Is there anyone out there who wants to run through the game lol or start an online party?
I'm in eastern time, so would love to set up a time and play onlline cuz its totally ghost town on there lol.
Several people had seen this change coming from a long way away. It made sense. Think about when Blizzard reduced stash size. The writing was on the wall at that point. Runes in the forms of items were gone.
And good riddance. Listen, I enjoy the item hunt as much as the next guy. But stop pretending that this was because we were hunting for uniqueness. The core principle behind the item hunt was to find the precise items that would most benefit the build you had selected, a build that had been mathematically determined to be one of the best builds. Thus, tons of people had it. Runes were a way to customize our characters. And they still really are. I don't want that system tied to items, particularly when the item is hard to find.
We will still be item hunting for optimization. We will still be item hunting for the top end use of our build. But at least our playstyle (which runes are directly tied into) will not be tied into waiting on that item, particularly one that will be rarer than all the other items out there.
totally well put. I wanna hunt items of value, not look on the ground and have crap left right and centre.
I was looking at the Sharpshooter passive and thinking of its synergy with Archery passive with a crossbow (+100% critical hit damage).
Wouldn't that make it 100% bonus damage on crit? And therefore for a golden rune (as long as patch 13 doesn't change it) with rain of vengeance give a ranged attack at an almost guaranteed 1200% weapon damage (before extra modifiers on top) at range on up to 9 targets and stunning them? That sounds way too good to be true, an insane opener for a difficult pack and all you have to do is be patient. Can someone check if the math is right and if it might work this way?
where dfo you get 1200 from?
you get 600% from rain of vengeance
100% from critical hit
where does the rest come from
and ill probably use 2 hand crossbows
i honestly cant even imagine how they thought it was going to work in the first place. What's happening now is much better, and what should have been easily the first option. They should just double the amount of options for each skill selection. Think of it, there are so many affixes you could attatch to really specialize in a certain field. You could have a endless combination of really unique online players. I never understood why they never just develop more skills and devoted more time to that.
And I'm all about color coding that's the only thing ill miss about the old runestones, I guess.
But seriously... 4200 runes what a joke lolz! obv pot heads
So happy for this! There would have been countless of useless runestones that nobody would use just like in early diablo 2 with so many lower level runestones. They are opting to have a much more cleaner environment, and this makes perfect sense. It would be super annoying to have to wait to get the rune you want to socket your skill. Then to have to upgrade it.... that would suck!
I gonna play duel wield crossbows with DH. I trust the system will by worked out well. But if I feel that I play weak. Then I will switch to a big bow. Also it depends what you find in the game. Maybe you only find good two handed bows.
Agreed! I wanna play just the same. And yeah-- I mean it gets better the longer you play your arsenal grows, but its not up to you lol. its up to what drops.
I definately like where your going with this. The good old approach as demon hunters should be- spray the field with damage and get out alive.
However,I do notice a few things. I agree with the above statement that you need more utility, so heres what I would do.
I would get a companion, in my case I chose the crimson runestone in the skill because the spider will slow your enemies which will enable you to use rain of vengeance more easily in-game.
Also, your last passive choice 'Custom Engineering' only helps with one skill you have, which in my opinion isnt worth it. You get an extra 30 seconds on your marked victims, but keep in mind if its like the marked for death on the WOW hunter, you can easily recast this skill.
Instead of Thrill of the Hunt and Custom Engineering, I would opt for Cull the Weak and Archery. They not only increase your overall DPS but it will give you bonus based on which type of weapon you carry.
With your slowing companion and your fan of knives slow bonues, your passive skill Cull the Weak will make you all around much more effective, especially when you concentrate your attack using rain of vengeance.
Killing enemy as fast as you can is your build startegy and the way to maximize DPS in D3 is picking one attack skill and a bunch of buffs (not picking a bunch of attack skills!).
I'm in eastern time, so would love to set up a time and play onlline cuz its totally ghost town on there lol.
totally well put. I wanna hunt items of value, not look on the ground and have crap left right and centre.
where dfo you get 1200 from?
you get 600% from rain of vengeance
100% from critical hit
where does the rest come from
and ill probably use 2 hand crossbows
And I'm all about color coding that's the only thing ill miss about the old runestones, I guess.
But seriously... 4200 runes what a joke lolz! obv pot heads
Agreed! I wanna play just the same. And yeah-- I mean it gets better the longer you play your arsenal grows, but its not up to you lol. its up to what drops.
However,I do notice a few things. I agree with the above statement that you need more utility, so heres what I would do.
I would get a companion, in my case I chose the crimson runestone in the skill because the spider will slow your enemies which will enable you to use rain of vengeance more easily in-game.
Also, your last passive choice 'Custom Engineering' only helps with one skill you have, which in my opinion isnt worth it. You get an extra 30 seconds on your marked victims, but keep in mind if its like the marked for death on the WOW hunter, you can easily recast this skill.
Instead of Thrill of the Hunt and Custom Engineering, I would opt for Cull the Weak and Archery. They not only increase your overall DPS but it will give you bonus based on which type of weapon you carry.
With your slowing companion and your fan of knives slow bonues, your passive skill Cull the Weak will make you all around much more effective, especially when you concentrate your attack using rain of vengeance.
Killing enemy as fast as you can is your build startegy and the way to maximize DPS in D3 is picking one attack skill and a bunch of buffs (not picking a bunch of attack skills!).
Here is the tweaked build;
http://us.battle.net...TlQc!bcV!bZZZYa
Hope this helps!