I would hope they would just bring the damage of other classes up instead of nerfing DH's damage. I was under the impression that Grifts went to level 100, so I would imagine there's a lot of room to buff classes rather than nerf.
Raekor's set is the most popular currently. usually it is fire based, and you have Vile Wards instead of Raekor's shoulders. BiS weapon for the build if ofc furnace.
I think you are in a good place, but unfortunately your sun keeper is pretty lacking. Not much you can do about it for the time being, i'm not going to encourage anyone to gamble 1h weapons. I would just keep rifting and hope to get lucky with either sun keeper/furnace/wrath of bone king. If you are worried about your damage in group play, just wait a few seconds on elites before grouping/SHing. Took me a while to get used to that. Good luck.
I would say yes you should use that amulet for now. Not sure tbh how much the Skill % will affect your damage though. Someone else might have that info on here though.
I would start by leveling gems. Toxin, Zei's, Bane of the Trapped will push you a lot further. That means you're probably going to want a new RORG soon as well. A new amulet is also a good idea.
i would actualy like to see you go 40 + on dh. Its not as easy as you may think.
theres a streamer named good idea gaming, made a demon hunter 1 week ago and is doing 40+. i think that should say a lot.
that literally says nothing. GiG has been streaming for a very long time and playing diablo even longer. He got full jade in 9 hours gambling pre 2.1 and was wrecking with that too. As i recall that spec is pretty skill-intensive, so find another example if you want to talk about a class/build taking 0 skill to play for higher GR's.
I have done roughly 40 rifts today (@T6) and that is roughly 4000 blood shards. (8 x 500)
So on 500 blood shards you'd normally get 80-90 veiled crystals (assuming you buy something that cost 5 Blood Shards)
With 4000 blood shards that would normally be about 640-720 Veiled Crystals from kadala alone.
Today, during these 40 rifts and ~4000 blood shards, i have gotten MAYBE 400-500 veiled crystals, and that is INCLUDING all yellow i looted DURING the rift, and i pick EVERYTHING.
Not to mention the said that they'd buff the amount of crafting mats dropping from the Rift Guardian.
On an average today, i got 3-4 veiled crystals per Rift Guardian.
And on top of that i'm already low on veiled crystals because chest and legs costs 40-50 crystals per re-roll >.<
So i'd say i'm not happy with the current state of kadala, unless they buff RG even more.
However, the purpose of kadala is not to get crafting mats, but it's blizz fault to start with that players started using kadala is veiled crystals source.
In the final analysis it doesn't make a huge difference.
I have gotten plenty of legendaries from Kadala since the new change so I'm not going to complain about that, but i do agree with you on this. I'm low on arcane dust and VC (and yes I pick up everything) and the RG is dropping like 8 VC and 12 dust max on a T6 rift. That doesn't really make up for the crystals i used to get gambling. Hopefully that'll change, otherwise I guess I won't be rerolling gear for a while.
First: you should easily be able to do T6 with the gear you have. I have much worse gear than you on my DH and i can handle it just fine.
Second: I would replace your CHD on your rings/amulet with sockets. Farm a dex RORG (T6 bounties shouldn't take too long) if you have the patience. Upgrade your bane of the trapped/powerful/enforcer to at least 25 and socket away. Gamble gloves and pray for TnT. I actually don't think Reapers Wraps are super necessary anymore since you aren't really casting much, but if you can get some cold skills wraps/slave bonds/lacunis they should be fine.
For your amulet, ideally you want a cameo or xephirian i think with cold skills cc chd socket, but the one you have is still pretty good.
edit: if you're worried about survivability replace custom engineering with awareness. not sure that you really need custom anyway.
So its been my experience that greater rifts lack experience, loot, and seem like a waste of time besides leveling gems or competing. Seems to me like the whole point of the game is greater rifts, yet there is no reward besides gems, and once those are maxed its just competition. The thing is if you really wanna beat the leader board after leveling your gems its best to just do t 6 over and over and over just like last patch and then compete if you want to. however, if you do greater rifts to long your going to fall behind on gear and experience. This patch to me seems to be lacking greater rift rewards. at the very least they should give more shards or maybe a chest at the end, the better the time the more chests.
I'm surprised you say that about experience. I've noticed myself leveling quite a lot faster than pre 2.1 paragon wise, even in comparison to T6 rifting. As far as rewards go I do hear you, but bear in mind we're a not quite a week into this patch. I'm sure there are more good things to come in the future and that Blizzard will pay attention to what people think of GR's and seasons over the next couple months.
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Second: I would replace your CHD on your rings/amulet with sockets. Farm a dex RORG (T6 bounties shouldn't take too long) if you have the patience. Upgrade your bane of the trapped/powerful/enforcer to at least 25 and socket away. Gamble gloves and pray for TnT. I actually don't think Reapers Wraps are super necessary anymore since you aren't really casting much, but if you can get some cold skills wraps/slave bonds/lacunis they should be fine.
For your amulet, ideally you want a cameo or xephirian i think with cold skills cc chd socket, but the one you have is still pretty good.
edit: if you're worried about survivability replace custom engineering with awareness. not sure that you really need custom anyway.
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