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I have to say knowing you guys are having server issues and can't get into the game is making me not so crazy. I'm sitting at work and just want to leave so i can go home and play, but can't cause my shift doesn't end for another 5 1/2 hours. I'm trying really hard to tell myself that even if i was home i wouldn't be able to be playing right now.

The only thing i'd change if it were me. is unforgiving and provocation.

Unforgiving is kind of a meh passive imo. Although i could be wrong. My opinion for tough as nails is that i feel it's more of a SnB passive. 25% armor is nice but it's a much bigger bonus when your wearing a shield and are you gonna be stacking thorns? If your thinking of going more dmg i'd probably recommend weapons master or ruthless. If you want survival then i'd probably recommend inspiring presence. Reason being is that you have nerves of steel. You'll only benefit from this passive if you stack vit. Stacking vit is going to raise your max HP which will make inspiring presence that much better. But that's just my 2cents.

My thoughts on provocation you should take with a grain of salt because this is off heresay and theory. Revenge generates 5% of your max life PER enemy hit. So just from that you know that revenge is only good when your hitting multiple mobs. From what i've read about revenge procs in beta is that even with only a 15% chance to proc it procs quite often when your getting hit by a group of mobs. So i'd probably either get vengeance is mine or best served cold. You can go with fury generation and more hp or a 10sec crit buff. Both are pretty good in my opinion. Vengeance is mine would be nice if your thinking you'll be fury starved due to not having unforgiving.

personally i think it's a situational ability. What's the point of having the gargantuan? CC, it doesn't do much damage and you plan on using other abilities for dps anyway. I'd assume that in a situation like a champion pack, a gargantuan with the restless giant buff may end up dying faster then you think. Using wrathful protector gives him a knockback that will probably help him live for that 15 seconds and also cause him to do a decent amount of AOE dmg. restless giant is all single target.

What it comes down to is playstyle. you've all confirmed you'd rather have a constant pet that will do constant dmg and have an enrage. that's your playstyle. Same like the barb forums. almost 75% of the posters there hate Wrath of the Berzerker because they'd rather have short cd abilities that they can use more often then having to wait 120 seconds to use an ability for 15 seconds. I think it could be useful in situations but that's a big "if" you just never know till you play. And saying that it's completely useless and that restless giant will be better 100% of the time is a very naive statement. you haven't played through the whole game you haven't beaten inferno nor even seen it. how can you make that statement?

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There was this Barb on act 2 with crazy gear, all he was using was cleave, i didnt see him use any spells besides berserker and volcano, so please, don't come here and tell me you need skills to play this game a 10 years old could play.

So in your own words, you are less skilled than a 10 year old. Interesting. Cheer up, I'm sure you're not that bad!

D3 is a gear-focused game. With the changes in 1.0.3, it's a lot easier to farm the gear you need in the earlier acts, while also making it easier to progress in the later acts. If you kept farming Act 1 Inferno until you were sick of it pre-1.0.3 (when it wasn't as lucrative), thus meaning you're even more sick of it post 1.0.3 when it can drop some useful stuff... That's not really anyone's fault but your own.

Personally I can't wait to log in and get farming. Going to try progressing first, but if that doesn't work I'm totally up for farming act 1 some more. Still having fun, because I haven't gorged myself on the game. Pace yourself, maybe take a break and come back later. If you do the same thing over and over, no matter what it is, you're going to get sick of it.

I'm interested -- and I bet many of you would be too -- in a crowd-sourced prediction of the gold-to-dollar exchange rate after the RMAH has had a month to stabilize.

Let's set the RMAH launch date as the first day it's live in the US region and stays live for a subsequent 48 hours. (Why? Because if like the commodity market, it's down for many days shortly after launch, none of that time would function as "time for prices to stabilize".)

30 days after that, how much gold will $1 buy you? (Remember that fees are paid by the seller.)

I will edit this top post with commentary on the state of the poll as of just before the RMAH launch date. Poll answers after that will of course be influenced by the observed gold/$ exchange rate up to that point.

**EDIT 6/12** RMAH launched today, as scheduled! However it appears the commodity side is not enabled yet. So let's clarify the "RMAH launch date" to be the date they actually launch the ability to buy gold for dollars. If that feature stays live for 48 hours, then that launch date is our day 1, and the poll question is how much gold will $1 buy you 30 days after that?



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Note: why am I posting this in General rather than US/Trade? Because I believe it's of general interest even to many non-traders, and in the trading forum it would be buried under 5 pages (I counted) of WTS/WTB posts after 24 hours. If it must be transferred to US/Trade, could we please sticky it so we can get a good sampling of answers.

Come to think of it, it would be great to sticky it in the General forum. Even if answers to the topic die down, it will still be of interest to eyeball the state of the poll -- at least until a month after RMAH launch.

Vitality would be the most beneficial in getting your character closer to not being one shot because it gives you health and with the passive gives you an equal amount of armor that the strength would have given, considering all other stats are equal.

In the mean time dexterity is probably better because if you are going to get one shot anyway you will at least have a better chance of dodging and not being hit at all.

Hi all. I have being thinking about making this spreadsheet for a while now. Since I am planning to roll a barbarian first, hence this spreadsheet. I feel every class is so unique in their spells and runes that there needs to be a separate spreadsheet for each of them.

Now what does this spreadsheet do for you?

Well if you are a Barbarian, it does 2 things for you.

1a. You can choose your build(any 6 active skills) and the rune and it will compute the white damage range, white damage average, critical damage range, critical damage average, approximate damage, and any other damage due to extra effects from the rune for each skill. Hence it's useful for any offensive skill. For ex. if you select Ground Stomp, then it will show it does 0 MH (mainhand) and 0 OH (offhand) damage, however if you choose Ground Stomp with the rune Trembling Stomp (76% weapon damage), then it will show the amount of damage the rune would do. Here is a screenshot of it

http://img341.images....rbskilldmg.jpg

1b. You can also select your 3 passive skills and based on that your damage might change (For ex. if you have Weapons master and you are wielding a sword, then your damage will go up by 15% and so on.)

1c. Skill affixes can also be added. Though it wasn't in the beta but it has been data mined, that weapons have affixes which enhance the damage or critical chance of some barbarian skills like Bash, Cleave, Seismic Slam and so on. You can also select the skill which has an affix and mention the amount of increase in that affix.


2a. The other thing that it does, is to compare different pieces of gear in the same slot and how it affects the weapon damage and the overall DPS.

Here is a screenshot of that tab.

http://img443.images....omparisonv.jpg


So how to use the spreadsheet the first time you open it.

This is how it will look the first time you start it.

http://img52.imagesh...35/howtouse.jpg

1. The first thing that you want to do is Enable Editing and Enable Macros else it won't work.

2. Press the "Input Char. Attb." and fill up the text boxes. Make sure you read what exactly you need to fill up for Crit % and Bonus Crit Damage %. Please read #8 and #9 on that worksheet. Press Enter to update the fields on the "Barb_Skill_Damage_Calculation" and "Gear_Comparison" worksheet.

3. Now go to the "Barb_Skill_Damage_Calculation" worksheet and start playing with the different skills to see how much damage they do.

4. Check the "Gear_Comparison" worksheet to change gear and see the effect on weapon damage and DPS.

5. Any time you want to update both the stats of "Barb_Skill_Damage_Calculation" and "Gear_Comparison" at the same time, click on the "Input Char. Attb." button and fill it up. However you can also manually update each of those worksheets. (But in that case the other sheet won't be updated and you have to manually update that too.)

Things to note.

1. In the beta, some skills did damage from both MH and OH weapon (so weapon damage was calculated separately for them). Therefore, for now I have listed both MH and OH damage for every skill.

2. The damage done by the skill that is shown takes into account the fact, that the monster has 0 armor and will take the entire damage. Once I know the armor values of all the monsters and how much damage they mitigate, I will update the spreadsheet likewise.

3. This spreadsheet only cares about your damage and DPS. It doesn't list any effects that has nothing to do with damage.

Please have a look at it and let me know if you find any bugs and if you have any suggestions. I hope the spreadsheet will help Barbarians who want to seriously theory craft and min-max their gear. Here is the link for the spreadsheet

http://dl.dropbox.co...ator_v1.02.xlsm

BTW programing isn't my profession, it's just a hobby, hence to some programers the spreadsheet might not look very professional. I apologize for that.