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You are probably right about the lack of starter guides, most people still playing have been playing since launch probably. Some people might disagree with me, but I find there is an order to progressive gearing.

The most important thing is making sure you can survive, as you gear up, doing more damage means more survival especially once you get a good amount of life steal. At low gear levels though your dps sucks, which means life steal sucks, When you are first starting off at 60 and not buying gear off the RMAH its a little harder to gear. At low dps levels, say under 100K dps with subpar weapons I would go for life on hit over life steal. When getting into inferno I would aim for the basic stats of 30K+ hp atleast, 450 resist all, and 1000+ life on hit. Armor helps too, so don't ignore it, but I tend to find that it simply increases as your gear does. I never have needed to gear for it since Monster Power was introduced, As for the dps stats of attack speed, crit damage and crit chance, I find that increasing your crit to be the most important stat to start with especially as a barb. Once you have your defense and crit chance in a good spot then start pumping up the attack speed and crit damage. This is because many of the top barb dps specs rely on high crit chance to work, and attack speed and crit damage aren't crucial to making it work as much as simply raising your damage. Also once you get over the 100K dps mark start switching out your life on hit to life steal, as it begins to work much better. As for gemming, I would almost always gem for strength unless your hp really really sucks.

But good rule is for early dps stats crit chance> attack speed and crit damage until you get some gear.

I voted for the dodge function. Mostly because its like having an extra skill. Right now I prefer melee classes, and I have to take one or two movement/shield skills like sprint or leap in order to dodge things like freezing and arcane easier. Seems like it would make combat more fun too.

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If you ask your credit card company to perform one and they actually do a charge back against Blizzard its a ban.

Actually been reading some Blizzard conversations from tickets today, apparently its in the EULA about chargebacks resulting in account closure.

Apparently Blizzard is having major issues with the RMAH at the moment. Almost no one in the last week has recieved items they have bought. RMAH was crashing over the weekend due to stress.

Blizzard recently upgraded their technical support policy on Auction Tickets too. Used to be after 72 hours you could submit a ticket, just recently they increased it to 120 hours(5 days), today they just updated it to the following:

If you have still not received your items/gold/money after 10 days (240 hours) then please contact our Billing Department by submitting a support ticket (required) as described below so that they can investigate further. Bear in mind that these investigations can take a while to complete.

Blizzard is now asking for 10 days to get people their items, even though they are still billing credit cards immediately.

Apparently, with GM confirmation and multiple player testimonials, they are now banning anyone who is requesting a chargeback from their credit card company, even though Blizzard is failing to provide they item/service they were paid for. GMs have stated the ban will stay until the customer has paid back Blizzard for the amount of the chargeback plus chargeback fees. Also upon account reactivation, that account will be banned from using the RMAH.

Just giving you guys a heads up, I've been waiting for 6 days now for 2 items I spent over $100 on, and wanted to save you guys from falling into the same boat.

So is gemming your weapons with an Emerald always the best route? Is there times when a Ruby would be better?

Anyone got any math or thresholds to prove if one or the other is ever better?

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I'm very doubtful when I hear people claim 200-300+ hours and no items over a million. I'm just under 200 hours and I've sold dozens of items for a million or more, and many more for a bit less just to get rid of them quickly. I have a feeling a lot of people are failing to recognize good gear and vendoring it.

Must be luckier than me then I have about 150 hours played and highest selling item I've sold was around 500K

Does anyone know if DoTs stack in Diablo 3? Say can I spam Rend and keep adding to the DotT counts? With 2-3 ticking at a time? Or does it overwrite the previous one when you cast them a second time like in WoW?