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Diablo III |OT5| Finally out of Beta
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Lizard with a ladder
learnin' with the blacks!
After a 2 month hiatus, I've come back to D3. It's so hard to quit you Diablo. You're like a bad girlfriend that refuses to give blowjobs or cook me a proper steak dinner.
I log on drunk as fuck, thinking things will be different this time. Nope, same shit, different day.
I noticed there were some peeps on the last page looking for some mp10 uber runs. That's the one thing I haven't got bored of yet.
If I'm online, hit me up for some ubers. I've got enough keys to make several machines.
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Omega-1990/hero/13462234
I log on drunk as fuck, thinking things will be different this time. Nope, same shit, different day.
I noticed there were some peeps on the last page looking for some mp10 uber runs. That's the one thing I haven't got bored of yet.
If I'm online, hit me up for some ubers. I've got enough keys to make several machines.
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Omega-1990/hero/13462234
We did some uber runs last night. Was very fun and fast. I d/c'ed on one of the fights though, So Ill only get to make three rings instead of four. But its cool.
Gonna make a STR/DEX/INT one. I just hope my Dex roll doesn't suck. That fourth ring would have been a life saver in that scenario.
Gonna make a STR/DEX/INT one. I just hope my Dex roll doesn't suck. That fourth ring would have been a life saver in that scenario.
Can I ask why so many barbs use Echoing Fury? At first glance to me, it doesnt seem to have great bonuses at all. Is it the attack speed bonus? Or does that weapon just have higher dps rolls than most? It seems to me like the fear proc would be annoying to melee since it makes enemies run OUT of melee range.
michaelius
Banned
But it can't roll crit dmg+socket+LS at the same time and they are badly overpriced in AH.
SatansReverence
Hipster Princess
I was on the Blizzard forums earlier and there was talk of WotB getting nerfed. Couldn't find the source so does anyone have it or can they confirm?
Not sure why they were all complaining. My barb can have 100% WotB uptime but it is by no means reliant on it.
Not sure why they were all complaining. My barb can have 100% WotB uptime but it is by no means reliant on it.
ertitoagus
Member
It was a post of Travis about the "perma"-WotB and "perma"-Archon are not wanted by the design. He suggest changes in the future in the mechanic to stop infinite WotB & Archon time.
SatansReverence
Hipster Princess
Ah ok.
Well I'm fine with that. Constant WotB and Archon kinda cheapen the whole special effects monsters have like fear, jailer and frozen.
michaelius
Banned
Archon is not resistant to any of them.
SatansReverence
Hipster Princess
I thought it was, my bad. Don't really use Wizards much.
AHUM!
By the way this is official from Blizzard. Look what happens when Jay Wilson is gone and a new lead is taking the throne
Goodbye RMAH! This is what i wanted from the beginning so fucking awesome.
1.0.9 Preview a Dream
By the way this is official from Blizzard. Look what happens when Jay Wilson is gone and a new lead is taking the throne
Goodbye RMAH! This is what i wanted from the beginning so fucking awesome.
1.0.9 Preview a Dream
FrontalMonk
Banned
I read through all this on diablofans.
Then I damn near cried, because it would be so awesome if this was actually true, and it isn't.
michaelius
Banned
You got me scared for me a moment that this idiotism might be true.
Add me on for your next runs, whenever that is. For those who don't have me, I'm Verse#1603.
Liferebooted
Banned
I'm getting pissed off, bought a reduced 18 lvl 2h for a barb I'm leveling and its been 2 hours and still not in my completed tab.
What's the cap on gold, anyways? 99 billion? 999 Billion? I don't understand the logic behind player inventory holding so much gold, the auction house having a 2bil cap, but the sell value of vendored items to be so pathetically little. If I decided to never use the auction house for anything, ever, there would be no way to practically progress in the game. Just as an example, to craft one Radiant Star gem it's around 16 million. Sixteen Million. If the average player -- say someone who plays only a few times a week never used the AH, and crafted all their gear or found it -- would most likely not have 16 million for one Radiant Star. And if they did, that would be an immense chunk of change to dole out, if not all of their money. I mean, everyone uses the AH to make and spend money, but that's just the hypothetical. No AH for PS3/PS4 D3 kinda makes me wonder about that, though.
Sometimes it seems like complaining about Diablo 3 is a meta-game.
Sometimes it seems like complaining about Diablo 3 is a meta-game.
I'm not sure how much gold you can farm an hour with mediocre gear, but with a little bit of efficiency you could probably quite easily afford making one radiant star gem for every ~45 hours of playing if you didn't spend money on crafting. For 2 weapons, helm, 2 slot pants and 3 slot chest it's still under 400 hours to fill your whole set with reusable radiant stars. Grinding is a core part of the game and the stat increases of the highest tier gems are by no means essential for survival, especially in the current inferno. They are there as something for people to stirve for.
For me it's actually mind boggling just how much better all the itemization design would have felt if there was no AH. It would still have not been perfect by any means, there's quite a lot of issues, not the least of them being the boring blandness of choices, but yeah. Don't know about you guys, but I did play about 25 levels before even going to AH and it was absolutely great.
For me it's actually mind boggling just how much better all the itemization design would have felt if there was no AH. It would still have not been perfect by any means, there's quite a lot of issues, not the least of them being the boring blandness of choices, but yeah. Don't know about you guys, but I did play about 25 levels before even going to AH and it was absolutely great.
I've picked up over 10 mil in gold over the last week just doing TR w/ pickup radius and dropping bells on elites only.
Crazy gear is an understatement. His gear is pretty godly. I believe his flying dragon is 180+ crit% with life steal but I could be mistaken (he had like 4 or 5 of them the last time I watched him do CoA runs). He isn't really TR though. I wouldn't recommend TR with a flying dragon. It has attack speed roll so you'll need a lot of spirit regen. The main advantage of FD is that you can play super high MP if you have enough attack speed gear to support it because you can play regular cyclone build but with 2H damage.
He usually does a 2H cyclone build (yes his attack speed can support that lol) but looks like hes using flying dragon proc into spamming all his buffs w/ frenzy shrine in that pic. Probably proof on concept to shit all over the barb that did a similar 2.5m dps snapshot or something.
Be careful buying a FD btw. You REALLY need life steal and high crit% roll or they're pretty much garbage. If you get a non-LS one you probably won't survive long enough to even proc FD on high MP unless you're rocking insane EHP. For regular TR
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Skorn is the easiest choice. If you can, try to find a 2H mace or lance since those are 0.9 and 0.95 aps which will make it easier for you to build a spirit regen set (you can either drop some spirit regen passives/skills or even use 2 attack speed items)
neoism
Member
what really.. damn guess I never really thought of the gold the RM ratio... this game has cost me $0(got it fo free) so far and I'm keepin it that way
Lizard with a ladder
learnin' with the blacks!
+attacks per second also applies to your other weapon. Giving you a really nice dps boost.
The fear proc can actually be used in your favor. Get a cold dmg SoJ and you'll handicap their run speed. Then you hammer smash the shit out of them as they crawl away.
Thanks for the advice, I'm trying to move away from tempest rushing but I'll probably wait until the patch to rebuild my monk, just looked so tempting when I thought I had been missing out on some magical weapon.
Heh. I randomly dropped into his stream when he was farming coa with the fd and he showed 3 of them. I thought I was missing something too so I bought a cheapish fd with 180 crit and wol bonus and got smashed on mp5 lol.
TR is not that expensive to gear for if you want to rush under mp5 though. Get a skorn or rare with life on kill and you should be able to do up to mp3. With ls% 2h you can rush up to mp5 pretty comfortably. I can kind of do 6 or 7 and my monk is sitting at only 200 res (51k hp though). I think overall only around 230k ehp which is pretty low.
You are right; TR builds will probably die in 1.0.8. It is more of a solo playstyle so building a dw monk will work out better when group xp is more attractive.
http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/J2d-2257/hero/17279340
My current skorn will have to do for my tempest rushing needs, it doesn't have LS but I mostly play on MP1 so it not an issue. Got 90 mil that I'm planning on getting nat ring + boots and maybe a better 1 hander with.
My current skorn will have to do for my tempest rushing needs, it doesn't have LS but I mostly play on MP1 so it not an issue. Got 90 mil that I'm planning on getting nat ring + boots and maybe a better 1 hander with.
what really.. damn guess I never really thought of the gold the RM ratio... this game has cost me $0(got it fo free) so far and I'm keepin it that way
Bah, sorry, messed up my mental math on this one badly. It's around 5 cents per million by gem exchange, or 20 million per dollar, so it's more like $1250 for 25 billion.
Plus, if you're Tempest Rushing, Nat's ring has 8-9% IAS and you want to avoid having IAS where possible for TR.
Here's my TR/bells setup for DE farming VotA on MP3. Complete run takes 2-3 mins usually: http://d3up.com/b/532071/shyla-tr-de-farming
I used to consider ice climbers but surely the 7cc bonus is too good to not be aiming for? I'm gonna get a 5crit nat ring and while the boots will be a downgrade at first I feel that I'm in for the long haul with this game so an upgrade will come down the road. My biggest problem is losing something like 260vit when ditching my current shoes and skorn
I'm not getting the nat set until I'm going for a dual wielding build.
If you have the cash for it, a cc Nat's ring with avg dmg paired with the boots is certainly your BiS option, at least for dps anyway.
Lots of people don't have 200m+ to spring for a good Nat's ring/boots set though, so Ice Climbers with a good dps rare ring gives slightly less dps for far more ehp.
It really depends on the rest of your gear whether you can afford to take the ehp hit for the extra dps. A guy I run with regularly is at 250k sheet dps unbuffed with 600k ehp, and he doesn't use cc mempho, Nat's set, OR EF, so it's certainly possible to get that kind of dps without using those pieces that many people consider mandatory to get high dps.
Here's his profile, for reference: http://d3up.com/b/496899/batuo-ubers
Fenderputty
Banned
Damn ... 3rd page .... lol
So my wife is traveling to MI next week for work, I was hoping to hold out on playing until the next patch, but I'll probably be playing quite a bit next week if people are on.
I think most of you have me, but if not,
fenderputty#1180
So my wife is traveling to MI next week for work, I was hoping to hold out on playing until the next patch, but I'll probably be playing quite a bit next week if people are on.
I think most of you have me, but if not,
fenderputty#1180
Things are pretty quiet these days waiting for 1.0.8.
Diablofans just data mined something that's worth spoiler tagging:
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I had cashed out some items to blizzbucks while catching up on my backlog and gave it a few weeks for things to depreciate. I got a decent witching hour with all primary stats and vit that I can pass around all my alts, and bumped up the EHP on my wizard with a 4 crit chance mempo. Waiting to get home to see if I won a bid on a higher damage Chanto's source.
Diablofans just data mined something that's worth spoiler tagging:
MF/Exp bonus buff for the game's first anniversary
I had cashed out some items to blizzbucks while catching up on my backlog and gave it a few weeks for things to depreciate. I got a decent witching hour with all primary stats and vit that I can pass around all my alts, and bumped up the EHP on my wizard with a 4 crit chance mempo. Waiting to get home to see if I won a bid on a higher damage Chanto's source.
Related to the spoiler tag, I've often wondered why they never
do double xp weekends a la Call of Duty or something like that. If it's an across the board thing that everyone can participate in I don't really see why not.
Edit: Actually serious question as well: thinking about going back to my Monk for a while, haven't messed around with her in forever. I never messed around with Tempest Rush at all, apparently that's the thing now? Here's a link to her profile, what should I be setting up for that skill/gear wise? I really have no idea, I just got her to 60 and that was pretty much it.
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/MrDaravon-1289/hero/13326358
I'd skip tempest rush. It's about to be outclassed by group play in 1.0.8. Just get used to running with cyclone strike.
Someone posted a good game mechanic concept over on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/Diablo/comments/1d3fg0/two_ideas_that_would_make_me_excited_as_hell_to/
"Chaos orbs" seem like they could work. Not as much of a fan of the gem idea.
Someone posted a good game mechanic concept over on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/Diablo/comments/1d3fg0/two_ideas_that_would_make_me_excited_as_hell_to/
"Chaos orbs" seem like they could work. Not as much of a fan of the gem idea.
No, the 4 piece Inna's is outclassed by the potential benefits from witching hour belt, and since the 3 piece bonus is useless, the chest piece isn't really necessary either. I like the attack speed bonus from the Tal Rasha chest. The cheap refresh on sweeping wind is only really useful for tempest rush.
I kept Inna's helm and legs on my monk: http://d3up.com/b/13803
Hoping to get back to daggers some day. Guiding light's a very strong passive for group games, although it's tough to tag everyone in range. A lot easier with mantra of healing.
Sharing five pieces of gear with my wizard: http://d3up.com/b/457722
Took a page out of Shify76's style there I guess. Digging the Shredder look on the wizard right now.
WD, DH and Barb are chugging along but not on the same level yet.
Get on my level Raticus! No sharing!!
DH http://d3up.com/b/481048
shitty monk http://d3up.com/b/2085/monk
barb http://d3up.com/b/4880/barb
wd http://d3up.com/b/61233/wd
shitty wiz http://d3up.com/b/520687/logen
DH http://d3up.com/b/481048
shitty monk http://d3up.com/b/2085/monk
barb http://d3up.com/b/4880/barb
wd http://d3up.com/b/61233/wd
shitty wiz http://d3up.com/b/520687/logen
Dang, guess I've been letting the monk slide. Haven't really played it in about a month. There should be some soft spots for improvement left over from trying to max out attack speed and crit chance from the sweeping wind snapshot days.
Late edit: wow, did the market ever tank on all resist Inna's temperance. It's about 2% of what I paid now.
Think I'll go with Batuo's approach and switch to ice climbers.
Late edit: wow, did the market ever tank on all resist Inna's temperance. It's about 2% of what I paid now.
Think I'll go with Batuo's approach and switch to ice climbers.
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