No need to speculate about this topic, its a fact, if you watch those guys streaming 18 hours non-stop. They will spam GR ONLY, how is it possible to have so many keys? all their stream is GR, not a single time farming normal rifts for keys...
Blizzard knows they bot, but they wont ban them, because they are streaming and attracting a ton of views and possible consumers.
We all have seen these guys using exploits and getting their character removed... What is stopping them from boting?
The problem is not the weapon itself, but the elite damage stat over all, the way blizzard designed elites and champions to HP scale in Grifts is dumb, and it makes elite damage the best stat to stack to be able to down those elites that have a 1/5 hp of the rift guardian.
Hell look at my furnance, it has almost 60% elite damage, without that stat is near to impossible to kill elites, champions and the rift guandian. http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Arcano-1352/hero/43510835
Hmmm....well that's a bummer. Guess I won't be playing S2 either then.
I could swear they specified in future season they will implement the new sets too, had no clue they mean S3, in this case the new season means some changes and 5 new legendary ... no thx
Thanks for the info
Yeah, I know the feeling, I wanted to play a WW barb with the new set and items but looks like it will be for 2.2
During season 1 I played the same class I normally play, a Crusader, I got bored because none of my friends played season, This time we all agree to play season 2, and now I have no idea what class to play. any advice or word what class to play.
for those who tested PTR.
are DH still the broken OP class in S2?
do the changes to the monk set make it fun? got bored of the spam fest it was.
Can anyone clear up if stacking block chance on items other than the shield increases BS and shield bash damage? Or is the secondary dmg on the skills only determined by the shields block chance, and not the players?
It is your total block chance, I'm running with Provoke + Hit me and my BS ST crits from 10-12 millions per bounce. without hit me it crits for about 8-9millions
Thanks for the reply. Actually did some further testing, and had a good conversation with some fellow crusaders, and it was determined when using the "Blessed Shield - Shattering Throw" CC outweighs Block Chance. "Plus 250% shield block chance as damage" only applies to the initials ricochets and not the "Shattered Fragments". If aiming for 50% CC this also allows you to focus on CHD or CDR in other slots. Hope this helps!
I did some testing too, and it seems that the Holy damage from shattering its only done in the first hit, the bouncers are doing physical damage, since Holy Cause only procs on the first impact, this could be a bug, if its intended then the BS ST build will need to focus a lot more in physical damage.
11% Block Chance Vs. 10% Crit Chance - on Jekangbord when you are at 45%+ CC? (I know that 50%+ CC is optimal) currently I prefer the +Block Chance as I find its results in a much harder hit - opinions welcome!
Edited my build, now it has more pew pew. tested some combinations and heaven's fury is a lot better than bowman, plus I can stack heaven's fury damage in the chest and shoulders, without crippling my BS damage. also holy damage boost both abilities. currently sitting at sheet 930k damage.
Akarat's champion Fire starter or rally: still undecided with this rune/ability combo, while rally is just awesome because it will allow me to keep charged up most of the time while akarat is on, I have noticed that blessed shield bounces and bowmen DO NOT reduce CD with rally which is a bit sad. and fire starter will pretty much be a spam of explosions during all of the CD.
U sure about this, that Rally doesn't work on the bounces? The coefficient should be 33% per bounce, which means that you should get 33%*50%=16.5% chance per bounce to reduce cooldown. Are you sure it doesn't work at all?
Edit: just added my profile to the build. new items and gear. I like shattering thrown is critting for 6millions which is really nice. I can finally farm T4 without problems
Heaven's Fury nerf only hit the one Rune, for the shotgun blast builds, Ascendancy or the one that leaves a DoT on the ground are both the same as always.
I know Shattered Shield is Holy, not sure about Phalanx but I think that is physical. If you look in game, maybe it's an option, but it'll be bordered by Yellow on your skill bar if Holy, Red if physical, Orange if Fire, Dark blue if Electric, lighter blue if Ice.
Ohh right, I totally forgot about it, Sincei'm at work i cant check it, so i'll do it as soon as i get home. if shattering is holy, then i'll pray to get a leg with holy dmg.
Heaven's fury was one of my options, but since the nerf, its not that great
The one I really want to confirm is if bowmen and shattering thrown benefit from holy or just from physical. because I have a weapon with 2880 dps sitting in my bank with great stats (just missing the sockets which i can roll for). so I could change my Maximus for that one and get larger hits.
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No need to speculate about this topic, its a fact, if you watch those guys streaming 18 hours non-stop. They will spam GR ONLY, how is it possible to have so many keys? all their stream is GR, not a single time farming normal rifts for keys...
Blizzard knows they bot, but they wont ban them, because they are streaming and attracting a ton of views and possible consumers.
We all have seen these guys using exploits and getting their character removed... What is stopping them from boting?
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Hell look at my furnance, it has almost 60% elite damage, without that stat is near to impossible to kill elites, champions and the rift guandian.
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Arcano-1352/hero/43510835
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for those who tested PTR.
are DH still the broken OP class in S2?
do the changes to the monk set make it fun? got bored of the spam fest it was.
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The one I really want to confirm is if bowmen and shattering thrown benefit from holy or just from physical. because I have a weapon with 2880 dps sitting in my bank with great stats (just missing the sockets which i can roll for). so I could change my Maximus for that one and get larger hits.