WD was my first too, solo act 1 and 2 inferno then made a wiz and never looked back. The play styles are too few if you want to do splinters make a hunter that will shoot for more than 60%... The other viable builds bats/bears required a unique 4 useless cds and passives. Also, I don't think pets will ever be on par unless they are completely reworked.
nope... you are ranged... so actually IF you can take 1 hit (spear, fireball,...) you are absolutly fine...
because most of the time it is ONLY this ONE hit and there are no more.
AND you can have defense AND offense... there are a lot of slots where only DEX is possible (except those legendaries... with ias - but i am still waiting for the ias nerf). and on this slots you can get huge defense stats with eaaaase.
chest, legs, belt, shoulders....
AND without being a glasscannon any longer, dmg reflect is a free kill... actually i dont need SS to kill these mobs
so go for survive AND dps - its awesome!
You can't have extreme offense and have defense. That's the point. The amount of DPS you lose to be able to take 1 hit isn't worth it, in my opinion. Why bother being able to take one hit and doing 50k DPS when I can SS to victory with 100k DPS? When you have enough DPS, everything is a free kill.
Ranged attacks can be dodged, so arguing that you can take 1 ranged hit is kind of silly. You shouldn't be taking any. If you take a melee hit though, you're likely to take more.
you CAN have offense and defense... i am sitting at 65k without ss and 130k with ss. and i have 30k hp 3000 armor and 300 resis... when i am done with my item change (glass cannon to survival), i guess i will sit at 4k armor 50k hp 600 resis and have still my dps...
there is an other guy at this forum. he has INSANE values... 200k SS dps and about the def stats i said...
so it IS possible.
and yes you should dodge all this ranged attacks.... you should... but maybe i am a bad player, but sometimes i just oversee 1 spear or an other thing...
and about those melee hits. actually most of the time i only get 1, because i kite them and then i make a mistake, or some enemy approaches from behind. so most of the time it really is only this 1 hit.
maybe you give def a try - you will love ti!
even with those survival stats I bet you will still get 2 shotted maybe 3 if you pot in act3-4
except when you encounter reflect dmg mobs. they actually get HARDER as DPS numbers gets higher. becaues you'll die in that split second between two smoke screens when you are not quasi-immune.
I usually just go all out and die once and get it the next time around
Also, If you want more survivability get items with more discipline (Quiver/chest) for more smoke screens
I was a glass cannon build but I felt like I died ALL the time. Invisible naga's and such land one hit on you and you are dead. That's not very fun in my book when you get elites that are mortar/frozen/reflect damage/fast etc on already annoying mob types and you end up skipping elites because you can't survive. He is obviously tired of dying so saying Burn it before you die doesn't help in Act 2. Not saying go full tank spec but it makes a world of difference to be able to take just 1 hit.
Just wait till you try to solo in act 4, you can have 400k dps and still get one shot, repeatedly
My advice is there's not point in trying to solo act 2-4, buy staff of herding and farm. If you don't have enough farm public butcher till you have enough.
Sigh this fight is so frustrating the one time I finally push into p3 I died to the breath, wasn't standing in the corner, haven't seen p3 in awhile now. T_T
I'm at 90k dps with sharpshooter. 1k dps bow with about 150% crit damage, two 15% increased attack speed rings, 1600ish dex, 26000 hp.
Crit damage and sharpshooter boost the numbers retarded high.
Starting in act 2 of inferno you get 1-2 shotted by anything. I stacked resists and got up to roughly 400 while maintaining some okay damage and 33k health but it didnt make a difference at all so I went back to my pure DPS gear. You will see it gets frustrating spending a lot of gold on survival gear then finding out that it doesnt mean shit at the moment, hopefully something changes.
I hold onto my resist gear to easily beat the Butcher, his chains attack hits for 33k and its not likely you will dodge/SS all of them.
I'm kinda at a stalemate. I'm on the second quest in act3 but I really dont want to spend the time it takes to wipe over and over. It's really not fun and not what I thought diablo3 would be like. Farming act 1 inferno isnt bad but the gear u get really isnt that great.
I predict bliz will make changes to make resist gear and armor matter more for acts 2,3,4 but for now its pointless.
Hope this helps
How much resist gear do you stack for that aoe chain?
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I agree with this and clouds will still have a chance to drop the same ilvl even without mf.
*I like the elite drops from ponies and with 5 stacks I think it might be promising.
even with those survival stats I bet you will still get 2 shotted maybe 3 if you pot in act3-4
I usually just go all out and die once and get it the next time around
Also, If you want more survivability get items with more discipline (Quiver/chest) for more smoke screens
If you want to play like that reroll a wizard, DH doesn't have defense mechanics like all other characters.
My advice is there's not point in trying to solo act 2-4, buy staff of herding and farm. If you don't have enough farm public butcher till you have enough.
How much resist gear do you stack for that aoe chain?