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So the only things that don't scale with level is damage from attack and life from vitality. I find this pretty lame. At level 60 you will be straining to get higher precision just to crit a tiny bit. It's silly that a low level character with crap gear could have a higher % chance to crit than a level 60 character with decent-good gear. Same goes for Defense; you'd think that when you equip a huge beastly breastplate it'd protect you a whole lot better than that cloth tunic did when you were level 5.

I understand that they don't want crit chance and damage reduction getting out of hand, but it certainly seems that they should change it so that the formulas lead to a little higher numbers at level 60 imo.

If it's on a cooldown, then it can't be a passive skill. The idea about having the damage increase linked to health is an interesting one, though.

I'm unsure whether crits are exactly 100% of normal damage. Also I'm unsure how things are calculated, and in which order.

My guess would be damage (including any +% damage) >> critical damage (including any +% critical damage).

It's got a decent amount of precision and the +crit damage is really nice I think. The +% damage is just down right insane.

Getting a crit on a top-tier meteor with this? lulz!

When they posted the items on battle.net I went through and picked out which ones I'd like to have most on my Wizard. Just now, in my boredom, I added up the stats to see what the full set would look like. Here's what I found...

Using these items:
-Dark Mage's Shade
-Vile Ward
-Inna's Refuge (1/2)
-Inna's Glory (2/2)
-Promise of Glory
-Spectral Hands
-Tal Rasha's Fine-Spun Cloth (1/2)
-Tal Rasha's Lidless Eye (2/2)
-Natalya's Soul
-Mara's Kaleidoscope
-Zunimassa's Plague (x2)
-Chantodo's Sacred Protector

Armor: 1539-1813
+ %life: 132-160%
+ life per second: 42-60.6
Poison resist: 73-84
Cold resist: 83-91
Fire resist: 119-136
Lightning resist: 63-69
Attack: 116-137
Precision: 283-309
+ %critical damage: 97-99%
+ arcane power per critical hit: 9-10
+ %damage: 520-1032% (wow lol)
+ %cast speed: 120-135%
Arcane power: 10-22
+ %magic find: 75-83%
+ %movement speed: 12%
+ attacks per second: 0.7-0.78
+20 random properties


Now, before you even mention it, I'm already aware that Blizzard said these items are not finalized and will be taken down/changed before release. I just thought it would be interesting to take a look at a full set with the numbers added together. The +% damage is ridiculous, and I'm pretty sure we'll see that change before launch. Hope you found this interesting!

I thought I saw people in beta footage using Hungering Arrow at level 1. Hungering Arrow is a hatred generator.

Sucks having to wait, but I'm glad they're taking their time.

Because I was just working on a Monk pvp build and noticed that Lashing Tail Kick has a 3 second cool down, and when enhanced with an Alabaster Runestone, has a 3 second stun.

So you could:

Lashing Tail Kick.
Spirit Regenerator for 3 seconds.
Lashing Tail Kick.
Repeat.

Without an immunity timer, this rotation would make pvp and pve a cake walk.

Kinda makes me want to make a Monk~

Gives me more time to save money and build a better computer! ;D

I just hope Battlefield 3 and Skyrim are very, very enjoyable.

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You guys are talking about BASE Meteor.

Meteor with a level 7 Crimson rune does 990% Weapon Damage as fire
Add glass cannon (increase all damage dealt by 20%) and you're looking at 1188% Weapon Damage as fire
Combined with Arcane Dynamo (After 8 signature spells you gain 50% extra damage to next non-sig spell) and you have a whopping 1782% Weapon Damage as fire

I did the math earlier. With 255 wep + crimson meteor you're looking at 3.5k damage if they stand in the aoe for the 3 seconds after impact.

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A lot of the wands seem to have xx-xx% wizard damage increase. Also you aren't accounting for the orb offhand that you would be able to use.

Orbs don't have any damage stat on them, so it wouldn't be calculated with the wand in determining spell damage. Also, no orbs have any +% damage on them. Therefore, every stat that is calculated in the % weapon damage of spells comes from the wand alone.


It would take some math (that I'm not up for doing at the moment) to determine if using a staff or wand is better. Take the following scenario for example:

450% spell damage using a staff with 255 damage

or

450% spell damage using a wand with ~137 damage + an additional 131%-271% damage (highest +% damage on all wands listed).

Just ran it through my calculator and it's possible that the wand damage is higher according to my numbers, but I'm assuming this isn't always the case.

All staves are 1.0 attacks per second, as listed on the site at the moment. They would indeed be x% of 255.

This really gets me thinking...are wands/orbs even going to considered by Wizards if spell damage is based off your weapon?

Staff = 255 damage every 1.0 seconds
Wand = ~137 damage every 1.2 seconds

Seems like spells would just be much more powerful when using a staff.

Wow. But....doesn't this take some of the joy out of playing the game? After all, many people play for the ill loots, and the surprise of those loots is always fun.


Either way...I'm taking a peek!

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4. Players not taking damage from activated traps (falling walls, etc.) is unrealistic

5. Mouse cursor is ugly and organic. What happened to the gauntlet?

Only those two.

QFT.