**OFFICIAL** Diablo 3 Thread

[smackababy]

What I don't get is the one lead guy lamenting so much that players are excessively stacking +damage and life steal on their gear and not using other utility abilities to create a more diverse player base. This makes me wonder if this guy has played at any level beyond the intro. Melee classes use large quantities of lifesteal as mitigation and ranged classes have virtually no ability to sustain any damage so why would they chose anything but damage. You run into an elite pack and the onky thing a utility stat gets you is a shorter time till you're looking at the you're character is dead announcement

Because that guy is stuck in the D2 difficulty mentality where you could do Hell with whites. If they want people to use the "interesting" utilities, which IMO were all pretty stupid, they should make them not terrible. Having items that let you turn into a werewolf might be cool for the Team Jacobs out there, but if all that does is make you die as a werewolf, I'll take the bland +crit +crit hit damage.

 

[HumblePie]

I got my monk to around 200k unbuffed, 550+ ar, 40k health, and he is a beast. having fun playing my monk right now. Just wish there were more content.

Trying to get there as well. Watched Druin's video on farming MP10 fields of misery with his monk using Tempest Rush, Exploding Palm and Bell. Looked like a good way to farm. I just need more DPS to make it happen better. Act IV MP10 though, when I tried it, still kills me every so often with the mob density there.

Although I haven't really been messing with my 60 monk as I've been going through hardcore games with my friends. My friends all seem to keep dying from time to time and I haven't lost a single one. Which means I make a new char to play with them when they are restarting. So I now have a 39 barb, 20 wiz, 15 DH, and a 10 monk HC chars... I really shake my head at it since they just keep on dying for various reasons. Although I did almost lose my barb yesterday. My dog made me look up from my screen as it was trying to eat some cat poop from the litter box. So I yelled at it stop. I thought I was in a relatively safe spot when I did it. Nope! A yellow and a blue pack found me and I barely lived with a sliver of life. Had just enough time to hit ignore pain and jump away to safety. Was seriously close!

 

[Jumpem]

I got my monk to around 200k unbuffed, 550+ ar, 40k health, and he is a beast. having fun playing my monk right now. Just wish there were more content.

What do you do for healing? That is the area my monk feels weak.

 

[smackababy]

What do you do for healing? That is the area my monk feels weak.

Generally, two LS weapons are good enough. I know it was for mine.

 

[pandemonium]

What do you do for healing? That is the area my monk feels weak.

If you're under 100k DPS, focus on more life on hit to maintain survivability. Otherwise 4.5% life steal will keep you alive with 300+ life on hit and decent armor (4000+) and resistances (600 AR).

 

[digiram]

What do you do for healing? That is the area my monk feels weak.

Life steal on my axe, and loh on my echoing. I could use some loh on my ammy, but I've yet to craft a trifecta + loh.. lol. Finally just made a trifecta + AR. cc+cd+loh would work to, and I have a non crafted ammy with those stats, but you just can't beat getting 200+ dex on the crafted ones+ all the other props.

Even at just 2.8 ls, you drop a bell and that's a health globe or more pretty much.

 

[silverpig]

I got my monk to around 200k unbuffed, 550+ ar, 40k health, and he is a beast. having fun playing my monk right now. Just wish there were more content.

Yeah I'm enjoying my monk now too. I think I'm 180k dps, 700 ar, 40k health. I only have one LS weapon so I still die from time to time, but whatever. I've made him a nirvana monk - it's fun dropping pillar of the ancients 10 times in a row

 

[Mantle]

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[digiram]

Yeah I'm enjoying my monk now too. I think I'm 180k dps, 700 ar, 40k health. I only have one LS weapon so I still die from time to time, but whatever. I've made him a nirvana monk - it's fun dropping pillar of the ancients 10 times in a row

I made a build designed to allow me to spam wave of light. Every ability grants spirit regen. All you see is enemies bouncing back all day. So, it's deadly reach with spirit on crit, mantra of healing with + spirit regen, cyclone with spirit regen. dropping bells all day.

 

[pandemonium]

While I love wave of light for the damage, it's terrible for partying. I prefer spamming cyclone much, much more. It does fairly decent damage and is much more useful to party members.

I've tried using both, but maintaining enough spirit for both is pretty difficult to do consistently.

 

[digiram]

While I love wave of light for the damage, it's terrible for partying. I prefer spamming cyclone much, much more. It does fairly decent damage and is much more useful to party members.

I've tried using both, but maintaining enough spirit for both is pretty difficult to do consistently.

I agree 100%. The knockback is a killer for CM Wiz's. Cyclone is 100% more helpfull in a party. I run wol build solo though.

 

[lupi]

Anyone here in the beta?

 

[robvp]

I wish

 

[smackababy]

I think the beta invites only go out to the "premier Diablo players", read as streamers.

 

[Jumpem]

Anyone here in the beta?

I have heard it is raining legendaries and people are geared up and beating Torment 6 within a few days.

 

[smackababy]

I have heard it is raining legendaries and people are geared up and beating Torment 6 within a few days.

Has to be, otherwise you won't be able to do the harder content and everyone will cry about it being too hard.

 

[Wolfovich]

I've watched a bit of beta streaming on twitch.tv, and it made me really excited. It feels like this game will finally wrap up it's current "beta" state and be officially released (the way it was meant to be) with the next expansion.

Looks very promising. Let's hope there are no surprises.

 

[silverpig]

I agree 100%. The knockback is a killer for CM Wiz's. Cyclone is 100% more helpfull in a party. I run wol build solo though.

That's why I use the pillar of the ancients rune.

I'll activate nirvana, then spam a few pillars, cyclone strike with the heal rune and +20% dmg passive on heal, refresh overawe, and drop more pillars. No knock back.

 

[Cappuccino]

Guys can someone help me? Someone who is good at maths

I have 2 Paragon lv.100 and another paragon lv.73

So what is my overall paragon level in RoS? What is the formula?
(Please don't link me to that table, it's confusing as hell!)

Thank you!

 

[Cappuccino]

Anyone want to farm ACT 1 MP10 XP. I'm doing Crypt runs? I'm going for my 3rd lv.100.
Feel free to add me CutePuppies#2861 (EU)

 

[TallBill]

Might have to put bf4 down for a bit with RoS comes out.

 

[Cappuccino]

Anyone here still active on Diablo? Any EU players still playing? I'm assuming you guys are paragon lvling? Nothing else is worth doing now, but leveling.

 

[robvp]

i'm trying to get my wizard up to better standards, currently have some pretty low stats and can hardly do mp1 or 2

 

[Cappuccino]

i'm trying to get my wizard up to better standards, currently have some pretty low stats and can hardly do mp1 or 2

I can give you some gear. Are you EU?
Link your bnet, I see what I have for you

 

[robvp]

im NA, i only play from around 7-9ish or 10 PST, forgot to add that
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/robv-1130/hero/22395555