Hey guys, Sorry for the disappearance, I got really sick this past week. As it stands, I don't think anything really exciting is going to happen until next season, at which point I'll begin a new thread that will hopefully not get derailed by unforeseen illness ^^;
Oh, no real complaints here. M6 before I even reach 100 Paragon seems pretty fortunate overall, especially with a late start this season. I'll see how far I can push, and maybe even Achievement farm a bit for the remainder of the season, and start off at the gate with everyone else next season. I will definitely write a new progress journal when the time comes too if people are interested. maybe even start recording game play, though I'm not really that great, lol.
Barb looks to be getting some new toys form the IK set, and while WD are seeing some changes to stuff like Zunis (agreed, shame no Helltooth rework, still a nice transmog set though imo) Barbs are looking stronger, plus I've never had a max level Barb so it'll be a new experience.
RoRG dropped! And now S2 is ending, lol. Well, I'll finish it out going as far as I can on the DH, and play Barb/WD next season. But yeah, finally got RoRG, equipped the gloves, and ran a rift on T6 without too much trouble. Just need to fine tune my rolls and started gambling for Rucksack.
Sadly, nothing new to report tonight. I'll get home early tomorrow and should get in some playtime to make up for it. Still farming Act 1, but it's getting dull, lol.
Side question, for my next character, I've been debating between either my Seasonal WD, a class I know, or Barbarian. I've played Barb up to about mid-level before and it seems really fun. What do you guys think? Should I write up the progress for it once the DH reaches a plateau?
Yeah, Kadala must have a thing for me, I got 3 of my 5 pieces from her alone. I know my rolls aren't optimal right now, but since rerouting legendary needs Forgotten Souls, I can only do it so often, and when I do, that's usually where my luck falters.
For rerolls, here's what I'm trying to get:
Shoulders - Companion > Sentry
Bracers - Cold > Physical
Boots - Move speed > CA
Weapon - RCR > %Damage
The rest I don't think will carry to my final build anyway.
I went for gloves first, since I figured Blackthorne would be decent for now, especially with the Ring when I get it, but I will still gamble for the chest and farm for Pride's Fall inot the mean time.
I suppose I can test out Maelstrom and report how it works out. I thought all cold damage pretty much proc'ed BotT, but either way, it's not like Stars were doing that anyway.
*Stares longingly at the plans I have for Arcane Barb on my Non-Seasonal Blacksmith*
My armory profile looks fully updated right now, I'll relink it for this page. I'm not using the MGloves since it's only 5 piece atm and they don't have as good of stats as my current ones.
Also of not, as far as GRifts go, last night I was able to clear 21 fine, but when it bumped me to 25 I just died over and over, and time capped before I could even spawn the Guardian. Got more levels to my BotT at least ^^
All this from Rifting and gambling. I still need that damn RoRG though, despite getting seemingly less good loot form doing just Bounties. I'm on T4 now, and having a bit of trouble, but not too much. I also upgraded some more gems, normal one, and got a few more levels on my BotT. I'm still starving for Souls to get some better rolls on my gear.
Form here, debating on either Rifts for Marauders Chest, or just get the RoRG. The Ring would help with my Blackthorne set too, but I think I'll need the chest anyway, since I'll need Pride's Fall.
Whoops, sorry about that, I tried to post my update earlier form my tablet but I guess it didn't work. Unfortunately I didn't play last night, ended up passing out shortly after I got home and didn't wake up till my alarm went off the next morning ^^;
Thanks for the tip about the rings, I'll haze to check my stash, I think I was saving a decent ring for when I got RoRG and had to break set anyway, I might just equip it now then. Yeah, I'm really surprised how much crit makes such a difference, my DH just feels more capable than my WD does and she has similar gear levels I had thought.
Will definitely get in some playtime tonight and update before bed.
Didn't get to play too much, but got in a few rounds of Act 1 farming. Sadly, no Ring yet. However, I did get a nice Amulet with real good stats. I switched to using Hoarder gem again, since I want to build up gold and combine more gems. I did make some stronger Emeralds to use tonight. I cranked it up to T3 and was surprised to find myself still having little issue. I'm beginning to think that (Compared to my 70 WD on non-season) Demon Hunters are a bit to op with even M2. Not complaining though, hopefully some other classes get brought up to similar power level. I switched to the CA build, and got cold on my Wraps before running out of Souls again.
Thanks, that's what I'll probably do is leave my current Quiver as is (companion damage boost won't suck anyway), and then once I get more core pieces try gambling for Rucksack, and roll that for Cluster/Sentry.
Also, ignore my current skill setup, I think I was trying something weird last night right before bed but I don't remember what.
Yeah, couldn't believe the luck I had getting two pieces with shards already, and definately notice the damage spike. I am going to focus on farming that ring (hoping I can channel more of that luck, got it on non-season just clearing Act 1 randomly). I'm trying to roll critical on my helm currently, but need more Souls. Also, I think the quiver will be sentry damage, since it's companion atm. Reason I'm using companion damage atm is with a just 2 piece I feel like that'll give more overall damage until I need to start dropping sentries more often with 4 piece and higher.
Quite a few good things to report! So, my friend ran me again, and we didn't get too much done, but I did get Marauders boots. Not sure what ability damage to roll for, Cluster Arrow for now. I also got 3 Blackthorne pieces, chest, belt, and boots. Wearing the chest and belt for 2 piece for now. I was using 3 piece with the boots, but I strapped on the Marauders when Kadala handed me Ancient Marauder shoulders! So, now I've got 3 2-pieces (including Wailing Host and Litany), and decided to finally switch to T1, and notice that I'm going almost no faster than farming Normal. I upgraded my Boon of the Trapped a bit, and I wasn't sure of it till tonight, but Hoarder did drop from a GRift. I have it in non-seasonal, so not sure if that mattered. I might not even use it now though, I already have about 7 million gold atm. Still nice to have, I kind wish I still had Goldwrap and Custerian Bracers, could use those with the gem for gold/paragon farming.
Edit: I played a bit more before bed. I had enough shards to gamble one or two more times, so I ran a few more rifts, and did another bounty or two to round up to 150. Wasn't as necessary as I thought, got a Marauders Helm! Now time to seriously farm for RoRG.
Thanks for that tip about the Leg Gems, rng is so on my side for this case, Pain Enhancer was the 4th one I got! My friend came on and we're doing some more runs, will update later tonight. (Also, FINALLY got a socket on my weapon.)
Thanks for the tip and positive feedback! Yesterday, shortly after posting this, one of my few friends that play actually came on and had some time to carry me through some rifts (normal and greater) Got some sweet L Gems (Trapped, Powerful, Zei's, and a couple more), and some nice upgrades. Highlights include plans that yielded Ancient pants, an Ancient belt he didn't need, a nice 1 hand bow (That for the love of god won't roll a socket after a bunch of wasted Souls. No Gifts either yet.), and a Natayla's chest (heard that set was getting some possible use in the future). Kadala, while not coughing up any Marauders yet, did compensate me with Magefist and Firewalkers. Taking this as I sign, I did get Fire damage on my Wraps and switched to a Cluster Arrow Fire build. Also, since it's just normal for now, I'm using the Scoundrel, as he's strapped with hand me downs and I found the 50% cdr token for him. Gave him all the cc talents to help with CtW
I know you don't get the Torment elusive legendary drops, but the logic is to get what does drop as fast as possible for any possible upgrades, or worst case extra Souls (won't say no to that). I can still spend shards for possible Marauders. I figured I don't have to worry about RoRG farming too much till I have close to set bonuses, so today is gonna be a lot of rift runs. I've got over 150 keys to burn, lol. Hopefully by the end of today I'll be good to go for farming T1 with relative ease. I may be there now, but I'm not sure yet. Will update profile page very shortly.
So, inspired by Mad Tom's Seasonal Monk diary ( http://www.diablofans.com/forums/diablo-iii-general-forums/diablo-iii-general-discussion/113928-my-monk-s2-diary ), I decided I'd write up something similar, but the thing is I only recently got back into D3 a month or two ago, and am still playing catch up when it comes to the nuances. Also, I play mostly solo for now. I decided to try out Demon Hunter after switching toons a few times, but had never played it before and learned a lot about it recently. I had also not played through story mode in forever, so instead of leveling straight from Adventure Mode, I decided to clear campaign first. I started on normal, and upped the difficulty level each act. So by act 5, I was on T1. This is actually where I first started dying and having issues killing things. Ended up knocking it back down to normal just to kill off Mathial and be done with it, and was 58 after that, so I did Act 1 bounties using the strategy outline by Debo here: http://www.diablofans.com/forums/diablo-iii-class-forums/witch-doctor-the-mbwiru-eikura/103714-debos-the-24-hour-witch-doctor I figured I'd just leave it on normal and blaze through it, upping the levels one I got good gear.
So, at 70, and after picking over what I had on my power leveled Monk (turns out getting power leveled wasn't very fun, so I just shelved the Monk for now) and crafting a couple pieces, I had a L60 Wyrdward, and rolled 20% Lightning damage on my Reaper's Wraps, so figured I'd start off lightning. Also got dmg bonues to Multishot, so using that instead of EArrow - Ball Lightning, and Entangling Shot for generator due to the ability on my Bow. In addition, I got a L69 Glass of Life that will go nicely with Wraps and Blood Vengence. So, right now my goal is to swiftly farm Act 1, 3, and 4 bounties and reset game for each clear to try and get RoRG and Pride's Fall (just in case). Also will check Caverns of Aranae and Core of Arreat too for goblins and hopefully get Boon of the Hoarder soon. Then/inbetween, running Rifts, again, on normal as per this tip from Rhykker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytWqpl832FM Will be spending Blood Shards on Marauder pieces as layed out here on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/Diablo3DemonHunters/wiki/new70
This is gonna be interactive, if you have any tips, constructive criticism, or suggestions, feel free to shout them out. I'll update as anything interesting happens.
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Hey guys, Sorry for the disappearance, I got really sick this past week. As it stands, I don't think anything really exciting is going to happen until next season, at which point I'll begin a new thread that will hopefully not get derailed by unforeseen illness ^^;
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Oh, no real complaints here. M6 before I even reach 100 Paragon seems pretty fortunate overall, especially with a late start this season. I'll see how far I can push, and maybe even Achievement farm a bit for the remainder of the season, and start off at the gate with everyone else next season. I will definitely write a new progress journal when the time comes too if people are interested. maybe even start recording game play, though I'm not really that great, lol.
Barb looks to be getting some new toys form the IK set, and while WD are seeing some changes to stuff like Zunis (agreed, shame no Helltooth rework, still a nice transmog set though imo) Barbs are looking stronger, plus I've never had a max level Barb so it'll be a new experience.
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RoRG dropped! And now S2 is ending, lol. Well, I'll finish it out going as far as I can on the DH, and play Barb/WD next season. But yeah, finally got RoRG, equipped the gloves, and ran a rift on T6 without too much trouble. Just need to fine tune my rolls and started gambling for Rucksack.
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Sadly, nothing new to report tonight. I'll get home early tomorrow and should get in some playtime to make up for it. Still farming Act 1, but it's getting dull, lol.
Side question, for my next character, I've been debating between either my Seasonal WD, a class I know, or Barbarian. I've played Barb up to about mid-level before and it seems really fun. What do you guys think? Should I write up the progress for it once the DH reaches a plateau?
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Oh I know. I got the gloves after running the rifts and gambling, I finished out the night trying bounties after they dropped.
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Yeah, Kadala must have a thing for me, I got 3 of my 5 pieces from her alone. I know my rolls aren't optimal right now, but since rerouting legendary needs Forgotten Souls, I can only do it so often, and when I do, that's usually where my luck falters.
For rerolls, here's what I'm trying to get:
Shoulders - Companion > Sentry
Bracers - Cold > Physical
Boots - Move speed > CA
Weapon - RCR > %Damage
The rest I don't think will carry to my final build anyway.
I went for gloves first, since I figured Blackthorne would be decent for now, especially with the Ring when I get it, but I will still gamble for the chest and farm for Pride's Fall inot the mean time.
I suppose I can test out Maelstrom and report how it works out. I thought all cold damage pretty much proc'ed BotT, but either way, it's not like Stars were doing that anyway.
*Stares longingly at the plans I have for Arcane Barb on my Non-Seasonal Blacksmith*
My armory profile looks fully updated right now, I'll relink it for this page. I'm not using the MGloves since it's only 5 piece atm and they don't have as good of stats as my current ones.
Also of not, as far as GRifts go, last night I was able to clear 21 fine, but when it bumped me to 25 I just died over and over, and time capped before I could even spawn the Guardian. Got more levels to my BotT at least ^^
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Scorpious-1620/hero/59103759
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Wow, quite the haul tonight!
*Marauders Pants and Gloves!
*Stone of Jordan!
*New 2H Crossbow!
All this from Rifting and gambling. I still need that damn RoRG though, despite getting seemingly less good loot form doing just Bounties. I'm on T4 now, and having a bit of trouble, but not too much. I also upgraded some more gems, normal one, and got a few more levels on my BotT. I'm still starving for Souls to get some better rolls on my gear.
Form here, debating on either Rifts for Marauders Chest, or just get the RoRG. The Ring would help with my Blackthorne set too, but I think I'll need the chest anyway, since I'll need Pride's Fall.
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Whoops, sorry about that, I tried to post my update earlier form my tablet but I guess it didn't work. Unfortunately I didn't play last night, ended up passing out shortly after I got home and didn't wake up till my alarm went off the next morning ^^;
Thanks for the tip about the rings, I'll haze to check my stash, I think I was saving a decent ring for when I got RoRG and had to break set anyway, I might just equip it now then. Yeah, I'm really surprised how much crit makes such a difference, my DH just feels more capable than my WD does and she has similar gear levels I had thought.
Will definitely get in some playtime tonight and update before bed.
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Didn't get to play too much, but got in a few rounds of Act 1 farming. Sadly, no Ring yet. However, I did get a nice Amulet with real good stats. I switched to using Hoarder gem again, since I want to build up gold and combine more gems. I did make some stronger Emeralds to use tonight. I cranked it up to T3 and was surprised to find myself still having little issue. I'm beginning to think that (Compared to my 70 WD on non-season) Demon Hunters are a bit to op with even M2. Not complaining though, hopefully some other classes get brought up to similar power level. I switched to the CA build, and got cold on my Wraps before running out of Souls again.
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Thanks, that's what I'll probably do is leave my current Quiver as is (companion damage boost won't suck anyway), and then once I get more core pieces try gambling for Rucksack, and roll that for Cluster/Sentry.
Also, ignore my current skill setup, I think I was trying something weird last night right before bed but I don't remember what.
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Yeah, couldn't believe the luck I had getting two pieces with shards already, and definately notice the damage spike. I am going to focus on farming that ring (hoping I can channel more of that luck, got it on non-season just clearing Act 1 randomly). I'm trying to roll critical on my helm currently, but need more Souls. Also, I think the quiver will be sentry damage, since it's companion atm. Reason I'm using companion damage atm is with a just 2 piece I feel like that'll give more overall damage until I need to start dropping sentries more often with 4 piece and higher.
Itching to play right now, but at work till later tonight, will update more before bed. As far as what I should be aiming for, right now I'm working off the idea that I should be going for this build: http://www.diablofans.com/builds/90-2-1-2-ultimate-end-game-m6-detailed-guide-big
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Quite a few good things to report! So, my friend ran me again, and we didn't get too much done, but I did get Marauders boots. Not sure what ability damage to roll for, Cluster Arrow for now. I also got 3 Blackthorne pieces, chest, belt, and boots. Wearing the chest and belt for 2 piece for now. I was using 3 piece with the boots, but I strapped on the Marauders when Kadala handed me Ancient Marauder shoulders! So, now I've got 3 2-pieces (including Wailing Host and Litany), and decided to finally switch to T1, and notice that I'm going almost no faster than farming Normal. I upgraded my Boon of the Trapped a bit, and I wasn't sure of it till tonight, but Hoarder did drop from a GRift. I have it in non-seasonal, so not sure if that mattered. I might not even use it now though, I already have about 7 million gold atm. Still nice to have, I kind wish I still had Goldwrap and Custerian Bracers, could use those with the gem for gold/paragon farming.
Edit: I played a bit more before bed. I had enough shards to gamble one or two more times, so I ran a few more rifts, and did another bounty or two to round up to 150. Wasn't as necessary as I thought, got a Marauders Helm! Now time to seriously farm for RoRG.
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Thanks for that tip about the Leg Gems, rng is so on my side for this case, Pain Enhancer was the 4th one I got! My friend came on and we're doing some more runs, will update later tonight. (Also, FINALLY got a socket on my weapon.)
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Thanks for the tip and positive feedback! Yesterday, shortly after posting this, one of my few friends that play actually came on and had some time to carry me through some rifts (normal and greater) Got some sweet L Gems (Trapped, Powerful, Zei's, and a couple more), and some nice upgrades. Highlights include plans that yielded Ancient pants, an Ancient belt he didn't need, a nice 1 hand bow (That for the love of god won't roll a socket after a bunch of wasted Souls. No Gifts either yet.), and a Natayla's chest (heard that set was getting some possible use in the future). Kadala, while not coughing up any Marauders yet, did compensate me with Magefist and Firewalkers. Taking this as I sign, I did get Fire damage on my Wraps and switched to a Cluster Arrow Fire build. Also, since it's just normal for now, I'm using the Scoundrel, as he's strapped with hand me downs and I found the 50% cdr token for him. Gave him all the cc talents to help with CtW
I know you don't get the Torment elusive legendary drops, but the logic is to get what does drop as fast as possible for any possible upgrades, or worst case extra Souls (won't say no to that). I can still spend shards for possible Marauders. I figured I don't have to worry about RoRG farming too much till I have close to set bonuses, so today is gonna be a lot of rift runs. I've got over 150 keys to burn, lol. Hopefully by the end of today I'll be good to go for farming T1 with relative ease. I may be there now, but I'm not sure yet. Will update profile page very shortly.
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So, inspired by Mad Tom's Seasonal Monk diary ( http://www.diablofans.com/forums/diablo-iii-general-forums/diablo-iii-general-discussion/113928-my-monk-s2-diary ), I decided I'd write up something similar, but the thing is I only recently got back into D3 a month or two ago, and am still playing catch up when it comes to the nuances. Also, I play mostly solo for now. I decided to try out Demon Hunter after switching toons a few times, but had never played it before and learned a lot about it recently. I had also not played through story mode in forever, so instead of leveling straight from Adventure Mode, I decided to clear campaign first. I started on normal, and upped the difficulty level each act. So by act 5, I was on T1. This is actually where I first started dying and having issues killing things. Ended up knocking it back down to normal just to kill off Mathial and be done with it, and was 58 after that, so I did Act 1 bounties using the strategy outline by Debo here: http://www.diablofans.com/forums/diablo-iii-class-forums/witch-doctor-the-mbwiru-eikura/103714-debos-the-24-hour-witch-doctor I figured I'd just leave it on normal and blaze through it, upping the levels one I got good gear.
So, at 70, and after picking over what I had on my power leveled Monk (turns out getting power leveled wasn't very fun, so I just shelved the Monk for now) and crafting a couple pieces, I had a L60 Wyrdward, and rolled 20% Lightning damage on my Reaper's Wraps, so figured I'd start off lightning. Also got dmg bonues to Multishot, so using that instead of EArrow - Ball Lightning, and Entangling Shot for generator due to the ability on my Bow. In addition, I got a L69 Glass of Life that will go nicely with Wraps and Blood Vengence. So, right now my goal is to swiftly farm Act 1, 3, and 4 bounties and reset game for each clear to try and get RoRG and Pride's Fall (just in case). Also will check Caverns of Aranae and Core of Arreat too for goblins and hopefully get Boon of the Hoarder soon. Then/inbetween, running Rifts, again, on normal as per this tip from Rhykker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytWqpl832FM Will be spending Blood Shards on Marauder pieces as layed out here on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/Diablo3DemonHunters/wiki/new70
This is gonna be interactive, if you have any tips, constructive criticism, or suggestions, feel free to shout them out. I'll update as anything interesting happens.
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Scorpious-1620/hero/59103759