Wave of Force, also known as WoF, is a Tier 2 skill unlocked for the Wizard at level 3, creating a force wave from the Wizard, repelling enemies and projectiles.
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Background
| Diablo III Skill [e] | |
|---|---|
| |
| Wave of Force Active, 5 ranks | |
| Used by: | Wizard |
| Project a wave of force outwards, repelling enemies and projectiles. | |
| Type: | Damage & Knockback |
| Quantity: | 1-5 damage |
| Effect: | Self AoE |
| School: | Arcane |
| Mana cost: | 10 |
| Cast time: | Instant |
| Duration: | None |
| Cooldown: | Unknown |
| Synergies: | None |
| Requires: | N/A |
| Prereq of: | N/A |
The Wizard uses pure Arcane force to push objects, projectiles and enemies alike away from her. The force is primary pushing targets rather than hurting them.
Skill Design
This defensive spell casts a nova-like blast of light that deals just minor damage, but that shoves back enemies and projectiles.
Wave of Force is used twice in the Wizard Trailer released at BlizzCon 2008. The first is used in a room of skeletons -- it does little damage to the skeletons, but blasts all the destructibles in the room to glorious pieces. In the second example, the Wizard uses it while slowing down time, waiting for a group of skeletons' projectiles to come close, and then reflecting them back toward them.
It's hard to know how many scenarios in a fast-paced game like this where you could really benefit from using Slow Time and then Wave of Force to repel projectiles -- Out of the 8 projectiles in the above screenshot, only one or two actually came back to strike their targets. It will be interesting to see what practical uses there are for this spell as more gameplay videos unfold.
Skill Rank Table
Synergies
Wave of Force benefits directly from the following traits:
- Glass Cannon: Increases damage done by spells and increases armor.
- Intimidation: Increases damage done and reduces vendor costs.
- Quickening: Increases spell casting speed.
- Beast Hunter: Damage bonus against beasts.
- Demonsbane: Damage bonus against Demons.
- Just...Stay...Dead!: Damage bonus against undead.
- Temporal Flux: Enemies that have been hit by your Arcane spells are slowed down by 25% for 3 seconds.
- Power Surge: Increase critical strike damage.
- Penetrating Spells: Reduces the resistances of your target to your spells by 20%.
Skill Rune Effects
- None known.
Development
Wave of Force was first shown at BlizzCon 2008 when the Wizard was unveiled. The spell was available for use by players in the BlizzCon 2009 demo, but was not described in further details in Flux's Wizard skill guide, like most other skills. It lost a little bit of damage, a lot lower mana cost and got 4 more ranks to the skill.
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Media
You can find pictures in the Diablo 3 screenshot and picture gallery:
Wizard casting Wave of Force in a small room.
Using WoF to repel skeletons when fighting King Leoric.
Blasting skeletons with Force.
