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For a Barb, yeah, it's just going to be tons of resist all along with Warcry: Impunity as far as I know, and maybe a small bit of Int / specific resists if they're mostly "free" on an item. 1000 resist with Impunity, which is a ton by the way and I don't think hardly anyone has that much, is about 667 base. I think that's pretty much the top end of what's possible for a Barbarian as that's an average of about 62 resist all on every slot if you have 500 intelligence. I rerolled a couple of new characters instead of gearing up right now, so I can't speak to what's average though.

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You kidding? Unless others outgear you and you get carried being in a group is usually a burden in this game with how the scaling works. The difficulity doesn't scale linearly. Two manning something is generally much harder than soloing it since it doesn't just bump up the difficulty, but actually increases it above that.

What I meant though is that someone with 40k+ DPS can easily solo this place really fast in comparison to a group with equal or even slightly better gear. Diablo 3 doesn't promote playing in a group at all, there's no benefit at all except playing with others. The loot isn't better, it's unnecessarily harder. If you want someone for the fun aspect, sure, but for the practical aspect there's no benefit. For a Demon Hunter at least.

EDIT: I'd much rather have a Scoundrel and easy stuff than a fellow equal geared player and linearly more difficult mobs.
EDIT2: D3 isn't an MMO. It's mainly a single player dungeon crawler with some added in Multiplayer aspect poorly made.

Except, a well synergized group can kill things just as fast, or faster, while dying less. Get 4x the amount of loot in the same or shorter time, and dying is less damaging in a group than while solo.

No, you get 4 times the amount of loot divided between 4 players, so each player in the end gets the same amount of loot, you might have a bigger chance of getting a item you want if you've got a friend in the group, but that just means he gave you some of his items. The amount of drops doesn't change. I've yet to find a group to be beneficial in any way what so ever to me. A well synced group will definitely do well, but I seriously doubt they'd perform better due to, as said earlier, how the scaling works and how stupidly easy it is to farm pony land (and Act 4) as a Demon Hunter anyway.

Do note that I'm talking solely from a Demon Hunter perspective. I do not know all too much about other classes' solo capabilities in these areas except that I can imagine melee classes being forced to group up which is yet another poor design choice by Blizzard.