Say what?
I don't think paperdps is accurate. You can have paperdps showing 500k but realistically do 10M dps with elemental and skill % buffs, whereas someone who has 1M paperdps but none of the elemental/skill buffs will be doing much less.
He was arguing, that for the wizard class, mixing different skills instead of focusing on 1-2 and pumping up your raw dps was better.
Which is categorically wrong.
You have no combos as a wizard like a witch doctor does with pets and gear or haunt/locus swarm and set+hat.
As a wizard, you inflate your paper doll dps, run a bunch of +arcane and run cdr for Archon or you inflate your paper doll dps, run a bunch of +fire and mirror ball for conflag. That's it.
Please let me know this magical combination of skills that aren't-
1. An armor,
2. Magic Weapon
3. Familiar with +10% passive damage
4. 3 other things
The wizard class is pretty much stuck with 1-2 things that work at T5-6 and that's a problem. You are forced to increase your raw dps to remain effective, no combine some eclectic combination of skills to get to the next tier. Because that does not work for them at all. Tal runs out of steam at around T4, the fire bird set is useless at the moment. Vyr's if you're doing Archon otherwise.
Edit: Or I guess WoW explosion set, so 3 things. But you're still running the same basic 2-3 passive "active" abilities.