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sweenish

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May 21, 2013
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HUGE shoutout to CptMeatWad for the runs last night and this morning. Took me from 68 to plvl 60 and now I have full raiment and a lion's claw. Also picked up a spirit guard and the SSS belt.

T4 is a lot better than expert for gear and gold, and I'm on my way now.

EDIT: Not running T6 just yet, as my jewelry isn't great and some of my gear needs better rolls. Also, need a better weapon. I should just go craft-crazy. I probably have a leg plan I can use now.
 
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IVIX1

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I'm relatively new to D3. Started playing last Spring and have played through the game a few times and had one seasonal character. I've recently logged back in to play again, but I know literally NO ONE that plays Blizzard games. All of the people I know are into Steam games. I'm wondering if there is an AnandTech clan and/or players on here that want to do a seasonal character or want to team up for any co-op. I'm RailBDefault 1455 on b.net. Feel free to add/message/hit me up. Thanks for any all help, replies and playing in advance!
 

CaptMeatwad

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He helped me (megalulz) as well this morning. Got me from maybe lvl 20ish, to 70 with a handful of paragon levels. Thanks again!

I had fun powerleveling y'all. Saves a lot of time on the "not fun" bits of the game and gets you into blowing things up.

I finally got a Restraint. Had 5 Focus, but it took a while to get the Restraint. Unfortunately it rolled with Intelligence, but I rolled that to cool down reduction. Works well with Uliana's and SSS. Now I'm really flying through. I just need a good set of Uliana's gloves so I can drop RoRG and go with BP or CoE.
 

Fingolfin269

Lifer
Feb 28, 2003
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It's pretty funny how tides can turn in this game so quickly. I'm nearing Paragon 200 and have been sitting with basically the same gear since ~ Paragon 50.

Got the following drops basically within a couple of hours yesterday that completely changed my character (Carnevil WD):

Furnace for weapon legendary power (still no SMK but better than nothing)
RoRG for ring legendary power
Zuni Boots to get my 5th set piece and level 3 set bonus thanks to RoRG.

Basically those drops allowed me to boost elite damage significantly and complete my Zuni set. I've got Restraint but still missing Focus and I do still need an SMK and Witching Hour but just those drops listed above have basically allowed me to move into T8 with no difficulty now.
 

Ertaz

Senior member
Jul 26, 2004
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Finally got everything ancient on my HOTA barb. Now I need to level my BOP for group play.
 

Genx87

Lifer
Apr 8, 2002
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Been taking it real easy in S4. Hit lvl 70 yesterday with Crusader. Running T1 pretty easy. Still not a single drop though. I ran 5-6 rifts. Rather surprising considering how quickly my DH in S3 would see drops.
 

redrider4life4

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Finally got everything ancient on my HOTA barb. Now I need to level my BOP for group play.

Can you link me your profile on your HOTA barb? I have been trying to build one for group play, but can't get any decent F+R rings. I'm 6 pc Wastes and BK swords, but I seem to have a group cap around 45-50 for speed runs. Those speed 60s require HOTA it appears.
 

Zenoth

Diamond Member
Jan 29, 2005
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I like this Season so far.

I've almost completed my fire-based Shield Bash Crusader (still need to find a Maximus, haven't found a single one since S4 began), and already I can very comfortably do T8 and T9 (although I do have the raw damage for T9, the survivability becomes the issue in some situations, but I can still do T9 nonetheless).

I've also recently been gearing up my Witch Doctor and can now do T7 to T8 easily enough (just need to watch out since I'm rather squishy but I'll change that with defense Gems eventually) with the Zunimassa set (five piece, but a cubed RoRG to get the sixth piece bonus). Not to mention that I'm also using the Grin Reaper helm... now that one made one heck of a difference (which I totally didn't expect). The fact that the Mimics use skills that we use is awesome and they spawn very often since the proc rate seems to be very high even if you'd be stuck with low attack speed. And, on a side note, the Witch Doctor class itself is entirely new to me, the WD I made this Season is the first one I actually geared up to do "end-game" with ever since the game was released back in 2012. The class must have changed a lot since then, because what I do recall of the WD class back when I first tried it (in late 2012 I believe) was only being bored to tears and never touching it again, until now. I'm having a lot of fun with the class now, brings back good memories of my Necromancer in D2.

Now... I think I'm going to start gearing up my Wizard (which is also a class I'm not that familiar with). Not sure which actual "build" to go for. I'll just start by trying to get full Tal-Rasha's and from that point I'll see what I can come up with.
 

digiram

Diamond Member
Apr 17, 2004
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It's pretty funny how tides can turn in this game so quickly. I'm nearing Paragon 200 and have been sitting with basically the same gear since ~ Paragon 50.

Got the following drops basically within a couple of hours yesterday that completely changed my character (Carnevil WD):

Furnace for weapon legendary power (still no SMK but better than nothing)
RoRG for ring legendary power
Zuni Boots to get my 5th set piece and level 3 set bonus thanks to RoRG.

Basically those drops allowed me to boost elite damage significantly and complete my Zuni set. I've got Restraint but still missing Focus and I do still need an SMK and Witching Hour but just those drops listed above have basically allowed me to move into T8 with no difficulty now.

For WD, I'd probably recommend making a Suwong or Scrimshaw, and shooting for the Helltooth set. Scrim is the easiest to craft from the cube. There's seems to be the empeyrean spear and scrimshaw that it spits out. Made a pretty epic ancient one recently. It was like 2900 damage off the bat, so I gifted it and bumped the min-max damage. Ancient Suwong's are a little harder to get because there's like 8 staffs that it could craft. c-nifes are even harder. Talk about Suwong, I had about 5 drop for me one night. Non were ancient. One I'm using is decent though for a non-ancient.. 3700 damage and 99% Acid rain. I'm reluctant to bump up damage and gift it though because gifts are so hard to come by.
 

Fingolfin269

Lifer
Feb 28, 2003
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I do actually have most of the gear to try Helltooth but do not have a Suwong. Plan to give it a shot once I get my hands on one of those.
 

pandemonium

Golden Member
Mar 17, 2011
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I'm absolutely loving the Uliana's, Lion's claw build on seasons. So much fun to be had blowing up all of the things!
 

Qbah

Diamond Member
Oct 18, 2005
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I am gearing up my wizard. Got 5/6 Vyr's set. And the new Chantodo source. Another source dropped and I was like "yay, I can reroll it to the wand in the cube!". But nope... It's not selectable :-( Seems you can only reroll armor sets?
 

CaptMeatwad

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Aug 15, 2015
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I am gearing up my wizard. Got 5/6 Vyr's set. And the new Chantodo source. Another source dropped and I was like "yay, I can reroll it to the wand in the cube!". But nope... It's not selectable :-( Seems you can only reroll armor sets?

You can only reroll items from sets with three or more pieces. Chantodo only has the wand and source.
 

sweenish

Diamond Member
May 21, 2013
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Recently used the re-roll to get a third piece of Uliana's. Recently got a Hellfire with Mythic (Mystic?) Rhythm. I don't see it pop up on a short list of Uliana passives, but I feel like it plays into it perfectly.

At least it's my first usable Hellfire. Still not great, and not ideally rolled, but usable for now.
 

darkewaffle

Diamond Member
Oct 7, 2005
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Mythic Rhythm isn't bad, if nothing else it should buff SSS's damage. But I've also seen mentioned that if you get the MR buff, apply Palm manually (not from U2) and then spread palm via Gungdo that the palm will supposedly retain the MR buff.
 

sweenish

Diamond Member
May 21, 2013
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I don't think I'm going to be that finicky when the time comes. Still running raiment right now. Using Mythic Rhythm with that will be much more straightforward.

Once I actually have 5 or 6 pieces of Uliana, I'll switch over. Still need 2-3 remaining set pieces, gungdo, flow of eternity, F + R, fist of azturraq, and Broken promises. And gems (green and legendary). Once all of that is in place, I guess I could start chasing ancients.

Just got a broken crown, so I'll probably run that for a little while until I have the emeralds I need. But I need to run more bounties. I don't see this build hitting TX just because I don't have the time to sink in.
 
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darkewaffle

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Broken Promises works (and is probably easier to gear for admittedly when starting) but the 5% crit chance and the underlying mechanics of Broken Promise kind of limit its ceiling. Basically the game doesn't check every single hit and look for a string of 5 non crits but rather it groups all hits into ~.25s windows and looks for consecutive windows of non crits. Just FYI.
 

sweenish

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May 21, 2013
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Interesting. Does the 3 seconds off, 3 seconds on really have that much of an effect on high grfits? Or does the permanent 5% cc get in the way enough times?

I'm just now seeing the CoE Uliana build. Since I'm missing so much gear, I guess I'll just see where I land between the two. If I go CoE, I don't see myself caring enough to manually apply EP when cold comes around.

I'll chalk it up to skill more than lack of ancients, but I've never cleared greater than 47 on any class. If I can even get into the 50's solo, I'll be happy.
 

pandemonium

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Mar 17, 2011
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Playing with broken promises is a fun challenge. It requires you to not hit a lot of targets so you don't multiply your CC with that 5% base. I use Deadly Reach and single out targets until it procs and cadence it with my SSS attacks. Requires some getting used to.

Edit: Here's a vid of the crappy GR58 I barely made with it. You'll see by what I mean by singling out targets to get the BP proc. I was still getting used to it at that point, and hadn't quite learned the build yet. I can do around 60 with non-ancient weapons, but it's pretty hard.
 
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