I hate anarchs when i am on my WD or Wizard...i dont mind them on my Monk, barb or sader..
Exarachs though are annoying as fuck on my melees and a breeze with my range.
As much as i dislike some of the Act 5 mobs i think they are perfect the way they are. BUT the act 2 mosquitoes need to go... had 3 packs of them each of them with horde affix...so many of those little bastards it was just ridiculous....
Yeah i got the Cindercoat and decided to play around on the wizard, if i can get more CD reduction i am thinking to change to molten impact possible, and no mirrorball just some random stuff i picked up... i just enjoy the meteor swarm...covers a much larger base than magic missile and i can just run around gathering a large group then blanket cover the entire screen with meteors and watch them all die
Well i have seen many builds on here for the classes and i like to play around with them but nothing seemed to mesh with the Wizard, i wasnt getting the right gear for the other builds or i just did not enjoy the play style so i figured i would have fun and try something different.
The entire build focuses on Meteor - Meteor Shower rune, and raining a barrage of them down on the heads of pretty much the entire screen.
With this build you are focusing on high levels of resource reduction, APoC, Crit Chance and Arcane power.
The more of these the more meteors you can churn out.
Now for the skills;
Magic Missile - Conflagrate rune - Fire being the main dmg type of the build this hits pretty solid and gives you a nice fluff hit in between the barrages of meteors.
The above mentioned Meteor shower, this will be the bread and butter of the build. You cast it like crazy on the groups and watch things fall dead, pretty simple.
Magic Weapon or Familiar are nice options for this build, i personally use Magic Weapon with Force rune for the 20% dmg boost but this one is more personal choice.
Energy Armor - Prismatic Armor, gives that extra toughness you can use to keep churning out more meteors, but if you have plenty from gear you can change it up to which best suits your needs.
Black Hole - Spellsteal or supermassive.. you are using this purely for grouping and the dmg boost from passive Elemental Exposure
Archon - Combustion this is the heavy hitter for when you need / want to burn down a pack or boss fast.
Now as for the passives;
Astral Pressence, the extra Arcane power and increased regen are must haves for the build, more arcane = more meteors.
Glass Cannon, the damage boost...that is all it is.
Conflagration - the extra crit chance will be helpful with the APoC
Elemental exposure - between the black hole and the meteor impacts, they will give you another 10% extra dmg on the targets so the meteor's keep hitting harder.
Now for the gearing of this it should be rather obvious...fire damage.
Cindercoat, Magefist, Andariels, SoJ...get the whole lot of them with max fire dmg.
Now the upcoming patch shows the Firebird set having some promise to this build but have not got the set so cannot say one way or the other in regards to it.
For weapon you will want a 1h like Devastator or Burning Axe of Sankis for the fire dmg, and the Firebird source for the additional fire damage as well.
I found this to be just a fun build, i play around on it with only 1.4 mil fire dmg right now and just enjoy covering the map in meteors as everything dies, and figured i would share it with you all.
spider queen is a handy one for a fetish proc build.. her aoe ticks can spawn the fetishes as well, so combo it with lob blob and some rain of frogs going you can get a nice armada of Fetish out there
you are not talking about truth you are talking about facts...
Truths are a subjective aspect, as can be proven in many tests. A mentally unstable man will be telling the truth without any doubt when he claims to have heard the voice of the devil telling him to do something... it is not a fact, but it is a truth, to him.
The earth is an ovoid shape is a fact, not a truth. Trying to use the logically fallacies to show god's existence is what you are aiming for, which is a common point for those in a creationism / bible thumper position.
but that can work both ways... if god is omnipotent then he must be able to make a rock he cannot let, which would mean is he is not omnipotent. And the argument from morality is quite amusing, since christians found it morally right and their god given duty to slaughter all the muslims they could find, as well as mayans, incas, aztecs, Aeti, and dozens of other indigenous peoples...
Morality is a standard built upon by a society... an individual contributes to this morality by their actions and reactions, be it acceptance or rejection of those around themselves and their actions or reactions. So saying it is better to argue for god based upon morality is an eloquent way of saying "We cannot argue this in any real way so we will make shit up to try and sound smart and fit our opinion"
and this is why religion should be banned.. it promotes the general acceptance of ignorance of reality.
You people claiming that because money is involved so things are controlled, or that sense RMAH is there of course they control the loot drops, and the dozen other excuses you toss out for why things are how they are, you need to just stop.
Go back to a school, take a basic class on probability, hell just a basic math class teaching % chances... maybe then you will understand that killing more does not equal increased chance...
every single mob has the exact same fixed % chance to drop an item... killing 1 or killing 5000 does not change that per creature, the probability of getting an item increases based upon the number of kills but that does not lock in an item, since according to probability a diamond will instantly move 5 feet given enough time.
So please, stop shouting "its blizzards fault i get crappy loot" just cause you are too ignorant to understand the truth of the matter.
Only made a little over 300 USD myself (no hardcore AH time for me)... but i see nothing wrong with sniping a great item on the cheap and flipping it for a good profit.
I do that in my business all the time, its just smart business. Some one will buy that item no matter what if it is good, some people feel it is only worth 1 million gold and some feel 2 billion and some think 250 USD is fine as well... as the vendor you set a price that you anticipate it will sell at and return a good profit, if you know that particular item will return a higher profit then you set a higher sell point..
You hate the price point the vendor sets then refuse to buy, but you cannot get upset when some one comes along with more wealth and is willing to dump 250 or 2 billion gold on something when you lacked the funds..
You people calling bad ethics, or no morals just do not seem to understand the concepts behind those terms.
Purchasing an item for a low price on GAH/RMAH then reselling for 100-1000 times the purchase price is not screwing anyone over. No one is being trampled upon, or screwed over, or denied the ability to play and enjoy the game... there are no ethical or moral concepts being violated. Ethics would come in to play if you bought all of the echoing furies on the entire GAH then reposted them all on RMAH for 100+ each...that would be in the category of ethical violations due to attempts to monopolize that part of the market...
But buying 1 or 5 echoing furies for cheap then reposting for profit against the hundreds if not thousands of similar weapons just means you offered the better product and beat the competitors...
So please, stop with the whining cause you did not get what you wanted for the price you wanted and did not have your hand held through every aspect of life.
i prefer RoT over ghost bomb purely for the perks of when i get walled in i can still plug them, and if they are the annoying electrified with xtra health i can just stand behind a rock or wall and block the electric and still rip them apart with no risk..
Yeah the dmg is not the greatest but it is a handy counter to Reflect dmg mobs as well since the proc on LoH is crazy with it so you can actually counter reflect with a low amount of LoH using RoT
since people are having trouble understanding how chance versus averages works...
You have a 10% chance per MP level to get the key... so 9 outta 10 you wont get it is the average .. but there is not promise run it 10 times and you get it, since the chance is reset every single attempt...
You do not gain reduce your chance of not getting it by running it more, you maintain the exact same chance..
Example: MP5 act 1 key run
Run# 1 - no key (50% loser column)
2 - no key (50% loser)
3 - "
4 - "
Ad infinitum... it does not matter how many times you run it, if there is a chance to lose that is a constant.. your personal average may not be 50% but the chance is still 50%..
Coin toss is a great example.. the US Quarter has a 50.9% chance to land heads down due to a slight difference in weight.. but if you flip it 100 times i can bet you there will be more then 50 times it lands tails down...that is chance.
you cannot demand a drop just cause you ran something many times, i am well over 300k mob kills and close to 40k elites, have i got a single 100mil item? nope, now my friend though (who has more MF then me) has got 1 good pair of ice climbers.. that it.. he has half my kill rate but he gets almost no good loots.
That is chance, you can get MF and Paragon to tweak chance in your favor but there is always that chance you will not win.
sorry for the vague statement by me on just as violent... it is hard to explain i guess. Humans as a specie display violence, and anger to the most idiotic things, and the most righteous as well.. Those extremist that use religion to act out violence, they would be just as violent in my opinion (key word there) with or without religion. I dislike religion in general cause it makes it more acceptable to discriminate, degrade and promote violence towards others that do not believe in the same bullshit as you.
But i still believe humanity as a general whole would still have that violent tilt. you have countries in europe and asia with very low levels of religious fervor, especially compared to america, and on the surface they have a general increased level of peacefulness. Till you start going in to the country and really looking, the violence, anger and desire to act upon it are all there.. just suppressed, or re-directed to a degree or another.
Eliminating religion is a step in the right direct to reducing the violence, it removes the easy excuse, the lazy ignorant shit can no longer say "kill him cause he doesnt believe in my god".. now he has to find some new motivator, some new excuse.. and maybe just maybe in time it will cause them to think through a better response then violence but with how humans are at this moment in time, i just struggle to see it.
Maybe if humans would have eliminated the belief in myths earlier in our history we would be less prone to violence, but again.. Alexander did not conquer for religion, Ghengis Khan did not conquer for religion... Napoleon was actually an agnostic / atheist and conquered huge swaths of land.
I hope my idea came across better in this, i am not in any way supporting the existence of religion, but i do not believe it is the reason we are so violent... just the reason we are less advanced then we could be science wise.
I doubt the planet would be more peaceful without religion.. maybe less bloodshed but i highly doubt the aggressive nature of humans was brought about purely by the creation of religion.
Yes religion fueled that fire quite profusely, but humans by nature are an aggressive specie with an inherit violence within us.. There would have been fewer wars most def but i just have this weird feeling humans would be just as violent...
heh did you know that Jesus was added to the list of different personifications of brahma within Hinduism? just a tidbit for similarities.. As for the Christians being martyrs and tortured mercilessly for refusing to recant their faith..yeah that is some propaganda right there..
Most christians were not tortured for refusal to recant their faith, the romans (the ruling elite when the religion started) did not give two shits about recanting your belief..they let all those they conquered keep their faiths, they just required taxes and tributes to be paid...
And since the christians were quite the little terrorist back then, they caught some extra flak, add to it they were seen as an upstart cult (on par with how most christians view mormonism or a little less credit even) and people like Nero (who was a nut case anyways) used the early christians as a scapegoat for some of his actions.
The christians never had this massive time period of tortured rough existence, though you people sure do like to claim it. And as for the catholic church and doing good??? HAHAHAHAHAHAH they have much more dirt on their hands then good in the bank. Support for slavery since it was commonplace (even got details in your bible explaining how to treat and trade your slaves), or the backing of genocides (crusaders could be called no less), oh i know how about the repeated overthrowing of established countries, and cultures all for their own coffers?
And as to your statement of me not being familiar with catholics since i state they are far from original.. mmm yeah i got a pretty good clue on them, studied them for quite a few decades now. Their history is not some glorious passage of suffering and enduring through the blights... they had a short term of being below notice, and then a even shorter term of being considered a cult, and finally getting a lovely little perk of "lets editted ever living crap out of every inch of this book to make it conform and adapt to the concepts of domination and leadership"... which is why constantine supported the faith and placed it as the official religion of the empire.
You want to know why so many turned to the original tennets of christianity? not cause of the catholics (which did not come about for many many years, but due to things such as the Gnostic scriptures, preaching peace and goodwill, treating the meek as kings, and the rich giving everything up to help the poor...
What poor man in their right mind would not want that? free money, food, clothes..shit yeah let me have that. Once the catholic church came about post constantine they were no longer of those values. they had nothing but greedy and power mongering in their history.... And with quite a few of those considered good deeds actually being the results of horrendous actions... Such as the conversion of ireland... nicely destroying an entire culture to make it conform.. or the Mayans, incas, and let us not forget the pillaging of the southeast asian regions...
Please do inform me where the catholic church has a long standing history of great and kind deeds.. was it their support of the US Slave trade? how bout the backing of the Nazi's? oh i know the spreading of lies that condoms cause cancer in Africa impeding the prevention of AIDs spread... Ooo how about their tacit acceptance of pedophilia within their priesthood and the pope himself helping hide away confirmed child molestors? please do elaborate for me...
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Exarachs though are annoying as fuck on my melees and a breeze with my range.
As much as i dislike some of the Act 5 mobs i think they are perfect the way they are. BUT the act 2 mosquitoes need to go... had 3 packs of them each of them with horde affix...so many of those little bastards it was just ridiculous....
get some Raid up in here and remove those...
which is the whole point to the build
The entire build focuses on Meteor - Meteor Shower rune, and raining a barrage of them down on the heads of pretty much the entire screen.
With this build you are focusing on high levels of resource reduction, APoC, Crit Chance and Arcane power.
The more of these the more meteors you can churn out.
Now for the skills;
Magic Missile - Conflagrate rune - Fire being the main dmg type of the build this hits pretty solid and gives you a nice fluff hit in between the barrages of meteors.
The above mentioned Meteor shower, this will be the bread and butter of the build. You cast it like crazy on the groups and watch things fall dead, pretty simple.
Magic Weapon or Familiar are nice options for this build, i personally use Magic Weapon with Force rune for the 20% dmg boost but this one is more personal choice.
Energy Armor - Prismatic Armor, gives that extra toughness you can use to keep churning out more meteors, but if you have plenty from gear you can change it up to which best suits your needs.
Black Hole - Spellsteal or supermassive.. you are using this purely for grouping and the dmg boost from passive Elemental Exposure
Archon - Combustion this is the heavy hitter for when you need / want to burn down a pack or boss fast.
Now as for the passives;
Astral Pressence, the extra Arcane power and increased regen are must haves for the build, more arcane = more meteors.
Glass Cannon, the damage boost...that is all it is.
Conflagration - the extra crit chance will be helpful with the APoC
Elemental exposure - between the black hole and the meteor impacts, they will give you another 10% extra dmg on the targets so the meteor's keep hitting harder.
Now for the gearing of this it should be rather obvious...fire damage.
Cindercoat, Magefist, Andariels, SoJ...get the whole lot of them with max fire dmg.
Now the upcoming patch shows the Firebird set having some promise to this build but have not got the set so cannot say one way or the other in regards to it.
For weapon you will want a 1h like Devastator or Burning Axe of Sankis for the fire dmg, and the Firebird source for the additional fire damage as well.
I found this to be just a fun build, i play around on it with only 1.4 mil fire dmg right now and just enjoy covering the map in meteors as everything dies, and figured i would share it with you all.
Truths are a subjective aspect, as can be proven in many tests. A mentally unstable man will be telling the truth without any doubt when he claims to have heard the voice of the devil telling him to do something... it is not a fact, but it is a truth, to him.
The earth is an ovoid shape is a fact, not a truth. Trying to use the logically fallacies to show god's existence is what you are aiming for, which is a common point for those in a creationism / bible thumper position.
but that can work both ways... if god is omnipotent then he must be able to make a rock he cannot let, which would mean is he is not omnipotent. And the argument from morality is quite amusing, since christians found it morally right and their god given duty to slaughter all the muslims they could find, as well as mayans, incas, aztecs, Aeti, and dozens of other indigenous peoples...
Morality is a standard built upon by a society... an individual contributes to this morality by their actions and reactions, be it acceptance or rejection of those around themselves and their actions or reactions. So saying it is better to argue for god based upon morality is an eloquent way of saying "We cannot argue this in any real way so we will make shit up to try and sound smart and fit our opinion"
You people claiming that because money is involved so things are controlled, or that sense RMAH is there of course they control the loot drops, and the dozen other excuses you toss out for why things are how they are, you need to just stop.
Go back to a school, take a basic class on probability, hell just a basic math class teaching % chances... maybe then you will understand that killing more does not equal increased chance...
every single mob has the exact same fixed % chance to drop an item... killing 1 or killing 5000 does not change that per creature, the probability of getting an item increases based upon the number of kills but that does not lock in an item, since according to probability a diamond will instantly move 5 feet given enough time.
So please, stop shouting "its blizzards fault i get crappy loot" just cause you are too ignorant to understand the truth of the matter.
I do that in my business all the time, its just smart business. Some one will buy that item no matter what if it is good, some people feel it is only worth 1 million gold and some feel 2 billion and some think 250 USD is fine as well... as the vendor you set a price that you anticipate it will sell at and return a good profit, if you know that particular item will return a higher profit then you set a higher sell point..
You hate the price point the vendor sets then refuse to buy, but you cannot get upset when some one comes along with more wealth and is willing to dump 250 or 2 billion gold on something when you lacked the funds..
You people calling bad ethics, or no morals just do not seem to understand the concepts behind those terms.
Purchasing an item for a low price on GAH/RMAH then reselling for 100-1000 times the purchase price is not screwing anyone over. No one is being trampled upon, or screwed over, or denied the ability to play and enjoy the game... there are no ethical or moral concepts being violated. Ethics would come in to play if you bought all of the echoing furies on the entire GAH then reposted them all on RMAH for 100+ each...that would be in the category of ethical violations due to attempts to monopolize that part of the market...
But buying 1 or 5 echoing furies for cheap then reposting for profit against the hundreds if not thousands of similar weapons just means you offered the better product and beat the competitors...
So please, stop with the whining cause you did not get what you wanted for the price you wanted and did not have your hand held through every aspect of life.
got bored with the Cluster and Hungering so i dropped a few hundred K and made a tank DH...
Mainly goofing off on it but i have been able to do MP6 with it no problem, MP10 i can live but it takes forever and a day to kill anything lol
Yeah the dmg is not the greatest but it is a handy counter to Reflect dmg mobs as well since the proc on LoH is crazy with it so you can actually counter reflect with a low amount of LoH using RoT
You have a 10% chance per MP level to get the key... so 9 outta 10 you wont get it is the average .. but there is not promise run it 10 times and you get it, since the chance is reset every single attempt...
You do not gain reduce your chance of not getting it by running it more, you maintain the exact same chance..
Example: MP5 act 1 key run
Run# 1 - no key (50% loser column)
2 - no key (50% loser)
3 - "
4 - "
Ad infinitum... it does not matter how many times you run it, if there is a chance to lose that is a constant.. your personal average may not be 50% but the chance is still 50%..
Coin toss is a great example.. the US Quarter has a 50.9% chance to land heads down due to a slight difference in weight.. but if you flip it 100 times i can bet you there will be more then 50 times it lands tails down...that is chance.
you cannot demand a drop just cause you ran something many times, i am well over 300k mob kills and close to 40k elites, have i got a single 100mil item? nope, now my friend though (who has more MF then me) has got 1 good pair of ice climbers.. that it.. he has half my kill rate but he gets almost no good loots.
That is chance, you can get MF and Paragon to tweak chance in your favor but there is always that chance you will not win.
But i still believe humanity as a general whole would still have that violent tilt. you have countries in europe and asia with very low levels of religious fervor, especially compared to america, and on the surface they have a general increased level of peacefulness. Till you start going in to the country and really looking, the violence, anger and desire to act upon it are all there.. just suppressed, or re-directed to a degree or another.
Eliminating religion is a step in the right direct to reducing the violence, it removes the easy excuse, the lazy ignorant shit can no longer say "kill him cause he doesnt believe in my god".. now he has to find some new motivator, some new excuse.. and maybe just maybe in time it will cause them to think through a better response then violence but with how humans are at this moment in time, i just struggle to see it.
Maybe if humans would have eliminated the belief in myths earlier in our history we would be less prone to violence, but again.. Alexander did not conquer for religion, Ghengis Khan did not conquer for religion... Napoleon was actually an agnostic / atheist and conquered huge swaths of land.
I hope my idea came across better in this, i am not in any way supporting the existence of religion, but i do not believe it is the reason we are so violent... just the reason we are less advanced then we could be science wise.
Yes religion fueled that fire quite profusely, but humans by nature are an aggressive specie with an inherit violence within us.. There would have been fewer wars most def but i just have this weird feeling humans would be just as violent...
Most christians were not tortured for refusal to recant their faith, the romans (the ruling elite when the religion started) did not give two shits about recanting your belief..they let all those they conquered keep their faiths, they just required taxes and tributes to be paid...
And since the christians were quite the little terrorist back then, they caught some extra flak, add to it they were seen as an upstart cult (on par with how most christians view mormonism or a little less credit even) and people like Nero (who was a nut case anyways) used the early christians as a scapegoat for some of his actions.
The christians never had this massive time period of tortured rough existence, though you people sure do like to claim it. And as for the catholic church and doing good??? HAHAHAHAHAHAH they have much more dirt on their hands then good in the bank. Support for slavery since it was commonplace (even got details in your bible explaining how to treat and trade your slaves), or the backing of genocides (crusaders could be called no less), oh i know how about the repeated overthrowing of established countries, and cultures all for their own coffers?
And as to your statement of me not being familiar with catholics since i state they are far from original.. mmm yeah i got a pretty good clue on them, studied them for quite a few decades now. Their history is not some glorious passage of suffering and enduring through the blights... they had a short term of being below notice, and then a even shorter term of being considered a cult, and finally getting a lovely little perk of "lets editted ever living crap out of every inch of this book to make it conform and adapt to the concepts of domination and leadership"... which is why constantine supported the faith and placed it as the official religion of the empire.
You want to know why so many turned to the original tennets of christianity? not cause of the catholics (which did not come about for many many years, but due to things such as the Gnostic scriptures, preaching peace and goodwill, treating the meek as kings, and the rich giving everything up to help the poor...
What poor man in their right mind would not want that? free money, food, clothes..shit yeah let me have that. Once the catholic church came about post constantine they were no longer of those values. they had nothing but greedy and power mongering in their history.... And with quite a few of those considered good deeds actually being the results of horrendous actions... Such as the conversion of ireland... nicely destroying an entire culture to make it conform.. or the Mayans, incas, and let us not forget the pillaging of the southeast asian regions...
Please do inform me where the catholic church has a long standing history of great and kind deeds.. was it their support of the US Slave trade? how bout the backing of the Nazi's? oh i know the spreading of lies that condoms cause cancer in Africa impeding the prevention of AIDs spread... Ooo how about their tacit acceptance of pedophilia within their priesthood and the pope himself helping hide away confirmed child molestors? please do elaborate for me...