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Kingkosi
Profile Blog Joined October 2006
United States1215 Posts
October 17 2012 03:10 GMT
#2281
I picked this up on last Sunday for 10$ and I am having a blast but now I'm on Inferno and I need some help as far as where I should go with my build. Here is my build as of right now: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/KingKosi-1331/hero/27588614
Twitter: @KingKosi
Keirathi
Profile Joined May 2012
United States4679 Posts
October 17 2012 06:03 GMT
#2282
I'm looking for a little advice as to where to go from here as well.

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Laggy-1503/hero/4043097

I got all of that stuff back when it was still worth millions, and i have very little in the way of liquidcash atm. What things should i be trying to snipe on the AH? I'm fine soloing on MP2 or MP3, but just slow with only 20k dps
My dear friend if I have gone pants on head, you have gone socks on ears!!! -ShiaoPi
Acronysis
Profile Joined November 2011
872 Posts
October 17 2012 11:35 GMT
#2283
On October 17 2012 15:03 Keirathi wrote:
I'm looking for a little advice as to where to go from here as well.

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Laggy-1503/hero/4043097

I got all of that stuff back when it was still worth millions, and i have very little in the way of liquidcash atm. What things should i be trying to snipe on the AH? I'm fine soloing on MP2 or MP3, but just slow with only 20k dps


Hi,

I was in a very similar situation to you just a week ago. My DPS was like 24k (which is just so low haha), but I came to this thread and got some help. I was able to easily get to 40k dps with very little effort, and of course its only going to go up from here as i get more money to buy new gear.

I'm not sure how much money you have but you can make some easy adjustments with very little in your current state. First thing I notice is that you have a very low crit chance. Don't underestimate this stat, that's what I did and my DPS was super low because of it. I think getting it to ~30% is very easy to do and wouldn't cost a whole lot. Easy places to get crit are gloves (maximum of 10%) and ammys/rings.

Secondly, upgrade your weapons. You can find much better weapons on the AH for no more than 1 million (most likely even less). Try to find some with dex (vit can be nice too), and even better if it has a socket or crit dmg. Just make sure that if it is a more basic weapon that it at least has decent dps. Don't be afraid to sacrafice some of that Loh too. I find that 800-100 works fine for me.

Lastly, for your legs and chest, you should easily be able to find gear with similar stats (maybe slightly less) but with 2-3 sockets. It's not that expensive, and it will take you a long way.

P.S. Make sure you get a good amount of dex out of your gear, it's very easy to push it aside a little here and there but it adds up. I was told you want at least about 1500 from gear. I easily have that now and my DPS is significantly better because of it.

Hope it helps. I'd be glad to help out however I can =)
The multiplying villanies of man do swarm upon him.
Lokrium
Profile Joined March 2011
United States131 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-10-17 12:54:32
October 17 2012 12:53 GMT
#2284
I've been using a tempest rush/sweeping winds build to farm Act 3 MP0 as efficiently as I can. I'll post more info about it, including a video (hopefully), but tempest rush does work. Pre-patch with normal FoT/Cyclone I cleared all of act 3 except stonefort (+ Show Spoiler [My run] +
Barracks/Fortified Bunker, clear Battlefields from Rakkis Crossing, clear Bridge, clear all keep depths, clear everything in Arreat (towers & craters & cydea & azzie)
) in about 1 hour 10 minutes. Using tempest rush/MP0, I cleared the same run in 50 minutes. So that's a pretty decent improvement. I feel like the build can be even faster though. Right now I'm not using fleet footed because I need to use a stupid 2 spirit/sec passive to be spirit-stable. As soon as I get better gear I will run 10% faster.
Also, no other monk build lets you feel like Usain Bolt when you use a Fleeting Shrine.
Keirathi
Profile Joined May 2012
United States4679 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-10-18 06:16:40
October 18 2012 06:13 GMT
#2285
On October 17 2012 20:35 Acronysis wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 17 2012 15:03 Keirathi wrote:
I'm looking for a little advice as to where to go from here as well.

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Laggy-1503/hero/4043097

I got all of that stuff back when it was still worth millions, and i have very little in the way of liquidcash atm. What things should i be trying to snipe on the AH? I'm fine soloing on MP2 or MP3, but just slow with only 20k dps


Hi,

I was in a very similar situation to you just a week ago. My DPS was like 24k (which is just so low haha), but I came to this thread and got some help. I was able to easily get to 40k dps with very little effort, and of course its only going to go up from here as i get more money to buy new gear.

I'm not sure how much money you have but you can make some easy adjustments with very little in your current state. First thing I notice is that you have a very low crit chance. Don't underestimate this stat, that's what I did and my DPS was super low because of it. I think getting it to ~30% is very easy to do and wouldn't cost a whole lot. Easy places to get crit are gloves (maximum of 10%) and ammys/rings.

Secondly, upgrade your weapons. You can find much better weapons on the AH for no more than 1 million (most likely even less). Try to find some with dex (vit can be nice too), and even better if it has a socket or crit dmg. Just make sure that if it is a more basic weapon that it at least has decent dps. Don't be afraid to sacrafice some of that Loh too. I find that 800-100 works fine for me.

Lastly, for your legs and chest, you should easily be able to find gear with similar stats (maybe slightly less) but with 2-3 sockets. It's not that expensive, and it will take you a long way.

P.S. Make sure you get a good amount of dex out of your gear, it's very easy to push it aside a little here and there but it adds up. I was told you want at least about 1500 from gear. I easily have that now and my DPS is significantly better because of it.

Hope it helps. I'd be glad to help out however I can =)

Thanks for the advice! I only have 500k right now (before I quit, I sold of all of my gold on the RMAH...oops). But I spent like 200k on a chest/legs/ring, and started using an old pair of 9% crit gloves that I had. I ended up losing around 10k hp and 100 resists to gain 10k DPS or so. Probably not a really great trade, but it was pretty cheap. Also, reading through the thread more I saw the trick about prebuffing Sweeping Winds, which upped my actual DPS a ton without actually changing the paper doll DPS.

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Laggy-1503/hero/4043097 new stats. I'm currently sitting at around 45k?'ish DPS when I'm self-buffed with Blazing Wrath and Blind-Faith, with 21% crit and ~200% crit damage.

I'm looking into weapons, but it looks like I probably need at least 1m to get something that's a significant enough upgrade to spend money on, so I guess I need to farm some more first.

I did my first Infernal Machine with those stats tonight though. Went pretty well. I just feel much squishier. I'm sure I can get used to it, I'm just going to have to change my play style a bit. Before, I could just facetank everything except desecrate. Definitely have to be more careful now.
My dear friend if I have gone pants on head, you have gone socks on ears!!! -ShiaoPi
seiferoth10
Profile Joined May 2010
3362 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-10-18 12:48:12
October 18 2012 07:27 GMT
#2286
Anyone going back to shield? I tried MP5 (act 1, the big spiky guys in the dungeon heading to butcher) and was getting destroyed. Granted I haven't played in a while, but I digress. I have ~20m to blow, so I'm open to suggestions.

My guy: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Tiden-1317/hero/4123900

Edit: I figured out half the problem: I was still running Fleet Footed... switched back to Resolve.
Edit 2: I looked around and pretty much every upgrade for me is a legendary or set item costing at least 20m.
Tilorn91
Profile Joined July 2012
Serbia218 Posts
October 18 2012 09:43 GMT
#2287
I'm running MP5 with 25k hp and barely 600 AR, it's all about the possitioning. Bust out your combination strike build with foresight and enjoy melting faces.I also see a lot of people going back to %life gems in their head pieces, people dont like having 25% exp on top of the exp from MP?
Hollow
Profile Blog Joined July 2005
Canada2180 Posts
October 18 2012 09:57 GMT
#2288
On October 18 2012 18:43 Tilorn91 wrote:
I'm running MP5 with 25k hp and barely 600 AR, it's all about the possitioning. Bust out your combination strike build with foresight and enjoy melting faces.I also see a lot of people going back to %life gems in their head pieces, people dont like having 25% exp on top of the exp from MP?


It may just be that they now have the 35% of the hellfire ring and they don't have enough vitality.

I did this and I equipped my follower with hellfire too, so it's 35% + 7% already. Not bad. Grinding keys sucks at 7 and below in my experience, and I need more life to grind MP 7 and MP 8.
Truez
Profile Joined July 2009
Australia147 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-10-18 10:33:10
October 18 2012 10:31 GMT
#2289
Monk

Hey guys, coming back to D3 after quitting like 3months ago due to Inferno becoming a joke. Sitting at 52k hp, ~74k dps unbuffed, and 520ish all res. Trying to hit that 100k dps mark - whats the best way to approach it? Go all out and buy a perfect skorn? Or attempt to get some semi-decent Inna's (or w/e)?

Any input appreciated, cheers

Tilorn91
Profile Joined July 2012
Serbia218 Posts
October 18 2012 15:55 GMT
#2290
On October 18 2012 19:31 Truez wrote:
Monk

Hey guys, coming back to D3 after quitting like 3months ago due to Inferno becoming a joke. Sitting at 52k hp, ~74k dps unbuffed, and 520ish all res. Trying to hit that 100k dps mark - whats the best way to approach it? Go all out and buy a perfect skorn? Or attempt to get some semi-decent Inna's (or w/e)?

Any input appreciated, cheers



For Para level 49 your dex is suprisingly low, try getting shoulders with around 170+, and 2piece Inna's is a godsend. Since you already have echoing and andariels, I'd say just try to get legs and chest Inna's, and at least 2.8% life steal on a weapon to complensate for the loss of LoH from your pants.

Or you could go balls to the wall and buy Butchers Sickle with a good roll and just be done with weapons forever, and a Vile Ward and maybe an Ouroboros if you feel like moster power 10 is not easy enough.
Amui
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
Canada10567 Posts
October 18 2012 16:21 GMT
#2291
On October 18 2012 18:43 Tilorn91 wrote:
I'm running MP5 with 25k hp and barely 600 AR, it's all about the possitioning. Bust out your combination strike build with foresight and enjoy melting faces.I also see a lot of people going back to %life gems in their head pieces, people dont like having 25% exp on top of the exp from MP?


That gem at full NV+MP5 is worth something like an extra 12% exp for me. Once I get a hellfire ring it'll be like 10% more exp. Relative to how much easier MP5-7 is for me when I have a life gem, I'd take the life gem while all I'm doing is farming rings, especially since my chance of dying goes down by very noticeably. When I go back to lower MP levels for just farming levels, I'll swap back to a ruby.
Porouscloud - NA LoL
evantrees
Profile Joined May 2010
Canada497 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-10-19 01:17:01
October 18 2012 23:30 GMT
#2292
not quite sure what I should be looking to upgrade next. have about 8.4 million at the moment
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Garm-1162/hero/14055390
rejection and peace tiramisu. I think that went well.
Tilorn91
Profile Joined July 2012
Serbia218 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-10-19 02:15:22
October 19 2012 02:13 GMT
#2293
On October 19 2012 08:30 evantrees wrote:
not quite sure what I should be looking to upgrade next. have about 8.4 million at the moment
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Garm-1162/hero/14055390



You are in a tight spot there, the main thing is to push for as much dex while trying to cut on AR and vit. See if you can snipe yellow items that have high base dex but also some AR+some other res you're using. the start would probably be shoulders, boots and legs with 2 sockets, they can have high stats while not being too expencive.

Once you got that covered, see if you can get 850dps weapons with crit and life steal (2.8+) or LoH, and just generally upgrade you gear as you go.

EDIT: boots are fine, but you can get 200 dex from shoulders and legs.
wooozy
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
3813 Posts
October 19 2012 02:39 GMT
#2294
boo, i blew like 150m on shenlongs and i don't think they can compete with the usual echoing fury + whatever other weapon combo. the hadouken thing does pretty ok damage but it's got a cooldown on the proc rate
shinosai
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States1577 Posts
October 19 2012 03:11 GMT
#2295
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/shinosai-1154/hero/90091

Any advice on what I should get next? I only have 500k gold, pretty poor. I'm kind of at a loss since I can't seem to find many upgrades for the low amount of gold that I have, but I feel like my dps is really low.
Be versatile, know when to retreat, and carry a big gun.
wooozy
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
3813 Posts
October 19 2012 03:21 GMT
#2296
you're way too heavy on defensive stats. looks like you're hovering somewhere around 800 all resists unbuffed? there's definitely no need for moh/time of need. switch that to moc/overawe. while you're at it, switch your blind rune to faith in the light
bigwesside
Profile Joined September 2012
United States3 Posts
October 19 2012 07:47 GMT
#2297
alright I'm only on MP1 and I'm doing fine only on Act II, won't even attempt Act III because I basically died too much on 1.0.4 for act III to be even worth it before. Let me know what I can improve?

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/bigwesside-2248/hero/1992352

thanks!
Amui
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
Canada10567 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-10-19 07:59:34
October 19 2012 07:57 GMT
#2298
On October 19 2012 16:47 bigwesside wrote:
alright I'm only on MP1 and I'm doing fine only on Act II, won't even attempt Act III because I basically died too much on 1.0.4 for act III to be even worth it before. Let me know what I can improve?

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/bigwesside-2248/hero/1992352

thanks!


-Replace crippling wave with FoT-Thunderclap. Your sustain is coming from lifesteal and you use the lowest damage skill you have -_-;;
-Near death experience is a hardcore skill. Almost worthless in softcore, take transcendence/resolve/fleet footed depending on what you're looking for.
-MP1 act 3 is easier than in 1.04.
Porouscloud - NA LoL
Pwere
Profile Joined April 2010
Canada1556 Posts
October 19 2012 08:14 GMT
#2299
-Switch Wave of Light for Blind: Faith in the Light. Make sure you cast Blind right before you activate Sweeping Wind so your Wind will use the buffed dps.
-Switch Near Death Experience for Guardian Path.
-MP2 act 3 is still easier than 1.04.
bigwesside
Profile Joined September 2012
United States3 Posts
October 19 2012 08:35 GMT
#2300
thanks for the input! will try it out later tonight. near death experience was just consistently a nice little crutch that saved me a bunch of repair money instead of dying all the time. I noticed I don't use wave of light that much either after upping my crit chance and damage so I'll switch that out for blind. Any suggestion on items I could switch out and upgrade? I have about 1M right now...
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