So i was sitting here doing a scorched earth run of Act 3 when i just started thinking... What if they set up a gauntlet run in D3..
A single long corridor, no turns, doors, choke points, just 1 straight tunnel filled with monsters. Im talking about 2000 total from end to end... mostly white trash with maybe 15% being elite/champion mobs.
You have 3 respawns to clear it, if by 3rd death you still have creatures alive you fail and have to start over from scratch. If you do clear it and kill everything then waiting at the end are 5 chests with filled with loot, say 5-6 ilvl 60-63 items with increase rolls and increased legendary chance.
A nice big fat reward type thing. Have the mobs base difficulty around Act 3 Core of Arreat level so this would be a challenge.. then have a timer that tracks everyone.
You could have a leader board on the D3 site showing the fastest Gauntlet clears for people, and get some fun competition involved without risking character wipes or what not.
Just an idea i had, figure i would pop it here first see if any enjoy the thought
My barb is undergeared but that sounds like his dream come true. Tons of tightly packed guaranteed elite packs with tons of fodder white trash to get LOH hits on? The entire level would be cleared in one WOTB activation.
well Dooms you also think they are adding the difficulty changer so you could make it harder but the baseline would be end Act3 mob life/dmg amounts...
And as for WW barbs blasting thru, maybe...gotta remember this isnt some tiny amount we are talking but 2000ish creature in an enormous hall way...range, melee, caster... you may at first try and blaze thru but are just as likely to get killed from aggroing too much too fast.
Sounds kinda easy with gear. If everything lined up in a straight, especially with 2000 mobs of which 15% are elites, 1700 white mobs which melt with my archon lazer, I wouldnt even need to try.
it is also simple math... you think you would breeze thru.. but if you get hit by say 30 spears from goatmen all within a second or two, add in a few fireballs and some wallers, desecrate, horde, mortar, and a few melee shots... your 1200-2000 LoH wont save you
I have seen the vids of WW barbs in action including Alkaizer, and Archon wizards... you seem to just not process that having a horde of enemies of that size that would flood you if you rushed it too fast would over power you even if you have amazing gear...
You sprint tornadoes do not touch those range mobs to the side, or how do you make it further when you are boxed in with wallers with 3-4 desecrates thrown under you?
Yeah your Zerker will help with jailer, but it does crap all for the knockback when a pack of frozen unleash, Yes you can melt thru some trash mobs, but that will not be the only thing there, you will have 2-3 elite/champ packs at a minimum, or if you try and rush you are talking upto 300 elites/champs with all their little trash buddies.
Its simple numbers, cause those videos of all the amazing WW barb ripping thru stuff, well they never go head to head with a horde the size we are talking, and there are turns, choke points and etc to dodge projectiles and get things stuck on your tornado... none of that exists.
A hallway about 30 yds wide, and around 400 yds long just jam packed so when you start it just keeps coming, either a steady stream if you go cautious or a massive flood if you try to rush.
Could some one potentially smash thru in a few minutes? nope, even with 250k dps you would not be able to kill them all that fast.. the odds are not in your favor.
When a Barb goes super saiyan 5, they are immune to all forms of CC, except for walls if you count that.
But its kinda a moot point since something like this will never exist, as it would be way too lucrative to farm, and no one would farm anywhere else. Blizz hates that kind of thing, which is why ponies sux now.
A single long corridor, no turns, doors, choke points, just 1 straight tunnel filled with monsters. Im talking about 2000 total from end to end... mostly white trash with maybe 15% being elite/champion mobs.
You have 3 respawns to clear it, if by 3rd death you still have creatures alive you fail and have to start over from scratch. If you do clear it and kill everything then waiting at the end are 5 chests with filled with loot, say 5-6 ilvl 60-63 items with increase rolls and increased legendary chance.
A nice big fat reward type thing. Have the mobs base difficulty around Act 3 Core of Arreat level so this would be a challenge.. then have a timer that tracks everyone.
You could have a leader board on the D3 site showing the fastest Gauntlet clears for people, and get some fun competition involved without risking character wipes or what not.
Just an idea i had, figure i would pop it here first see if any enjoy the thought
Its the random teleporting yellow phase beast that gets me if I'm not careful.
Sounds fun though, WW barbs would win hands down.
And as for WW barbs blasting thru, maybe...gotta remember this isnt some tiny amount we are talking but 2000ish creature in an enormous hall way...range, melee, caster... you may at first try and blaze thru but are just as likely to get killed from aggroing too much too fast.
You sprint tornadoes do not touch those range mobs to the side, or how do you make it further when you are boxed in with wallers with 3-4 desecrates thrown under you?
Yeah your Zerker will help with jailer, but it does crap all for the knockback when a pack of frozen unleash, Yes you can melt thru some trash mobs, but that will not be the only thing there, you will have 2-3 elite/champ packs at a minimum, or if you try and rush you are talking upto 300 elites/champs with all their little trash buddies.
Its simple numbers, cause those videos of all the amazing WW barb ripping thru stuff, well they never go head to head with a horde the size we are talking, and there are turns, choke points and etc to dodge projectiles and get things stuck on your tornado... none of that exists.
A hallway about 30 yds wide, and around 400 yds long just jam packed so when you start it just keeps coming, either a steady stream if you go cautious or a massive flood if you try to rush.
Could some one potentially smash thru in a few minutes? nope, even with 250k dps you would not be able to kill them all that fast.. the odds are not in your favor.
But its kinda a moot point since something like this will never exist, as it would be way too lucrative to farm, and no one would farm anywhere else. Blizz hates that kind of thing, which is why ponies sux now.