Twilight Princess
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the companions, are they useless after normal? i kinda dont want to part with my healbot templar
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Diablo III |OT3| Turn On Elective Mode, Get an Authenticator
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oktarb
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Did I say I was, did the post I quoted even mention Inferno? Nope.
If you like feel free to spend some time and explain your build. Not like you can play right now. Information is always welcome here.
No point in them this time.
arts&crafts
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If its like d2 (which I think it is) than it just increases the chances of getting blue yellow green or orange items. But the stats are random.
I'll gladly take some scraps of gold for repairs alone lol
I can't even understand why him of all people would have some a simple password and no auth.
Baller. PhD
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Pre-Inferno info is no longer needed, thx.
There's literally no reason to not use them.
Well, they'll do stupid things like attack Treasure Goblins when you're not ready but, other than that, no reason to not use them. They get ridiculous returns on their stats (2.5 times the listed amount) so you can push obscene stats on them if you gear them right.
Depends how well they are geared, many people forget to upgrade their gear.
I have switched to enchantress in Inferno as she gives better buffs, slows mobs etc.
Yes, Act 2 is where my group's progress (four people) died. We got to Act 3 when our progress died by "corpse-leaping" our way from the Ancient Waterways quest to Belial. Right after that, Act 3 bent us over.
We needed to spend a full week getting new items to even try and progress legitimately. Even with huge gear upgrades and completely changing character builds, we can't make any progress as a foursome, but as a pair (DH/Monk today) we were moving briskly. It's pretty annoying, since we wanted to do this together as a group of friends.
my Templar is an awesome tank in Hell right now. Just give them awesome gear and they'll survive.
My Skill right now.
Magic Missile With Seaker.
Arcane Orb with Tap the Source
Venom Hydra
Diamond Skin with the Rune that makes it shield for 20k damage.
Teleport with the Rune that makes two Illusions when used (I think the rune is required to break Jail, and the Illusions do distract enemy agrow)
Energy Armor with the rune that gives +40% All Resistance (Making it so you get a Total of +65% Armor and +40% Magic Resist)
Blur, 20% Melee Damage Reduction
Asteral Presence, 20 Arcane Energy and +2 Arcane per second (Mainly to counter the -20 from Energy Armor)
Galvanizing Ward, for the 310 HP Per second
I am using the Templar as my follower, with the following:
Heal (4500 Heal)
Loyalty (Anther 155 HP Regen)
Charge (A two second stun)
Guardian (Anther 4500 heal)
With Force Armor on, I have:
35k HP
12k Damage
6000 Armor
Average of 500 Resistance
14% Dodge
15% Block Chance for 1550-1950
Gives roughly 300k EHP.
Magic Missile With Seaker.
Arcane Orb with Tap the Source
Venom Hydra
Diamond Skin with the Rune that makes it shield for 20k damage.
Teleport with the Rune that makes two Illusions when used (I think the rune is required to break Jail, and the Illusions do distract enemy agrow)
Energy Armor with the rune that gives +40% All Resistance (Making it so you get a Total of +65% Armor and +40% Magic Resist)
Blur, 20% Melee Damage Reduction
Asteral Presence, 20 Arcane Energy and +2 Arcane per second (Mainly to counter the -20 from Energy Armor)
Galvanizing Ward, for the 310 HP Per second
I am using the Templar as my follower, with the following:
Heal (4500 Heal)
Loyalty (Anther 155 HP Regen)
Charge (A two second stun)
Guardian (Anther 4500 heal)
With Force Armor on, I have:
35k HP
12k Damage
6000 Armor
Average of 500 Resistance
14% Dodge
15% Block Chance for 1550-1950
Gives roughly 300k EHP.
Mechanized
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Is Mass Control supposed to turn you into a chicken as well? It has happened to me more than a few times.
I think they're still viable all the way until the end of hell? They should definitely still be of relative use in nightmare.
I'm surprised he didn't have an authenticator especially since he was a big WoW player. I thought the authenticator was basically obligatory in WoW due to there being so many hackers?
perryfarrell
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Worthless, pretty much. Try salvaging, but I'm not sure what they result in. If you can get any hoofs of those ivory drops from 'em, it'll be worth it.
The scaling is so bad for multiplayer. It kind of discourages coop play on inferno.
My friends and I stopped doing 4 player and just team up for boss fights (But I'm currently an act ahead so I'm stuck farming)
oktarb
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I don't support this kind of elitist BS. Many people are still playing pre-inferno and would like help. If you desire a special room to play with your inferno only friends make one. This is the OT where we can and do talk about the game in its entirety.
v0mitg0d
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Last night I went toe-to-toe with Diablo on Inferno and it was the first time I felt really challenged by a boss fight.
Time was ticketing so I called in a friend and together we took him down. Now I'm starting Hell and I think I need a good suggestion for a Witch Doctor on Hell
HALP!
Time was ticketing so I called in a friend and together we took him down. Now I'm starting Hell and I think I need a good suggestion for a Witch Doctor on Hell
HALP!
They are mostly useless for Damage, what you want them for are their abilities though.
Templar can Tank, has a stun, and decent amount of healing. Also has the option for anther heal or additional resource regen.
Entrantress has several disables, and can increases armor/resistance by 15%, and attack speed by 3%.
Scoundrel has Crit Chance Aura.
I don't think highly of the Scoundrel.
Dreams-Visions
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I have approximately the same build. Sub out Tap The Source for Celestial Orb and Astral Presence for Glass Cannon.
37k HP
48K damage
3000 Armor
350 resist
or something like that.
I don't think so, that's kind of funny though, haven't specced her with that.
KKRT#2678
If anyone is on Inferno on EU servers and want to party up, add me please
LOL Athene stream is hilarious now
Some guilds wont let people join without one, or at least be high ranked. After raiding for years, paying a monthly sub, a 1 time fee of like 8-10$ or a free app is something most people are going to do with all the hacking going around.
Edit: I think there's even a guild UI feature where you can restrict non auth accounts.
So yeah it's really weird to me he didn't have one.
cpp_is_king
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If you want to group up I run them like every evening from 9:30 Pacific time on US server for about 3-4 hours. As long as your gear is decent and you can kill skeleton king with no problem it shouldn't be too bad, I do it with a second person and we have probelms with some of the champs sometimes, but never enough that we can't kill something.
your advice is fine. don't worry about it. like Blizz says, only 1.9% players unlocked Inferno.
BigBlackGamer
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A WORTHY OPPONENT >>>>>
Keeps happening to me as a barb. Just pick a different skill. I heard of people dying on HC because of it. lol
Nitpick but it's not Magic Resist. It's all Damage Resistance. Resistances include Physical mitigation just like Armor includes Magical mitigation.
As for the rest, if it works for you, it works. I have close to the same stats but less Resists (~200, need to get them to 315 for the sweet spot of 50% mitigation) and about 20k more DPS and 8k more HP. Act 1 Inferno is still pretty much a joke barring the occasional bad Champ pack and Act 3 was pretty rough with my low DPS :/
To be honest, the returns at >3150 Armor, >315 Resist aren't worth major damage sacrifices for. Especially for a class like Wizard that can just kite away without issue.
My fault? I've never gotten hacked in any other game (and I played WoW and a bunch of other MMOs) or in any way ever. I bought the stupid authenticator after I got hacked, but why should I have to spend $6.50 more plus have more crap on my desk, when something like that isn't required for my bank, brokerage accounts, retail accounts, etc.
Twilight Princess
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yeah, cancel if there's no bid, no one gets screwed. if an item (especially lower level) isn't selling in 5 hours, it's not going to sell in 48. i really wish i could cancel some of my auctions...
Looking at your stuff, you have 4x as much damage as me, but half the EHP. How are you fairing in Act II and up? Act I is a cake walk for me, but Act II seemed to still hit a bit to hard. Maybe a bit slow, but not to hard save for the odd Elite.
It's fine, not everyone is in Inferno. We really should just note levels though. Some builds just don't work anymore come Inferno (and, likewise, some builds at Inferno just don't work earlier due to gear requirements).
Yeah, it's not bad. My Enchantress has like 2k DPS and 50k HP? Wish her Aura was better than 3% Attack Speed but I can't complain too much.
WoW, and now Diablo, are high hacking targets because of the money that can be made from selling gold. The constant battle has been going on for years between blizzard and botters, hackers, gold sellers, etc.
A lot less riskier business than stealing credit cards I'd assume...
Isn't required on Diablo either.
KKRT#2678
If anyone is on Inferno on EU servers and want to party up, add me please
Aww damn you're on EU server, guess I should level my wizard at some point >.>
Anyone know is it possible to have two version of the client installed to one PC, different folder names ? (ie EU and US)
I think if you have spell reflect it can turns you into a chicken as well.
I really hope they patch inferno to be a 1:1 scaling with co-op.
I've been playing almost entirely solo trying to level to catch up to my friends, looking forward to going through Inferno with everyone. With the way it scales though, it sounds like I'll just be stuck soloing inferno more. Why even make this game multiplayer if you are going to discourage playing with other people.
I've been playing almost entirely solo trying to level to catch up to my friends, looking forward to going through Inferno with everyone. With the way it scales though, it sounds like I'll just be stuck soloing inferno more. Why even make this game multiplayer if you are going to discourage playing with other people.
*shrug* Hasn't discouraged me. I've had plenty of co op sessions since the game came out.
Yeah, but he has the worst Utility IMO. He has a slow, a blind (Which only stops physical attacks), and Crit Bonuses. If you want Damage he is the best though.
Lol I don't follow Athene at all, and never realized until I saw your video that Athene is this same douche bag http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLYrFR9RT_U
Inferno is the only time when it's rough. And, even then, it's really just at 3-4 players with "good" gear. At "this stuff is trivial" gear, 4 player Inferno isn't that bad.
Crit bonus is pretty good utility for certain classes. Though, Enchantress +Armor is just too good in the current state of Inferno.
UnblessedSoul
Member
Mobile app version is free, if you have a wow account you are linked through your email, which means it's even easier for you to get hacked, I know Blizz should make it standard and their security is lacking but the tools are there, so why wouldn't you use them
Scaling plus a lack of obvious inter-class synergies is the issue. Diablo II had clear synergies to exploit, such as the D2X launch hardcore ladder busting Sorc/Necro/Pally trio (those were the days). Of course, that was an extreme example, but even nerfed it still made for a fun time to have distinct roles that multiplied each player's effectiveness.
Now, it's just characters playing alongside other characters with no real teamwork beyond the occasional Generic Buff from the Monk.
Vast majority are pre-inferno. On that Blizzard blog update they said something like 1% of accounts have entered Inferno as of that date. I mean wow.
Not everyone has a smartphone, you know.
Forsaken82
Member
You are right, it isn't, but the way blizzard PR responds to these attacks make it sound like it should be required. Their typical response after a hacking is something along the lines of "We will restore your account after you meet the security changes including enabling an authenticator" and not to mention, typical responses to such cases on the forums have been "You didn't have an authenticator so it was your own fault". That in itself is an admission of necessity.
At this point, it really should be a required item and a physical authenticator should ship with every boxed version of the game.
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