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I figured it out! Kinda!

If you are lucky enough to have enough damage reduction to reduce Act IV mobs to doing 3.7k damage or less (which I have with great armor and resistances) you can effectively work out what ehp your block chance is providing...

If your block amount is capable of mitigating 100% of damage, then your block chance is effectively equivalent of some dodge chance, but how much? Well first you minus your dodge chance from 100, then take your block chance as a percentage from the leftover amount:

Example - 50% Dodge chance, 50% block chance:

100-50 = 50
50 x.50 = 25

Therfore your 50% block chance is the equivalent of an additional 25% dodge.

Note this works ONLY if you can mitigate 100% of incoming damage due to your block amount (unlikely against certain bosses such as Rakanoth, Izual, Diablo, Aspect of Terror. Also unlikely against certain elite mobs, for instance high damage mobs like phasebeasts with Avenger triggered)

This is how I've been working out how block works with my shield. While this isn't good enough to have on the sheet itself, you can just manually add a %dodge chance to your item to see what it gives.

Really loving this tool, seems fairly accurate with a bunch of different tests I ran. Even used it to illustrate a point over on jsp (Not that the morons there listened even when shown proof).

I'd like it if the fields were 1 digit larger though. 2h weapons can frequently go into the 4 digits damage wise, and it makes it easy to do stuff like put '2000' into the dex of a single item if you know that's what your dex is

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Okay the google filtering ain't really working yet, but I blocked 2 ads which were goldsellers.

And for returning visitors I added a button to disable ads ;-)

Still reckon you should look into a 'buy me lewt' button or something so people can donate for all your hard work *hint hint*

Might work better than ads

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Still loving this, and spreading the word as much as I can.

I am in love with the fact that this tool allowed me to get to 4million EHP for less than 2mil gold!

Anyway, I was wondering if in the Item compare tab there could be a button called 'equip new item' that will (after a confirmation popup) remove the stats of the old item and put on the new one? I don't know if this would be hard on your end, but having to re edit my sheet everytime I grab an upgrade is irritating to say the least!

Thanks, and it's on the issues list atm, I also already made it but then removed it because there were a lot of complications with it, I'm planning to give it another go though

Great to hear!

Also, rather than ads - why not add a 'buy a beer' or donation button. I daresay this will help a LOT of people slaughter inferno, and I imagine donations from those you've helped will MORE than outweigh advertising space (and be less annoying to end users to boot)

Still loving this, and spreading the word as much as I can.

I am in love with the fact that this tool allowed me to get to 4million EHP for less than 2mil gold!

Anyway, I was wondering if in the Item compare tab there could be a button called 'equip new item' that will (after a confirmation popup) remove the stats of the old item and put on the new one? I don't know if this would be hard on your end, but having to re edit my sheet everytime I grab an upgrade is irritating to say the least!

Hey, this is GREAT

However,

I'd really like to know the effective HP Increase a shield provides, especially on a Monk, where I'm not sure if I should be dual weilding for a dodge increase or keeping the 'dagger and board' for a block chance.

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For ages, the barbarians dwelling in the shadow of Mount Arreat were shaped to be as strong and unyielding as stone. Immense in size and unmatched in ferocity, they were charged from birth with a duty passed through generations: to protect the sacred mountain.

We went with the most recent lore which would put them in the area of Mount Arreat. Harrogath was technically right also. It didn't specify which barbarians, could have been any, and Harrogath is also in the Mount Arreat region.

I guess questions need to be accessible to everyone, and not lore nerds like myself

I still argue that the 'Mount Arreat Region' is called something, The Northern Steppes, but hey, who would have guessed that if they didn't read the books/spend hours reading the lore? As you were

Hi there guys,

Firstly I'd like to congratulate you on what you've done with the site, it is one of the few sites I go to for my Diablo 3 news. I think that you guys are doing these quizzes, with no distinct time is absolutely great, but I have a minor problem:

Most recently you put forward a question our to your twitter feed, which said:

Where were the Barbarians from?

Now you accepting Harrogath and Arreat and Mount Arreat as answers, but all are wrong.

None of those locations are where the Barbarians were from. It's like saying Americans came from the 14th subway in New Jersey. That answer would obviously be incorrect, and so should they.

Barbarians built cities AROUND Mount Arreat, but not in it, and Harrogath is just ONE of those cities. The answer to the question was The Nothern Steppes, or you could even go farther out and argue that as vague an answer as Sanctuary is technically correct.

So my suggestion is, in future, if you're going to ask a question, please either do a bit of fact checking (if this was just coming from your brain) or only accept answers that are correct.

Because waiting for a couple of minutes before replying because I knew Arreat was incoorect, only to see 4 people get keys with that exact answer, is irritating to the extreme.