Diablo III Random Question Thread I : Clever Title

[aireeku]

Which would yield better results? Farming Act 2 in MF gear, or Act 3 in dps gear?

Assuming you are talking about Inferno here. Depends on how much Magic Find you have and how much faster you are with killing in Act 2 versus Act 3. You need to account for a 100% (4% to 8% difference between Act 2 and Act 3 for iLvl63 items) for drop rates. So some combination of killing speed and/or MF is needed. Can you kill twice as fast or wear at least 100% MF? That is your break even. If it is a close call, go with Act 2 as it will be safer and the drop rates for iLvl 61 and 62 items aren't that far apart.

[Kiehl]

What should I aim for next for my barb? Most mobs are pretty average difficulty wise, so what will make my life easier?

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/l...3/hero/3508824

Keep in mind the most I have ever had in gold is 200k max.

[Helm]

I'd suggest getting some form of life on hit, even if it's just a gem in that weapon. Also the amulet could be boosted pretty cheaply.

[Anakron]

What should I aim for next for my barb? Most mobs are pretty average difficulty wise, so what will make my life easier?

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/l...3/hero/3508824

Keep in mind the most I have ever had in gold is 200k max.

Take out that ruby on your weapon, and either go with LoH or +critical damage. Chest armor could use some work also.

[Kaope]

Questions:

1) Holy damage, what does it do? And is it ever worth it to get the belt + pants combo for DH?
2) Since my weapon currently has poison damage, will the said holy damage stack with the poison? or is it calculated separately?

[BaneTheBrawler]

As I understand it, all the extra damage types work like Enspells from FFXI, but they also have an additional effect. Fire explodes, electric jumps... and holy, i think, heals you. A bit. Sometimes. Not sure what any of the others do.

[Helm]

I thought they removed those additional effects before release with the exception of cold-snare? D:

[boo]

Questions:

1) Holy damage, what does it do? And is it ever worth it to get the belt + pants combo for DH?
2) Since my weapon currently has poison damage, will the said holy damage stack with the poison? or is it calculated separately?

Basically it inna's blessing adds holy dmg to your white dmg, therefore, elemental does not count.
for example, you have a bow with min 300, max 300, 50%, and dps of 1200, then you'll get straight 1200 * 6% extra dmg.
however, if you have poison dmg 200-500, then these dmg will be subtracted out.

[Ollieyk]

Anyone think it would be worth buying out some high DPS 2-handers on the cheap after looking at the patch notes? Can't see how they are going to make 2-handers viable for Barb builds etc...but being able to pick up 1300DPS with socket 2-handers for 500k even with the prospect of them being viable has surely got to be a good deal right?

EDIT: Just re-read the patch notes, looks like they will be adding new affixes to new weapons, not patching pre-existing ones. Guess i'll keep hold of my money!

[arus2001]

Yeah, I think what they meant is like, how dual-wielders get like +150 of a stat in each hand, then like +300 LoH or so, 2Hs will eventually be able to get +300 stat and +600 LoH, then maybe 2 sockets. Made up numbers, mind you, but basically my interpretation.

[Adajer]

If i am dual wielding and one of my weapons has damage done +20%, does that affect both weapons? or just the weapon that has it listed?

[Helm]

It's just a bonus to that weapon's dps and is already calculated into the displayed number.

[Adajer]

ty

[Meko]

So the "Trail of Cinders" DH rune with Vault..is that serious? 1500% damage over 3 seconds? If you have 50k dps, then you'd do 750k dps in 3 seconds, seems a little absurd. Also, if you use the crit rune that stacks your crit to 100% while not attacking then you vault, does that figure in? A DH friend has 117k dps with the 100% crit build so that puts his DPS using Vault at 1.755 million dps over 3 seconds.

[Anakron]

So the "Trail of Cinders" DH rune with Vault..is that serious? 1500% damage over 3 seconds? If you have 50k dps, then you'd do 750k dps in 3 seconds, seems a little absurd. Also, if you use the crit rune that stacks your crit to 100% while not attacking then you vault, does that figure in? A DH friend has 117k dps with the 100% crit build so that puts his DPS using Vault at 1.755 million dps over 3 seconds.

50k is damage per second. The rune is 1500% of weapon damage, not 1500% of your DPS. The units wouldn't even match. For example, Loaded for Bear shots won't do 150k each shot if you had 50k DPS.

[Meko]

Ah makes sense.

[Dimmauk]

Yeah I heard of a Caltrops and vault build that never shoots an arrow so you can max sharpshooter.

[GImpers]

Nvm.

[Wulfgang]

Haven't played in an age and am looking for some advice on a passable post-patch Barb build (Inferno). My profile below shows what I'm using currently:

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/W...1/hero/1281388

Yes, my gear is terrible. My friend and I got to 60 and Inferno in like 2 weeks after release and I didn't play much after that. I like Rend a lot after the patch, but don't care much for Overpower. Does Whirlwind have a cooldown now? It seemed to when I was trying it. The rest is just tank abilities; combined with the all resist gear, I survive pretty much any combination of affixes in Act I, I'm just pretty slow.

[Blarg]

the "bulldozer barb" seems to be very effective even with poor gear. I can't tell you what the build is but google or searching reddits diablo section would find it since that's where I saw the guy who showed it off post