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Its been awhile since I played this game, resume my Inferno Act 3 after the latest patch.

Anyway, with this monster power system, does it mean Inferno default is easier now than before 1.0.5?

Thanks
 
Hornet said:
Its been awhile since I played this game, resume my Inferno Act 3 after the latest patch.

Anyway, with this monster power system, does it mean Inferno default is easier now than before 1.0.5?

Thanks
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Yes, very much so. My meagerly geared Wiz (70k DPS, ~500 all resists) can now absolutely bulldoze through Act 3 on MP0. Prior, I would run into occasional trouble with certain packs, but it's an absolute joke now.
 
Hornet said:
Its been awhile since I played this game, resume my Inferno Act 3 after the latest patch.

Anyway, with this monster power system, does it mean Inferno default is easier now than before 1.0.5?

Thanks
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Absolutely, just like Mabu above me said, default Inferno is a lot easier now. In Act 3 Elite Phasebeasts gave me trouble pre-1.0.5, but now I can take them without kiting or even moving away. Even Act IV feels more like Hell difficulty than Inferno.

I read the difficulty is somewhat like this now.

MP4: 1.0.2 (Version of Inferno before the first nerfs)
MP3: 1.0.3.
MP2: 1.0.4.
MP0: 1.0.5.
 
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Played last night. Was definitely more fun than the last time I played.

- Drops seemed better (I replaced 3 or 4 items in an hour) as the iLvL 61/62/63 stuff I was getting was actually better than the iLvL58 stuff I had been wearing since forever. It was kind of amazing actually. Up to last night I never got drops in the iLVL61-63 range that were better than my AH'd iLvL55-60 stuff. Meaning I never had money to buy better, and I cuoldn't replace with drops.

- Also, money seems to flow a lot more for sure. I went from ~140,000G to ~300,000G in an hour or two. That's the most I've ever had at one time.

I'm intrigued by the new content as well. My character is no where near ready to start farming and such to get into that content, but I'm curious enough to try to get to that point. It seems I'm interested in this game again.
 
Tried one A3 run at MP1 and it felt pretty easy solo, dieing just 2 times to elite mobs (just because they pushed me up to a very big monsters pack and unable to deal with both), managing to get a key in Stonefront. Then tried A1 run with MP1 and it's very easy, no key tho. Redid Act 1 with MP2 and it just started to get challenging. I'll try MP3 tonight but not sure if it's doable due to my dps being a bit low (trying to buy The Witching belt but prices is still outrageous).

Before calling it a night, I tried to do a Siegebreaker run in public and it's so laughably quick, getting 5 stacks and killed Siegebreaker in only 10 mins with zero deaths, netting a legendary (Stone Crow, meh but still a legendary). With a good team who can put a lot of dps, it's a pushover so I hope they will implement a way to add MP levels in public games (maybe by letting me set my desired MP level as difficulty instead of seleting a quest and MP, then find games which match my MP level).
 
This game is testing my patience. I have killed Skelton+Magna 6 times now......and still non drop. I want my hell fire ring. I even upped it to level 8 for one battle and it took FOREVER and the item still didn't drop. I don't want to have to do Level 10 but I might just have to in order to get the item.

Found a Immortal King Glove with 48% critical hit damage. Nothing like it on the Auction house next closest is 42%. I put it at 400 million hoping a botter will buy it.
 
I also got a Stone Crow last night, which made me once again think "WTF was Bliz thinking with some of this itemization?" Seriously, guaranteed STR + DEX rolls on a highest tier Wizard class-specific item? W.......T.......F???????
 
Mabu said:
I also got a Stone Crow last night, which made me once again think "WTF was Bliz thinking with some of this itemization?" Seriously, guaranteed STR + DEX rolls on a highest tier Wizard class-specific item? W.......T.......F???????
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I agree, should have only 2 stats being int/vit and not all 4 stats with the remaining 2 being useless for wizards...
 
Me and my buddies spent yesterday farming keys, and then did one of the Infernal Machine boss fights last night on MP4.

Wiped 3-4 times before we realized we needed to actually come up with a strat. Our beefy-ass monk tank simply off-tanked gom on the other side of the room while we took down the other guy. They each got a flesh piece and one of them got a legendary, i got 2 rares. My luck with this RNG shit is such rubbish.

Since the patch, i have gotten 0 good items rabble rabble.

It was fun seeing the new content, and it's way more fun to play now that CC actually does something... but losing 200k to repair bills and having nothing to show for it will get old really quickly if my luck doesn't improve.
 
I found my favorite wizard build for MP 5.

Living Lightning + Meteor and having equipment with arcane on Crit. Its pretty sick.

Living lighting hits like crazy charging both your Arcane power for more Meteor + Dimond skin for more tank........It also brings a smile to my face when I see 650,000 damage crits bounce up.
 
stevedave said:
I found my favorite wizard build for MP 5.

Living Lightning + Meteor and having equipment with arcane on Crit. Its pretty sick.

Living lighting hits like crazy charging both your Arcane power for more Meteor + Dimond skin for more tank........It also brings a smile to my face when I see 650,000 damage crits bounce up.
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What else do you run?

I've been having fun with the below spec, but i am sure it's less than optimal. I really have no idea what a good spec is lol

Diamond Skin
Frost Nova
Poison Hydra
Empowered Weapon
Magic Missile
Meteor

Blur - Critical Mass - Astral Presence
 
Has anyone tried those Frostburn gauntlets on their Wizard? Found a pair yesterday and was wondering if they were worth using if I went frost. Mine are 6% + 30%. Can't remember the rest.

And I'm loving double teleport. Infinite teleports are fun even if you just use them to get from point A to B.
 
cageymaru said:
Has anyone tried those Frostburn gauntlets on their Wizard? Found a pair yesterday and was wondering if they were worth using if I went frost. Mine are 6% + 30%. Can't remember the rest.

And I'm loving double teleport. Infinite teleports are fun even if you just use them to get from point A to B.
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Is this a bug or did they change a rune?
 
chockomonkey said:
Is this a bug or did they change a rune?
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Bug as it doesn't do it every time. I'm determined to find out how to reproduce it more though. One of my nephews was hollering hacker when I left him and 3 different elite packs in a trail of dust. :)

Basically it allows you to teleport a second time if utilized within a second of casting teleport. For some reason I can keep going. My record is still 18 though.
 
chockomonkey said:
What else do you run?

I've been having fun with the below spec, but i am sure it's less than optimal. I really have no idea what a good spec is lol

Diamond Skin
Frost Nova
Poison Hydra
Empowered Weapon
Magic Missile
Meteor

Blur - Critical Mass - Astral Presence
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I have done pretty much everything. I have like 3 main configurations that can handle high Monster levels.

# 1 - This is my favorite right now so much damage. Probably need Arcane on crit 7
Living lightning - Meteor - Force Weapon - SparkFlint- Force Armor - Diamond Skin
Conflagration- Critical Mass - Galvanizing Ward.

Couldn't find a video of my exact build but this guys is pretty close.....watch his Arcane go up and meteors come down....so hot.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WHC9n4Bynw

#2 - This one need life regen or life steal to work.......if high life switch to prismatic.
Deep Cuts - Improved Archon - Force Weapon - SparkFlint - Force Armor- Crystal shell
Blur - Critical mass - Galvanizing Ward.

# 3 - Standard critical Mass build....I used to Critical Mass Meteor but the nerfed it big time. This built needs around 15 Arcane per crit and around 40 crit chance.

#4 - Electric Lock down. I have 11% smite, 3% fear, 8% stun for 22% chance effect. Fear is so hot though because they don't recover from it faster like they do with stun or freeze.
forked lightning or living lightning - Frost Nova - Electrify - Stretch Time - force Armor - Dimond Skin
Paralysis and what ever else you want.
 
Had an Andy's helm drop (meh roll) on my first boss in the cemetary in Act1 MP2. Using standard CM frost nova/healing blades/stationary twister. Survivability is fairly good outside of certain packs (firechains REALLY blows when you need to be close), but my DPS is only around 65k with this build, and it can take a little while to take down some of the champion packs.

I love meteor builds, they're so much fun, I just need a group with a monk or barb to tank and keep mobs grouped up. My fire build:

Fire meteor
Fire hydra
+ap regen magic missle
diamond skin
+crit energy armor
magic weapon blood familiar

Conflagaration/Arcane Presence/Glass Cannon.
 
Anyone have any suggestions for Magda/SK? I just get wrecked by the swarm from Magda and I can't even see it most of the time. It is even worse being a Monk
 
tehslippery said:
Anyone have any suggestions for Magda/SK? I just get wrecked by the swarm from Magda and I can't even see it most of the time. It is even worse being a Monk
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Multiplayer. The Barb I play with nearly always dies a few times from the bee's. Myself as a wizard handle both of them with easy......But Kool's tornado's are the end of me while the barb laughs them off.

If you must single player it then you have to stay mobile. Hit run hit run. Once you stop moving the bee's get you. Also everyone should already know this but you pretty much have to kill the king first. Maybe a little wave of light, 7 sided strike, and deadly reach.
 
Monks, how do you deal with damage reflect now?

60k DPS buffed = almost insta death for me with 32k hp.
 
stevedave said:
I have done pretty much everything. I have like 3 main configurations that can handle high Monster levels.

# 1 - This is my favorite right now so much damage. Probably need Arcane on crit 7
Living lightning - Meteor - Force Weapon - SparkFlint- Force Armor - Diamond Skin
Conflagration- Critical Mass - Galvanizing Ward.
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I really wanted this one to work, it feels nice, but i think i need frost nova in there. And maybe Arcane Presence. I have only 92 Arcane with force armor on, and without that passive... and without a CC i just take a hard beating. Just not geared enough for such a spec i guess :(

Thanks, though--i'll have to revisit this once i get more gear... if i do. At least money is steadily going up, but i still cannot find shit for drops :(
 
My nephew played in a group last night and came away with 13 legendaries. He called me to be the fourth but I was acting uppity and didn't go. When we logged in to play tonight I thought he had robbed the RMAH or something. Ha ha!

So Chocko just remember. Random is random!

Edit: They were playing on MP5.
 
cageymaru said:
My nephew played in a group last night and came away with 13 legendaries. He called me to be the fourth but I was acting uppity and didn't go. When we logged in to play tonight I thought he had robbed the RMAH or something. Ha ha!

So Chocko just remember. Random is random!

Edit: They were playing on MP5.
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Jeebus. Here's hoping I have a little bit of that luck next time.
 
chockomonkey said:
I really wanted this one to work, it feels nice, but i think i need frost nova in there. And maybe Arcane Presence. I have only 92 Arcane with force armor on, and without that passive... and without a CC i just take a hard beating. Just not geared enough for such a spec i guess :(

Thanks, though--i'll have to revisit this once i get more gear... if i do. At least money is steadily going up, but i still cannot find shit for drops :(
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yeah you either need life steal or life per second to survive and you need arcane on crit.
 
stevedave said:
Multiplayer. The Barb I play with nearly always dies a few times from the bee's. Myself as a wizard handle both of them with easy......But Kool's tornado's are the end of me while the barb laughs them off.

If you must single player it then you have to stay mobile. Hit run hit run. Once you stop moving the bee's get you. Also everyone should already know this but you pretty much have to kill the king first. Maybe a little wave of light, 7 sided strike, and deadly reach.
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That helped. I'm 0/5 on Organs at mp4. Sucks :(

Edit: Yes I had 5 stacks, I know someone is going to ask
 
tehslippery said:
That helped. I'm 0/5 on Organs at mp4. Sucks :(

Edit: Yes I had 5 stacks, I know someone is going to ask
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Game is kind of a dick like that some times

I have like 7 act 1 keys and my barb has 0.
My barb has like 7 act 2 keys and I have 0.

I'm just glade you can choose with boss you fight unlike D2 where it was random.
 
Hmm just got this, good thing it wasn't a lot more and I didn't empty out my paypal.

Duplicate PayPal Payout Error

Recently, a Diablo III Real Money Auction House payment was mistakenly sent to your PayPal account as the result of an internal error. We have since resolved the issue, and your PayPal balance will be corrected soon.

The duplicate funds detailed below will be automatically removed from your PayPal account balance after 5 business days from the date this email was sent:

Date of Duplicate Transaction(s): Oct 12, 2012
Total Amount: $7.65

In the meantime, we recommend that you do not spend the funds or remove them from your PayPal account.
 
So does no one play WD? I found a really good mojo, figured I'd make a bundle on it...only to look at AH and see amazing mojo's selling for absolutely nothing. The equivalent wizard source to these mojos would go for 10x-100x the price!
 
3 legendaries today, 6 this week. Beat Kulle/SB and they dropped the organ, too. Not bad!

Now if my underpriced stuff on the AH would sell...
 
Ok, this 1.05 patch must contain some crazy root that spikes ping like some fuckin crazy and then I need to reset my router to go back to normal, wtf? Read the cliffs.

1. Test my internet connection before joining the game. Ping and speed. It's perfect.
2. Join the game and immediately get ~100 ping. It spikes up to 1K. It's very random though.
3. Leave the game.
4. Test my internet connection and it blows. The ping is up to 150 and the speed is down 50%.
5. Join the CS and see the ping up to 150. Leave the game.
6. Reset the router.
7. Join the CS and the ping is in ~30 range. Same with the Starcraft II.
8. Go back to D3 and it fucks all over again.
9. Wtf?
 
BDV said:
Monks, how do you deal with damage reflect now?

60k DPS buffed = almost insta death for me with 32k hp.
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Never had an issue and I have like 56k dps buffed, 22k hp, something like 113 loh, and only like 2.8% ls. Only have 456 all resist. Mp 1 is cake. Mp 2 is tolerable, but not my cup of tea. At what mplvl are you playing?
 
I was finally able to craft my first hellfire ring today. Not bad I guess, though I would have liked crit chance.

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