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[Huff]

So I'm going to stick with the Monk for the time being. And finally got my stats up to a decent level so I won't have to make Joe and Rumbler revive me every 10 seconds

[Bebpo]

At a bar, eatin' some pulled pork sliders, incredibly tired from lack of sleep thanks to D3 marathoning last night.

...and all I can think about is hopping online and demolishing A4 nightmare when I get home.  I'm so glad I don't play MMOs.  I can only deal with game addictions for 1-2 weeks (>_<)

I think I'm going to keep playing this week until I hit a wall with my char that requires grinding.  Then I'll hop off.

[Himu]

Whew. Today was rough since my character was really either underleveled or had shitty gear but I've finally gotten to a place I'm comfortable at.

I'm now level 44, my health is 8430, dps is 1400, armor, 1313. Pretty good considering earlier today my armor was just 600 and I was playing on nightmare.

[Himu]

Beat Act II NM with Great Rumbler, Himu, and Huff.

You guys need to learn how to dodge Belial's green crap.

Yeah, I learned a lot from that time. Me and Rumbler did that again later and I managed to get the achievement you get for not getting touched by his projectiles.

[Human Snorenado]

Having fun with the AH now.  Also, I think Act III is my favorite part of the game, just the whole thing is awesome.

[Himu]

Act II is my favorite I think.

[Phoenix Dark]

Yup, I love Act II. Love the environment and it's my favorite part of the story (no homo)

II>III>IV>I

[Himu]

Yeah, II > III > IV > I

[Phoenix Dark]

Yeah, II > III > IV > I

[Human Snorenado]

You guys are nuts.

Ranking boss fights though, I have II>I>IV>III.

[Cerveza mas fina]

Diablo 3 > 1 > 2

[Human Snorenado]

I don't know, I could flip a coin on 2 or 3 but both are better than the first.  Obviously living as a godless socialist has rotted your brain.

[Cerveza mas fina]

1 is very different from the other too, all of them are amazing though.

[Phoenix Dark]

You guys are nuts.

Ranking boss fights though, I have II>I>IV>III.

Dunno, most of the boss fights bleed together for me. Lots of tank n spank and "don't stand in bad stuff" for the most part. Some feel quite WoW-esque; the Ghom fight feels like a less complex Grobbulus fight scaled for fewer people, for instance. Not that there's anything wrong with WoW raid design obviously, just that I'm not sure it translates well here.

[Bebpo]

Server down

After beating Nightmare with PD, Viz and Treesong and a bit of Act I on Hell, I played a bunch more of Act I Hell on solo.  It's ok, but 1p is just not worth the effort because you never get any good loot :\  I don't want to fight tough as hell mobs and barely survive just to get crap loot.  Hell difficulty is doable with 2p as me and PD proved, but it's a bit grindy and a bit slow for my tastes.  With 3p or 4p however Hell is like playing on Nightmare, good ole' fun with just the right challenge and tons of loot everywhere.

I think I'll stick to 3p-4p games on Hell mode.


It's interesting that on Hell mode solo, going defensive with my barbarian just gets me killed.  Instead I found that saying "screw HP/DEF" and just focusing on ATK ATK ATK actually works for Hell elite/champion mobs.  Though not that well.

What I do is buff ATK, run up and Ground stomp everyone to me, hit them all with Bleed damage and run around them poking with bleed attacks.  Then when IGNORE PAIN recovers every 30 seconds I can do normal combat for like 5 seconds while invincible and every 120 seconds I can ground stomp everyone to me and then hit them with bleed AND 4000% damage earthquake + fire damage; which actually does take blue mobs down pretty well and champion mobs down about 50% in one go.  But taking these guys out requires a lot of running and waiting for cooldowns while poking with bleed damage and it's just kind of boring.  Much more fun in MP when you can just smash smash smash all together and take down tough mobs in quick time and get their loot.

Gonna check the AH tomorrow as I've got about 130k gold now and see if I can get some good equip with magic find %.  My best equip has 0% magic find which isn't helping my loot drops.  But if I go for the magic find ones I gotta downgrade in stats significantly which is not going to work for Hell mode.  So I need to AH some pieces that have good stats + socket + magic find %

33 hours played so far
Lvl.52 barbarian
~6k DPS
12k HP
2400 Armor

It's interesting that Normal & Nightmare both took almost exactly 15 hours.  Even though I skipped all the cutscenes and knew exactly where I was going in Nightmare, the tougher fights made it take longer than on normal so they evened out in the end.  I wouldn't be surprised if a Hell Mode run through is even longer since the fight lengths will only increase as their HP and DEF does.

[Bebpo]

Ranking the Acts is pretty easy for me.

I like Act II the best because it's just pure loot dungeons/elite mobs one after another for 3-4 hours.
I like Act III the 2nd best because even though the beginning part with the flares and catapults sux, the 2nd half is pure dungeon loot goodness with elite mobs everywhere and loot
I like Act I the 3rd best because throughout the story bits there are some good loot dungeons in it
I like Act Iv the least because it's mainly just a boss rush and not many loot dungeons, though the few there are tend to have lots of champion/elite mobs with great loot

Basically my favorite parts of the game are when I'm in a dungeon corridor, running into elite/champion mobs every couple of minutes and getting non-stop loot.  The overworld running around, story stuff, areas with boring enemy types (Act III start) are the parts I just try to blow through to get back to the looting.  I just like loot.

[Bebpo]

Also I just want to say that whoever thought of the weird conditions that champions/elite mobs should be allowed to have is pure evil.  Stuff like FIRE CHAINING is friggen bullshit and SHIELDING is annoying and LEAVING AOE TRAILS OF PLAGUE AND STUFF sucks sucks sucks.  Teleporting is annoying but at least it doesn't damage you!

[Phoenix Dark]

It's server maintenance, happens every Tuesday yo! Apparently a patch is also being put through, with the AH updates and some other stuff. I wonder if any dungeon content will be nerfed

*pulls out pipe* in my day the boys would see who could finish the most WoW dungeons before the servers went down for maintenence around 4AM on Tuesdays

[pilonv1]

Down for 8 hours, my night is ruined

Back to grinding for youth players in Football Manager then

[BobFromPikeCreek]

UGGGGGGGGH. I just started this shit yesterday, was itching for it all day, and servers are down all night.

[BobFromPikeCreek]

WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO WITH MYSELF?

[BobFromPikeCreek]

I bought all this fucking pizza.

[Momo]

[FlameofCallandorReturns]

What does it mean to get a refund from the auction house?

[Great Rumbler]

What does it mean to get a refund from the auction house?

Either there was an error during the purchase or a market fluctuation [you bought something for 1000 gold but the price dropped to 900 gold before the purchase was actually made].

[Himu]

Blizzard please put out a mobile AH

[iconoclast]

The prices on the AH are pretty screwed right now because of a farming area in Inferno. I've been farming it for a couple hours and I can't sell anything for more than 15k unless it's really good.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

The prices on the AH are pretty screwed right now because of a farming area in Inferno. I've been farming it for a couple hours and I can't sell anything for more than 15k unless it's really good.

Details, please!

[iconoclast]

There's a cellar to the south of the Maghda fight in Act 2 that always has a resplendent chest in it if it's open.  You can get a checkpoint before the Maghda fight, run to the cellar, loot, die/tp, leave game and repeat.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

Thanks. Is this exploit still live as of right now?

[Eel O'Brian]

I can't even beat Belial on normal.  Tried for over half an hour. I'll give it a few more tries and then I think I'm done.

[Cerveza mas fina]

Blizzard please put out a mobile AH

Dude I'd be all over that shit 24/7.

I can't even beat Belial on normal.  Tried for over half an hour. I'll give it a few more tries and then I think I'm done.

You serial?

Whats your stats?

[iconoclast]

Thanks. Is this exploit still live as of right now?

Yep, I'm still doing it.

[Brehvolution]

I can't even beat Belial on normal.  Tried for over half an hour. I'll give it a few more tries and then I think I'm done.

I died 4 times and almost rage quit myself. The thing that helped me was to run and evade the green spots and wait til I'm in a safe spot to start beating on him again. There are tutorials on YT if you get stuck.

Don't quit now. there are some godly cinematics after that fight and ACT 3 is crazy fun.

[Himu]

When he punches the ground, run. he is going to start using the green stuff.

[Phoenix Dark]

I can't even beat Belial on normal.  Tried for over half an hour. I'll give it a few more tries and then I think I'm done.

Which follower are you using? The Templar will heal you, depending on how you spec him

[archnemesis]

I can't even beat Belial on normal.  Tried for over half an hour. I'll give it a few more tries and then I think I'm done.

After dying five times I went to the auction house and got myself a super ceremonial dagger.

[cool breeze]

Who is the best follower for Monks? I had the templar and his healing and stun moves but he wouldn't shut up about his memories.  I switched to the COMPLETELY NOT ANIMU 500 YEAR OLD CHICK IN THE BODY OF A 20-Y/O who uses magic.

[Himu]

the scoundrel. always the scoundrel.

[Eel O'Brian]

yeah, i took the templar and went almost pure defense with gear and skills and just now finally beat him (although it took forever to chip away his health)

99% of the time i died because of the green poison spots, would get caught in a corner with no way out

one time i died because of lag, i moved out of the way and then it skipped and showed me right in the middle of one of those green pools, dead as fuck, that was some straight bullshit to the bone

real talk, i almost picked up my monitor and smashed it on the desk when that happened

[Himu]

when he punches the ground, run to the sides so when he starts, you'll have the entire path to evade his poison and not just one small corner

[Phoenix Dark]

It took forever for me to kill the Skeleton King with my demon hunter. Just gotta grind every cellar, small dungeon, etc you find. I tend to want to skip stuff since I've beaten the game twice already, but you gotta go all Rocky training montage on this shit bro

[Himu]

demon hunter doesn't pick up until well into act 2. demon hunter isn't fun until level 10 or 11.

use stuns, caltrops, use smoke screen to get in and out to kite. when you get them, equip bola shot.

[Joe Molotov]

I want to go home and finish up Nightmare soooo bad!

[CajoleJuice]

dr. feelbad always has the worst gaming experiences

i'm sorry man, i'll gift you a game on steam sometime that you'll probably have trouble redeeming or something

[Phoenix Dark]

demon hunter doesn't pick up until well into act 2. demon hunter isn't fun until level 10 or 11.

use stuns, caltrops, use smoke screen to get in and out to kite. when you get them, equip bola shot.

It wasn't fun until like lv14 when I got dat exploding shot. Feels good shooting fools and waiting for them to blow up

plus the dialogue between my female demon hunter and the templar is lol worthy. It's like Malek and Rick Santorum during a long car ride

[Joe Molotov]

I've just been thinking, are people even going to use the RMAH? I can't see using it for anything other than uber legendaries and sets, or just buying gold. Most of the legendaries I've seen people getting have been worse than random blues, and when you can get soild items for a few thousand on the regular AH, why would you want to pay real money? Also, the level min requirements on items keeps newbs from being like "herp, I'll just buy all Inferno gear for my Normal playthrough".

[Bebpo]

My plan is to work through Hell with Bore buddies on my barb, and then start normal with a Witch Doctor and play a few acts just to see what it's like and then I'mma call it good and feel like I got my $$$ worth of good gaming. 

I bought two clubs from the AH with 2% life leech to add to my 3% life leech passive skills for 7% life leech.  In practice, when doing 4-5k per hit and 10k crits I realized this only replenishes 200-250HP per hit with occasional 500HP hits.  When I have like 18k HP and it drops 25% per second on Hell...that's such miniscule healing I don't even think it matters.  So I think I'm going to go for other stats on my weapons in the future.  Maybe Crit chance % or something.

Also bought a few rings with attack speed +15% and magic find +16% to switch between.  Two attack speed +15% rings adds about 1-2k damage extra per hit.


Does DEX effect attack speed for Barbarian?  Because I had two identical pieces of shoulder armor, one with magic find +10% and the other with DEX+32 and the DPS comparison said the DEX one would add 230DPS.  If so, I need to start getting pieces with ATK+DEX instead of ATK+VIT.

Also, I am still confused about the 4-12 damage equip.  Sometimes it's higher DPS than STR+70, sometimes it's lower.  When I buy from AH I don't know if I want a +x-y damage or STR+z piece if I just want to boost my ATK.  The things that seem to increase my DPS output are weapon DPS, STR, x-y damage, Atk Speed +%. 

Does the big DPS number on top of a weapon include the stats under it?  Like if there is +12-30 Fire damage, is that included in the item DPS number or is it the item DPS number + the added stats of the item?

I think for our Hell group it's better that I focus on highest DPS possible rather than DEF so that I can help you guys stun and kill mobs quickly instead of tanking out the fight.  Treesong & PD seem pretty good at holding the front so I can just add to the damage and stunning while Viz beams damage from behind.

[Great Rumbler]

Grinded for gold on Act III Nightmare, went to the AH and spent some money, now my Monk-Tank is up to 3520 armor [4130 with manta] and 2550 DPS at level 47.

[Himu]

where'd you gold farm rumbler

[Eel O'Brian]

dr. feelbad always has the worst gaming experiences

i'm sorry man, i'll gift you a game on steam sometime that you'll probably have trouble redeeming or something

Dr Feelbat is only missing hackers hax0ring his account now.

i don't think they'd want any of the shitty gear i have, and somehow i am always broke

[Great Rumbler]

where'd you gold farm rumbler

Act III

[FlameofCallandorReturns]

I just started a witch doctor. Why can he equip a melee weapon like a sword if he uses a blow dart attack?

Edit:
Let me clarify what I am asking. Can he actually melee attack? Or are these stats just transferred ver to whatever his left click button attack is.

[Vizzys]

how can wizards cast spells with an axe

[Himu]

where'd you gold farm rumbler

Act III

what part doofus

[Smooth Groove]

Does anyone have some extra goodies for my DH?

[Howard Alan Treesong]

Just did a major AH run in A2 Hell. Got my DPS up to 3600, added some Life Leech, and all resists up to 33% damage reduction. LET'S DO THIS.

[Himu]

Goddamit, Rumbler. I waned an answer and now I'm home and now I still don't know where this grind spot is and I have to find it myself.

[Damian79]

Goddamit, Rumbler. I waned an answer and now I'm home and now I still don't know where this grind spot is and I have to find it myself.

You can do it rather easy in khulles ares.

[Phoenix Dark]

Himu asking for hand outs