Finished Nightmare difficulty on my barbarian. Played through normal with a friend, then nightmare with some random groups. It was okay for the most part, and my first Diablo game, but it's making me raise an eyebrow at the love the franchise got. I don't think Diablo 3 is special in any way/shape/form, it's just a decent dungeon crawler. And act 2 wasn't fun in the slightest.
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To be honest, there is a lot wrong with D3. It's also severely lacking content. D2 had several patches and one big expansion.
Lost Fragment
Obsessed with 4chan
Yesterday was a good day.
I don't know why I'm getting all this super-good DH gear all of a sudden. Probably because I don't play DH.
I don't know why I'm getting all this super-good DH gear all of a sudden. Probably because I don't play DH.
Blast Processing
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Anyone have a handy formula for what price to list something for to get x price after the 15% fee? Is it like 119% of your desired amount?
Sorry, I blame the American school system.
Sorry, I blame the American school system.
Slayer-33
Liverpool-2
Yesterday was a good day.
I don't know why I'm getting all this super-good DH gear all of a sudden. Probably because I don't play DH.
What are you farming Jebus lol...
Wut?
Buyout price -minus 15% on a calculator :lol
Where is that one?
Looks like the Road to Alcarnus or whatever waypoint goblin. The one just before Magdha.
Slayer-33
Liverpool-2
Fuck me. I just lost a 900 damage weaponnow I have to spend half my money to replace it.
lol wat
picklecannon
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http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/demon-hunter#aeYdVX!Yea!baZbbZ
Probably something like that. I didn't actually play my DH until it was level 60 (lol kulle) but I'd imagine something like that is good enough. Chakrams are OP at that level.
EDIT: Forgot runes.
It sounded more like "I can't farm because drops won't let me progress" which is pretty much false. You can farm equipment in Act 1 to make progress into Act 2. It takes a long time though and, yes, the equipment will just be outclassed by ilvl 62 and 63 drops later which I suppose isn't what people want from farming for so long (e.g., should be close to best in slot rather than best until next Act).
The difficulty curve and "loot never ever drops impossible" issues are a little blown out of proportion, personally.
michaelius
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Sentry + rain of arrows with beasts dropping bombs + companion giving hatred+ elemental arrow with frost rune or the machinegun like shooting with cost reducing rune.
Sorry can't remember names right now
picklecannon
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What class are you? Maybe team up with somebody else as that gives you a lot more group buffs, and it doesn't make the mobs any harder now.
I picked up a good item then swapped it to see my stats. I must have accidently right clicked at a vendor and sold my other weapon. When I went to the AH to sell the other weapon I realized I fucked up. I couldn't buy it back. I probaby got 1500 for a 500k weapon lol
michaelius
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I pretty much got all my gear for progressing into Act 2 from Act 1. Most of the time was spent farming Act 1 to gather gold to purchase items from the AH to BEAT Act 2. Now I farm goblin spots in Act 2 in order to acquire gear for Act 3 although it's mostly just getting good rares to sell to the AH to buy Act 3+ gear from AH. I got a few upgrades from Act 2 too like a nice 3 socket vest with great dex, vit, armor and all resistance. I actually took a break from the game this weekend to watch ECT and some other stuff but starting Monday I am back into goblin farm mode.
And I agree, for as much as people talk about the "wall" in Act 2 (which no lie, is pretty fucking steep) the wall for Act 3 is pretty steep too. Act 2 has a bigger resistance/defensive gear check from Act 1 but Act 3 is a substantial DPS check. Also Soul Rippers LULZ!
And I agree, for as much as people talk about the "wall" in Act 2 (which no lie, is pretty fucking steep) the wall for Act 3 is pretty steep too. Act 2 has a bigger resistance/defensive gear check from Act 1 but Act 3 is a substantial DPS check. Also Soul Rippers LULZ!
The locales are bad and feel to repetitive for how short the 4 acts are. Not enough variance. We shouldn't be descending through like 6 dark spirally areas on the way to Azmodan.
Act 1 handled this much better... you would be in a little fiery dungeon place, then get out of it and end up outdoors, then on to a different area that was visually different. Just look at it:
The cathedral themed areas to start:
to the drowned Temple Area with all the ghosts:
to the burning town of Wortham:
to an Outdoor area in the Highlands:
to the Halls of Agony with sort of a fire theme:
to the Highlands Passage with the thunderstorm:
to the Cursed Hold with all of the Jail Cells and the Jailer:
Playing through that felt great. I never got the feeling like I do in like Act 3 or sometimes Act II where I'm like "Fuck, another randomized area with this same theme and layout...."
Act 1 is the best Act IMO. So much more polished than the rest, its a shame that I won't be able to do my end game farming in it because its the first Act of the game.
Raising your Armor and Resist would be better than just stacking pure Resist. The goal for gearing in Inferno is getting your Resists to being the same mitigation as your Armor (so Resistances = Armor / 10). After that, stacking just Resists is a terrible decision for maximizing the mitigation bonus you can get per slot since it'll scale better with higher Armor AND Resist rather than just one of the two.
Act 2 has way more diversity and a much darker atmosphere. Desert, sewers, gore town, oasis, desolate land, timeless archives and so on. I loved every bit of it.
Act 3 is an all out war ragging around you. Act IV felt too similar but the tension was there. I mean, you're supposed to be able to speed clear the game in 3 hours and a half, you can't have a whole lot of "diversity" to it.
I have 9.5k armor and 600ish resist right now, so this is prety much what I'm trying to do.
Stats are :
9.5k armor
7% dodge
30% block
38k hp
23k dps
600ish resists
The life of a barbarian in inferno
I'm monk.
I suppose I'll have to try and find someone, preferably another monk so we could run healing and evasion mantras. But really I'm just surprised again at how big of a leap it is. I was tanking some pretty hard hitting elites in act 2, and now I joined about 5 games and got slaughtered right out the gate.
Stats are :
9.5k armor
7% dodge
30% block
38k hp
23k dps
600ish resists
The life of a barbarian in inferno
You should be able to make it through a2 with those stats. It might be a problem with your skill build/playstyle more than anything. I'd probably try to get another 30 dex to get dodge to 10% but with 9.5k/6k you should be able to progress through Oasis. I did that section with 7k/700 I think.
It's called weekend
This makes me rage like the hulk. Single player game with lag, I usually just stop playing.
What's your Life on Hit? That'll probably be the more important upgrade realistically. Diablo 3 tanking is less sheer brute force mitigation but mitigating enough that your healing keeps you alive until your DPS kills it.
Current build is :
1 : Furious Charge (with heals on hit)
2 : Revenge (with 30% rune)
3 : Quake (with lower cooldown/free cast rune)
4 : WOTB with 100% damage buff
Left click : Frenzy + axe throwing rune
Right click : Warcry + resist rune.
What should I change?
That's the other problem, I have about 100 LoH (from the amulet). Weapon upgrades or even downgrades with LoH or a socket to put a gem in them are out of reach right now (I have 900k gold). So let's forget about amulets/rings with those for now.
Hence back to farming gold, I guess I should need about 3-4 million gold to buy the rings/amulets that would satisfy those needs (attack% increase/LoH/All res for max LoH efficiency)
I'm like level 31 just starting off NM as my DH, but some of this build I have questions about.
Mainly, why chakrams over elemental arrow? Electric version of ele arrow seems so broken lol.
Why tactical advantage as a third trait? Vengeance seems more appropriate.
Isn't shadow power better than smoke screen? You already have vault to get out of shitty situation, might as well have the other to restore the health quickly.
The rest of it I agree with for sure, but just curious if you can explain why your choices are better than what I have.
picklecannon
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I'm like level 31 just starting off NM as my DH, but some of this build I have questions about.
Mainly, why chakrams over elemental arrow? Electric version of ele arrow seems so broken lol.
Why tactical advantage as a third trait? Vengeance seems more appropriate.
Isn't shadow power better than smoke screen? You already have vault to get out of shitty situation, might as well have the other to restore the health quickly.
The rest of it I agree with for sure, but just curious if you can explain why your choices are better than what I have.
I honestly don't know anything about a DH in his situation but that's the build I use to do siegebreaker runs in inferno (with some runes switched around to higher level ones and NT elemental arrows instead of chakram). As for chakrams I just remember my friend using them when I was leveling in nightmare on my WD and they just chewed through everything. This was on day 1 or 2 as well so there wasn't any twinking going on.
Why tactical advantage as a third trait? Vengeance seems more appropriate.
Isn't shadow power better than smoke screen? You already have vault to get out of shitty situation, might as well have the other to restore the health quickly.
The rest of it I agree with for sure, but just curious if you can explain why your choices are better than what I have.
Nightmare/Hell easy mode, might as well move through the boredom faster :x
As for Shadow Power, it's underrated vs "I hit Smokescreen and take no damage." SP/Gloom is rather useful for building towards non-glass cannon DH setups but a lot of people just build DHs to kill things before getting hit becomes relevant (and/or just die a lot and respawn rush things).
The Life Steal% reduction in Inferno is also blown a bit out of proportion. I mean, it's a little excessive (33% would be easier to deal with) but it must happen at the damage output you can reach. 3% Life Steal on a weapon when you can hit for 50k+ is 1500 Life on Hit, for instance. And it scales better than Life on Hit does for multi-target skills. Hopefully it gets tweaked a bit so the transition from Life on Hit to Life Steal% happens more; LS% is the better stat at end-game Inferno.
Nether Tentacles with Shadow Power still nets you ~8% Life Steal in Inferno so it's not exactly useless.
Er, I'd use Ball Lightning over Chakrams. Easier to fire and aim and better damage for Hatred used. It's also a far more mobile and spammable skill.
BigJonsson
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w00t
The item I bought and relisted sold, made a decent profit lol
The item I bought and relisted sold, made a decent profit lol
This is how you make money in Diablo. For realsies.
BigJonsson
Member
krameriffic
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This is so true. It's weird to call a Blizzard game frontloaded, but this one really was. Act 2 basically had deserts, sewers and those weird ruins that were apparently trying to emulate the Arcane Sanctuary from D2. Act 3 was ramparts, keep depths, a snowy field and the fiery mountain. Then act 4 was just sad.
After AH fee I only made 75k, didn't want to take too much of a risk
Yep, but if you find 5 of those sorts of modest gains (let's call it $100K per, $500K total net) in 15 minutes (given the per-item profit is so small, it's quite easy), you've just done the equivalent of possibly hours of Butcher runs!
I snared a 50K item yesterday afternoon that made me say "welp, not playing D3 today". Sold overnight for 5m gross.
amulet and ring are probably the most profitable. But it's also the hardest.
Pants, chest, glove and bracers could work.
It's best to focus on one item for a few minutes regardless of what item it is.
cpp_is_king
Member
Just got the Brigand's Clasp here for 1m on the AH. Pretty sure that was a ridiculous steal. I lose a small amount of armor (because of STR>Armor conversion and because of VIT>Armor Conversion for Barb), but the Attack speed gives me about 20% additional life per second after I do the conversion between hits / second and LoH, and combined with the dps it seems like a no brainer
From the official Forums:
Lost 231 hours due to a major bug
I actually watched the video in 720p a few times, this guy has a legit case here of the game actually bugging out and fucking him over. He gets his 231 hour Mage killed in Inferno by invisible dune stingers from wasps in Act II. I have said it before, but anyone playing Hardcore is clinically certifiable.
Lost 231 hours due to a major bug
I actually watched the video in 720p a few times, this guy has a legit case here of the game actually bugging out and fucking him over. He gets his 231 hour Mage killed in Inferno by invisible dune stingers from wasps in Act II. I have said it before, but anyone playing Hardcore is clinically certifiable.
neoism
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