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In my experience into the fray, unforgiving and furious charge added together give enough fury for using 1-2 rends per elite pack without being forced to stop sprinting. If you have fury issues, make sure you are only whirlwinding when monsters are actually blocking your path. In any other case, assuming your DPS is good enough for WotB to really fall off too much, sprint tornadoes should be more than enough to take out anything you run by. No real need for animosity nor overpower, even with rend. Only reason I'd consider overpower is with momentum to help keep WotB up, but when stuff die so fast it's just falls off so fast regardless so I just gave up on it for exp farming.

MP0 actually "feels" slower because you can't keep berserker up, but when you time the total run time, it ends up slower to play on higher MP because of the extra time you spend on killing elites and high-HP normal monsters.

Sorry, if you want to be good you will have to replace all of them. Divide your budget accordingly. Don't just invest 10mil+ in a single item as that will mean you will not have enough to invest in the other items. 1 crappy item + 1 very good item < 2 average items, assuming you invest the same amount of gold in either option. 7 crappy items + 1 very good item is even more obvious loss compared to equal priced (in total) 8 average items.

As I said, your helm is the only obvious keeper, and if you want a priority list then replacing gloves/shoulders/belt/boots is not nearly as high priority as replacing everything else.

I don't know how you can be lost. Check the AH for the best crit/str/vit/resist/crit dmg you can afford. Use a DPS and EHP calculator if you can't figure out how much each stat is worth.

With 40mil you should basically replace everything except your helm and maybe your gloves/shoulders/belt/boots.

If you want to kill elites faster, rend is better than OP. If you don't need the life steal (you shouldn't need it, as MP0 is so easy), I'd go with the ravage rune so you can almost always hit the entire elite pack in 1 rend.

Because other games are so terrible nowadays (with the exception of Arma, which is hard to get players together to play, and Starcraft, which is physically and mentally exhausting, even though both are amazing games), I just keep coming back to Diablo despite all its problem and how bored I'm getting doing the same easy runs over and over, improving my efficiency ever so slightly every once in a while, and messing around with no-AH-no-farming characters and other random made-up challenges.

It's not what you want it to be when the most efficient level is pre-defined by Blizzard in a pretty inflexible way and mostly is a level where everything is insanely easy to kill.

LS/LoH on main hand is big mistake and will eat through your damage budget. Get the LS and LoH (or just LS if your budget is good enough to get enough DPS) on your offhand and belt. Even with low DPS, 6% LS and 800 LoH should be enough, and if it isn't, get more on an amulet or from passive rather than your main hand weapon.

The whole point of sprint is that it only uses main hand damage, so you want as much damage as possible on your main hand weapon with relatively minimal stats, while you get the stats (both defensive and offensive) in your offhand and other items. Not that you should ignore stats completely on main hand, but for 1h weapon damage stats are generally cheaper than LS/LoH and when you buy a high DPS weapon the price just skyrockets if you look for LS/LoH, while for a low DPS offhand you can get both on the same weapon for pretty cheap.

A 1200 DPS 150 str socket main hand would be quite better than 1000 DPS with 150 str, socket and 80% crit damage on top, and probably end up costing about the same or less. Also, keep in mind that str/socket and str/crit damage can give a lot more damage per gold spent than crit dmg/socket stat combo. Having all 3 is probably not possible within any sane budget (basically unless you have hundreds of millions to spend on your weapon, getting all 3 will not be cost effective for sure).

A 300 DPS offhand with good stats will be much better than an equally priced 800+ DPS offhand with less stats.

The problem is WotB just won't stay up at low MP, and at high MP the slower killing speed overshadows the benefits of WotB. Jailer/vortex are not a problem when they die in 1 rend (even with DW).

DW will generally give better sprint DPS and more fury so you can drop animosity and get ruthless back. Overpower and ground stomp don't seem like the most useful skills, I think I'd still rather have rend and bash. As for furious charge and unforgiving, I also find them preferable to WotB with 90s cooldown when playing on lower monster power where WotB doesn't stay up much anyway (even with dw).

Of course while higher monster power let you keep WotB, it still results in less exp/hour making it pointless. I only go back to WotB with cooldown reduction when farming keys, and WotB with bloodthrist when doing ubers.

I keep rend as the 1.5.0-warcry-substitute and bash as my "oh-!@#!" fury generator in all monster powers, though.

Obviously I have no idea if Blizzard's servers would collapse or not if they remove the cap, so I can't really make an intelligent vote. From a player's perspective, obviously there is no benefit for a cap, but then again nowadays I don't really play enough to reach it anyway.

MP0 for exp, though MP1-2 are almost as efficient in terms of exp/hour.

MP4 for loot (VoA+mines+arcarnus run, skip normal monsters), though it's really only slightly more efficient (`6% more loot/hour) than MP1.

MP8 for keys, though MP7 and MP9 are almost as efficient and even MP6 isn't very far off. Though I don't really have patience to farm keys nowadays, as I find my time better spent farming loot and/or exp. Occasionally I will set up a group of friends to help some noob do ubers at MP8 so I can get more chances at a nice ring without having to farm the machines.

Obviously you need enough life gain. LOH weapon with shield is the extreme solution, and isn't exactly a quick way to deal with those, but it obviously "works" too.

Yes, low crit due to wrong weapon master passive plus slow overall attack speed doesn't help at all for fury generation.

I think with Inna's you lose more stats compared to Lacuni if you invest the same, so I'm not sure it's a real solution. In any case, whatever amount of stats you lose is still worth it for 24% movement speed, just make sure you lose as little as possible for your budget. Also, don't forget that losing more stats on the movement speed item and using the money saved to upgrade something else is also an option to take into consideration.

Get a main hand mace (or axe if its DPS is ~4% higher at least for the same price and stats). Then get with an offhand with more stats and less DPS. They won't even cost you more than your current and let you kill much faster (even if your DPS on your character screen will appear lower).

Get 12% more movement speed, preferably from lacuni's.

Your chest piece is horrible, even for a few mil you can get much better (high vit, high res, sockets and maybe a bit of STR). Same goes for pants.

Don't use vit gems, only strength. Buying gear with more strength on it and less vit and then making up for it with vit gems will cost you more for the same total stats, as str is a more expensive stat on items than vit is, while str gems are basically the same price as vit gems. Buying a socketed item and socketing vit in it is basically like paying for the more expensive str but only getting the cheaper vit. It's not that hard to be efficient here.

Get a better exp gem. With a 40mil upgrade budget at least 2mil of that should go towards a better gem... Heck, you put a star gem in your ring but not in your helm? Seriously? The experience bonus is worth so much more than a few measly points of str.

Get life steal on belt, even if you don't invest any extra gold and just lose some strength on it.


Bottom line: Try be more efficient with your gold. Pay for the stuff that give you the biggest benefit for the minimum amount of gold. You'll do much better if you use that mindset when you look for upgrades.

You guys say "more armor" as if more resists wouldn't achieve the exact same thing...