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Quote from xaimx

Its funny how everyone focuses on what their All Resistance should be at and don't think twice about armor. THEY DO THE SAME EXACT THING.

Quote from Fizbini

if rares were actually "rare" and had better fixed rolls
now that would have been better

Quote from Morphos

I've played a wizard since release, but I recently decided that I wanted a change of pace and that I was going to switch over to my barb. I sold all my wizard's gear and now have around 400mil in the bank to upgrade. I want to spend it efficiently though, so I'm probably going to wait until after the patch when prices should come down. That said, I'm trying to plan out what I want to buy to upgrade the most efficiently, and I have some questions.

First off, for reference, this is my barb's current gear: http://us.battle.net...5/hero/19237630

Right now, I am not having any trouble farming act 3 with this current gear... I'm able to do an alkaizer run in about 12-15 minutes, which is kind of slow due to my lowish DPS but its not too bad, getting about 30mil xp/hour. Obviously, I'm going to want to upgrade nearly all of my gear after the patch though.

Questions:

1) Is more than 2 pc IK worth it? I think upgrading by boots and chest to IK pieces would be worthwhile, as I'd get a large strength and resist all boost, but after that I'm not so sure. My current rare belt is basically as good as a cheap IK belt, at least to the point that it wouldnt be a huge upgrade, and the gloves and helm are absurdly expensive if you want all resist, to the point that it really seems like getting rares in those slots would be more worthwhile. My only question though is whether the reduced melee damage stat on the gloves/helm/3pc bonus is strong enough to make it worth losing that all resist.

2) Mighty weapon vs axe/mace. I know this is kind of an eternal debate. Right now I am using the mighty weapon because it makes it easier for me to keep WOTB up 100% of the time on live, but based on the little I've played on the PTR I won't be able to do that anymore even with the mighty weapon. If 100% WOTB uptime is no longer possible, is using an axe/mace just a better choice now? Is 100% WOTB uptime possible with 50%+ crit AND a mighty weapon?

3) Tyrael's might. Any thoughts on using this over the IK chest, which would make it much easier to pick up full crit and all resist on the bracers? Obviously it loses some strength due to the lack of sockets, but wouldn't the increased damage to demons and elites make up for it?

Any other advise, thoughts, issues etc that I ought to be aware of?

Thanks very much for the help!

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Quote from bdizzle28

Life steal will not be touched and will be superior to Life on Hit. Life steal is generated by the damage you dealt so it has nothing to do with the proc of your tornadoes.

Okey okey so i made a mistake about the Life Steal cuz i was thinking the Proc DPS from the Tornado will be lowered (so that means less dps - > less life steal)

Quote from mattdogg420

craptastic flubbed the spelling on the post title .... sigh

Quote from Boss_Hogg

PTR notes state:

• Treasure Goblins will now play a sound whenever they become aware of a player

So my question is, what exactally is the sound?

In my book, it's either, "Oh Shit ! Run !", or "Fuck ! Not again !"

Elaborate...

Quote from ZFPuhi

B ) You won't get the "Life Steal" Factor so often from the tornadoes u left behind you.