First playthrough after reinstalling the client I was able to do a full clear of act III, something I haven't done in about 3 weeks. It seems the patch corrupted a file or something last time it was patched, reinstalling seems to have fixed the problem.
It may be that something went wrong in the patching process, so I uninstalled and am now reinstalling the game, we will see if this does anything to help.
Nope ethernet connection through a router. I even tried disconnecting the router and only running through the modem, problem persists. I do not lose connection to anything else, bnet, skype doesn't cut out (I'm always talking to my buddies who I am running with). Its just the connection between my game client, and the blizzard server. I also rubberband A TON, much more than I used to for some reason. Patch 1.0.3 was horrible to me.
I recognize those suffixes from D2, where that did exist. It was a more universal stat in D2 since all classes used mana instead of just the WD. It was scrapped early in development when classes all recieved their own unique resource.
Also, I have never found "that vortex thing" to be a particularly useful skill, dump it and get something like sweeping wind or Deadly reach with the armor+50% armor or 18% all dmg increase rune (which might serve to replace MoC, which you can substitute for MoE).
As a side note, deadly reach is extremely useful for kiting nasty mobs that you can't sit and tank.
The other thing I would say is get a shield with at least 18% block, double resists, and crit on it, Then buy Helm of Command with the one resist you are stacking, dex, and crit rating.
This will drastically increase your defenses. Block works to mitigate more than just regular attacks, arcane beam and fire chains ticks can be blocked as well which makes it very forgiving. You can pick up a helm of command like that one for fairly cheap.
I wouldn't replace thunderclap with deadly reach, I would use deadly reach as another ability with the armor rune to make u more tanky. The extra armor is pretty noticable especially since armor is usually the lower of the dmg reductions that monks have, you will get more milage out of armor than you would more resistance.
Or if you want more dmg...it has an 18% overall dmg increase rune as well, forgot the name of that one too.
The way the punches work, you can use FoT for the first two punches, then get the the effects of these runes by using DR as the third punch. Something you might want to play around with.
Deadly reach makes fire chains/molten fairly trivial. Just kite and punch behind you a few times and repeat. Also...600 resists seems really low for a monk, but I guess you had to sacrifice resists for damage stats. It may be worthwhile sacrificing a some dps for some more resists.
The other thing you can do is just back yourself into a tight corner where only 1 of the mobs can hit you, which tends to be fairly easy to find in a cave setting. That way they cant get around you to gib you with firechains and molten goes away after a few seconds if the mob isn't moving.
You can play without resists, but you have to be hypervigilant if that is how you want to play, as you won't take more than 1 hit (if that) from anything. I personally find that around 400 or so resists and 35k hp or so makes playing a DH more fun, as you can take 3-4 hits usually.
That being said, there are people farming act3/4 with pure glass cannon specs, and as little or less resists than you have so its not impossible to play like that, but you have to be on your toes dodging spears and crap constantly.
All resist (and armor, dont forget that) are quite helpful IMO. Its especially helpful vs. reflect dmg mobs, you wont 1shot yourself after your SS is gone. While it is possible to play pure glass cannon a3/4, its much more expensive, and I personally hate getting 1shot by white mobs.
Horde/extraHP/Relfect dmg mobs will make you never want to play again if you don't have any dmg mitigation.
Just to add, when this happens I do not get disconnected from bnet, it just takes me back to the quest selection/start screen. This also seems to happen to me MUCH more often in act III than I and II, although not exclusively in act III.
So for the past two weeks or so, I have been getting these random disconnects from the game server and I am just given a window that pops up saying "The game connection has been lost: your client has been disconnected from the server". I have about 55ms latency on average, no one else in the house is using bandwidth (and I have a 30 meg connection so im pretty sure that bandwidth is not the issue). This can happen to me every 20 mins at times, other times I can go a couple hours without seeing it.
For the first month and a half of the games' release, this did not happen to me, and I am wondering why it started all of a sudden (seems to me it must have something to do with patch 1.0.3)? Is there anything I can do about this? Is this just blizzard and their shitty servers? It seems like this happens every time I have my final stack of Nephalem and I'm about to kill Seigebreaker.
Has anyone else had this issue and have you found a way to fix it?
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Nope ethernet connection through a router. I even tried disconnecting the router and only running through the modem, problem persists. I do not lose connection to anything else, bnet, skype doesn't cut out (I'm always talking to my buddies who I am running with). Its just the connection between my game client, and the blizzard server. I also rubberband A TON, much more than I used to for some reason. Patch 1.0.3 was horrible to me.
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As a side note, deadly reach is extremely useful for kiting nasty mobs that you can't sit and tank.
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The other thing I would say is get a shield with at least 18% block, double resists, and crit on it, Then buy Helm of Command with the one resist you are stacking, dex, and crit rating.
This will drastically increase your defenses. Block works to mitigate more than just regular attacks, arcane beam and fire chains ticks can be blocked as well which makes it very forgiving. You can pick up a helm of command like that one for fairly cheap.
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Or if you want more dmg...it has an 18% overall dmg increase rune as well, forgot the name of that one too.
The way the punches work, you can use FoT for the first two punches, then get the the effects of these runes by using DR as the third punch. Something you might want to play around with.
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The other thing you can do is just back yourself into a tight corner where only 1 of the mobs can hit you, which tends to be fairly easy to find in a cave setting. That way they cant get around you to gib you with firechains and molten goes away after a few seconds if the mob isn't moving.
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That being said, there are people farming act3/4 with pure glass cannon specs, and as little or less resists than you have so its not impossible to play like that, but you have to be on your toes dodging spears and crap constantly.
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Horde/extraHP/Relfect dmg mobs will make you never want to play again if you don't have any dmg mitigation.
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For the first month and a half of the games' release, this did not happen to me, and I am wondering why it started all of a sudden (seems to me it must have something to do with patch 1.0.3)? Is there anything I can do about this? Is this just blizzard and their shitty servers? It seems like this happens every time I have my final stack of Nephalem and I'm about to kill Seigebreaker.
Has anyone else had this issue and have you found a way to fix it?