I tried it yesterday. The elites fucking destroyed us. We only managed to kill one pack because they got bugged in the north-west corner. Even then it took us awhile because we couldn't go full dps on it since it had reflect damage.
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Diablo III |OT3| Turn On Elective Mode, Get an Authenticator
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Don't have anyone active enough on my list with access to that area. And no, I'm not spending gold on the staff.
The_Darkest_Red
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Made it to Act IV on Nightmare with my monk this weekend, I'm sitting at level 50 now. I've had a ton of fun experimenting with different skills but right now I'm pretty satisfied with what I have currently. Here's what I'm using right now.
I find that Deadly Reach works very well with Inner Sanctuary since you can use Inner Sanctuary to keep enemies from reaching you and still manage to hit everyone thanks to the range of Deadly Reach. I basically just use IS and remain stationary right in the middle while picking of all of the enemies surrounding me. Exploding Palm is my go to skill in large groups of fairly weak mobs for obvious reasons and I keep Seven-Sided Strike around as an "oh crap" skill for when I'm in trouble. It also works well as a way to quickly finish off a mob who's been hit by Exploding Palm recently. Breath of Heaven has been a staple of my build for a very long time because of the simple fact that I love having a heal readily available and it's great for healing other people in co-op. I tend to switch my Mantra around quite frequently but right now I'm using Conviction and Dishearten (at least when I play alone) to slow enemies down when they get close to me.
As far as my passives go they are all pretty standard; Transcendence for the extra healing, The Guardian's Path for the dodge bonus when dual-wielding, and One With Everything to get my resistances up. I've gotten in the habit recently of stacking one type of resistance (in this case fire) to bring all of my other one's up, it's kind of a no-brainer with this passive but it's very impressive how well it works.
So that's where I'm at now. I'm new to Diablo so this experience has been great fun to me so far, can't wait to see how I'm forced to change things up once I get to Hell.
I find that Deadly Reach works very well with Inner Sanctuary since you can use Inner Sanctuary to keep enemies from reaching you and still manage to hit everyone thanks to the range of Deadly Reach. I basically just use IS and remain stationary right in the middle while picking of all of the enemies surrounding me. Exploding Palm is my go to skill in large groups of fairly weak mobs for obvious reasons and I keep Seven-Sided Strike around as an "oh crap" skill for when I'm in trouble. It also works well as a way to quickly finish off a mob who's been hit by Exploding Palm recently. Breath of Heaven has been a staple of my build for a very long time because of the simple fact that I love having a heal readily available and it's great for healing other people in co-op. I tend to switch my Mantra around quite frequently but right now I'm using Conviction and Dishearten (at least when I play alone) to slow enemies down when they get close to me.
As far as my passives go they are all pretty standard; Transcendence for the extra healing, The Guardian's Path for the dodge bonus when dual-wielding, and One With Everything to get my resistances up. I've gotten in the habit recently of stacking one type of resistance (in this case fire) to bring all of my other one's up, it's kind of a no-brainer with this passive but it's very impressive how well it works.
So that's where I'm at now. I'm new to Diablo so this experience has been great fun to me so far, can't wait to see how I'm forced to change things up once I get to Hell.
Can you access that level on all difficulties once you get the staff?
200,000/500,000/1,000,000G uprade pattern for each difficulty.
Nope, you gotta pony up some cash for each difficulty. The Inferno upgrade itself costs 1 million big ones.
edit: beaten like a barb without resists on Inferno
I heard you need to upgrade it for each difficulty, right? Can someone write up (in spoiler tags) how you get the pony level in inferno?
How/where?
First of, i´m a wizard but dh and wd from my ts-group solo it aswell.
Bears with fast or invul are the only real danger in there.
Ponys have a little map-trick/abuse to go down easily
The great thing about the pony level is you can grab a 5-stack in act 1 befor going into the level at all. And the really good thing about the level is you get like 20 happy clouds and maybe a pinata after you have done the level. So switch into 300% mf gear and collect 20+ chests.
nicoga3000
Saint Nic
Someone posted this on the official forums under the DH sub. I lol'd pretty hard.
Act 4 Quartermaster near the priest and followers.
So you cant upgrade it to the highest level if you actually havent made it to act 3 Inferno yet?
Something to save for now, lol.
Phat Michael
Banned
so basically my options are when i get home from work in 2 hours:
1) PLay The Witcher II (Ive lost all interest since Diablo)
2) Play unopened Akai Katana Shin
3) Play tekken vs SF
4) Watch video runs of Diablo 3
1) PLay The Witcher II (Ive lost all interest since Diablo)
2) Play unopened Akai Katana Shin
3) Play tekken vs SF
4) Watch video runs of Diablo 3
1) Good choiceso basically my options are when i get home from work in 2 hours:
1) PLay The Witcher II (Ive lost all interest since Diablo)
2) Play unopened Akai Katana Shin
3) Play tekken vs SF
4) Watch video runs of Diablo 3
2) Not bad
3) SFxJab
4) Play on EU/Asia
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
1) PLay The Witcher II (Ive lost all interest since Diablo)
2) Play unopened Akai Katana Shin
3) Play tekken vs SF
4) Watch video runs of Diablo 3
I'll do a Hazaro:
1) Fuck yes.
2) No
3) No
4) No
5) Go to .1)
2) Play unopened Akai Katana Shin
3) Play tekken vs SF
4) Watch video runs of Diablo 3
I'll do a Hazaro:
1) Fuck yes.
2) No
3) No
4) No
5) Go to .1)
That helps, was worried that I need a 2h to make it work. I still think my gear will be a limitation for now, but I'm definitely going to give it a whirl tonight.
I can take a few hits, but not too many. That should improve.
Thanks for all the input on this.
Anyone ? " dà bōluó - big pineapple cal 3, multi language, asian servers "
That's hilarious and inline with the sort of word play I understand is common in China. Good stuff!
For Hell? The Auction House - assuming it's working after the servers come up.
That helps, was worried that I need a 2h to make it work. I still think my gear will be a limitation for now, but I'm definitely going to give it a whirl tonight.
I can take a few hits, but not too many. That should improve.
Thanks for all the input on this.
I don't have much resistance myself, and it's working out pretty well. As long as you're taking the passive that makes Vitality = Armor, you should be fine for Hell difficulty.
And yeah, it works with a one hander + shield as well. It's best with a two hander however, but obviously you're not doing that in Inferno past Act 1.
Felix Lighter
Member
Ugh. I have the day off. I wasn't aware of the 8 hour maintenance. What a disappointment.
Not even Frozen Orb would be able to save this mess of a game
Frozen orb is in the game. It's called Lightning Ball now, as it no longer does cold damage.
Is this real? They did this since yesterday or it's incoming or someone just made a mock troll nerf of DH?
And you can't skillfully aim it to burst on single targets.
Playing all weekend instead of posting and I'm still on the wall. Hm.
Anyway, got my DH and Wizard to Inferno so now I have three classes Inferno geared and ready. I'm half expecting all three to get destroyed at the same time in an upcoming patch, however. Oh well. DH is basically just glass cannon GF% and Wizard is in full out ridiculous kite mode (~3 Attacks Per Second if I can get a better weapon).
Seems weird that +25% Movement Speed is the cap. I could have gotten closer to 150%
Nether Tentacle is that, basically. It's pretty hilarious at melting some enemies down. It made Inferno Butcher even easier than he normally is :x
Anyway, got my DH and Wizard to Inferno so now I have three classes Inferno geared and ready. I'm half expecting all three to get destroyed at the same time in an upcoming patch, however. Oh well. DH is basically just glass cannon GF% and Wizard is in full out ridiculous kite mode (~3 Attacks Per Second if I can get a better weapon).
Seems weird that +25% Movement Speed is the cap. I could have gotten closer to 150%
Nether Tentacle is that, basically. It's pretty hilarious at melting some enemies down. It made Inferno Butcher even easier than he normally is :x
michaelius
Banned
Ouch at those DH nerfs.
I can understand SS nerf but why also hit Vault which could be nice replacement ?
Hmm maybe i should gear up for maximum crit damage and life steal now because i got no idea how to protect DH now.
I can understand SS nerf but why also hit Vault which could be nice replacement ?
Hmm maybe i should gear up for maximum crit damage and life steal now because i got no idea how to protect DH now.
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
Joke notes.
Life Per Hit is better than Life Steal%, for the record. Life Steal% gets scaled down in Inferno.
For some reason.
Are they serious? I had assumed it was a joke post.
You could try to farm up to adria´s hut in inferno. So you get 2 minibosses that aren´t really to hard and if you don´t go into the cellars you shouldn´t see a rarepack.
Still you need money for that...
FlutterPuffs
Member
Pretty sure it was a joke.
Ah, it is capped at 25% then? I had some buffs that should have put it at 28% but I figured they might have scaled funny.Playing all weekend instead of posting and I'm still on the wall. Hm.
Anyway, got my DH and Wizard to Inferno so now I have three classes Inferno geared and ready. I'm half expecting all three to get destroyed at the same time in an upcoming patch, however. Oh well. DH is basically just glass cannon GF% and Wizard is in full out ridiculous kite mode (~3 Attacks Per Second if I can get a better weapon).
Seems weird that +25% Movement Speed is the cap. I could have gotten closer to 150%
Nether Tentacle is that, basically. It's pretty hilarious at melting some enemies down. It made Inferno Butcher even easier than he normally is :x
Fuck you Blizzard.
I heard NT was even better than Ball, but I'm not 59 yet. Almost.
If you have some Magic Find gear, you can take the Waypoint to the Ruins and check the the Treasure Goblin in the Dark Cellar (it's literally right around the corner). Boring as sin, though, but it takes all of 20 seconds to check and maybe a minute or so to clear if he's there.
So don't or do go into the cellars? And by cellars, you mean the ones on tristram road or something?
+25% from Equipment. I hit +100% with Smokescreen + Tactical which is pretty hilarious. Personally, I'd gear around the 25% Movement as a base for DH/Wizard. 99% of my deaths in Inferno on my DH are when I'm kiting things faster than me. 25% Movement takes care of basically all but Extra Fast enemies.
NT can hit the same enemy multiple times. A full Hatred dump on my DH (~20k base DPS) and it's about half of the Butcher's HP on Inferno? It just straight up kills the bosses on Hell usually. Got the <2m Inferno Butcher kill this way with about a minute to spare.
You could check them but the ones on the way to the Ruins can spawn a rare pack. The goblin in Tristram itself is probably the safest (and best) option for Act 1 farming but it's boring. Besides that, can kill Mira over and over as that takes no time to setup either.
The problem with Inferno Ponies is that...I don't know anyone that can open Inferno Ponies for me lol (or hell ponies for that matter).
(Thanks for the tip about the farm spot Hazaro. Thinking about it, unless the thing spawns by itself in a corner, I'd get slaughtered chasing it anyway. Going to have to see how doable it is)
(Thanks for the tip about the farm spot Hazaro. Thinking about it, unless the thing spawns by itself in a corner, I'd get slaughtered chasing it anyway. Going to have to see how doable it is)
Yeah, I know. It's still better/faster than just NV Buff stack killing the Warden/Butcher, really. They have the same drops as far as I know.
picklecannon
Member
Yeah the goblin isn't really worth it anymore unless you have 3 other people searching for him along with you.
I made it up to A Shattered Crown and kept dying to a northern pack near the 3 dungeons that hold the crown. (These 4 skele dudes throwing fire patches and purple lines)
I did fine with the other rares or minibosses.
Is that short segment more profitable than farming something in hell?
Technosteve
Banned
Wait diablo is down what the fuck
Basileus777
Member
Have they put out patch notes or anything of the sort?
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