That's the worst part of Storm Armor is that all of the runes are terrible. I use the 130% dmg one because it feels like the only one that actually does anything...
Quick tip that I just discovered recently, find yourself a "black" weapon (a weapon that doesn't have elemental damage on it) and buy a triumvirate. I took my dps from 80k to 150k over the last week or so.
Just because of you guys being so passionate about Storm Armor I'll give it a try on my Archon runs later and see how it goes(Though I'm still apprehensive to a loss of Energy Armor's massive EHP bonus).
This is going to come across as harsh, but really just think of it as a statistical nerd comment.
If you need the EHP from Energy Armor, then you should probably be doing a lower MP. I can farm keys at MP8 but when I'm doing item farming or exp runs, I usually run at mp3 or 4. The reason being is that I can put as much dps items/skills on and absolutely destroy face, which means that despite the loss in MF/GF/Exp bonus from mp8 vs mp4 I'm actually making more gold, getting more items, and more exp because I'm killing that much faster. I find probably six times as many legendaries at mp4 than I do at mp8
+11 Min Damage
+256-583 Holy Damage
+34% Damage
Each Hit Adds +605 Life
Critical Hit Damage Increased by 56%
Empty Socket
I have this priced (I thought) to sell at 60M BIN/40M bid. I see a couple spears with better dps but honestly I thought this would be worth quite a bit more since it was a 1.4 AS weapon instead of 1.2.
Anyone have a better idea on the price, or should I just keep it up there? I'm willing to sell to someone on here for a reasonable price, but this thing is the second best item I've ever found and I don't want to leave any money on the table. (stupid LOH instead of LS, grumble grumble)
Thanks for all the help. Just a little background:
She is using whirlwind as the main source of damage right now because she's playing with me when she plays, and I do more than enough damage to take care of anything but uber bosses. When we do uber bosses, she switches over to a different build, but this is what we do when we are key farming or just farming in general. The animosity was chosen over the dps bonus from weapons master because I felt it was more important to keep her with high fury and spinning the whole time (sad to say she's having so much fun spinning that I really don't think she cares about her dps so much as how much fun she's having running circles around the map!).
I'll take a look through my inventory and see if I have anything I can swap out with her. She was using firewalkers before but we swapped them out because of the AR and Vitality she has on her Kicks. The helm she has is a throwaway I gave her, so that's definitely on our list to replace. As for the bracers, she only gets MS from those and the weapon (which should get replaced anyway, so we'll lose that move speed there). I think I have a set of Inna's pants that have move speed on them, but if I recall correctly the stats on it were terrible. Isn't 24% MS pretty crucial to the build as a whole?
Thanks for the help. Where would you suggest we could get more crit chance? I don't want to spend a ton of money on her because she plays very sparingly (she's at 40k kills whereas I'm at 400k) but I find a lot of loot and I can keep an eye out for better equipment for her.
It looks like the 5 piece bonus on IK would help considerably, but I don't even have that kind of money
She seems to be doing a pretty good job with mobs and most elites (I think she just needs some more practice with how to avoid certain affixes) but the big thing is the uber fights. I'd like her to be able to just spin around the boss the entire time, but her fury generation doesn't seem to be high enough. Any suggestions as to how to help out with that? I'm guessing faster weapons will probably help.
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33 Str
76 Dex
259 Int
63 LOH
290 Life/second
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http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Telquessir-1437/hero/5121825
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This is going to come across as harsh, but really just think of it as a statistical nerd comment.
If you need the EHP from Energy Armor, then you should probably be doing a lower MP. I can farm keys at MP8 but when I'm doing item farming or exp runs, I usually run at mp3 or 4. The reason being is that I can put as much dps items/skills on and absolutely destroy face, which means that despite the loss in MF/GF/Exp bonus from mp8 vs mp4 I'm actually making more gold, getting more items, and more exp because I'm killing that much faster. I find probably six times as many legendaries at mp4 than I do at mp8
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+11 Min Damage
+256-583 Holy Damage
+34% Damage
Each Hit Adds +605 Life
Critical Hit Damage Increased by 56%
Empty Socket
I have this priced (I thought) to sell at 60M BIN/40M bid. I see a couple spears with better dps but honestly I thought this would be worth quite a bit more since it was a 1.4 AS weapon instead of 1.2.
Anyone have a better idea on the price, or should I just keep it up there? I'm willing to sell to someone on here for a reasonable price, but this thing is the second best item I've ever found and I don't want to leave any money on the table. (stupid LOH instead of LS, grumble grumble)
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Good luck man, I will be bidding on it most likely as well!
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FYI there is a Barb passive that gives you 3% life steal if you'd rather go that route to afford a cheaper weapon.
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She is using whirlwind as the main source of damage right now because she's playing with me when she plays, and I do more than enough damage to take care of anything but uber bosses. When we do uber bosses, she switches over to a different build, but this is what we do when we are key farming or just farming in general. The animosity was chosen over the dps bonus from weapons master because I felt it was more important to keep her with high fury and spinning the whole time (sad to say she's having so much fun spinning that I really don't think she cares about her dps so much as how much fun she's having running circles around the map!).
I'll take a look through my inventory and see if I have anything I can swap out with her. She was using firewalkers before but we swapped them out because of the AR and Vitality she has on her Kicks. The helm she has is a throwaway I gave her, so that's definitely on our list to replace. As for the bracers, she only gets MS from those and the weapon (which should get replaced anyway, so we'll lose that move speed there). I think I have a set of Inna's pants that have move speed on them, but if I recall correctly the stats on it were terrible. Isn't 24% MS pretty crucial to the build as a whole?
Again, thanks for the help, both of you!
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It looks like the 5 piece bonus on IK would help considerably, but I don't even have that kind of money
She seems to be doing a pretty good job with mobs and most elites (I think she just needs some more practice with how to avoid certain affixes) but the big thing is the uber fights. I'd like her to be able to just spin around the boss the entire time, but her fury generation doesn't seem to be high enough. Any suggestions as to how to help out with that? I'm guessing faster weapons will probably help.