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Demon Hunter, you are the weakest link....Goodbye!

I am not anti-DH in the slightest.
Monk and Barb would be my least favorite.

got me fooled

Currently leaning toward monk. I first considered what kind of survival skills each class has available since one thing I think is safe to presume and everyone can agree on is that the damage will be intense. But then remembered how Blizz mentioned that although there will be an 'optimal build' other builds will also be 'viable'.
Which means a build without the best of a character's survival would still work which in turn means that the damage at least isn't 'take all your survival tools or be insta-pwned' intensive.

So then I switched my approach.
As it is already mentioned here, Barb was found to have the hardest time surviving and a 30% damage reduction was implemented for melee.

One thing before going on would be that while figuring out which class would have the hardest time clearing inferno, we would have to assume the player with 'equal gear and skill' is skilled enough to beat inferno since all of this would mean nothing if we're talking about a player who can't beat inferno anyway.

So we got 3 ranged characters. While they all do have some sort of survival skill and even damage reduction skills, the basic concept of avoiding getting hit as much as possible still stands. Which means that survival for ranged is centered around the player's skills to not get hit as much as possible. So since it has been given in the previous paragraph that our player is 'skilled', that player will be able to utilize each ranged character's ability to not get hit [which I currently believe is in a close tie with each other] and also dps to it's full potential.

Melee on the other hand still needs to get up and personal with them monsters. They got this 30% damage reduction buff but I still don't think it would be enough to close the gap of a 'skilled' player's kiting skills [yes I know this is just predictions but that's what this thread is about]. Now, while the monk relies on more situational elements for survival [dodge rng, cooldown skills, situational heals etc] barbarian relies more on constant elements like defense. And this is where I see the 30% damage reduction giving a higher advantage to the barbarian since it's basically stacking the same type of survival method while for the monk still needs to rely on his situational survival while the 30% damage reduction just dampens the result of 'failure' [of the defense mechanics]

All in all I see monk having the most difficulty in performing the basic 'kill shit' and 'without getting killed' at the same time.
buuut I'm still haven't decided for sure yet so not voting yet.

Quote from Riesza

I guess. There's just so much wrong with the build that going through all of it would take too long.

understandable

but instead taking the time just to quote 'bad'?
no

Playing computer games isn't even that nerdy anymore.. but it IS a little nerdy-ER than playing console games, as that's gone super mainstream.

ha , it's the exact opposite where I live. computer games gone super mainstream and consoles still a little 'nerdy-er'.

Gonna think this a bit more. It's been something that I have been thinking about for some time but didn't yet reach a conclusion. I know everything this point would still be a mere prediction but I still want to think it over carefully.


oh, and I'll bite

PS: Please don't get my thread locked with trolling and flaming.

then don't troll/flame? it's always someone else's fault isn't it?

Quote from Mysticjbyrd

I am a nerd too, but there are varying levels of nerdness, and the people who generally show up to midnight releases are at least 2 factors of nerdiness above me.

So your a nerd but those who show up at midnight releases nerd harder than you huh? Sorry to break it to you but to non-nerds [and most nerds] the distinction is non-existent [save for a few 'extremes']

But out of curiosity, what are those 'factors'?

On top of not providing official CE pre orders, there's absolutely no info given to us, not even a simply ''sorry, we can't get the CE confirmed because *insert template reasons*"... nothing...

lol, exactly the same situation here until last week. they've finally confirmed where the CE will be sold but still no info on how much and exactly when sale will start and they stated that they won't know themselves until the 14th

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nerd

kinda like calling someone here a *gasp* 'diablofan'

what else is not-so-new?

Quote from Seidkarlinn

I will be having an Apple.

yes one apple.

An apple a day keeps the witchdocter away

Quote from Mithan

I will be sleeping, which is why I wont go to a Midnight event.

And not playing the game when the servers open?

BLASPHEMY

PvP
way too much slows they're overlapping each other. I personally would switch out RoF for some other skill.

PvE
I see that you want to spam meteor but having your only source of high dps as meteor yet running around with your only movement impairment being a 12-sec[depending on RnG] frost nova would become difficult in higher difficulties. To keep the original concept of the build I would add another source of slow. An AP spender would be okay considering all your AP support.

Quote from phatosen

Why didn't Korean distributors enable pre-orders of the CE?

Either it is because the rating issue prevented them from being able to legally put preorders in the market
or
Blizzard KR was just really lazy


The sad part is that both option is equally likely.

Quote from Sikosh

This build seems pretty disjointed.

I gather that you took the melee rune on RoF as a way to spread you distance from mobs when they get too close but that virtually leads you to have no [non-sig]ranged dealers at all.
In it's current state you actually only have two active attacks; magic missile which is a sig and a close ranged RoF. The rest is basically support of some sort.

What I would suggest is including some way to deal heavy damage and do ranged AoE because primarily depending on magic missile [even with the support fire of a hydra] will likely fail seeing how it isn't enough to pull through even the Beta.

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Quote from Antirepublican

bad

he asked for critique, not being a jackass

I was once destined to play on low, and still have poor performance.

But my new comp arrived just in the nick of time and played the Beta on full settings with no problem at all

Got Demon hunter as 1st

after that
Witch docter
Monk
Wizard
Barbarian

And I intend to play Wizard

To be honest, I didn't really like the quiz. But still was kinda fun while it lasted