There are better firestorm builds floating around, but firespam is effective for low-level farming even without the best equipment, so long as you can get ~2 firestorms for each wizard in your party. Level 4 is the sweet spot, because each wizard has robes (for resistant hide), and only two arcane items (so you only need 6, rather than 9 firestorm items). Since I don't have Trembling Staff, the best cycling I can get is Unwieldy Staff. Fumble actually isn't so bad here, because there's enough armor to replace any I have to drop, and I never have Firestorm left to hold. Typically, I can just spam firestorms because the dwarves have more HP than any enemy. 2 or 3 will clear the map. I don't bother with finishing off individual enemies unless they get close enough to attack. If the dwarves have enough HP, sometimes I'll just soak hits because passing until the next round (when I draw another firestorm) is faster than N individual attacks. It takes less than a minute to complete any map from the level 3 quests ("Lair of the Trog Wizard" and "Highway Robbery"), or from the level 4 quest "Ruby Demon Portal". Limiting factor for completion time is actually animations (even turned up to top speed), and how fast I can click on traits. Campaign1 Level 4 Dwarf Wizard Unwieldy StaffOrb Of FlamesStorm CircletImp-proof RobesGlimmer BootsElectroporter Novice1 x Powerful Spark1 x Dimensional Traveller1 x Hardy Mail1 x Penetrating Zap1 x Arcane Spray1 x Spark Inductor1 x Run1 x Sorcerous Bolt1 x Simple Bash1 x Squeamish2 x Fumble2 x Reliable Hide Armor1 x Short Spark1 x Resistant Hide2 x Fire Spray1 x Spark Generator2 x Firestorm Campaign2 Level 4 Dwarf Wizard Unwieldy StaffStookster's AmuletStorm CircletImp-proof RobesGlimmer BootsElectroporter Novice1 x Powerful Spark1 x Dimensional Traveller1 x Penetrating Zap2 x Arcane Spray1 x Spark Inductor1 x Run2 x Reliable Hide Armor1 x Simple Bash1 x Squeamish2 x Fumble1 x Telekinesis2 x Firestorm1 x Short Spark1 x Resistant Hide1 x Hardy Mail1 x Spark Generator1 x Sorcerous Bolt Campaign3 Level 4 Dwarf Wizard Unwieldy StaffYaro's ScepterGaudekki's OrbFirehide RobesGlimmer BootsNovice Pyromancy1 x Powerful Spark1 x Run1 x Ember Spray1 x Glob Of Flame1 x Short Perplexing Ray1 x Penetrating Zap2 x Firestarter1 x Zap1 x Simple Bash1 x Squeamish2 x Fumble4 x Firestorm1 x Short Spark1 x Resistant Hide1 x Hardy Mail1 x Sorcerous Bolt
Thanks for the template! I have been lucky enough to get some rarer tokenless Firestorm stuff and adapted the build accordingly. Seems to work great even with a quick try! For some reason I always thought the level 4 wizard build was just for the SP 1 HP quests, I never thought to use it for low-level farming, so thanks for the very good idea!
Staff Of The Inferno would help this build a lot if you can get it. I've got one of them, and 2x Trembling Staff, but no Electroporter Novice yet.
Have you noticed you can get Electroporter Novice from Kyburz Market? The average daily chance of getting one there is about 31.75 %, which produces a 99.524 % chance of seeing at least one within 14 days.
We're using the speed farming technique of leaving before playing the last level, then immediately returning to play the first level again. If you don't complete the adventure, you don't gain experience.