D3 Hardcore Community - Page 34

On June 10 2013 17:24 carmon wrote:
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Carmon-1825/hero/32251428

Things that stand out for me are 400 stat marrow and get the ias on gloves instead, high vit zuni trail, vit innas. Ideas anyone?

On June 10 2013 15:10 Pokebunny wrote:
I think 100k is more than enough for hell mp10.

On June 11 2013 06:44 ChosenSC2 wrote:


More than enough? Try having someone power level you with 80k dps in Hell MP10 lol

Even with my 206k dps things don't just fall over, unless maybe we have different definitions of fast / safe ^^ I've had some people power level me where the elite packs take 10+ seconds, that's really bad. They should be <5 seconds.

On June 11 2013 10:29 ChosenSC2 wrote:
I guess I havn't power leveled people for 2 months +

Maybe they nerfed how much mp10 adds or something, I just remember I couldn't level people on MP10 when I first started and was doing about 110k dps, cuz I would have to sit there and hack on packs and it wasn't efficient. I believe you guys cuz I havn't done it in a while, its prolly changed.

On June 11 2013 12:02 ChosenSC2 wrote:
When they changed how much life / damage mobs have in relation to how many people are in a party, changed the XP% bonuses, life, damage of mobs based on MP level they have only ever changed Inferno? All the changes didn't affect other difficulties? I didn't know that ^^

Is there a list anywhere of all these numbers based on norm/ngtmare/hell vs Inferno?

On June 11 2013 12:40 Pokebunny wrote:

Ah, right. The only one that actually did change it is the %bonus for more people in a party. The others did not affect lower difficulties.

They never changed the damage below inferno also.

On June 11 2013 01:07 Pokebunny wrote:

Very very nice gear. Boots and pants are the things that stand out to me as poor. I picked up my inna's pants (65/88 9%) for 200M, and there are some slightly worse ones for <100M atm.

My wizard for reference.

On June 12 2013 07:31 CactusSC2 wrote:
Hey everyone... I just started playing Hardcore... I played Beta and at launch in Softcore, but quickly lost interest... I was fairly active up until a little while after paragon levels were introduced... I missed the feeling D2 gave me and didn't think playing softcore would be interesting again, but I'm giving hardcore a shot... My lvl 7 demon hunter is still alive and kicking... Thanks for the interesting reading here that got me re-interested...

On June 12 2013 05:53 chocopaw wrote:
Hey Pokebunny (and others),
you mentioned once when I asked how to improve my witch doctor that when I buy a better weapon I should look out for maces and spears. What exactly does make them superior? And are there no cases at all where e.g. a sword would be a good choice?

On June 12 2013 08:42 ChosenSC2 wrote:



I would guess that he was talking about the base attack speed of the weapon and that being the reason. I'm not 100% sure tho.

On June 12 2013 10:41 Eschaton wrote:


Yeah, it's definitely because of the base weapon attack speed, and the reasons are (afaik) two-fold.

1) Most WD skills use weapon damage to calculate the damage done. This isn't the DPS number shown for the weapon, but the min-max dmg shown below that; the DPS is a product of actual damage per hit * attacks per second. Maces and spears have 1.2 APS, and given an identical displayed DPS as a 1.4 APS Manajuma's knife, each bear will do significantly more damage. Skorns are also great for WD's due to this, but most prefer to still use an OH like TotD for pickup radius.

2) Related to 1) but different, WD's need to be mana-efficient. Doing the same damage with fewer attacks means you are using less mana to have the same effect. This is why +Atk Spd isn't a very important stat for WD's, although it doesn't hurt. It's always seemed ironic to me that WDs got a 1.4 base weapon as their class-specific 1h. I don't think that was thought through very well.