EPTSummary:
- about 30 mins per run
- everyone needs to be able to do decent dps IN MF GEAR as we all switch into mf gear before last hitting elite/azmodan
- party of 3 (DH, Wiz, WD)
- well geared (I wouldn't say top of the line but I wouldn't say we are average geared either)
- many top end rares + blues
- challenging, actually takes skill and fun to play with teammates to mf
Gear/Skill Summary:
Wizard (who I play) - AOE/survivability during Azmodan fight
35k hp with 60k dps
shock pulse with piercing orb, arcane orb, force weapon, tele wormwhole, diamond skin, force armor, astral presence, prodigy, glass cannon
my role in the party is to aid demon hunter in dps when we are killing elites (the hardest part, azmodan is 1 shot on farm), shock pulse with piercing orb is spammable BEHIND pillars (including the one in the azmodan fight).
I am able to spam shock pulse behind the pillar and have nothing touch me during azmodan fight and certain terrain against certain elites
Demon Hunter - all dps while utilizing smoke screen for the little survivability needed
30k hp with 80k dps
obviously, smoke screen. HE DOES NOT HAVE A SNARE, NOT NEEDED. not sure what he uses but he uses a cross bow with the red swirling things that pierce and float on the ground in one direction (again, this is very useful as it does huge dps and you are able to stand behind the holes in the ground during the azmodan fight and just dps fire the big fireball just rams into the pillar).
Witch Doctor - CC/survivability
40k hp with 40k dps
poison dart, fetish army, dps totem, aoe slow, that phasing thing that makes in invincible for a short period of time, other utility. the witch doctor is crucial because he is able to survive for long periods of time against elites. against harder elites, what we do is seperate them in half. The wd kites half far away while wiz and DH dps down the other half quickly.
STEP 1
the 3 of us create 3 seperate games on quest Act 3 kill azmodan. We go to waypoint The Core of Arreat. Clear some trash and find the first elite. Whoever encounters the easiest elite says in game and the other two join up.
STEP 2
Clear all the way up to Azmodan (95% of the time there are 2 elites which means 2 stacks already). there are no elites that we cannot kill (some take a longer, obviously). The narrow and long is perfect for kiting and it allows us to split into 2 groups (DH/WIZ and WD kiting).
STEP 3
TP to town and head to WP Arreat Crater Level 1. There are a lot of huge groups of spiders that are easy to kill and give really good gold if you have 2 stacks already. Farm this area until you have 4 or 5 stacks. If you have 5, head straigh to Azmodan. If you have 4, then you have 2 options. Go and kill Azmodan with 4 stacks (sometimes it just takes too much time to find another elite elsewhere) OR go to Rakkis Crossing WP and go in reverse to find the near elite (if he is hard to kill without kiting area then forget it).
STEP 4
Azmodan with 4 or 5 stacks. When you engage, pull him back to the centre pillar. WD drops totem and casts fetish army. DH/Wiz stand behind pillar where fireballs can't hit (they crash into the pillar) and dps hard. We usually get him around 50% just as our totem ends and he enters blood phase. DPS him while in blood phase as much as possible. WD is usually on demon gate duty, unless he can't get there. With a sliver of health left, everyone put on mf gear and kill him. All of us are at ~300mf when we kill him.
NOTES
- we rarely wipe (all 3 of us die at the same time) as our WD is sick at kiting and can run and decently dps; it is mostly DH and Wiz dying but we are going hard on dps
- always leave about 200k health left last elite and switch to MF gear
- a few times it took too long to kill and elite enraged, but that is really rare
- If you want to try this, I suggest you and your party go to Azmodan and get the fight down - you will need to 1 shot him and have him on farm otherwise it wastes too much time
- again, it is fun and challenging (I feel like this is the game is meant to be played and how blizzard envisioned people doing their MF runs
LOOT
After the our first day of runs yesterday, here is a summary of our loot
- with mf gear last hitting and valor stacks, any elite almost is 1+ rare, some chests we have rares drop (we put on mf gear and open the chest), azmodan almost always drops 3 rares and 5-7 blues (per person)
- each of us got AT LEAST 2 pieces of gear that signifcant upgraded ourselves
witch doctor got a 1 handed ceremonial knife with 950dps with int/vit/mana+
demon hunter got a rare amulet with sick dex/vit/ias
I got shoulders with high int/vit/50 res all and boots with 12movement speed/high int/vit
- sold items, a few items that sold for around 1 million easy, I found a 1000dps 1 hander with +230 str that will probably sell for 5-7million (crossing fingers)
