Agree to disagree all you want, it's your right to play fire. Telling others not to waste their time on a "sub Optimal" build because you feel Fire is better doesn't demonstrate WHY it is sub-optimal. A lot depends on what would be optimal... first for me would be group / solo play. Also, gearing choices. I'll show some quicky math on the new skill changes comparing Fire and Frost using the skill combo in my video:
Fire Cleave - 150% (plus explosion or extra fury gen)
Fire Rend - 1100%, 17 Yard Range
Leap - Call of Arreat
Fire Earthquake - 5100% Damage
Fire Call of the Ancients - 360% Damage
Battle Shout - Blood Shed (20% splash damage on crits)
Frost Cleave - 150% (plus 10% damage from all sources)
Frost Rend - 1100%, 12 Yard Range (plus 10% damage from all sources)
Leap - Call of Arreat
Frost Earthquake - 4200% Damage (Plus perma-freeze for 8 seconds)
Frost Call of the Ancients - 180% Damage (Plus 10% Crit from all sources)
Battle Shout - Blood Shed (20% splash damage on crits)
If you factor in ONLY the 20% bonus from cleave and Rend, EQ would go up to 5040% Weapon damage, Cleave 180%, Ancients 216%, rend 1320%. 10% Crit would add more as well... plus in GROUP you are contributing to ALL damage done... Fire cannot do that.
Obviously, if you're going pure fire... you probably wouldn't bother with IK set, instead going Cindercoat / Magefist etc for the super high fire damage. So yes, you will do more damage solo... but they closed the gap quite a bit. In group play Frost will be much, much better than Fire. Synergy is huge when trying to farm T6 as a group. So it really depends on playstyle. The ability to pull, lockdown, buff group damage, and have a small army (especially with the new mighty weapon spawning additional ancients) makes Cold a great option for people to try out.
This post was never to say Cold is better than Fire... it was to demonstrate how well they buffed Cold and made it viable.
Try not focusing on elemental dmg, but rather skill dmg, cc,chd,ias, and use ballistics passive with MS(arsenal), Sentry (spitfire) CA(shooting stars) with a generator attack to spam to trigger extra rockets. Wicked DPS, and allows u to gather extra EHP from bracers through ALLres which lets u focus on getting skill dmg from other pieces. Works like a charm.
Hardcore in d3 hasnt mattered since they implemented monster power/torment levels (you probably dont even know what monster power is). You cant have hardcore in a game that allows you choose your difficulty level, especially when you get the same gear on t1 or t6. Keep beating your chest while turtling in an arpg, lmao
Btw great gear setup, a 1h xbox on a sentry build...
You witless clown. I've played HC since D3 Vanilla release. And before that D2 since 2002.
Oh and yeah, its not like that xbox is giving me other things like oh... i don\'t know, 20 disc, 7 crit, and 250 dex? Oh and let alone maxing out on sentry breakpoints ;))))))))))))
Laughing at T4-5 in solo or party, double mark + wolf + harry = elite packs in <3 seconds, and my gear is shit. 80-100m crits via Calamity too stronk.
Solo T6 I just run Mara's, because I hate paying attention. Also because I lack double Unity, and thus can't play recklessly. It's funny though; I have Calamity, Trifecta Taskers, two Krider's, two sets of Mara's, Shadows, and Nats, yet I haven't found a single dex Unity
13 mil toughness and still 1 shot but almost anything in T6. Fix dex classes pls.
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up you softcore playing M***********.
I cringe everytime i see softcore players calling things for "easy" and "np" and "no challenge". When u find T6 HC "easy" get back to me.
^ This guy is doing "ok" in T5 atm. That Nat slayer is 2804.7 ingame, dunno why its lower there.
lol who shit in this kids wheeties?
Anyway, T6 farm isn't really doable on dex classes, at least not reliably quickly like WD or Crusader. Things are probably much smoother with double Unity cheese, but that's RNGesus for you. On the flip side of that coin, a properly geared DH probably clears faster than anything on "lower" Torments (<T5), as we can literally one shot anything that isn't a RG or Act Boss. Things get even more ridiculous for T1 and below with the Danetta's set and a proper physical spec. Permanent 300+% movespeed is just absurd for split farming, considering your movement ability also happens to insta-gib everything within 20 yards.
When you say "we", are you referring to Softcore trash then?
Laughing at T4-5 in solo or party, double mark + wolf + harry = elite packs in <3 seconds, and my gear is shit. 80-100m crits via Calamity too stronk.
Solo T6 I just run Mara's, because I hate paying attention. Also because I lack double Unity, and thus can't play recklessly. It's funny though; I have Calamity, Trifecta Taskers, two Krider's, two sets of Mara's, Shadows, and Nats, yet I haven't found a single dex Unity
13 mil toughness and still 1 shot but almost anything in T6. Fix dex classes pls.
Shut
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fcuk
up you softcore playing M***********.
I cringe everytime i see softcore players calling things for "easy" and "np" and "no challenge". When u find T6 HC "easy" get back to me.
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Oh and yeah, its not like that xbox is giving me other things like oh... i don\'t know, 20 disc, 7 crit, and 250 dex? Oh and let alone maxing out on sentry breakpoints ;))))))))))))
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up you softcore playing M***********.
I cringe everytime i see softcore players calling things for "easy" and "np" and "no challenge". When u find T6 HC "easy" get back to me.
http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/BX3Blueberry-1370/hero/43522831
^ This guy is doing "ok" in T5 atm. That Nat slayer is 2804.7 ingame, dunno why its lower there.