**OFFICIAL** Diablo 3 Thread

[Silver Prime]

Tiger wins 9/10 times.

Tiger is a born predator and they live solitary lives. They hunt and kill alone, they learn to do this during the short time they have with their mother.

Lion is a pack hunter. Lions grow up with their siblings and live in prides, and spend time playing with each other and pretend hunting.

In the chance encounter between a wild tiger and a wild lion, the lion will still be assessing the situation while the tiger has already gone in for, and claimed, it's kill. Tigers are much more vicious fighters because tigers never play or socialize, they only ever engage to kill.

Right on. Go right a book about it, I'll buy it. ^_^

 

[darkewaffle]

I had a like $15 left in my RMAH balance from last year and was able to turn it into about 800M during the incident, could've actually been a fair bit more I just happened to strike the iron at an inopportune time lol.

Still, equipped a decent throwing barb and it's actually been pretty amusing for the time being. Been making a fair amount of money flipping items even now as well, they're out there. Bought a belt for 2600 and sold it for 1000x that, flipped a few decent IK chests and Echoing Furies for over 20M profit a piece too.

Evening out all four acts in terms of loot/monster density (roughly) is much appreciated, I think I like Act1 still though.

 

[smackababy]

Well, upgraded my monk a bit and let my GF use the gear. She was having trouble with me in MP10, so I spent another good amount on it. Got a very nice EF though. ~1150 dps with life steal and a socket, along with .25 aps. Now, just need 6 crit Mempo's for all my characters. =(

Sold 10 billion gold, sadly had to go through unconventional means to do it. Sold quick at $25 per billion though. Easy money.

 

[bonkers325]

Well, upgraded my monk a bit and let my GF use the gear. She was having trouble with me in MP10, so I spent another good amount on it. Got a very nice EF though. ~1150 dps with life steal and a socket, along with .25 aps. Now, just need 6 crit Mempo's for all my characters. =(

Sold 10 billion gold, sadly had to go through unconventional means to do it. Sold quick at $25 per billion though. Easy money.

wow how much did that EF cost? all you need now is a nice WKL and she's set.

 

[smackababy]

I think I paid around a billion for it. I have a WKL with LS, a socket and around ~910 DPS. It isn't great thought with 6/17. I didn't notice an increase in actual DPS with some minor testing last night. The spear I have is decent, and I can't find a better one on the AH ever. ~1050 dps with LS, 59% Crit Damage and a socket.

 

[bonkers325]

I think I paid around a billion for it. I have a WKL with LS, a socket and around ~910 DPS. It isn't great thought with 6/17. I didn't notice an increase in actual DPS with some minor testing last night. The spear I have is decent, and I can't find a better one on the AH ever. ~1050 dps with LS, 59% Crit Damage and a socket.

17% WKL is balls, but LS/sock makes up for it. the attack speed you get is insane combined with EF and you'll pump out a ton more cyclones.

try doing MP10 ghom with and without WKL and time it. typically you will finish 25% faster with WKL, but that was before they nerfed cyclones a bit.

 

[smackababy]

17% WKL is balls, but LS/sock makes up for it. the attack speed you get is insane combined with EF and you'll pump out a ton more cyclones.

try doing MP10 ghom with and without WKL and time it. typically you will finish 25% faster with WKL, but that was before they nerfed cyclones a bit.

Yeah I would prefer a 6/25, but there are not WKL with LS and a socket with 900+ dps on the AH when I was checking. Most were 5/15 and the 6/17 I did manage to find was the best of the bunch. I will check out Ghom though.

 

[silverpig]

I got 3 legendaries from a single CotA run yesterday.

Ivory Tower
Frostburn gauntlets
Some crappy hand crossbow (not a calamity, not even a dawn... the next one down)

 

[smackababy]

I been doing MP8 on the barb recently. It gives me more XP per hour to do Festering, then Weeping, then Leorics with elites rather than Shadow portal place (Zultan Kulle's archives) or Weeping on MP10 skipping the elites.

 

[bonkers325]

I been doing MP8 on the barb recently. It gives me more XP per hour to do Festering, then Weeping, then Leorics with elites rather than Shadow portal place (Zultan Kulle's archives) or Weeping on MP10 skipping the elites.

rule of thumb is figure out what mp level you can consistently survive in, then dial it down 2 levels so you can do it in a party of 4.

we should do mp8 group runs

 

[smackababy]

I can do MP10 on my barb no problem. It just the elites take awhile because I get shielding or extra health 100% of the time... =( Blizzard hates me.

 

[silverpig]

rule of thumb is figure out what mp level you can consistently survive in, then dial it down 2 levels so you can do it in a party of 4.

we should do mp8 group runs

I'd be down for that.

Relatives are staying with us this week now and they sleep in the living room with the tv/computer, so I don't get to play much this week

I'll be lucky to hit 100 by the end of the summer at this rate.

 

[smackababy]

I'd be down for that.

Relatives are staying with us this week now and they sleep in the living room with the tv/computer, so I don't get to play much this week

I'll be lucky to hit 100 by the end of the summer at this rate.

That, and you've got that whole being a DH thing going against you. >_<

 

[silverpig]

That, and you've got that whole being a DH thing going against you. >_<

Yeah. Not many of us around. The highest dps players have DHS among them though. I tried a rapid fire build based on the new tweaks but it still doesn't hold a candle to bola + spike traps.

 

[bonkers325]

Yeah. Not many of us around. The highest dps players have DHS among them though. I tried a rapid fire build based on the new tweaks but it still doesn't hold a candle to bola + spike traps.

good DH players are hard to find, the shitty ones all migrated to barb and cm wiz. i wish there were other decent monks around, i loathe playing my monk now that my barb is halfway decent.

 

[pandemonium]

Ok, I've probably dumped about 70m into a decent necklace now. For the life of me I can't seem to get one with LoH, IAS, and CC and/or CD on it. I have terrible luck on rolls. My gloves and shoulders are far from awesome, too. Have you guys gotten anything good from them or just stuck with dropped pieces?

At this rate I'll be PL100 with crappy crafted gear, lol.

 

[JJ650]

Ok, I've probably dumped about 70m into a decent necklace now. For the life of me I can't seem to get one with LoH, IAS, and CC and/or CD on it. I have terrible luck on rolls. My gloves and shoulders are far from awesome, too. Have you guys gotten anything good from them or just stuck with dropped pieces?

At this rate I'll be PL100 with crappy crafted gear, lol.

My luck with crafts blows chunks too. I just crafted 40 amulets and NONE of them rolled anything worth looking at. Only one even had CD+CC and it was stupidly low.
I have a barb buddy who rolls beauties all of time. I don't get it.
I have awesome DPS/Vit bracers just no AR. My shoulders aren't too bad. Could be better but they were a step up from my Wards.

 

[silverpig]

Ok, I've probably dumped about 70m into a decent necklace now. For the life of me I can't seem to get one with LoH, IAS, and CC and/or CD on it. I have terrible luck on rolls. My gloves and shoulders are far from awesome, too. Have you guys gotten anything good from them or just stuck with dropped pieces?

At this rate I'll be PL100 with crappy crafted gear, lol.

I got quite lucky with my am my, getting something good on my 7th or 8th try. Dex, dmg, 6.5 cc, 96 cd, % life, loh, and I think that is it. It might even have allres on it too. No ias, but I don't need to blow money and gems to improve it a little bit.

 

[Rhezuss]

How does MP works?

What is the default MP level on Nightmare for instance?
Can I simply up the MP and hope to get more loot in singleplayer runs?

I'm currently level 36 at the end of Act 1 on Nightmare...

EDIT: Ok just read the Wiki and looks like i'm gonna try some MP1 or MP2 and see how it goes.

 

[smackababy]

I wasted time crafting for awhile and got nothing to show for it. So, I've just been stacking my Demonics and will end up using the 200 or so I have on garbage crafts again.

 

[bonkers325]

crafted an ammy with 6.5% cc, 63% cd, 216 dex, 27-55 dmg, and an open socket and +49 poison res

crafted bracers +307 dex, +160 vit, +50 light res, 5% cc

crafted shoulders +250 dex, +79 vit, +41 physical res, +71 all res, +249 armor, 11% MF

i'm waiting for them to do something interesting with One With Everything

 

[smackababy]

How does MP works?

What is the default MP level on Nightmare for instance?
Can I simply up the MP and hope to get more loot in singleplayer runs?

I'm currently level 36 at the end of Act 1 on Nightmare...

EDIT: Ok just read the Wiki and looks like i'm gonna try some MP1 or MP2 and see how it goes.

The general consensus is that MP3 is around what the normal difficulty was before MPs. However, I am not sure if this is the case outside of inferno, but setting even to MP1 increases the monster's levels to the maximum in that difficulty. In Inferno it increases them to 63. This MIGHT make the leveling more difficult. However, I did everything up to like mid Hell on MP10 without a death. But I also had Cain's Set (which gives awful stats), a Hellfire ring (that shoots a 20k fireball) and at 43, two 800+ dps weapons.

 

[silverpig]

My crafting stuff:

Ammy
12-22 dmg
202 dex
484 loh
7% life
96% CD
6.5% CC

Bracers (meh)
312 dex
129 int
45 physical res
246 life per second
6% CC

Shoulders
222 dex
87 vit
38 arcane res
78 all res
+141 armor
258 thorns

My glove crafting has been bad so I bought some from the AH

 

[smackababy]

I bought gloves from the AH on my barb long before crafting and I don't even bother. I have ~95 str, 79AR, trifecta gloves. The chances of crafting better are almost nil. =(

 

[silverpig]

Yeah I bought 10 cc, 30 cd, 79 ar, 220+ Dex gloves and won't be able to craft anything better. IAS doesn't really help DHs who use spike traps much.