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Only noobs think their skills make a difference. This shouldn't even be discussed on diablofans. Seriously.

Why not?

Because it's an RNG game. That's like saying it took skill for me to win my last game of RISK.

You want skill? Let's see Krip beat me at BF3. (cough, he probably can't).

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Oh i assumed when you mentioned kripp you meant HC character. I know his softcore character was progressing basically through hours of grinding bosses and having his wizard friend tag along.

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Kripp plays on hardcore. Thats why i said what i did..... i assumed you knew that. Like you said since gear is cheaper on hardcore money goes farther, thats what my point was. Equivalent gear on normal would be alot more.

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In a hack and slash game like Diablo, melee is more gear dependant than ranged. Also, player skill makes a bigger difference as ranged. As a melee, you have to get hit. Your skill comes into play when you avoid the "standing in fire" mechanics. As ranged, you try to avoid everything, you stutter-step, use mobility abilities and basically zap around the screen.

That's why ranged can clear given content earlier and is considered easier. You can "outskill" some mechanics even with basic reflexes and coordination, while as melee you cannot, you need the gear. When you get the gear, you outgear the mechanics, instead of "outskilling" them, which is less interesting in terms of gameplay.

It really required skill to finish Inferno in May in my opinion (except with the exploit builds). The gear availability on the AH was lacking, there were no guides or videos, the game was hard. With all the nerfs due to whiners on forums and the immense amounts of cheap gear on AH right now, a skilled player will find Diablo boring. There is just no point in getting upgrades, when you can breeze through content anyway and making millions of gold gets old pretty quick, especially with how AH is down and buggy all the time.

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Skill is the difference between someone like Kripparian, who cleared Infeno with a Barbarian geared with ~400k worth of gear, and the people who still can't clear it with millions invested into their Barbarian.

That's basically the simplest explanation. Skilled people can do with less what others can't do with more.

Make a hardcore character and look at the AH the gear there is priced to sell at reasonable prices where the normal AH is flooded by kids that think items are worth way more then they actually are. Also there are a lot more people playing normal flooding the market with even more gold. So I find your argument hard to find valid.

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If you ask me, dump the sword and board and go dual-wield with ~700 DPS 400+ LoH weapons, if you can manage it.

There is very little reason to ever choose DW over a shield unless you're stacking crit chance (so you can 2x 200% crit on each weapon). The extra LOH helps, but if you're going DW to get more LOH (a defensive stat), why wouldn't you just use a shield instead?

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First off, the elemental damage type does not matter, unless it's Cold. It'll slow if it's Cold damage. I guess if you use Basic Attack with an Arcane damage weapon and have the passive that slows with Arcane damage, it might slow the guy, but I don't play a Wizard so I'm not sure on that. I also really doubt you'd be using Basic Attack, so it's irrelevant anyway.

Usually it doesn't. However, it should be noted:

Most skills say "damage as Arcane/Fire/Cold"

If a skill does not specify, it does damage int he type the weapon's affix is.

Spectral Blade is the main (only?) example of this the Wiz has. In theory you could use spectral blade with a fire weapon and Conflagration.

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New Drop rate ? I LOVE IT since i am DH i am selling it
92str
74dex
870 LOH
41% CD
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