That post says that crit is OK because it doesn't limit build diversity in the same way that IAS did (basically IAS was so good that it almost forced people to gear AND spec a certain way).
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Diablo III |OT4| Antiques Roadshow: Sanctuary Edition
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So, are there any lower-level legendaries in this game, after all the patching? I got a couple of (useless) ones within a week of starting the game, but nothing in, say, the last 6-7 weeks. Do you need to have some ridiculous level of MF in order to even think about getting one? Or am I just not lucky enough with the item rolls.
Oh, and by "lower level", I actually mean less than 60. I have a Monk 51 (Act 1, Hell) and a Barb 44 (about to complete Act 2 NM if I would stop being STUPID when fighting Belial), so I was wondering if I might stumble upon an orange item anytime soon.
Oh, and by "lower level", I actually mean less than 60. I have a Monk 51 (Act 1, Hell) and a Barb 44 (about to complete Act 2 NM if I would stop being STUPID when fighting Belial), so I was wondering if I might stumble upon an orange item anytime soon.
Crit is the same though. It forces crit chance + crit damage on any and all pieces that it can be found on. Their argument is nuts.
They should watch some streams some time. Get your crit chance to 40%, crit damage around 100% extra, and suddenly you can crit bosses dead in seconds.
It's the spec that is the issue though, clearly the crit combination is viable for enough builds that it's not an issue.
You can get crit chance to 60%+, Crit Damage to 400%+ and crit everything in seconds. How are they going to keep it as is for PvP is beyond me. (I think they'll cap it around that time tbh).
You still don't understand what he is saying. He is saying that IAS, for instance, made resource using skills much worse because IAS means you will just burn through resources faster and then your main damage dealer will be your signature attacks. For instance high IAS makes skills like disintegrate worthless. IAS didn't just increase your dps by more than anything else, but limited build diversity. Killing things fast isn't a problem.
As for forcing crit+critdmg on "any and all pieces", for example rings can still get 9% ias which generally speaking gives more dps than 34% crit dmg. In my opinion the only minor problem with critdmg is that socket+critdmg on a _weapon_ specifically is a bit too strong.
Fenderputty
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They should just buff IAS again now that Crit is the new thing. I would imagine a more diverse set of build that way.
However ... I think you're correct in that they'll eventually cap it and nerf both.
TheDancingWatermelon
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I know Barbs can clear Inferno with a relatively cheap gearset, but how about some of the other classes? I'm really interested in Monk or Witch Doctor, but I have no idea the cost of admission if you will for a decent inferno set for those two.
Fenderputty
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I havne't started playing with the numbers yet, but wouldn't stacking crit chance bring up your effectiveness for crti damage?
9% IAS gives more damage than 34% crit, but is that true regardless of your level of crit chance?
Honestly, I have no idea. Just saying that the real step 1 in the money making profit scheme is to make sure that the market is actually moving before you jump in.
Yeah, I think people are overlooking the fact that IAS% was used in certain builds and Crit Damage/Crit Chance functions in every build. IAS% was a limiting factor and Crit was not. Wizards completely ignored spending Arcane with IAS% builds because they didn't scale with IAS% at all. WDs were meant to be the IAS% scaling class, hence the budgeted Resource Regen to try and make a balance (and why Crit didn't function on many of their spells, though I guess that may actually have been a bug).
That said, I still wish they'd just cap things and open up the affix slots a bit so there's less of this "Gloves must have IAS%, Crit Chance, Crit Damage before they're even good" mentality.
I'm currently doing act 2 without problems and i've spent very little (no more than 80k for an item). I don't know for higher acts
monk a1 - 500k:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fu9zw1J0EE
monk a2 - 200k:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEoUKqg6SdA
wizard a2 - 100k:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BC_0-woVXr0&feature=plcp
Couldn't they have buffed those skills to compensate (more damage, even though they deplete resources faster) instead of cutting IAS in half?
I guess I just don't agree. More skills benefiting from crit is great, until you realize that some skills are just better than others. People will use the skills that are OP and ditch the ones that aren't, no matter why the skill that isn't OP isn't OP.
Sure it brings it up, but the only way 34% crit dmg is worth more (dps wise, ignoring build related reasons) than 9% IAS is if you have very high crit chance while your crit dmg is low. The optimal way to improve dps is by increasing ALL relevant stats, not just by stacking a few of them.
I found a lvl 55 legendary sword last night. First one for me since level 30 (~120hrs ago)
Stupid thing was it dropped off of warden in act 1 inferno. Had ~130% MF including 5NV
It'd be a fundamental change in design for the skills. I guess they could have at least scaled ith IAS% so they did their damage faster but burned the cost faster. The problem with those spells is that they do damage in set intervals independent of your weapon.
Some skills are better than others but IAS% basically trumped an entire mechanic (Arcane). It's really odd that the IAS% change seemed to have been worded for DHs when Wizard's benefited the most from IAS%, honestly.
TheDancingWatermelon
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So I've been farming Act 1 for quite a while now, and have seen the question asked before, but what would be the bare minimum of resists for a DH to venture into act 2? In my most buffed gear, I sit at around 250 resist all/23k HP/around 88k dps with ss/40k without. I think this is decent, your guys' thoughts?
King Mystery
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Is this worth anything? Doesn't seem to be a lot of amulets around that have a damage value.
I do ok in Act 2. Working on Act 3 right now.
250-300 or so for all resists
30k hp
26k dps
I don't remember my armor off the top of my head, but I don't think it's that high.
cpp_is_king
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I'm not sure why they keep talking about build diversity. They said before that IAS would not have been nerfed in the first place if it had just been for the damage increase. The real reason it was nerfed is because of the effect it had on resource generation such as Life on Hit.
I think Wyatt said this during the AMA but I don't have a link handy.
Is this worth anything? Doesn't seem to be a lot of amulets around that have a damage value.
You could get 100-500k out of it easily. It's kinda lacking in secondary damage stats (no crit, no attack speed, no life on hit) but that damage is pretty nice and it's got great base stats.
Is this worth anything? Doesn't seem to be a lot of amulets around that have a damage value.
US? I'd be interested in it if we can meet so I can check it against my ammy stats.
krameriffic
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What might have been. This is a little article on cut content for Diablo 3. Might have been posted already, and if so I apologize:
http://diablo3x.com/cool-future-content-d3/
http://diablo3x.com/cool-future-content-d3/
That article doesn't even come close to touching on all the cut content, but it's an amazing read regardless.
It's a shame that the game we got in 2012 wasn't as awesome as the game they demoed in 2008.
heh followers 3rd skill...
still makes me wonder that in a game where everything else is easily swapped out, why can't we change the skills on our followers... it's silly :/
You... can change the skills on the followers. Right click their portrait and select Retrain.
well that was unexpected
they are only selling for about 270k gold... so was not expecting to sell that...
*debates about buying another one and trying again lol*
Is that a 4 prop helm? I can't remember the names of the ones that I had, but I just sold all of my plans to the vendor thinking they werent worth anything...
You... can change the skills on the followers. Right click their portrait and select Retrain.
oh.... good to know
oh.... good to know
There's not even a penalty for it, which is very weird even by Blizzard's standards.
Exalted fine is a 5 prop
exalted grand would be 6
and just exalted is 4.
i had like 9 recipes in my invintory worthy 40-260k each that I threw up on the RMAH because I can cancel when ever and didn't have anything to sell there right now anyways. I really didn't expect any of them to sell which is why they were all set to my battle.net account instead of paypal lol.
oh well one step closer to a back up authenticator ^^
heh yay I can finally fix my enchantress. I couldn't resist the chicken skill the first time around, but that attack speed is much better
I never found it because I figured the retrain would be in the inventory not their picture... heck I only figured out I could dismiss them like a week ago lol
Blizzard tweeted a link to the article:
awwwwwesome. Thanks for the link. That'll do the trick.
Rentahamster
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I'm still waiting on weed and prostitution.
What the crap why is there no option for "Source" as off hand weapon? I guess it doesn't matter what kind of weapon I put in as long as the stats are right?
source is an offhand item and not an offhand weapon. so enter stats on 3rd row.
Rentahamster
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Blizzard employees characters:
http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/07/10/which-diablo-3-builds-does-blizzard-use/
No wonder they couldn't beat Inferno when they tested it internally
http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/07/10/which-diablo-3-builds-does-blizzard-use/
No wonder they couldn't beat Inferno when they tested it internally
I somehow expected more from the software engineers at least. The Barb reads like he's role-playing too much.Blizzard employees characters:
http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/07/10/which-diablo-3-builds-does-blizzard-use/
No wonder they couldn't beat Inferno when they tested it internally
Liked this bit especially:
"Fetish Army is runed for shorter cooldown, because the original 120 sec cooldown is unnecessarily long (especially compared to my other skills cooldowns)"
Mind telling someone in charge, Henry?
Imp the Dimp
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I'm being lucky lately. Anybody on EU servers willing to pay me 7mil for that one?
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