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Hardcore is not for every1, RIP.

Maximizing Phalanx-Stampede DPS

now that my pony setup is RIP and it doesn't really matter, here's how I approach the pony setup in grifts for those of you who were curious about my timing with pony setup.

Despite what the masses use, Gogok is not the best choice of gem for this build imo. I personally use both banes + pain when I run this inside grifts. Roughly 35% damage during entire rift beats out a small APS buff when pain enhancer already provides extreme APS buffs with proper positioning, if you time properly you will also have roughly 35% buff majority of the RG fight and 15% the rest which also beat out 0.15 APS.

Positioning is key and it's very important to keep enemies within 20 yards when you are in combat to take full advantage of pain enhancer's buffs which are much stronger than gogok's 15% APS. You do not need the CDR bonuses if you maintain 56, you also do not need to run long arm if you manage your wrath properly and gear properly. The fear rune on provoke is absolutely the best if you learn to control the range and use of it.

This is a very skillful build to play if you are trying to maximize it's DPS potential, simply spamming the skill off-screen into masses of mobs is not optimal play-style if you are trying to achieve good timing and maximum DPS potential.

edit: APS buff is actually flat 0.15 and DMG boost is not EXACT 35% this is such to simplify my point of view on the matter.

it's not that big of a player pool that they would have to look at if you think about it.

in order to take advantage of the exploit the players had to be in grift 27+ according to the posts about said exploit within the first week of the seasons, so it pretty much affects only players who have been pushing progression and actually competing on the leaderboards since they would have to be able to do T6+ content at a reasonable speed to take full advantage of this.

which is another big reason why this must be dealt with to keep the legitimacy of the seasonal rankings because it directly affects the players who are actually competing.

PLVLs aren't the form of competition, however when everyone has reached the near optimal gear the difference will be in PLVLs.

Now if these exploits were getting something along the lines of 10-15b xp per hour, it wouldn't really matter and the incident can be ignored since this is about the 2-3x the pace of the most efficient pace of farming in the end with near end game gear.

The different between PLVL 600 and PLVL 650 won't make or break the GRIFT leaderboards.

However when players are getting 70B+ xp per hour as it's being reported in this thread, now they are able to break into the gap where PLVLS will make a difference, for example PLVL 600 @ efficient non-exploit farming vs PLVL 800 @ exploited farming.

With this the GRIFT leaderboards will be affected since the paragon differential between exploiters and non-exploiters will be large enough that the numbers/stats will make significant enough difference.

This must be dealt with at the minimum for seasonal characters, all exploiters must be reset at the very least or they might as well scrap this season and start over.

I've never been against fun exploits in the past with Diablo when nothing mattered and there was no "competition".

but with seasons and their attempt at competition it's absolutely unacceptable.

For someone like myself who is "competing" and earned paragon levels legitimately this kind of stuff pretty much makes seasons pointless to continue playing.

If there is no action taken against at the minimum seasonal players there is pretty much 0 point in continuing to play this first season.

Hi Scrapz,

I found a 92% Fist of ass, is this weapon good?

Are my dreams of support monk coming true, or do i salvage this?

falling sword is terrible, just saying.

Crusader Part2: Transitioning from T1 > T4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahggiJyLCYk

T4 Setup



Perfect Rolls Setup



T4 Spec

The potential is definitely there for more.

Here's the video and a brief explanation of the changes made to the run from our previous record.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CV3zC3s-W1k

Crusader Video Pt. 1 (Passives)

just a breakdown of my thoughts on all the current passives + feedback on possible changes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4FfEGM8DrA

Thanks for the video. Some of those items look really nice, though I wonder if Blizzard can manage to make different items for the same slot desirable. I can't imagine wearing any other belt (until I see that), which of course creates the problem of first obtaining this belt on your own.

Also, itemization aside from those special properties looks pretty boring. Every beta guy I see has monstrous values of mainstat, vit and all res on every item.

Good sharing OP, thanks for that.

1 Questions: The 2 trifectal legendary rings are fixed affix? or you got luck and farmed + enchant it?

Thanks, happy new year