yes because that 0.5 of the population of barbarians that have 400k dps are the ones complaining. try having 150k or less
Its by far the hardest character to play now as its so intensely gear dependent. I can farm t6 without the op skorn builds everyone tho runs t6 uses.
But i got lucky with getting thunderfury asnd some really nice gear. not so much for others. they play more then other classes yet receive less. you can make budget sets from AH atm for 20 mil for every class cept barb. you need 200 mil
Playing the lightning barb is actually very amusing. Super strong AOE, CC, and if you play with the the new Call of the Ancients "Together as one" you got 50% DMG migration for 30sec for the really hard pacs. But if you increase your +lightning-dmg you can no longer rely on the damage-count on your character screen. Actually I got +41% lightning (see profile below).
When you are lucky and get a new Thunderfury, I can really recommend to use Weapon throw with the mighty throw rune. It seems to procc Thunderfury nearly 100%.
I want to echo something that @Missa1390 said. "Illusion of Choice."
In D2, as a Sorc (always preferred cold) I had to play a Sorc a few times before I developed what I thought was the "best" cold build for me. Unfortunately, that meant re-leveling my character over, which is just horrible, horrible game design. Not being able to re-select skills was awful (I didn't like it, can't you tell?) But for most players, there wasn't a choice. There was an absolute "best" build for a Sorc, and that's what you did. Having the skill trees did not give you choices, it gave you the "illusion" of choice.
I have really enjoyed the last week on my Wizard. I've tried a Fire build, a Cold build (am so happy Frozen Orb is back) and an Arcane build. All of them work great with my gear on Torment II. THAT is something you couldn't have said in D3V. There actually ARE choices now. There are even multiples of all of the different elemental builds. I love the flexibility that learning all of the skills gives me. If I feeling like raining down meteors on my foes, I can do that. If I want to freeze everything to death, I can do that. I'm a Wizard for pete's sake, shouldn't I be able to summon forth whichever elemental destruction I want?
The ability to actually choose what skills I want to use to fit my playstyle is fantastic. I am very glad I don't have to adhere to everyone else's builds just to complete content.
I agree it sucked you had to restart your character If you messed it up however this supposedly was fixed and I cannot confirm this cause I play D3 now lol but about your illusion of choice example. There was an absolute "best" build for Diablo 3 too, this is the same illusion aspect you are talking about for Diablo 2.People will always copy/follow the best build and still do to this day in Diablo 3.Yeah it may change now that we have decent items but we don't know yet but will soon find out in RoS. In diablo 2 though I had a amazon tank, that wasn't a "Best" build but it was fun, and I was able to do it. I cant say the same about Diablo 3. What if I wanted to be a wiz tank to stand in center of mobs and tank them all. I cant why? Because wizards are squishy period. Could I do this in Diablo 2, I sure could you know why? Because I was able to allocate my stat points where I WANTED not where Blizzard wants them.
if you had a sorc tank in d2 you did no damage, because you had to allocate a ton of stats to VIT and all the good sorc items NEEDED high intno damage in an RPG is fucking boring.
And to be honest you can allocate stats to where YOU want. Its called gems. Change all your gems to Vit/Resist. Only get gear with Resistances and HP. its possible right now to have 1.5K+ ressistances as a wizard with 100k+ hp. and get tank runes, in skills. JUST like d2 (but in a different way) You will do no damage. but you can survive anything pretty much. Sure if you want to get rammed 5 times in a row by T6 in act 1 you will die but then you are just a piss poor player.
This seems to upset you about having the ability each time you level from 1-60 (or 1-70 in RoS) to allocate the stat points given where you want. A sorc tank isn't ment to do DPS hence why they are a tank. This is not rocket science, your example of wiz with 1.5k resist and 100k dps just proves how broken the system is. You should be either tanky, balanced, or dps in an RPG, heck in all RPGs this is how it works. Also saying someone is a *enter profanity player* just shows that you don't play on anything but normal mode because everything else is to challenging. Just like being able to allocate all my stat points into intelligence and nothing else is just to hard for you to grasp. They tried to fix this with their cop-out paragon tree system.
Let me ask you this what is going to happen when I get to paragon 1000 and blizzard decides like they did with the AH that you know what this is breaking the game we are going to remove it. Now all that time and effort I put in just goes to waste because they decided their cop-out system didn't work and broke the game. Kind of like the AH it was a cop-out to try and stop 3rd party sellers and it didn't work. The 3rd party sellers just went lower and lower than blizzards prices for gold or w/e. Now we have BOA and most 3rd party sites are gone whoopy do dah who cares they didn't effect my game experience I still made 3000$ on RMAH to chumps that pay2win.
please reread what i said. i said hp, not damage. and even so 100k damage is not very high. You kinda proved my point with all what you said. You can be tanky in diablo3, you can be moderate, and you can go glass cannon. You seem very narrow minded about this, have you tried switching skills other then just what other people post on forums?
You made 3000$ thats cute i made 10000$.... Look, i can make up arbitrary numbers as well. srsly.
Edit: and if you don't like d3 system. D2 is still supported.
I want to echo something that @Missa1390 said. "Illusion of Choice."
In D2, as a Sorc (always preferred cold) I had to play a Sorc a few times before I developed what I thought was the "best" cold build for me. Unfortunately, that meant re-leveling my character over, which is just horrible, horrible game design. Not being able to re-select skills was awful (I didn't like it, can't you tell?) But for most players, there wasn't a choice. There was an absolute "best" build for a Sorc, and that's what you did. Having the skill trees did not give you choices, it gave you the "illusion" of choice.
I have really enjoyed the last week on my Wizard. I've tried a Fire build, a Cold build (am so happy Frozen Orb is back) and an Arcane build. All of them work great with my gear on Torment II. THAT is something you couldn't have said in D3V. There actually ARE choices now. There are even multiples of all of the different elemental builds. I love the flexibility that learning all of the skills gives me. If I feeling like raining down meteors on my foes, I can do that. If I want to freeze everything to death, I can do that. I'm a Wizard for pete's sake, shouldn't I be able to summon forth whichever elemental destruction I want?
The ability to actually choose what skills I want to use to fit my playstyle is fantastic. I am very glad I don't have to adhere to everyone else's builds just to complete content.
I agree it sucked you had to restart your character If you messed it up however this supposedly was fixed and I cannot confirm this cause I play D3 now lol but about your illusion of choice example. There was an absolute "best" build for Diablo 3 too, this is the same illusion aspect you are talking about for Diablo 2.People will always copy/follow the best build and still do to this day in Diablo 3.Yeah it may change now that we have decent items but we don't know yet but will soon find out in RoS. In diablo 2 though I had a amazon tank, that wasn't a "Best" build but it was fun, and I was able to do it. I cant say the same about Diablo 3. What if I wanted to be a wiz tank to stand in center of mobs and tank them all. I cant why? Because wizards are squishy period. Could I do this in Diablo 2, I sure could you know why? Because I was able to allocate my stat points where I WANTED not where Blizzard wants them.
if you had a sorc tank in d2 you did no damage, because you had to allocate a ton of stats to VIT and all the good sorc items NEEDED high intno damage in an RPG is fucking boring.
And to be honest you can allocate stats to where YOU want. Its called gems. Change all your gems to Vit/Resist. Only get gear with Resistances and HP. its possible right now to have 1.5K+ ressistances as a wizard with 100k+ hp. and get tank runes, in skills. JUST like d2 (but in a different way) You will do no damage. but you can survive anything pretty much. Sure if you want to get rammed 5 times in a row by T6 in act 1 you will die but then you are just a piss poor player.
Its RNG luck you are having, myself. i get a TON of rings. PURE RNG.
And Torment has a higher chance to drop legendaries then master or whatever.... but i'm fairly sure that even though it says it increases drop chance of legendaries per slider tick (in torment) it really doesn't.
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I hardly believe thats what you do. sure you can do t6 but with 'no problems'.... mmmm prolly not
as for op. his build works because of lifesteal.
good luck at 70.
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are you ignoring crit and crit damage gear? not a good choice if you are
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Stop wanting everything for a class thats already one of the stronger ones.
Needy.
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Its by far the hardest character to play now as its so intensely gear dependent. I can farm t6 without the op skorn builds everyone tho runs t6 uses.
But i got lucky with getting thunderfury asnd some really nice gear. not so much for others. they play more then other classes yet receive less. you can make budget sets from AH atm for 20 mil for every class cept barb. you need 200 mil
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your crit is decent
all Resistances are craaaaazy low i think my level 40 has more then 350
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Boss had been hounding me to take time off cause i've banked a ton of time
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The only streamer i see abusing the system extremely bad is the one who eats his own boogers.
Went from like 200 to 428 in less then a week. he's even doing it right now at this exact moment.
People like this should be banned.
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You made 3000$ thats cute i made 10000$.... Look, i can make up arbitrary numbers as well. srsly.
Edit: and if you don't like d3 system. D2 is still supported.
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And to be honest you can allocate stats to where YOU want. Its called gems. Change all your gems to Vit/Resist. Only get gear with Resistances and HP. its possible right now to have 1.5K+ ressistances as a wizard with 100k+ hp. and get tank runes, in skills. JUST like d2 (but in a different way) You will do no damage. but you can survive anything pretty much. Sure if you want to get rammed 5 times in a row by T6 in act 1 you will die but then you are just a piss poor player.
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And Torment has a higher chance to drop legendaries then master or whatever.... but i'm fairly sure that even though it says it increases drop chance of legendaries per slider tick (in torment) it really doesn't.