance 3. Intelligence 4. Vitality 5. Armor
Amulet	Tal Rashas Allegiance Squirts Necklace (Cubed)	1. Socket 2. Critical Hit Damage 3. Fire Damage 4. Critical Hit Chance 5. Cooldown Reduction 6. Intelligence
Belt	Captain Crimsons Silk Girdle (Crafted) Tal Rasha's Brace Goldwrap (Cubed)	1. Intelligence 2. Vitality 3. Life % 4. Armor
Potion	Bottomless Potion of the Unfettered	To avoid Crowd Control effects during your DPS phases

Gems

Skills

Passives

Paragon Points

Follower

Patch 2.7.0 revamped the follower system giving all 3 hirelings new powers and the emanate system. The first thing you should do is read our complete follower guide and remember the key takeaways:

The emanation system allows followers to share certain legendary and set powers with you. The most important ones are: The Flavor of Time, Nemesis Bracers, Avarice Band, Sage’s Journey and Cain’s Destiny. Click the guide above for the full list.
Follower’s powers are based on their main stat (maxed at 25,000, but they have a 2.5x multiplier so you only need 10,000). This means we stack Intelligence on the Enchantress, Dexterity on the Scoundrel and Strength on the Templar.
Guardian's Jeopardy (3) Bonus works for followers by improving their inherent stat multiplier from x2.5 to x3.5, making it slightly easier to hit the 25,000 main stat threshold if needed.
Followers share 20% of their Experience, Magic and Gold Find stats with you.
Legendary gems do not work on followers, except Esoteric Alteration and Mutilation Guard.
Cooldown Reduction does not work for any follower skill except the Templar’s Heal.
Followers never deal significant damage; you’re on your own to clear the content.

Select Follower

T16 Enchantress

For T16 we recommend this Enchantress setup because she is the only follower that gives Cooldown Reduction, allowing you to spam your abilities more. Since this is T16 content, she’ll stay alive with Esoteric Alteration and Mutilation Guard and use Hand of the Prophet to gain all skills. This will give us Cooldown Reduction, Elemental Damage, Reduced Damage from Ranged Attacks, Armor, Attack Speed, and a Cheat Death.
Stat Priorities:Since we do not have the immortality focus, we need to stack survivability on our Enchantress.

Intelligence > Vitality > Life % > Armor > All Resistance > Life Per Hit > Attack Speed.

Key Items:

The Flavor of Time: For double duration on Pylons.
Nemesis Bracers: For extra Elites, Death’s Breaths and In-geom procs.
Avarice Band: For the insane pickup radius.
Ring of Royal Grandeur: To complete our sets.
Gloves of Worship: For 10 Minute Shrine Buffs.
Sage’s Journey: For double Death’s Breaths.
Cain’s Destiny: For 25% more Greater Rift Keystones.

Gameplay

Hardcore

Variants

Nephalem Rifts

GR Solo Speeds

Echoing Nightmare

Tal Rasha Explosive Blast T16

Concept
Explosive Blast is one of the most relaxing Nephalem Rift farmers for Wizard. In terms of efficiency (keys/hour) it unfortunately won't quite live up to the best Wizard keyfarm builds.

Like usual we utilize Boon of the Hoarder with Goldwrap and Avarice Band to become invincible and instantly vacuum the juicy Progression Orbs from Elites. In-geom will not only greatly increase our DPS by removing the cooldown from Explosive Blast, but also significantly increases our mobility via Teleport. There is a lot of value in increased Movement Speed since we are continuously running (Diamond Skin, Frost Nova and Explosive Blast have no casting animation). Therefore, Wreath of Lightning and Illusionist will get us faster from Elite to Elite to ensure our In-geom buff does only time out once in a while.

Gameplay
Activate Magic Weapon once and continuously (and mindlessly) spam Frost Nova, Explosive Blast and Diamond Skin while teleporting on top of Elites. Quickly grab your loot and move on to the next Elite.

Setups
Early in a fresh season, you can sacrifice Warzechian Armguards and Pauldrons of the Skeleton King to equip Aughild's Authority instead, which will increase both your toughness and damage output. Convention of Elements is not mandatory and mainly helps to get your initial In-Geom proc and kill the Rift Guardian. Hence it can be removed to take any Ring such as Unity if you need it, or Stone of Jordan.

In groups, swap Convention of Elements to Avarice Band and Warzechian Armguards with Nemesis Bracers and finally Pauldrons of the Skeleton King with Homing Pads. Rotate out Captain Crimson's Trimmings for Sage's Journey and, on the Rift Guardian, switch to Cain's Destiny to get a chance for additional Greater Rift Keystones.

Tal Rasha Explosive Blast Solo Speeds

Tal Rashas Elements with Explosive Blast is an acceptable Solo Greater Rift farmer to grind some experience and gear. However, it gets outclassed by many Wizard builds. While it lacks the necessary DPS to compete with these other builds, it easily makes up for it by being incredibly easy and comfortable to play.

Gameplay
Your biggest enemy at the start of any Greater Rift is the Cooldown on your Explosive Blast. Your goal is to kill the first Elite, which should not take you longer than 15 seconds, to then snowball through to GR riding your In-geom buff. Additional Elite packs spawned by Nemesis Bracers (from our follower) will significantly help to achieve this goal. Spam Frost Nova, Diamond Skin and Explosive Blast off-cooldown, regardless if you have an In-geom buff or not.

Setups
There isn't much freedom in this setup. You can rotate out Bane of the Powerful for Esoteric Alteration if you feel too squishy.

Echoing Nightmare Setup

Concept
For more information, check out our full Echoing Nightmare Guide and take a look at our Echoing Nightmare Build Tier List and our META post for the best builds and strategies! This build is bad for this game mode. Typically we utilize a Greater Rift speed build with a few tweaks.

Changes

Swap Warzechian Armguards with Hexing Pants of Mr. Yan.

Gameplay

Click Speed Pylon instantly to boost your mobility and dodge Green Meteors.
Around Wave 90, click Channeling Pylon and Power Pylon.
After Wave 100, use Conduit Pylon.
At Wave 122, stop attacking and run to the corner to let the timer run out.

Cast Frost Nova (Cold), Teleport (Arcane), Electrocute (Lightning) and Explosive Blast (Fire) right away to gain all four elements of Tal Rashas Elements. Afterwards, it will suffice to alternate between two of these abilities to continuously refresh the set buff. Focus Elites to keep up In-geom. Spam Explosive Blast mindlessly.

Core	Offensive	Defensive	Utility
1. Movement Speed	1. Cooldown Reduction	1. Armor	1. Area Damage
2. Maximum Arcane Power	2. Critical Hit Damage	2. Life %	2. Resource Cost Reduction
3. Intelligence	3. Critical Hit Chance	3. All Resistance	3. Pickup Radius
~~4. Vitality~~	4. Attack Speed	4. Life Regeneration	4. Life per Hit

Tal Rasha Explosive Blast Wizard Guide

Introduction

Core Setup

Global Stat Priorities

Assembling the Build

Item Stat Priorities

Gems

Skills

Passives

Paragon Points

Follower

Gameplay

Hardcore

Variants

Mechanics

Wand of Woh

Orb of Infinite Depth

Tal Rashas Elements

Elemental Exposure

Summary

Credits