Nice job ima just sit here on mobile on early hardmode . and cry cuz my hallow ended up in a snow biome and I can ' t get pearlwood . lol . Congrats tho D <| sep |> You want crit , crit , crit , int , some more crit , crit , a bit of mastery , crit , and crit . More seriously , crit is your best stat by a signficant margin . It ' s better than intellect by a bit , and better than every other secondary by a mile . Mastery will be your next best secondary , and it ' s particularly good at M dungeons because it directly boosts your ignite damage which spreads to adds in those trash packs . You also want to make sure you have about 1800 haste , but in my experience , you ' ll not be able to avoid that anyway , so just take all the crit you can get . If an item has int and is 2030 ilvls higher , then it ' s probably an upgrade even without crit , but the general rule is to take crit pieces only . As for talents for leveling , I don ' t think there ' s a massive difference really . If you like AoE pulls , then you definitely want living bomb and cinderstorm . Being squishy , I generally prefer to kill things in much smaller groups , but I like those talents because a there are still occasions where AoE is useful , and b they ' re good dungeon talents and I ' m too lazy to constantly swap back and forth . Take shimmer over cauterize since you have no healer to get rid of the dot cauterize leaves when you ' re leveling . Flame On and Ice Floes are mandatory for pretty much anything at the moment . Otherwise , pick what looks like fun to you . I like Conflagration , Shimmer , Rune of Power , Flame On , Ice Floes , Living Bomb , and Cinderstorm , but there are other viable choices at several tiers .