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Quote from KalikooJack

If you constantly die in act3, you need more life on hit. But if you want, you can find some resistances in rings sometimes, and single res in ring is pretty cheap. Switch to enchantress and you get armor.

as farming route, I would suggest whole arreat crater. It takes about 30min.

Quote from Shinna1989

I wouldnt recommand MoE/Hardtarget along with guardians path. I would switch guardians path for transcendence. This way u have another source of healing b/c BoH and healthglobes. In terms of upgrades: Aim for double resist on chest, pants, belt and shoulders. Your belt is realy low on dex. I would replace the belt first and then something else. Depends on your budget and is cheap on the auctionhouse.

In terms of getting more dps:

Try to get as much dex as possible on your items. 2k is a good value to aim for. Gloves, rings and neck should have 2 dps stats b/c dex. I would recommand crit chance and crit dmg. Since your dont have either loh or life leech attackspeed would be a bit weaker overall. Im not a big fan of resists on rings and neck. This way u cant replace em without upgrading other slots. So first get your basic gear done and then ramp up your dps.

Quote from Teugene

Hey, your DPS is much higher than what I had but the problem is you do not have enough sustenance (LoH) to tank elites. I completed Inferno with around 20-22k DPS, about 39k hp, 5500 armour and 650 resists but I had 950 LoH and 1.8/1.4 ASPD (DW) in Act 3, decent enough to tank most elites.

This was my build in Act 3 if I remember correctly: http://us.battle.net...XgYh!UXY!ZcbaYa. In Act 4, I switched from Deadly Reach to FoT and had 1850 LoH. I skipped a couple of elites which are too tough (such as Phasebeasts or shielding/invulnerable) but generally I managed to kill most elites I encountered. I spam Mantra of Evasion whenever I need a quick heal (Transcendence) and boost my dodge for a short period. The dodge boost (55%) works really well with Blind Flash with Searing Light rune as the elites missed fairly often. Finally, the Earth Ally is VERY helpful in splitting the elite pack.

So don't worry about dropping your DPS for some LoH. If possible, try to aim around 1.8 attack speed and 1k LoH.

Quote from Lumis

That's a tough one. I'd try to replace the mace for now, but when you get more attack speed from gear, you could switch out the sword and replace it with the mace. Overall the mace is better, but it needs some gear to support it that isn't there yet.

Quote from Lumis

Try switching only one weapons gem first, and see how that feels. Losing all that +crit dmg wouldn't do good for your damage. I suggest looking for a weapon that has some LoH as a rolled stat, and that has a socket, so you can get +crit damage from the same weapon as well. Reasoning behind that is that you can get up to 900+ LoH as a rolled stat, but only 600 from gem, and you can get up to 100% crit damage from a gem, so with 900+ LoH and a socket you can get a weapon that has sick LoH AND sick +crit dmg. Here's my profile, and weapons for a reference:
http://eu.battle.net...539/hero/535652

I'm looking to change the 899 dps one into something that has +crit damage as well as the socket, so I can bump my damage some more, but besides that I'm pretty happy with them. And I'm not actually even sure if I'll like the 300 LoH drop, so it may be that I'm stuck with these weapons for a while.

And that Mantra of Conviction with Overawe is actually pretty good when your damage and defense are able to support it (ie. not dying before the mobs die). I'm personally not a fan of either dodge skill (MoE or TGP), and suggest trying Resolve along with that Conviction. If you're struggling to survive with those, then switch the aura first into the MoE. Wouldn't take The Guardian's Path in any case, but that's just my personal opinion.

Quote from Lumis

Upgrade gems, get more attack speed and LoH, and dualwield like a boss 'till the end. Your resistances are bit lower (20) than mine, but you've got 400 more armor while dual wielding, and I'm killing anything in the game np, and farming Act III with half the lights on. Difference is that I have more attack speed and more LoH. Going over 2 attacks per second with both weapons, and getting around 1k LoH will allow you to run more offensive spec (judging from your stats you're running Mantra of Evasion or The Guardian's Path, and either of those is worse than other possibilities, if you have the gear to support you).

If you just want to progress through Act III and don't look forward to spending millions of gold to do it, just switch the gem from your sword to highest lvl of Amethyst you can afford/craft for some fast LoH and equip the shield, and go bore the monsters to death. Sword is better of the two weapons, since it's got faster attack speed. That mace is just too slow - especially for s&b where you lose the attack speed buff from dual wielding. Rings are the best place to look for more attack speed, since they have lower max crit and crit damage than other armor pieces, but can still have up to 9% ias. I run 9% ias and 4.5% crit ones on both slots, and I'm loving them. Later when you have the LoH from somewhere (pref. a weapon with 900+ LoH with socket for 100% crit dmg) you can easily switch to dual wielding and still face tank stuff in Act III.

Quote from ballon

Why playing defensively when you don't use THE sustain stat at all? Pick up life on hit and you're more than ready to plow through act 3 even after cutting your dps by another 50%.

Ps: stop being stingy about your gems at upgrade them at least two times, that investion will last you forever since you can always remove them and carry on into new accessions.

Quote from KdLoL

just get another weapon with innate crit and socket crit, ur dps will become 30-35