Let's not get this thread closed with name-calling over something so tertiary as the strangers that join your public games.
It's simply not even a topic worth wasting your breath on. If you don't know by this point that any "public" online component is essentially the wild west, that's on you, not everyone else.
"You meet one jerk in the morning, you met a jerk. You meet jerks all day long, maybe you're the jerk."
There are plenty of solutions available to the player to control their experience. Clans, communities and PRIVATE GAMES. Whining after all this is not on Blizzard or the leechers anymore. This is not a complaint against the game. This complaint boils down to "I'm too lazy to be proactive to stop this thing I don't like. I blame everyone else!"
Moving on, my wiz finally made it into T6 with Firebird. It's weird to think that at one time this was where it was at. I hate FB. Even if I get a sparker, it's just so slow. Hitting the 3K% weapon damage for them to burn to death is easy, and then it's a matter of dodging around for MINUTES waiting for things to die.
Sounds so fun.
Last class not in T6 for me is the crusader. I get one(two?) more piece of Roland's, and I'll be in.
Love speed farming with my barb using IK6 + BK. Love pushing grifts with WW6/IK4. Barbs are in a pretty good place right now, and that makes me happy. My DH needs work. I think I'm just too lazy to push grifts with M6. At some point I'll grab UE and give it a spin. I think UE plays easier.
I do miss how "lazy" the old M6 was. At least there's still pet docs. Did Zuni really become de-facto for pet docs? I watched a video overview of the new Zuni bonuses, and my current pet doc was hitting harder and faster than a Zuni pet doc. Does F + R also affect fetishes? I suppose it doesn't matter since I'll probably be running TMF and LMF instead.
The point of my posts wasn't solely to prevent leeching - it was to improve the user experience. I read previous posts in this thread complaining about people thread crapping by being negative and not suggesting positive ways to improve the game. My point would even apply to pub grifts, and it's not solely about leeching - it's about getting matched in a group at your level with ease, because at the end of the day you join a clan, some people go inactive, you try to find another active clan, same thing - some people play seasons, some don't, and at the end of the day not everyone is lucky enough to form part of a consistently active clan. I don't know if all of what I just said is on everyone who isn't in an active clan - my idea is just to make the user experience better (the leeching bit was a bonus). Having said all this, I'll drop that subject here permanently now.
On your wizard - last season I did a firebird build but like you I thought it was way too boring to dot and teleport around. I'm having a much better time with tal rasha. That set, with an ancient aether walker, is one of the better rushing wizard builds. That changes if you want to push high grifts, but at least with season 3 wizards got a chance for more burst and less dancing around.
Barbs are still in a good place and are honestly insane in the sense that they were (are?) at the top of solo grift progression, and the idea that they were low on single target dps was laughable if you compared it to even a well geared FB wiz then. Not sure about whirlwind barbs yet.
On your WD - focus and restraint does apply to fetish army as long as you use the appropriate primary/spender to activate the buff. I saw a video from Shinobi on the poison dart pet build and it looked insane - grouped with such a WD and the single target dps was astounding.
I think this patch added a lot for a number of classes - if wizard stays as it is in the next patch (meaning some tal rasha build will be the max grift progression) I'll probably roll a WD.