Once you reach level 70 and have picked a Build for your Wizard, you will want to start assembling an armor set and weapons that complement it. Keep in mind that class armor sets are designed to enhance one or more of your character’s Skills, so we left some recommendations in the Best Armor Sets section to assist you in making your choice.
The rest of the guide comes with the full list of Wizard Armor Sets, their individual pieces, and their set bonuses.
Best Wizard Armor Sets
- Set Items: Tal Rasha’s Guise of Wisdom, Tal Rasha’s Stride, Tal Rasha’s Allegiance, Tal Rasha’s Unwavering Glare, Tal Rasha’s Relentless Pursuit, Tal Rasha’s Brace, Tal Rasha’s Grasp.
- Is used for the Tal Rasha Meteor build
- The full set causes Arcane, Cold, Fire, and Lightning attacks to grant immunity to the element used, cast a Meteor of the same element, increase all resistances, and increase all damage.
- It also causes attacks with Meteor to reduce the cooldown of Teleport.
Set Items: Firebird’s Plume, Firebird’s Pinions, Firebird’s Down, Firebird’s Breast, Firebird’s Eye, Firebird’s Talons, and Firebird’s Tarsi.
- Is used for the Firebird build.
- The full set causes Disintegrate to Ignite enemies, and grants Wizards Combustion.
- Ignite is a powerful DoT that will last on enemies until they die. While active on enemies, all of your damage will be greatly increased.
- Non-channeling Fire abilities will deal even more damage to enemies with Ignite.
- Combustion reduces the cooldown of Teleport by up to 100% and reduces all damage taken while Combustion is active.
Set Items: Shrouded Mask, Fierce Gauntlets, Striders of Destiny, Leg Guards of Mystery, Dashing Pauldrons of Despair, and Harness of Truth.
- Can be obtained through Haedrig’s Gift.
- Is used for the Delsere’s Magnum Opus Twister build.
- The full set greatly enhances Slow Time, causing the effect to also grant you (and your allies) damage reduction, and causes many Skills to do increased damage to enemies within the Skill’s field.
- These same Skills will also cast Slow Time when used.
Wizard Armor Set List
Tal Rasha’s Elements (7 Pieces)
Set Pieces:
- Tal Rasha’s Guise of Wisdom (Helm)
- Tal Rasha’s Stride (Pants)
- Tal Rasha’s Allegiance (Amulet)
- Tal Rasha’s Unwavering Glare (Source)
- Tal Rasha’s Relentless Pursuit (Chest Armor)
- Tal Rasha’s Brace (Belt)
- Tal Rasha’s Grasp (Gloves)
Set Bonuses:
- 2 set: Damaging enemies with Arcane, Cold, Fire or Lightning will grant immunity to that element and cause a Meteor of the same damage type to fall from the sky. There is an 8 second cooldown for each damage type.
- 4 set: Arcane, Cold, Fire, and Lightning attacks each increase all of your resistances by 20% for 8 seconds.
- 6 set: Attacks increase your damage by 2000% for 8 seconds. Arcane, Cold, Fire, and Lightning attacks each add one stack. At 4 stacks, each different elemental attack extends the duration by 2 seconds, up to a maximum of 8 seconds.
Firebird’s Finery (7 Pieces)
Set Pieces:
- Firebird’s Plume (Helm)
- Firebird’s Pinions (Shoulders)
- Firebird’s Down (Pants)
- Firebird’s Breast (Chest Armor)
- Firebird’s Eye (Source)
- Firebird’s Talons (Gloves)
- Firebird’s Tarsi (Boots)
Set Bonuses:
- 2 set: Disintegrate Ignites enemies, causing them to take 3000% weapon damage per second until they die. When you die, a meteor falls from the sky and revives you. This effect has a 60 second cooldown.
- 4 set: Casting Disintegrate adds Combustion stacks that reduce the cooldown of Teleport by 2% per stack. Stacks up to 50 times. You gain 80% damage reduction while maintaining Combustion stacks.
- 6 set: You gain 5000% increased damage while Ignite is applied to a target. Hitting an Ignited enemy with a non-channeling fire spell deals Ignite damage multiplied by Combustion stacks. Pets cannot trigger this effect.
Vyr’s Amazing Arcana (6 Pieces)
Set Pieces:
- Vyr’s Sightless Skull (Helm)
- Vyr’s Fantastic Finery (Pants)
- Vyr’s Swaggering Stance (Boots)
- Vyr’s Grasping Gauntlets (Gloves)
- Vyr’s Proud Pauldrons (Shoulders)
- Vyr’s Astonishing Aura (Chest Armor)
- 2 set: Archon gains the effect of every rune.
- 4 set: Archon stacks also increase your Attack Speed, Armor, and Resistances by 1%.
- 6 set: You gain 1 Archon stack when you hit with an Archon ability and Archon stacks also reduce damage taken by 0.15% and have their damage bonus increased to 100%.
Delsere’s Magnum Opus (6 Pieces)
Set Pieces:
- Shrouded Mask (Helm)
- Fierce Gauntlets (Gloves)
- Striders of Destiny (Boots)
- Leg Guards of Mystery (Pants)
- Dashing Pauldrons of Despair (Shoulders)
- Harness of Truth (Chest Armor)
Set Bonuses:
- 2 set: Casting 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 set: You take 75% reduced damage while you have a Slow Time active. Allies inside your Slow Time gain half benefit.
- 6 set: 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, or Arcane Torrent abilities.
The Typhon’s Veil (6 Pieces)
Set Pieces:
- Typhon’s Frons (Helm)
- Typhon’s Claws (Gloves)
- Typhon’s Tibia (Shoulders)
- Typhon’s Abdomen (Pants)
- Typhon’s Tarsus (Boots)
- Typhon’s Thorax (Chest Armor)
Set Bonuses:
- 2 set: Double the duration of Hydras and increase the number of heads on multi-headed Hydras by two.
- 4 set: Damage taken is reduced by 8% for each Hydra head alive. Each time you take damage, a head dies. A head cannot die more than once every 2 seconds.
- 6 set: Hydras deal 4000% increased damage for each Hydra head alive.