Closing the rift is the smart thing to do. Lets you farm blood shards and GR tokens faster. Doing the extra floors after you kill the guardian is the same as starting a new rift, except with no more guardian to kill.
The PTR is not meant to be fun. It's meant for testing. If Blizzard feels they need to test things with the buff on, they can. If you don't want to play with the buff, don't play the PTR.
You have no all res on your boots, pants or chest, though the chest could have reduced elite damage too. Replace the emerald in your helm with either a diamond or amethyst.
You could go for chest and pants ones with all res. Other than that work on getting ancient gear. A RoRG with CC or CD would be good too. And ancient Reaper Wraps.
Get to level 70 by having your friend run you through some bounties. Farm rifts, get full Marauder's set. You'll still be fairly squishy, because that's just how demon hunters are, but you will kill everything before they hit you anyways, except for jailer.
Your amulet is really bad. You want/need str, cc, chd, socket. You can get 6 cc on your helmet. You can get 20% element damage on your bracers. You maximus is fairly low damage. You can farm for a better rorg with chd/socket and reroll the loh to the other.
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There is no cow level.
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Closing the rift is the smart thing to do. Lets you farm blood shards and GR tokens faster. Doing the extra floors after you kill the guardian is the same as starting a new rift, except with no more guardian to kill.
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Turn on elective mode in the settings.
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The PTR is not meant to be fun. It's meant for testing. If Blizzard feels they need to test things with the buff on, they can. If you don't want to play with the buff, don't play the PTR.
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You have no all res on your boots, pants or chest, though the chest could have reduced elite damage too. Replace the emerald in your helm with either a diamond or amethyst.
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Gear drops from the Rift Guardian in Grifts, but not normal enemies.
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Templar with Immortality token, Eng-Jang-Do, Freeze of Deflection, Ess of Johan/Overwhemling Desire, Untiy + Bul-Kathos Wedding Band/Oculus Ring
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Yes they do.
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You could go for chest and pants ones with all res. Other than that work on getting ancient gear. A RoRG with CC or CD would be good too. And ancient Reaper Wraps.
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