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Emeralds will be used for pretty much all builds.

Its not worth it to use any other gem, they don't even compare. (if you have 40%+ crit chance atleast.)

I would love for diamonds and ruby's to be able to compete and its kinda sad that they aren't. and probably never will as they have done a retarded job with itemization

Once we have a proper sites liek d3rawrr or d3up working again i will try to build myself a non CHC non CHD build. but untill then i will just get as much of it as i can for everything.

about 10% of all my legendrays i have found have been set items and 5% of that the class set items. and i have gotten probably close to 200 legendarys so far.

The problem is not that pets now gain more from CHD (sure the buff on fetishes was balanced with the cap in mind)

But it lies within CHD itself. That's the broken stat. making it a mandatory stat to be able to do pretty much anything T2+.

Fixing this pet "bug" was long overdue about 2 years...

But still CHD is still the main problem.

And we will probably see a slight lowering of damage to the fetishes, they whent from 20-30% WDup to 180% WD with patch 2.0, i would not be suprised if they go down to 100-120% WD. (even with those numbers and the CHD cap removal they will still be doing more damage then before.)

only skimmed trought everything.

anyway all Defensive bonuses you get are multiplicative except block value.

So its armor X restist x elite reduction x damage reduction from melee/range.

as they all are multiplicative and AR and Armor have diminishing returns you will never reach 100% mitigation. at most you will get 99.9999...%

As for AR VS Armor. That's an whole other story. but looking at gear (wizard) you get 10% of your int as AR and 100% of your STR as armor (but a int class don't get to much STR)

SO onwards to your questions.

1. the + sign is a bit confusing. but it is "correct" but it means your AR + 17% or if you calculate it AR*1.17.

2. as everything is Multiplicative and has diminishing returns you will want to get a healthy mix of armor and all resist and reduction stats.

3. dunno check the game guide here (http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/belt/#type=legendary )

4. i say focus on healing instead of toughness. you really only need enough to survive bursts and getting trapped in a ground AoE.

yes you will get 5 dogs total and all 5 will deal 50% more damage and have 20% more health

Buy a new D3+RoS account start a lvl 1 character get invited to Diablo and kill Diablo.

Wait untill midnight and start act 5.

If its after midnight when you kill diablo you will get ported to act 5.

There is not much more to it.

Yes, WD has 3 skills that can increase speed.

Spirit walk (jaunt for longer duration

Horrify - stalker

Hex - Angry Chicken

Now in that screen shot i took i had speed shrine, 1 nephalem glory, and the bracers that increases movespeed for 5 sec when you destroy a barrel ect. so its not practical to maintain.

But WD can have a great deal of speed by using Grave injustice + stalker+jaunt+angry chicken+ acid rain/locus swarm to reduce CD.

Nice and all and yes its only the base movement speed that is caped at 25% and some skills will put you over that cap for a temporary time.

http://i.imgur.com/sSrQnsE.jpg?1

here is a picture of my highest movespeed i have gotten ( it lasts for 2 seconds )

enjoy, and try to beat me.

i do miss the only super fast tempest rush build. was great for farming achievements.

its not completly useless you can with the best MF gear + a legacy follower get 170-180 MF or 17-18% VS legendaries. in lvl 70 gear.

now it would probably be easyer to just make a set that kills stuff 17% faster, but still its possible.

well you will not be able to get the 61+ from the AH. and those routes will be semi relevant in RoS at 70 to get the materials.

remember that the mystic is charging blue and yellow mats along with gold to enchant items.

its a fun class see it as a mix of the monk and barbarian but with a bit more range attacks.

as for the passives and base skills they are pretty boring and generic.

some of its special moves are rather fun but might be frustrating to use.

but the overall balance of the class was in a good spot at the end of the beta.

i had fun with it but i wont be abandoning my WD anytime soon.

i did see a screen shot on reddit with a guy with both the banner and queen of blades wings. To poor to buy the WoD DE atm. so dunno if its implemented in game yet.

http://imgur.com/OMPdqji

semms to be implemented and working with the blade wings.

marquise gems will drop at lvl 70 imperial (next rank up) has a chance to drop in torment.

So sell as much as you can to the uninformed people. you might still save a ruby and an emerald for levling.

the combo will still work for sure. even better with the new follower legendary that makes em immortal then slap on whatever CC gear you have.

i have a 13.5% freeze and 72% pierce buriza still i will keep it around for some gimiky moments.

it is to kill off all 3rd party trading for money.

as for the crafting nope that cannot be traded.

as for items found. if you and your friend was/is in the same game/party as yours when an legendary item drop you 2 will be able to trade/gift that item for up to 2 hours game time. but again only to the people in the party/game when the item dropped.

sure is annoying in the short term but it prolongs the feeling of finding stuff yourself. also items are closer together in power and the affix rolls are tighter also.

you should be able to play torment 1-2 at lvl 70 in only a few legendaries and rare items. as for the toughter stuff you will need a lot more optimized gear.

but at least we have the feeling of personal progression with the new loot system and rewamped paragon system.

so play with friends enjoy the game and trade legendaries.