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Big update in the opening post [13 March 2015]

Short clip of last night: DH Solo T6 Rift (0:44)

I am repeating myself but I FREAKIN KNEW IT.

Remeber when we were talking about a strafe build/video...that's exactly the synergy i used (though i played a cold build, still there on my male DH aswell as the gear i gathered through S1).

I am super happy ican play a now working and seemingly good Strafe build. When internet comes back, i can finally start to play again.

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Natalyas - seemed more clunky than previously or i just didnt bother too much trying to play it well. Id say the changed runes of ROV still mostly suck - if one uses strafe to reset ROV theres no time to aim those last 3 runes well enough to be hitting stuff, but in groups where someone CCs and pulls monsters together they would definitely be solid. The belt and the "beast" - it hits instantly at the cursor location (insignificant delay). Certainly seemed like it doesnt really matter what hatred spender you use to reset ROV, everything reset at the same rate. TBH i like the playstyle more in the previous patch, but this one has better dpm output for sure, in T6 the ROV with the "beast" from the belt oneshots pretty much every pack if the dmg buff is active. As i didnt really put much time into testing it, i cant say what is/will be best. But if i had to guess id say it will either end up being one of the first two runes of ROV and using strafe to reset. Or using the 3rd or 5th rune with elemental arrow/chakram and multishot to reset (kridershot/chakram quiver/MS quiver/calamity) with maybe polar station in.

Unfortunately i have internet no more at my place and cannot play d3 at all apart some hours during the weekend; this is why i cannot actually test stuff out.

Anyway, the idea is that Strafe + Shuriken Cloud (with Chakram quiver) means actually casting two spenders together, making the best out of the set.

I'm not entirely convinced of the new Crushing rain belt - sure it's a lot of damage but i don't know how reliable it will be (e.g. delay of damage after casting RoV).

I'll probably stick to the physical build and us Death Watch mantle + Sash of Knives. SoK seems not that good, but having used it all the S1 with the strafe/shuriken cloud build i can assure you it procs as hell, and it got buffed.

I just find it a more reliable source of damage. With the new Natalya's bonus staying in melee shouldn't be much of an issue.

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I'm really excited about those news. This might be the push Natalya needs, we'll see. If they're lazy they'll make it a slot that doesn't require a new transmog, i.e. belt / quiver / bracers. Let's hope for gloves or shoulders. Also, VocaloydNyan has done the math on how you can push the RoV CD as low as possible. I have done a quick test with some garbage CDR gear and you can indeed go down to ~1 sec per cast. This sounds promising depending on whether or not we can stack so many RoV casts at once, at the very least I'm excited to creating a build around the new Natalya.

I F***ING KNEW IT. That's exactly the reason why i asked you that before and why i had choosen exactly that build.

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I went back to the PTR to test strafe, but it's underperforming here. It seems like they found a custom solution for that because it doesn't reduce the CD as much as other spells. At ~26% CDR (~22s RoV CD) and 1.9 APS I needed about 6.6 seconds to cool off RoV, at ~2.4 APS it was about 5.5 seconds, meaning that I procced ~15.4 (2.33 per second) and ~16.5 (3 per second) seconds worth of CD reduction with Nat 4pc, respectively. This is no exact testing but it seems like it's scaling directly with APS (2.4 / 1.9 = 1.26 | 3 / 2.33 = 1.28). Judging from that, you should be able to reduce the CD on RoV by ~1.25s per APS per second of strafing, which is not really much considering that you can spam generators for ~5 or ~7.5 seconds worth of CD reduction using generators or spenders.

Thanks for the test - so Strafe + Chakram spam via Shuriken Cloud is less performing than expected. It's not like this is going to stop me from playing the build (i just need the gear on the DH i'm already playing with the build) but now i know what to expect from it.

Well done as always wudjo.

A question - sine i have no more internet connection, i cannot test it by myself. Can you try the behaviour of Natalya set and RoV with Strafe and Chakram quiver? Basically spam chakram/shuriken cloud while strafing - if everything goes accordingly to my research, RoV CD should be near non-existant.