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lol@30% "Have not played."

Funny how that many are not interested in the game anymore, yet visit a news site.

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the same type of mantra doesnt stack, you dont get double and only the runes that specifically mention that they work for your group also work for your group, although when you are running with multipule monks, its recommended that they all run a different mantra

Other way around: unless they specifically state they don't work for the group, then they should work for everyone in the group. TIme of Need doesn't state it works for the group, yet it does exactly that (had a friend asking why his resistances were higher, was because of my mantra).

For the rest, your post is correct. Same types of mantras don't stack (otherwise Conviction with Overawe would be insane), so it's best to use different mantras if you have more than one Monk in the party.

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Act 2/3/4 is more of a gear check more than a skill check.

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@Phrayed dont worry they will nerf them or remove them to be easy for casual players

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Yeahh I love mah barbs. The first two I grinded to 60 using Nightmare Azmodan runs, but the third didn't make it in time before they nerfed the exp from that, so I had to level him the old fashioned way through A1 in Hell. I just unlocked Inferno on my third barb but i'm afraid to try it out

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If you dont like it, dont play it! Stop whining.

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I'm sorry but you guys don't get it, you're too busy with complaining about people who are complaining on the official forums, calling everyone entitled bitches who need to be spoon-fed everything, and mooning over everything Blizzard says or does. Take off your elitist fanboy glasses Diablofans.

1. Inferno is a joke. The problem is as follows: Act1 is fairly doable, with a lot of dying and hard effort. That is ok, since it's the premise of Inferno and people are fine with that. Act 2 feels like an entirely new difficulty level, it's impossible to do.

2. The reason that it's impossible is because of monster damage. The only effective strategy (and due to A2 monster mobility even that is not a source of success) is kiting and using ranged attacks. I've tried on my Barbarian, but running with Weapon Throw, Leap and Ground Stomp is not the way I was intended to play, and Blizzard confirmed that.

3. Another reason it's impossible is because of itemization. The item drops in A1 Inferno are generally worse than what you would need for A1 inferno. Let alone A2. The item drops that are sufficient, appearing on the AH, are sourced by DH's and Wizards who cheesed their way through Inferno, farming the bosses and skipping everything else. In all honesty though: Even if you geared with the best items on te AH, I still believe my Barbarian would be unable to take on Act 2 Inferno.

4. Blizzard promised us customization. While unbridled customization is utopia, there are too many almost mandatory skills. I can not go through A1 Inferno without at least Ignore Pain, War Cry, Revenge and one of the 3 High Damage-High Cooldown skills. That's 4/6 skills, which leaves me a fury generator (1/3) and a spender, or Battle Rage for the Berserker Rage build. It's entirely too limited. While I agree that some skills should obviously be mandatory, like Ignore Pain, there should be more room for other skills, like Ancient Spear or Weapon Throw or Furious Charge.

People did not hit a rough point that can be solved with more time. There are imbalances in the game that I've come to expect from Blizzard (pre-nerf conditions in WoW for example). As a Barbarian, it's impossible to advance past Act1 Inferno while staying within the design philosophy (and the marketing terms) of the Barbarian. Even moving outside that, making a kiting throwing Barb, is not viable.

Does Inferno need a nerf? Absolutely. Challenging does not equal impossible, and nerfing impossible does not mean nerfing challenging. Inferno can still be a challenging corpsefest after a much-needed nerf.

These forums disgust me more and more. You people harbour such hate for the state of the official forums without noticing that you're exactly the same, in the opposite way: Unable to make an objective analysis of the game based on experience and word of mouth, and only occupied with praising Blizzard through ridiculizing everyone and everything you disagree with, like Greenjoke and Spinpool did. If you played Inferno, you would have seen that some of the points the Blue Posts are replying to, are valid points and valid sources of concern.