Having recently switched from a tank build to my current weapon throw dps build, I have to say WW "scouts" are annoying as heck in a group. I'd much rather have a tank in the party who stays with the group than one who's running off, killing stuff where I can't see what drops, leaving stragglers, triggering goblins, etc., etc... Lately if I'm in a group and I see a WW "scout" I just leave the group, hoping there's a monk in my next one.
Prior to 1.04 I had been stuck farming Act 2. Had been looking out for an affordable -5 WT belt in order to give throwing a shot. Found one the night before 1.04 hit, so I bought it and gave the WT build a whirl. Really liked it, bought a Three Hundredth spear after 1.04 and made it up to Diablo, IN MY FARMING GEAR. Upgraded my MH yesterday and finally beat Diablo, in my farming gear... (I think that's kinda funny...)
For farming/group play I like http://us.battle.net...PkRi!ZYf!ZZccYb but to take Diablo down I changed Ricochet to Mighty Throw and Into the Fray to Mauraders Rage.
Thanks to all for the inspiration, my Barb feels like a totally different class now.
all these changes look interesting, but I really hope there's some in store for the AH as well. I'm more interested in spending less time searching the AH than I am in making inferno easier.
The pain of finding upgrades (and pricing items to sell) on the AH is one of the things keeping me away from D3 atm.
Funny; the pain of finding upgrades while playing is one of the things keeping me away from D3 atm.
That happens so rarely that it's not even on my radar. Aside from initially filling empty slots I think I've had two or three drops that I actually used, one quite recently while farming VoA. If I find an upgrade, that's great, but at this point farming stuff to sell and then buying upgrades is more dependable.
Oh look ! system change(s) ! . . . . must be another AH update
I hope so. The pain of finding upgrades (and pricing items to sell) on the AH is one of the things keeping me away from D3 atm. Plug in 3 stats then manually scan pages of results is more than I can bear. I doubt I'll log in again until, at a minimum, we get more search fields to work with.
man, this shit's crazy.. Up till now I considered 500k a major investment and have spent less than that on most slots. I'm sure a couple pieces I'm using were steals for like 20k. Now it seems there's no upgrades available without dropping a couple mill minimum. Guess I'm back to farming act 1/shopping for good deals for now... :/ I've made one upgrade to my MF set so far, from a decent str/vit/AR/MF ammy to one with +6.5crit%, a little less str and no vit. Cost me 1.2 mill, more than I've spent on anything so far. Now at ~+39%crit unbuffed. Other than that ammy I've got a couple bids in. On the upside, now I'm assraping act 1 in my MF gear. Just did a farm run, died a couple times on some crazy elite combos but other than them that ammy made a noticible difference. Downed the Butcher in like 20 sec, my fastest ever.
...17M Have usually only had a couple mill to work with so was reluctant to spend more than 500k on any one piece. But now I think my days of endless act 1 farming are over! I have beaten act 2 with my current gear but s&b instead of dw and w/ a tank spec, (had to go to a more dpsish spec to beat Belial's enrage timer though.) Act 3 chews me up. Any particular set (bonuses) or legendaries I should look for? Seen some decent deals on helm of command but not sure I want to go back to sword and board, been farming with 2 800ish dps axes with crit and lifesteal. Current (dw, unbuffed) crit chance is ~33%, +288% crit damage, 31kdps, 39k life, ~6600 armor, resistances between 450 and 500. I haven't tried act 3 going back to s&b, but dw with my farming spec I get chewed up. Can I get some advice as to gearing up and/or speccing from here? thx...
For farming/group play I like http://us.battle.net...PkRi!ZYf!ZZccYb but to take Diablo down I changed Ricochet to Mighty Throw and Into the Fray to Mauraders Rage.
Thanks to all for the inspiration, my Barb feels like a totally different class now.
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Danthrax-1646/hero/18573427
I have to say, Blizzard has exceeded my expectations with this. Bravo!
ilvl 63
910.7 dps
292 dex
98 int
13 max AP
8 AP on crit
That dex a wasted stat or good for melee wizards? TIA...
tldr; 17M's not that much, back to farming...
+172 dex
+40 vit
+32 poison resist
+168 armor
+23% crit damage
+5.5% crit chance
ilvl57
I'm pretty broke and my eyes lit up when I first id'd this, but then I noticed the ilvl.. :/ price check pls? also, guess I'm taking offers...