**OFFICIAL** Diablo 3 Thread

[Kalmah]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0AMkcD01do&feature=youtu.be

It is being said that the AH timer is being set to client-side clocks. People are putting up auctions, waiting for bids, then rolling back the clock on their own computer by about 2 days. It cancels the auctions, returns the item and gives you the bidded gold. Or something like that.

Why would the tie the AH clock client-side? lol

Probably trillions of gold has made its way into the market now.

 

[Fallengod]

You want to see something hilarious?

This was posted by another member on hardforum...


"This is what happens when non-asians try to gold farm."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cknLs9AiW-A&feature=related

 

[Yreka]

Your weapon (pref a 2H crossbow) needs to have a crit dmg, a socket, and IAS in that order priority wise (if you have all of those plus dex than you have a gem on your hands), so if thats 1033 dps with non of those stats it makes sense.

Thanks, yeah no good stuff on the current weapon(bow), just a little bit of dex. Gonna start saving for an upgrade..

IAS = atk speed, and the socket is for an emerald correct ? Whats a good DPS number to shoot for~ 1100, 1200 or is that less important depending on the stats ?

 

[fstime]

Thanks, yeah no good stuff on the current weapon(bow), just a little bit of dex. Gonna start saving for an upgrade..

IAS = atk speed, and the socket is for an emerald correct ? Whats a good DPS number to shoot for~ 1100, 1200 or is that less important depending on the stats ?

It depends how much you can afford, when you start looking for bows with sockets and crit dmg and attack speed, things get pricey.

A 1400 dps bow with no stats is vastly inferior to a 1100 dps bow with 70 crit dmg and a socket for an emerald adding another 70 crit damage for example.

Crossbows gain more crit damage than bows from sharpshooter so they are better pound for pound.

You can add critical chance on your bracers and helm (at least +3) and obviously your quiver can have +5-7.

Add crit damage + attack speed on your amulet, gloves, and rings. You can have crit chance and dex on these items as well but then your talking having the 4 main stats and that is big bucks.

Both my chest and quiver have +8 discipline I believe so I get 3 smoke screens instead of 2 with some left over after the third.

 

[blurredvision]

A friend of a friend went AFK for over an hour last night, so we hopped in there and helped him out with some items...

http://i.imgur.com/rpsWN.jpg

 

[J-Money]

I wasn't sure before, but now I know for certain there are a lot of terrible, terrible players playing and complaining. Ok I was sure before, it's obvious.

With my most expensive item being a 600k Helm of Command and only having an 800 dps weapon (28k dps total), 33k hp, maybe 400 each resist and 7500 armor I beat Act 2 in inferno as a barbarian. Also using two dps passives (ruthless and weapons master) so not full defense mode. The most gold I have ever had is now and that's like 2.5 million.

Sure it was tough in parts with certain elite / champ packs, but I still got my 5 stacks before Meghda and finished the rest on those 5 stacks, killing probably 90% of the packs I came across.

Not saying I'm an amazing player, I just figured the whiners were terrible and I was right! Belial took me 4 tries since the poison dots 1 shot me.

Also not saying it doesnt need to be adjusted like it will in 1.0.3, but it was not impossible as so many claim and many message boards are full of the complaints. Was gratifying to pull it off.

Now on to Act 3!

 

[Anubis]

its prob a combonation of people being bad and the fact that inferno takes a different mindset, normal-hell you can honestly just LOL zerg through mobs without caring at all, inferno not so much, the jump is huge

however i do think inferno is a bit much for some classes simply because everyhing 1 shots you, you have to have ESP to avoid some of the stuff that jumps at you from off screen and IMO that is a stupid mechanic

 

[EDUSAN]

so i hit 60 with my WD now... went to the AH and bought for some pennys, like 20k a 1k dps 2handed axe (that sucks but the instant improve in dps is huge from my lvl 59 weapon), im at 26k dps (unbuffed) 21k hk. but i already had troubles dealing with hell difficulty enemies...

the WD doesnt have any kind of good crown control or escape mechanism like a wiz has (teleport with decoy/mirror image/pushbacks/frozen nova)
I only have the spirit walk, the hex (which is great and all but its so useless against packs of enemies), and a couple slows which are useless when the enemy can teleport or is fast or can jump or just hit you from a distance)

what is the trick!?!? i tried to find some builds but cant find anyone good.

Im using a mostly boss-themed build that DESTROY bosses with zombie bears, but its kinda useless for normal enemies cause of cooldowns...

any tips? are you guys playing him with 1handed + shield for more survivaility?

 

[Anubis]

my WD isnt 60 yet but the standard vision quest build seems to be rocking face and i dont even have bears yet (i use dire bats)

spirit walk - cant remember rune
soul siphon - healing one
big bad voodoo - 20% damage
fetish army - i use the explosion on summon

darts + split
bats + dire bats - will be bears when i get them

spirit walk in, siphon - blow army + voodoo - bats/bear everything to death
while army and voodoo are on cooldown just spirit walk in and siphon - bears everything should die

for passives i use vison quest - the + damage and mana cost one and the cheat death one

 

[darkewaffle]

I don't know that someone becoming a billionaire is really evidence of an exploit. Especially in the 'early' days of the AH I have no doubt you could have found some incredible deals before general game knowledge became more widespread.

I was the same way on SWTOR really, I made tens of millions (which is relatively substantially more in SWTOR than tens of millions is in Diablo) capitalizing on other players ignorance. I cannot possibly count the number of "Missions" which I bought for 4320 credits, then turned around and resold for 5-10x that and how many stacks of Red Goo and Quick Growth Agent and Zal Alloy and Polyplast I bought and sold at huge markups.

Even in D3, just a few weeks ago Helm of Command plans were sold for a song, now they're 10-20-30M. I actually had a guy offer me the plan for 1M a little while back and, sadly, I refused lol. All it would take is someone willing to take risks and a bit of foresight on the AH and you could end up with some pretty outlandish profits.

 

[EDUSAN]

i have been doing that, until i started dying too ofen as soon as spirit walk finishes

nevertheless with direbats the build is much more safer since you can cast that from a waaaaaay safer place, but i dont like of direbats the weird trayectory that the bat goes... its never the same, its very erratic, i have been trying to kill one guy in front of me and the bats would go to the sides (really it sucks sometimes)

 

[JoPh]

so i got through act 1 inferno. no to bad.

started act 2. spent some time in the ah. dropped like 400k on new armour..

stats roughy are

14900dps -- 35,000hp??? -- armour is like 7800 -- resistance to all is like 350?? 2 attacks per sec.

i got up the outpost then got off.. i was able to kill most things.. ran away from one pack.... another took me like 6 deaths... some took 2-3 deaths.

ill have to see what the exact stats when i get home..

the major upgrade i need is a new weapon. but damn.. 1000dps 1handed are expensive.... that and i prolly need to buff my critical chance hit.. im only at like 2%

 

[Chiropteran]

so i hit 60 with my WD now... went to the AH and bought for some pennys, like 20k a 1k dps 2handed axe (that sucks but the instant improve in dps is huge from my lvl 59 weapon), im at 26k dps (unbuffed) 21k hk. but i already had troubles dealing with hell difficulty enemies...

the WD doesnt have any kind of good crown control or escape mechanism like a wiz has (teleport with decoy/mirror image/pushbacks/frozen nova)
I only have the spirit walk, the hex (which is great and all but its so useless against packs of enemies), and a couple slows which are useless when the enemy can teleport or is fast or can jump or just hit you from a distance)

what is the trick!?!? i tried to find some builds but cant find anyone good.

Im using a mostly boss-themed build that DESTROY bosses with zombie bears, but its kinda useless for normal enemies cause of cooldowns...

any tips? are you guys playing him with 1handed + shield for more survivaility?

Spirit walk *is* teleport with decoy. I can't give any real build advice because my witch doctor isn't anywhere near inferno yet, but I feel like the 20% resist all damage passive might be nice if you don't think you can kite reliably.

Sounds like your hp is kinda low, I had 40k at start of inferno on my demon hunter and try to stay above 50k now. Every gear slot should have your primary stat + vitality. If you can find a deal for it, stat + vit + all resists is even better, although I'd prioritize move speed on boots. Percentage life is nice too, make sure your helm has a life % gem in socket.

 

[darkewaffle]

Dunno how it applies to you all, but the most successful DH friend I have has zero resists, something like 20k HP and has cleared Inferno as strictly glass cannon "kill you before you kill me" type. He farms way better than the rest of us too

 

[digiram]

Dunno how it applies to you all, but the most successful DH friend I have has zero resists, something like 20k HP and has cleared Inferno as strictly glass cannon "kill you before you kill me" type. He farms way better than the rest of us too

DH is mad cheap.

 

[Chiropteran]

Dunno how it applies to you all, but the most successful DH friend I have has zero resists, something like 20k HP and has cleared Inferno as strictly glass cannon "kill you before you kill me" type. He farms way better than the rest of us too

Does he just suicide multiple times against reflect packs? Sometimes damage can't be avoided. That build might work now, but will it work when repair costs are increased 6 times over?

 

[darkewaffle]

Far as I know he swaps to two lower damage, high LoH 1h crossbows for reflect mobs. Dunno how much he dies solo; when we party everyone dies a few times anyway no matter what lol.

And even if repair costs go up 10x, it's admittedly still just a drop in the bucket for a lot of people (him, myself included).

 

[waterjug]

A friend of a friend went AFK for over an hour last night, so we hopped in there and helped him out with some items...

http://i.imgur.com/rpsWN.jpg

hahahha you dick

 

[onza]

My Play style is this.

I don't have all the skills / abilities memorized so bear with me since I'm at work and I'm going from memory.

My Tool bar 1-4
- Zombie Bears
- Wall of zombies +dmg OR grasp of slow ability (slow mobs in circle)
- Hex +Healing
- Fetish +3

Mouse click
- Left is Triple Darts
- Right is spirit walk

Passive:
- +damage
- regen 300% more mana when all cooldowns are going
- mana regen by 1% OR damage reduction until you get geared up OR the one that puts you in spirit mode if you get hit for high dmg.(dont recall name)

I like to use the Sorc merc. right now because of the +3% atk speed, easier to farm with her imo. Timing is everything, don't pop all your cool downs unless you have too but you have to keep your cool downs up in a systematic way to survive in inferno. Wall off based on the mobs, then drop a few zombie bears on the pact, then toss a few darts, if it's getting thick drop click spirit run, run away then heal up a little, drop the wall, hex, zombie bears etc. Blow stuff up!

My stats:
28k HP
24k DPS
280 resist average
Act 1 = EASY
Act 2 = I can stuff with ease in the first part of the Act but Elite packs in A2 destroy me.

Good luck!

so i hit 60 with my WD now... went to the AH and bought for some pennys, like 20k a 1k dps 2handed axe (that sucks but the instant improve in dps is huge from my lvl 59 weapon), im at 26k dps (unbuffed) 21k hk. but i already had troubles dealing with hell difficulty enemies...

the WD doesnt have any kind of good crown control or escape mechanism like a wiz has (teleport with decoy/mirror image/pushbacks/frozen nova)
I only have the spirit walk, the hex (which is great and all but its so useless against packs of enemies), and a couple slows which are useless when the enemy can teleport or is fast or can jump or just hit you from a distance)

what is the trick!?!? i tried to find some builds but cant find anyone good.

Im using a mostly boss-themed build that DESTROY bosses with zombie bears, but its kinda useless for normal enemies cause of cooldowns...

any tips? are you guys playing him with 1handed + shield for more survivaility?

 

[bonkers325]

We recently issued a round of account suspensions and bans to several thousand Diablo® III players who were in violation of the Battle.net® Terms of Use for cheating and/or using botting or hacking programs while playing. In addition to undermining the spirit of fair play that’s essential to everyone’s enjoyment of the game, botting, hacking, and other such exploitive behavior can contribute to stability and performance issues with the Battle.net service. As always, maintaining a stable, safe, and fun online-gaming experience for legitimate players is a top priority for us, and we'll be continuing to keep watch on Battle.net and take action as needed.

anyone here get banned for cancelling auctions?

 

[darkewaffle]

We recently issued a round of account suspensions and bans to several thousand Diablo® III players who were in violation of the Battle.net® Terms of Use for cheating and/or using botting or hacking programs while playing. In addition to undermining the spirit of fair play that’s essential to everyone’s enjoyment of the game, botting, hacking, and other such exploitive behavior can contribute to stability and performance issues with the Battle.net service. As always, maintaining a stable, safe, and fun online-gaming experience for legitimate players is a top priority for us, and we'll be continuing to keep watch on Battle.net and take action as needed.

Score!

I'm wondering if any of the people selling gold for cash on the trade forum were banned, I guess I'm still not sure if that's against their rules or not. Personally I don't mind people farming endlessly or accumulating vast sums of gold or buying/selling it, as long as the 'source' is legitimate. Account breakins, scams, bots, dupes and such I'd be happy to see disappear.

 

[Batmeat]

Inferno Act II+ Demon Hunters -
Are you guys DW crossbows, or 2hander and quiver ?

2 handed crossbow and a quiver. I don't see the benefit of a shield unless you could get one with similar stats as a quiver. Even then, it's still probably 1 hit from mobs and you're dead.

I looked a lot into dual weilding crossbows vs 2 handed crossbow with a quiver or shield.

For my needs the best setup is 2 handed crossbow and quiver. That may change once I hit 60 though.

Anyone else comment on this?

 

[Josh123]

Does anyone else have really bad choppiness when playing? I am running an i3-2120 with 8gb of memory with a GTX 460 GPU. I'm pretty sure I shouldn't have any problems with the game maxed and at a 1680 x 1050 resolution.

I have a friend with hardware almost the same that is gaming on a 27" monitor at a 2500ish resolution with maxed settings and it runs perfect.

Anyone else having bad gameplay on machines that should be running it fine?

 

[darkewaffle]

Far as I know if the weapons DPS is high enough either of the options are viable, but I believe due to the synergy between Sharpshooter and Archery (DH passives) most DH are giving preference to 2h crossbows currently.

 

[Batmeat]

not sure if I really like any of the DH primaries, would probably like bola but it needs to detonate quicker.

The acid bola is the way to go imo. Explosion takes to long and you fire 3 acid (poison) bola at once.

Grenades would be nice, but they don't have the reach. Nice for up close mobs if you get surrounded, but the point of a distance fighter is not to be surrounded to begin with.