Hey guys, so I wanted to make a thread about the Cursed Chests, which require you to kill 100 mobs in a limited amount of time, and the Cursed Shrines, which require you to defeat 5 waves of mobs, each in a limited amount of time.
Right now, I find myself able to easily solo clear Torment 1 at a very face pace, but once I find a Cursed Shrine I have trouble even defeating 2 or 3 waves with my standard build. I was wondering if anyone was interested in theorycrafting a Demon Hunter build that could easily complete these challenges?
I had the same issue with my DH. I have been playing on T2 and she pretty much owns. But I had alot of difficult completing the chests or shrine events when playing solo which was bothering me since I could pretty much destroy the rest of the content at T2.
I ended up finding a bombardiers rucsack (the legendary quiver with +2 sentries) and this gave me reason to try something else. My old Dead Mans Legacy is still a better quiver and I don't normally play with the turrets (because they take too damn long to get out). So what I do now is whenever I come across a cursed chest/shrine I swap out my DML quiver for the Bombardiers quiver, switch my Rain of Vengance over to Turrets, and switch a passive over to custom engineering. Then I set up 5 turrets (i like the new ones with pierce) and activate the shrine. I haven't lost one yet this way. Afterward i switch by quiver back to DML and switch my skills back.
Even without the quiver this may still work, the turrets are actually pretty good once you get them all out. But as I mentioned before, I don't use them normally because they take too long to get out for normal situations, and in the heat of battle i'd rather spend my hatred elsewhere. But the cursed chests are somewhat unique since you can actually plan them out and lay out all your turrets ahead of time.
Other pointers would be:
Choose skills with alot of AOE when doing the chest, anything single target oriented will be a waste. Bolas and Grenades seem to be the best generators for AOE.
Choose gear and skills that maximize your DPS, don't worry much about your Toughness or Healing since the real challenge with the chest is killing quickly, staying alive is fairly easy since most of the spawned monsters are very weak. If they are getting close enough to hit you, you are not killing them fast enough anyways.
I've been able to finish it using a rapid fire/preparation/night stalker build. I don't have to spend a lot of time firing bola shot, which helps in killing quickly. Honestly, just doing some normal farming and finding some new items to enhance your dps/build will help clear it too.
I've managed to complete a few of them on Torment II using pretty much hungering arrow with the increased hatred gain(deals fire damage but can't remember the name), Rain of Vengeance (Shade) and Elemental Arrow(Frost Arrow). The key is to NOT use rain of vengeance early on when there are only a few mobs spawning slowly, but to wait a bit.
Right now, I find myself able to easily solo clear Torment 1 at a very face pace, but once I find a Cursed Shrine I have trouble even defeating 2 or 3 waves with my standard build. I was wondering if anyone was interested in theorycrafting a Demon Hunter build that could easily complete these challenges?
I ended up finding a bombardiers rucsack (the legendary quiver with +2 sentries) and this gave me reason to try something else. My old Dead Mans Legacy is still a better quiver and I don't normally play with the turrets (because they take too damn long to get out). So what I do now is whenever I come across a cursed chest/shrine I swap out my DML quiver for the Bombardiers quiver, switch my Rain of Vengance over to Turrets, and switch a passive over to custom engineering. Then I set up 5 turrets (i like the new ones with pierce) and activate the shrine. I haven't lost one yet this way. Afterward i switch by quiver back to DML and switch my skills back.
Even without the quiver this may still work, the turrets are actually pretty good once you get them all out. But as I mentioned before, I don't use them normally because they take too long to get out for normal situations, and in the heat of battle i'd rather spend my hatred elsewhere. But the cursed chests are somewhat unique since you can actually plan them out and lay out all your turrets ahead of time.
Other pointers would be:
Choose skills with alot of AOE when doing the chest, anything single target oriented will be a waste. Bolas and Grenades seem to be the best generators for AOE.
Hope this helps, Good Luck!Choose gear and skills that maximize your DPS, don't worry much about your Toughness or Healing since the real challenge with the chest is killing quickly, staying alive is fairly easy since most of the spawned monsters are very weak. If they are getting close enough to hit you, you are not killing them fast enough anyways.
Or equivalent Barb