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Detailed analysis on what kinds of damage sources are reduced by what, like what is reduced by armor only, what by resistances and armor, what by nothing, what can be evaded. Which kinds of damage get reduced by stuff like Resolve or Threatening Shout.

I am not sure on all of these, just heard multiple theorys and statements about stuff like plague and desecrate being unaffected by resistances and evasion, while fire chains can be evaded. Melee damage gets reduced by resolve, Molten isn't. Fire walls in A3 aren't reduced by anything etc etc. I would like to know once and for all, which of these informations are accurate and which ones are just rumors.

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I found that pony land is much easier to do,and gives huge xp

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Why not rush them through to Hell and do it on Act 3 there, with a XP helm, a hellfire ring, and leorics signet on MP10?

Alternatively, continual Leorics Manor runs if you can make the games quick enough.

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loh is bad on weapons because u can gain more damage from crit damage, so you'l need to find your loh on a ring or amulet in the future.

the best thing for u is to buy two new weapons 800+ dps 100dex 50+ crit damage + socket.. put 70% crit gem in it, that will put u at 40k dps. if u want loh u just insert a loh gem into a socket but u loose alot of dps

damage is survival , more damage u do easier its gonna get, but u wont be able to have such high resists unless your rich, so prepare to drop 200.

always buy weapons with a socket, and good dex and crit damage, while u enhance your gear, i also used a 300 loh in my weapon when my damage sucked, as your gear improves and damage improves, u can stop using it.

u also dont wanne give up too much dex for crit chance, bracers with 5% and 100 dex would do more dps.. dex is important, same on rings, dex adds alot of damage also, so u wanne lower resists not dex.. U can get alot of dex if you take lesser resist gear.

your crit chance is good, but now u also need good weapons with crit damage so then it will be better hehe

i have 50k dps 5k armor and 590 resist, if u wanne do high dps, u need to lower your defenses, things cant hurt u when they dead, so as your damage goes up, your defense can come down. unless u are very rich u cannot become a tank high dps monster. i have 400 loh on amulet which is more then enough..

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Like thundersteel said...Most of your gear is maybe decent but far from good. There is no point in havin lots of cyclones if u simply lack the dmg to make em work. Think about it.

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Ok, here is the list of items that you can keep (i.e. not upgrade):

shoulders
pants maybe, but 2 socket pants will be better, and should have double resists
main hand spear (it's not bad, other items will get you more dps)
the belt is acceptable, though more dex would be better
the boots can stay for a while, but eventually need an upgrade

For every other item, you should look to get 60-80 more dex, and look for stuff that has at least poison resist or vit, preferably both, even for the rings and amulet and so on.

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Good information, looking forward to the results. Can you remind me, how do I go about spawning in VotA?

Start with the black soulstone quest, enter VotA and you will get a checkpoint.

And if I kill Zoltun Kulle? Do I still get to spawn in VotA?

No, just do the run above and that's pretty much the best run you can do while staying in VotA, you want to maintain that checkpoint. you don't wan any new checkpoints. I'm only testing to see if some of the zones above aren't worth the time comparatively.

Ok, thanks for clarifying. Locating VotA in Desolate Sands is one of the biggest time sinks in this route, so I'll probably skip ZK and Belial in the future, start in VotA to get 5 stacks as fast as possible, and then clear the rest. Thanks!