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Yeah, but some of the RG's have AoE abilities that cover an area that is pretty much as large as the room you're referring to...

I do agree on the ancient items part.

However, I would have to disagree on the GRs part from. Apparently, on softcore its easy, but it would be quite deadly on HC.

I, as a wizard, need a lot of room to kite the Guardians and, sometimes I end up staying on the other side of a pillar, rock,wall etc. that gives me the chance to avoid some of the deadly attacks. In a small room, such as the one you're describing, RGs such as Bloodmaw, would oneshot most people.

There's an GotBoostedHC community on the EU part of Diablo. I'd suggest you go there and ask in-game. I have been seeing quite a lot of people asking for a boost there and considering how fast people are gearing up, I'm guessing that there is a high chance you'll find a booster.

http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/nikolay-2849/hero/54778799

This might sum up my season 2 so far. I also have decent Strongarm Bracers.

Also - 3 WHs so far, 2 Unities and 1 bad SoJ. I also got a second Furnace, but it was badly rolled, so I gave it to a clan mate.

This isn't my threat in any way, and I do like constructive feedback, but one thing is to have a further discussion regarding softcore, and completely another is to argue my point of view with the discussion you're trying to make,because it isn't relevant to compare SC to HC.

I had a specific question regarding HC and, instead of opening a new thread about an item that is already being discussed, I decided to save some space on the forum and ask the question here.

Instead of trying to correct me and say how I'm taking the thread to myself, you could've just said "Yes this will work for HC" or "No, this won't work for HC" and then continue with your further softcore discussion.

Anyway, sorry for the unnecessary posts, I wont bother you more.

I think that you're missing the point. I've asked particularly for hardcore, and started my question by outlining that Im playing HC.

For season 1 the highest HC rift was 45, which is also the current progress and yet you're talking about GR47+.

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It gives you extreme survivability. Wizzards does not lack the resistances due to high amount of int but they do lack armor. The Ice Armour is way better then Arcane one as bumping armor gives a lot more than bumping resistances.

Armor also reduces all damage, the ranged one as well. Having 6k armor and 10k armor makes huge difference. A lot more than having 1,7k ares and 2,2k ares.

Don't forget the extra Arcane Power that comes from removing the Energy Armor

@silvach, I got it at around Para lvl 25-30..... RNG is RNG and Im praying to the RNG God everyday prior to login lol.

Anyway, considering the great increase in monster density in Rifts and Greater Rifts, most of the time you're fighting close-range, rather than ranged (white monsters), this is where I found the ring helpful in particular.

First of all, because when a monster swings to hit you, it can get frozen because of the shield.

Second, should the monster hit you, the frost nova will freeze not only the attacker, but the surrounding monsters, which is very helpful in critical situations.

Third, when it comes to ranged monsters, I used to teleport around and dodge most of their attacks and should I receive a hit, my teleport's CD was instantly reset, which give me the opportunity to use it again. Now, with the ring, I just tend to get close to them in order to use the ring effect to freeze them. By the time that happens, the melee monsters have caught up with me and I usually use hydra,blizzard and black hole, so I can stack the DoT and kill them fast.

So far that works out well, but my gems are currently low level and I tried that combo up to GR 33 and it worked out quite well, but I just needed a couple of comments regarding higher rifts.

I saw that the current #1 on the leaderboard (or at least it was #1 when I inspected him) was wearing one as well and that made me think that it could be a good item for higher GRfits.

Hey guys,

Before we continue - note that I play Hardcore, I wasn't sure if I should discuss the ring in this topic, or open a thread in Hardcore discussion, so I decided to come here first.

I found this little beauty a couple of days ago : http://postimg.org/image/lo3v4s96f/ and, since I don't have a SoJ yet, I gave it a try and I happened to like it a lot although I still have a long way to go before I get all the gear I want. I managed to do a GR 33 (Halo and Unity) with no problems, but I am curious what do you think about it and could it serve as a SoJ replacement. I do know that SoJ is awesome and BiS and no other ring could replace it and it should be the only ring next to the Unity and so on, but on the other hand, considering that Wizards are quite squishy in higher grifts (i.e 40+) it gives more possibilities, considering that it freezes the mobs around you etc.

http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/nikolay-2849/hero/54778799 Here's my profile as well. Not that it is that important, but it might give you an overall picture of how am I doing so far. I have Strongarm, but I'm using Nemesis for T6 rifts, as I don't like switching gear mid-fight.

Thanks in advance and sorry if this is not the right place to post.

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Twinkie, you might've found it on lvl 60 pre-RoS.

I could be but I still have some doubts. I'm sure I actually have found it pre-RoS but I'm pretty sure I've also found a GF pre-RoS and yet I unlocked the GF's appearance only when I found it again (yesterday) post-RoS. I also have a pair of Frostburn in my pre-RoS legendary stash but I'm pretty sure that I still have their appearance locked.

Anywy I'll double check it as soon as I'll be back home this evening. A couple of hours of hope won't hurt me that much