**OFFICIAL** Diablo 3 Thread

[bonkers325]

I spent over 100k last night doing one quest in Act2. I am now finally on the black soul stone quest. If I can finish Act2 and do even remotely ok in Act3 then I will be set. For some reason knowing the best drop rates for the best items cap in Act3 makes farming in the lower level seem like a waste of time. If Act3 destroys me then I will probably hang up the barb and roll a ranged class

act3 is considerably more frustrating than act2 for melee. half of the mobs are ranged and flee (especially blood warrior casters, they SPRINT away from you... a lot), a handful hit you for 15k even w/ 70% armor and resists, and if you the aforementioned as elites or champions, be prepared to kite or go into enrage timer. it took me 10 minutes to kill a group of Icy Quillbacks w/ nightmarish, waller, fast, frozen. i couldnt even get near them because of all the walls, fears, ice bombs, and the fact that they constantly run. same with Succubus, though those run less frequently.

i'm gonna hit up act2 tonight, friend me lect#1710 if you want a monk on your team

 

[diesbudt]

I will also just place this here I think my Battletag is Ashman#1532 or 1352... I am uncertain on the number if anyone wants to add me.

Probably spend a lot of time on butcher runs trying to find something or the gold to buy something to increase my DPS to about 20k min. before I progress on Act 2.

 

[BadgerYou]

One issue I have is I am uncertain what upgrades to even look for. (after an upgrade I bought on GAH for 250k my stats became approx:

27k HP
7500 armor
375 - 420 resistances
16.5k DPS
113% MF (with 5 stack)
(Wizard)

Only 2 items are below an ilevel of 61 (50 and 55, ring/amulet).

Of course my resistances need to increase, but beyond that is it just damage, crit chance, damage on crit I need to aim better for or is there another stat I could use?

I feel you are too tanky for Act 1, I am in the other boat, I run around with about 3k armor and 300-350 resist. But my dps is 37k w/ 25k hp. I run around with like 1250-1400 int and 208 crit dmg 17 crit hit. I also run around using all 3 dmg increasing skills glasscannon, force weapon, familiar. Basically, the weapon is priority #1, I use a 2h'er so my spec is arcane orb based. But the major guys with dps 50-60k+ i believe run around with a high dps 1h'er with crit dmg and a socket for more crit dmg, and an offhand with max crit chance as one of the stats.

 

[diesbudt]

I feel you are too tanky for Act 1, I am in the other boat, I run around with about 3k armor and 300-350 resist. But my dps is 37k w/ 25k hp. I run around with like 1250-1400 int and 208 crit dmg 17 crit hit. I also run around using all 3 dmg increasing skills glasscannon, force weapon, familiar. Basically, the weapon is priority #1, I use a 2h'er so my spec is arcane orb based. But the major guys with dps 50-60k+ i believe run around with a high dps 1h'er with crit dmg and a socket for more crit dmg, and an offhand with max crit chance as one of the stats.

I have 19% crit, 78% extra damage on crit.

I run Magic Weapon. (other skills are:
Venom Hydra,
Diamond skin + extra absorption,
energy armor + prismatic armor (increase resistances),
arcane orb (reduce to 20 AP cost),
teleport + Fracture)

So no familiar.

and my talents are: Galv. Ward, The increase AP one, and slow on arcane damage.

I run a 1 hand (937 damage, no stats blue weapon) and a shield (50 int, -8% damage from elites, -12% time slowed/snared, +7% crit chance)

And I do agree I want to lose some armor but I can't find an improvement that will allow me to, but resistances need to increase still to move on, as I am trying to gear up for act 2, not just farming act 1.

 

[SS Trooper]

act3 is considerably more frustrating than act2 for melee. half of the mobs are ranged and flee (especially blood warrior casters, they SPRINT away from you... a lot), a handful hit you for 15k even w/ 70% armor and resists, and if you the aforementioned as elites or champions, be prepared to kite or go into enrage timer. it took me 10 minutes to kill a group of Icy Quillbacks w/ nightmarish, waller, fast, frozen. i couldnt even get near them because of all the walls, fears, ice bombs, and the fact that they constantly run. same with Succubus, though those run less frequently.

i'm gonna hit up act2 tonight, friend me lect#1710 if you want a monk on your team

That's great news, ha. My go to move for elites has been drop EQ and stun, but I'm finding it being less effective lately. I changed my build slightly after getting housed so much. I decided Frenzy+Smite was not cutting it, so I'm gonna try Maniac instead. I also dropped EQ for CoA+Talic to see if that adds a little dps. I think it will add some distraction which is needed to not get surrounded.

I'll post my tag in a bit, need to confirm my number on lunch. I play with a friend who has a Monk, but he doesn't have the stomach for melee in inferno so I could use a replacement tank

 

[Magusigne]

Baptiste#1969

Currently at

41k HP
800 resist
14k DPS
28% Block
+900 LOH

 

[MikeyLSU]

same~ I don't usually find good gear, so I always end up either buying it at GAH or in forums and reselling it

For example. I purchased a 76x sword with 48x LOH + 293 str + 18x vita open socket for 100k gold ( amazing deal ). Resold that on RMAH for $75 reserve BIN $100.
Ended up selling for reserve price.


I also picked up a 129 intellect Andy's helm for 1 mil. I can flip it for double if not triple that.
It's all a matter of either finding 1 great item or finding deals to resell for profit.

what does 76x sword mean? and 48x LOH, I know life on hit, but don't know what the 48x represents

 

[bonkers325]

Baptiste#1969

Currently at

41k HP
800 resist
14k DPS
28% Block
+900 LOH

your gear is better than mine, you should be in act 3 farming elites!

 

[darkewaffle]

That's great news, ha. My go to move for elites has been drop EQ and stun, but I'm finding it being less effective lately. I changed my build slightly after getting housed so much. I decided Frenzy+Smite was not cutting it, so I'm gonna try Maniac instead. I also dropped EQ for CoA+Talic to see if that adds a little dps. I think it will add some distraction which is needed to not get surrounded.

I'll post my tag in a bit, need to confirm my number on lunch. I play with a friend who has a Monk, but he doesn't have the stomach for melee in inferno so I could use a replacement tank

Smite is not particularly useful in later acts because elites and bosses have static stun reductions; I believe all stuns are reduced by two seconds. I'm not sure whether that means Smite will not stun at all or stun for a split second (kind of like an interrupt) though.

Personally I really like Sidearm, but Maniac is worthwhile too. It depends on what other abilities you use imo.

 

[bonkers325]

Smite is not particularly useful in later acts because elites and bosses have static stun reductions; I believe all stuns are reduced by two seconds. I'm not sure whether that means Smite will not stun at all or stun for a split second (kind of like an interrupt) though.

Personally I really like Sidearm, but Maniac is worthwhile too. It depends on what other abilities you use imo.

it will still interrupt, but it wears off almost immediately. you can still stunlock though, i've seen barbs stunlock siegebreaker (while he had me in his grip... i was stuck there the entire fight)

 

[fustercluck]

most people can make close to 150k/hr on butcher runs easy.

I don't think so, it's probably closer to 50k. It's all random though so hard to say, depends on the drops.

 

[BadgerYou]

I have 19% crit, 78% extra damage on crit.

I run Magic Weapon. (other skills are:
Venom Hydra,
Diamond skin + extra absorption,
energy armor + prismatic armor (increase resistances),
arcane orb (reduce to 20 AP cost),
teleport + Fracture)

So no familiar.

and my talents are: Galv. Ward, The increase AP one, and slow on arcane damage.

I run a 1 hand (937 damage, no stats blue weapon) and a shield (50 int, -8% damage from elites, -12% time slowed/snared, +7% crit chance)

And I do agree I want to lose some armor but I can't find an improvement that will allow me to, but resistances need to increase still to move on, as I am trying to gear up for act 2, not just farming act 1.

I think if you got a Demi Lich offhand with the right stats (it will cost you) that will help your dmg a lot.

 

[EDUSAN]

as a WIZ...

should i use arcane armor using the +% resistances rune and have items with vitality/resist or use the 35% hp hit rune and focus on play intelligence/crit chance ??

i wonder what stats i should hit before starting to be able to do act2 fairly easily

im at 22k HP
23k damage (with Magic weapon)
330-430 resists
4k (i think) armor

btw, im using a source offhand, no shield and a 850 1handed wand with like 80 intelligence

im getting bored of being able to do butcher runs pretty easily (i might die to some elites) but not being able to kill any elite in act2... they seem to have a lot more hp then in act1...

edit: is act2 still harder than act3? can ayone pass me through azmodan so i can just start playing act3?

 

[Batmeat]

Looking for a gold/mf partner.

32k dps Wizard that can easily solo A2 inferno, and can slowly solo A3 til Heart of Sin. If you can do both A2/3 similarly, then lets team up and burn through it. I actually prefer A2, because I can fill my inventory with 10+ rares 3 times in A2 in the same amount of time I can fill it once in A3 - and I've found stuff like 1200 dps weapons and don't have a huge repair bill.

Hak#1547

Usually on late EST.

How are people able to do this? I've got 24k dps with crap weapons and can't even get through the cathedral in A1 inferno. White mobs are a piece of cake, blue mobs are damn near impossible, yellow and purps are instadeath for me. The templar is pointless even with his heals, I've started working with the scoundrel for his boost in ias to see if that helps, but i'm really struggling. I only got a couple hundred in resis, and 22k hit points, so maybe I just need to go back to hell and farm gold so i can buy some better gear.

 

[thespyder]

I've read your comments on money above. I simply ignored them because they struck me as crazy.

I've had the same thoughts about your posts. Still, I try to take everyone at face value and assume that they are reasonable and open to discussion, rather than simply insulting them.

You're actually angry that money in Diablo 3 is being used to allow people to trade with each other via the auction house.

Again. No I am not. I have no problem with the Auction House. I have a BIG problem in that the folks at Blizzard didn't make a sequel to Diablo 2, they made an Auction House with a slap of paint on top and called it Diablo 3.

Allowing for easy exchanges between parties is the whole point of money in every economy everywhere.

Your point? Mine is, adding it to a game is brilliant and inspired. Designing the entire game around it, and breaking elements merely to push consumers towards using it, and generally ruining the game on fundamental levels merely to have it, is where I have a problem. Clearly you don't.

And 'never getting enough money to buy anything useful without selling on the auction house' run dead smack into the little problem of there not actually being anything worth buying if you don't use the auction house.

By design. You are correct. There isn't anything worth buying outside of the auction house. Not that there couldn't be. Not that there Shouldn't be. But it is part of the overall design to push players to the Auction house. They are controlling the supply in the hopes of manipulating the demand towards the Auction house, and thereby make money.

As I recall, D1 and D2 both had the same problem. What vendors sold was universally junk once you got past nightmare, tops.

you remember wrong. Which goes back to my previous comment. Go play Diablo 2 and see for yourself. Diablo 2 was not designed for auction housing. Therefore the fundamental drop treasure system HAD to allow for players to get good stuff. Yes, there was a fair amount of junk, but no where near as much as in Diablo 3.

And looking back at D2....well, the community there stopped using gold as a currency for actual transactions in what, 1.01? 1.02? Gold was so fundamentally valueless that it stopped being used as a medium for transaction by anything that wasn't a robot. That's a pretty hard fail for a currency.

This is a generalization. And it discounts points you already got wrong, about the fact that the vendors did sell some good stuff. etc... Again I recommend that you get off your Blizzard fanboi horse and go back and play diablo 2. Just open your eyes a bit to the experience and maybe you will see what is in the koolaid.

 

[darkxshade]

I don't think so, it's probably closer to 50k. It's all random though so hard to say, depends on the drops.

Make 50k alone on salvaging lvl 60 gear

/shrug

 

[Batmeat]

Inferno is like Uber Tristram or Diablo Clone

Can't remember who posted this and I'm to lazy to go back and look. I had a frenzy barb that would absolutely destroy the clone in about 1 min. I'd sell the anni charms for soj, jump on the irc join a clone popping group put in my soj's pop the clone again, and repeat. Then in patch 1.13 when they introduce the whole super bosses thing I could virtually demolish anything.

 

[diesbudt]

I think if you got a Demi Lich offhand with the right stats (it will cost you) that will help your dmg a lot.

Considering atm I am only at 300k, and am not even sure what a demi lich offhand goes for.

But yea replacing the shield with a damage offhand, getting a better ring, and some better itemized stuff (hopefully with more resists, less armor and more damage)

I would be sitting better.

 

[diesbudt]

Make 50k alone on salvaging lvl 60 gear

/shrug

True story.

 

[Batmeat]

I've been in groups and seen WD's demolish groups of mobs, I'm thinking I may can the DH, and focus on my WD now.

 

[BadgerYou]

How are people able to do this? I've got 24k dps with crap weapons and can't even get through the cathedral in A1 inferno. White mobs are a piece of cake, blue mobs are damn near impossible, yellow and purps are instadeath for me. The templar is pointless even with his heals, I've started working with the scoundrel for his boost in ias to see if that helps, but i'm really struggling. I only got a couple hundred in resis, and 22k hit points, so maybe I just need to go back to hell and farm gold so i can buy some better gear.

It depends on what abilities you are using, Energy Armor w/ Force is almost a must for all mages.

 

[isekii]

what does 76x sword mean? and 48x LOH, I know life on hit, but don't know what the 48x represents

760+ dmg 480+ loh

 

[waterjug]

I'd love to know why they made the barb unplayable in inferno. Completely killed my interest in the game.

 

[Batmeat]

I'd love to know why they made the barb unplayable in inferno. Completely killed my interest in the game.

Somewhere I remember reading that inferno wasn't meant to be played solo. I think it was an interview at Diii.net

Still frustrating though, knowing there are people who can solo it for the most part.

 

[smackababy]

Put my only Xbow up on the AH yesterday because there weren't any with those stats. Hoped to sell it for 4mil and it didn't. =( 1k DPS, 45% crit, 200 LOH and 3% Life steal.