Nice one sand, +rep. Which class are you playing through? I've thought about starting the MLP staff, but sense I'm just now entering Act 2 Inferno it will be a while before I can actually build the worthwhile version anyways.
edit: wait where did your brown 8bit megaman avatar go? I miss it
Also for any demon hunters, I've been having a lot of luck lately using the following build: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculato...VYk!ZYe!YcZcba
1) Spike traps with Scatter is about the most damage per hatred you'll ever get. You can do neat things like place them against a wall so all three mines stack for a whopping 825% damage for only 30 hatred. Nothing else we do comes close for max damage while on the run.
2) Caltrops with Jagged Spikes is pretty damn insane - ironically the description is very deceptive. It's 45% weapon damage a tick and hits anyone in the area for 6 seconds. Very easily the strongest DoT damage I've seen short of Poison Hydras. I might even take the engineering passive to double the time on this and sentry.
3) Sentry is mostly there to help my damage when I'm firing for 5 minutes trying to kill a champion teddy bear with ridiculous f-ing health.....mind you I've easily 40k+ dps. I might swap this out for mark.
This build is also very Inferno centric - at the highest level there is no surviving any single hit so it's a lot of running away. Caltrops and Thrill of the Hunt and Smoke Screen help a lot - also got 2% fear and 2% chill so those can randomly help me as well.
Got a demon hunter, leveling a monk though. The MLP staff is crazy expensive to get to Inferno (something like 2 mil total, it's 1mil the last jump). Some reason my avatar got wiped out, been too lazy to set it back up - do that now I guess. Thanks for noticingOriginally Posted by Vortex
Nice one sand, +rep. Which class are you playing through? I've thought about starting the MLP staff, but sense I'm just now entering Act 2 Inferno it will be a while before I can actually build the worthwhile version anyways.
edit: wait where did your brown 8bit megaman avatar go? I miss it
Last edited by sand; May 29 2012 at 11:41:38 PM.
awesome stuff, will try.
I'm going to assume he is talking about cat tree in whimsyshire. It doesn't work on teddy bears btw.
Failure
Invulnerable can go fuck itself.
Yea, I've definitely been running spike trap/scatter. Very kite friendly and low impact on the hatred.
This is the build I completed Act I Inferno with: Link
Its not totally optimized, I'm not satisfied with RoV on Inferno at all (Flying Strike is very iffy if it lands in the right spot, and even then its not much breathing room). Evasive Fire everyone seems to hate, but sense it does 3x125% weapon damage with a 45* hitscan attack... well... The flip can get you in trouble (re: dead), but it also resets your attack timer (making it VERY high dps gain with 2h Xbows) and procs the TA movespeed bump, which helps make up for the lack of acrobatics. Is hungering arrow really worth it?
I'll try out caltrops instead of RoV, I really want some more kiting + trap options available to me. Once I seriously get into Act II I'll probably have to switch off Veteran's Scars, but its really useful vs. damage reflect mobs elites.
1) I've never been a fan of Evasive Fire for the reasons you stated. At the moment I have a 2H bow 900dps just because I have yet to find a better weapon for myself (but just sold a 1100 dps 2h mace).
2) Hungering Arrow is amazing. You can shoot it around corners, you can be lazy as hell aiming it, you can also fire and hit off screen a lot easier, you can fire and keep moving, and someone did the math which put it roughly at 240% weapon damage because of the chance of piercing once or twice. I haven't found better honestly.
3) I'd get rid of Battle Scars - at least at my level, there's no surviving any single hit so a heal is pretty worthless. I do enough damage I usually will kill myself instantly on Reflect Mobs....you either have a monk/barb with you to help offset it or drag them out of your way to die and then keep on moving.
There are ways to deal with champion/elite flowers and teddy bears on those maps....just saying.
Am I the only one that is seeing a mob attack animation start, dodge out of the way, and then still get hit? I swear they coded the "hit" event at the start of the animation. It's driving me crazy.
Yup, the most ridiculous one is the flowers in Sunshine. You can teleport/vault/whatever away and still get hit across the screen. If they start the animation and aren't stopped by a stun/knockback, you die no matter where you are.
Patch seems to have removed all auctions made prior to the servers coming back up, but without allowing you to cancel previously running auctions to relist them. Awesome.
Awesome info sand, +rep. Servers just went down, hope it isn't nerfed tomorrow. ;p
Had my first AH victory today. Found out people are idiots and don't actually watch the block rate on shields, which makes for some really cheap good shields. Got an Ivory Tower with 20% block, 12% life, -4% melee damage and 35 all resists for 250k, because the guy didn't check the block rate. Thanks to Pie for spotting it when we were both looking though. <3
Also finally found an upgrade to my shitty 560 dagger, whoop whoop.
Finally: Legitimately took down Kulle and Belial with a monk/barb, the two classes that supposedly couldn't progress beyond act 2.
We have a barbarian in our Inferno Cow runs....but he sits there and spams a stun shout
Trying out hungering arrow - ok, damage difference is VERY noticeable. RIP evasive shot.
I.. have to admit, I don't get this. Are you actually having fun just standing off screen and firing blindly? I mean, it's clearly not intended play, nor intended mechanics (specifically referring to insane DH dps from range) and it just seems to utterly defeat the purpose of playing the game to me.We have a barbarian in our Inferno Cow runs....but he sits there and spams a stun shout
The only alternative is death.I.. have to admit, I don't get this. Are you actually having fun just standing off screen and firing blindly? I mean, it's clearly not intended play, nor intended mechanics (specifically referring to insane DH dps from range) and it just seems to utterly defeat the purpose of playing the game to me.We have a barbarian in our Inferno Cow runs....but he sits there and spams a stun shout
Edit: Also, since the patch I've been unable to list anything on the auction house due to error 3...who gives a fuck they're all meaningless anyway. More tech fail, or stealth AH nerf? You decide.
Last edited by Nicho Void; May 30 2012 at 01:29:08 AM.
DH don't have anything going for them past ranged damage. If Blizzard didn't want a kiting glass cannon, they shouldn't have made one.
Auction house keeps going up and down. My listed items can't be found for people to buy, and the items I bought that were previously in Completed Section are now nowhere to be found. :blizzard:
Can't login, servers are full =/
I knew I should have waited another month before buying this game.
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