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Diablo III |OT5| Finally out of Beta
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For passives I'd switch out Guardian's Path - it's not great for dual wield. I'd put combo strike in it's place, then for active skills get rid of BoH (you really shouldn't need to rely on skills to heal you) and add in WotHF:Blazing FIsts for a nice dps boost. Just use WotHF to get the stack going then switch back to FoT, tapping WotHF each time the stack needs refreshing.
Serenity I'd switch to Ascension rune. Again - you shouldn't need to rely on your skills for healing - LS should be sufficient.
Speaking of LS, I'd really try to get dual LS. That EF however is a real problem piece for you since it contains a ton of vit. Keep vit off weapons and jewelry as much as possible, especially in large quantities as it makes replacing them a pain in the ass as you need to make up that vit elsewhere.
You have OWE yet you're not stacking any particular single resist, making it a wasted passive. Your resists are in a really bad spot right now, so I'd keep it but focus on adding single resist where you can. Those shoulders are decent so I'd probably pick physical resist as the one to stack, so get that wherever you can.
Lacuni's are ok for dps but suck for ehp - I'd replace them with a rare dex craft and try for cc/50+ res/vit.
You have more than enough armour so I'd switch the chest to a Tal's with 40+ phys resist and 200+ vit - this helps with resist and replacing that vit on your EF.
That'd mean switching helm to Inna's to keep the 2pc, so I'd look for 5.5+ cc, 40+ phys, 60+ AR and as much dex/vit as you can get.
Witching Hour I'd get some resist on. Skip vit if you have to in order to keep the price down.
Ring 2 switch that resist to phys - lightning does nothing for you.
Oh, your higher avg dmg weapon should be your mainhand for bells too as bells use mainhand dmg, so switch offhand to mainhand. You'd probably get more dps out of a lower dps one but with native CD on it though - sim on d3up to check first though.
I'll link my two monk setups if you're interested - both can run MP10 equally well. FoT/SW is lower dmg but basically never dies, and nirvana does a TON of dmg, but dies occasionally (no LS is tricky!)
FoT/SW
Nirvana
Thanks for the detailed response. I was able to pick up a good yellow bracer that picked up my resists to 420. Im trying to orchestrate swapping the innas helm + tal chest with my current set so i can maintain HP.
I will have to get used to the dual generator build but the buffed damage more than compensates for the interim dps losses i am getting during this gear switch.
Hit Paragon 98 and got my first set chest item!! Too bad it was a Tal Rasha's...
Going to grind through and try to hit 99 today. Almost at 200 Demonic Essence's...what would you guys recommend I craft for my Barb?
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/suffah-1877/hero/28169863
Going to grind through and try to hit 99 today. Almost at 200 Demonic Essence's...what would you guys recommend I craft for my Barb?
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/suffah-1877/hero/28169863
neoism
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gloves and shoulders
Bracers, gloves, vit shoulders, in that order.
My barb if you're interested but I think I must have had some kind of buff active when I logged as I'm usually around 300k dps with scoundrel.
Tal's chest can be fantastic depending what you get for the rolls.
Shifty - recommending Tal chests since 1974
I've currently gone one on my Monk, but I want to try to drop OWE before the expansion hits so I maaaay wind up going with an Inna chest, but I'm a ways off from actually doing that so I haven't sat down and done the math/costs on that so I'm not sure if that'll actually be a better option or not.
Shifty - recommending Tal chests since 1974
I've currently gone one on my Monk, but I want to try to drop OWE before the expansion hits so I maaaay wind up going with an Inna chest, but I'm a ways off from actually doing that so I haven't sat down and done the math/costs on that so I'm not sure if that'll actually be a better option or not.
Inna's works for sure. AR Tal's are ridiculously expensive. Cheaper option with great ehp but a bit less dps is Blackthornes. Can get AR, 250+ vit and 600+ armour for 10m or less if you shop around.
Hmm, I hadn't even considered Blackthorne's, I'll keep that in mind!
Speaking from experience with a few hundred hours on the console version, OWE is going to be almost a moot point once the expansion hits since:
1)AR seems to drop like candy for rolls instead of specific resists, and
2)Without an AH you would have to get realllly specific/lucky with trading
InsaneElite
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Looks like another new build went up, but this is apparently labeled as beta now? Check it out below, although at the time of posting it's in a very WIP state.
http://www.diablofans.com/topic/105335-spoilers-ahead-reaper-of-souls-beta-datamining/
http://www.diablofans.com/topic/105335-spoilers-ahead-reaper-of-souls-beta-datamining/
I love completely accidental upgrades from the AH. Was pricing a pair of gloves I found and stumbled across this right when it went up for 3 million lol:
Not super amazing, but pretty damn solid, was a good ~6k dps increase over my crafted gloves on my Wizard. Accidental deals and unintentional flips are one thing I will kind of miss when the AH goes away.
Not super amazing, but pretty damn solid, was a good ~6k dps increase over my crafted gloves on my Wizard. Accidental deals and unintentional flips are one thing I will kind of miss when the AH goes away.
Helscream
Banned
I know this can range on the monster power difficulty and the gear a person is using, but is there a consensus on many lifetime kills a player normally has when they hit paragon 100? I am asking this because I just hit paragon 100 on the PS3 version last night and I am at 665k kills. The lack of enemy density makes it take a long ass time, but it seems I am getting less experience per kill even on M5 difficulty.
I'm looking forward to that as well. Thing is DOTA 2 is so good that I really don't need another moba. HS and card games are totally new to me so I can't wait to finally play.
Really excited for this weekend. Should be an amazing Blizzcon.
I don't remember the console version showing that anywhere. Does it show elite kills? On the PC version as far as I can tell bnet only shows you elite kills per character, then an overall lifetime kills between all your characters. I've got a bunch of characters at various levels and from before Paragon was introduced, so I can't give you a good comparison sorry
. You'll need someone who only has one character and started (or at least mostly) after Paragon was introduced.
Helscream
Banned
Well when your view your profile it list lifetime kills and lifetime elite kills between all characters. I did some browsing on Bnet and looked at some random PC profiles some seem to be below 150k lifetime kills, but would have a character at paragon 100. I just have a theory that the PS3 version is granting a player less EXP per kill. I don't have any solid evidence, but its just a itch I have.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/99029030/diablo_iii_ros_feature_trailer.mp4
RoS features video, Blizz took down the youtube link.
RoS features video, Blizz took down the youtube link.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
Yoshi'sClan
That's a Demon Hunter armor piece.
So, what do we want to call the GAF clan?
("NephalemGAF?" "Gesundheit!")
<GAF> NephalemGAF sounds alright.
CarbonatedFalcon
Member
Apparently datamined that there's going to be a Feat of Strength for hitting Paragon 100 before RoS.
Welp, there goes a few
hours.
Welp, there goes a few
(hundred)
InsaneElite
Member
Can't wait to see the craziest build contests being organized based on how ridiculous some of the new legendaries are. Going to rock a ranged summoner barb.
InsaneElite
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I'd say they're doing a good job so far, based off of the leaks. They really bungled the Loot 2.0 legendary reveals at Gamescon, in my opinion. Even the ones in the first leaked build were far more exciting than the ones shown off. Given that they've already changed two usually worthless affixes to 'Reduces cooldown/resource cost of all skills by 7-10%', and there's going to be a dedicated set for Thorns, the next big affix that needs tweaking is the Health Globes and Potion healing one.
... FUCK
WHY BLIZZARD WHY ;_;
Who didn't see this coming months ago? Come on now
Also unless you've already gotten or legitimately plan to get 100% of the achievements it kinda doesn't really matter. IIRC aren't Feats of Strength the ones that don't have points associated with them?
Honestly didn't see it. But I need it to go along with my Beta Feat!
I've got 2x 100 but no beta feat. Woohoo, 100% is impossible, I'm freeeee
Didn't see this coming either actually. I don't expect it'll have an associated achievement, just a banner award if anything.
Can you clarify what you're getting at there? Do you think there's a problem with that affix right now? My MP10 monk relies solely on globes for survival and it works just fine.
With LS going away it does seem like globes will play a much bigger role in terms of buffing self-healing skills in RoS (with the datamined Transcendence buff I'll be healing 40k per bell dropped, so 440k per nirvana cycle)
Wyatt recently made some comments about shifting their whole damage model so that people don't die as quickly and health management is more long-term. They could easily accomplish this by increasing player effective HP 10x, for example, although it remains to be seen if they do that by increasing mitigation, reducing damage or increasing HP multpliers. In that sort of system, health globes are a lot more viable, so that explains why they're getting some love in some of the new legendary and passive effects. (e.g. health globe bonus increasing the LPSS effect of Transcendence)
Fenderputty
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LpSS being modified by health globes and perma spirit a la nirvana is like the opposite of what they want . I'm really curious about how they'll accomish this goal of less damage spikes and health spikes.
Players are always going to push the difficulty boundary too. I have a feeling their adjustment will just cause a new equilibrium. We shall see though.
Players are always going to push the difficulty boundary too. I have a feeling their adjustment will just cause a new equilibrium. We shall see though.
Has anyone been doing act 1 crypt runs? (the approach with someone preparing the decaying crypt and weeping hollow by getting the mobs to spawn)
I'm wondering how it compares to the usual act 2 run for exp/hour. I'll be trying the crypt approach out this weekend.
I put up a reddit thread here: http://www.reddit.com/r/Diablo/comments/1q6y34/exphour_of_act_1_crypt_runs_vs_act_2_vsorcs/
I'm wondering how it compares to the usual act 2 run for exp/hour. I'll be trying the crypt approach out this weekend.
I put up a reddit thread here: http://www.reddit.com/r/Diablo/comments/1q6y34/exphour_of_act_1_crypt_runs_vs_act_2_vsorcs/
So, if I'm reading it right, they are mostly phasing higher difficulty settings and adding Monster Power directly as a difficulty setting.
wow!
Damn, got hype for a hot minute.
Don't toy with my emotions.
Fenderputty
Banned
Keep offline and hacking on consoles please ....
ViewtifulJC
Banned
Digging the difficulty changes myself. With the monster power levels, the arbitrary requirements for certain difficulties seemed redundant, as well as being forced to play though the campaign 3 times before Inferno.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
well those difficulties don't match up with the other ones...
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