Diablo III Random Question Thread I : Clever Title

[Odon]

If you're seriously getting rolled with 930 resists and high armor, it might be your spec.

[tol]

You're doing something wrong then, I had very similar stats (still do.. 850~900 resists/11k armor(with war cry)/13k dps,50k hp) and I'm up to Izual in Inferno atm, I cleared all the way to this point both solo and also partied with a wiz (we duo a lot). There is such a thing as being too defensive. Try working wrath of the beserker into your build if you haven't already, use it often. I can't tell you the amount of times I've swapped between Furious Charge & Leap as my go-to movement/escape ability. Iron Impact gives you a tremendous armor boost and it's especially useful in act3/4 vs Succubus because it overwrites their armor reduction debuff. Basically being a 1-dimensional tank is about as useful as having no resists because you can't kill shit either way. Sometimes it's really helpful to be more aggressive and take down a few minions and what not with Berserker/Earthquake, makes the rest of the pack much easier.

edit: get LoH on your weapon too, for the serious - I have a 650+300(socket) LoH weapon .. it's only 650 dps but I get more mileage out of that then my 900 dps spear with nothing on it.

[Meko]

This is the build I use. The only variable really is I've switched from rend to whirlwind (as WW can avoid collision which is nice in tight spots).

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculato...VkP!eVb!cbZccZ

With war cry, my resists sit between 750 up to 930. None are below 750, though.

[BaneTheBrawler]

I've been getting a lot of use out of Sprint and it's tornado rune. Between that and Throw Weapon, I can do a fair amount of damage while kiting. I'm massively under-geared for inferno, though, so I'm struggling with even simple white packs. But the tactic worked well in Hell, and I expect it to work well again when I get better gear.

[Boyiee]

There was some kind of dps calculator posted and I can't find it now.

Basically trying to tell the difference between bows with 1030dps +15-18%ias and 990dps +50% crit damage increased.

[kisada]

http://www.d3dps.com/node/34

[kisada]

btw i can tell you straight away the 990 dps xbow (or bow or w/e it is) is way better.

[Boyiee]

Thanks. Both were bows.

[Boyiee]

Thanks for the calc, not sure how to compare crit vs ias but i'll take your word for it between the two weapons. Gonna spend up to 1m on a bow and go from there.

[kisada]

basically weapons without IAS are stronger. a weapon with IAS on it includes that in its on-weapon DPS calc, so the per hit dmg is lower compared to a weapon that has the same DPS but less attack speed.

if you look 2 bows at 1k dmg each, one with IAS and one without, you'll notice that the non-IAS weapon has higher base dmg, which is a huge deal when you're talking about almost a class that A. kites almost anything difficult (which means pure IAS is often wasted) and B. loads up on crits with sharpshooter.

btw i have an 1109.1 DPS blue 2xbow for sale on AH right now. got it up for 900k, will sell to you for 800 if it comes off of AH and you're interested.

[Iku]

nvm. my 800dps is comparable to a 1.2k dps xbow

[Boyiee]

Bows:

997.5dps
344-1081
Holy
Crit dmg 45%
700k

or

985.7dps
276-1132
Holy
49% dmg
146 INT
Crit dmg 48%
2.90% dmg dealt converted to life
900k

[Dimmauk]

Bows:

997.5dps
344-1081
Holy
Crit dmg 45%
700k

or

985.7dps
276-1132
Holy
49% dmg
146 INT
Crit dmg 48%
2.90% dmg dealt converted to life
900k

I'd get the 900k one.

[Rhyis.]

12dps/200k vs 3 crit/14 res

Basically.

[Boyiee]

So if im being frugal the blue is better, but stat wise the rare.

edit: ah got the dps calc to work for me, now its obvious.

[Boyiee]

The real question is, is something like that worth 900k? I sorted bows under 1m with crit, the 700k one is the top of first page, the 900k is on second page.

[Guitarman]

So I learned the hard way that melee classes are probably not the way to go. Is there a way to "powerlevel" a new character? Or anything of the sort that you guys know of?

[kisada]

looks about right. maybe go with the latter in case they buff life steal. or go with the former if it'll make you dead broke, though you're really not gonna do much with just 200k in this game.

[Enygma55]

So I learned the hard way that melee classes are probably not the way to go. Is there a way to "powerlevel" a new character? Or anything of the sort that you guys know of?

If you can play thru up to Act III that place is very good to lv in as there are tons of mobs to mow down at a very fast pace. Reload the lv and do it again with proper use of AOE can gain lvs very fast.

In normal mode, i'd just zoom thru as much of the story as possible as quest xp reward is fairly generous. You shouldnt have too much trouble with gear as normal mode is pretty easymode.

[Guitarman]

Does life on hit not work for wizards at all? I tried with magic missle but i didn't seem to recover any health.