Since I have a million thoughts in my head right now - which i will vent later in this thread - let me start with my core question.
Is it even possible to achieve 100k dps unbuffed on a tight budget? If so how would you do it?
As comparison:
I am sitting at 76k dps atm with this set / build http://eu.battle.net/d3/de/profile/Fare-2429/hero/688576
It is purely budget oriented set but it gets the job done on low mps (nothing else though) - spend way less then 10 mio on it
I will explain / justify my gear choices at the end of the thread
Let's just say I know what stats i should go for and what to aim for for every slot (stat and item/legendary wise) - they are just darn expansive
As for tight budget lets say around 10 mio (sitting at 1 mio atm, but i guess 10 can be done in two to four weeks)
I read a lot of threads in this forum and tested things in game to come up with my personal "progression path" so to speak.
Tried running higher mps, possible but time consuming.
tried running with 300 mf gear, possible, but takes way longer and while it yielded more drops / hour they still all sucked ass
So finally i decided it is probably best to lvl paragon and only pick up legendarys.
Latter is kind of the reason I am asking my question.
I can run mp0 smoothly (even mp1 can be done) but there are two thins bugging me.
1. Elites: I can kill every trash mob just with my tornados so that is fine, but elites slow me down since i have to cycle. Thats why i switched charge/merciless with rend. First tried the 9xx% dmg rune, works great with killing most elites with one application of rend, but i can never hit all champions with one. So i switched to the higher radius. now i can get most of the elites, but i still have to cycle a little.
figured if i can crack 100k dps without dieing i can improove my time dramatically
2. Still missing leorics and hellfire which annoys the crap out of me.
Tried farming for a leorics - since i can't afford one. (a2 normal, 300 mf, mp10) Found dozens of low lvl legendary but of course no leorics yet, so i guess i have to keep trying. Could really use that pick up radius
tried farming for a hellfire, but with the skorn i can only farm up to mp3 which is very ineffiecient (only found 4 keys so far). for higher mps i need to alter my build (more survivability) but then i am rage starved and need to switch to dw which drops my dps a lot, so no higher mps (not crying here, just ventig a little bit before i get back at it)
figured more dps might mitigate that problem a little bit (less incoming dmg more LL)
Thinking about a hota build for higher mps, any advice/experience you can share? Can i go higher mps with hota (lets say mp5)?
I tried different routes and i find myselfe most comfortable with arreat, keeps 2, rakis.
Quick run, decent xp, most action / smashing and you can easily add other areas to mix it up. Sitting at 40-50 mio / hour this way.
Gear explanation:
I run with a skorn. I know of the discussion and pros and cons vs. dw so I don't want to go in that here
For me Skorn is a good budget choice to farm mp0 very fast. tornados and rend ticks are waaaaay better than with dw which works good on mp0. plus i can still maintain 100% sprint uptime with my build
chest: Well cheap run speed, decent str, good + dmg (at least cheaper than lacunis)
Ik pieces: well, when i started again i had this idea that the 5 piece would be awesome for survivability...
But it doesn't bothe rme much atm since the pices i have came cheap. (less than 100k for the belt, around 300k each for gloves and boots) Only the helm was expensive with 1.2 mio.
don't know which bracers show atm: i switched in lacunis (sucky stats) for the pick up radius to test something, usually i run with bracers 170 str, 4.5 crit and some vit/life (found both, lacunis and the others, so no cost here)
so yeah, thats it for now. appreciate your input a lot!
I agree with you that 100k ist just an arbetrary number, figured it would be roughly what i need to kill elites with one rend, thats were i pulled that number
boosting sounds great, thank you! thats what i wanted to find anyway once i get 3 machinas build.
So basically for hota. it is nice, but it won't let me farm mp5 for keys because my gear doesn't support it yet so i should stick to ww barb for the moment. Thats about right?
@turtle: ah nice, that sounds very good acctually just one key away from my first machina ~_~
@zimira: thanks, i guess i will give it a try with hota just for key farming. Don't like ww thaaat much (more the cleave and smash kind of guy) but for paragon i will probably keep the ww for now, just so much more effective.
I guess i can switch some pieces around and get some more survivability in there.
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Since I have a million thoughts in my head right now - which i will vent later in this thread - let me start with my core question.
Is it even possible to achieve 100k dps unbuffed on a tight budget? If so how would you do it?
As comparison:
I am sitting at 76k dps atm with this set / build
http://eu.battle.net/d3/de/profile/Fare-2429/hero/688576
It is purely budget oriented set but it gets the job done on low mps (nothing else though) - spend way less then 10 mio on it
I will explain / justify my gear choices at the end of the thread
Let's just say I know what stats i should go for and what to aim for for every slot (stat and item/legendary wise) - they are just darn expansive
As for tight budget lets say around 10 mio (sitting at 1 mio atm, but i guess 10 can be done in two to four weeks)
I read a lot of threads in this forum and tested things in game to come up with my personal "progression path" so to speak.
Tried running higher mps, possible but time consuming.
tried running with 300 mf gear, possible, but takes way longer and while it yielded more drops / hour they still all sucked ass
So finally i decided it is probably best to lvl paragon and only pick up legendarys.
Latter is kind of the reason I am asking my question.
I can run mp0 smoothly (even mp1 can be done) but there are two thins bugging me.
1. Elites: I can kill every trash mob just with my tornados so that is fine, but elites slow me down since i have to cycle. Thats why i switched charge/merciless with rend. First tried the 9xx% dmg rune, works great with killing most elites with one application of rend, but i can never hit all champions with one. So i switched to the higher radius. now i can get most of the elites, but i still have to cycle a little.
figured if i can crack 100k dps without dieing i can improove my time dramatically
2. Still missing leorics and hellfire which annoys the crap out of me.
Tried farming for a leorics - since i can't afford one. (a2 normal, 300 mf, mp10) Found dozens of low lvl legendary but of course no leorics yet, so i guess i have to keep trying. Could really use that pick up radius
tried farming for a hellfire, but with the skorn i can only farm up to mp3 which is very ineffiecient (only found 4 keys so far). for higher mps i need to alter my build (more survivability) but then i am rage starved and need to switch to dw which drops my dps a lot, so no higher mps (not crying here, just ventig a little bit before i get back at it)
figured more dps might mitigate that problem a little bit (less incoming dmg more LL)
Thinking about a hota build for higher mps, any advice/experience you can share? Can i go higher mps with hota (lets say mp5)?
I tried different routes and i find myselfe most comfortable with arreat, keeps 2, rakis.
Quick run, decent xp, most action / smashing and you can easily add other areas to mix it up. Sitting at 40-50 mio / hour this way.
Gear explanation:
I run with a skorn. I know of the discussion and pros and cons vs. dw so I don't want to go in that here
For me Skorn is a good budget choice to farm mp0 very fast. tornados and rend ticks are waaaaay better than with dw which works good on mp0. plus i can still maintain 100% sprint uptime with my build
chest: Well cheap run speed, decent str, good + dmg (at least cheaper than lacunis)
Ik pieces: well, when i started again i had this idea that the 5 piece would be awesome for survivability...
But it doesn't bothe rme much atm since the pices i have came cheap. (less than 100k for the belt, around 300k each for gloves and boots) Only the helm was expensive with 1.2 mio.
don't know which bracers show atm: i switched in lacunis (sucky stats) for the pick up radius to test something, usually i run with bracers 170 str, 4.5 crit and some vit/life (found both, lacunis and the others, so no cost here)
so yeah, thats it for now. appreciate your input a lot!
thank you! much appreciated.
I agree with you that 100k ist just an arbetrary number, figured it would be roughly what i need to kill elites with one rend, thats were i pulled that number
boosting sounds great, thank you! thats what i wanted to find anyway once i get 3 machinas build.
So basically for hota. it is nice, but it won't let me farm mp5 for keys because my gear doesn't support it yet so i should stick to ww barb for the moment. Thats about right?
@zimira: thanks, i guess i will give it a try with hota just for key farming. Don't like ww thaaat much (more the cleave and smash kind of guy) but for paragon i will probably keep the ww for now, just so much more effective.
I guess i can switch some pieces around and get some more survivability in there.