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Last night I ventured into Act 3 Inferno for the first time on my DH.
I went happily about my business knowing that I would never have to deal with them invisible snakes anymore, unless I feel like punishing myself (mmm masochistic pleasure). Anyway, after dying a handful times on the battlements I had 5 stacks of Nephalem valor.

Then came two packs that made life miserable. Pack 1: Fallen Overseer. Affix: Fast, mortar, vortex, molten. Guess I died about 10 times before getting them down. What dropped? A dagger of sorts with 136 dps (Id take an SS, but that got vendored faster than you can say pos).

Second pack:
Those giant bats with their really annoying sound. Invulnerable minions, reflect damage, mortar, fast. I honestly dont know how many times I died, but it felt like 20-30. Loot: Rare bracers: ~20 str, ~30 int, ~70 vit, +19 xp, health globe improvement. Requires level 50.

You can see the mischievous and evil face of the heavily-rigged slot-machine even clearer on Inferno. If I didnt die about a gazillion times to get those terrible bracers I would just shrug and vendor without giving it a single thought. Instead I ask myself if its worth my time and test of patience to play on inferno until they nerf it (oh they so will).

OR you could be thankfull you rolled DH and you're therefore able to get 5 stacks of NV your very first run in inferno act III

People keep complaining about drops being way too "random", resulting in hybrid gears that are not optimal and that they can't - or actually don't want to - equip, and I can definitely see what they're talking about. Yes the random drops are very random. Yet, it's interesting to see that these drops they're getting are fitting another friend/class, and that the AH is FULL of cheap, not so hybrid, gears.

So it looks like even though some people are probably getting unlucky, I don't doubt a very few really are, the random system isn't too random for the community to gear up and progress through game content. If I was wrong, you wouldn't get somewhat decent piece of gears for 20k from AH

My english is good enough to read and understand pretty much anything, watch american TV shows without subtitles etc, but this, I just can't understand

sounds interesting but i'd like to make sure its legit before i click <.<

For act I, everything seems to be working as long as you as you can stack up some decent gear 60. Not even really need resist gears, VQ builds are working fine, just like other much standard/defensive builds.

In the act II, i have hit a wall before I read the great thread by Naught, buy a few resist gears, go for a defensive build (skills wise, not stats wise) and actually get it done in a couple days without much problems. ~25k DPS+, 20-25k HP and ~250-300 resists will get the job done.

Now I would like to discuss about the acts III and IV. I had an interesting discussion with a fellow WD last night, that was supposedly farming Siegebraker VQ style with zombie bears. I was thinking about giving it a shot myself.. Since I read Naught's post, the rather defensive build worked out pretty well for me, but now I feel like in the act III since i'm going to die a LOT anyway, I might aswell try to go for some suicidal build that consists in lowering the HP of the champions/elite packs as much as I can before I get dropped, and finish them off the second or third attempt.

Fellow WDs that are doing good in acts III-IV without GREAT gears of course (nothing above 35k HP - 500 resists - 50k dps buffed), whats your skill build philosophy? Unbreakable grasp/kite kite kite with at least a couple defensive active skills? some VQ build with bats or bears? Something in between?

Would be very interested to read about it

Quote from Prode88

Prode was slain by Wall of text.

lol'd

seriously, people are not going to read this OP

It's a bit unfair coz clearly, the WD is the less imba amongst the ranged classes!

actually 1 out of 5 was pretty optimistic, and its possible there are also more mobs now..

nerfed for sure

I'd say the goblin is actually there 1 out of 5 times.. its not THAT good

nerfed?

Not sure what to think here, in one hand its a great thing blizz finally starts cleaning up the mess that their forums is, but in the other one i'd be annoyed diablofans gets more people like the OP

35 in 2h?

meh its definitely not as fast for me..perhaps you could get more if you start running before the npc to gather more mobs before the meteor but it doesn't look like you bother doing it in your video..

for some reason there is no part of the quest that brings me where your starting point is

absolutly loving your inferno farm build!

went to can't kill shit in act II to currently farming and completing it!

just made a small change, replaced BBV with AC (bigger area rune) because I don't have enough dps to kill a blue/yellow straight away without kitting anyway, and because AC helps with the trash

excuse me.. "haste totem" ? you mean big bad voodoo ?

whats the current best way to powerlvl a char from scratch?

very interesting, thanks op!