Well, if you want a specific item then rerolling in the cube is the best (but yes, expensive) way. But the chances for an ancient are decent.
Since the reforging costs in the cube are the same, you should try to reforge your weapon there and hope for Kadala to show mercy on your armor parts.
Running T7 rifts for bounties is obsolete, since TX will reward you with 5 act mats each.
Even if you don't like group play the fastest way to farm them is to join a public bounty game. And you can hardly call it group play, since everyone does the bounties solo - it actually is quite fast unless you have some slacker (that usually gets kicked very quickly) and besides the act materials it also is a pretty efficient way to farm souls.
I just wanted to get some advice on the playstyle of dmo engery twister.
How does it work now? We are just two players (me the wiz with comparable gear to you and a barb), and we have exactly all the problems you described.
I mostly stand and watch the rift guardian, and hope he does not oneshot me while I pray for globes to drop. It took almost 10 minutes to kill Bloodmaw on a 75 rift.
Then I have great survivability issues if we try to gather more than one elite pack in a low density rift, especially with nasty elemental damage affixes.
Right now we have better success with me going arcane orb, and him going charge. But just a look at the leaderboard tells me that we won't get very far this way.
Well, there are several reasons why you do a TX rift, obviously for the keystone, crafting mats (including DB) and now also for gold. So depending on my farming class my behaviour changes.
I use my multishot DH mainly for gold and mats farming. It's the fastest build I am aware of to farm low-health trash far beyond the display range, creating insane amounts of gold explosions from boon. It's not as strong versus elite/boss packs as other builds/classes, and you cannot use the sage set. So when playing in a group I usually concentrate on killing white trash, and leave the elites to others in the group. I take all the time to open chests and collect all kinds of material, even porting back to town.
My sage/TR wizzard plays completely different. As it relies on ingeom, I just go from elite to elite. If trash is in the way it gets melted, but I won't really start chasing even large groups of trash. So I just collect DBs and legendaries if they are close. I usually won't even go collecting legs that someone got from a chest or killing mobs that are not in the direction I am going. So it's just about DBs and riftstones.
No matter what I play, I will try to collect the progress orbs. But I won't go back if I notice I forgot it.
I will also be the first to TP and close the rift when it's done. Exception might be if the rift is a high density map like cemetary, but I won't complain if someone else closes the rift.
I don't believe blizzard will change anything that drastical during a season.
What would be the point of the ladder if the top postions would become unreachable? This is why they cannot nerf players during the seasons, but of course they can buff players by generally increasing mob density or pylon spawns since this would not put any people in a disadvantage.
I recently switched from LOH to critical hit damage, going from 27k to 38k dps (charsheet, no buff, 43 with blazing wrath).
While indeed I die sometimes in act 3, I definitely die less than before. The greatest problem are high damage mobs (desecrator or simply high hit damage) with vampiric, shielding or extra life. But those are pretty much the same types I also had problems with using LOH.
If you can kill the first of the champion pack, or the minions of a boss, inside the ~10s you have inside serenity and binding flash, you will do perfectly fine. If you don't, things will get rough.
You can simply try it, I bought ~850 dps weapons with 1xx dex and 80-90% crit damage for 400k each, and the weapons get cheaper every day. It's really funny how they outdamage my 1000dps LOH weapons.
Still a brilliant item, so a Wiz loses a bit of Int, the gain of everything else would be easily worth it.
The item is brilliant, but I would never find it in the AH and the current filter options. My current belt has 174 int, so I would set the filter to at least 100 or even 150 int. And I guess I am not the only one who preselects the items over their main stat.
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Well, if you want a specific item then rerolling in the cube is the best (but yes, expensive) way. But the chances for an ancient are decent.
Since the reforging costs in the cube are the same, you should try to reforge your weapon there and hope for Kadala to show mercy on your armor parts.
Running T7 rifts for bounties is obsolete, since TX will reward you with 5 act mats each.
Even if you don't like group play the fastest way to farm them is to join a public bounty game. And you can hardly call it group play, since everyone does the bounties solo - it actually is quite fast unless you have some slacker (that usually gets kicked very quickly) and besides the act materials it also is a pretty efficient way to farm souls.
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I mostly stand and watch the rift guardian, and hope he does not oneshot me while I pray for globes to drop. It took almost 10 minutes to kill Bloodmaw on a 75 rift.
Then I have great survivability issues if we try to gather more than one elite pack in a low density rift, especially with nasty elemental damage affixes.
Right now we have better success with me going arcane orb, and him going charge. But just a look at the leaderboard tells me that we won't get very far this way.
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Well, there are several reasons why you do a TX rift, obviously for the keystone, crafting mats (including DB) and now also for gold. So depending on my farming class my behaviour changes.
I use my multishot DH mainly for gold and mats farming. It's the fastest build I am aware of to farm low-health trash far beyond the display range, creating insane amounts of gold explosions from boon. It's not as strong versus elite/boss packs as other builds/classes, and you cannot use the sage set. So when playing in a group I usually concentrate on killing white trash, and leave the elites to others in the group. I take all the time to open chests and collect all kinds of material, even porting back to town.
My sage/TR wizzard plays completely different. As it relies on ingeom, I just go from elite to elite. If trash is in the way it gets melted, but I won't really start chasing even large groups of trash. So I just collect DBs and legendaries if they are close. I usually won't even go collecting legs that someone got from a chest or killing mobs that are not in the direction I am going. So it's just about DBs and riftstones.
No matter what I play, I will try to collect the progress orbs. But I won't go back if I notice I forgot it.
I will also be the first to TP and close the rift when it's done. Exception might be if the rift is a high density map like cemetary, but I won't complain if someone else closes the rift.
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What would be the point of the ladder if the top postions would become unreachable? This is why they cannot nerf players during the seasons, but of course they can buff players by generally increasing mob density or pylon spawns since this would not put any people in a disadvantage.
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While indeed I die sometimes in act 3, I definitely die less than before. The greatest problem are high damage mobs (desecrator or simply high hit damage) with vampiric, shielding or extra life. But those are pretty much the same types I also had problems with using LOH.
If you can kill the first of the champion pack, or the minions of a boss, inside the ~10s you have inside serenity and binding flash, you will do perfectly fine. If you don't, things will get rough.
You can simply try it, I bought ~850 dps weapons with 1xx dex and 80-90% crit damage for 400k each, and the weapons get cheaper every day. It's really funny how they outdamage my 1000dps LOH weapons.
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The item is brilliant, but I would never find it in the AH and the current filter options. My current belt has 174 int, so I would set the filter to at least 100 or even 150 int. And I guess I am not the only one who preselects the items over their main stat.