Hmm, see I actually find I run T6 Rifts faster with boon of the hoarder because everything dies practically instantly anyway and hoarder gives movement speed on gold pick up. With gold being as easy as it is to find and silly use for it now with the change the the gems required for jewelry reforge I see no real reason to specifically farm gold.
Same thing here. Whenever I feel like doing T6 runs, I equip Kymbo's Gold and Goldwrap on my DH and enjoy god-mode. I just love standing in the middle of arcane sentries and molten explosions with 500k toughness.
The most veiled crystals I've seen from a rift guardian by now is 5.. and the most white/blue crafting mats I've seen is 17(and on those rift guardians I only got 1 veiled crystal)... so no you don't get enough crafting mats from Rift Guardians..
You're right, haven't seen more than 3 or 4 veiled crystals from a guardian either. Considering we now get roughly 16 less items from Kadala for a T6 run, this is a net loss.
Well, the change is pretty worthless anyway. The time spent running from the blacksmith to kadala that is now "saved" will be spent on picking up yellow items during rifts so the change does nothing really in terms of saving time.
Haven't tried it yet (EU and still @work), but from the patch notes, you should grab crafting mats in significant quantities directly from the rift bosses, not all along the way.
Still, I agree, it's at best a very minor change, albeit one that's wasting a lot of e-ink
This was a crappy change, the entire trial system needs to be redone.
I don't really mind, since I'm not competing, but I can understand why some people would be miffed. As already pointed out however, this is the first season, we're bound to see some adjustments. It's a small price to pay to have a skewed first season if it helps leveling the playfield for the next ones.
I do agree about the trial system being quirky, though. I still don't get why they haven't matched the trial level with the GR level ...
I think with this change they should now increase the limit to 1000 shards. This would make it a bit more fun when spending all your shards on amulets.
That was my first thought as well, but then, they've made this change specifically so that there would be less running between Kadala and the blacksmith. Raising the shards cap to 1000 would bring us back to the initial situation, where you have to run back between the two.
Thanks, that's the one I've been using for a few days now. Still looking for something better, but I don't feel like crafting hellfire on a wiz, too few interesting passive for FB build.
Then it's back to the first reply in this thread : if I read your OP right and you can reach the 2.84 BP with your 2H xbow, then by all means, go for it.
If it's a choice between 2.84 Etrayu and 2.16 Manticore, I'd stick with the Etrayu. No math to support that point, but I can suggest at least two reasons :
- you don't have all that much cold damage to begin with, so the 17% from your bow is very valuable
- 2.84 AS also means almost guaranteed uptime on bane of the trapped, which also makes for a significant increase in dps and survivability both
In my case, an xbow at 2.84 beats any bow at 2.84 by a good margin, as it should since the average damage is just that much higher. The cold damage on Etrayu is both subject to diminishing returns since it's additive stacking with enforcer and other +%cold, as well as only 45-55% of your damage being cold in the frostfire build.
Unsurprising. A (rough) rule of thumb is that if your bow and xbow have similar dps, and all other things being equal (ie no +cold dmg, ...), you'll do more or less equivalent damage with the xbow at 2.16 and the bow at 2.84.
After trying many of the areas suggested in this thread, I settled for the following route : core of arreat, tower of the damned 1/2, tower of the cursed 1/2, and caverns of aranae to check the event at the beginning.
Speedruns with a DH running with Danetta's and the Tactical Advantage passive.
I would concentrate on trying to get your hands on an Amulet with socket -- even the third-best gem on the list, once ranked, will outpace in damage and utility a stat like INT or +Fire damage (but not CC/CHD). Oh and reroll the Movement Speed on your boots.
Thanks for the detailed answer!
Regarding the boots, I never bothered since I couldn't get all res (got a secondary resist) and I wasn't using any of the skills that can roll on boots. With the 2.1 changes to regen, though, it was worth rerolling, thanks for pointing that out
Regarding the amulet, I'm having trouble letting go of my 20% fire/675 int/10% cc/89% chd golden gorget ... the only two potential alternatives are :
- 698 vit/8.5% cc/80% chd (-10.9% dmg and -20% fire dmg)
- 17% fire/9.5% cc/52% chd (-13.4% and -3% fire dmg)
Do you think either of those would be worth a try?
I know the most common choice for gems with FB are Bane of the Powerful, Zei's Stone of Vengeance and the Gem of Efficacious Toxin. Right now, though, I don't have a viable socket amulet and will only be using 2 gems.
The first will be the Bane of the Powerful, but I'm kinda hesitating on the other one. They're not all 25 yet, but will be soon, so you can assume 25 lvl gems for comparison purposes.
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Still, I agree, it's at best a very minor change, albeit one that's wasting a lot of e-ink
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I do agree about the trial system being quirky, though. I still don't get why they haven't matched the trial level with the GR level ...
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Oh, and I hate you
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If it's a choice between 2.84 Etrayu and 2.16 Manticore, I'd stick with the Etrayu. No math to support that point, but I can suggest at least two reasons :
- you don't have all that much cold damage to begin with, so the 17% from your bow is very valuable
- 2.84 AS also means almost guaranteed uptime on bane of the trapped, which also makes for a significant increase in dps and survivability both
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After trying many of the areas suggested in this thread, I settled for the following route : core of arreat, tower of the damned 1/2, tower of the cursed 1/2, and caverns of aranae to check the event at the beginning.
Speedruns with a DH running with Danetta's and the Tactical Advantage passive.
http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Taliesyn-2517/hero/66020932
Regarding the boots, I never bothered since I couldn't get all res (got a secondary resist) and I wasn't using any of the skills that can roll on boots. With the 2.1 changes to regen, though, it was worth rerolling, thanks for pointing that out
Regarding the amulet, I'm having trouble letting go of my 20% fire/675 int/10% cc/89% chd golden gorget ... the only two potential alternatives are :
- 698 vit/8.5% cc/80% chd (-10.9% dmg and -20% fire dmg)
- 17% fire/9.5% cc/52% chd (-13.4% and -3% fire dmg)
Do you think either of those would be worth a try?
http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Taliesyn-2517/hero/66020932
I know the most common choice for gems with FB are Bane of the Powerful, Zei's Stone of Vengeance and the Gem of Efficacious Toxin. Right now, though, I don't have a viable socket amulet and will only be using 2 gems.
The first will be the Bane of the Powerful, but I'm kinda hesitating on the other one. They're not all 25 yet, but will be soon, so you can assume 25 lvl gems for comparison purposes.
What would you suggest?
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And I still haven't had a single goblin portal, no hoarding for me!
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