They have multiple abilities like my screenshot above. People just quit because they get raped. It's not like you can kite whatsoever against them with a melee.
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Diablo III |OT4| Antiques Roadshow: Sanctuary Edition
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They have multiple abilities like my screenshot above. People just quit because they get raped. It's not like you can kite whatsoever against them with a melee.
Bog
Junior Ace
Anyone know what this is worth? Probably the best item i have found so far.
If Int was Dex, a ton. As it stands, probably still a couple million.
I don't see a screenshot, but I've kited them before. Usually I duo with a wizard (I'm a monk) and I don't remember ever getting snagged on those guys. I think once we did when there were a bunch of witches (and possible elite witches) around that do that terrible half armor debuff, but other than that I can't remember. My non duos did fine, too, though most of the time that's me and a barb or me and another monk with 2 DPS and the stacking abilities really helps there. I dunno, the place that I see people quitting for rape is near the end of the act against those incinerators, never right at the beginning.
Sax Russel
Banned
What's better than finding a trash legendary? Finding a good legendary with trash rolls, woooooooooooooo
If you could sell those in the AH, their goal of making gold matter would be completely and utterly achieved, haha.http://www.4mul8.net/up/files/2118_sjmau/knowthatfeel.jpg
I know that feel bro.
I know that feel bro.
I have a feeling that's how my bank will end up.
I have identified far too many and have gotten only crap, so I may just horde the rest.
That's no problem for me. The only affixes that I hate on my barb are shielding, nightmarish, and jailer.
Nightmarish is so annoying on ranged mobs. Knockback as well. I wish actual proximity to the mob would have a chance to proc that, not their projectiles. Mortar Knockback/Nightmarish is especially stupid. Get knocked back in range of mortars, get hit by mortars and knocked back even further.
Fenderputty
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What are you monks running spec wise to take out ghom?? I have 750 resist / 1300 loh / 2.2 APS. His farts just shred my life up.
Lacuni Prowlers aren't worth shit anymore anyway
Yeah my WotB was on CD so I was just in fear lock non stop until it finished. Most ridiculous "fight" ever
The ones I hate on my monk are any ranged (and especially witches) that are plagued (or sometimes molten), shielding, and paired up with something like jailer. If it's jailer and frozen or something, then it's just a death trap. Basically if I'm not hitting stuff my health is dropping if I'm sitting in plagued, and if they have 2 ways of making me not hit stuff (like shielding and jailer or jailer and frozen or whatever combination will do), then I'm screwed.
Illusionist is also probably my least favorite single affix in and of itself. It usually means I get near an enrage timer.
I even thought that the Promise of Glory rolled awesomely, 170 str. Still not even worth selling.
It depends on the act for me... in act 1 and 2 I prefer to use leap since there aren't enough mobs to sustain infinite WotB. In a3 and 4 I use WotB instead of leap since there are so many mobs and I need the extra crit/movement speed/attack speed/dodge.
Those kind of games play better in "bursts". I mean, I have a hard time seeing anyone play hundred of hours monthly for the next few years.
UnluckyKate
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Anyone know what this is worth? Probably the best item i have found so far.
My wiz use bow and xbow because it's way better (and usually cheaper) then any other same stats item. Also, wiz with Xbow is much more cooler than wiz with two hand mace or sword or whatever
Add Arcane Enchanted to the mix and you have a winning combo
Nah then you'd just die. The nightmare/mortar/waller was basically 2 minutes of me getting fearlocked until WotB came off CD. They couldn't kill me but I also couldn't do anything because they had mortar range at all distances and I'd instantly get feared on hit.
Yeah, I guess. I have 250 hours with my barb, I've been playing since day 1 a few hours every day. It's just not fun anymore, farming items is easy but really boring now, when a month ago was hard and fun.
Also I couldn't care less about PvP, I hope Blizzard add something else to keep us hooked. I don't know what that else could be, haven't played D1/D2 so I can't really compare D3 to those games in terms of endgame stuff
That was my combo earlier. I think some affixes should be mutually exclusive.
I hope they fix the fear bug soon
I started running pacifism on my monk for combos where there is nightmarish and some DoT/damage like desecrator/molten/arcane. With health regen I basically get feared and can run through all that stuff taking no damage and actually heal while I'm feared. It was my solution to having serenity on CD. When a shitload of arcane sentries get dropped down I actually hope that I get feared so I can run through them with increased DR.
Maybe when they find out players are benefiting from fearlock they'll fix it :lol
Nightmare fearlock is such horse crap.
When mobs like those tall lanky things in Zoltun Kulles area get them, you can get cheesed into a death. Those mobs can be the type that throw the ice orbs that slow you, the poison ones, or the fire ones that throw fire patches on the ground near you.
If its a fire patch that happens to be an elite, they will throw fire patches beneath you, and each tick has a chance to fear. I had one hit me, fear me into a corner, while feared I was boxed in by normal mobs in the area, they then repeatedly threw patches of fire underneath me in that corner, I was taking multiple strikes per second, enough to keep me perma-feared for over 18 seconds while I slowly died, at no point was there a gap where I actually had control and could leap out of the corner or kill the mobs boxing me in.
Put some goddamn diminishing returns on that crap man....
When mobs like those tall lanky things in Zoltun Kulles area get them, you can get cheesed into a death. Those mobs can be the type that throw the ice orbs that slow you, the poison ones, or the fire ones that throw fire patches on the ground near you.
If its a fire patch that happens to be an elite, they will throw fire patches beneath you, and each tick has a chance to fear. I had one hit me, fear me into a corner, while feared I was boxed in by normal mobs in the area, they then repeatedly threw patches of fire underneath me in that corner, I was taking multiple strikes per second, enough to keep me perma-feared for over 18 seconds while I slowly died, at no point was there a gap where I actually had control and could leap out of the corner or kill the mobs boxing me in.
Put some goddamn diminishing returns on that crap man....
cpp_is_king
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Once i had 2 packs at the same time. One was horde, both were nightmarish. One was invulnerable minions. Good times
cpp_is_king
Member
I used to say that too. Now it will probably never go back on my bar
man, shit just melts tho. with that and marauders rage, my dps goes up to like 70k. butcher dies in under 30 seconds. warden dies in under 5. it's awesome
It's fairly obvious that the elites have been intentionally stealth buffed and they're trying to gauge reaction to it, not based on forum threads but actual player count numbers and in-game statistics. So now that mob normal damage has been lowered but elites are still crazy tough, players with mid-tier Inferno gear will be able to beat Diablo with a bunch of map reloads in order to get past levels and elites but they still need to farm high-end gear (read: buy stuff in the RMAH) in order to be able to reliably farm.
I had an item on rmah show a bid then nothing, I still got my $$ though.
I thought it was the elemental damage that got stealth buffed.
What fear bug?
I like enemies with Mortar Nightmarish. It makes CC reduction stat not useless.
I think what actually got buffed is the proc rate of elite skills which would explain why non-damage skills like waller, frozen and nightmare are getting spammed like crazy. For stuff like fire chains and arcane sentry, when you're being hit by them you're actually getting hit multiple times so if the trigger rate has been say doubled then their damage has also been doubled.
I kind of doubt it's intentional, and it isn't just the elites. I think it's the elemental damage. Go to the keep in Act 3 and stand on one of those fire gates. Did you last more than a second? Yeah.... Those things hurt a lot more than they should and a lot more than they did.
elrechazado
Banned
witch doctor here with a weapon question:
I currently have an 800 dps one hander:
306-835 damage
1.4 speed
150 int
are the relevant stats
would the following be a good upgrade? I'm unclear on how important the int is
615-1021
1.2 speed
40 int
I currently have an 800 dps one hander:
306-835 damage
1.4 speed
150 int
are the relevant stats
would the following be a good upgrade? I'm unclear on how important the int is
615-1021
1.2 speed
40 int
With the drop buff.
Seems kinda fair. Elites drop more but hit harder.
soxinthebox
Member
I'd like to know this too. I'm playing a WD with 25k damage, 25k health, ~450 AR and feel like I'm walking on the edge the whole time.
My rings suck and I need to replace my chest, belt, pants and boots so I have a lot of wiggle room to play with.
I need to invest in some crit %, crit damage and attack speed but I don't really know which will give me the most bang for buck at this stage. Been focusing on Int and AR so I think
/hope
Edit: should mention I usually group with two monks so my damage needs more priority than my health.
I guess. I mean I can get through them still, so it doesn't bother me a ton. The weird things like constructs and the grates in the keep doing way more than they realistically should do bother me a bit, though. But the thing is that they aren't admitting it at all. On the forums they said they'd check over things but they didn't make those changes at all. My personal theory is something happened when they changed the item levels of the elite drops they somehow changed the monster levels or something too, but I don't really know much of anything.
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