I've decided to give the monk class a spin this weekend. Despite my relative lack of enthusiasm for the 1-20 jaunt I made with her weeks ago, I feel as though that class represents my last best hope for living like a bum.
yay for working... school starts soon. As much as I enjoy how quiet it is here over the summer, sometimes I miss the noise.
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Yeah, every slot has crit that can have it except bracers, on ring, and amulet. Price is a little too high to get crit and crit dmg on the latter and for some reason I just never got a good deal on bracers.
I would loose a pretty hefty chunk of dps going down to a 600 weapon, unless it had crit dmg in high amounts to accompany the LoH.
A high strength value could make up for low dps!
As for an update the barb is on the shelf for now, did a few quests in hell and he does hit hard enough with the two hander I have so.... until I buy something else I'm going to leave him.
Been busting out the wizard for awhile and had a lightning paralyze build, it worked really well but I took to much damage. I then switched to a tanky cold build but I had no range so that was getting too annoying. Currently rocking an arcane build and everything is faceroll now. I'm hoping it will carry me into hell mode but we'll see. I'm sitting at 47 right now.
I found 4 yes 4 legitimate pieces of gear that are AH worthy (first time ever)!!!! A Yellow ring, 800 DPS wand with decent stats, 1200 dps monk staff, and a top end butchers sickle (legendary) sold for a easy 200K. It was a good night, too bad none of them were for my class. Hopefully they sell and I can get a one hander better than 800 dps!
Act 1 is officially face roll fun farm now. The barb still kicks ass just haven't played him much lately
Indeed, I should have spec switched, but I was feeling over-confident at the time. I haven't had much time to go back and take another shot at finishing act2 lately, but when I do it will be with the gloves off for sure.
I'll have to piggy back a ride with you into act 2 I can probably do enough damage for you I just can't take the hits
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Ended up switching to this more lenient VQ Splinter/Bear spec tonight. Got me to act4 hell without a hitch. Finally coming into a steady stream of gear upgrades too so, life is good. Inferno will be quite a shock to my paltry ~22k hp and ~7k dps though. It may be coming time to see what all cheap upgrades are available on the AH. I've managed to squirrel away almost a million gold and my scrooging instincts are now strongly opposed to spending.
I am absolutely terrified of hell mode diablo. Nightmare was a test in and of itself. I'm beginning to wonder what odd-ball spec to take for that moment. Doubtless the pet gimmicks I used before will not be working this time.
Hmm that looks familiar If you want to use pets use Gargantuan and the Bruiser Rune. He can somewhat survive boss fights and rune will stun Diablo periodically. With your current build just stay back as far as you can and hit with splinters, once he warps to you hit spiritwalk and blow all your CD's and unleash bears, run away / repeat. The realm of terror your on your own for that, lots of kiting and whatever it takes... I hate 2nd phase.
I entered inferno with 25K HP, 9K dps and 200ish resistances, I got my ass handed to me a lot but I still progressed. Now sitting at 15K unbuffed 28K HP and 500ish resistances, act 1 is easy farm mode now... I really should try act 2 one day
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95% of people are happy with Diablo III and are in-game and playing.
5% of people are unhappy with Diablo III and are here at the forums and complaining.
When something works for you, you enjoy it. When it doesn't, you whine about it. That sums up the situation.
Looking at my friends list now only 1 is actually in a game. The rest are scanning the AH making money (far more efficent on the AH then actually attempting to find something worth selling in game) or praying to find a sensible upgrade that doesn't cost 4237850230523 gold.
Don't play WoW, people do it all the time (making money off the AH). You can't control what people sell items for so tell your friends to farm gear if they really want it that badly.
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Welcome back good sir!! I was wondering where your post was! It will be nice to have your wit and thoughtful comments to the site once again!!
The Sorc definitely gains some power towards the mid levels, although mine is only in the 30's (only play with friends).
The Monk is bar far my most fun class but again only in the 20's play this char with a different set of friends.
I have a 60 WD and they start off slow and destroy up till hell mode, they have some very nice utilities. There is obvious balancing needed as once you reach inferno there is only three abilities you can use and most builds are very similar at the moment. Pets are sadly useless very quickly in this game. Once some more balancing is done I think they will become a power house class till nerfs The main issue you'll find is resource management becomes a problem later on.
Hmm what have you missed... QQ basically ever time info is released or a change is made. The most recent patch has made DH's want to quit and they nerfed inferno but fixed Band-Aid loot issues for end game and it's much better than before. Legendaries are a joke and will be getting a buff in the future. Patch 1.1 will be major balancing and PvP... no time table for this change.
Overall QQ is from people who came late into the Diablo series or people who forgot how bad D2 was at vanilla launch. I think it’s a great game with obvious issues, but there is lots of potential. It's been depressing coming here over the last month, I was hoping the whiners and haters would leave, but they are so butt-hurt they are sticking around bashing as much as they can. Some claims are valid but from the big picture it’s a bunch of sad nostalgic ranting thinking that D2 was LoD from the start and people used to easy gear cause of dupes/hacks. Oh and a predictable rough first week of launch.
Welcome Back!!!
EDIT: Oh I forgot, melee is more gear dependent but once you get the gear... melee > range in inferno.
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yay for working... school starts soon. As much as I enjoy how quiet it is here over the summer, sometimes I miss the noise.
Having a stroke doesn't necessarily attribute to being out of shape or unhealthy. They are factors but not certainties
A high strength value could make up for low dps!
As for an update the barb is on the shelf for now, did a few quests in hell and he does hit hard enough with the two hander I have so.... until I buy something else I'm going to leave him.
Been busting out the wizard for awhile and had a lightning paralyze build, it worked really well but I took to much damage. I then switched to a tanky cold build but I had no range so that was getting too annoying. Currently rocking an arcane build and everything is faceroll now. I'm hoping it will carry me into hell mode but we'll see. I'm sitting at 47 right now.
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/wizard#RcXjSO!fUX!aYZaZZ
my current barb build
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/barbarian#WVSRPk!dec!baZbZb
I won't be playing my WD till my shoulder is better I need two hands for that mode of playing. Sad I was progressing in act 2.
Act 1 is officially face roll fun farm now. The barb still kicks ass just haven't played him much lately
http://us.battle.net...bc!bbabba��only
level 41 btw.
I'll have to piggy back a ride with you into act 2 I can probably do enough damage for you I just can't take the hits
Hmm that looks familiar If you want to use pets use Gargantuan and the Bruiser Rune. He can somewhat survive boss fights and rune will stun Diablo periodically. With your current build just stay back as far as you can and hit with splinters, once he warps to you hit spiritwalk and blow all your CD's and unleash bears, run away / repeat. The realm of terror your on your own for that, lots of kiting and whatever it takes... I hate 2nd phase.
I entered inferno with 25K HP, 9K dps and 200ish resistances, I got my ass handed to me a lot but I still progressed. Now sitting at 15K unbuffed 28K HP and 500ish resistances, act 1 is easy farm mode now... I really should try act 2 one day
Don't play WoW, people do it all the time (making money off the AH). You can't control what people sell items for so tell your friends to farm gear if they really want it that badly.
The Sorc definitely gains some power towards the mid levels, although mine is only in the 30's (only play with friends).
The Monk is bar far my most fun class but again only in the 20's play this char with a different set of friends.
I have a 60 WD and they start off slow and destroy up till hell mode, they have some very nice utilities. There is obvious balancing needed as once you reach inferno there is only three abilities you can use and most builds are very similar at the moment. Pets are sadly useless very quickly in this game. Once some more balancing is done I think they will become a power house class till nerfs The main issue you'll find is resource management becomes a problem later on.
Hmm what have you missed... QQ basically ever time info is released or a change is made. The most recent patch has made DH's want to quit and they nerfed inferno but
fixedBand-Aid loot issues for end game and it's much better than before. Legendaries are a joke and will be getting a buff in the future. Patch 1.1 will be major balancing and PvP... no time table for this change.Overall QQ is from people who came late into the Diablo series or people who forgot how bad D2 was at vanilla launch. I think it’s a great game with obvious issues, but there is lots of potential. It's been depressing coming here over the last month, I was hoping the whiners and haters would leave, but they are so butt-hurt they are sticking around bashing as much as they can. Some claims are valid but from the big picture it’s a bunch of sad nostalgic ranting thinking that D2 was LoD from the start and people used to easy gear cause of dupes/hacks. Oh and a predictable rough first week of launch.
Welcome Back!!!
EDIT: Oh I forgot, melee is more gear dependent but once you get the gear... melee > range in inferno.