DMO Twister Wizard 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. Gather the full Delsere's Magnum Opus 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 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:

1. The full Delsere's Magnum Opus set
2. Ranslor's Folly
3. Etched Sigil
4. Warzechian Armguards
5. Goldwrap
6. Aquila Cuirass
7. Ashnagarr's Blood Bracer
8. The Witching Hour
9. Convention of Elements, Halo of Karini and The Compass Rose

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

1. 1-Handed Swords to get The Twisted Sword
2. Wands to get Aether Walker
3. Staves to get Valthek's Rebuke
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 3: Avarice Band and Pride's Fall
• Act 4: Can drop any bounty item from any act
• Bounty Turn In: Recipes for Captain Crimson's Trimmings, Sage's Journey and Cain's Destiny (for your follower)
  
  

6. There are final required pieces that are difficult to acquire, Squirt's Necklace for farming and The Traveler's Pledge for solo push. With amulets being so expensive to gamble and craft, we'll have to search for them 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:

• The Twisted Sword
• Etched Sigil
• Convention of Elements
• Halo of Karini

• Bane of the Stricken helps us killing the Rift Guardian. As long as you don't need more than 2 minutes to kill it you can equip Bane of the Powerful instead.
• Bane of the Trapped (BotT) grants us a nice 1.6 separate damage multiplier. We must, however, stand within 15 yards of our enemies to apply its effect if you choose to play the Arcane Variant with Wicked Wind, which is the same range we require for Audacity. On the Rift Guardian our Follower will continuously re-apply a slow for BotT. The Cold Variant has the advantage that Cold damage from Mistral Breeze will chill the target and slow it before any damage instance is calculated, meaning BotT will always be applied.
• Esoteric Alteration is needed purely for survival. Unfortunately we have limited sources of damage reduction available to us.
• For Nephalem Rifts, Boon of the Hoarder is always included due to its amazing synergy with Avarice Band.
• Lastly, Zei's Stone of Vengeance is a feasible choice, which contrary to its description grants its first stage benefit at 0 yards instead of 10 yards.

• Magic Weapon Deflection grants you a Shield for 4% of your maximum Life everytime you cast an ability. The shields are protecting your hit points from taking actual damage preserving the damage buff of Squirts Necklace.
• Arcane Torrent Flame Ward activates our channeling items Etched Sigil and Mantle of Channeling while granting us a decent 25% damage reduction buff.
• Slow Time Exhaustion is necessary to activate the set bonus and provides us with a nice defensive buff each time we use it.
• Storm Armor is needed to proc the defensive capabilities of Halo of Karini. Shocking Aspect has the best overall uptime by giving you a second chance on a crit while Power of the Storm grants a nice flat Resource Cost Reduction of 3 Arcane Power to all abilities.
• Energy Twister can either be played with the stationary Arcane Wicked Wind or the moving Cold Mistral Breeze rune. The Arcane version is significantly more consistent with its DPS (specifically on Rift Guardians) while the Cold version can reach far higher DPS ceilings with amazing Twister Movement RNG. For pushing the Arcane version is recommended, whereas the Cold version should be played for Nephalem Rifts due to the flat -10 Resource Cost Reduction.
• Wave of Force Arcane Attunement constitutes an incredible separate multiplier for Wicked Wind with the density-creating capabilities of Ranslors Folly.

• Elemental Exposure is a separate and global multiplier debuffing each target once for each element (Fire, Cold, Arcane, Lighting) for up to 5 seconds when you hit it with said target. The elemental type of the damage range on your equipped weapon will also be applied with each ability that you hit with.
• Audacity provides us with a separate 1.3 multiplier if our target is within 15 yards.
• Unwavering Will for some toughness and damage which complement well Endless Walk.
• Illusionist provides us with a significant Movement Speed buff after casting Slow Time. It also procs when you take 15% of your maximum Life as damage on your shields. 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 take Unstable Anomaly instead.
• Conflagration with Arcane Torrent Flame Ward or Blur can be used as fifth passive for slightly more damage or mitigation.

The Altar of Rites is a tree that grants tremendous powers to your entire account in exchange for sacrifices. It requires you to farm Bounties, kill the Ubers, craft the Staff of Herding, and more. Completing all 26 of these tasks, along with sacrificing 6 Primal Ancients grants you extra Damage, Defense, Quality of Life, Increased Drops and 3 Potion Super Powers. Read the full guides on Unlocking the Altar and the Altar Mechanics by Raxxanterax and Chewingnom to learn everything about this fantastic mechanic!

Optimal Path

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:

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Followers share 20% of their Experience, Magic and Gold Find stats with you.
5. Legendary gems do not work on followers, except Esoteric Alteration and Mutilation Guard.
6. Cooldown Reduction does not work for any follower skill except the Templar’s Heal.
7. Followers never deal significant damage; you’re on your own to clear the content.

Select Follower

The general playstyle for pushing Greater Rifts with DMO Twister is definitely more complicated than the average build due to some Energy Twister mechanics, but that's nothing a Wizard can't handle:

1. Maintain your Buffs: When you enter the Greater Rift you want to cast Storm Armor and Magic Weapon; make sure that these buffs don't time out on you. Place a Slow Time right at the entrance to gain the Damage Reduction.
2. Prepare a Pull: Your goal is to unleash one very large Twister (total of 5 instances) buffed via Wave of Force Arcane Attunement (WoF). To maximize your WoF stacks you should apply the following strategy:
   1. Body pull enemies. Do not use Energy Twister due the Ranslors Folly knockback.
   2. Cast Wave of Force Arcane Attunement such that you maximize the number of stacks you gain.
   3. The WoF buff does not time out and it only needs to be applied to the first Energy Twister (the parent) you cast. Be careful to not use Arcane Torrent at this stage as any Arcane Energy Twister casted by Etched Sigil will consume your WoF stacks.
3. Damage Phase:
   1. One second into your Convention of Elements (CoE) Lightning cycle place a Slow Time on top of your pull.
   2. Immediately afterwards selfcast an Energy Twister (the parent) right in the center of your pull within your Slow Time bubble. It must be a self cast since only a selfcasted parent Energy Twister is eligible to proc Area Damage.
   3. Start channeling Arcane Torrent on top of the parent Energy Twister, preferably beginning the channel shortly before your CoE Arcane cycle, to build up The Twisted Sword stacks, and ending with it.
4. Scout and Pull: Scout for Pylons, pull monsters and start repeating from step 1 until the Rift Guardian spawns.
5. Rift Guardian: Hold down Arcane Torrent on single target Rift Guardians. For Rift Guardians with minions you want to at least self cast the parent Energy Twister.

The playstyle is definitely something you have to get used to. It's fast paced, strategic and follows a specific rotation. Practice timing your skills with Convention of Elements in town as it is is crucial to your success. The biggest mistakes you should avoid are:

• Don't rely purely on Energy Twister casted by Etched Sigil for anything - except on the Rift Guardian fight. Your first Twister (the parent) must be selfcasted.
• Don't continuously DPS by simply holding down Arcane Torrent. This is a "rotation based" burst build requiring precise pixelpulling, managing Wave of Force and bursting trash with Area Damage in CoE Arcane cycle.

Rotate out Illusionist for Unstable Anomaly or Blur. Check out our dedicated Hardcore Survival Guide to learn more about how to succeed in this game mode!

• The first placed Energy Twister (the parent) snapshots Absolute Zero, Spellsteal, Arcane Attunement.
• Any consecutive Twister, which merges into the parent, will adapt all multipliers from its parent.
• It does not matter for any consecutive Twister, which merges into the parent, whether it's selfcasted or casted by Etched Sigil.
• Each time the parent grows from a merge its duration is reset.
• Each parent can be merged with more Twisters a maximum of 4 times.
• Each time a Twister merges into a parent, the traveling direction of the parent can change even if Valtheks Rebuke is equipped.

• Etched Sigil has an Internal Cooldown (ICD) of 59 frames.
• An Energy Twister can only spawn when Arcane Torrent, Ray of Frost or Disintegrate ticks and Etched Sigil is off cooldown.
• You can spawn one Energy Twister every 60 frames when your channeling abilities' Breakpoint is a divider of 60 (2 FPA, 3 FPA, 4 FPA, 5 FPA, 6 FPA, 10 FPA, 12 FPA, 15 FPA, 20 FPA, 30 FPA). On other Breakpoints your Etched Sigil will have a longer cooldown.
• The first Energy Twister (the parent) must be selfcasted. It does not matter for any consecutive Twister that merges into the parent if it's selfcasted or not. Twisters cast by Etched Sigil cannot proc Area Damage. That is due to the fact that only a selfcasted Energy Twister can proc Area Damage.
• Any Arcane Energy Twister rune casted by Etched Sigil (when channeling) will consume Wave of Force Arcane Attunement stacks.

• Is a separate multiplier for any Arcane ability.
• Has a maximum cap of 125 targets which equals a 6.0 multiplier.
• The character is buffed when the "Wave" stops traveling. Any Arcane ability casted while the Wave is still traveling will not consume Arcane Attunement. This means Black Hole Spellsteal can be cast immediately after Wave of Force Arcane Attunement without consuming the resulting WoF stacks. This needs some practice to pull off!
• In combination with The Twisted Sword, only the first Arcane Energy Twister needs to be buffed by Wave of Force Arcane Attunement. The four additional merges will not remove the buff.

• 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.

• Each stack is a debuff for one of the following elements: Arcane, Cold, Fire or Lightning.
• Each stack is unique and will refresh its own duration when reapplied.
• Any ability with a proc coefficient greater than zero applies a stack of its respective element. This inherently means that only selfcasted abilities grant stacks.
• The elemental range on the Weapon applies its respective stack with all abilities if the elemental range is of the type: Arcane, Cold, Fire or Lightning. This is why Item Stat Priorities state you want a weapon with Cold Damage Range.
• The 5% damage from each stack is additive to each other adding up to a total of 20% separate damage multiplier.

• Energy Twisters builds are a force to be reckon with for a very long time on Console versions of the game, the main reason being that channeling mechanics are very different on Console: it is possible to cast any skill while channeling without interruption.
• In practice, this means one can fully maintain Deathwish, Etched Sigil and Mantle of Channeling damage multipliers while endlessly selfcasting Energy Twisters without any inconvenience, effectively skyrocketing the damage output of the build.