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Diablo 3 Discussion Thread

Anyone in PTR 2.2? Looking for invite, wait times are insane.

AuX1LaNkY#1545

Have super barb with all sets looking to test.
 
Nytegard said:
How are you dying trying to power level? Just do what everyone else does, and run T6 Cursed Chapel with someone else to run you through.
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lol...If you power-leveled him you'd see why. I power-leveled his first Crusader to 70 that he mentioned died earlier in the thread (barely 24hrs after I PL'd him :/ ). Let's just say he's pretty ballsy/reckless when it comes to keeping his distance from things.....like not TP'ing out or running away right after hitting 70 on a T6 game while I fight a champ pack that casts lightning on him causing him to proc but he still stays in the area ;)

aeonrevolution said:
So, after dying 6 times trying to power level HC guys..... I think I'm gonna play through campaign haha.
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lol...
 
PureBooYah said:
lol...If you power-leveled him you'd see why. I power-leveled his first Crusader to 70 that he mentioned died earlier in the thread (barely 24hrs after I PL'd him :/ ). Let's just say he's pretty ballsy/reckless when it comes to keeping his distance from things.....like not TP'ing out or running away right after hitting 70 on a T6 game while I fight a champ pack that casts lightning on him causing him to proc but he still stays in the area ;)
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What, you want to live forever?!
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Anyone keeping an eye on these PTR patch notes? A lot of these have me genuinely excited for the next patch: so many new legendary powers, many of which I'm surprised to see mainly because I thought Blizz would let the items rot forever...

GENERAL

Regular Health Potions have been removed from the game
The Health Potion slot on the action bar is now a bottomless Heath Potion that will heal you for 60% of your maximum Life
The functionality of Legendary bottomless potions is unchanged

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CLASSES

Barbarian
Active Skills
Hammer of the Ancients
Skill Rune - Rolling Thunder
Should now more reliably hit nearby enemies in front of the Barbarian
Rend
Skill Rune - Mutilate
Bug Fixes
Fixed an issue preventing this rune from increasing the damage of itself
Whirlwind
Radius increased from 8 to 9 yards
Passive Skills
Nerves of Steel
Has been redesigned
Fatal damage instead reduces you to 15% Life. For 3 seconds afterward, you take 95% reduced damage and are immune to all control-impairing effects
This effect may only occur once every 60 seconds

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Crusader
Active Skills
Punish
Skill Rune - Celerity
Proc coefficient increased
Skill Rune - Fury
Proc coefficient increased
Skill Rune - Rebirth
Proc coefficient increased
Skill Rune - Roar
Proc coefficient increased

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Demon Hunter
Active Skills
Sentry
Now displays a buff icon indicating how many Sentries you have active

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Monk
Active Skills
Mystic Ally
Now has the same attack speed as you do
Passive Skills
Near Death Experience
Has been redesigned
When receiving fatal damage, you instead restore 35% Life and 35% Spirit and are immune to damage and control impairing effects for 2 seconds
This effect may occur once every 60 seconds

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Witch Doctor
Active Skills
Haunt
Skill Rune - Poisoned Spirit
Bug Fixes
Fixed an issue that prevented this rune from increasing the damage of itself
Hex
Hex will now turn all enemies within a 12 yard radius into chickens, instead of just 1 enemy
Increased the maximum range for both Hexing enemies and healing friendlies
Minimum time between Hex casts by the Fetish Shaman increased from 3 to 4 seconds
Duration for which enemies can be Hexed reduced from 4 to 3 seconds
Plague of Toads
Skill Rune - Rain of Toads
Proc coefficient has been reduced
Passive Skills
Fetish Sycophants
Proc chance increased from 10% to 15%

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Wizard
Active Skills
Slow Time
Is now cast at your target location, up to 60 yards away
Skill Rune - Point of No Return
Stun duration reduced from 3 seconds to 1 second
Skill Rune - Time and Space
Has been removed
Replaced with Exhaustion
Enemies caught inside Slow Time deal 25% less damage
Skill Rune - Time Warp
Damage bonus increased from 10% to 15%
Passive Skills
Arcane Dynamo
Bug Fixes
Fixed an issue that caused Nephalem Glory orbs to consume Flash of Insight stacks when picked up
Fixed an issue that caused Flash of Insight stacks to be removed when speaking to an NPC

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ITEMS

+Max Discipline can now roll on Bows and Crossbows, in addition to Hand Crossbows
All crafted Rare items are no longer Account Bound
BlizzCon Elemental Ring
New Legendary Ring
Gain 150-200% increased damage to a single element for 5 seconds
This effect rotates through the elements available to your class in the following order: Arcane, Cold, Fire, Holy, Lightning, Physical, Poison
Note: Cold is not included for Crusaders
Boots of Disregard
Life per Second increased from 500 to 10000
Number of stacks reduced from 8 to 4
Bottomless Potion of the Leech
Life on Hit increased from 1500-3000 to 15000-20000 for 5 seconds
Bottomless Potion of Mutilation
Life on Kill increased from 4000-8000 to 40000-50000 for 5 seconds
Bottomless Potion of Regeneration
Additional Life gained increased from 25000-45000 to 75000-100000 over 5 seconds
Bottomless Potion of Rejuvenation
New Legendary Potion
Gain 20-30% of your maximum resource when used below 50% Life
Captain Crimson's Trimmings
(2) Set Bonus
Life per Second increased from 2000 to 6000
Bastions of Will
(2) Set Bonus
Has been redesigned
All of your damage is increased by up to 100% based on how much primary resource you have
Guardian's Jeopardy
(2) Set Bonus
Life per Second increased from 2000 to 8000
Puzzle Ring
The Treasure Goblin helper spawned by this item will now pick up items in a larger radius
The Treasure Goblin helper spawned by this item will now run faster when picking up items
Bug Fixes
Fixed an issue causing players to receive a chat message stating that you have killed a Treasure Goblin when a player with this item equipped died
Fixed an issue that caused the Treasure Goblin lore book to be granted to players when they died with this item equipped
Ramaladni's Gift
Can now stack to 100
Several existing Legendary items have been updated to include a unique Legendary power
Note: Existing items will not be affected by the following changes. Only new versions of the items will roll with the added Legendary power.
Obsidian Ring of the Zodiac
Legendary Power Added
Reduces the remaining cooldown of one of your skills by 1 second each time you spend resource
Class-Specific Items
Barbarian
Immortal King's Call
Has been redesigned
(2) Set Bonus
Call of the Ancients lasts forever
(4) Set Bonus
Call of the Ancients' melee attacks deal 600% weapon damage in a 15 yard radius
(6) Set Bonus
New Set Bonus
The duration of your Wrath of the Berserker is increased by 0.25 seconds each time an Ancient deals damage
Mortick's Breeches
New Legendary Pants
Wrath of the Berserker gains the effect of every rune
Seismic Treads
New Legendary Boots
Ground Stomp causes an Avalanche
Wrath of the Wastes
New Set
(2) Set Bonus
Rend deals 400% increased damage
(4) Set Bonus
Rend lasts 400% longer
(6) Set Bonus
Whirlwind deals 400% more damage to enemies affected by Rend
Crusader
Hammer Belt (PH Name)
New Legendary Belt
Justice spawns a Blessed Hammer when it hits an enemy
Roland's Legacy
Has been redesigned
(2) Set Bonus
Every use of Shield Bash and Sweep Attack reduces the cooldown of your Laws and Defensive Skills by 1 second
(4) Set Bonus
Damage bonus increased from 100% to 500%
Damage bonus is now multiplicative
Shield Bash Bracers (PH Name)
New Legendary Bracers
When your Shield Bash hits 3 or less enemies its damage is increased by 300-400% and 50% of the Wrath cost is refunded
Slash Belt (PH Name)
Omnislash
Slash attacks in all directions
Demon Hunter
Gauntlets of the Rain
New Legendary Gloves
While Rain of Vengeance is active you take 30-40% reduced damage
Natalya's Vengeance
Has been redesigned
(4) Set Bonus
The cooldown of Rain of Vengeance is reduced by 1 second every time you cast a primary skill and by 2 seconds every time you cast a Hatred spender
(6) Set Bonus
New Set Bonus
Rain of Vengeance deals 800% increased damage
Unhallowed Essence
New Set
(2) Set Bonus
Your generators also generate 1 Discipline
(4) Set Bonus
Gain 40% damage reduction for 4 seconds if no enemy is within 10 yards of you
(6) Set Bonus
Your generators and Multishot deal 10% more damage for every point of Discipline you have
Cluckeye
Chicken weapon damage increased from 100% to 500%
Enemies hit by the Chicken are now confused for 2 seconds
You are probably also confused (amused?) by the fact that your bow, for some reason, shoots Chickens
Monk
Inna's Mantra
Has been redesigned
(2) Set Bonus
Increase the passive effect of your Mystic Ally and the base passive effect of your Mantra by 100%
(6) Set Bonus
New Set Bonus
Mystic Ally casts Cyclone Strike, Exploding Palm, Lashing Tail Kick, Seven-Sided Strike, and Wave of Light when you do
Madstone
Bug Fixes
Fixed an issue that caused Exploding Palm to be applied after Seven-Sided Strike did damage
Raiment of a Thousand Storms
Has been redesigned
(2) Set Bonus
Your Spirit Generators have 25% increased attack speed and 500% increased damage
(4) Set Bonus
Increases the weapon damage of Dashing Strike to 5000%
(6) Set Bonus
Dashing Strike now spends 50 Spirit, but refunds a Charge when it does
New Monk Bracer (PH Name)
New Bracers
Your Spirit generators reduce your damage taken by 30-40% for 3 seconds
Witch Doctor
Little Man's Finger
New Legendary Ring
Gargantuan instead summons three smaller Gargantuans each more powerful than the original
Tiklandian Visage
Now displays a buff icon indicating the duration of the Horrify effect
Zunimassa's Haunt
New Set Bonus
(6) Set Bonus
Enemies hit by your Mana spenders take 100% more damage from your pets for 4 seconds
Zunimassa's Legs
New Legendary Pants
Summon a Fetish Sycophant when you hit with a Mana spender
Wizard
Delsere's Magnum Opus
New Set
(2) Set Bonus
Casting Arcane Orb, Energy Twister, Magic Missile or Shock Pulse reduces the cooldown of your Slow Time by 1 second
(4) Set Bonus
Enemies affected by your Slow Time take 1250% weapon damage every second
This damage type will be determined by your highest equipped +% Elemental Damage
(6) Set Bonus
Enemies affected by your Slow Time take 500% more damage from your Arcane Orb, Energy Twister, Magic Missile and Shock Pulse
Firebird's Finery
Has been redesigned
(2) Set Bonus
When you die, a meteor falls from the sky and revives you. This effect has a 300 second cooldown
Bug Fixes
Fixed an issue that prevented the cooldown debuff from being removed on death
(4) Set Bonus
Your Fire Signature Spells cause up to 3 enemies to explode, dealing 250% weapon damage as Fire to enemies within 10 yards
Halo of Arlyse
Bug Fixes
Fixed an issue that could sometimes cause Ice Armor - Crystalize stacks to fall off with this item equipped
Meteor Boots (PH Name)
New Legendary Boots
Increases the damage of Meteor by 100%
Increases the damage of Meteor by 300-400% when it hits 3 or less enemies
Ranslor's Folly
New Legendary Bracers
Energy Twister Periodically pulls in enemies within 30 yards
Tal Rasha's Elements
Has been redesigned
(2) Set Bonus
Damaging enemies with Arcane, Cold, Fire or Lightning will cause a Meteor of the same damage type to fall from the sky. There is an 8 second cooldown for each damage type
Now uses the Molten Impact rune when triggered by Fire damage
Can no longer be triggered by hitting a destructible object
(4) Set Bonus
Attacks increase your resistance to that element by 100% for 6 seconds
(6) Set Bonus
Attacks increase your damage by 75% for 3 seconds. Arcane, Cold, Fire, and Lightning attacks each add one stack (maximum of 4). Adding a stack refreshes the duration
Slow Time Hat (PH Name)
New Wizard Hat
Slow Time gains the effect of every rune
Gesture of Orpheus
Can now roll with +% Arcane, Cold, Fire or Lightning damage instead of just Arcane
Several existing class-specific Legendary items have been updated to include a unique Legendary power
Note: Existing items will not be affected by the following changes. Only new versions of the items will roll with the added Legendary power.
Barbarian
Skull Grasp
Legendary Power Added
Increases the damage of Whirlwind by 400-450% weapon damage
Crusader
Ivory Tower
Legendary Power Added
Blocks release forward a Fires of Heaven
Demon Hunter
Dead Man's Legacy
Legendary power added
Multishot hits enemies who are below 50-60% health twice
Bug Fixes
Fixed an issue that would sometimes prevent Account Bound Legendary item names from being faded out for players who were not eligible to loot them
Bonus Armor now properly rolls at an increased value on Ancient items

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ACHIEVEMENTS

Packs of Champion Archers in Westmarch now spawn as Revenant Archers instead of Skeletal Archers
The drop chance of Rakanishu's Blade has been increased
Increased the spawn chance of several extremely rare unique monsters in Act V

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ADVENTURE MODE

Areas in which Keywardens are located now have a boss icon on the Waypoint map
The icon will indicate whether or not the Keywarden has been killed
This is only for level 60+ games
Act II
Ancient Waterway
New bounties have been added for the Eastern and Western channels
Eastern and Western channels now each have two levels
Waypoints
New Waypoint added
Ancient Waterway
Dahlgur Oasis waypoint has been moved down slightly
Nephalem Rifts
Slightly increased the chance for a couple of extremely rare Nephalem Rift maps to spawn
Several new Nephalem Rift maps have been added based on the following zones:
Festering Woods
Fields of Misery
Fields of Slaughter
Stinging Winds
Bug Fixes
Fixed an issue that prevented players who paid a Rift Keystone to enter the Greater Rift from being able to obtain an upgraded Rift Keystone if they were not in the game when the quest advanced to the "Talk to Orek in town" step

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CRAFTING

When crafting gems and items the entire quantity will now be crafted at once

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MONSTERS

Rift Guardians
Blighter
Has been given two new attacks
Armored Destroyer
The warning time before an Armored Destroyer lands has been significantly increased
Armored Destroyer impacts will now knock players away from the landing zone
The Merciless Witch (Uber Maghda)
Removed enrage timer
Reduced the maximum time she can be shielded to 15 seconds
Butterfly projectile speed reduced
Butterfly projectile duration reduced
Nekarat the Keywarden
Has been moved from Silver Spire Level 1 to Gardens of Hope 2nd Tier
Realmwalker
Fixed an issue preventing the portal to the Realm of the Banished from being visible before the Realmwalker was killed
Savage Beast
Maximum Charge range has been reduced
The Skeleton King
Will now drop the improved version of Leoric's Crown the first time he has been killed by a hero
The Soul of Evil (Uber Diablo)
LIghtning breath now targets the closest enemy
Mirror image damage has been increased
Bone cages now damage you
Succubus
Bloodstar
Removed the armor debuff from this attack
The projectiles now move at random speeds
Leap cooldown has been reduced
Treasure Goblins
Three new Treasure Goblins have been added to the game
The Insufferable Miscreant, the Gelatinous Sire, and the Gilded Baron
The new Treasure Goblins can only be found in Adventure Mode

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USER INTERFACE

You now must now confirm deletion of a Seasonal item in your mailbox
Rift Guardians' positions now always show on the map or minimap regardless of your distance from them
The Social Button now opens the Friends list by default, but will remember what was last viewed and will navigate to that screen the next time it's opened
 
Aix. said:
What, you want to live forever?!
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This was 3 of us last night for sure! Haha.

Cornstarch was trying to level 3 of us and we kept getting zapped through walls by jailers or mortars. It was pretty funny. We were doing Keep Depth runs on T6. :D :D
 
aeonrevolution said:
This was 3 of us last night for sure! Haha.

Cornstarch was trying to level 3 of us and we kept getting zapped through walls by jailers or mortars. It was pretty funny. We were doing Keep Depth runs on T6. :D :D
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I was having a LAN night with some buddies awhile back and got them to try HC. Probably the most hilarious moment that practically reduced us to tears was when I was fighting the Skeleton King: they all safely waited by the entrance until I got him down to about 10% when *WHOMPH* he teleported across the area and one-hit-KO'd all three of them.

Recalling the three of them all crying out "wooahhhhhh!" still makes me laugh hahaha!
 
Aix. said:
I was having a LAN night with some buddies awhile back and got them to try HC. Probably the most hilarious moment that practically reduced us to tears was when I was fighting the Skeleton King: they all safely waited by the entrance until I got him down to about 10% when *WHOMPH* he teleported across the area and one-hit-KO'd all three of them.

Recalling the three of them all crying out "wooahhhhhh!" still makes me laugh hahaha!
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lol, been there done that with Namtaru...I can't remember if he died or not though. I believe I said right before that was "just stay at the entrance, you'll be fine" ...that was the very first place SK teleported to
 
Ashbringer is OP as heck. I don't think it's in the official notes, but it does somewhere around 6000% weapon damage as holy after "summoning 5 skeletons". I was watching someone killing the RG in one hit on T6 (~4 billion HP) :D
 
xIronCrossx said:
Ashbringer is OP as heck. I don't think it's in the official notes, but it does somewhere around 6000% weapon damage as holy after "summoning 5 skeletons". I was watching someone killing the RG in one hit on T6 (~4 billion HP) :D
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Yeah, I was looking at the stuff people found on reddit. Looks ridiculously awesome...

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I think I'm done playing this game for a long time....

Got my HC monk back up to like 38 or so doing Master level bounties. See that Cornstarch logged on, hop into his game which is on Hard bounties, and within 30 seconds die.

I don't even....ugh.....
 
aeonrevolution said:
I think I'm done playing this game for a long time....

Got my HC monk back up to like 38 or so doing Master level bounties. See that Cornstarch logged on, hop into his game which is on Hard bounties, and within 30 seconds die.

I don't even....ugh.....
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Did you play softcore a lot? or did you just recently start playing Diablo 3 all together?
 
PureBooYah said:
lol, been there done that with Namtaru...I can't remember if he died or not though. I believe I said right before that was "just stay at the entrance, you'll be fine" ...that was the very first place SK teleported to
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Yup, died instantly. Still not as bad as falling tree death though.
 
Anyone else constantly being DC'd from game? It keeps kicking me back out to character screen.
 
Might as well just play softcore. Hardcore is fun and all, but it doesn't really add much other than you usually get better players in public games. I've only died once due to an error on my part, the rest have all been DC's (first one was blizzards fault, second one I have no idea why it kicked me out either). Personally I just don't like losing my time due to something out of my control, plus my clan mates who I played with before are all playing something else now so there's no real point for me to play hardcore anymore. Maybe I'm just becoming a filthy casual though :D
 
xIronCrossx said:
Might as well just play softcore. Hardcore is fun and all, but it doesn't really add much other than you usually get better players in public games. I've only died once due to an error on my part, the rest have all been DC's (first one was blizzards fault, second one I have no idea why it kicked me out either). Personally I just don't like losing my time due to something out of my control, plus my clan mates who I played with before are all playing something else now so there's no real point for me to play hardcore anymore. Maybe I'm just becoming a filthy casual though :D
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Hardcore is pretty easy in this game (this game is pretty easy in general).

But I also don't view dying as "lost" time. It's all just time spent playing a video game whether I live or die. Especially with seasons now, if I die it's "meh, I won't have any of that gear on the next new season anyway"

aeonrevolution said:
I had a paragon 170 Demon Hunter HC on Season 1. I just have never tried power leveling in HC before now.
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I could powerlevel you again if you want. Join one of my games, I'll just run t6 rifts, you'll hit 70 in after about 4 of them. Namtaru got my DH from 1 to 70 in about 30 minutes doing this. Clear out the entrance to the rift and then just sit there getting XP. You'll get XP even if I'm on other levels of the rift.
 
Alrighty, I think it is about time that I learn how some of you real people play this game. I am still leveling my Season 2 DH, I think he is around 40 but I hope to get him to 70 sometime this weekend. Battle.net name is Erasmus#1758.
 
Erasmus354 said:
Alrighty, I think it is about time that I learn how some of you real people play this game. I am still leveling my Season 2 DH, I think he is around 40 but I hope to get him to 70 sometime this weekend. Battle.net name is Erasmus#1758.
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If you see me online I can give ya a power level. I'm in the hardocp clan or Snowman#1523. I'm on fairly regularly.

Invite is open to anyone as playing with other folks from the boards or helping out with levels or gear finding is the only reason I still play. No HC toon though. If I don't have an open public game just send me a message and I'll invite if I can.
 
It's good to be back on these boards and even better to see the D3 thread still alive and kicking! If anyone that plays HC in D3 wants a Powerlevel either in Season or Non Seasons, you can hit me up in game. Muddyskunk#1674
 
That_Sound_Guy said:
If you see me online I can give ya a power level. I'm in the hardocp clan or Snowman#1523. I'm on fairly regularly.

Invite is open to anyone as playing with other folks from the boards or helping out with levels or gear finding is the only reason I still play. No HC toon though. If I don't have an open public game just send me a message and I'll invite if I can.
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Snowman is great guy, helped me out a lot in the past and recently helped me gather up gear for my S2 DH.

I can also help others power level as well.
Zepher#1253
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Zepher-1253/hero/58217038
 
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Finally back to 70 in hardcore.

I helped powerlevel someone and it feels like I can get someone to 60 fairly quickly. After that it gets tedious and somewhat dangerous for me.

I've got crap for gear so far.
 
watched a youtube video a Diablo 3 player, call it quits after over 500 hours of Diablo 3, because he was bored.. He sounded like he got ripped off.. As if 500 hours of game play for $50 was a rip off
 
lodoss900 said:
watched a youtube video a Diablo 3 player, call it quits after over 500 hours of Diablo 3, because he was bored.. He sounded like he got ripped off.. As if 500 hours of game play for $50 was a rip off
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I bought BF3 Limited Edition and Premium.
For some reason I didn't play much, waste of $130,
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Ok, this season has been all but weird to me...

Last season, I found absolutely no Unity or Countess Julia's Cameo, this season I found two unities in the day right after my first 70 (one for myself and my templar), and I found *4* Cameos in the past two days.

It took me a good several thousand blood shards for me to get my third piece of Marauders (shoulders, my legs were really lucky first gamble, I had chest drop, twice, legs once again too), and Arcane barb only finally showed up two days ago.

Gonna concentrate on getting the last two pieces of M6 before start doing GRifts.

Though, I kinda feel that gameplay is a lot smoother if I was using Spines with Chakram instead of Rucksack with Primary... Using hatred gens don't feel like I am doing *any* damage whatsoever and it feels like using them completely breaks the flow of the game.

Also, I might replace Pride with leorics, I am far too careless to stay out of the way :p...
 
chenw said:
Using hatred gens don't feel like I am doing *any* damage whatsoever and it feels like using them completely breaks the flow of the game.
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If having trouble keeping Hatred up and doing decent damage here's what I use:
Active Skills:
Preparation - Punishment: adds 75 hatred
Companion - Wolf: if have at least 2 pieces of M6 will give you 30 hatred plus additional dmg for 10 secs

Passive Skills:
Blood Vengeance: 30 hatred per health globe

Reaper Wraps: restores percentage of resource per health globe

Then for attack til I get full M6 or Chakram / Kridershot I usually use Rapid Fire - Withering Fire. I can spray rapid fire using very little hatred for long periods off time hitting the preparation and companion keys as needed. Works very well for me through T1 - T4 levels usually at least.
 
Once you're geared you will only need generators for GR's, you can run no-generator builds for both Multishot (Fire) and Cluster Arrow (cold) using Cindercoat or Pride's Fall.

No-gen MS build should go up somewhere around GR40-45 actually.
 
Only took about a week of nonstop playing and putting off important real life things....but I am now fairly well geared on my HC Monk. I can do T6 runs by myself easily and in groups about the same. The highest Grift I have tried so far was 27, and it wasn't terrible awful.

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Skyvalley-1789/hero/58626478

I'm kind of regretting leveling Simplicity Strength.....doesn't pay out like I thought it would.
 
aeonrevolution said:
Only took about a week of nonstop playing and putting off important real life things....but I am now fairly well geared on my HC Monk. I can do T6 runs by myself easily and in groups about the same. The highest Grift I have tried so far was 27, and it wasn't terrible awful.

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Skyvalley-1789/hero/58626478

I'm kind of regretting leveling Simplicity Strength.....doesn't pay out like I thought it would.
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Gotta use Bane of the Trapped man! at 25 it applies snares itself and the damage is multiplicative, not additive like bane of the powerful.
 
With Torch, you shouldn't need a generator.
Inna's + Taeguk (Sweeping Wind) is a good option for more spirit. BotT should always be proc'd for melee characters too.
 
TaintedSquirrel said:
With Torch, you shouldn't need a generator.
Inna's + Taeguk (Sweeping Wind) is a good option for more spirit. BotT should always be proc'd for melee characters too.
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Yep, and for SWK the clones/decoys also proc it. Make sure to abuse the numlock/sweeping wind/taeguk thing because it's going away next patch. (SW cost isn't reduced by 70 anymore)
 
RW2112 said:
If having trouble keeping Hatred up and doing decent damage here's what I use:
Active Skills:
Preparation - Punishment: adds 75 hatred
Companion - Wolf: if have at least 2 pieces of M6 will give you 30 hatred plus additional dmg for 10 secs

Passive Skills:
Blood Vengeance: 30 hatred per health globe

Reaper Wraps: restores percentage of resource per health globe

Then for attack til I get full M6 or Chakram / Kridershot I usually use Rapid Fire - Withering Fire. I can spray rapid fire using very little hatred for long periods off time hitting the preparation and companion keys as needed. Works very well for me through T1 - T4 levels usually at least.
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That was exactly what I was doing (btw, I do love that 2 set piece effect).

Then last night I realised where I did wrong, I wasn't laying enough sentries down.

I fell back to using the rucksack with Entanglement/JiS with Night Stalker, and changed my Sentry to Polar Station to make full use of Cull the Weak and Bane of the Trapped, but soon I found that mobs were falling dead much faster than before due to the increased number of rockets from the Sentry. T3 mobs pretty much drop dead in 1 CS, sometimes 2.

This is what I was using last night:

Entanglement/JiS
Cluster Arrow/Maelstrom
Preparation/Punishment
Caltrops/Bait the Trap (I initially used Marked for Death/Contagion)
Companion/M6
Sentry/Polar Station

Custom Engineering
Cull the Weak
Night Stalker
Ballistics

I'll try using fire builds later tonight (sounds like Multishot/Arsenal could be fun), I am really really careless to avoid damage to keep Pride's fall up (in fact, I'll probably be less careful now that I am not using Zei's). I already have a Cindercoat and am using Ancient Magefist with Reaper's wraps with Fire damage, and I am just missing 1 piece for M6 (helm or gloves).

I'll work on completing the M6, then work on getting to T6, GRifts after, then fine tuning gear afterwards.

Hopefully I'll have enough time left over to enjoy the Monk before they change/nerf monks, heard monks are hilariously OP at the moment.
 
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See, I dunno if I have the balls to switch to Inna's from Blackthornes in HC. I can't imagine having to beware of all those elite dmg types. :D
 
aeonrevolution said:
See, I dunno if I have the balls to switch to Inna's from Blackthornes in HC. I can't imagine having to beware of all those elite dmg types. :D
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Do both.

Inna's Weapon, Pants, and Armor.
Black Thorns Amulet, Belt, and Boots
Wukos Helm, Shouders, Gloves.

This is what I'm working towards....but my monk is my third HC class so its slow going...that fucking Wuko's is rarer than black balls on a white man.
 
If I do that then I can't use my sunwukos, which I have 2 ancient pieces of. It's just a trade off really and up to preference I think. I'd rather stick with less dps and more chance to live. If I wasn't in HC then I would totally go Inna's.

I also just finished a grift 35 with a zdps wd. Almost had a stroke a few times....
 
aeonrevolution said:
If I do that then I can't use my sunwukos, which I have 2 ancient pieces of. It's just a trade off really and up to preference I think. I'd rather stick with less dps and more chance to live. If I wasn't in HC then I would totally go Inna's.

I also just finished a grift 35 with a zdps wd. Almost had a stroke a few times....
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Inna's helps kill things faster, the faster you kill things the less damage you take. Don't forget with 4 piece Inna's you get all the Mantra's.

Also why wouldn't you be able to use your SWK? you can do 4 SWK, 4 Innas, and 3 Blackthornes (4 Blackthornes if you get Innas weapon like Steve said). If I'm not using Crudest boots then I roll blackthorne boots/amulet, Innas chest/belt/pants, SWK gloves/shoulders/helm and Rorg
 
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