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- D3 vanilla sucked

- RoS sucks less

- Catering to consoles is the core of what irrevocably killed Diablo 3. It shaped the environments, it shaped all gameplay, it shaped itemization, it shaped the complete lack of a social aspect. There's no amount of content patching that will salvage this failure. Ever.

That is all.

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It's not as simple as that. You need to acknowledge what stats you already have to determine which would be most beneficial. For example, if you have 1k vit but only 100 str or int, then one of those will most likely give you the biggest boost. If everything is equal however, I don't know the formulae so I'd have to see, but I would fathom a guess that str would be the most beneficial.

This is the best answer. Most likely you have a lot of vitality/str/all res and not a lot of dexterity (as that's how most barbarians in inferno tend to lean toward in gearing). In that case, dexterity would give you the most in regards to defense per stat and would be the most beneficial if you had to make that choice. You have to look at the stats as adding small numbers to defense as a whole rather than something as simple as "more dexterity means more dodge so I have a higher chance to dodge the 100k blow". That's not how stats work in Diablo.

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Vitality would be the most beneficial in getting your character closer to not being one shot because it gives you health and with the passive gives you an equal amount of armor that the strength would have given, considering all other stats are equal.

In the mean time dexterity is probably better because if you are going to get one shot anyway you will at least have a better chance of dodging and not being hit at all.

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But the OP just wanted to let people know that those stats existed, and I thought he was trying to say they were just as good as primary stats so my mistake

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Also, don't forget that, if you're a WD, stacking Int will give you damage PLUS resistances, so a lot of your survivability is already 'included' when you increase your damage via your main stat, thus making the other two stats much less useful, to the point of being almost ignorable.

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I was being sarcastic, and I admit it was a bit rude since you're only trying to help. But I think stuff like this is pretty obvious to people who spend time on a site dedicated to Diablo.

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Thanks, I had no idea. Too bad this info is nowhere to be found in-game.

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50 dex so you have that small chance of dodging it lol

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If everything is equal

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Of course your main stat is better than a different class' main stat, and thank you for reinforcing that Intelligence is in fact useful to a Barbarian. There's always something more preferable, but my point is to the arguments that "OMG MY WIZ GOT A STR ITEM HOW UTTERLY USELSS" because I honestly think many people do not realize that every stat actually benefits every character in some way. You've obviously done some reading. *claps!*

Yeah, if this is just a PSA that out-of-class stats give a small defensive bonus, then yeah, I'm probably not your target audience. I just didn't want anyone to be confused into thinking that they should be stacking all four primary stats to the exclusion of secondary stats or something.

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They add bonuses, but they are so minuscule that it's hard to justify using that instead of your primary stat. If your a monk and you have an item with 50 str (50 armor) and 50 dex, and an item with 100 dex the difference is like .5% damage reducing or 50% increase in damage and the choice is obvious.

You can't say people are complaining that a wizard is using an item with strength on it, because it may very well be an item with vit, int, and str. If the wizard is using an item with just str on it then they are either a very low level and have no other option, or they are just using bad gear.

I feel like the idea of a primary stat doesn't work well with diablo, because half the time your finding an item that isn't useful to you just because that stat is designed for another class and it just takes away from the fun of loot hunt. Maybe its superficial, but i'd rather say this item is bad then this item is good for another class.