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WTF you doing on the euro servers anyway?
I'm not. I was just asking.
Baron Aloha
A Shining Example
I must have the worst luck ever. Been playing a ton since release and I have found only 2 legendaries that I could equip on my wizard. Both on launch day. Neither particularly good, just barely better than rares. Game doesn't feel rewarding at all. I can't even get forgotten souls from rifts. Seriously I've found like 2 out of 50 rifts. It's not like I need them b/c I don't even have any legs to enchant, but still. I feel like banging my head against my desk would be more productive.
I need help. I die all the time on Master and even sometimes on expert.
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Baliun-1348/hero/1471225
What am I doing wrong? I figure at level 60 with 20 some paragon levels I shouldn't be struggling so bad. I'm in adventure mode and usually just run them on expert until a hard boss and drop to hard.I suck.
Change from Sixth Sense to Seize the Initiative, and I would also use Serenity instead of Seven-Sided Strike. Being able to selectively ignore anything on the screen is amazing.
Mr. Luchador
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OMG Jay Wilson!
Would be a perfect candidate for the 2nd expansion Reaper of Diablo with him starring as the end-boss..
Anyone know what he is up to atm?
My comrade. Nearly 10,000 shards and not a goddamn thing.
~350k or so is probably the sweet spot imo. 15k Armor / 1000 Resists / 1600 LpWS and steamrolling T3 rifts (when my DPS are all logged on).
plz blizz
plz..
I honestly don't think it will ever happen. WD are not a replacement, I know this, but this expansion has made actual summon builds possible. So that class type has been fulfilled.
But we don't have a shapeshifting class. So bring on the Druids, Blizzard. I am ready.
Kacho
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I think he was put on the Titan team.
600 resistances is aweful. I have 1500-1600 resistances and I still feel that isn't enough some times for a melee. And Crusader doesn't even have the 30% mitigation of the other melee!
Toughness values are not good because they over value health. It's damage mitigation that makes you tankier. This means resistances (I would try to get above 1000 for all of them except maybe Arcane. Arcane is the easiest to avoid followed by Ice) and high armor values. At that point you can have 300K health and still be tanky. It will also make your blocking better.
You also should get some healing. Life per Wrath spent is good for Crusader as is some life regen. He has a passive that heals him when he blocks which is very effective if you have a high block chance.
InsaneElite
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He's listed as the lead of the Hearthstone Strike Team, which handles balance issues in that game. There's other notable Blizzard employees like Dustin Browder (heading two games right now) and Chris Sigaty on the team, so I don't imagine it's a very formal or time-consuming team.
Why should Jay Wilson be fired? lol
Vanilla D3 was what it was because Blizzard was fully behind the product.
Dont vilify the man and put the new team leader on a pedestal because Blizzard fucked up during his time and knew what to fix afterwards.
The fan base calling him a fat fuck and wishing him dead is a million times more embarrasing than the RAH or poor drop rate.
I need help. I die all the time on Master and even sometimes on expert.
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Baliun-1348/hero/1471225
What am I doing wrong? I figure at level 60 with 20 some paragon levels I shouldn't be struggling so bad. I'm in adventure mode and usually just run them on expert until a hard boss and drop to hard.
I'd get rid of Seven-Sided Strike and pick up Dashing Strike. It's one of the best skills the Monk has in my opinion. I'd also swap Inner Sanctuary for something else, if you still need a defensive skill after Dashing Strike try Serenity. If you don't have some + Fire Dmg on items you could swap Lashing Tail Kick rune to Scorpion Sting. 1.5 sec stun with 85% chance is really good. Epiphany with the Windwalker rune is really nice to have for elite packs, activate it and burst them down while you heal yourself through your spells. I assume you have Beacon of Ytar for SSS? If you get rid of SSS you could swap it out for Seize the Initiative for the extra armor. Depending on how you survive then you could also get rid of Near Death Experience and go for something better. I used Guardian's Path for a long time, coupled with Sixth Sense you should have a pretty good chance to dodge lots of attacks.
Just got my WD to 70 and wanting to go the pet route. By +physical dmg buffs, do you mean items that have "Physical skills do X% more damage" or whatever it is? Or is there a item affix I'm not aware of and need to keep an eye out for?
Edit: Also, at what point of Life per Hit amount does leeching dogs become worth it?
Kacho
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Yeah, my cousin has a Monk and he doesn't budge during combat. Meanwhile, I'm running away like a wuss shortly after combat starts lol. Hopefully I'll find some better gear today. I'll start with the resist gems and use the passive you're referring to.
That's really because Crusader isn't a strict melee class.
Use skills that attack from a distance. Stuff like Hammers or Blessed Shields. Get a ton of Wrath regen so you can just do stuff like Hammer, move a bit, Hammer so you are regaining some Wrath in between. Even one of his Wrath generators hits from a distance.
DenogginizerOS
BenjaminBirdie's Thomas Jefferson
My first ever Legendary item: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/odyn-son
If you're 69 already, just grind to 70 before facing him. Only way to get a guaranteed legendary once you beat him the first time is to reset quests and go through the whole game again.
TurtleSnatcher
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Yes to Phys Skills do +X% is what you want to go for.
Int & Phys Skills do +X% & Aspd & Crit Chance
Don't put anything in Critical Bonus Damage. Pets get a standard 50% no matter what so putting anything in there would be bleh.
As for Life per Hit - I don't have any in Paragon. I do use Leech Dogs though. I rely a bunch on Life regen per sec and rarely have issues sitting in the middle of mobs and not dying as my resists are over 1000ish now. I have a good amount of Vit as well so I'm around 450K health.
Justice is full ranged and the rest are all longer-than-normal-melee range.
And I have no problem wading into full melee alongside the Monk I normally have around. If anything, I'm the tankier of the two with the Armor/Resist total mitigation vs his. Well, if not for the 30% inherent DR discrepancy ;___; Having a revive for every fight helps a lot too, though.
Telephoto999
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Got the plans for the unbound bolt today.
Killed sarkoth for the quill like 50 times.. no drop.
FML.
Killed sarkoth for the quill like 50 times.. no drop.
FML.
You're messing with the pet skills now and that's cool, but if you ever want to remove zombie dogs from your skill bar, there's a way you can still keep zombie dogs:
Here's a tip that I don't see many Witch Doctors take advantage of, and I'm pretty sure this has worked since day 1 of the game. You can have Zombie Dogs for free, but they will be without any runes. But they can be free if you wanted.
Use the Circle of Life passive that gives percent chance to spawn zombie dogs when things die around you. Keep using it until you you have 3 zombie dogs spawned. Now you can get rid of Circle of Life passive and change to a passive you'd rather use. Zombie Dogs remain by your side after you've changed out of Circle of Life passive.
Free dogs.
I've been doing this with the legendary ring that gives you one large powerful dog instead of three, it's awesome.
Don't have the plans but I killed him for the first time in the exp yesterday, what do you think dropped?
This, so much.
terrisus
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I can see where you're coming from, but I don't agree.
There's no reason at all that item balance and configuration couldn't have been changed while leaving the auction house in place. None. The fact that Blizzard presented it as such is a complete red herring.
If one chooses to "grind gold and spend hours on the AH searching through pages of gear to find an upgrade at a reasonable price," well, that's on you. Again, there's nothing forcing you to do that - especially if the item changes were made where it was easier to find good gear for yourself from your own drops.
While it's true that websites like that still existed even with the auction house, it's nothing but a good thing to give people a legitimate option as opposed to making anyone who wants to do that go to other websites for it.
Also, you may feel it gives "more of a sense of community to trade with people directly," but, I don't feel there's anything of a community in people spamming chats with advertisements. But, hey, if you like to do that, you could still do that even with the AH. Sure, many people might not have wanted to trade directly when they could get more on the AH - but that's just another sign that the AH was a superior option. And, even aside from that - frankly, I don't really care about a "sense of community." I pretty much play Diablo as a single-player game, and am not really very interested in participating in a "community."
Not everyone plays the game the same way, and forcing everyone into a particular playstyle when it doesn't need to be that way (and wasn't that way before - a change was made to make things more restrictive) is a definite negative.
terrisus
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But, again, there's no reason at all that item drops and stats couldn't have been adjusted while leaving the AH in place.
To wit - if we were getting the same exact drops we are now, but the AH still existed, people who didn't want to use the AH would have the exact same items they do now. Meanwhile, people who wanted to use it could continue to use it.
But that would mean that overabundance of any given item (due to higher drop rate) would devalue their AH prices and populate the online scene with overpowered players 1000x quicker.
Being given the option to buy the best of everything discourages build experimentation and ultimately shortens the replayability of the game.
Angelus Errare
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My wizard needs Thunderfury so bad.
but where it's at now, if the AH was back in, there would most likely be a drive to make the good loot less common in order to find a balance between finding loot on your own, and finding loot via AH.
basically, the AH would represent the drive to keep drops/stats in check
i think they're on different saves, so you can do adventure all you want, but that will never advance the campaign on that particular character. you would still have to do that separately.
terrisus
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So the solution is to make it more awkward and difficult to trade, and make people go other routes for auctions?
If that's such an issue, why not just moderate the AH instead? Like they did with setting minimum prices on gold and such like that. Set some sort of minimum price based on the item's in-game gold price or something.
There are plenty of ways to work around issues other than taking their ball and going home.
Again, there's no need at all for that to happen. None.
So is there any ways to get lower level gems when you're 70 other than leveling another character?
I'm kinda stuck right now. My wizard is 70 farming adventure mode but my templar has shit amulet/rings... The thing is since I'm a wizard I never get str drops and I could make amulets of strength with the jewelcrafter but for that I need lower level gems that I don't have anymore.
I'm kinda stuck right now. My wizard is 70 farming adventure mode but my templar has shit amulet/rings... The thing is since I'm a wizard I never get str drops and I could make amulets of strength with the jewelcrafter but for that I need lower level gems that I don't have anymore.
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