Hardcore - a guide & why you should play it - Page 17

On October 02 2012 18:58 Douillos wrote:
Hello,

So I just got to Inferno with my Wizz ( a bit late to the party, I know . Id be grateful if you could help me out on this one, I wouldnt want to die too quick.

So here we go:
My character armory profile:

http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Douillos-2124/hero/19600501

This is me in VERY defensive mode: Im around 450 resists 3K8 armour UNbuffed. With prismatic (instead of force) i feel im really solid. I have 32K HP, which is a little less than I used to have, but I had to sacrifice a bit some DPS. With this build I am approx at 19K5 dps.
If i switch my skill around ( echant weapon instead of hydra and glass cannon instead of evocation) I get to 25K dps, 391 resist min, and still 5K5 armour Unbuffed.

My first question: do I have a chance in act 1/act2 inferno? It seems to me that im ok defensive wise, but im a bit afraid of being short in DPS...

Also, what build do you guys use? I feel that all the builds i can find looking around are just glass cannons for softcore players... What do you guys use as wizzards?

On October 02 2012 19:08 Nethermind wrote:
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Your stats sound fine for A1, but not A2. get A1 on farm, then look at progressing to A3 (skip A2 due to mob types) in the next patch once difficulty is reduced.

Build wise, i'd go Piercing Orb for AoE and the pierce effect for signature, Blizzard, almost any rune option for its crowd control, allowing you to drop temporal flux passive. Change Temp Flux for illusionist. Prismatic over force until your stats are far, far better.

Play this build by dropping Hydra, then blizz, then spam Shock Pulse Orb. Control the situation and you should be fine.

Any questions, Nethermind#1663 on US.

On October 02 2012 19:48 Douillos wrote:


Thank you very much for your advice. Just a question on force armor. It really reassures me that i cant get one shoted, is that a false sense of security? With prismatic I get to 560 resistance, is that overkill ?

On October 02 2012 20:13 Nethermind wrote:


You can still get 1 shot for Force armour. It was changed very early on, so that if an attack can exceed your post-mitigation life, it will bypass force armour. So it is great when your effective life is huge. You are not there yet.

560 is not overkill. I would run 700 in A1 and be comfortable. Dont worry about overkill too, its HC. Down the line, you'll only want that higher and higher.

On October 03 2012 03:06 Freezard wrote:
Just killed Maghda and Shatterbone but not sure if I'm able to clear Act 2 including Belial. I was able to tank Shatterbone without double nukes, he got me down to half health but otherwise I haven't been close to dying. The problem is my DPS and attack speed are really low and my resistances could be higher as well. Haven't done any farming and don't really want to farm either, especially since you can't buy shit on AH now anyway, it's all dead. I bought my 850 LoH 920 DPS weapon for 500k and it was literally on the first page of a 600 LoH search... but maybe that's just how HC AH is.

Here's my stats including passives, Enchantress and Warcry - Impunity.

http://i.imgur.com/lJRGK.jpg

On October 03 2012 21:25 Freezard wrote:
Douillos: Well there are a few but all are from 1.0.3 unfortunately and most are barbs. 10k DPS is enough up until Belial though that's for sure. Act 1 about 400 AR and 40k life should be enough.

On October 03 2012 21:25 Freezard wrote:
unkkz: Do a search for 600 LoH 1H weapons and you'll see that there's only one weapon with 1000+ damage compared to softcore where anything under 1000 DPS is trash. Basically if I want to upgrade my LoH weapon I have 5-10 to choose from...

On October 03 2012 21:25 Freezard wrote:
unkkz: Do a search for 600 LoH 1H weapons and you'll see that there's only one weapon with 1000+ damage compared to softcore where anything under 1000 DPS is trash. Basically if I want to upgrade my LoH weapon I have 5-10 to choose from...

Douillos: Well there are a few but all are from 1.0.3 unfortunately and most are barbs. 10k DPS is enough up until Belial though that's for sure. Act 1 about 400 AR and 40k life should be enough.

On October 04 2012 04:56 unkkz wrote:



On a different note, like as i am pressing "resume game" to start an act 2 clear my internet dies. Fucking luck of the century, 20 seconds later an i'd be dead(that would've been my FOURTH dead decked out 60 DH to a DC btw, can we get a disconnect timeout already blizz?) and it turns out it's a nationwide problem with the people owning the fiber so above ISP level even.

On October 05 2012 07:43 Freezard wrote:
Switched out some life for damage and took down Belial with double nuke, 14k DPS unbuffed. Before this I took him down on PTR and it's a pretty big difference. So I tried MP3 since Blizzard said it's the same difficulty as 1.0.4... well guess what, the snakes owned me instantly, even though they do pretty much zero damage on 1.0.4. So I guess MP1 is more like it is now.

So I tried the first quest of Act 3, went pretty well, took down a Fallen Overlord pack but later encountered Fallen Hellhound with molten/frozen/jailer and they kicked my ass, had to escape... so well, time to farm AH for better gear.