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General impressions: good defensive stats (high life steal from gear, massive resistance and armor, massive vitality for a p13 character) but not enough offensive stats (in particular low crit chance, crit damage and attack speed). Your resistances are about 100-200 more (and your armor is about 1k more) than many who farm mp10. Getting more dps should be your main concern, even if you might loose a bit of defence in the process.

Your strength is pretty good, if you were p100 with your current gear (but upgrade all rubies to +58) you would have almost 2900 str so this is obviously not what you are lacking. You realy need to get your CC up, it's only at 30 out of a possible 45 for a non-shield build. Strive to get CC to around 40. Your CD is also on the low side with +358 from gear, you want to get at least 50 more, preferably 100 more. Only piece you have with high CC is your gloves (but low CD), only piece with high CD is neck (but low CC). Attack speed isn't too important for a rend build, but you don't have attack speed on any single gear piece.

Gear upgrading as follows:

Helm: The obvious piece to upgrade first. Since you are only using one single Immortal King item (chest) you will get the partial set bonus (+60 resist all) if you use any other IK piece. Helm is the obvious choice, since you don't need the IK belt for lifesteal (you have it on the Skorn) and your gloves are pretty good. You can get any IK helm with 170+ str and 6% CC, it will give a big boost to your dps, without realy loosing anything in the process (you get 10-12% life instead of vit, and also some melee damage reduction). It costs basically nothing if you don't care about the random roll and it won't be too expensive finding one with a reasonably good random roll like physical resistance (it's much more expensive with resist all or vit).

Movement speed: you only get movement speed from boots, you realy should get it on bracers (Lacuni) or pants (Innas) as well. Both of these also add attack speed which you don't have on any single gear piece. You will loose some defensive stats in the process but most likely gain dps. It's not entirely obvious if you should go for Lacuni or Innas, but your current pants are very good so Lacunis seem like a good bet.

Crafting: you don't have any crafted items at all (besides pants, and they don't use demonic essences). You have good gloves and shoulders, and if you go for Lacunis you won't need to craft bracers. And your neck is quite weak on offensive stats (low CC, low str). I would recommend that you use all your essences crafting necks, trying to get one with high CC (8+) along with at least one other damage mod (crit damage, attack speed, +X-Y average damage).

Hellfire ring: since you aren't using a ruby in your helm you might as well use a real ring instead of the Hellfire. You can get a random strength Unity for nothing, and it will be a huge dps boost for you. You can get one with low crit dmg as random roll for cheap.

Gems: upgrade that 90% emerald to 100%, or just borrow one from your demon hunter

I wouldn't consider upgrading the other gear (shoulders, gloves, chest, boots, Skorn) until you have taken care of the above stuff. Belt you will eventually want to get a Witching Hour, but you will loose a bit of vitality and str in the process (unless you are rich). Considering the CD and attack speed you still won't loose dps. Alternative is to get a higher dps Skorn with higher crit damage and no life leech, and get an IK belt and possibly also the life steal passive.

For skills I realy don't see the need for Revenge-provocation. You certainly don't need the life steel since you have that on the Skorn. I would go for Overpower-killing spree instead, since during combat this will give you more or less non-stop 10% more crit chance. The above mentiond gear changes should give you roughly 10% additional CC, in other words 20% more than now, which will be a huge dps boost, even more so if you upgrade your crit damage.

I would look to farm mp6-8, always in a 4-person team. Look for a good team including a monk with conviction mantra and a cm wizard. Do the standard act 1 run (woods-hollow-fields, repeat). Hope any of this helps

Thank you so much for going into so much detail. I will work on this.

Quote from MadViking

General impressions: good defensive stats (high life steal from gear, massive resistance and armor, massive vitality for a p13 character) but not enough offensive stats (in particular low crit chance, crit damage and attack speed). Your resistances are about 100-200 more (and your armor is about 1k more) than many who farm mp10. Getting more dps should be your main concern, even if you might loose a bit of defence in the process.

Your strength is pretty good, if you were p100 with your current gear (but upgrade all rubies to +58) you would have almost 2900 str so this is obviously not what you are lacking. You realy need to get your CC up, it's only at 30 out of a possible 45 for a non-shield build. Strive to get CC to around 40. Your CD is also on the low side with +358 from gear, you want to get at least 50 more, preferably 100 more. Only piece you have with high CC is your gloves (but low CD), only piece with high CD is neck (but low CC). Attack speed isn't too important for a rend build, but you don't have attack speed on any single gear piece.

Gear upgrading as follows:

Helm: The obvious piece to upgrade first. Since you are only using one single Immortal King item (chest) you will get the partial set bonus (+60 resist all) if you use any other IK piece. Helm is the obvious choice, since you don't need the IK belt for lifesteal (you have it on the Skorn) and your gloves are pretty good. You can get any IK helm with 170+ str and 6% CC, it will give a big boost to your dps, without realy loosing anything in the process (you get 10-12% life instead of vit, and also some melee damage reduction). It costs basically nothing if you don't care about the random roll and it won't be too expensive finding one with a reasonably good random roll like physical resistance (it's much more expensive with resist all or vit).

Movement speed: you only get movement speed from boots, you realy should get it on bracers (Lacuni) or pants (Innas) as well. Both of these also add attack speed which you don't have on any single gear piece. You will loose some defensive stats in the process but most likely gain dps. It's not entirely obvious if you should go for Lacuni or Innas, but your current pants are very good so Lacunis seem like a good bet.

Crafting: you don't have any crafted items at all (besides pants, and they don't use demonic essences). You have good gloves and shoulders, and if you go for Lacunis you won't need to craft bracers. And your neck is quite weak on offensive stats (low CC, low str). I would recommend that you use all your essences crafting necks, trying to get one with high CC (8+) along with at least one other damage mod (crit damage, attack speed, +X-Y average damage).

Hellfire ring: since you aren't using a ruby in your helm you might as well use a real ring instead of the Hellfire. You can get a random strength Unity for nothing, and it will be a huge dps boost for you. You can get one with low crit dmg as random roll for cheap.

Gems: upgrade that 90% emerald to 100%, or just borrow one from your demon hunter

I wouldn't consider upgrading the other gear (shoulders, gloves, chest, boots, Skorn) until you have taken care of the above stuff. Belt you will eventually want to get a Witching Hour, but you will loose a bit of vitality and str in the process (unless you are rich). Considering the CD and attack speed you still won't loose dps. Alternative is to get a higher dps Skorn with higher crit damage and no life leech, and get an IK belt and possibly also the life steal passive.

For skills I realy don't see the need for Revenge-provocation. You certainly don't need the life steel since you have that on the Skorn. I would go for Overpower-killing spree instead, since during combat this will give you more or less non-stop 10% more crit chance. The above mentiond gear changes should give you roughly 10% additional CC, in other words 20% more than now, which will be a huge dps boost, even more so if you upgrade your crit damage.

I would look to farm mp6-8, always in a 4-person team. Look for a good team including a monk with conviction mantra and a cm wizard. Do the standard act 1 run (woods-hollow-fields, repeat). Hope any of this helps

Quote from Bagstone

You're using CMWW gear on an Archon build. Errr... what?

Here's a specific CMWW guide if you wanna stick to that gear, here's a more general gear guide if you wanna stick to your build or go anywhere else.

If you pick one of the four classes you just randomly posted in all 4 class forums (why no love for the WD? :() and ask more specific questions (i.e., what's your goal), that'd be more helpful.

The general answer to your very general question is: pick whatever area, MP, class, and build feels best for you. We can't tell you what you like, and playing something that you don't like just because someone tells you to is kinda a bad idea.

Quote from Zero(pS)

Dude, I almost thought this was spam. 3 topics with the same name, same message, on different subforums and replied by the same game (saying the same thing).

When you wanna ask this sort of thing (that includes multiple characters) you can use General Discussion if you want Just an idea.

Quote from felixzrr

get 35+ crit chance [after you will get 35 crit chance stop using ss]
more as [1.40 minimum]

gl

Quote from Rodvik

Act 3 Siegebreaker runs.

You're pretty much glass cannon, I was doing Act 3 Siege runs with like 6k hps and 85k dps pre monster health nerf, so you should have no problem.

Just watch out for the annoying Moloks and Spearman spears!

Be prepared to die alot..lol


If you don't want to die a lot, then Act 1/2 is probably your best bet.

Quote from Doez

That's a lot of dps, but very puny amount of hp. Act1 would probably be safe, but I dunno, I would think you'd get chewed up anywhere else unless you don't see a lot of jailers, wallers, etc.