I'm a little confused about the mechanics of Cascade and was wondering if you guys could help me out.
I've been running Disruption and just recently switched over to Cascade to try it out. Now, my gear isn't the greatest, I know, but my Torrents are critting for about 3-4 million. Once in awhile I'll get a crit at about 10-12 million though. Is that the Cascade missile? If it is, why is it so damned high? If it isn't, what is it? I never saw anything like that running Disruption.
What rolled on your Schaefer's that you enchanted into strength? I would've enchanted the attack speed into a socket.
As far as I can see your critical hit damage is very low, your crit could be higher and your all res appears very low. You have a lot of legendaries/set pieces, but they aren't really that good I personally don't value resource cost reduction or reduced cooldown all that much, but that totally depends on your build.
I also agree with what heerobya wrote, try to aim for those stats. There are a lot of build threads on the forums here now, if you're not madly in love with what you have, take a look at some of them, see if they feel better and start gearing more towards that. They usually have info on what stats to look for on what pieces.
I usually grind alone and whenever I get bored I jump in to a public game. Most of the time my xp/hour will take a big hit, but there's just something about playing with other people, talking and whatnot. Even just comparing your character to other people's characters (even though inspecting people is a damned hassle in D3) is a refreshing change.
With the introduction of monster power I, and pretty much everyone else, will have ZERO incentive to play in pub games. If you can handle MP0 you can handle MP1 and the rewards are MASSIVELY different. And this sucks for me, because pretty much all my friends who ever played D3 quit. I'm the only one left.
God I hope everyone will start using the LFG channel...
I've played my wizard since launch, haven't really tried any other classes. After going splat too many times and just not having fun anymore I decided to level a monk. Good. God. I'm having so much fun now! Im ripping through Alkaizers route faster and with fewer deaths than my wiz. Mad giggles all the way.
My conclusion is that it all comes down to playstyle. The wiz just wasn't my cup of tea, just too bad it took me so long to find out (not to mention all that gold "wasted").
I didn't notice before, but Force Armor is your friend. That makes you MUCH less squishy against elites. For the hard hitters like Phase beasts and Demon Tremors, you'd probably need to do a little kiting in the form of Beam til they get close, back peddle a bit, beam some more, and repeat til dead. I also find 24% movement speed extremely helpful for that.
I also run out of Archon form quite often, so I use Lightning Blast. I tried storm chaser but I felt like I couldn't actually do anything while trying to use it with CM to refresh my Archon. With LB I can still mow down mobs and kite elites (thanks to 24% run speed). The dps on it is pretty decent, and since I use a 2h, I find the faster attack animation preferable to Piercing Orb.
Hmm, I ran with Prismatic. Could try Force a bit. Also, doesn't LB have a horrible coefficient for proccing CM?
with your damage try going archon and you should melt shit....
Agreed. You have pretty much the same dps as I do unbuffed. After Magic Weapon and Sparkflint you'll be over 95k. You also have about the same resists as I do and same health, with maybe a tiny bit less armor. Archon should make Act 3 easy mode.
As I mentioned, I tried an Archon spec for awhile, running Alkaizers route, and truly, shit was indeed melted. My main gripe with an Archon spec was the extreme squishiness when not in Archon mode and the insane rush to find more mobs the whole time. Not to mention I still went *splat* on some Hulking Phase Beasts with horrible affixes, even when looking like a purple god.
I guess it really just comes down to playstyle, maybe I'm too aggressive or something. I tried a CM spec and yeah, I guess they might be even more tankier and do more dps than a monk, but I just feel silly facerolling my keyboard waiting for CM procs to get skills off cooldown.
I'd like to thank everyone for their input though, it was nice to get some good feedback on my little problem ^^
So here's the deal. I've been playing my wizard since launch, after trying out the different classes in beta and deciding on the magic-flinging dude. I'm a casual gamer, but I'd say I'm pretty good at playing games. I've cleared Inferno with him, but it's been a looooong, hard road.
After Paragon levels were introduced I got a little bored grinding with him and on a whim decided to level a monk. After I hit 60 I spent about 6 mill buying crappy gear and decking him out. Now I made a lot of blunders (I actually forgot about One With Everything and bought All Res gear... Yay me) and my spec would probably make most other monks wrinkle their noses in disgust. But... I am astonished at what I can do with him. I seriously just ripped through A1 and A2, pretty much not dying at all. Unless I decide to go full retard things aren't even close to killing me and my clearspeed was insane.
Now, my question is: is the difference between classes really that huge? Should I just shut up, l2p and come back when I've cleared Inferno? Or have I been doing something wrong on my wiz? I've pretty much tried every single spec that's ever been mentioned (from an AO/Blizzard spec, to CM wiz, to Archon, to my recent favorite Forked Lightning/Meteor) and I haven't been close to doing what I can do on my crappy geared monk. Could it just be a matter of playstyle? That the monk just suits me better? Or what?
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And it's definitely not yellow globe damage. That was the first thing I thought of and tested.
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I've been running Disruption and just recently switched over to Cascade to try it out. Now, my gear isn't the greatest, I know, but my Torrents are critting for about 3-4 million. Once in awhile I'll get a crit at about 10-12 million though. Is that the Cascade missile? If it is, why is it so damned high?
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As far as I can see your critical hit damage is very low, your crit could be higher and your all res appears very low. You have a lot of legendaries/set pieces, but they aren't really that good
I also agree with what heerobya wrote, try to aim for those stats. There are a lot of build threads on the forums here now, if you're not madly in love with what you have, take a look at some of them, see if they feel better and start gearing more towards that. They usually have info on what stats to look for on what pieces.
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I usually grind alone and whenever I get bored I jump in to a public game. Most of the time my xp/hour will take a big hit, but there's just something about playing with other people, talking and whatnot. Even just comparing your character to other people's characters (even though inspecting people is a damned hassle in D3) is a refreshing change.
With the introduction of monster power I, and pretty much everyone else, will have ZERO incentive to play in pub games. If you can handle MP0 you can handle MP1 and the rewards are MASSIVELY different. And this sucks for me, because pretty much all my friends who ever played D3 quit. I'm the only one left.
God I hope everyone will start using the LFG channel...
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I'm currently at 44k and ripping through pretty much everything, but generally speaking, how much dps do sword & boarders have? Or should have?
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I've played my wizard since launch, haven't really tried any other classes. After going splat too many times and just not having fun anymore I decided to level a monk. Good. God. I'm having so much fun now! Im ripping through Alkaizers route faster and with fewer deaths than my wiz. Mad giggles all the way.
My conclusion is that it all comes down to playstyle. The wiz just wasn't my cup of tea, just too bad it took me so long to find out (not to mention all that gold "wasted").
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Hmm, I ran with Prismatic. Could try Force a bit. Also, doesn't LB have a horrible coefficient for proccing CM?
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Thanks!
As I mentioned, I tried an Archon spec for awhile, running Alkaizers route, and truly, shit was indeed melted. My main gripe with an Archon spec was the extreme squishiness when not in Archon mode and the insane rush to find more mobs the whole time. Not to mention I still went *splat* on some Hulking Phase Beasts with horrible affixes, even when looking like a purple god.
I guess it really just comes down to playstyle, maybe I'm too aggressive or something. I tried a CM spec and yeah, I guess they might be even more tankier and do more dps than a monk, but I just feel silly facerolling my keyboard waiting for CM procs to get skills off cooldown.
I'd like to thank everyone for their input though, it was nice to get some good feedback on my little problem ^^
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So here's the deal. I've been playing my wizard since launch, after trying out the different classes in beta and deciding on the magic-flinging dude. I'm a casual gamer, but I'd say I'm pretty good at playing games. I've cleared Inferno with him, but it's been a looooong, hard road.
After Paragon levels were introduced I got a little bored grinding with him and on a whim decided to level a monk. After I hit 60 I spent about 6 mill buying crappy gear and decking him out. Now I made a lot of blunders (I actually forgot about One With Everything and bought All Res gear... Yay me) and my spec would probably make most other monks wrinkle their noses in disgust. But... I am astonished at what I can do with him. I seriously just ripped through A1 and A2, pretty much not dying at all. Unless I decide to go full retard things aren't even close to killing me and my clearspeed was insane.
Now, my question is: is the difference between classes really that huge? Should I just shut up, l2p and come back when I've cleared Inferno? Or have I been doing something wrong on my wiz? I've pretty much tried every single spec that's ever been mentioned (from an AO/Blizzard spec, to CM wiz, to Archon, to my recent favorite Forked Lightning/Meteor) and I haven't been close to doing what I can do on my crappy geared monk. Could it just be a matter of playstyle? That the monk just suits me better? Or what?
Any insightful comments?
I'm not sure if I'm allowed to create hyperlinks yet (nope), but let's try this. Here's my profile: http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Ael-2331/hero/1787659
TL;DR: Monk seems way more powerful than wiz. Is this the case or is it just me?