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Ha, I was already missing your posts, Jaetch.

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Could you explain me the overall discussed ruby vs smaragd ? thx in advance

Actually it's pretty simple: Enter his profile on D3UP, change the marquise Ruby for a marquise Emerald, and see his DPS decrease by 500 or so.



Also, by adding +160 on the MINIMUM and MAXIMUM damage on your weapon has a linear multiplicative factor on your actual DPS, instead of a chance to proc over time, as critical chance do.

But this is off-topic.

On topic: Nice to see your playstyle, man. I envy you.

EDIT:
Also: RAW POWER! Archon rocks!

My personal view:

I do rely on attack speed to proc more stun on my build.

Get as much as you can get, without sacrificing other stats (Dex + Avg Damage + Crit Chance + Crit Damage). This will help your survivability a lot, allowing you to attack and flee faster, if you have to. And on upper MP's, you have to do this sometimes.

Another advice someone told me a couple of months ago: One-shot white mobs has advantages while farming, and this you won't get focusing only on attack speed. This you'll achieve through brute force (Dex + Avg Damage + CC + CD).

So, on the topic: Is attack speed essential ? No. Unless you are running a proc-dependent build, as the stun-grenades one. In this case, attack speed plus fast weapon (did someone say calamity there ?) is the key for the build.

^^ Off-topic> Oh my. 500kDPS unbuffed. It's official, Analogkid, I don't like you.

Quote from Zero(pS)

Congrats on reaching your goal man.

:Thumbs Up:

Quote from 6227

your DH got really nice EHP that I wish for some :Thumbs Up:

Hehehehe... It doubles with Shadow Power and Sentry!

Quote from tuzvihar

I think it is the follower or any buffs active. (Shrines or anything)

Quote from Rhye

If you use the Scoundrel (as you should) he will give you 8-13k dps via the 3% crit buff. That might explain the difference between paper dps and the dps you see on d3up. Just apply the buff when you are on d3up, and you'll see the same numbers as on your char. sheet.

Just added those buffs on D3UP. It wasn't a shrine, or I would get 25K more DPS. And by adding the followers buffs I got slightly different values than 201K, but I guess they are the real difference.

Quote from 6227

This is my DH... calamity is 13.5m and the rest is under 10m each (most are around 5m)

d3up.com/b/432664

p/s: shoulders, bracers and gloves are crafted

Nice Calamity! Attack speed rocks with this baby. I do have one, but not as good as yours. Great for a grenade build.

UPDATE: Second target shot down! Sheet DPS now at 201k!

This is without steady aim!

Thanks guys! Your help was extremely valuable!

PS: There's just one little thing annoying me: The unbuffed DPS on D3UP is 192K.... I'll have to figure out what is this difference. Any suggestions ?

Quote from Kamisei2400

I'd just like to say that in a game on mp10 unlike other classes my dh doesn't die 90% of the time their other classes with 200 more AR than i do. With DH being effective or not is all about positioning and movement.
And i seem to switch around 5 or so builds all serving a role, all fun to play

I actually don't like to move a lot with my DH, mainly because I still feel that the Manticore is slow, even with 50% more attack speed. I like to tank.

So, on MP7~10 I (usually) stay where I am, pop all my damage reduction stuff ([Shadow Power: Gloom] + [Sentry: Guardian Turret]) granting me 50% more damage reduction and start spamming Bola Shot with Stun.

Obviously I do have to move sometimes, if an elite has some nasty affixes, like arcane (all arcanes end up below me, so I have to run).

Molten / Dessecrators are bad, but if I'm hitting and damaging the monsters than I'm getting my life back.

The real problems are arcane (and their freaking lasers) and poison. They seem to stack somehow and I can't stand on the poison spots more than 2 or 3 seconds.

Anyway, on the topic: I do have more fun with the DH than the CMWW or Archon Wiz. The resource management, the tanking and moving habilities and the looks (she is beautiful to see) are great.

If i'm tired, and just want to faceroll all the monsters, I low the MP to 0 or 1, and it's a no-brainer. Even when I only had 100K DPS.

^^
Nice DH! Inspired by you, I got a Witching Hour for my DH, and I'm thinking again in completing the Nat's set. I do have the ring and the helm, but the helm only have 3% CC and the ring doesn't have any at all. My DPS would be hurt badly with my current Nat's set.

By the way, wicked gear, bro!

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First, your crit dmg is waaay too low.
Get a manticore with 2 sockets, and put 2 green gems with 100% crit dmg on it.

Indeed, I could use some CritDamage. I'm on 345% now, and this can improve. It'll cost a lot, though.

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Then, get 2 rings with 45-50 avarage dmg and high dex.
Get a neck with 45-50 avarage dmg, high dex, crit chance anc crit dmg.

Not sure if this would be a good cost-benefit upgrade. My rings are somewhat expensive, and to get 2 quadrifectas as you'll stating would surely increase my DPS (at a high cost), but would also reduce a lot my EHP (the hellfirering gives me a good amount of EHP).

The same goes to the neck. But I would not loose much EHP with a new quadfecta neck.

Quote from Nitewatcher

If you have any doubts, look at my profile, I run with 229k dps.
Problem solved

Thanks mate! I did it, I compared both your profile and mine on D3UP, and came to some important differences:

	You (http://d3up.com/b/420425)	Me (http://d3up.com/b/168866)
EHP:	236k	286k (from 237k)
Unbuffed DPS:	184k	182k (from 175k)
CritDamage:	480%	388% (from 345%)
Steady Aim Passive:	Yes	No

Not taking attack speed, crit chance and DEX amount considerations, only changing the manticore to a 2-socket one would skyrocket my DPS. (33 kDPS more unbuffed DPS).

Thanks for the suggestions mate, made me think a lot about it!

EDIT: Updated the table with the new acquisition: A Witching Hour!

+1 ! Windforce for the win!

I'd love to use one. My WF is a cheap one, 1100 DPS + socket, and I lose about 35 ~ 40kdps with her. But she is so beautiful... So fast... That should be the native DH weapon.

(^^ although the knockback effect is really crap)

Indeed, when I use Meteor, I spend 1 attack animation. This explains most.

Quote from Jaetch

Get high enough LOH and EHP and you can run WW, DS, SA, FN, EB and Meteor simultaneously

Hehehe, that should be fun. :Thumbs Up: So many thingies falling from the sky... And explosions!

Hi guys,

After annoying some people on other topics and hijacking this topic, I changed some specs on my CMWW build with success.

But on trying to adjust to the new specification, I changed Explosive Blast to Meteor with Meteor Shower rune.

I do have a feeling that things are dying easier (I'm playing on MP6), since this skill gives 107% per Meteor, granting over 700% damage while casting.

With 19 APoC I sometimes run out of AP, but not very often.

Question is: Is this only my perception or Meteor/Meteor Shower really gives more damage than Explosion Blast on a CMWW spec ?

My profile:
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Machado-1633/hero/25590481

^ Will try those tonight! Thanks Loroese! First I'll do the changes on actives/passives, and after that will do some research on the AH.

I do have nat's ring and boots (for my DH), I'll try do put them and see what happens. And I have one Tal Rasha plate, but a crappy one. I'll let you guys know what happened later/tomorrow.

Quote from WizArt

Buy some cheap gold off of third party websites and you are good.

Not an option for me. It's against the ToS, and I don't want to risk my played hours for this.