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Archon

Archon

Active Skill · Mastery · Wizard

  • 5 Runes
  • From level 30

Effect

Cooldown: 120 seconds

Transform into a being of pure arcane energy for 20 seconds. While in Archon form, your normal abilities are replaced by powerful Archon abilities, your damage is increased by 30%, and your Armor and resistances are increased by 150%.

Each enemy killed while in Archon form increases your damage by 6% for the remaining duration of Archon.

Runes

5 Runes

  • Combustion

    from level 36 · Fire damage · Proc coefficient 0.25

    An explosion erupts around you when you transform, dealing 3680% weapon damage as Fire to all enemies within 15 yards.

    Archon abilities deal Fire damage instead of Arcane.

  • Teleport

    from level 40 · Arcane damage · Proc coefficient 0.25

    Archon form can cast Teleport with a 2 second cooldown.

  • Pure Power

    from level 46 · Lightning damage · Proc coefficient 0.25

    Decrease the cooldown of Archon to 100 seconds.

    Archon abilities deal Lightning damage instead of Arcane.

  • Slow Time

    from level 52 · Cold damage · Proc coefficient 0.25

    Archon form can cast a Slow Time that follows you and your Arcane Blast and Arcane Strike abilities Freeze enemies for 1 second.

    Archon abilities deal Cold damage instead of Arcane.

  • Improved Archon

    from level 60 · Arcane damage · Proc coefficient 0.25

    Increase the damage of all Archon abilities by 50%.

The proc coefficient scales the chance of on-hit effects (e.g. legendary powers, gems, Life per Hit) for each hit of the skill. Game files, version 2.8.0.

Archon

Archon is the Wizard's iconic transformation ultimate: for a limited duration you become a being of pure arcane energy whose normal skills are replaced by powerful Archon abilities. While transformed, your damage as well as armor and resistances rise sharply, and every enemy killed increases your damage further, a snowball effect that makes you explosively strong in dense crowds.

The runes set the element and playstyle. Pure Power is very popular because it shortens the cooldown and shifts the damage to lightning, making the form available more often and with fewer gaps, the basis of many Archon builds. Teleport grants you a short-cooldown teleport inside the form for much better mobility and positioning. Improved Archon is the pure damage option when you need neither mobility nor cooldown reduction. Archon thus remains the Wizard's central window of maximum power.

Combustion and Slow Time

Two more runes change the form's element and effect:

  • Combustion (level 36): transforming triggers an explosion around you for 3680% weapon damage as Fire within 15 yards, and Archon abilities deal Fire damage.
  • Slow Time (level 52): in Archon form you can cast a Slow Time bubble that follows you, and Arcane Blast and Arcane Strike Freeze enemies for 1 second. In practice this is the usual rune.

Carrying stacks: Fazula's Improbable Chain and The Swami

Every enemy killed in Archon form grants 6% damage for the remaining duration. The belt Fazula's Improbable Chain lets you start the form with 40–50 stacks, and the hat The Swami keeps the stack bonuses for 15–20 seconds after the form ends.

Vyr's Amazing Arcana and Chantodo's Resolve

  • Vyr's Amazing Arcana: with 2 pieces Archon gains the effect of every rune, and with 4 pieces the stacks also raise attack speed, Armor and resistances by 1%. With 6 pieces every hit with an Archon ability grants a stack, each stack reduces damage taken by 0.15%, and the stacks' damage bonus rises to 100%.
  • Chantodo's Resolve: in Archon form you expel a Wave of Destruction every second for 4000% weapon damage within 30 yards. Hits outside the form charge the wave, up to 20 times.

Evocation shortens the 120-second cooldown, and Arcane Torrent fills the time in between.

by eRnstl