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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.

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 ^^

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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.

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.

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

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.

Thank you for such an in-depth guide! I had taken a long break from D3 right after getting level 70 in RoS, and when I recently came back a lot of things were confusing to me at first, and your guide helped me to clarify a lot!

Yeah I know many people say, "play what you want, who cares what the meta is". I understand this stance but, for me personally, if I'm not optimizing the time I play the game it becomes un-fun. In my opinion that's directly tied to what's meta and what can allow me to group and grind paragon most easily.

It's unfortunate that many classes haven't been in the 4-man meta in years, furthermore that many of those same classes' solo builds have remained unchanged in an equal amount of time (at least up to this coming season):

LoN Bomber, FoK DH, Gen Monk, Firebirds Wiz, Charge Barb/Frenzy Thorns, other I'm sure I forgot...

Well, late RoRG is better than no RoRG at all, isn't it? Congrats and use the remaining Season 2 time to get as much as you can from your M6 setup. Explore the higher GRifts, check what is awaiting you in the future to be fully prepared for S3. Sadly, I didn't manage to get my DH to M6 level this season, so I will concentrate on Monk till the end of Season (or till sudden disconnect, lol). Barb seems to become a very cool class next Season, WD has a lot of interesting options too, even though he doesn't get new set (I still hope that Blizz will improve Helltooth set in the future, S4 maybe?). So good luck and hope to see a new diary from you!

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to the ground. 500 was definitely too much but 100 makes invoker and ik similar sets. i cant stand another half of a year raekoring lvl40 grift to find last piece of my ancient gear = weapon. will prob quit for some time or reroll

Stop complaining and actually test it as you seem unable to do basic math. IK can easily clear GR45+. I'm clearing GR48+ only with IK and Bul Khatos.

Single target damage is as bad as ever though (in solo at least).

sure. gr 48 7 mins and rift guardian around 15 min. before nerf. non ancient bulkatos set ramaladned.

common raekor+ random ancient 2hander will perform nearly same

to the ground. 500 was definitely too much but 100 makes invoker and ik similar sets. i cant stand another half of a year raekoring lvl40 grift to find last piece of my ancient gear = weapon. will prob quit for some time or reroll

This is an overnerf. I believe they did that just for testing purposes and they will buff it again at some point to around 200-250%.

Hey-hey, I'm eager to see your updated armory, mate! It's so exciting to get several updates per game session and see your toon to easily deal with enemies that seemed to be too tough just an hour ago!

There were some M6 builds that didn't include RoRG as a mandatory item in Patch 2.1.1, but then you had not to spend your hatred using CA. Now you'd better use Pride's Fall or Cindercoat to reduce Hatred cost which means you'll have to go through some Bounty circles. Just hope that RNG will favor you, as I can see, you've caught your train with all those Mara pieces. I think that a good way for you to spend your time will be to go through GRifts up to the point where you slow down a bit (since you're capable of T4, I'd say up to GR15), then kill everything as fast as you can, spawn the Rift Guardian with 7-8 minutes left and go do some fast bounty, then return to RG with enough time to kill it. Rinse, repeat. It'll take 2-3 times to set your timing and do the cycle right. So you get both shards, legs from RG and bounties without spending too much time.

And gamble for Chest Armor, you'll need Mara or Cindercoat, everything else is far less crucial for DH (yep, Balckthorn and Aughild are out of competition).

Also, if you're still using +%Cold bracers, try Maelstrom rune for CA, because it will be a multi-purpose skill for you:

1) It's Cold Damage

2) It's using rockets buffed by Ballistics

3) It slows enemies down and triggers Cull the Weak and BotT bonuses

4) It heals you for each enemy hit

Dunno if lower damage from rockets will make it worse than Shooting Stars, there are more rockets, so more AoE. I think it's worth trying.

Gratz, your Amulet is good, you should feel the difference in numbers, right? CC and CHD are the most important stats for damage output, so If you come across a ring with Dex/CC/CHD/Socket, use it, even if it's yellow, until you get RoRG and SoJ/Unity. Set bonus from Legacy of Nightmares is just laughable, drop it without regret if you get any upgrade ring.

I don't think that in mid-game (before M6 bonus) DH is really OP in comparison to other classes. Monk - yea, he is OP, being able to demolish T3 in full yellow gear and getting past T6 just after getting 3 Sunwuko items. Meanwile, after disconnect loss of my new DH, I switched to Monk and was a bit lucky with him finding some build-making items. Even considering HardCore shift from max DPS to survivability (only 600 k sheet DPS), he's moving through GR30+ like a bulldozer through the field of roses. That's what I call OP 8-).

Anyway, good luck on getting M4 soon and getting as much fun from your game as you can!

If I remember right, quivers can roll bonus to any of your spenders, including CA and Multishot. I just don't know if +% dmg to Sentry will affect also all CAs shot by turrets via Mara set or will they benefit from +% CA instead - may be some more experienced players here will shed some light upon it?

Anyway, to maximize you potential with M6 you should find Bombardier's Rucksack so do not spend all your souls trying to maximize stats on one you have.

Wow, you've got 3 Mara pieces so fast! Wish I had such a lucky day!

I do not fully agree with Slomos about RoRG. Getting it now will give you both M4 and Blackthorn's bonuses that will improve your efficiency a lot (your damage gonna jump up 2-3 times!). With your current setup you can go up to T2-T3 without problems and have a rather good chance of getting Legendary from Bounties. I've got my RoRG in 2 hours of playing on T3 from 5th cash. But with your luck, maybe, you can get 4th Mara piece even faster while doing T1 rifts and spending shards, especially if you've got some friends that will be kind enough to share their loot with you. And with 4 Mara you can go to higher difficulties very fast as you will accomodate your playstyle to being a human cannon.

I don't think that you will be using Multishot with Full Mara bonus, Cluster Arrow seems to be more efficient, so I'd consider rerolling Multishot on Helm to Crit Chance. But only if it will not break your fun, I see you like MS a lot