Stephen_drewz
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Is the patch expected in tonights maintenance?
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Diablo III: Reaper of Souls |OT2| Enchantress: Look! More hidden loot!
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Jiggaloboy
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Looks like it, yeah.
On the fragments itself yes.
While true... DHs basically got Seize the Initiative as a passive.Awareness change makes me sadthat was an interesting passive, now it's just a simple toughness buff
LMAO! Would really help DHs survive in higher Torments.
That's what I was asking though. The gear is only good if you have the abilities to synergize with it. Do these datamined ability changes have any effect on the Barb's current status as having the most flexibility gear/build-wise at higher torments?
Stephen_drewz
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Assuming the Torment cache and blood shard changes come with this patch tonight I am looking forward to playing afterwards.
Oh well. It's not like I have a Gyrfalcon's Foote lying around anyway. Gonna stick with my lightning build then. Falling Sword Part the Clouds seems like it'd just nuke everything. Anyone have a Cam's Rebuttal to test it for me? Much obliged.
Ricerocket
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Buffs to WD? Wasn't expecting that. I feel OP as it was.
Up to 10% on spell hit for sycophants! very nice buff. If vampire bats is on the very low end of the proc efficiency, that's preferable because I'd rather stutterstep with other spells.
Fierce loyalty - +30% movement speed out of combat, this will be great for normal rift key farming.
Up to 10% on spell hit for sycophants! very nice buff. If vampire bats is on the very low end of the proc efficiency, that's preferable because I'd rather stutterstep with other spells.
Fierce loyalty - +30% movement speed out of combat, this will be great for normal rift key farming.
Stephen_drewz
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Far out the Blizz forums are funny. Funny becuase of how stupid some people are.
Everyone join in on a 48hr Diablo strike!!!!!!!!
Everyone join in on a 48hr Diablo strike!!!!!!!!
That change and the insertion of "up to" before "10%" makes me think that the proc rate will be based on the proc rate of the underlying spell now... which might be a nerf for some spells against low numbers of targets
Finally got a damn PF to drop! Not a bad one, but I like my andy's so much. Not sure which to use.
I guess it would be -6% eDMG with CA from the loss of fire, ignoring the useless IAS. The vit is much-needed as it sent me from 270ish to 350ish. The poison nova is fairly useless since I use steady aim. Will have to test to see if I like the affix enough.
I guess it would be -6% eDMG with CA from the loss of fire, ignoring the useless IAS. The vit is much-needed as it sent me from 270ish to 350ish. The poison nova is fairly useless since I use steady aim. Will have to test to see if I like the affix enough.
Finished Marauders set tonight, and rolled an awesome reapers wrap for my zoo build. Kridershot is so cool, it allowed me to change my build.http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/WeaponX-1954/hero/47030495
Fenderputty
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The WD change seems interesting. I not sure what I'll be using if it's not bats. Lol
Those monk changes are .... Kinda underwhelming? I mean I guess WotHF having a lightning rune and fire rune is interesting. I'm curious about pillar of the ancients being lightning based now as well.
Finally got a damn PF to drop! Not a bad one, but I like my andy's so much. Not sure which to use.
I guess it would be -6% eDMG with CA from the loss of fire, ignoring the useless IAS. The vit is much-needed as it sent me from 270ish to 350ish. The poison nova is fairly useless since I use steady aim. Will have to test to see if I like the affix enough.
Use PF over andy. Being able to spam 7+ more CA than before will out weight the eDMG loss.
I actually forgot I had this until I went through my mules to find my Lightning and Fire gear. What do you want tested in particular?
The Mr. Yan pants are ridiculous. I threw them on my 2nd DH with a Danetta set, some decent gear and cooldown reduction stuff. I didn't even assign any paragon points yet and the gear isn't ideal and while moving my sheet dps is over 1 mil and I can vault and strafe forever. Ridiculous. I'm actually kinda salty about the cache changes tomorrow (hopefully) only because I could have beasted normal bounties doing this. The DPS buff on them is big enough though where I'm seeing some folks float legit mid to high torment difficulty strafe builds which I'm going to look into, would be rad if I could make that work.
How much health double Falling Sword depletes on champ elite packs on T1-2 coupled with Resolved (so crit numbers) and about 60-85% lightning damage. And how much the random lightning crits for.
Actually, I can test this myself without Cam's Rebuttal, but I'm playing on hc and I don't want to risk dying while experimenting builds.
Just a hunch, but I think crusader builds can't depend on CD skills anymore due to the Rally change. No matter how much damage they do, as long they're on CD and without the current rally, they won't be effective to be primary damage dealers. So even if falling sword is really good after patch, you can't build around it anyway with the long cd.
So that leaves us to look at Shield Bash (awful mechanics), Sweep Attack (lackluster), Blessed Shield (should be still quite good), Fist of the Heavens (aoe damage nerfed, but should be still decent), Fires of Heaven (gonna get nerfed next patch after this :x), and Phalanx runes.
So that leaves us to look at Shield Bash (awful mechanics), Sweep Attack (lackluster), Blessed Shield (should be still quite good), Fist of the Heavens (aoe damage nerfed, but should be still decent), Fires of Heaven (gonna get nerfed next patch after this :x), and Phalanx runes.
I believe Schaeffer's Hammer is BiS now for hammer builds. Removing the movement penalty is the greatest buff that could happen to Crusaders.
Edit: unless there's an IAS build that can spam hammers forever I'm not aware of. There is the passive that lets you gain wrath for every blocked attack I suppose.
Nah, I've played with that before, you don't want hammers with slow attack speed. It's awful mechanically, takes too long to kill trash. Also Schaeffer's is much better with FotH Fissure.
Edit: Wrath isn't an issue with Akkhan set and Reaper's. :x They really buffed the wrath regen on Akarat's Champion and now it's much easier to gear without wrath regen on your weapon and shield.
Oh damn, I just noticed "Embodiment of Power : Increases the bonus Wrath regeneration from Akarat's Champion to 10.". Which means the no-rune AC may have less wrath regen than 10, that would suck. :/
Problem is it's not even a good single target skill due to the awful mechanics. :/
Probably not. The ideal for Blessed Hammer would be to get as many Hammers out in the shortest amount of time. Not a lot of good uses for Schaefer's as far as I can see, really. Most the skills you'd want to use with Lightning (Fist of the Heavens, Blessed Hammer) would realistically want more uses on the field in a given amount of time rather than fewer harder hitting ones.
Heaven's Tempest benefits more from slow weapons, though.
Justinan's Mercy
Jace’s Hammer of Vigilance
Shard of Hate
Thunderfury
One of those. I'd probably go with Jace's Hammer or Justinian's. Never used the latter though. Proc rate for Blessed Hammer isn't really good enough for SoH and proc based weapons iirc.
Also I think the build to look out for post-patch are Fire Starter builds. I'm thinking, Cincercoat + 5pc Akkhan + RoRG, but you could also go Fire Walkers + Provoke: Charged Up + 5pc + RoRG. If it's 100% on proc coefficient, Blessed Shield: Combust should be the best spender to proc it.
Jace's also increases Blessed Hammer skill damage.
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/jaces-hammer-of-vigilance
This is what I'm hoping for. What we will probably get is just the element of the rune selected.
Also, WDs shouldn't be too happy for now. With these buffs they are getting, I would not be at all surprised if Jade Harvester gets nerfed.
I'm pretty happy about this! Finally I can switch to WotHF: Blazing Fists for my generatorless fire buil.... wait a second.
Cold FoT might be the best generator for zero dps monk though. Should be interesting to test. Az fist in one hand, Sledge in the other + blind faith helm would be pretty cool. Cyclone everything in, EP, then FoT to blind, freeze, and stun everything until your homies bail you out.
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/eek-1673/hero/47751293
Minds eye probably a bit better though. I can pretty much sustain EP on every target I cyclone in while it's up. Might switch out BoH for epiph w/ a defensive rune so I can last even longer. My zDPS monk up to 712k hp / 27m toughness LOL. Should be able to get even higher once I can craft a phys/armor pants.
Class changes are coming with 2.0.5? I thought that was being held off till 2.1
Glad to hear if true!
Thank you based Blizzard.
Odyn son's proc is pretty good though and it scales with lightning dmg bonus
I stand corrected. Thanks.
Also from datamined patch notes:
Wormhole : After casting Teleport, you have 3 seconds to Teleport 1 additional time. (Previously could teleport 2 additional times within 1 second)
Damn. It was nice to teleport three times in a row.
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