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EightyEight
United States12 Posts
This is my setup: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Justin-1665/hero/1242890 any tips on simple upgrades I could do that wont hit the pocket hard? I don't play very often (more of a sc2 kinda guy) therefore my gold count is pretty low. I guess another question is, should I simply farm A2 until I have the money to upgrade to A3, or farm keep levels in A3? thank you for any advice/tips! | ||
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trinxified
Canada7774 Posts
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/blog/7155884/Dev_Journal_Defensive_Bonuses_and_Monster_Damage-9_14_2012 | ||
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Kazeyonoma
United States2912 Posts
However, we're also reducing incoming damage in Inferno, so players will actually come out ahead. In short the plan is: Reduce the effectiveness of select defensive skills Reduce monster damage by more than the mitigation lost by these skills Putting both changes together, players actually take less damage than before so overall we should be taking 'less' damage, it's just making it so that warcry/impunity won't be as mandatory. (87.1% of all barbs use warcry/impunity). They're also changing leap/iron impact. now it's going to provide 100% armor per target hit, instead of a flat 300%. This can be a nerf if you use it mostly to escape, but a buff if you use it to engage. more situational now. we'll have to play around with it to see, but if what they say is true with 25% nerf to inferno difficulty damage, than it should end up being an overall buff to all classes, even despite the 'huge nerf'. | ||
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Black Gun
Germany4482 Posts
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Hairy
United Kingdom1169 Posts
On September 15 2012 01:50 EightyEight wrote: Im farming A2 pretty effectively with this setup, but im having trouble farming A3. I can do keep levels, but once i get to taking down the catapolts i get pwnt. This is my setup: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Justin-1665/hero/1242890 any tips on simple upgrades I could do that wont hit the pocket hard? I don't play very often (more of a sc2 kinda guy) therefore my gold count is pretty low. I guess another question is, should I simply farm A2 until I have the money to upgrade to A3, or farm keep levels in A3? thank you for any advice/tips! How much gold is "pretty low"? It's hard to give specific advice without any real knowledge of budget. You should farm the highest level content that you feel comfortable with (bearing in mind A3 > A4). If you are struggling, it will be better to go back and do easier content at a fast rate than do hard content slower and with deaths. As far as your gear goes, I'd say your biggest problems are:
If I were you, I would....
You should adjust your skills, too - Whirlwind with 'hurricane' rune is preferential because you can continue to spawn sprint's tornadoes with greater ease. I would recommend you change your enchantress so that she gives you 3% attack speed, instead of her charm spell. | ||
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LingsAreBunnies
United States103 Posts
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/INeedLings-1648/hero/3247163 got about 30k more dps and a bit more resists, what should I upgrade/replace next, feels like I sacrificed a bit too much survivability, I occasionally get bursted down by succubus/phasebeast combination now. | ||
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Black Gun
Germany4482 Posts
On September 15 2012 03:00 LingsAreBunnies wrote: found many valuable legendaries in the past 2 days, (witching hour and nat chest/boots/ring with really high rolls) and bought a lot of gears with plenty leftover! http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/INeedLings-1648/hero/3247163 got about 30k more dps and a bit more resists, what should I upgrade/replace next, feels like I sacrificed a bit too much survivability, I occasionally get bursted down by succubus/phasebeast combination now. its quite easy: you need more life, something like 40k. 27k is just too low, as you experience right now. the piece that i like the least are the shoulders. i would get shoulders with 150-200 str, 60-100 vita, 50+ res and 9+% life. so you would sacrifice some minor amount of strength and res for muuuuch more life. | ||
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Aceace
Turkey1305 Posts
http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Ace-2540/hero/2615912 30m budget right now. After i see 1.05 buff and new "playersx" mode i don't know what to do. Should i upgrade anything? or wait and see. Also if you see weak spots on my gear please tell me. (Btw i love my +10k health globe bonus. Thats the easiest way to increase survival.  | ||
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Black Gun
Germany4482 Posts
On September 15 2012 07:58 Aceace wrote: Its my turn to ask questions:D http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Ace-2540/hero/2615912 30m budget right now. After i see 1.05 buff and new "playersx" mode i don't know what to do. Should i upgrade anything? or wait and see. Also if you see weak spots on my gear please tell me. (Btw i love my +10k health globe bonus. Thats the easiest way to increase survival. your crit chance is rather low. i would probably get an amu with cc on it if i were you. your chest armor and pants have rather low stats. you can quite easily get ones with similar res and more stats. other than that, i dont see a glaring weakness in your gear. but maybe it would be better to get nerves of steel, superstition or tough as nails instead of boon of bul-kathos. boon is a passive for high-end barbs whose gear is so great that the most limiting factor to the speed of their runs is movementspeed, so that increasing the uptime of wotb with its 20% MS bonus actually makes a difference. with your current gear level, you are rather far away from that. | ||
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Caphe
Vietnam10817 Posts
 .Could you guys link/tell me those noticeable things that I need to know. Such as what build is popular right now etc... Thanks in advance. | ||
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Terranasaur
United States2085 Posts
On September 16 2012 01:19 Caphe wrote: Hi everybody!!! I wasn't able to play D3 since June(before RMAH), I was at A2 Inferno with my Barbarian. Now I want to catch up with all the things that have been going on for the last 3 months. As I am lazy and don't want to read more than 100 pages .Could you guys link/tell me those noticeable things that I need to know. Such as what build is popular right now etc... Thanks in advance. Look at any of the profiles linked in the last three pages, those will all contain the WW build. Pretty much standard for Barbs right now. Best available at least. | ||
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Toadily
United States837 Posts
1) 752 dps 1.61 atksp (+7% atkspeed) 434 loh 2.6% lifesteal 90 critdmg os vs 2) 205 dps 1.5 atkspeed 237 str 141 dex 113 vit 806 loh 85 critdmg os I know offhand dmg isn't worth all that much, but it's still quite the difference, the faster attack speed as well. But the other offhand has 236 str, also quite a bit of dex/vit as well. Which one would yield actual more dps? | ||
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Aceace
Turkey1305 Posts
Use this | ||
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Toadily
United States837 Posts
That only gives character sheet dps, I meant like actual gameplay dps, since nado doesn't use offhand weapon damage but its attack speed. | ||
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Aceace
Turkey1305 Posts
For example My overall character sheet dps is 46k, Main dmg hit is 50k. So i don't care about character sheet dps too. Main dmg hit x Attacks per sec = Main hand dps. If I'm wrong someone please correct me | ||
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Dacendoran
United States825 Posts
On September 15 2012 03:00 LingsAreBunnies wrote: found many valuable legendaries in the past 2 days, (witching hour and nat chest/boots/ring with really high rolls) and bought a lot of gears with plenty leftover! http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/INeedLings-1648/hero/3247163 got about 30k more dps and a bit more resists, what should I upgrade/replace next, feels like I sacrificed a bit too much survivability, I occasionally get bursted down by succubus/phasebeast combination now. Man my dps is SO much lower and it seems all of my stats except for my MH weapon damage are higher including 500 strength what am I doing wrong =[ | ||
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Black Gun
Germany4482 Posts
On September 16 2012 10:09 Toadily wrote: Trying to decide between an offhand upgrade right now 1) 752 dps 1.61 atksp (+7% atkspeed) 434 loh 2.6% lifesteal 90 critdmg os vs 2) 205 dps 1.5 atkspeed 237 str 141 dex 113 vit 806 loh 85 critdmg os I know offhand dmg isn't worth all that much, but it's still quite the difference, the faster attack speed as well. But the other offhand has 236 str, also quite a bit of dex/vit as well. Which one would yield actual more dps? oh, thats a tough question. ill try to find an approximate answer without using calculators or knowing your exact stats. both have about the same amount of critdam and a socket, so this is irrelevant for the comparison. lets assume you have 1900 strength without the offhand, so that the increase (expressed as a factor) in damage from 237 str is 2237/2000 = 1.1185 = 11.85%. (im using an equal sign here but mean "is equivalent to".) if you have a different amount of strength, the compuation goes accordingly. now to the effect of the higher attack speed on the first one on the nado damage: half of all nados will have the speed of the offhand, which in that case is 1.61/1.5 = 1.0733 = 7.33% higher. so on average, the tornados will do 7.33/2 = 3.66% more damage because of that, while they do 11.85% more damage with the second offhand. now to the damage of attacks other than the nados: here, 50% of the damage comes from the mainhand (affected by strength only) and 50% from the offhand (huge difference here). additionally, various tests have shown that about 80% of the overall damage of ww/sprint barbs comes from the tornados. using all these figures, we get the following: weapon 2: 1.1185*(0.8*mainhand dam + 0.2* ( 0.5*mainhand dam + 0.5*offhand dam)) = 1.1185*(0.9*mainhand dam + 0.1*offhand2 dam) weapon 1: 1.0366*0.8*mainhand dam + 0.1*mainhand dam + 0.1*offhand1 dam now we have two formulas that depend only on the mainhand damage, so you can solve, e.g., for which values of the mainhand dam the second offhand would be better. i have done this with some software and the result is that the second weapon (205 dps, 237 str) is better for all mainhands with a dps of 707 or higher. if you have less than 1900 str without the offhand, than the comparison is even more in favor of offhand #2. so most likely, offhand #2 is better damagewise. and it also offers some vita, so thats nice aswell.  | ||
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Dacendoran
United States825 Posts
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Caphe
Vietnam10817 Posts
Before I cheesed my way through ACT 2(skipped many elites) but now ACT 2 was just a breeze with the same old items I got 3 months ago. Still use the ancient build based on revenge, and it feels so much easier already. | ||
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Black Gun
Germany4482 Posts
On September 16 2012 13:38 Caphe wrote: Wow, the game has become so much easier than it was before. I was at ACT 3 Inferno 3 weeks after release, have to stop playing for like 3 months. Before I cheesed my way through ACT 2(skipped many elites) but now ACT 2 was just a breeze with the same old items I got 3 months ago. Still use the ancient build based on revenge, and it feels so much easier already. true dat. i dont really like it - its neither good game design nor promoting build diversity when all the endgame builds are about nothing else than movement speed. every 3rd post in the wizard thread is whine about the disadvantage that wizards got compared to barbs or dhs because they dont have an equally good skill for moving around quickly. not to speak about monks or even wds. the wizards at least got teleport with wormhole for some speedup. | ||
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