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Diablo III: Reaper of Souls |OT| Once again! The Sound of HAMMERS is GLORIOUS!
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The thing is, how much STR do you have? Going from, say, 7000 STR to 8000 STR is around a +14% Damage upgrade for 1000 STR. Up to you if that seems like a good return, I guess, but I'd rather just get the Diamonds and change defensive stats on other slots for +Skill Damage% and stuff like that.
Not Spaceghost
Spaceghost
Yeah I've been thinking about doing this as well but I've only got 5 mil and i'd need to craft a play set of at least royal diamonds to put this to use.
It's a good idea, since you can get like 190 Resist all on just your chest so you can ditch it on bracers, rings and pants without losing much toughness.
Danexmurder
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Thanks for the feedback, I was thinking about rerolling the my armor bonus on my armor into sockets. Also thinking of rerolling armor on my belt to resists. Definitely going to switch out the stone on my helm later. Right now just trying to get more drops. I found the plan for the reaper wraps so trying to get that. Good advice on the gloves too, didn't realize I could reroll it for that.
Hmm, thanks - i really should have thought about changing the spells to straight up buffing AT.
This build looks better?
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/wizard#WeTNjQ!STXY!baZcac
I don't have enought APOC to maintain endless AT, so i picked Astral Presence.
Also, what's the better AT rune - Disruption or Cascade?
thanks, i totally forgot Familiar exists.
No problem, the helm is also an option to re-roll armor for crit chance as well. But you don't have an armor buff of 25% like I do so I don't know how much lower I'd go on that. Depends on your balance right now, if you can get a good roll on the gloves first I would do that. You won't even notice a difference in 7% cooldown rate not being there.
randomengine
Banned
I hate using a lot of active skills, so I made a Wizard whose theme is Passive Cold Wizard.
I have only 2 active skills - Ray of Frost on left mouse, and Blizzard on Right Mouse. I chose the two options that reduce their Arcane Power Cost to 11 and 13 respectively.
Then my 1-4 buttons are the Arcane Orbs, Cold Armor, Cold Familiar, and I think the Arcane Magical Weapon skill - essentially 4 passives that I have to keep up every once in a while - the Arcane Orbs most of the time.
My passives are of course Cold Blooded, Astral Presence (for all the arcane power I use), Unwavering Will (because I am standing still a lot shooting my beam and keeping people away) and lastly Audacity because once they get to me they usually freeze and I can nuke them up close.
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/wizard#ZlcfSj!XWSi!abZaZZ
It is an extremely simple build to play and seems effective, though I have had some troubles with survivability in certain circumstances. I might trade our Audacity for one of the shield-creating passives.
As for gear I focus on cold skill dmg increases, and Ray of Frost or Blizzard dmg increases.
It also helps that my follower is the Enchantress who turns them into chickens and knocks them back which gives me more maneuverability and delays them getting to me.
I have only 2 active skills - Ray of Frost on left mouse, and Blizzard on Right Mouse. I chose the two options that reduce their Arcane Power Cost to 11 and 13 respectively.
Then my 1-4 buttons are the Arcane Orbs, Cold Armor, Cold Familiar, and I think the Arcane Magical Weapon skill - essentially 4 passives that I have to keep up every once in a while - the Arcane Orbs most of the time.
My passives are of course Cold Blooded, Astral Presence (for all the arcane power I use), Unwavering Will (because I am standing still a lot shooting my beam and keeping people away) and lastly Audacity because once they get to me they usually freeze and I can nuke them up close.
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/wizard#ZlcfSj!XWSi!abZaZZ
It is an extremely simple build to play and seems effective, though I have had some troubles with survivability in certain circumstances. I might trade our Audacity for one of the shield-creating passives.
As for gear I focus on cold skill dmg increases, and Ray of Frost or Blizzard dmg increases.
It also helps that my follower is the Enchantress who turns them into chickens and knocks them back which gives me more maneuverability and delays them getting to me.
I spent my lunch trying a Fissure build with my crusader (who is only 66 now)
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/crusader#UkYilQ!aeS!bbbYZb
Somehow it did not feel like 400% weapon damage. I think Heaven's tempest might be a better given how much time I was facetanking. I had trouble getting fissures placed in such a way that it was arc'ing properly for the extra damage. Seems like I can get more out of just stacking heaven's tempest on the strongest enemies and let condemn blow up the rest.
Akarat's champion with rally was awesome though. I kind of like this build minus fissure. Once my gear comes together I might try the law for crit damage instead of Heaven's fury.. though Heaven's fury was a sizeable amount of dps for me.
edit: profile lol
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/garath-1132/hero/45165523
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/crusader#UkYilQ!aeS!bbbYZb
Somehow it did not feel like 400% weapon damage. I think Heaven's tempest might be a better given how much time I was facetanking. I had trouble getting fissures placed in such a way that it was arc'ing properly for the extra damage. Seems like I can get more out of just stacking heaven's tempest on the strongest enemies and let condemn blow up the rest.
Akarat's champion with rally was awesome though. I kind of like this build minus fissure. Once my gear comes together I might try the law for crit damage instead of Heaven's fury.. though Heaven's fury was a sizeable amount of dps for me.
edit: profile lol
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/garath-1132/hero/45165523
Dreams-Visions
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why are people linking their skill builds?
link your damn profile so we can assess reasons for survivability issues. why would you even go through the work of doing all of that when you could have just linked your actual Wizard's page?
randomengine
Banned
Here ya go.
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/randomengine-1499/hero/10551288
I really need to change the fire dmg increase on that amulet to cold via enchanting and that magic missle dmg on the belt. Though none of that has to do with my survivability other than offense as defense.
Trickster
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It's your paragon level
randomengine
Banned
Paragon level. Levels you gain after max level that you can get pts to further enhance your character.
I can't imagine a wizard build that doesn't include Black Hole. With some cooldown reduction, it's a pretty amazing crowd control spell and damage amplifier. You really need at least one active CC ability or you'll always struggle to survive against certain types of mobs.
SneakyStephan
Banned
sorry for the borked image i just pasted it in paint and forgot to resize
I would not suggest you farm this ring
-you no longer get to choose a stat when you craft it, it seriously just rolls 5 random properties + the xp passive and proc, the odds of gettign a good roll are almost nil (look at how many rare rings you find that are trash, 99 out of 100?) and you might not even get your main stat on it
-the proc on it is worthless, rarely procs and does very little dmg compared to your other abilities at 70
-the bonus exp applies to base exp, so on torment 1 you get 445 percent exp with it instead of 400 percent, a negligable increase if you're after paragon levels
-leveling alts now takes <2 hours with hellfire rifts on t6 so you don't use the ring to level alts anyhow
OT: man these act5 chest farming runs are amazing, it just rains legendaries
15+ in the past 2 hours among which a 3 socket good roll set chest and a good magefist , another guy in the group got warzechian, set shoulders and a potion, and a friend in my group got his set gloves with a good roll and a bunch of other stuff
randomengine
Banned
It wasn't so much the mobs that were giving me trouble, I was in an event in Act V with the spinning flame hazards and it just totally hosed me hard.
Blizzard works pretty well to slow them down and with my other freezing abilities and my enchanting turning them into chickens and shit. I feel like I have a fair amount of CC at least for now.
Another issue with Black Hole is yes the cooldown. Ray of Frost as awesome as it is is single-point so when I need to kill in a wide range I can set numerous blizzards in different parts of the screen and ray the rest. It is very useful and I miss not being able to do it. I replaced blizzard with black hole early on, but I just was not feeling it.
Impeccable
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Keep in mind I got five legendaries between last night and this morning and there is only one legendary between these...
Everything was repeats.
Edit: Took out smart loot "joke".
Everything was repeats.
Edit: Took out smart loot "joke".
jim2point0
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I need to find a group doing this so I can see it for myself. Really frustrating to see people say this when I get about 1 legendary every 1 - 2 hours doing rifts.
So here is some smart loot. Keep in mind I got five legendaries between last night and this morning and there is only one legendary between these...
Everything was repeats.
I've been having the same thing. Nearly every legendary I've gotten, I've gotten multiples of in a small time frame. I haven't seen the vast majority of legs, but somehow whenever I do see one, I see it again relatively soon. I wonder if there is a dynamic drop rate to legs and Blizz actually adjusts so that some legendaries are more common than others at any given time, and then less common later. Probably just rng.
So here is some smart loot. Keep in mind I got five legendaries between last night and this morning and there is only one legendary between these...
Everything was repeats.
Smart loot helps ensure that the items you get have stats that pertain to your character, it has nothing to do with the types of items that drop.
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/wizard#WeTNjS!SZXT!baZbYc
Primary builder slot 100% user preference IMO. I don't understand spellsteal on BH at all, you wizards realize event horizon does everything right? You basically cannot die to anything with event horizon. Arcanot is needed if you have no APOC.
My thoughts exactly.
What exactly is the A5 chest run? I thought they had nerfed it.
Impeccable
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Yeah, it's a joke. I get that.
I'm in the mid-high 7000s IIRC, so swapping out the rubies for diamonds will put me in the mid 6000s presumably. Man, that's going to cost a lot... but I get what you mean, I don't use my +15% lightning Rondal's ammy currently because the toughness loss is too much. I'll add the resists in tonight and see how that affects things.
Diablo players are some of the dumbest people on the planet. I've seen cold wizards picking glass cannon over cold blooded, because glass cannon increases sheet dps. Cant overstate how dumb the community is. if something is a proc, they think it sucks vs any item which increases sheet dps by 0.1%. They ask questions like how much dmg/toughness they need for Torment X, on softcore, when the stats are completely useless and they could easily check for themselves in 5 seconds whether they should up torment levels. Seen guys ask which stat to reroll with an item that has life regen, capped primary, and cc. People think there is no decrease in dps when they lose 15% dmg changing to an item with +15% to an element. Seen people ask whether +30% to elites is good or not. Seen people who think 99AR is better than 12% reduced elite damage. Diablo players are DUMB DUMB DUMB.
This is not what Smart loot does. It increases the chance of that item that you get to have a stat for your class. So those items probably had the main stat of your class.So here is some smart loot. Keep in mind I got five legendaries between last night and this morning and there is only one legendary between these...
Everything was repeats.
It does not prevent repeat Legendary drops.
jim2point0
Banned
I prefer cold blooded because it increase my sleet DPS.
buh-dum-tss! I'll see myself out.
Dreams-Visions
Member
Keep in mind I got five legendaries between last night and this morning and there is only one legendary between these...
Everything was repeats.
Edit: Took out smart loot "joke".
Welcome to the club bro.
that's the "T6 split up and everyone run around and open all chests in the entire act, then loop around and check areas for legendaries" plan, right?
All I want is not another Rogar's Huge Stone. By far the most useless item in the game next to Flavor of Time. I've never, ever seen a Rogar's roll well.
Impeccable
Member
Thanks, feels shit! All I want is a significant mojo.
In general, players are "dumb" when it comes to min/max things. This is especially true when there's an easily provided stat to track that misses a lot of variables.
Impeccable
Member
Both mine were literally the worst trash ever. If it rolled well it could be viable as a Witch Doctor who uses Jaunt but nope.
I got my daily Blackthorne drop out of the way early. Now I just need a Blackguard, Irontoe, Firewalkers, Slave Bonds, and Leoric's Crown before I can see something new.
Or single resists.
What's that, +700 Poison Resist? Triple that Toughness stat!
Or single resists.
What's that, +700 Poison Resist? Triple that Toughness stat!
So this holy build is stupid OP. With Eberli Charo, I can cast Heaven's Fury every 8 seconds. With the three beams rune, and Holy damage stacked, It just murders everything in my path.
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Little harsh. It's not exactly a piece of cake to understand how it all works especially when they dangle dumb green % values in front of you. I almost blame Blizzard for that. People asking if they can do Torment is really another way of saying "What do I need to do improve to do Torment?"
But help them instead of calling them dumb. Many people come in here asking for help which in it's own is tough to do sometimes because they don't know what's best because Blizzard makes it confusing as hell with the dumb percentages.
So this holy build is stupid OP. With Eberli Charo, I can cast Heaven's Fury every 8 seconds. With the three beams rune, and Holy damage stacked, It just murders everything in my path.
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http://a.pomf.se/jqpssk.webm
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Looks hawt dawg. Profile link?
Yeah calling people dumb because of Blizzard's inability to create accurate stats in-game is definitely harsh. Sometimes it really isn't clear if something is an upgrade or not especially when comparing procs. Not everyone is going to be doing Ghom DPS checks just to see which item/build does more damage.
Some things are obvious... some aren't.
Some things are obvious... some aren't.
What's the fastest you guys have cleared a T1 rift? I had a pretty sweet layout last night that was like 3:30, where my average in T1 is closer to 6 minutes. Especially interested in video as I don't play much other than DH besides my WD (which I haven't hardly touched in RoS except to hit 70) and want to see how people are doing speed runs on other classes.
I mean, it's not really Blizzard's fault outright. How do you truly display situational bonuses like single Skill bonuses? Elemental bonuses? Elite only bonuses? Granted, there should be a better advanced set of stats to display these but the Damage value does a "decent" job of representing most things. It has some bloat in it still (IAS% primarily) but it's "good enough" as long as people are aware of the other multipliers working behind the scenes so to speak.
Speaking of, give me a fucking training dummy in town or something. I mean, I guess Ghom is basically that but still.
It does depend though. I have a full Blackthorn and rolled 10% less damage from elites..so actually get 20% due to set bonus and 10% extra damage against elites and immune to molten, plague and desicrate and don't even use all 4 piece because I don't care about the immune stats. I'd rather have the extra damage and resists from my vigor belt that rolled 299 lighting resist which is my main monk resist. Probably not smart at T5 / T6.
Never time them but over 5 mins because I didn't get the achievement until doing normal runs.
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