D3 Hardcore Community - Page 7

On January 21 2013 23:30 Namu wrote:
Is there a "recommended" class for a first time hardcore player?
I've played softcore a bit (probably 300~ hours spread across 3 classes mainly), but have never played d3 hardcore.

On January 22 2013 00:11 Oxslow wrote:
Have a look at this page http://diablo.somepage.com/info/hardcore-deaths it shows what dies at what levels. To give you a quick run down Witch doctor, Barb, Monk, Wizard, DH in order of survivability.

On January 22 2013 01:46 meffo wrote:
hi, hi. i'm a reasonably active HC player on eu. i play all classes. mostly wizard and monk i guess, but i also really enjoy witch doctor and demon hunter. barb is way too easy to play, in my opinion. i am always looking for more friends, so please feel free to add me!

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On January 22 2013 03:15 powerbygood wrote:
Well, just lost my paragon 8 wizard. Got frozen in a pool of poison

On January 22 2013 03:15 powerbygood wrote:
Well, just lost my paragon 8 wizard. Got frozen in a pool of poison

On January 23 2013 05:23 ChosenSC2 wrote:
I've always preferred Life Regen personally (Witch Doctor). For the simple fact that, when I'm in trouble / need life, I'm not attacking, I'm running. So that 1800 life / second really helps when I'm trying to flee. Now, for a Barb / Monk or something stuck in the fray attacking, I would prefer LoH or Life Steal.

On January 23 2013 06:28 Eschaton wrote:
After getting to 60, I have to say WOW everything is expensive in HC. So much so that I feel that I have to completely disregard the gear advice from the barb thread due to feasibility; most will tell new barbs to go for 2-piece IK. In HC? Riiight. However, loot seems the same; my one (and only) 60+ leg in HC thus far was non other than the infamous Gladiator Gauntlets. GG. Wait, gladiator gauntles = gg ... Bliz is trolling us.

Any HC barbs want to throw out some numbers for survivability in A3 MP0? I'm at 9400 armor / 750 AR / 1050 vit, ~700k EHP. DPS is insanely low, 18k.

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Eschaton-1341/hero/30671340

I'm looking for a few short-term gear goals in the 1-10m range that will let me get safely into A3.

Also... I need to switch Sprint for Leap, don't I? I have a feeling not having Leap is going to get me murdered. Twice now I've got down to ~50% HP not by being frozen but by being blocked in my elites that can teleport & surround. Rend + Revenge kept me alive thankfully.

On January 23 2013 04:56 HorsemasterK wrote:
Finally moved on to Act 3 after farming Act 2 for a good while. My stats were something like ~50k life, 600AR, 400LoH, 4k armor and 25k - 45k dps depending on my Soul Harvest/Gruesome Feast stacks.

Get LoH or Life Regen (unless you have enough DPS for Life Steal). I had ditched my LoH for a bunch of DPS on my amulet and even though my dps went up, my farming speed went down, as I had to play more conservatively. I got the LoH back on one of my rings and it was smooth sailing.

I am now able to do Alkaizer runs, albeit much more slowly than is efficient, but at least I'm outta Vault of the Assassin ^^ Found a weapon upgrade while doing these that added 5k to my dps, so I'm up to around 40k average now.