I did it with 500k health and 800 res (Should mention I run the superstition passive which is 20% elemental reduction) all but with 40k regen. The jump to T4 was survivable as well but I couldn't kill anything in a reasonable amount of time. Did an Act I run of bounties on T4 and Skeleton King took about 15 minutes to kill.
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I did it with 500k health and 800 res (Should mention I run the superstition passive which is 20% elemental reduction) all but with 40k regen. The jump to T4 was survivable as well but I couldn't kill anything in a reasonable amount of time. Did an Act I run of bounties on T4 and Skeleton King took about 15 minutes to kill.
I found a 2H sword last night that had near perfect rolls and had 2,997 DPS. Too bad I am a wizard and it was still a giant downgrade if I had equipped it.
I've seen plenty of 2900-ish 2Hers that are just worse than my 2600 one due to 300% Weapon Damage proc and inherent Crit Damage%.
aka, I've given away a ton of Blackguards.
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I'll have to check. I admit I haven't been paying attention to resists and armor as much as I did before the introduced "toughness" and "damage."
I remember back in pre-nerf Inferno that All Resist was pretty much required on everything to even scrape by. I think I had around 800 in each resist before they first nerfed the difficulty.
Dark_castle
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Just gotten a Serpent Sparker http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/serpents-sparker.
Is the +1 Hydra worth a build around it?
Is the +1 Hydra worth a build around it?
Is this a reference to Dwarf Fortress or am I missing something?
Is there an optimal way to farm gold and imperials? legs are all but useless to me right now as I already have a queue of upgrades that need to be rerolled before being used. I'm broke and basically have to do several runs to work up the 900k needed to reroll my rings (unless I run into an imperial of the relevant type) only to get one shot and find out, nope, not this time. Bounties seem to be best for money, but I haven't come across a good way of getting imperials. I guess if it's just a constant drop rate across difficulties and item sources, there really isn't a way of pursuing them specifically.
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I have no idea how you have those stats... It's like incomprehensible to me.
Does loot get insanely better in the higher levels of Torment or something? I just can't see how you can get there.
Dreams-Visions
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sure, why not try it?
If you can fit Hydra into your current build, its a great source of additional DPS, and can synergize well with some passives. Hydra build on its own is still pretty much relegated to the glass cannon/kiting builds and IMO has a hard time being as effective as FO and arcane torrent builds.
Fenderputty
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I had two of these fall within 2 min of each other. One was hot trash and was salvaged right away. The other just needed a soc. I rolled like 5-10 times and ran out of souls. Harvested a couple more legs to salvage for re-rolls and instead salvaged the axe ...,
Dreams-Visions
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Mistakes were made.
jim2point0
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You can see my gear here, more or less. A few of the stats are bugged for some reason (mirrorball dmg is 3xx-3xx, crit dmg on gloves is 46%, etc etc).
The in-game DPS is with unwavering will active. So those are my stats when I'm standing still. Which is often, considering that's generally my playstyle.
With no skills active at all, my DPS is 1.26 million. That gets bumped up to about 1.38 million with unwavering will. Magic weapon\familiar\energy armor boost my dmg to what you see in that screenshot.
the pain is deep
Dark_castle
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Yeah my Serpent Starker + Arcane Hydra seems to help me push for more effective dps than my previously equipped Chantodo wand + Sparkflint despite the lowered sheet dps.
The past few days have been rough, basically since the day they boosted XP. Seems my drop rates plummeted. I'm getting one legendary every 3-4 hours now (let alone anything of use). It's just odd how my drop rate dropped off so hard and hasn't picked up since.
I tried chaining rifts, bounties, manglemaw, and chest runs, and nothing is changing it up. It's odd.
I tried chaining rifts, bounties, manglemaw, and chest runs, and nothing is changing it up. It's odd.
Superstition also = barb = a metric shit ton of armour, which us monks can only dream about. Well, unless we dedicate a bunch of skills towards boosting it anyway.
I know I should have been grinding paragon but I couldn't help myself. My crusader was gaining about 10 levels an hour. I'm 60 now. Decent dps too at 100k.
Hellfire ring + helm gem + community xp + level 70 weapon with - 23 level requirement = Levels levels levels.
Going to have to back it down to expert and finish out these last 10 quick though. Don't want any good legendary drops under 70 hehe.
Hellfire ring + helm gem + community xp + level 70 weapon with - 23 level requirement = Levels levels levels.
Going to have to back it down to expert and finish out these last 10 quick though. Don't want any good legendary drops under 70 hehe.
Think I'm ready for T1? I think I'm getting close -- still feel a little bit squishy, especially when I get into a hairy situation. I could go with a defensive mantra though, might help with those rare instances where I am cornered.
I'm working on getting that staff a socket, and then maybe new shoulder pads and amulet are priorities. I could also socket Life into the helm or CD reduction.
I'm working on getting that staff a socket, and then maybe new shoulder pads and amulet are priorities. I could also socket Life into the helm or CD reduction.
I would run Mantra of Evasion + Hard Target if you are worried about squishiness, but honestly I think you should be good for solo t1.
I've been stuck in the same hellhole, and then I started doing normal bounties (provided you're doing all this on torment). Some other friends are experiencing the same; torment's been shit while normal been raining legs.
MisterAnderson
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Can anyone chime in on dual wielding Monks being viable in HC or not? I have always done 1H w/Shield but am considering giving dual wielding a go since I found a decent weapon for my offhand, but am curious to hear from anyone who is familiar with the current HC meta if it's a terrible idea or not.
I don't see why not. DW means more spirit generation and more spirit means much better survivability in my experience.
I can now do T4 pretty good with 10m toughness and that is basically attributed to 1900 all resists when running mantra of healing with the 20% resists. I'd have like 1600 which is doable but I actually need the health regen or I'd have like 1000 per second lol. Not helpful when kiting.
Random_Guy
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I think I'm gonna be sticking with this amulet for a long time. I look forward to elites with arcane sentries now. More heals for me.
Dreams-Visions
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I think I'm gonna be sticking with this amulet for a long time. I look forward to elites with arcane sentries now. More heals for me.
grats on those rolls. might be an upgrade over my current amulet. not sure if the 600 int makes up for the 84% CD, but I'm sure it's close.
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Just did a bunch of reading about stats and such and finally realized that the general ratings of "Damage," "Toughness," and "Healing" are completely useless. Should have realized that before, but I guess it's better later than never. Wish they never tried to simplify the character sheet, but I'll just ignore these numbers for now and focus on the detailed view.
Fenderputty
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I would try to roll VIT into a soc.
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Stats you want:
Main stat of character
Vitality
Crit chance
Crit damage
increase attack speed (depends if you're bound by attack speed or weap dmg)
all resist
Some life regeneration (life on hit, life per resource spent or life regen, depending on build)
And then +elemental damage to cap it off
Always a struggle to achieve balance as most things are 4 primary and 2 secondary stats
Game over values life per resource spent abd life after kill. First one is useful though, second isnt if you take into account elites and bosses.
Game way over values vitality as toughness.
For damage, it's generally accurate bus IAS can be slightly misleading as it mainly makes your primary and secondary abilities more dangerous
What would be best to re-roll for socket vit or spirit regen?
I'd probably reroll the vit. You can get more vit on other pieces. The spirit regen will be nice.
MonorailCat
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2 Things really need a loot-buff: Goblins and Resplendant Chests
Just saw a Gobling Rift on twitch where 3 people killed like 15 goblins and nobody got a legendary. Thats pretty stupid ...
Just saw a Gobling Rift on twitch where 3 people killed like 15 goblins and nobody got a legendary. Thats pretty stupid ...
Personally if drop blinding flash and use dashing strike. You can dash through walls and out of cages and get out of some fucked up situations. I commend you on being one of the rare 2 hand monks.Think I'm ready for T1? I think I'm getting close -- still feel a little bit squishy, especially when I get into a hairy situation. I could go with a defensive mantra though, might help with those rare instances where I am cornered.
I'm working on getting that staff a socket, and then maybe new shoulder pads and amulet are priorities. I could also socket Life into the helm or CD reduction.
You're not the only one to tell me that, and it's something similar to what I experienced around launch. I've been hoping to get another usable piece of Nats so I can grab the set bonus off of it as well thus running at least T1/2, but mainly trying for a Calamity/Krider shot which I assume can drop in non-torment.
These are in no way an ordered list of priority though, keep in mind.
Shouta
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DPS is generally fine to stare at aside form not taking into account bonuses to the skills. Toughness and Healing are kinda junk though.
I think I'm gonna be sticking with this amulet for a long time. I look forward to elites with arcane sentries now. More heals for me.
One of my favorite pieces of gear! It took me a long time to roll trifecta on mine, but it is an amazing amulet. Don't see myself being able to replace it because of the amazing ability.
I dont use Pierce of Veil, too much mana consuming.
I can't possibly use Spirit Barrage and Zombie Bears and PoV, unless you have a way to and you want to enlighten me
Spirit barrage can be used by adding the passive where you gain 100 mana over 10 seconds for every spirit spell. Between haunt, spirit walk, and spirit barrage, especially now that it's cheaper for haunt, it's doable. I usually end up using the mana regen version of spirit barrage and it keeps me attacking at full speed with mana regen on 3 pieces of equipment. It's worth it for the added damage of DoTs from PoT and my Quetzotcoatl helm.
I don't bother with bears. Why do both? I'm full autonomous damage through DoTs and pets with spirit barrage as my singular "stand still to deal damage" skill to take advantage of crits which vampire bats can't do (which is why sycophant builds always disappoint for me. Especially with the random nature of "will I spawn fetishes or not" in that build)
Yep.
My monk has 8.1m toughness right now, but that is caused by a 60% dodge chance, high resists, and high armor.
But that 40% of the time that I get hit I get hit really, really hard.
So it doesn't really reflect the ability to survive.
Rather than buffing them in a major way, they should make it so that every goblin you kill and every resplendent chest you open increases your chances of getting a leg until one drops for you.
NaDannMaGoGo
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We just did a bunch of my Chest Split Runs and had once again decent success.To those who are interested in efficiency that don't mind that kind of gameplay I recommend forming a 4 man party and give it a go.
PS: Feels nice to enter an area and have it look like this (those are seperate screenshots and areas, not from the same run either btw)
In our current run we clear Pande Fortress 1/2, Passage to and Ruins of Corvus, Westmarch Heights and Abandoned Siege. Overall it probably takes around 13-15mins per run and cleanup, of course varying here and there.
We only did like 4-5 runs but I think each of us got around 5-7 legendaries.
PS: Feels nice to enter an area and have it look like this (those are seperate screenshots and areas, not from the same run either btw)
In our current run we clear Pande Fortress 1/2, Passage to and Ruins of Corvus, Westmarch Heights and Abandoned Siege. Overall it probably takes around 13-15mins per run and cleanup, of course varying here and there.
We only did like 4-5 runs but I think each of us got around 5-7 legendaries.
Also, I believe that it also factors in elemental resistance meaning the value is easily inflated.
Lost my HC over stupidity. I don't think I can do it again. I have very limited time to play due to work. Gonna play HC when I retire or something lol. BTW Fuk you lag/frozen/firechain combo!
Frozen is easily the nastiest Elite affix. Closely followed by arcane enchanted.
This is what I'm running into transitioning to T2. I think I may change up my skills/passives in order to move away from dodge.
I'm currently on the beginning-ish of Act II. I've just apparently hit a point where you start getting exponential returns on your damage; over the course of the last... quarter of Act I and beginning of Act II, I've gone from doing maybe 400 - 600 critical damage to doing around ~6,000 - 8,000.
It's hard deciding what build to use for my WD, but my pets are so thoroughly useless at this point that I'm not bothering with them anymore. Can we have Necromancer back yet?
It's hard deciding what build to use for my WD, but my pets are so thoroughly useless at this point that I'm not bothering with them anymore. Can we have Necromancer back yet?
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