A lot of your gear is bad- either missing stats or low stat rolls. No life on hit, no socket in your weapon, a shield with no block %? Your gear is bad man, that's all there is to it. Fix that and you'll be fine. Maybe don't use Slash when you have ranged options/that one generator that increases block chance or whatever?
my goal is to play it well, not just survive. You are correct that its really elites that do the damage. The trash are easy, but I have to hit em a few times to kill em. What are my worst pieces of gear and what should i do about them?
For starters re-roll that flail until you get a socket. Put the biggest green gem you can make in it. Then find some rings amulets and gloves with crit hit chance and crit hit damage. Just try to concentrate on Strength, Vitality and all resist. Make sure to use you paragon levels to fill in gaps. If you can get up to 600k damage and around 10 million toughness you should be fine for T1.
thats what I have been doing; the question is since strength affects both damage and armor, you also get survivability benefit for rubies. So how does it compare to the benefit from diamonds?
You really want wrathful for that spec you're running as it has HUGE health returns :). I's swap out either holy cause or vigilant. Both are very nice but wrathful is amazing. If you find a pair of reaper wraps for wrath management (it's crafted just need to farm recipe and matts), then you could drop righteousness but I wouldn't as your wraps will scale with it. Getting a socket on your weapon is of utmost importance. A good green gem (imperial or above) is worth at least 500 dps and the holy dmg difference. Its really silly how much a difference socket makes. Since your on hardcore I'd replace the attack speed for the socket instead of the VIT.
Just wanted to update -- I have progressed to T1. I still have some questions for getting better:
1. What is my worst piece of gear?
2. Is there any obviously wrong with any of my gear?
I started farming T1 just so i have an opportunity to get set pieces. Against most elites I wade in, FoH them until wrath is gone, then Provoke to recharge wrath, then HF and continue with FoH. Usually this will end the battle, occasionally I have to wait for HF to cycle and give it another round (Extra Health).
With almost 1000 AR and 13K toughness, I'm surprised Im find myself in situations where I am in danger. I activate law of justice if I feel I am taking too much and save AC for mortal danger. Its saved my ass once.
What else can I do? I keep looking for Str/Vit/CC/CD, in that order, and also feel like I am missing some opportunities for +Holy/+FoH/+HF. Is something like +x FoTH or +x Holy better than CC? And, is +15Holy better than +15FoH or +15HF, reasoning being that holy applies to both?
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How can I be less squishy here? Would like to get to T1...Thanx
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Let me ask this, for sockets do i want to put in rubys or diamonds?
I assume this is the spec / guide your going off based on what I'm seeing on your armory. http://www.diablofans.com/forums/diablo-iii-class-forums/crusader-the-church-of-zakarum/85731-holy-wrath-fist-of-retribution-a-holy-lightning. Might ask questions there as well the author of the guide vycaus might have some advice as well :).
1. What is my worst piece of gear?
2. Is there any obviously wrong with any of my gear?
I started farming T1 just so i have an opportunity to get set pieces. Against most elites I wade in, FoH them until wrath is gone, then Provoke to recharge wrath, then HF and continue with FoH. Usually this will end the battle, occasionally I have to wait for HF to cycle and give it another round (Extra Health).
With almost 1000 AR and 13K toughness, I'm surprised Im find myself in situations where I am in danger. I activate law of justice if I feel I am taking too much and save AC for mortal danger. Its saved my ass once.
What else can I do? I keep looking for Str/Vit/CC/CD, in that order, and also feel like I am missing some opportunities for +Holy/+FoH/+HF. Is something like +x FoTH or +x Holy better than CC? And, is +15Holy better than +15FoH or +15HF, reasoning being that holy applies to both?