Hardcore Discussion

[Oxyminus]

Shouldn't be TOO hard to get your barb geared up. Sure you've amassed a decent war chest and stacks of demonic essences. Take it slot by slot and she'll be rolling in no time. Maybe be some frontline muscle for my wiz?!

And Darnit only post with pics!

[Siralin]

From the other night


And tonight! Sold unIDed to a guy for 20m (he IDd and sent me a link) Looks like I made out well. 250 int is pretty hot, but I'm pretty sure thats still a garbage wand. :\



I'll try to start getting pics other than just drops and paragon. :\

[Oxyminus]

Drops and dings pics are fine! But yeah, gimme some action shots as well!

Do you do well selling UnIds? I have no idea what the economy is like these days.

[Siralin]

That's the first unid that I've sold, honestly. Sometimes it seems to be worth it, but idk. Chantodo wands always seem to be shit unless you get a decent dps roll with a socket, so I figured why not. Wish I had done it with the last one too.

[Oxyminus]

It's all a gamble I guess. I've seen chantodo's and other various high end items sell for cheap due to bad rolls. So I can see the value in selling UnIds. Matter of having stable and steady income or waiting for the big score.

[Siralin]

Aurik adventures, in no particular order...2 legs each, 2 paragon levels for him, 1 for me.

[Oxyminus]

Them crit numbers be sexy. Mine are more in the 40k range I think. But with scoundrel and prismatic I'm at 47.5% crit chance, which is sexy for ticking spells like blizzard and electrocute.

Think I've hit a gear wall until I can... You know... Actually play. But for about 600k I got up to 29k DPS, 50k health, 440+ all res, 39.5% crit, and 292% damage. Not a bad budget set I think. Probably won't run archon at first. Think I need more DPS and getting more movement speed would be handy as well.

[Siralin]

DC Monster!

[Oxyminus]

OMG NO!!!

RIP

[Roranora]

Sira noooooo =/ were you solo at the time? Tough to save DH even co-op, depending on the surroundings


That was a great DH, best one anyone here's had for sure. RIP / honor the fallen :<

[Oxyminus]

In the spirit of RIPs, my trackpad ate a lvl 40 DH this afternoon. No more playing around with my toons while I'm here hah!

[Roranora]

DC just got Shango again too -_-;

..keeping RIP combo going

[Meph]

quick question about grinding exp. is it best to just keep the normal pace of normal>nightmare>hell>inferno or should I go back and raise the MP instead?
ie, whats best expwise, nightmare or normal mp-something ( I dunno how much more exp you get jumping difficulty )

[Siralin]

It really just depends upon your gear, kill speed, and comfort level. If your gear is solid and you're killing things fast enough (5-10 second elites) then it comes down to how comfortable you are with pushing the MP level as high as possible. I've always leveled at MP10 regardless of efficiency because I find it more interesting.

As for returning to a prior difficulty at a higher MP, I'm not sure. I've always started it at MP 10 from the beginning. :/

[Oxyminus]

I can see starting on MP10 from here on in. Curious, how much lowbie gear do y'all hang onto? I have so much stuff I'm beginning to worry I have a packrat problem. Also, playing on higher MP do you guys bother stacking xp/kill? I think with the natural xp bonus I'd just go vit/main stat.

Got another good AH snipe yesterday. For about 23k I got a wand with 847dps, +15 arcane power, 50% crit damage, 2.5% life steal, and a socket. I lose about 1k damage and 3k HP (don't think I'd generally rely on my weapo for bit anyway) and in turn get some more survivability. In the little I've dipped my toe into the Inferno pool, life steal is so handy. My damage numbers aren't huge, but since all my damage is AOE/multi-target I should be able to be constantly keeping my health near full without relying on health orbs.

[Meph]

no my question was, what gives more exp, normal mp10 or nightmare mp0? just wondering if its better to go back and raise the mp for faster leveling. I guess monster-health is higher that way too
Im not taking any chances with leveling on anything but mp0, lost too many dudes to sloppy mistakes already. I've noticed that if Ive killed every single mob, done every single bonus-cave or whatnot, Ive always been ahead and having a breeze with mobs, but as soon as I started getting impatient and took the fastest route for everything, things got rough

[aurik]

It's always better to move up a difficulty. The XP TNL jumps significantly at 31 and 51, and the monster XP jumps from a4 to a1 in difficulty+1 to compensate.

[Oxyminus]

Yeah you'd be better off doing MP0 and progressing through the natural difficulties. Otherwise, you'd be clearing all the content more than you need to, and at the same time you'd be denying yourself drops current with your level. If you can keep up with a higher MP that's obviously better for your XP and drops. But if not, better to scale back the MP than the difficulty lvl.

[Arximiro]

Joined my first PT since Beta, and it was in HC. Shit was messy as hell with minions everywhere and floating heads vomiting all over the place but it was fun.

I'd say this SS sums up the madness pretty well. If it wasn't for the chat bubble it would be like where's Waldo up in that shit trying to find my character.

Spoiler: show

Oh and I found this guy, never seen him before afaik.

Spoiler: show

[arus2001]

Still need Dataminer and the other ghost in the event crypts. :/

You'd think being P50 (SC) on a DH where 41 levels of that came prior to 1.08 would've seen those bastards in the myriad of crypt/KW runs I've done. Still, I need to balls up and try to get the HC achievements sometime. I'll never convert, but just want the numbers. :/