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All Blizzard has to do is to nerf the "meta" continuesly so that all classes are accepted.
Balance things so that all need to be DPS, zDPS/support is just not really what a Hack'n'Slash is about.
Diablo never had roles, there is no mentioning of it anywhere, but in forum posts of the metakids.
Other players should always be happy to have you join regardless of what class you play.
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So I've been rattling this idea in my head for awhile now but I think it's time blizzard moved past just jewelry slots for the legendary gems.
Yes we have Gem of Ease but that's one gem out of almost twenty and many of the gems we do have don't see much play. I think it's time we moved past gems that are just for the meta (more dps, more toughness, etc.) We need some adventuring gems, and another slot to do it in so it doesn't screw with builds. The whole having to switch gear/legendary gems is already annoying enough.
My thought was pretty straightforward, using one of the 5 slots that don't come with a socket (shoulders, bracers, gloves, boots, belt) that way you don't have to switch things out and can just keep your utility gem even though it won't have much effect in GR's.
Ramaladni's Gift now has a chance to drop as ancient. the ancient version can add a socket to jewelry or your belt.
The belt slot would use one of 5 new legendary gems that can only go in that socket:
The concept of having gems that max out at Rank 25 may seem odd but I didn't want these gems to be grindy, I wanted to make something everyone could max out and use without doing a bunch of grinding. Quality of life improving gems so to speak.
TLDR;
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I enjoy this post. It really brings out the best and worst of people. I love how politics get thrown in as well...
First of all, to say that botters have no effect on this game truly shows your agenda and loyalty. If a botter gets just ONE grift key... they have helped their account achieve one more grift than a legitimate player. Of course, a bot does not get just one grift key or just one bounty mat. They get several. The effectiveness of botting depends on how long the bot programs run. Of course it's all relative. Gaining 20 grift keys and 100 bounty mats barely makes a dent in the progress of a player. However, gaining 20 grift keys and 100 bounty mats every day makes a significant dent. Add that with the amount of physical time a person plays... it all adds up.
So, what does it have to do with my "overall personal happiness?" Well, although I don't have enough time to keep up with the paragons of people on the leaderboards... I still like to think I can make an imprint. I'm a good player and know what stats to get on my gear and how to play my builds. However, getting that extra 100,000 damage from paragons makes a big difference. So, my happiness comes from having the ability to prove my skill on the leaderboards. Playing this game by doing the same thing over and over isn't fun. It's fairly monotonous. There's no fun in that. It's fun competing with others. That's usually what the point of a game is...
The biggest issue with today's society... Nationally, globally, locally or what-have-you is the fact people have to cheat to feel powerful. Sure, cheating is present everywhere. That doesn't make it acceptable to cheat. It's a problem that a game gets too difficult, people have to result to cheating. In a world where no one can handle (of dare I say congratulate) someone's success, it's sad that they, themselves, feel accomplishment by cheating. There is no pride in doing it. Congratulations. You still suck at the game... and we all know it. It's too bad that there isn't way to highlight a cheater's name on the leaderboards or have a separate "legit" leaderboard.
There are less and less people playing this game. I enjoy the argument of "if botters get banned, then no one will play anymore." Why is that acceptable? That is a loser's mentality. The main reason people lose interest in games is because of cheating. (Of course there are other reasons) The excitement of D3 was because it was a new installment to the series. That came with a fresh start. Sure, the auction house failed, but there were far more players after that playing the game as opposed to now. But HEY, let's let cheaters prosper and lose the interest of the REAL gamers.
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You sir, are an idiot. Every word you wrote, makes me die a little inside...
Cry , cry more!! it makes no difference at all but at least its a perfect excuse for why you arent on leaderboard.
The only reason you dont bot is:
1.) you dont know how to use it
2.) dont want to pay for it
Bot makes zero difference in the long run especially now with super high para, and new cube main stat thing. Crying here because of botting is the same as ppl on facebook under overwatch who are crying for beta key. you will never get what you want.
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Bots are not the main reason for the lag but they still cause stress to servers just like normal players would.
The bots do not cause lag. Please can we stop this misconception. Specific builds and gems cause lag. I'm not sure if i stated this here or on the d3 forums, go into a gr90 and just run around with the mobs. No lag. Now stick up dots and start doing damage. Lag. It has been this way since GRs released. Blizz has done minor fixes but the higher mob health gets and the higher damage gets and needs to be calculated, that causes the lag.
EDIT - All those top progressing groups in each region, are practicing lag reducing pulls, aka watching for high lag mobs, keeping pulls smaller, fishing for less lag tilesets. Idk it bugs me people blame everything on botting. Someone here is gonna get a virus and blame a bot that was in their public game.
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You can find general information and Set Dungeon guides for the other classes at my Set Dungeon Thread.
This thread lists the builds for each Monk Set Dungeon and associated Mastery requirements, and each build has an attached Video of the Mastery clear. I found most of these Set Dungeons to be of easy to average difficulty, with the abundance of left over gear from last season/patch Monk meta helping out a great deal. I found I could recycle a lot of my monk build concepts between the Sets, mainly consisting of stacking as much Cooldown Reduction, Spirit Generation and Resource Cost Reduction as possible.
Difficulty - Hardest to Easiest based on my own experiences (your own attempts may vary!)
If you have any questions, feel free to comment here or in the build guides themselves.
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Hey guys just wanted to share that i´m done with all Setdungeons and got the wings on EU 
Took me like 6 hours to do all 24 dungeons.
Who else is allready done? =)
Proof: 
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Hey Guys noticed you saw my video. Hope you are finding it useful. Here is also a direct link to the table of my times for each 10 levels in my two solo tests. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GLA8PGyGlUTYvIifyBSoPBUv46-B1m7u9ajx14Lk4AQ/edit?usp=sharing
I'm curious - do you have any idea on data for solo 1-70 speed vs 4man 1-70 speed?
here you can find the solo progression mate!
credit to GarfmAJH
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2dAJCVJFM8
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You wonder how the top 100 softcore solo would look without the advantage from paragon?
You have made a great GR time for your paragon level and would like to see how it compares to the others?
You are demotivated to push your maximum limits, because your best time won't rank high enough due to your low paragon?
Well, I have a surprise for you: The unofficial top 100 global softcore solo <<< no paragon >>> leaderboards. Enjoy!
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Here you go:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Diablo3Barbarians/comments/30915w/22_ww_and_dust_devil_break_points_and_proc/
http://www.reddit.com/r/Diablo3Barbarians/wiki/breakpoints
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Wanted to make this, to see for myself what advances I made during the season.
Hope you like/comment it, will try to update this first post with new "advances" as time goes by.
First of all, I usually catch up to play 3-4 hours a day (father of 2, full time job bla bla bla), so I probably won't be first at a lot of things, but at the end of the season let's hope for some good results (S1 I ended top 70 with my Crusader, without ancient weapon).
Here my monk as reference (it doesn't show him as seasonal, nor his paragons are correct, obviously):
MadTom's seasonal monk
Day 1 (Friday 13.2.2015.):
I'm online at S2 start, immediately jump in and create my S2 monk. Have a female monk in non-season, so run a male one this time! I always like to give some "decent" names to my toons. I'm croatian, so he got a "funny" name, that usually tends to go with what build I would like to play in the end. He is called Zvonko (translated that would be like "Bellman", or the one that hits the Bell).
OK, check my friendslist, 2 friends are up with their S2 toons as well, so we start together a game on Master level. We level together in bounties mainly. Share loot as good as we can (WD+DH+Monk, BTW). The DH even got a low level Cindercoat.
At around lvl 40 I have to put kids in bed, do dishes (always keep your wife happy
).
Came back to my friends game, they pulled ahead of me some 10 levels, I die a lot, but keep shortening the lvl gap. Still, they hit 70 while I was 67. They stayed in the game till I hit 70, and then they went to bed.
I just crafted some yellow Daibo with socket and spirit regen to be able to play master later on. A little testing, hit Paragon 5 and went to bed (it was 3 AM).
Day 2 (Saturday 14.2.2015.):
I woke up relatively early (around 7:30), gave kids breakfast, let my wife sleep.
Managed to play with friends and in public games at Master difficulty. A Paddle Daibo dropped with spirit regen. Other gear mainly yellow (still a vigilante belt with 61 lvl, but the CDR seem to help). As items drop I change spirit generator, but use bells.
Also got a Gungdo gear, with mediocre stats, however not enough Forgotten souls to roll CC on it, so I don't use it.
Joined T1 public games, first 2 rifts I got Key of Trials. Had enough Diamonds to get my gear up to par to survive T2. So, I went solo and created a T2 game.
Started with a lvl 1 GR, and working my way slowly up to increase lvl's one by one to collect all legendary gems. In the waiting period to reach 4:30 to not advance to far in GR levels I do A1 and A3 bounties (for RORG and Avarice band).
Kinda lucky, at GR4 I got my Torch. Mediocre stats, but it's a Torch. Rerolled VIT to socket (had like 7 Forgotten souls at that time). While grinding to GR18 I finished A1 bounties 2 times and A3 bounty one time.
Always invited friends to get the bounty bags with me. Lucked out and in 2nd A1 T2 bag I got RORG, with 5,5% CC!
Kadala didn't like me at all, got Inna helm from her and chest dropped, so can run 3 set bonus at least. Though that Dashing strike set parts are dropping, might consider doing something with that in the meantime.
End of day, around P40 (not really a lot, but it was a busy day, going out with kids and shopping took their toll), just for the sake of it I check leaderboards, a guy with almost perfect ancient torch and mediocre Sunwuko set cleared a GR37, wow! His P168 is easily explained as he could faceroll T6 with that gear.
Day 3 (Sunday 15.2.2015):
Playing T1/T2, some friends already geared up (2 WD's in my friends list have Starmetal Kukri already
).
Trying to get as many shards as possible, but no Sunwuko parts in sight... Dragging along. Got ancient Thundergods Vigor, so it seems I need to go lightning, a decent Ouroboros dropped too. Getting up to 10 Forgotten souls here and there, trying to roll better things on stuff.
Crimson set plans dropped, rolled pants and boots, ended up semi-decent for first tries. Anyway, use it for CDR mainly.
Kadala gave me yet another Dashing strike set piece. Let's see it's 500 DEX at 2 pieces, 15% lightning damage at 4 pieces. And the gloves came out very decent. Let's give it a try with Thundergods Vigor, also, managed to get 6% CC on Gungdo in the meantime.
Can run T4 now, but it's kinda slow, especially on the RG. Still prefer T2 public games, getting a trial keystone relatively often. Worked my way up to P80.
Almost thinking about going to bed, but friend invites me to a T6 game (one of the WD's with Kukri). Trash I actually kill very fine with Exploding Palm, it's nice to see packs go BOOM!
We run a few T6 games and I got my first Ramaladni (was thinking to save it, but, decided to roll Spirit Regen and add socket on Torch - have almost perma bells now. Still will roll that into 10% damage when I get Sunwuko/Inna combo - or maybe a better torch will drop).
We then ran GR's from lvl 1 up to around lvl 29, and I actually got a decent Sunwuko amulet (DEX/VIT/90+CHD/socket), managed to roll 8%CC so far, out of Forgotten souls... Went to bed with around P115. Kadala is still a bitch. Checked leaderboards, people are already doing GR38... Kadala, plsssssssssssssssssss
Day 4 (Monday 16.2.2015.):
After finishing work and doing stuff with my kids, I managed to get to my PC.
Basic idea was that I will try to upgrade at least one gem to lvl 25, and I was thinking going with the poison gem first. Had some trial keys lying around (but really short on those, makes me chuckle when I know how many of those I have on non-season now).
While doing solo runs from GR1 to GR low 20's a friend of mine asks to join. Since so low on trial keys we decide to go few T4 rifts. Few more friends of his join us, so we do rifts and lower GR's together. We get a very decent DH with full Mara set joining us, so even low GR30's are not a problem.
The group was out of keys so we decided to do trials, I wanted to see proof of concept, so I went with Fist of Azturaq and Rimeheart (both unsocketed, nor rerolled), while using Cyclone Strike: Wall of Wind (it freezes mobs on pull in for 1,5 seconds) and Exploding Palm: Impending Doom. I managed to keep mobs away from the group, the set-up actually worked nicely. With better rolls and some more Spirit Regen this might work nicely in GR30+ group games. Will try to not forget about it.
The game was working nice, on low 30 GR's I was still dying a lot (and most of the group members), but we all managed to level up our gems. All shards in the meantime were spent on shoulders. Just about the time when I was close to get my first gem to lvl 25 (after around 8000 shards spent) Kadala finally gave me Sunwuko shoulders!!! I was so happy. It was a decent roll (DEX/VIT/AR), got 8%CDR in few tries. So, next we needed gloves! Of course, the next GR run I got Ancient Sunwuko shoulders dropping
(again DEX/VIT/AR, rolled 7% CDR, out of forgotten souls, but oh my). Few runs and bloodshards after I got my first Sunwuko gloves!!! Ancient ones, with quite defensive stats, DEX/VIT/9,5%CC, few tries got 38%CHD! Will get ones with CDR later, but man, was I happy, smiling from ear to ear.
Sadly, the group fell apart and went to bed (1 AM, it's a working day...).
I also exited the game and wanted to go to bed, but looking at Battle.Net screen I had to go back into game and try some T6 runs solo. Oh man, it feels good to be powerful
I was so happy that I didn't care about leaderboards at all, went to bed knowing it just can get better now!
Day 5 (Tuesday 17.2.2015.):
Some bad headache all day, a lot of family stuff to do, but did find some time to play.
Entered game, checked my Paragons. At 166. Not so bad (in my opinion for the playtime I have).
Main goal of the day is to get survivability and damage up. So I decided to do some rifts (found out that low GR30's I'm just dying to much) from lvl 1 and up to get my Bane of the Trapped and the Life regen gem up. Will roll for boots at Kadala, hoping for Crudest boots. Sunwuko shoulders now dropped few times already...
Got my Bane of the Trapped up to 25, and a friend joins my party so we do some T6 rifts together (was short on trial keys anyway). Kadala was good and I got Crudest boots. So, switched to Unity passive (from Exalted soul) for a nice damage boost. Trying to get Inna belt now. Those dashing strike set parts drop like candy. To bad the set is not really viable.
My party falls apart and I got invited to friends party for some T6 runs (he is already over 300 paragons). After 2 runs "better" players a.k.a full Marauder's want to join him and I get booted out of the party. Leaves a bad aftertaste... I see them doing 30+ GR's already (no wonder he got his Paragons up).
Joined some T6 public game, and they cry if I'm at Kadala's... Reached P186 and had enough for the day.
Leaderboards show people doing GR45 already, they covered in ancient weapons and gear already. I'm still waiting for the first Unity to drop, also got only Scoundrel can't die token.
I will keep my pace, it seems. All in all not a bad day, but kinda bad aftertaste.
Day 6 (Wednesday, 18.2.2015.):
Decided not going play to much, since I'm catholic, and that's one of those days we should lower down our fun.
Started with paragon 186, T6 capable now. Looking at my gems, decided I will level up My Molten Wildebeest's Gizzard (who came up with that name???) to get my survivability up (still no Unity ring in sight). In the process I cleared a GR34 with much time left, however a try at 35 I just die to much, seems double Unity is a must for higher GR tiers.
Leveled up the gem to 25, and a friend who has a "starter monk" joins me, so I can give him excess parts, especially set ones to get him up to par.
But, it didn't last long a DH friend of his (P459 at that time) joins, and soon after a P350+ monk. The DH was complaining we are to slow, he just vaults and multishots half the screen away... My paragons just go up, but honestly it is not really enjoyable for me, but I need the shards/trial keys anyway, switch a passive to Momentum just to keep up with him.
I got a semi-decent Paddle, Sunwuko amulet and ancient Inna belt that I give away to the friend. I roll myself a Inna belt, and mediocre Cindercoat, so I switch to fire.
I desperately need more VIT and/or a better Inna helm. Rolling helms at Kadala's from now on. Just before I decided to leave the DH drops a Unity ring, so one more to go. Ended up at P218 and with one Unity, decent conclusion of the day.
Since I went with Cindercoat, I was able to reroll spirit regen from my Torch to + damage. Got 9% DMG, rolls are now over 3M already. I'm out of gold now, and mats I started keeping up with the needs for rerolls. Also short on rift keys. Will try tomorrow to get an Avarice Band for the gold pick-up range and level up my Boon of the Hoarder to lvl 25 at least for the speed bonus.
Day 7 (Thursday 19.2.2015.):
As said at end of Wednesday, I'm short on gold now mainly (also low on some of the gems). Started game and decided to try my luck with A3 bounties to get that Avarice band. Asked in Bounty community (thousands of players online) for a splitfarm A3 group at T6. Nobody responds.
So I do it alone, but since I can define my own pace, I do also A4 and A1 bounties, and as well all keywardens (need to farm up those keys for a decent HF ring to boost my XP, and if very lucky a decently rolled HF amulet.
RNG on my side, I got an Avarice Band with 5%CC right away, however no socket. With the little gold I have I try to roll a socket in, spent all little gold I had left for gem upgrades, but no socket in sight. Now, I'm short on gold and gems for rerolls.
Anyway, I decided I will try to level up my Boon of the Hoarder gem to 25, so I take 9 trial keys, enter trials/exit trials and do the lvl-ing up process in GR's from lvl 1. Got all GR keys to 29+. Spent shards on the way on helms and got a semidecent Leoric, an ancient Broken Crown and an upgrade for my Inna Spirit Stone (DEX/VIT, spent a lot to roll at least 5%CC).
Took a break after that. After tending to the family and putting kids to bed, I come back and see that g0c is online, and I ask him if he wants to come with me so I can try to help him get a RORG as he doesn't have one yet. We did A1 and A4 bounty and the keywardens, he got a RORG very fast. Then one of my real life friends comes online, he is at lvl 40ish and I ask him if he wants to get boosted and I invite him too. We started doing T6 rifts, and soon after one of his friends at around lvl 60 joins too.
I was a male monk tending to 3 female monks, my own personal harem. I actually don't blow everything away, but it worked decently and we got all of them to lvl 70. Shards I turn in to Kadala's hoping for better Gungdo bracers but no luck. All gear that dropped that was not an upgrade for me (or total crap) I give to them. Sadly no Sunwuko parts or anything to really get them rolling.
At this level I hope for a new Unity and/or SoJ to drop, a better Torch, or ancient Fist of Azturas'q (got 3 normal ones so far) to create a XP build. We even had a goblin pack, sadly some of them managed to escape, I just couldn't be on all of them. I got only a recipe (I thought I got them all before) and a lot of mats. Near the end of the journey I got my first Templar "Can not die relic", good! And the last shards I gamble into gloves, and got a relatively decent trifecta.
The 2 "new lvl" 70 monks ended up at P50+, hope they got Crimson/Born recipe and some decent starter gear.
I finished the day at P248, not a lot, but still, slowly getting up, however glad I could help out those female monks.
Day 8 is up, for a little bit better overview next week will be in the linked post.
Day 22 continues from here.
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I assume you have most of the recipes now.
Since you don't go with a 2 Hander, but 2 1 handers consider a build similar to my current one (and my build is still work in progress - it should be Exalted Soul instead of Unity Passive in my case anyway):
http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/MadTom-2218/hero/54571334
What you can do/craft is:
- Crimson belt and pants (so you keep The Crudest boots) - lol, now I see I didn't roll MS on boots to VIT as I wanted...
- Born chest and weapon (if you have Fist of Azturaq that's the best to combine it with)
Those 2 will give you 20% more CDR - so you get much closer to perma Epiphany (for T6 you don't need Serenity so much). Still if you will be short on Spirit you can use a generator anyway.
So, let's see:
- left click (generator, maybe Way of the Hundred fists - any you like will be the best)
- right click Cyclone strike (either freeze rune or the range rune)
- 1. dashing strike - Cold rune (dodge, to give you survivability)
- 2. Blinding Flash - replenishing light (for more spirit)
- 3. Epiphany - Desert Shroud for 50% damage reduction or Insight for even more spirit (since I recommend generator before you have enough CDR, go with Desert Shroud)
- 4. Exploding Palm - Strong spirit for even more spirit, Impending doom for biggest hit (but wouldn't force it for T6 - usually great if you have Fist of Aztura'q), Shocking Grasp to affect as many mobs as possible with one Exploding palm
Passives in the above case:
- Exalted soul/Unity
- Sixth sense
- Beacon of Ytar
- Harmony/Unity
Sweeping wind is not a great damage dealer, it is usually used for the 8 spirit regen (you might put that instead of Dashing strike), for even more spirit.
Leg gems recommendations:
1. Bane of the Trapped (even if not lvl 25 the exploding clones proc it - you see Taunted over enemies when the Sunwuko clones explode)
2. Molten Wildebeest Gizzard - gives the much needed survivability
3. Actually free to choose here, but I recommend Poison gem (lvl 25 at least for 10% damage boost), Bane of the Powerful, lvl 25 Gogok of swiftness for even more CDR
Taeguk is to "clumsy" if you don't have a well done rhythm with your spenders, and/or Inna for practically free Sweeping Wind.
Anyway, good luck.
If you have got Cindercoat, you can try Lashing tail kick with any good 2H, similar to this http://www.diablofans.com/builds/30827-quin69-gr50-furnace-setup
Gonna update Diary now, too.
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Guys, Mikhail and Det0x did a great job.
Mikhail wanted to show proof of concept (he does that very long as far as I know) showing how much damage the ancients do alone. He should have removed leap and put on nothing for primary skill though just for consistency.
Det0x on the other hand pushed it to the limit with Broken promises ring and implementing Whirlwind (as I would like to do it myself once 2.2 comes live), and it is a nice glimpse for what is possible with the IK set (actually the rend/WW set will have to bring really a lot to the table to beat this...).
Let's see what changes Blizz will implement on everything.
Once again thx to both of you for the great work - I just can't enter PTR to test out some stuff myself, sadly.
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Switch Mirinae to a Gogok of Swiftness for more CDR (Mirinae proc rate is not so high anyway for Pony build), also the amulet is not a lot of help, as you anyway try to be out of reach with sader build. Try to get a Phys/CC/CD one, even CDR on it wouldn't be bad.
You got a really nice Furnace, I wonder what you rolled to 10% DMG... It would be great if you would have had CDR instead.
Judgement you can replace for Shield Glare: Divine Verdict and see what works better for you.
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Tuesday updated!
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Monday updated!
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Season 2 Start
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If you are referring to the at least GR40 clears with all classes, solo, of course.
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"Your fetish army and Sycophants last till they die".
I believe this would give the set new life.