I've got nothing against Asian players hopping over to the US servers, which is why I said blame Blizzard for taking down servers during gaming prime-time for Asian players.
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I've got nothing against Asian players hopping over to the US servers, which is why I said blame Blizzard for taking down servers during gaming prime-time for Asian players.
When did that start?
edit: If "duping" implies what the above poster wrote, then I was aware of it. At least it's not another fuck up by blizzard.
So finally decided to switch from my Attack Speed Wizard build to something more Crit and Attack Speed focused. I have pretty ridiculous defensive stats (60k HP, 6k buffed armor, 700 buffed Resists) so, oddly, Diamond Skin is super useful again. And Critical Mass with Spectral Blades spam is kind of fun with Wave of Force going as well.
Oh Wizards. You melee so well.
Ah, just those. Thought we had something major on our hands.
Oh Wizards. You melee so well.
Ah, just those. Thought we had something major on our hands.
maybe try playing nightmare with a group?
Playing a monk on infero and just went into ACT2. Holy balls....I don't last 2 seconds.
What should I be shooting for on resists, dps, armor before I attempt that act again? Can someone give me some comparisons on stats you used?
~30k HP, 18k buffed DPS (~10k unbuffed), 4k Armor, 400 Resists was more-or-less fine for Dual Wielding it. Guardian's Path and focusing on Evasion to get to ~65-70% buffed Evasion. ~500 Life on Hit and ~120 Life per Spirit Spent.
FlutterPuffs
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It's fun, with the right people.
Try having you and your friends playing while chatting on mumble. It's a great way to play the game.
Quick glance and what immediately popped out was the fact that you had 1k Intelligence, yet only 750 or so damage. That's extremely low and probably means you're using a weapon that has really shitty DPS for your level. Your defenses and health are more than enough for NM, so I would just go to the AH and pick up a decent weapon upgrade and that alone should help you through.
Any reason you do not want to resort to AH? Is it solely to play the game using farmed gear? Cause if it's a monetary issue, items that are sub-60 usually go for pennies. Literally like 2-3k for a good weapon upgrade at your level.
I blame mumble for my goblin farming addiction.
Playing a monk on infero and just went into ACT2. Holy balls....I don't last 2 seconds.
What should I be shooting for on resists, dps, armor before I attempt that act again? Can someone give me some comparisons on stats you used?
Killed Belial with 750 Res (unbuffed), 5000k armour (unbuffed) and 15k DPS. Certain elite mobs were still brick walls for me, but that's a comfortable level of stats to move through the Act.
Oh I also had 600+ LoH which made a huge difference. I got lucky and scored an amulet and a ring for less than 1.2mil combined to get that. No way could I afford the weapons.
I just bought two decent Life per Spirit Spent Weapons that had sockets. Star Amethysts are an investment, sure, but having two of them helps a lot for the +600 Life on Hit. Or just stop at Radiants for the almost +200 each.
I usually just redo the quests on Act3 up to the end of rasing all the catapults and restart.
I have been using a socketed purple +25 hp per hit gem but I guess I'm probably getting to the level (or well past it really) where it'd make more sense to focus on adding damage over it since that's such a drop in the bucket health wise. I'll swap that out this evening.
I spent a good chunk of change on getting some lvl 38 weapons when I hit that so my weapon is pretty current.. it's base DPS is like 62 but we'll see how much it increases with a red gem instead.
KittenMaster
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Blue Succubi w/ Illusionist + Plagued = Bullet hell gameplay
Is there no in-game vc!?
The_Darkest_Red
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Interesting, maybe my decision to ditch Guardian's Path and pick up a shield wasn't the best one after all. I figured it would be a necessity in Inferno but now I'm thinking that might not be the case.
Right now my monk has about 30k HP, 12k DPS (What buff do you use to get up to 18k? I get to about 14k with Blazing Wrath.), and 400 on my resists with Time of Need. My life on hit is just under 500 as well. As of right now I can progress slowly in Act II but there are definitely some elites that I don't stand a chance against. Of course, things could be a little different for me since I've been playing with at least 2 other players lately.
So anyway I'm wondering if I should go back to dual-wielding with Guardian's Path since my evasion chance is only about 30% right now. I'd probably have to spend a good 500k on a weapon to test the differences, though. Decisions, decisions...
Last Baron
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My first set piece would be something I can't even use.
Everyone should use Dolby Axon. So good.
fastford58
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lol Iskatu
That fight was practically made for archon.
It's a decent place for wizard xp farming. 25.6k xp nightmare in about 35-45 second runs if you can get really efficient about it. It is my go to now that ZK is nerfed.
Unconditional
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I'm reaching the point where I need to upgrade my weapon also. ~900DPS 2.7%life steal is not cutting it in A3. I really want to try life steal supplemented by LpSS and LoH. I know like steal isn't as good as LoH right now but it has potential at the higher damage ranges. Plus a nerf to LoH wouldn't affect me as hard if I split my forms of healing. A dream weapon would be ~1200DPS +atk speed, LpSS, life steal, and a socket. Any dex or vit is a plus. The socket would get a amethyst. Too bad weapons cost so much. My 400k bank roll won't support anything soon.
I was tanking A3 with a barb at ~400 resist unbuffed (600 buffed), ~6k armor(buffed), 37k life, 14k DPS. I was surviving pretty well for the most part. We got from beginning of A3 to siegebreaker but it got too heavy near the end. It was pretty rough going through some champs but we made it. I've since gotten to ~600 resist unbuffed, ~6k unbuffed, 35k life, 14k DPS. I'm sure a good weapon will help me survive better since my LoH is low as well as my LpSS. I'm not running much LpSS, maybe about 20, and LoH is < 200. I have to use Transcedence. If I had +120 LpSS in equipment I could switch to another passive like Resolve. So much to try and so little money to do it with. Monk Life.
Is it worth 2 MIL ?
I guess that's about right.
Bought mine last saturday with 560 armor, less str, same vit, and socket for 1.4M
FlutterPuffs
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Yeah, it makes the farming just fly by doesn't it?
....Oh my god even after playing the game for more than 100 hours I actually don't know. Is there?
The_Darkest_Red
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You got that right.
The end game Barbarian looks absolutely stupid, like something from the future. Ive been loving my Barb since he was pretty effective in Hell with some cool looking bone armor...but now that Im in Inferno I need to upgrade and the armor design choices are either look like a knight in full plate or look like an HR Giger creature.
Where's the cool barbarian-esque level 60 armor?
Where's the cool barbarian-esque level 60 armor?
Blinding Flash > Faith in the Light is the other damage buff. Granted, counting it for my DPS is cheating as it's 3s but it lends itself well to Flash -> blow all my Spirit moments.
Also, Evasion is a bit complicated:
Chance to be Hit = (1 - DEX Dodge%) * (1 - Mantra%) * (1 - Guardian's Path%) * (1 - Lightning Flash%) * (1 - Others I forgot%)
Or basically:
(1 - 30%) * (1 - 30%) * (1 - 15%) * (1 - 16%) = (.7) * (.7) * (.85) * (.84) = 35% Chance to be Hit (65% Evasion). Cyclone Strike with Wall of Wind should get you to ~28% Chance to be Hit (72% Evasion) but it's also Cyclone Strike and you'd rather have some damage output there I'd imagine.
Essentially, Monk design is more tailored towards moderate mitigation (to the point of surviving a few hits in a row) and then Evasion to spread those hits out. Life on Hit and spending Spirit will be your ways of healing back to full. The goal isn't to mitigate everything to nothing but to have the survival for a few hits and the recovery to heal back to full fast. You still want that nice healthy balance to maximize your survival; you're not relying on Evasion entirely so you do still want good Armor/Resists.
It also helps that +Life on Hit when Dual Wielding works for both weapons. Makes getting really high Life on Hit possible, especially if you can get them on two good weapons too.
There is not.
Yeah I found even at 262 LoH it was pretty easy (Wizard Melee). I imagine it's something that will be nerfed. Standing in the middle of champion packs not dying at all, and being a squishy class, probably won't go unnoticed (I hope it doesn't, though).
Spectral Blades > Healing Blade is pretty fun. It's also fun to have Mirror Image > Mirror Mimics and Wave of Force > Exploding Wave going. So much chaos. Been toying with this build and it's been good stuff. Need to get a new weapon with +Crit Damage and a Socket and get my base Crit to 30%. Should be fun.
Also, probably need to drop Magic Weapon for Hydra. Just better damage in the end, I'd imagine.
fizzelopeguss
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about 50 rares today and salvaged pretty much all of them, got a belt i sold for 750k and that's it really. 
Ok, I'm having serious problems in the Keep's cellars in Act 3.
I have a total of 3,5 mln saved up and want to spend it on something to boost my performance but I have totally no idea what I should buy.
Here's my build, stats and items, hope I can get some good advice here...
I have a total of 3,5 mln saved up and want to spend it on something to boost my performance but I have totally no idea what I should buy.
Here's my build, stats and items, hope I can get some good advice here...
Only, at least for me, hit detection is a lot worse dan in bullet hell shooters :/
1H/Off-Hand would probably just ultimately be better damage. You can get a good 100-300 Damage Off-Hand with some stats and a faster MH. The Attack Speed build isn't really suited for 2H (as evidenced by all your IAS and only getting to 1.6 APS, about 1 whole APS lower than what I'd recommend for the Piercing Orb/Hydra/Blizzard build).
You'd probably get better mileage out of a Seeker Missile + Arcane Orb + Arcane Hydra build with Temporal Flux.
As for gear itself, look for some +All Resist on your Shoulders and probably Boots as well; if need be, you can settle for just good +Physical. Blue Ring/Amulet can be the same but with +Armor as it's cheaper (alternatively, +100-ish STR if it's available and cheaper), though IAS% still carries a premium that my hurt your wallet.
Edit: Just to clarify, +100 Armor on an Amulet for 1M vs a +100 STR Amulet for 300k is the same thing Armor wise so take whichever is cheaper if the INT/VIT/Other Stats are good enough.
Ideally, you should be able to get to ~3500 Armor and 400+ Resists and Energy Armor > Prismatic Armor will be a better option vs Force Armor. If need be, run Enchantress as your Follower for +15% more Armor.
Fenderputty
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I hit act II last week. Got worked and then decided best to farm more. I've done so and upped my gear.
29.5K HP
15K buffed DPS w/ 12K unbuffed ( How are you buffing so much)
980 LOH buffed with 680 unbuffed
2.2 APS w/ Shield as I'm not duel wielding
540 resists
80 LPSS
4.5K armor
I use:
FOT > Thunderclap
Crippling Wave > Concussion
Mantra Healing > boon
Breath of Heaven > Blazing Wrath
Lashing Tail Kick > Sweeping Armada
Transendence, Sieze the Initiative, One with Everything
With my current set up, I'm handeling grays fine in Act II. Elites are a different story though. I feel like my armor/resists aren't hight enough and that even with 900+ LOH, I don't genderate enough life.
I don't know how much my dodge is off the top of my head. I haven't been using that kind of a build to this point.
I was just planning on getting my armor and resists up more. My first elite pack I hit was molten, shielded, arcane, and that thing where they lock you up. Maybe not a good judge of my capabilities?
Unconditional
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Shielding is a pain to get through. you are about where you need to be to get through A2. My build for act 2 was:
Deadly Reach -> Armor buff rune
Blinding Flash -> Damage Buff rune
Sweeping Wind -> Blade Storm
Mantra of Evasion -> Armor buff rune
Serenity?(3 second Immune Skill; Can't remember what its called) -> Healing rune
Healing -> Damage buff rune.
Sorry, at work and I can't remember the names of all the skills.
Deadly Reach will give you some space when attacking pesky plague, molten mobs. Blinding Flash and immune skill gives you time to straight DPS. You just have to move around big damage moves and you should be fine. You might have to skip a couple of bad champ spawns.
The damage buffs will spike your damage up to about 20k-30k for 3-15 secs when you use blinding flash or healing skill. That's when you want to get in to do some damage.
I use about the same build for A3 with decent success. It will be better once I upgrade my weapon.
fizzelopeguss
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best bracer for wizards/DH's imo.
There was always a 5 min window to cancel. Should have been a timer on your button reflecting that.
Well, crafting pages, gems, mats, etc. can be taken down whenever. It's just items that have the 5 minute window.
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