It's pretty meaty. And 5 stacks of Gruesome Feast of adds an additional 50% INT boost on top of it.
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It's pretty meaty. And 5 stacks of Gruesome Feast of adds an additional 50% INT boost on top of it.
Thanks I'll try that.
Inferno wasps hit 22k each (x4) with my Monk setup. Add 25% if you are a non tank class.I hated those wasps so much in Normal, I dread facing them in NM
I could only imagine how hard they are in Inferno.
Which difficulty?
Personally, I like it after Normal and Nightmare's easy mode. Though, I wish some elite packs weren't so brutal.
Should be able to do the quest right after it for an extra free 44.8k EXP as well. Adds all of like 20 seconds to the run.
personally, i'd take rend with the health rune over ww. i think you get more health out of it and it takes less of your fury to get it. also you can toss it on and keep using your primary attack while it does the work for you.
revenge with vengeance is my primary life leach.
and yeah, i agree with the previous comment, you should find a place to put ground stomp. maybe in place of one of your shouts.
That happened to me, while I was still leveling. Got a support ticket and continued playing. Leveled from Level 40 to mid 50 when I'm suddenly logged out because of "Violation of terms of service" and cannot log in anymore. My heart skipped more than a beat.
I got a mail saying that blizzard reset my password and set my account back to the point I contacted support. As you can imagine I was raging!
Thankfully someone had enough brains to not actually do that just because I was missing 80k gold and all my crafting essences. Worst minutes of my gaming live.
Felix Lighter
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I'm sorry for bringing this up again but I can't keep up with this thread. Any word from Blizzard about the latency issue? I'm limited to playing the game prime time East Coast and weekends and my ping has been between 200-300+ms with some ridiculous spikes from time to time, since launch. I'll be very annoyed if this continues on for weeks and weeks. The game does a decent job of hiding the latency most of the time, though there's a weird sluggishness that's always there, which I assume is due to the high latency. I desperately want to feel how this game plays at a reasonable ping. I've seen several other complaints, is everyone else on East Coast US experiencing this? I live in north central Pennsylvania.
I live in South Central Pennsylvania and my experiences have been the same as yours. It's definitely not just you.
JustProgress
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Pro farming of Az: use a monk with tailwind to run through it then your friends banner to you. Like 55k xp in 2 minutes.
Yeah, that's what my friends were doing last night as I mentioned above.
Bl4ckSunsh1n3
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As a Witch Doctor I previously questioned the usefulness of Spirit Walk. Now after using it for a couple days, I can't ever see myself not having it. It's invaluable for positioning, getting out of sticky situations and breaking stuns, and setting up a perfect Soul Harvest. With my current build I have no issues with mana, so I've opted for the Jaunt rune - giving me 3 seconds instead of 2. It's awesome.
Felix Lighter
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I'm in Western PA and I've yet to see a steady ping under 200ms.
Well there is a certain amount of comfort knowing that it's nothing on my end. I guess it's just a waiting game at this point. I guess if they aren't going to actively try to improve the situation, it's just a matter of waiting until the server populations naturally decline.
South Central PA unite!!!
I imagine a lot of Defensive Skills are questionable until you need them. Then they're godlike and never leave your bar :x
toastyToast
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I'm getting seriously messed up on Nightmare. What do I do?
My survivability is just awful, but looking at my stats they don't seem all that bad
My survivability is just awful, but looking at my stats they don't seem all that bad
ComputerMKII
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I wish my LV 39 Demon Hunter in Act 2 Nightmare had that much Vitality.
Those integer-based runes have pretty much faded into complete irrelevancy now that I've reached Inferno. The healing runes for Haunt and Hex recover a completely negligible amount of HP relative to my max. Not that Haunt was ever particularly good, mind, but Hex with Hedge Magic was a standby of mine for a long time.
The best healing skill I've found is the healing rune for Spirit Walk, which recovers a percentage of your max life with every use and attaches to what is quite possibly the Witch Doctor's single most important skill.
Soul Harvest seems to pretty much start out at its maximum effectiveness and slowly lose efficacy over the course of the game. Percentage-wise, once upon a time a full 5-stack of Soul Harvest could more than double my damage output. Nowadays, though, a perfect 5-stack only increases my DPS by about 25%, and now that cracking level 60 is rapidly becoming a distant memory it's certainly not getting any more effective.
I still use it on Inferno, but that's more because I'm thoroughly accustomed to using it at this point and because I can't think of much to replace it with.
I don't think it's unreasonable to call it the Witch Doctor's single most important skill for surviving the higher difficulties. I'd be willing to give up any other skill in my current build before I'd give up Spirit Walk. It's absolutely crucial for dealing with unique enemies.
Biggest thing I'd say is Smokescreen. It's pretty much a staple on survivability. I think I cheesed a lot of NM with some Smokescreen -> Multishot + Suppression fire tactics.
The_Darkest_Red
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I wish I could get this game to stop stuttering on my laptop... The specs on it aren't fantastic but I'm able to get a fairly solid 50-60 frames with the settings turned down and yet nothing seems to help with the ever so slight stuttering. I don't play many PC games so I'm kind of at a loss on what to do about it.
That minor complaint aside, I'm having a ton of fun with this game.
That minor complaint aside, I'm having a ton of fun with this game.
TheContact
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I see a lot of Inferno monks using shields. I guess they're just sick of dying so often. Really though I can imagine them being beastly. Give them a ton of vitality and armor, combined with two separate stackable buffs for an extra +20% vitality, and a crap ton of defensive, healing, aoe taunts...they are capable of being very good tanks
Alex
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One thing that removed stuttering for a friend was to disable the framerate limiter options. The foreground/background stuff, try unchecking them. Kind of useless anyway, with vsync.
I dont think you actually lose that much damage from going to shield +1H, from what I read (the dual wield mechanics don't work like WoW or anything like that), so in a mode that favors survival its often a simple choice. Anyone who knows differently feel free to correct me, of course.
I dont think you actually lose that much damage from going to shield +1H, from what I read (the dual wield mechanics don't work like WoW or anything like that), so in a mode that favors survival its often a simple choice. Anyone who knows differently feel free to correct me, of course.
toastyToast
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i saw this on reddit today, haven't tried it myself but it may help?
http://www.reddit.com/r/diablo3/comments/tx9zl/just_a_little_tip_for_people_who_are_having_fps/
I'm only 5 levels ahead seems I have more INT which beefs resistance a lot. Despite it being the least I have a good amount of all 4 stats with DEX being the majority and highest.
Vestal
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You may have to rethink ur play style.. My RL friend has a Demon Hunter and he hardly ever died while doing Nightmare, and his DPS was actually lower than yours.
Ranged class = have to run like a mofo and stagger big groups... traps, traps traps....
Yeah, I bought this cheap laptop replacement a while back and although I only installed it, I'm afraid it will run the same on there. Luckily I have a desktop to play on normally.
But it'd be nice to have the option if needed.
edit: I will have to try that recommendation probably. Thanks for that.
I feel you bro. I might switch out my Quiver for a shield or something..
I need to send this to my friend so that he can stop moving at a snails pace in game.
The_Darkest_Red
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Interesting, I'll check this out as soon as I get home. It seems to be primarily aimed at upping the frame-rate but hopefully it'll help with my stuttering issue as well. Thanks!
Since it isn't percentage-based that isn't too surprising. Eventually the buffs from equipment would be high enough that the extra INT from SH would be less meaningful.
What's your Inferno build look like?
Inferno has seemed silly to me from the outset with the devs saying that they essentially had their guys play through it and then simply doubled the difficulty, or whatever. I'm not sure how that's conducive to any form of balancing.
That and you don't lose as much damage as you'd think by going that route. Typically speaking, you'll have better sheet DPS this way but less Spirit generation to spam on things.
I just did a pretty standard Hungering Arrow/Elemental Arrow (Impale for single target DPS eventually)/Multishot build with Smokescreen and Vault. My DH is basically doing Gold and MF runs so I have a ferret running around too ... though I imagine that doesn't really count.
ComputerMKII
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This. Stay the fuck away from mobs, abuse Smoke Screen and you won't die
too often
By the way here are my stats:
PoweredBySoy
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I've always taken that quote as a hype-inducing sound bite more than anything. I'm sure they put more work into it than that.
Anyone have a fast build for 30-40 witch doctor? I've heard all about that Vision Quest thing but what to do before that to be most efficient? I've mostly been dogs(absorb)+gargantuan(elite boost)+bats(dire bats)+soul drain+acid pool and the splinters blowdarts. Sorry for the vague names, I can't remember the real ones.
Winnie the Pimp
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Act 2: Cave of the Betrayer for the Zoltun Quest: where is this cave located?
mysocksarepink
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so gaf apparently before I begin nightmare I have to be level 50..
Well, I'm halfway through 49. Where do you guys recommend I farm? I would like the optimal spot for farming for both for xp and loot
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Well, I'm halfway through 49. Where do you guys recommend I farm? I would like the optimal spot for farming for both for xp and loot
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Snkfanatic
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so gaf apparently before I begin nightmare I have to be level 50..
Well, I'm halfway through 49. Where do you guys recommend I farm? I would like the optimal spot for farming for both for xp and loot
Nightmare? I hit 40 doing nightmare. Sure you don't mean Hell?
Alex
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so gaf apparently before I begin nightmare I have to be level 50..
Well, I'm halfway through 49. Where do you guys recommend I farm? I would like the optimal spot for farming for both for xp and loot
You should be low ~30-32 when you start Nightmare.
Felix Lighter
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Does the Demon Hunter Rapid Fire skill lose it's usefulness in higher levels? Right now it chews through everything.
I like using Caltraps and spike traps on larger groups and I'm almost always just spewing rapid fire hot death. I use Cull the Weak, since I slow everyone with the Caltraps. I also use Vengeance to keep up my hatred. I use Smoke Screen with the speed buff so I can either escape a sticky situation or quickly grab health globes to recover hatred.
Obviously, all of this becomes meaningless because I'm still on ACT II of normal and virtually any tactic will work. I'm just curious if this tactic will completely fall apart on higher difficulty levels.
I like using Caltraps and spike traps on larger groups and I'm almost always just spewing rapid fire hot death. I use Cull the Weak, since I slow everyone with the Caltraps. I also use Vengeance to keep up my hatred. I use Smoke Screen with the speed buff so I can either escape a sticky situation or quickly grab health globes to recover hatred.
Obviously, all of this becomes meaningless because I'm still on ACT II of normal and virtually any tactic will work. I'm just curious if this tactic will completely fall apart on higher difficulty levels.
ComputerMKII
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It does on Normal but it is less impressive in Nigthmare. It's still your most powerful attack against single mobs though, so you shouldn't replace it.
Use Sharpshooter for 20% more damage.
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