I never asked for an expert, but thank you for responding, it is much appreciated, I was getting worried I had done something wrong
Thought the point of these forums was if you desperately needed help you could post a question, and someone would answer, but I wasn't hearing anything back.
I will look for elemental damage, am I looking in general or favoring cold or fire?The only reason I have 6 Marauder is I am still looking for a Tasker and Theo to build my DPS, i'll try augilid's set.
The emeralds are the only Dex boost I have but i'll consider it
Thanks for the advice, props to the only person who responded.
You die much less using awareness, smoke screen, keep running and never stay in shits. DH is supposed not to take any hit even though yougeared up with some protection.
I did a couple of runs tonight and did feel a little more powerful, in groups my DPS is around 1.1mil (would like a little more) but I guess I can only get that by paragon points
I will keep re rolling for % Sentry on quiver and Cluster Arrow% on boots
I did however see sockets in the quiver, what good would that do (don't understand that)
First of all, I would change your skillbar setup. I would put elemental arrow on left click and sentry on right click. It makes it easy to place sentries and if you accidentally left click something in the world elemental arrow is cheaper than multishot.
Secondly, you have the wrong skill/rune setup. Vault needs to have the 50% reduced cost on second vault so you can vault more and on demand. Remember that since you can't have both vault and smokescreen, you have to use vault like smokescreen. You are immune to damage for 1 second while vaulting the same way as smokescreen, but you get the benefit of rolling through mobs. Vault>smokescreen once you get used to using it in this manner. Also, your elemental arrow needs to be frost arrow to trigger slow effect, which we will take advantage of with a change to your passives and gems.
Okay, now that your runes are setup correctly you can change your ambush passive to cull the weak, and swap out your miniconduit gem for bane of the trapped. Congrats you just got 40% increased damage for basically nothing.
If you are having problems living then there are a couple of things that you can do that will increase that nicely. First of all, change the gem in your helm to an amethyst which will increase your health a ton and you won't notice the slight increase to sentry drops. Also, dex classes rely on dex for armor and paragon/gems for resist. If you swap out your dex gems for diamonds it will boost your ability to live when you do get hit a ton at a minimal loss to your dps. You can also run with aughilds bracer and shoulder to gain 15% damage increase and nice damage decrease as well. I also prefer to go with the toxin gem instead of elite gem because elite gem is not active when you need it most and now that sentries stack it you can get 10% increased damage all the time for freebies.
There are lots of things to redo on your gear, but guessing on what you have rerolled you know what to do and are just hoping for rerolls to land.
There are some other things, but that is a lot to start off with.
Here is my hardcore DH as a comparison. I can do T6 rifts in about 6 minutes, and I can do grift 31 in about 11 minutes and could probably do higher completion once I get unity. DPS is there easily with my 650K sheet dps because of the way everything stacks up. 20% steady aim, 20% cull, 20% pet gem, 20% slow gem, 10% toxin gem, 20% calamity, 41% sentry, etc.. it stacks up quickly so you don't need tons of sheet dps to do realworld dps.
1, You could improve your helm. Try to get one with Dex / CC / Socket
2. You could improve your shoulders Try to get Dex/Vit/CDR/SentryDmg
3. IMO the 2 must have gems are Enforcer, and Bane of the trapped.
4. Switch your ele arrow fire to ele arrow frost, pick up the "Cull the Weak Passive" instead of ambush and with the bane of the trapped gem PRESTO! You have 40% increase dmg!!!!
5. MY current third gem is the effacious poison gem, lvl 25 gives a debuff and it gives consistant dmg all the way along. Not convinced it is the best one but Bane of the powerful does not seem to come out that great overall
6. I would put RA gems in your gear, and stop rerolling vit. I would use the flexibility of the gems to compensate what you lack in stats on gear instead of trying to reroll survivability. For example get + sentry damage on your quiver and get rid of that vit.
7. What Attacks per second are you at? Do you know the sentry APS breakpoints? All other attackspeed will be wasted. Here is the list:
IMO go for 2.16 unless you can get to 2.8 (Which is not easy im sure) Other than that dont worry about extra AS. In fact use your paragons to get to the breakpoints and dont even try to get it on your gear really. Just get a TNT and you will be near the cap.
8. I would replace your WPN with something that can roll +Ele damage. Like Etrayu
9. I would replace your Nats ring with something that has a better secondary or just better stats
10. Umm your witching hour????? I dont think its worth it personally. I would go harringtons and nuke the crap out of t6 rifts until i got something better. In GR'S Im not sure its giving you much love either.
11. Finally Bracers, I would use something with a better secondary and +ele dmg. The options are many. Personally I would hang out with, Reapers wraps, Krelm Bracers, Warzchechian Armgaurds. and of course nemesis to proc shrines.
Why would you say zei? Why would you not include the most obvious gem enforcer?
Zei is calculated as your turret distance from mobs, and while you can intelligently place turrets to take advantage of the gem, a large chunk of the gem is wasted. Enforcer gets 100% use, trapped gets 100% use from just have EA/Frost in your skill setup. The third choice is what people use from personal preference. Things like Powerful are okay for the flat 15% elite damage, but I find that the 20% damage is not up when I need it most of the time. Toxin is pretty cool because it is a flat 10% increase for everyone. Invigorating is good for some people to help with jailer damage. Also some people run with hoarder gem.
@Hawtil I think my attack per second is at least 2.3 maybe.
@Myz I Can survive Greater Rifts on T6 but only in groups, and I am still vulnerable to one shotting. I am doing the best I can
With Bane of the powerful I can get up to at least 1.3mil without it I am at maybe 970 thousand. I am looking to get to 1mil instead, but will probably get it with a tasker and theo if kadala ever drops one
you need sentry dmg on shoulders, 6% crit and cluster arrow on helm, cluster on boots, you need a unity with a socket for solo, SoJ with 20% fire/cold skill for groups and an rorg with crit chance, dex, atk speed, socket. a lvl 70 witching hour, a way better amulet with fire or cold skill 20%, crit dmg, crit chance, and a socket. you need better bracers with 6% crit and 20% fire/cold skills, you need trifecta tasker & theo (atk speed, crit chance, crit dmg) with 40%+ pet atk speed, and you need one of the BiS two handers with 10% dmg, dex, socket, high dmg roll. that about covers it.
right now you have no elemental dmg on your gear. that's a CRAP ton of dps you're missing out on (like... frickin' 500k). healing vapors smoke screen if you don't want to die as much. you should be using bane of trapped, enforcer, and bane of the powerful as your legendary gems.
I would really like to have some much needed advice on improving my character.
even though I have recently acquired M6 I would Like to not die as often and have more DPS
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/DrWho345-6124/
any suggestions would be great
thanks
Wouldn't it be great if the 143 viewers actually answered the question
I really need help/advice with my demon hunter
Am I asking wrong?, am I in the wrong forum?
I never asked for an expert, but thank you for responding, it is much appreciated, I was getting worried I had done something wrong
Thought the point of these forums was if you desperately needed help you could post a question, and someone would answer, but I wasn't hearing anything back.
I will look for elemental damage, am I looking in general or favoring cold or fire?The only reason I have 6 Marauder is I am still looking for a Tasker and Theo to build my DPS, i'll try augilid's set.
The emeralds are the only Dex boost I have but i'll consider it
Thanks for the advice, props to the only person who responded.
Try to get Tasker and Theo!
Here's a great suggestion I can give you: Change Movement Speed on Boots to Cluster Arrow %
Then compensate movement speed on paragon points !
Your Cluster Arrow rune needs to be Maelstrom
Your quiver should have % Sentry
I did a couple of runs tonight and did feel a little more powerful, in groups my DPS is around 1.1mil (would like a little more) but I guess I can only get that by paragon points
I will keep re rolling for % Sentry on quiver and Cluster Arrow% on boots
I did however see sockets in the quiver, what good would that do (don't understand that)
First of all, I would change your skillbar setup. I would put elemental arrow on left click and sentry on right click. It makes it easy to place sentries and if you accidentally left click something in the world elemental arrow is cheaper than multishot.
Secondly, you have the wrong skill/rune setup. Vault needs to have the 50% reduced cost on second vault so you can vault more and on demand. Remember that since you can't have both vault and smokescreen, you have to use vault like smokescreen. You are immune to damage for 1 second while vaulting the same way as smokescreen, but you get the benefit of rolling through mobs. Vault>smokescreen once you get used to using it in this manner. Also, your elemental arrow needs to be frost arrow to trigger slow effect, which we will take advantage of with a change to your passives and gems.
Okay, now that your runes are setup correctly you can change your ambush passive to cull the weak, and swap out your miniconduit gem for bane of the trapped. Congrats you just got 40% increased damage for basically nothing.
If you are having problems living then there are a couple of things that you can do that will increase that nicely. First of all, change the gem in your helm to an amethyst which will increase your health a ton and you won't notice the slight increase to sentry drops. Also, dex classes rely on dex for armor and paragon/gems for resist. If you swap out your dex gems for diamonds it will boost your ability to live when you do get hit a ton at a minimal loss to your dps. You can also run with aughilds bracer and shoulder to gain 15% damage increase and nice damage decrease as well. I also prefer to go with the toxin gem instead of elite gem because elite gem is not active when you need it most and now that sentries stack it you can get 10% increased damage all the time for freebies.
There are lots of things to redo on your gear, but guessing on what you have rerolled you know what to do and are just hoping for rerolls to land.
There are some other things, but that is a lot to start off with.
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Tyrean-1721/hero/51707672
Here is my hardcore DH as a comparison. I can do T6 rifts in about 6 minutes, and I can do grift 31 in about 11 minutes and could probably do higher completion once I get unity. DPS is there easily with my 650K sheet dps because of the way everything stacks up. 20% steady aim, 20% cull, 20% pet gem, 20% slow gem, 10% toxin gem, 20% calamity, 41% sentry, etc.. it stacks up quickly so you don't need tons of sheet dps to do realworld dps.
1, You could improve your helm. Try to get one with Dex / CC / Socket
2. You could improve your shoulders Try to get Dex/Vit/CDR/SentryDmg
3. IMO the 2 must have gems are Enforcer, and Bane of the trapped.
4. Switch your ele arrow fire to ele arrow frost, pick up the "Cull the Weak Passive" instead of ambush and with the bane of the trapped gem PRESTO! You have 40% increase dmg!!!!
5. MY current third gem is the effacious poison gem, lvl 25 gives a debuff and it gives consistant dmg all the way along. Not convinced it is the best one but Bane of the powerful does not seem to come out that great overall
6. I would put RA gems in your gear, and stop rerolling vit. I would use the flexibility of the gems to compensate what you lack in stats on gear instead of trying to reroll survivability. For example get + sentry damage on your quiver and get rid of that vit.
7. What Attacks per second are you at? Do you know the sentry APS breakpoints? All other attackspeed will be wasted. Here is the list:
Min APS......Max APS........Sentry FPA.........Sentry APS
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
0.98182........1.10204...........54......................1.1
1.10205........1.25581...........48......................1.25
1.25582........1.45945...........42......................1.42857
1.45946........1.74193...........36......................1.66666
1.74194........2.16.................30......................2.0
2.16001........2.84210...........24......................2.5
2.84211........4.15385...........18......................3.33333
4.15386........Cap.................12......................5
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
IMO go for 2.16 unless you can get to 2.8 (Which is not easy im sure) Other than that dont worry about extra AS. In fact use your paragons to get to the breakpoints and dont even try to get it on your gear really. Just get a TNT and you will be near the cap.
8. I would replace your WPN with something that can roll +Ele damage. Like Etrayu
9. I would replace your Nats ring with something that has a better secondary or just better stats
10. Umm your witching hour????? I dont think its worth it personally. I would go harringtons and nuke the crap out of t6 rifts until i got something better. In GR'S Im not sure its giving you much love either.
11. Finally Bracers, I would use something with a better secondary and +ele dmg. The options are many. Personally I would hang out with, Reapers wraps, Krelm Bracers, Warzchechian Armgaurds. and of course nemesis to proc shrines.
Hope this helps!
Zei is calculated as your turret distance from mobs, and while you can intelligently place turrets to take advantage of the gem, a large chunk of the gem is wasted. Enforcer gets 100% use, trapped gets 100% use from just have EA/Frost in your skill setup. The third choice is what people use from personal preference. Things like Powerful are okay for the flat 15% elite damage, but I find that the 20% damage is not up when I need it most of the time. Toxin is pretty cool because it is a flat 10% increase for everyone. Invigorating is good for some people to help with jailer damage. Also some people run with hoarder gem.
@Myz I Can survive Greater Rifts on T6 but only in groups, and I am still vulnerable to one shotting. I am doing the best I can
With Bane of the powerful I can get up to at least 1.3mil without it I am at maybe 970 thousand. I am looking to get to 1mil instead, but will probably get it with a tasker and theo if kadala ever drops one
right now you have no elemental dmg on your gear. that's a CRAP ton of dps you're missing out on (like... frickin' 500k). healing vapors smoke screen if you don't want to die as much. you should be using bane of trapped, enforcer, and bane of the powerful as your legendary gems.