I was messing around on my Barbarian last night when I realized that he was using a Blackthorne necklace. I had two of the chestpieces in the bank with very similar rolls, so I swapped dexterity to strength and gave it to my Barbarian. I decided to try and go for a Ring of Royal Grandeur to take advantage of the 3-piece bonus, but I ended up getting the thorns bracers (deals 1000% of your thorns damage) instead. Someone earlier mentioned having interesting results with thorns on their Crusader, so that might be fun!
Gratz!
Are you still playing fire monk?
Yep! I just need to get a devastator (need plan and unique mats) at this point, and I should have the main fire-oriented pieces. I also really need to replace my pants and neck. I have the pants for Inna's and Thousand Storms, but Inna's isn't that great of a roll and I'm not sure what I should roll off Thousand Storms to get 2 sockets.
Had fun last night. Need to run more often.
It was fun, but I definitely need to work on my survivability a bit more. I changed all of my Paragon points from area damage over to LPH to see if that helps a bit. I think it did a little bit, but it's safe to say that his resistances are just too low. The passive to bring them all up to the highest wouldn't help much since his highest is only around 500-something. Compare that to my Crusader whose highest is around 1200!
Had Ice Climbers drop for me the other day. Really helps to not have to worry about Frozen anymore.
It would definitely be nice! My Monk can use Dashing Strike to get out of the orb's AoE, but my Barbarian has no instantaneous movement effects right now. So, depending on the spread of the AoEs, it can be hellish to try and get out. I've also found that the Cord of the Sherma's blinding circle can really obfuscate those frozen orb AoEs, because both are a light blue color.