On April 09 2014 04:00 Glacierz wrote:
Has anyone ran out of minions to kill when doing the A3 stonefort bounty? This happened to me twice already, the last run I was at 89/100 and there's literally nothing left on the map to kill.

got 70/100 in my last run

Terranasaur

United States2085 Posts

April 09 2014 05:20 GMT

#16882

I found 3 legendary crafting plans tonight... Any tips for farming mats and whites?

PandaCore

Germany553 Posts

April 09 2014 07:26 GMT

#16883

On April 09 2014 14:20 Terranasaur wrote:
I found 3 legendary crafting plans tonight... Any tips for farming mats and whites?

For legendary crafting mats look here:
http://www.diablofans.com/forums/diablo-iii-general-forums/diablo-iii-general-discussion/83094-guide-legendary-crafting-materials-drop-locations

For most of the named enemies I just go into Adventure Mode and restart the game until I get the named mob as a bounty target. So I at least know he is there. I'm not really sure if all of the named enemies can be bounty targets, but most of them are.

Farming whites is probably done best in the Battlefields of Act 5, since there are a lot of armor stands.
Another good spot is Act 1 Halls of Agony for the torture tools.

Apart from that you can still hope for some whites as random drop from enemies.
I was looking for Ascended Shields a while ago and I actually got 3 of them from enemies and absolutely none from racks.

Nekovivie

United Kingdom2599 Posts

April 09 2014 09:04 GMT

#16884

Where's the best place to farm weapon racks?

I've seen a few in Act4 but I can't remember where else.

PandaCore

Germany553 Posts

April 09 2014 09:08 GMT

#16885

On April 09 2014 18:04 Nekovivie wrote:
Where's the best place to farm weapon racks?

I've seen a few in Act4 but I can't remember where else.

Act 1 Halls of Agony torture tools drop weapons.
Act 5 Battlefields of Eternity is better for armor pieces.

Nekovivie

United Kingdom2599 Posts

April 09 2014 09:23 GMT

#16886

On April 09 2014 18:08 PandaCore wrote:

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Act 1 Halls of Agony torture tools drop weapons.
Act 5 Battlefields of Eternity is better for armor pieces.

Now that you mention it I've seen LOADS of weapon racks in that dungeon place with the warden. That area is always the same layout too so it should be quick to farm.

andrewlt

United States7702 Posts

April 09 2014 14:51 GMT

#16887

I think the passage and ruins of Corvus has a lot of racks as well.

Latham

9563 Posts

April 09 2014 16:48 GMT

#16888

Hey guys since there is no barb thread, I'll ask here. As a Barb how do you value defensive stats? I want to move on to T1 and beyond eventually. http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Latham-2213/hero/37979918
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How much resistance is enough, before the heavy diminishing returns kick in? Should I focus on Life per hit/life on kill for heals?
Generally how much VIT/life do I want on higher difficulties?
What should I roll on gear? Armor, strength, vitality in that order or?
For offensive stats it is crit dmg = crit chance > strength > damage > attack speed?

basically I'm asking for some kind of target values or minimum values for torment

On April 10 2014 02:12 Blitzkrieg0 wrote:

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there is a barb thread

Holy shit, somehow my browser wasn't displaying it when I clicked on the Diablo III tab D:

Blitzkrieg0

United States13132 Posts

April 09 2014 17:12 GMT

#16889

On April 10 2014 01:48 Latham wrote:
Hey guys since there is no barb thread, I'll ask here. As a Barb how do you value defensive stats? I want to move on to T1 and beyond eventually. http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Latham-2213/hero/37979918
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there is a barb thread

Glacierz

United States1244 Posts

April 09 2014 17:13 GMT

#16890

If you have over 300k pre-buff toughness you can basically do T1 pretty comfortably. Most barbs I see on T1-3 are sitting around 400k HP, close to 1k AR, and a ton of armor. You don't want armor on gear because you are getting a ton from your primary stat, All resist is much better defensively.

Offensively it depends largely on your weapons. Generally you want max CD on weapons and stack CC on jewelry. If you use something that procs a lot (i.e. Thunderfury), attack speed can potentially offer greater off-sheet DPS, you have to try different combinations to see what works best for you.

Here's my profile, I can go up to T3/T4 without dying much, but the dmg output is pretty bad at those levels without shard of hate:

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/glacier-1662/hero/3184969

Usagi

Spain1647 Posts

April 09 2014 18:18 GMT

#16891

On April 10 2014 02:12 Blitzkrieg0 wrote:

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there is a barb thread

Jus that the class is so underwhelming to play at the moment that no one even talks about them anymore... wonder if they fixed the avalanche bug with this patch.

Nikon

Bulgaria5710 Posts

April 09 2014 18:20 GMT

#16892

All I want to know about this patch is why isn't the nephalem rift cast time OPTIONAL? I mean, it wouldn't be hard to add a tick somewhere, right?

LaNague

Germany9118 Posts

April 09 2014 20:37 GMT

#16893

what are you talking about, barbarians are just fine and with shard of hate they actually are FARMING T6. Until that gets nerfed, which curiously it didnt last patch.

i dont know about melee, but my DH wants at at least 3m thoughness, where its 300k Hp and rest comes from resist/armor.
4m makes it comfortable in all situations.

melee might need more, but also gets 30% reduction.

Usagi

Spain1647 Posts

April 09 2014 20:46 GMT

#16894

On April 10 2014 05:37 LaNague wrote:
what are you talking about, barbarians are just fine and with shard of hate they actually are FARMING T6. .

with shard of hate, exactly

I have a gazillion hours played with barbarian and right now I feel akward with it, too many changes since vanilla.

dAPhREAk

Nauru12397 Posts

April 10 2014 00:16 GMT

#16895

rifts are now 1,000,000,000% legend drop!!! not really, but if you werent doing rifts before, blizzard is going to nerfhammer everything you do until you do do rifts. i, for one, welcome destroying more rifts! 25% increase to 100% increase!!!

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/12471197317?page=1

Kipsate

Netherlands45349 Posts

April 10 2014 00:49 GMT

#16896

they fucking did it again

Thank god for rifting tho, I like Rifts but they felt so unrewarding.

Mithhaike

Singapore2759 Posts

April 10 2014 00:55 GMT

#16897

But I did rifts yesterday and i got 10 legendaries in 2hours, then another 5 in 1hr later on the day. Found myself a thunderfury, mempo & various other loot.

RNGesus is with me?

Dakkas

2550 Posts

April 10 2014 01:16 GMT

#16898

On April 10 2014 09:55 Mithhaike wrote:
But I did rifts yesterday and i got 10 legendaries in 2hours, then another 5 in 1hr later on the day. Found myself a thunderfury, mempo & various other loot.

RNGesus is with me?

I hate you. That is all.

KillerSOS

United States4207 Posts

April 10 2014 02:03 GMT

#16899

On April 10 2014 09:16 dAPhREAk wrote:
rifts are now 1,000,000,000% legend drop!!! not really, but if you werent doing rifts before, blizzard is going to nerfhammer everything you do until you do do rifts. i, for one, welcome destroying more rifts! 25% increase to 100% increase!!!

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/12471197317?page=1

Is that live? I thought it wasn't in yet... its great news for sure though!

Gladness

United States59 Posts

April 10 2014 02:36 GMT

#16900

On April 10 2014 11:03 KillerSOS wrote:

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Is that live? I thought it wasn't in yet... its great news for sure though!

No.
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/12473067427#5

Indeed. Once hotfixes go live, I'll update the hotfix list accordingly. Right now, these changes are still being tested and are considered pending. I'm unable to provide an ETA at this time, but they're on their way.

Said hotfix list is http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/12427063132.

edit: Yes. See second link.