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I'm a US based dad with 2 kids looking for a clan comprised of older players. I work from home and sometimes play during the day and after the kids go to bed. I'm slowly working my pre 2.0 chars toward being able to solo T1+ (my DH is there, now for the rest.......)

Hey Rad, you're the one that helped me build my DH! I don't have an issue with fire damage, I rarely die now in torment 1 thanks to you. I'm comparing vault vs. smoke screen for avoidance which is why I have both at the moment.

Badglad vs. Radglad... heh

Still tweaking, went back to play with cindercoat + magefist + custerian + hellrack = crits of 10million and at a distance, I can get 8-10 cluster arrows off in a row with Prides Fall.

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Nice build, I was playing around with fire skills too. This build with Cindercoat+Magefist+Andariels Visage is a killer. Also if you lack discipline use Night Stalker instead of Seady Aim. You can keep shooting everything down as long as you crit you get discipline back.

You probably don't want to use Andarial's. That causes you additional fire damage (unless you roll +fire as well on it but there are probably better helmet choices). I'm using Cindercoat+Magefist+Custerian+socketed Hellrack for some serious fire damage. Grenades hitting for around 2mil with cluster arrow crits for 10mil. If I stay away from packs, because of pridefall+magefist+cindercoat I can use cluster arrow 7-10 times in a row before I run out of hatred. I've been using a wolf but may try the bat to see how much the hatred regen helps. This guy is still a work in progress, been spending the past week on tweaking.

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Marlenus-1482/hero/32675044

Niddro, I think I'm just about there with your advice. Up to 330k damage, 5.6m toughness, +54% crit, +100% crit dmg, I'll replace the gem in the bow tomorrow, need one more imperial emerald then I'll have enough for a flawless royal. I'm seeing crit hits of up to 4million. I could still use better AR I think, that now seems to be my weak point with elites. I was in 4 player torment against Maltheal tonight and was the last one standing... We failed, but I failed last :).

There's room for improvement on shoulders and pants and sockets in the cloak would be nice.

But damn, with the advice from the two of you, all I can say is WOOHOO! Thanks again.

Windforce was the best bow you could own in D2 LOD. One of the first ones found sold on eBay for almost $1000. Then the duping exploits began and while it was still a highly coveted bow, the sale price dropped to a few bucks.

Sorry, haven't played much since D2 when Windforce was all that

Thanks Niddro, I will play around with some of those recommendations right now. I think I have most of the gear you described stashed away "just in case". Kridershot... OMG... had to google that.... it's the new Windforce!! Found Izzuccob today but doesn't beat Hellrack.

After using this for a few days, I still have a couple of weaknesses I'm trying to sort out. I'm doing Torment 1 runs with groups and my single target damage with entangling shot sucks compared to using multishot, but I run out of hatred way too fast with multishot and end up just running around trying to avoid getting killed by the mobs during elite battles.
Reading the idiots guide now to tweak further.

Any recommendation for paragon points? I've never used any of them.

OMG!!! What a change... I don't even really understand how it is I get rid of much of the speed/crit and with a few spell/gear changes my toughness went from 200kish to 1.5m and my crits are doing 1m in damage. I went from lame to total buttkicking. Thanks!!! This game just took on a whole new level of fun again.

The level 60 gems are due to the cost of removing them, cheaper to just find new gear and put in level 70 gems. I'm this very moment getting rid of a bunch of the +speed/+crit legacy items and replacing it with +vit/+dex. I was using archery up until earlier today, again trying to figure this disaster out :(.

Thanks for the guide. I have a cindercoat, let me see if I can tweak this thing for fire damage.

I am just getting back into D3 after a year off and what was a pretty decent DH in 1.x is now crap. I'm made of glass. Can somebody make some recommendations on what I should focus on as far as gear? There's plenty of guides on what to use for spells but I'm having a hard time with gear. I have some really high crit/speed but it seems I may need to sacrifice some of that now for +vit. My tactics these days are limited to dropping 3 sentries and then running far away. Lame. Thanks for any pointers.

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Marlenus-1482/hero/32675044