Delsere's Magnum Opus — Wizard

Wizard Build B · by eRnstl · 294 Views

Delsere's Magnum Opus for the Wizard: tier B, Season 39, with gear, cube powers, gems and 2 variants.

At a glance

Class: Wizard
Tier: B
Season: S39
Main skill: Energy Twister
Items: 13
Cube powers: 4
Updated: 07.09.2026

Equipment

Helm Shrouded Mask
Shoulders Dashing Pauldrons of Despair
Amulet Squirt's Necklace
Chest Harness of Truth
Gloves Fierce Gauntlets
Bracers Ashnagarr's Blood Bracer
Belt Captain Crimson's Silk Girdle
Pants Captain Crimson's Thrust
Boots Striders of Destiny
Ring 1 Convention of Elements
Ring 2 Halo of Karini
Main Hand The Twisted Sword
Off Hand Etched Sigil

Active Skills

Energy Twister Storm Chaser

Arcane Torrent Flame Ward

Teleport Reversal

Wave of Force Static Pulse

Magic Weapon Deflection

Storm Armor Scramble

Passive Skills

Audacity

Galvanizing Ward

Elemental Exposure

Illusionist

Kanai's Cube

Weapon Valthek's Rebuke

Armor Ranslor's Folly

Jewelry Ring of Royal Grandeur

4th slot (Season 39) Deathwish

Stat Priority

Intelligence
Critical Hit Chance
Vitality
Area Damage
Critical Hit Damage
Energy Twister Damage

Legendary Gems

Bane of the Trapped Rank 150

Bane of the Stricken Rank 150

Esoteric Alteration Rank 100

Regular Gems

Armor Topaz

Weapon Emerald

✦ Intelligence

✦ Critical Hit Chance

✦ Energy Twister Damage

✦ Poison Resistance

✦ Vitality

✦ Intelligence

✦ Vitality

✦ Area Damage

✦ Resource Cost Reduction

Harness of Truth

Chest Armor

✦ Intelligence

✦ Vitality

✦ Damage Reduction from Elites

✦ Socket

✦ Intelligence

✦ Critical Hit Damage

✦ Critical Hit Chance

✦ Area Damage

✦ Arcane Damage

✦ Intelligence

✦ Vitality

✦ Critical Hit Chance

✦ Intelligence

✦ Vitality

✦ Life %

✦ Armor

Captain Crimson's Thrust

Pants

✦ Intelligence

✦ Vitality

✦ Armor

✦ Socket

✦ Intelligence

✦ Vitality

✦ All Resistance

✦ Energy Twister Damage

Squirt's Necklace

Amulet

✦ Gold Find

✦ Critical Hit Damage

✦ Arcane Damage

✦ Critical Hit Chance

✦ Socket

Convention of Elements

Ring 1

✦ Critical Hit Damage

✦ Critical Hit Chance

✦ Area Damage

✦ Socket

Halo of Karini

Ring 2

✦ Critical Hit Damage

✦ Critical Hit Chance

✦ Area Damage

✦ Socket

The Twisted Sword

Main Hand

✦ Cold Damage (Weapon)

✦ Damage %

✦ Area Damage

✦ Intelligence

✦ Socket

✦ Physical Damage (Weapon)

✦ Critical Hit Chance

✦ Area Damage

✦ Arcane Power on Critical Hit

✦ Energy Twister Damage

Gameplay

The configuration

This setup is stored as a complete build — gear, skills, runes and all four cube slots work together and are not assembled from individual statistics.

Set: Delsere's Magnum Opus
Rating: tier B across all classes
Kanai's Cube: Valthek's Rebuke, Ranslor's Folly, Ring of Royal Grandeur, Deathwish
Skills: Energy Twister (Storm Chaser), Arcane Torrent (Flame Ward), Teleport (Reversal), Wave of Force (Static Pulse), Magic Weapon (Deflection), Storm Armor (Scramble)
Passives: Audacity, Galvanizing Ward, Elemental Exposure, Illusionist
Variants available: Torment 16 / Nephalem rifts, GR push

Use the variant switcher above to move between the versions. What changes between them is spelled out below — read it before you rebuild.

What the set does

This build wears Delsere's Magnum Opus. These bonuses apply once the matching number of set pieces is equipped — the damage multiplier hangs on them, not on the individual stats of the pieces:

2 pieces: Hitting an enemy with Arcane Orb, Energy Twister, Magic Missile, Shock Pulse, Spectral Blade, Electrocute, or Arcane Torrent also casts Slow Time at them. This effect will not trigger if the target is already inside a Slow Time bubble. The cooldown of Teleport will reset while you're inside bubbles generated from this set or cast by you.
4 pieces: You take 75% reduced damage while you have a Slow Time active. Allies inside your Slow Time gain half benefit.
6 pieces: Enemies affected by your Slow Time and for 5 seconds after exiting take 12,500% increased damage from your Arcane Orb, Energy Twister, Magic Missile, Shock Pulse, Spectral Blade, Electrocute, and Arcane Torrent abilities.

How the variants differ

Measured against the push version. Anything not listed here stays the same:

Torment 16 / Nephalem rifts: swaps in skills Energy Twister (Wicked Wind), Arcane Torrent (Static Discharge), Slow Time (Time Warp), Teleport (Calamity); cube The Twisted Sword; gems Boon of the Hoarder, Bane of the Powerful.

Sockets and gems

The 3 legendary gems (Bane of the Trapped, Bane of the Stricken, Esoteric Alteration) belong in the jewellery slots — that is the only place their rank counts, and the only place they keep growing when you upgrade after a Greater Rift.

The remaining 6 sockets are filled with Topaz: the multiplier already comes from the set and the legendary powers, so one more base stat does more there than another effect would.

On the season theme

Shades of the Nephalem spawns a shadow clone of your class at every shrine and pylon that fights along for one minute. Activate shrines inside the pull, not on the way there. The fourth cube slot is already filled in every variant above.