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Damage isnt an issue untill 32/33. With madstone you can pop up to 4 decoys from a single sss.

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Last I checked coaches of the worst teams always get fired.

You must not follow sports much.

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Also, bad analogy is bad. There is only one "head coach" position on a sports team. If you think there is only one person at Blizzard responsible for monks and wizards then you're beyond reason.

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Wizard, supposed to be the master of elements but really never has been, undefined role. Wizards throwing their hands up in confusion.

When it comes to the philosophy of the wizard, it seems like they were envisioning them flitting around the battlefield while blasting monsters from range. Key word: range. The channeling spells seem to directly contradict that image. Standing still leads to monsters getting in your face, which means you're now face-tanking like one of the melee classes. The skills that do lend themselves to this ranged playing style are incredibly weak in comparison to the nukes that DH's and WD's can dish out (the other two "ranged" classes).

Wizards just play clunky right now. Honestly, I feel like Teleport needs to have its cooldown removed and then given a paltry AP cost per cast. Wizards should be the most mobile class. A big part of their flavor is their control over "time and space", and yet they seem do a pretty poor job of dealing with both in-game.

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I hope it's taking a bit more time actually, so we can have a proper "balance" between the classes.

I wouldn't count on it. No RPG with multiple classes is ever perfectly balanced, but as WoW and now D3 have amply demonstrated over the years, Blizzard in particular is pretty terrible at balancing classes. It will always be the case that at least one class is terrible, at least one is overpowered, and at least a few buffs/nerfs/general changes to skills, items, stats, etc. will defy all reason and logic. It's kind of something you just have to get used to when it comes to a Blizzard RPG.

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Hey,

I want to add some thoughts. Pre 2.1 Kridershot is because of the earlier mentioned things (IAS Sentry Bug) not BIS, as long as you have an equivalent dps 2h-xbow like Buriza.

So with 2.1 this will change and you want to get three spenders with Maraudon 6p. There are two options for that:

a) Kridershot

2h-xbow without hatred generator

Then Kridershot could become BIS because you get a free hatred spender (EA) which will also generate hatred and so you get the benefit of active nuking with your DH -> LoH (and of course Area Damage). If you want to play 3 spenders without Kridershot you will have to play without hatred generator or without smoke screen (or vault).

So let's think of a nearly perfect rolled Kridershot with ~2800 dps -> what elemental do you want to play?!

- Physical: Cluster Arrow (1200% Shooting Star with Ballistics), Impale (750% Impact @ stunlock or 2475% crits Grievous Wounds) and of course Elemental Damage (300% Nether Tentacles) -> Multishot (460% Full Broadside) would also be an option.

- Fire: Cluster Arrow (770% Loaded for Bear), Multishot (360% aoe + 900% at three targets Arsenal), Elemental Arrow (300% Screaming Scull with fear)

- Cold: Cluster Arrow (2250% five targets Maelstrom), Impale (620% straight pirece Overpenetration) and Elemental Arrow (330% Frost Arrow, up to 3630% when hit 11 enemies)

With a physical build Tasker and Theo are best in slot. On a fire build Cindercoat could beat Tasker and Theo and on a frost build Tusker and Theo or Frostburn should be BIS (depending on DPS vs. CC).

At the moment I play a physical build (CA/MS) with Tasker and Theo and I'm wielding a Buriza. But with 2.1 maybe a cold build could be better in higher greater rifts. You get perma slow, 20% overall damage (Cull the Weak) a nice heal with Maelstrom and you get the best rune of Elemental Damage (all other runes except Ball Lightning are much weaker).

Maybe it is worth it playing phyical build with Frost Arrow? What do you think? Frost Arrow is by far the strongest EA-rune.

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Is anyone else experiencing the same problem?

Awareness doesn't seem to do anything now.

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That passive's still used? The things you learn in this forum...

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fire is better for the player but +% physical buffs sentries so you double dip if you use physical runes with the six set (+% physical increasing your spender damage and your sentry damage which in turn buffs your spender damage when they cast them). While you may be able to get another +20% with 6set while subbing out gloves with rrog, you benefit more physical if you go full sentries. For example, I have +37% physical which means my sentries do 137% damage plus each spender doing 137% damage meaning they'll do approximately 187% of my damage every time they fire a spender vs anywhere from 145-160% with fire and six set bonus. If I equipped an SoJ instead of my nat's ring I would get even more +% physical but I'd drop my extra dex and crit chance from the 3set plus my Nat's is trifecta

This is wrong. There's no advantage to using physical over fire as far as sentries are concerned. In fact I'd say Fire is better for sentries b/c spitfire turret is fire. What physical does better than fire is in buffing pets.

Also, the sentry damage you are mentioning is only for the bolts, which covers very little of the damage output of a Mara-set DH. The spenders your sentries fire benefit from whatever element the spender's rune is, not the sentry itself.

according to this threadhttp://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/12674389831 the +% sentry damage information is correct

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fire is better for the player but +% physical buffs sentries so you double dip if you use physical runes with the six set (+% physical increasing your spender damage and your sentry damage which in turn buffs your spender damage when they cast them). While you may be able to get another +20% with 6set while subbing out gloves with rrog, you benefit more physical if you go full sentries. For example, I have +37% physical which means my sentries do 137% damage plus each spender doing 137% damage meaning they'll do approximately 187% of my damage every time they fire a spender vs anywhere from 145-160% with fire and six set bonus. If I equipped an SoJ instead of my nat's ring I would get even more +% physical but I'd drop my extra dex and crit chance from the 3set plus my Nat's is trifecta

This is wrong. There's no advantage to using physical over fire as far as sentries are concerned. In fact I'd say Fire is better for sentries b/c spitfire turret is fire. What physical does better than fire is in buffing pets.

Also, the sentry damage you are mentioning is only for the bolts, which covers very little of the damage output of a Mara-set DH. The spenders your sentries fire benefit from whatever element the spender's rune is, not the sentry itself.

As far as I am aware, there is no "double benefit" from %physical damage for physical spenders fired by sentrys. However, %sentry damage and %spender damage applies to spenders fired by sentries, so they get buffed by both skill bonuses.

There is an advantage of using physical builds over fire builds, as far as the sentrys are concerned, because the damage type for the sentry standard bolts will always remain physical, regardless of the sentry rune used. Especially when using T&T, the sentrys shoot a significant amount of bolts inbetween spender cooldowns, which are boosted by %physical damage, even if you use spitfire turres (the spitfire rockets will be fire damage and boosted by %fire damage, though).

2.1 changes that somewhat, the bugged attack speed gets fixed, allowing us to use 3 spenders properly, so every single shot will be a spender instead of bolts, allowing us to use an element of our choice without having to keep in mind that the bolts will still do physical damage.

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fire is better for the player but +% physical buffs sentries so you double dip if you use physical runes with the six set (+% physical increasing your spender damage and your sentry damage which in turn buffs your spender damage when they cast them). While you may be able to get another +20% with 6set while subbing out gloves with rrog, you benefit more physical if you go full sentries. For example, I have +37% physical which means my sentries do 137% damage plus each spender doing 137% damage meaning they'll do approximately 187% of my damage every time they fire a spender vs anywhere from 145-160% with fire and six set bonus. If I equipped an SoJ instead of my nat's ring I would get even more +% physical but I'd drop my extra dex and crit chance from the 3set plus my Nat's is trifecta

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Sadly my gear isn't set up properly enough to know what LFBs potential is .. I don't have Magefist or Cindercoat. But basically, when using Shooting Stars and Ballistics, I was seeing 9-12m rocket Crits, with LFB I am seeing Crits around 7-9m. Again my + Fire is only like 15%... But, that seems like a big difference.

if it helps, I have Natalya's Slayer, Chest and Ring, RORG, Mara head and boots.