Your gear is ok to start Act 2, but still pretty low overall. Don't get discouraged by frequent deaths. I would kick ass for awhile in Act 1, make some money, feel like a champion, then make some runs at Act 2 and deal with the rejection for a short time. Eventually, you will upgrade your gear and be comfortable staying in Act 2 for longer periods of time.
Also, make "death runs" to scout out the map and any elite packs. The biggest waste is to clear an entire area, just to find out it is a dead end. Many of the Act 2 quests are just "reach a waypoint" or "grab an item" (Zoltan Kuule).
Thank you for your response!
Right now almost all my gear has +all resist (except for 1 ring, gloves, neck, shield). So assuming i need to have around 900 ~ resists (with warcry) that means I would need around 600 unbuffed resists.
so there are 12 slots for amor, so if all 12 slots had some + resist all I would need an avg of +50 per piece.
So i guess my question is this, Is it better to try to use every slot giving room to use smaller + all resist stats or look for peices of gear with higher + all resist stats so I can use less slots?
Right now as mentioned before I am using 8 slots with + resist all with the values ranging from about +40 to +75.
The good pieces of amor on the AH that would actually be an upgrade for me seem to go for around 150k on the low end to around 250 - 350 k for the better stuff.
I see a lot of people posting things like "i never use the AH" or "i buy all these amazing pieces for less than 100k". Are these people just very lucky, exaggerating or I am just very unlucky with the AH?
Was already using one armor passive, just changed to use both.
So looks like I need to try to boost up my resists a bit more, maybe go for a better DPS weapon and get some life on hit (500+?). I would imagine life on hit needs to be at a certain minimum for it to even be noticeable?
Stack some life on hit, and your dps is bad... I'm a monk, got 400 res, 5k armor and about 800 life per hit with 1.8 atk speed. With my aoe spirit generator i heal like 5k per hit at 1.7 per sec... works great
Thanks for the suggestion. So more DPS is good, what about the fact that I can't take many hits from anything..will getting life on hit balance this out? And how much life on hit is enough?
Seems to be a very common Topic here, I've been having a hard time in act 2.
I've read many posts and watch many videos regarding act 2 and the required stats. Seems most videos of people claiming to do it with "basic/entry level stats/gear" are doing it with items such as Stormshied, SoE, HoC etc.... Doesn't seem very entry level to me.
Would appreciate it if you could take a look at my stats and maybe tell me where I am going wrong?
Keep in mind this is unbuffed.
I realize people might say that I need more block%, but is that possible with out 10 Million + gold?
I've been doing lots of runs (clearing festering woods -> warden -> butcher) will no problems at all! But In Act 2 I am getting clowned by the very first mobs in the act!
The gold income from doing act 1 runs in my experience are not very good, seems you rarely find any items worth selling on the AH for decent profits, considering most items I seem to need are priced in the millions of gold.
Build is the standard leap(armor) frenzy(sidearm) Warcry(resists) Charge(heal) WOTB(insane) Revenge(30%proc)
I do understand this topic has been raised many times, I am just at a loss!
0
Thank you for your response!
Right now almost all my gear has +all resist (except for 1 ring, gloves, neck, shield). So assuming i need to have around 900 ~ resists (with warcry) that means I would need around 600 unbuffed resists.
so there are 12 slots for amor, so if all 12 slots had some + resist all I would need an avg of +50 per piece.
600 resist / 12 slots = 50 (+all resist per piece)
600 resist / 11 slots = 55
600 resist / 10 slots = 60
600 resist / 9 slots = 66
600 resist / 8 slots = 75
So i guess my question is this, Is it better to try to use every slot giving room to use smaller + all resist stats or look for peices of gear with higher + all resist stats so I can use less slots?
Right now as mentioned before I am using 8 slots with + resist all with the values ranging from about +40 to +75.
The good pieces of amor on the AH that would actually be an upgrade for me seem to go for around 150k on the low end to around 250 - 350 k for the better stuff.
I see a lot of people posting things like "i never use the AH" or "i buy all these amazing pieces for less than 100k". Are these people just very lucky, exaggerating or I am just very unlucky with the AH?
0
Was already using one armor passive, just changed to use both.
So looks like I need to try to boost up my resists a bit more, maybe go for a better DPS weapon and get some life on hit (500+?). I would imagine life on hit needs to be at a certain minimum for it to even be noticeable?
0
Thanks for the suggestion. So more DPS is good, what about the fact that I can't take many hits from anything..will getting life on hit balance this out? And how much life on hit is enough?
0
Weapon
0
0
I've read many posts and watch many videos regarding act 2 and the required stats. Seems most videos of people claiming to do it with "basic/entry level stats/gear" are doing it with items such as Stormshied, SoE, HoC etc.... Doesn't seem very entry level to me.
Would appreciate it if you could take a look at my stats and maybe tell me where I am going wrong?
Keep in mind this is unbuffed.
I realize people might say that I need more block%, but is that possible with out 10 Million + gold?
I've been doing lots of runs (clearing festering woods -> warden -> butcher) will no problems at all! But In Act 2 I am getting clowned by the very first mobs in the act!
The gold income from doing act 1 runs in my experience are not very good, seems you rarely find any items worth selling on the AH for decent profits, considering most items I seem to need are priced in the millions of gold.
Build is the standard leap(armor) frenzy(sidearm) Warcry(resists) Charge(heal) WOTB(insane) Revenge(30%proc)
I do understand this topic has been raised many times, I am just at a loss!