I personally like the crit change, you waste less time trying to snapshot crit. I think takuto does not have a Quetzcoatl, but does have a Jeram (yes?!). And that's definitely a way to go in such a situation. I'm personally looking for either frostburn or tasker+theo to put in the gloves slot as my off item right now.
Note there is a bug currently where +haunt damage on gear is not working (or +locust damage?). Though despite that monsters still die faster than they used to with the fetish change. I still feel very comfortable in torment 4/5, but some elite powers are also now doing much more damage (I am hugging that horrify+100% armor hard). People are unsure if that is a bug or intended., hopefully blizzard will tell us soon, and at the very least fix up the skill bonuses.
Hrm, that's a shame seeing how I spent about 5 million more gold to get +Haunt damage on my serpent offhand. I do hope they fix it, if it's indeed broken.
2500 + shards and no T&T from kadala yesterday or the day before. Will try to get a pair tonight...if I even rift. That community event buff is difficult to deal with. I can either farm extra rift fragments, or I can get a lot more legendary drop % in rifts ... hard to choose.
On a sidenote, I'm trying to tinker with my gear and could use some advice.
Assuming gloves are reserved for T&T, what do I do about my legs/boots, etc? I'm not exactly sure what I want to get out of things. If I'm willing to give up Unity, I could use my RoRG (only level 61 but pretty good stats) and go for 2pc aughild's and 4 pc asheara but is it worth it? I think anyway. I can do aughild chest + bracers, and then asheara shoulders, leg, boots.
Iceclimbers are really nice though... what would you guys do? I'm interested in your ideas.
Yeah both T&T and frostburn are hard to get. Either would be useful. Frostburn has that 10-15% cold, and ~40% chance to freeze instead of chill.
With how blizzard has (temporarily?) increased elite power damage significantly, I'm poking around with 3pc ashera, 4pc blackthorne, 3pc aughilds. May be temporary because ashera 4set is just so great - if you haven't tried it.. most people who do become believers very quickly. Usually if I want mitigation I would just go with string of ears (or hwoj), but currently the elite power change is making me curious about blackthorne again. I'm not having much difficulty due to all the mitigation you already get with spirit walk and horrify, but I'm not used to dying at all whereas now in groups on T5 it can happen (esp with the scaling monsters get with more players). Anyway this experiment may not last long because it is hard to lose Lord Harrington's belt and warzecian(spelling?) bracers because both can add to rifting speed so darn much - but if it's a group thing where you're limited in speed anyway...
It is hard to get 3 good pieces of blackthorne because of all the fixed stat rolls on several pieces. But pants/chest are fairly easy to get a good version of, and I finally lucked into a belt that had all the stats I want... allowing me to reroll that fixed life per second on it.
I would think that I would take a string of ears over blackthorne? Hard to say. Harrington is just too good with our dots though. Not to mention, it is massive damage with fetishes. I find that since I have fetishes and dogs now, I survive more easily than before.
I have tried Asheara's before and for some reason, I was quite annoyed with it. It might also be that the chicken was throwing me for a loop cause I wasn't seeing any damage numbers over the chickens' heads so I thought they went immune while CC'd. I don't have good gear for scoundrel because I dont' get dex gear so I am not sure how much added damage they will bring to the table. That being said, I am willing to give it another go. I could go asheara shoulders, legs, gloves + aughild's chest, bracers and still leave room for iceclimbers. Or eventually I can go asheara shoulders, legs, boots + aughild's chest and bracers and leave room for T&T. In order to do this all however, I would need to give up unity for RoRG, which has way worse stats than my unity.
It's really hard to decide, but I suppose testing is the only way to know for sure
I have tried Asheara's before and for some reason, I was quite annoyed with it. It might also be that the chicken was throwing me for a loop cause I wasn't seeing any damage numbers over the chickens' heads so I thought they went immune while CC'd.
Yeah, that happens (you can't see damage numbers while they're hexed), but they're definitely taking damage, so don't worry about that.
I have tried Asheara's before and for some reason, I was quite annoyed with it. It might also be that the chicken was throwing me for a loop cause I wasn't seeing any damage numbers over the chickens' heads so I thought they went immune while CC'd.
Yeah, that happens (you can't see damage numbers while they're hexed), but they're definitely taking damage, so don't worry about that.
Well that's good to know. Then the real question is if it's worth giving up unity + and ice climbers for asheara's
Probably worthwhile to use ring of royal grandeur if you have it just so you can swap in another piece or two that may overtake unity. How are you liking the frostburn? I'm jelly =3.
I actually JUST got the frostburn last night trying to get T&T. THe rolls were okay but not great as far as CC/CHD. but it looks like I got lucky cause I got one with 15% cold and 39% freeze. Low int, but IAS isn't an entirely wasted stat w/ fetishes now.
The freeze effect is fairly underwhelming after running about 10 - 12 rifts with it. Spirit barrage won't constantly chill, it's probably just on first cast. It might shine more in t5, but in t4, I don't need it. I decided to remove the diamond from the helm and replace with amethyst to help pad my life because I gave up 749 vitality on my gloves.
What IS noticeable is the 15% frost damage. It took my initial hits from 4 - 6 mil up to 8 or 9 mil. I don't know why, but it does heh.
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2500 + shards and no T&T from kadala yesterday or the day before. Will try to get a pair tonight...if I even rift. That community event buff is difficult to deal with. I can either farm extra rift fragments, or I can get a lot more legendary drop % in rifts ... hard to choose.
On a sidenote, I'm trying to tinker with my gear and could use some advice.
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Tak-1454/hero/42633170
Assuming gloves are reserved for T&T, what do I do about my legs/boots, etc? I'm not exactly sure what I want to get out of things. If I'm willing to give up Unity, I could use my RoRG (only level 61 but pretty good stats) and go for 2pc aughild's and 4 pc asheara but is it worth it? I think anyway. I can do aughild chest + bracers, and then asheara shoulders, leg, boots.
Iceclimbers are really nice though... what would you guys do? I'm interested in your ideas.
With how blizzard has (temporarily?) increased elite power damage significantly, I'm poking around with 3pc ashera, 4pc blackthorne, 3pc aughilds. May be temporary because ashera 4set is just so great - if you haven't tried it.. most people who do become believers very quickly. Usually if I want mitigation I would just go with string of ears (or hwoj), but currently the elite power change is making me curious about blackthorne again. I'm not having much difficulty due to all the mitigation you already get with spirit walk and horrify, but I'm not used to dying at all whereas now in groups on T5 it can happen (esp with the scaling monsters get with more players). Anyway this experiment may not last long because it is hard to lose Lord Harrington's belt and warzecian(spelling?) bracers because both can add to rifting speed so darn much - but if it's a group thing where you're limited in speed anyway...
It is hard to get 3 good pieces of blackthorne because of all the fixed stat rolls on several pieces. But pants/chest are fairly easy to get a good version of, and I finally lucked into a belt that had all the stats I want... allowing me to reroll that fixed life per second on it.
I have tried Asheara's before and for some reason, I was quite annoyed with it. It might also be that the chicken was throwing me for a loop cause I wasn't seeing any damage numbers over the chickens' heads so I thought they went immune while CC'd. I don't have good gear for scoundrel because I dont' get dex gear so I am not sure how much added damage they will bring to the table. That being said, I am willing to give it another go. I could go asheara shoulders, legs, gloves + aughild's chest, bracers and still leave room for iceclimbers. Or eventually I can go asheara shoulders, legs, boots + aughild's chest and bracers and leave room for T&T. In order to do this all however, I would need to give up unity for RoRG, which has way worse stats than my unity.
It's really hard to decide, but I suppose testing is the only way to know for sure
The freeze effect is fairly underwhelming after running about 10 - 12 rifts with it. Spirit barrage won't constantly chill, it's probably just on first cast. It might shine more in t5, but in t4, I don't need it. I decided to remove the diamond from the helm and replace with amethyst to help pad my life because I gave up 749 vitality on my gloves.
What IS noticeable is the 15% frost damage. It took my initial hits from 4 - 6 mil up to 8 or 9 mil. I don't know why, but it does heh.