I've posted the following on the official D3 forums already (under the title "Help? Spending fury to slowly" which doesn't fit that good as while typing the post i remembered a lot of other questions). As the responses over there were a little bit of, well, nonexisting (at least so far), i decided to try it here too. Because of that, a few sentences might look strangely, like f.e. the first one. My character profile can be found here: http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/malvar-2321/hero/2137619
As the title says, i have a problem spending my fury fast enough to keep WotB up.
My Fury regeneration is actually quite good and as long as i play on a high enough MP and there are enough monsters, there's no problem on that side.
But as WotB uptime doesnt get longer by regenerating fury while being on max already, i have to spam Spring and Battle Rage and recently i started to think that maybe i might lose some ticks if i keep refreshing Sprint as much as i can and never let it run out...
Also it's quite annoying to have to constantly hammer on the keys for those two skills while in fight, i think it would be much more relaxing if i only had to refresh them when they run out and not also because i have too much fury...
So, is this normal or am i doing something wrong here?
Maybe my gear isn't good enough? I can imagine that with a higher aps i could spend my fury faster but if so, where's the point when WW + keeping up sprint is enough?
Besides that, i am wondering how i best improve my gear:
I am thinking about switching my pants and shoes for Innas Pants and Ice Breakers but i'm not sure if within a reasonable budget that would work out to my benefit. (besides i dont really understand why ice breakers are so good, i just know that everyone uses them)
Then, there's my jewelry: It's probably quite ok but i can imagine that there's room for improvement as well. Maybe i should try to get more AS there? I've not done that yet because i get less paper dps like that but maybe it could be worth losing some of it for faster attacks?
Besides that, i'm wondering about what the cheapest way to get more defense as i think that i'm not at the best point in that category either...
My budget is pretty low:
I currently got about 23m and if i would be willing to maybe buy another 50-100m on the rmah if it's worth it.
(by that i mean i wouldn't want to spend real money for a few k more dps but if that gold would allow me to partly rebuild my character for a more enjoyable playing experience,that would totally be worth it to me)
Thanks in advance for your help!
PS: I know that Frenzy is not as good as Bash in terms of fury generation but i think some additional single target dmg is quite helpful for the situations where only a single yellow one is left.
Besides that, any suggestions about my skills are very welcome of course.
Edit:
I just remembered to other questions that bug me:
1.) Back in the days when i was farming Act 3 on low MP, i had decided to cap my MF and slowly lose the one on my gear while gaining paragon levels and i really notices that difference to the low MP i had before.
Now, that i am farming higher MPs though, i am wondering if that's really worth it anymore or if i'm just wasting my gold by trying to maintain that level of magic find...
2.) A very similar question is about %XP. Since on higher MP you now get a lot of that independant from your gear, i figured that putting a Life% gem in my helmet as well as replacing my mediocre Hellfire Ring with a better one, would be a good trade-off.
Yet i'm not sure about it, so if anyone could clarify that for me, it would be great,
I'm currently playing on MP7.
On lower MP i have a harder time keeping WotB up (partly because i pickup all the rares) and for the higher ones, my dmg is still a bit low...
I like the idea of using Rend instead of War Cry, gonna try that right away, maybe i can even switch Bloodthirst to Brawler with the additional healing from Rend.
Thanks a lot for that advice!
Besides that, anyone happen to have an answer to my other questions?
@Sexton: If i rush through lower MP i don't even see most things drop, so the problem would still be the same...
Besides that, almost every item has a potential for an absolutely awesome roll, so i just pick up everything. Since they implemented the feature to identify everything at once, i prefer to just do that and then sort out the crap (usually thats everything^^) instead of having to think about what i pick up and what i leave behind...
Besides that, i now tried using rend and it works pretty good, at least for farming white mobs on MP10.
I can't risk taking a break to pickup rares most of the time but the experience and legendary drops are really nice.
My point is only 1 handed weapons, jewelry, pants and gloves have the potential to be good. Everything else, no matter what they roll are easily beaten out by legendaries or crafted items so there's no point in picking them up.
Wotb is reliant on gaining rage, If you crit twice while at full rage, it still counts towards wotb. Dual wielders usually stick to overpower with killing spree instead of Rend, as rend only counts towards the mainhand weapon damage.
My point is only 1 handed weapons, jewelry, pants and gloves have the potential to be good. Everything else, no matter what they roll are easily beaten out by legendaries or crafted items so there's no point in picking them up.
Not true, just sold a couple of bracers for 249 million 182 int, 150 vita, 54 res all and 6% crit..it IS possible to get great bracer aswell..I've seen chest pieces with awesome stats aswell. Im also currently using dropped shoulders with 279 str, 184 vita and 72 res all. Dont discount yellows =)
^Well you got lucky on those bracers then. I wouldn't pay that much of them. The Items you listed, while good, aren't worth that much anymore because crafted ones can easily beat them.
Crafted items can roll better, but after 500+ crafts without much success, people tend to swing towards getting "almost as good as a good craft if they can get it ->now<-
As the responses over there were a little bit of, well, nonexisting (at least so far), i decided to try it here too. Because of that, a few sentences might look strangely, like f.e. the first one.
My character profile can be found here:
http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/malvar-2321/hero/2137619
As the title says, i have a problem spending my fury fast enough to keep WotB up.
My Fury regeneration is actually quite good and as long as i play on a high enough MP and there are enough monsters, there's no problem on that side.
But as WotB uptime doesnt get longer by regenerating fury while being on max already, i have to spam Spring and Battle Rage and recently i started to think that maybe i might lose some ticks if i keep refreshing Sprint as much as i can and never let it run out...
Also it's quite annoying to have to constantly hammer on the keys for those two skills while in fight, i think it would be much more relaxing if i only had to refresh them when they run out and not also because i have too much fury...
So, is this normal or am i doing something wrong here?
Maybe my gear isn't good enough? I can imagine that with a higher aps i could spend my fury faster but if so, where's the point when WW + keeping up sprint is enough?
Besides that, i am wondering how i best improve my gear:
I am thinking about switching my pants and shoes for Innas Pants and Ice Breakers but i'm not sure if within a reasonable budget that would work out to my benefit. (besides i dont really understand why ice breakers are so good, i just know that everyone uses them)
Then, there's my jewelry: It's probably quite ok but i can imagine that there's room for improvement as well. Maybe i should try to get more AS there? I've not done that yet because i get less paper dps like that but maybe it could be worth losing some of it for faster attacks?
Besides that, i'm wondering about what the cheapest way to get more defense as i think that i'm not at the best point in that category either...
My budget is pretty low:
I currently got about 23m and if i would be willing to maybe buy another 50-100m on the rmah if it's worth it.
(by that i mean i wouldn't want to spend real money for a few k more dps but if that gold would allow me to partly rebuild my character for a more enjoyable playing experience,that would totally be worth it to me)
Thanks in advance for your help!
PS: I know that Frenzy is not as good as Bash in terms of fury generation but i think some additional single target dmg is quite helpful for the situations where only a single yellow one is left.
Besides that, any suggestions about my skills are very welcome of course.
Edit:
I just remembered to other questions that bug me:
1.) Back in the days when i was farming Act 3 on low MP, i had decided to cap my MF and slowly lose the one on my gear while gaining paragon levels and i really notices that difference to the low MP i had before.
Now, that i am farming higher MPs though, i am wondering if that's really worth it anymore or if i'm just wasting my gold by trying to maintain that level of magic find...
2.) A very similar question is about %XP. Since on higher MP you now get a lot of that independant from your gear, i figured that putting a Life% gem in my helmet as well as replacing my mediocre Hellfire Ring with a better one, would be a good trade-off.
Yet i'm not sure about it, so if anyone could clarify that for me, it would be great,
On lower MP i have a harder time keeping WotB up (partly because i pickup all the rares) and for the higher ones, my dmg is still a bit low...
I like the idea of using Rend instead of War Cry, gonna try that right away, maybe i can even switch Bloodthirst to Brawler with the additional healing from Rend.
Thanks a lot for that advice!
Besides that, anyone happen to have an answer to my other questions?
Besides that, almost every item has a potential for an absolutely awesome roll, so i just pick up everything. Since they implemented the feature to identify everything at once, i prefer to just do that and then sort out the crap (usually thats everything^^) instead of having to think about what i pick up and what i leave behind...
Besides that, i now tried using rend and it works pretty good, at least for farming white mobs on MP10.
I can't risk taking a break to pickup rares most of the time but the experience and legendary drops are really nice.
Not true, just sold a couple of bracers for 249 million 182 int, 150 vita, 54 res all and 6% crit..it IS possible to get great bracer aswell..I've seen chest pieces with awesome stats aswell. Im also currently using dropped shoulders with 279 str, 184 vita and 72 res all. Dont discount yellows =)