I'm not talking about farming Act 1 with 200 mf vs farming Act 1 with 0 mf. It's about farming Act 1 with 200 mf while farming Act 3 with 0 mf. Since Act 3 requires much higher stats to clear than Act 1, the amount of magic find on your gear will be greatly reduced. Once you're farming Act 3 with less magic find than in Act 1, Act 3 becomes a less effective farming spot. Thus rendering Act 2/3/4 farming less efficient unless a person uses no magic find or has the maximum magic find.
I don't see the problem with this. This is how MF is suppose to be. Of course your going to get less gear if you have less MF.
Actually, you'll get more i61+ rares farming act 1 with 0 MF than farming act 3 with 0 MF (and high dps / surv).
The fact you can get away with stacking a ton of MF in act 1 is jut gravy on top of the biscuit.
The problem with this is that act 4 should provide the highest chance of getting the best items, not act 1.
Exactly. Right now, the game punishes you for not being able to use magic find in Act 3. Instead, I think the game should reward the player for using that kind of gear. If you're not using a high amount of magic find in Act 3, then you're being punished by receiving less drops than you would in Act 1. It should be that you get equal amounts of gear in Act 3 with little/no magic find and then get rewarded for being able to stack magic find on top of those survival stats.
You can pretty much see my previous post. You're complaining because you want a3 farming to be easier? It isn't going to be easier because it is a place that is further along in the game. You earn your way there. It's the entire point of the game to get better gear so you can progress in a more timely fashion. The entire game is based on efficiency. A 25 minute a1 cemetery, plains, leoric manor, agony, warden, butcher run is more EFFICIENT than a 60 minute a3 bridge, tower, cydaea/azmo run. You may get the chance for higher level of drops and you might even get 3 ilvl 63 from a3, but in a1 you'll get 1 ilvl63 and 12 ilvl 61 with 4 ilvl 62 (all random numbers) which means you've got a higher chance of getting better gear. Maybe not an upgrade for you, but an upgrade for somebody, which in turn, makes it so you can afford a better piece of gear for yourself.
Magic find is not working as intended. When it is no longer viable to swap out gear, magic find will be working as intended.
So the fact that Blizz has stated that they knew this was going to be a way for people to have better drop rates means that it isn't working as intended? The only reason they are threatening to change it is because people complain that it is too much of an effort to swap gear, so they don't want to do it. I swap out a full set of gear into MF gear and it works perfectly fine for me. Yeah sometimes you fuck up and die, but in the end you get to make the decision. I'm sorry that you feel like because YOU aren't capable of doing something well, that means that it needs to be changed. Stop complaining about an optional feature in the game and either do it or don't do it.
Do you think I'm crying because I can't get a Ferrari right now because I can't afford it, so because of that I need the world to make Ferraris not as good of cars so my G35 can keep up with it? No because you either learn how to afford the Ferrari or you don't get it. The world isn't going to change it's habits because you aren't good at something. Maybe the NBA should be an equal opportunity employer. Regardless of whether you're good at basketball or not you should have an equal chance to get in over the guy that worked since he was five years old to be one of the best players in the world; they only worked on maximizing a learned skill to be more efficient at what they do.
If you want to have the best chance at drops you learn to swap gear. It is that simple. It's either learn to do it and be able to have better drops or don't bother doing it and have the consequences. It is truly a very simple concept. There is no reason what-so-ever to complain about something that is an OPTION. It isn't NECESSARY to get great drops, it only helps to enhance the likelihood of getting the better drops.
Personally I have 53.8k dps, 110 AR and 28k life. I can farm ALL of A3 (starting at azmo quest because I quit doing Cydaea fuck that bitch) I will go through keep, rakkis crossing, to under bridge, then through all of arreat minus the actual crater ( I hate the fucking snakes) in about an hour if I am paying attention and trying. It's all about play style and doing what you enjoy and what you're good at. I spend so much time stutter kiting and just blowing BL around corners on the off chance something is there. I don't have MS on anything, and just use vault on fast mobs. Usually if I do it right, I can kill them by the end of my prep vaults. Just my own 2cents.
i realy like it since the items are realy cheap compared to the mainstream once .... well im back steamrolling act 1/2 with this
Glass cannon DH is mainstream... not sure what you're looking at.
This. Building a tanky DH requires time and effort. No offense to Leirissa by any means but a glasscannon DH build is what most people go for. I know, because it's what I still somewhat have. I've been building a tanky set for awhile. I won't buy anything unless it is either the same dps or better and has good allres/vit/life% on it. I wind up having to spend 15-20m for each piece of gear I get just so it is worth it.
Ball lightning's tooltip is correct. It says 155% because it hits things two times. So the first hit is 77.5% and the second hit is 77.5% which equals 155% weapon damage. The whole reason NT was broken was because it hit 155% multiple times, so you'd be able to run through things hitting them for 120k+ crits 4 times which basically wipes out any mob or set of mobs. That is OP and unfair to other classes. I've played my DH for almost 200 hours and fully agree that we were TOO OP. We are still OP as hell, but now we aren't so far above and beyond all the other classes that it makes it somewhat viable to at least play the other ones. Makes things a little bit more fair imo. In the beginning we were invincible, powerful, and hit like brick shithouses. Now we have to spend gold to be mostly invincible, and can still hit hard as fuck.
Depends on how much you already got of each one, and whether you are planning on using Sharpshooter. As a rule of thumb, you can use this: Multiply both values; whichever weapon/gear gives the higher number, gives more DPS.
Example:
Your current stats are 20% crit chance, 150% crit damage. You are torn between buying too weapons whose only difference is that weapon A gives 10% crit chance, and weapon B gives 50% crit damage. So, multiplying, you get:
That is a very rough way to check which weapon gives more DPS.
That is actually a very good rule of thumb. You also have to realize crit dam becomes better as your crit chance goes up. If you have a 10% crit chance with 300% crit damage it won't boost your dps as much as if you had, say, 20% crit. It's late so doing the actual math would be a PITA but I am sure the logic of that statement isn't lost on you. Basically if you had a 30lb dog you wouldn't give him as much food as a 70lb dog. Same concept...man I should stop drinking because that last statement only sort of makes sense...
Just based off of what you said, I'd drop Sharpshooter for something different. You're basically wasting stacking crit chance by using it. Sharpshooter always starts at 0% after a crit regardless of your crit chance. So I'd go ahead and drop it so you can use something more viable.
Ever since 1.0.3 I have ceased using ShS. I have been enjoying tactical advantage. Nothing can touch me if I play correctly and I have a blast doing it. I have 30% crit chance with scoundrel so it's worth it to me to not use ShS
And Multishot hits harder than Nether Tentacles ever did, and it goes through Invulnerable minions just the same
The ONLY benefit MS has over EA is that you don't need to use it intelligently because its just one massive spread of arrows. But that's it.
This is actually pretty substantial. Multishot will hit an entire quadrant of your screen instantaneously. Nether does its aoe in a straight line, but whats worse is that it moves so freaking slow. You WILL miss, and you will miss often with nether. If you're out in the open, forget it. You'll miss more than half of your nether shots unless you get insanely close to the mobs. It's doable in confined places with halls and doorways, but even then it's no sure thing. Nether's saving grace was its ability to hit multiple times. Now, I don't really see a role that nether can fill that's not done better by another skill.
I actually agree with the majority of this. What I think Blizz should've done with NT was nerf it down to 100% weapon damage based on how quickly it travels and let it hit as many times as it can. It makes the most logical sense imo. It would make me use it again, but because of them nerfing it the game has become more challenging as a DH and actually makes you l2p. Which is what they were going for in the first place.
I am doing act3 right now with 54k dps 25k hp and 110allres and as long as I don't mess up while kiting I don't die. I run ball lightning (which I also find to be extremely OP as it has a much longer distance than NT, and travels faster) and hungering arrow. SS, Prep with heal (which I am gonna replace had the heal for a2 where I wasn't as easily 1 shot during bosses), bat companion, and vault. I don't run SS, I use Tactical Advantage, Archery, and something else that I can't think of right this second because it's late and I'm tired. Fact is we are still exceptionally OP and nothing can really touch us in either the solo department or in a party. We can easily swap gear to MF when the mob is almost done with very little troubles. The game is still easy for a DH. Only thing I was sad about is I didn't have a lot of money pre IAS nerd so I didn't get to get some kick ass crit gear.
You can pretty much see my previous post. You're complaining because you want a3 farming to be easier? It isn't going to be easier because it is a place that is further along in the game. You earn your way there. It's the entire point of the game to get better gear so you can progress in a more timely fashion. The entire game is based on efficiency. A 25 minute a1 cemetery, plains, leoric manor, agony, warden, butcher run is more EFFICIENT than a 60 minute a3 bridge, tower, cydaea/azmo run. You may get the chance for higher level of drops and you might even get 3 ilvl 63 from a3, but in a1 you'll get 1 ilvl63 and 12 ilvl 61 with 4 ilvl 62 (all random numbers) which means you've got a higher chance of getting better gear. Maybe not an upgrade for you, but an upgrade for somebody, which in turn, makes it so you can afford a better piece of gear for yourself.
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So the fact that Blizz has stated that they knew this was going to be a way for people to have better drop rates means that it isn't working as intended? The only reason they are threatening to change it is because people complain that it is too much of an effort to swap gear, so they don't want to do it. I swap out a full set of gear into MF gear and it works perfectly fine for me. Yeah sometimes you fuck up and die, but in the end you get to make the decision. I'm sorry that you feel like because YOU aren't capable of doing something well, that means that it needs to be changed. Stop complaining about an optional feature in the game and either do it or don't do it.
Do you think I'm crying because I can't get a Ferrari right now because I can't afford it, so because of that I need the world to make Ferraris not as good of cars so my G35 can keep up with it? No because you either learn how to afford the Ferrari or you don't get it. The world isn't going to change it's habits because you aren't good at something. Maybe the NBA should be an equal opportunity employer. Regardless of whether you're good at basketball or not you should have an equal chance to get in over the guy that worked since he was five years old to be one of the best players in the world; they only worked on maximizing a learned skill to be more efficient at what they do.
If you want to have the best chance at drops you learn to swap gear. It is that simple. It's either learn to do it and be able to have better drops or don't bother doing it and have the consequences. It is truly a very simple concept. There is no reason what-so-ever to complain about something that is an OPTION. It isn't NECESSARY to get great drops, it only helps to enhance the likelihood of getting the better drops.
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This. Building a tanky DH requires time and effort. No offense to Leirissa by any means but a glasscannon DH build is what most people go for. I know, because it's what I still somewhat have. I've been building a tanky set for awhile. I won't buy anything unless it is either the same dps or better and has good allres/vit/life% on it. I wind up having to spend 15-20m for each piece of gear I get just so it is worth it.
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That is actually a very good rule of thumb. You also have to realize crit dam becomes better as your crit chance goes up. If you have a 10% crit chance with 300% crit damage it won't boost your dps as much as if you had, say, 20% crit. It's late so doing the actual math would be a PITA but I am sure the logic of that statement isn't lost on you. Basically if you had a 30lb dog you wouldn't give him as much food as a 70lb dog. Same concept...man I should stop drinking because that last statement only sort of makes sense...
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I actually agree with the majority of this. What I think Blizz should've done with NT was nerf it down to 100% weapon damage based on how quickly it travels and let it hit as many times as it can. It makes the most logical sense imo. It would make me use it again, but because of them nerfing it the game has become more challenging as a DH and actually makes you l2p. Which is what they were going for in the first place.
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