Are reaper's wraps any better than any other leg bracers? I've gotten like 4-5 different leg bracers and they are all the same, 4 main stats, 2 secondary stats. With the mystic, I feel like all those braces could be pretty much the same.
I know some bracers like Nemesis Bracers will spawn elites at shrines which is kinda cool, but I guess is farming for the mats for Reaper's Wraps worth the time?
If you need gold you can do the "Clear the Hell Rift" bounty on Torment6 in Act IV. Each turn-in nets ~420k gold and if you get the "Cursed Chest" event that's an extra 200k. Takes me about 5 minutes to do each run.
The resource generation from globes is what makes the wraps nice. In rifts I can pretty much spam my spenders non stop because globes drop like crazy
Are reaper's wraps any better than any other leg bracers? I've gotten like 4-5 different leg bracers and they are all the same, 4 main stats, 2 secondary stats. With the mystic, I feel like all those braces could be pretty much the same.
I know some bracers like Nemesis Bracers will spawn elites at shrines which is kinda cool, but I guess is farming for the mats for Reaper's Wraps worth the time?
Basically all legendaries are 'the same' in terms of stat potential (for the most part). The real difference maker is the unique effect granted by the item or the pre-defined stats (which can be either good or bad depending on the item) or set bonuses.
So, Reaper Wraps are not intrinsically better than any other set of legendary bracers, no. Their use to you is basically determined by their unique effect (resource restoration via health globes). Of course the actual stat rolls matter, but the key idea being that all legendary items can roll stats equally (mostly).
Hes not hard to find but a pain to walk to A to B
I think the Reaper wraps are the best bracers in game. Correct me if I'm wrong but I haven't seen anything better than the RW, maybe +10 more stats but that doesn't matter because the Health globe bonus is too good and ofc the guarantee elemental % too
That is because you're using the free gems. The max level is +280 main stat, which is huge, especially in items that don't generally have a damage affix slot (legs and chest, for example). 3 socket roll on chest means you get 840 extra main stat.
Well, yeah... that's because I quit when the game was extremely boring and forced you to play it four times just to truly beat it. In other words, I missed out on most of the money-making heyday while the AH was active! I'm not poor by any stretch in regard to money overall as I have around 12 million right now. Although, that might be poor to some!
Anyway, here's my thoughts on it. I don't care much for items with only a single socket, which is pretty much what everyone else has said. In my opinion, if a socket or sockets cannot easily match or beat a desirable stat, then they're not worth it. Now, I also consider that there's a pretty decent gold investment if I want to be able to gem an item at least up to in parity with what it could have rolled. For example, my chestpiece has about 500 of my primary stat. To get that with 3 sockets, I need a gem with about 166 of said stat. As you know, that's not free, and frankly, the item may not even be worth the investment.
Another way to look at it... you may be able to remove +resist all via enchanting (to a more desirable damage stat) and gem that instead. My chestpiece only has +90 resist all, and that only takes 2 free gems (+60 each).
My Crusader just got an interesting set of pants...Hammer Jammers. "These large pants cannot be touched". LOL
Where are yall getting a good drop rate for the reaper common mat?
Try Act V, battlefields or whatever it's called. There are tons of armor racks that drop ascended bracers.
Shard of Hate change (and some others I think) coming in the 2.0.4 hotfix update. Not sure when that's going live (or if it is already) but I'm curious to see how the proc rate changes. The blue post I saw regarding it seemed to indicate that it would be [affected by] the skill coefficient but that it also has an internal CD.
Looks like only a Shard of Hate change. They are nerfing it but based on the description, it sounds reasonable.
Good thing I haven't found one and gotten used to it yet
People crying about the Shard of Hate nerf have never seen one in action. On a Barb with Whirlwind and some lightning damage, it was op. Like, literally 600k dps with some lightning damage and you're easily clearing T6 OP. It was broken.
But that's T6. Not sure if that's doable by most people.
On a ranged class it is pretty easily done, just takes a little bit of time to kill enemies and you have to kite and avoid getting hit multiple times in a short span.
I tried it on my barb and it ended very horribly, very quickly.
SoH does not allow people to easily clear T6. I have had one for two weeks on my Barb and I could not plow through T6 elites. You need more gear than just one weapon.
True, but it certainly helps. Look at Alkaizer. He has like 600k sheet DPS, and has zero problems doing T6. I mean, you need toughness and some other stuff, but a shard of hate is incredibly OP. It is almost as OP as a pet's build with a few items on Witch Doctors.
Seems kind of contradictory to your other post claiming it only takes 5m to clear.
I might try it though. Though I'm sure my Wizard will not handle this very efficiently haha.
He is mowing T6 down because of something more powerful than just his SoH.
Unless you get something like Cindercoat or something with a special primary, in which I'd sacrifice vit or AR (depending on which you need) for sockets.
3 sockets on a chest is BiS. You might not have the money right now, but you will eventually, and 840 or so extra dex on a monk is great. And, if you're playing on T1, you can find Imperial gems, and 3 of those + like 200k gives you 150 main stat.
AR functions on a diminishing returns scale, similar to how crit in WoW (or, at least used to). Every additional AR adds less damage resistance as the previous, and as such, it would be impossible to achieve 100% reduction through a resistance (not counting the legendaries that nullify damage of a certain element).I don't see why you wouldn't just sacrifice AR unless you absolutely do not need more vitality. Frankly, the Diamond is way disproportionate compared to other gems when compared to AR vs. primary stats on gear. For example, I think my Cindercoat is something like 460 dexterity and 90 AR. As I said above, it doesn't even take two free gems to recoup that 90 AR, but it takes far more to get the dexterity. Although, I took a gander, and while the gems start at the same resistance value, the highest level diamond is only 74 AR vs. 280 primary.
Also, what about my notion of a logical "soft cap" on resistances? Resistances seem to have a somewhat logarithmic curve, and there's a point where you can gain significant amounts of resistance points to see very little mitigation. Now, I don't have great numbers at my disposal since most of my "findings" are just from watching my detailed character pane while adding and removing gear. However, on my Crusader, my resistances vary from around 230 to 650. So, I did things like remove some gear to take one that's around 360 to 230 and see how much I gain, and I did something similar to take the 650 down to 530. I think the jump from 230-360 was something like a +10% gain and 530 to 650 was only 2-3%. They were both very similar amounts being added that saw great differences in their effectiveness. Albeit, I think I'm around 70% when I'm at 530 resistance!
One other thing that seems weird to a WoW player like myself is that it seems that you can dodge any projectile whether it's an arrow or a magic spell.
I don't really have many hard numbers for this (oh, what I would give for an EnhSim for Diablo 3!), but I'm pretty sure that I've seen some stats that you can also roll on gear that are more powerful than your primary stat. Of course, I'm talking things like +100% critical strike damage. I guess what I'm trying to say is that there might be instances where +450 primary may not be better than something else that you could roll.