Slower 2 handers will make your spells deal more damage, but 1handers let you use a shield for more defense or an offhand and normally get better stats for most of the game. Level 50+ items start having more of a DPS difference between 1 and 2 handers but they stay pretty even for most of the game.

Turning on elective mode will let you use multiple spells from one tree (entirely possible to run lightning armor, enchant weapon, summon arcane orb pet thing if you really wanted).

Your main stat is your best friend (with vitality being your second best) because it will increase your damage by 1% per point. So an item with 100 int on it is a 100% damage increase.

 

Your Spells run off your weapon damage, not your Damage. It's better to have a lower DPS (The displayed number in the stats screen) and a higher base value and Int if you're a WD or Wizard because AS only affects your primary skills.

Disintegrate, Frost Ray, and Archon Beam can't crit.

Diamond skin is mandatory. No exceptions.

Disintegrate + Chaos Nexus laser spamming stops working in Nightmare act 2, unless you have over 3k+ Damage. Learn to kite using Blizzard + Hydra or use a Melee crit build to proceed from then-on.

Attack speed will artificially inflate your DPS a lot. Don't fall for it and stack attack speed gear. Get Int and Damage for much more noticeable improvements, even if your DPS display decreases.

---------- Post automerged 05-23-2012 at 02:02 AM ---------- Previous post was 05-22-2012 at 02:34 PM ----------

So, another awesome glitch to have fun with:

1) Get a 2-H weapon. Any will do.

2) Equip a 1-H weapon.

3) make sure there are two blocks of empty space over hte 2-H weapon in your inventory.

4) Drag and drop the 1-H weapon directly above your 2-H. Make sure one block overlaps.

5) Enjoy 1-handing a 2-H weapon.

 

People who abuse exploits are about as respectable as mknote.

 

Considering that it's now impossible for any class at all to solo Inferno past Act 1 without insanely uber gear, any advantage is a good advantage.

 

You expected inferno to be passable without grinding and slogging your way through after repeated frustrating deaths against viciously powerful enemies?

The developers said in the beginning that Inferno difficulty was going to be harder than the previous modes by a significant magnitude.

The fact remains that you are using a glitch to bypass the inteded mechanics of the game so as to grant your character power unintended by the developers.

That's an exploit, and it's a trashy thing to do.

 

I wanna try this game out.

I've been watching on youtube, been drawn to the DH.

 

So, how about a compilation of BattleTags? Either as a thread, post or whatever.

Within the last few pages, I at least saw:
Lord Anarchy - LordAnarchy#1615
Poytin - Poytin#1506
Fenraellis - fenraellis#1739
(yeah, it's lower case for some reason, but it won't let me capitalize, since the name would be 'too similar')

 

I am still debating weather to get this. However it's so fkin expensive out here in South East Asia zzzzz. I am not gonna pay 75 USD for a game, was trying to buy a US CD key from battlenet but apparently I can only buy using SGD.

Been playing Pathofexile as a replacement, is Diablo 3 much better or should I just stick with POE.

 

This game's item system is incredibly frustrating. I'm still using a level 27 rare ring because it is perfectly itemized and none of the items available at 60 for 200k or below give me a damage increase. Very few give me a significant health increase, and all of those would cost me an absurd amount of damage.

The "suffix/prefix" bullshit system gives you legendaries and set pieces that are sometimes at half the dps of same level BLUES. Not even rares, just blues. Yea, the 550 dps set piece crossbow gives you 4khp and 100 dex a long with a shit ton of other stats. It doesn't mean shit when the blue literally doubles your damage.

My level 54 rare chest piece (that a friend lucked out on and gave to me) is better than pretty much EVERY piece of gear because it has 68 dex, 107 vitality, 29 resist all, and 3 sockets. 95% of rares waste their suffixes on one of the useless stats they put in this game (health from globes, gold pick up range, monster gold find) or on stats that aren't useful to particular classes (health regen, melee damage reduction, non-main stats). I have no use for a rare chest piece that has 100 less vitality/dex than a blue because it has int/str/vit/dex/regen/life on hit/gld find/magic find/4% melee damage reduction/etcetcetc.

Edit: On my screen it appeared that I had double posted my first post, then my second post had merged with my second first post. So I edited my second post and deleted the automerged first post because to me, it was already posted above. After deleting it, I find that there is only one post and now I've deleted my doubleposted first post that automerged with my second post, meaning that there is no first post anymore.

The gist of the first post was that they are nerfing smokescreen to 1.5 and force armor to not work as a 6khp build.

 

In all fairness, even in Diablo 2 the magic items, could easily be more focused and specifically stronger than comparable-level rares. The highest level prefixes and suffixes only spawned on Magic items, with Rares having one to two tiers lower of possibilities.

 

Diablo 2 was the same way, till they adjusted it quite a bit.

But the randomness of the prefix/suffix system has always been that way, and always will be.

I actually find it interesting, balancing filler stats against the ones I want on multiple pieces of gear across my character.

I'm sure they'll adjust it in time, the game IS still relatively newly released.

 

I think the randomness of items in this game is actually part of the draw. How long would you keep playing if every rare you found in endgame hell or inferno was great? You just have to keep hunting for that 1 in 10 million piece that has all the right stats.

 

It's just stupid that I'm still using a level 27 item at level 60.

Also any tips for fighting shielding molten fast teleporting golgors? 1 rare with 3 minions

 

AH helps that a lot. By the time I hit 60, I think half of my items were from the AH. I sold far more than I bought though. Found good items, but rarely for my class.

 

Same. It was honestly silly for me to even look because the scaling at 50-60 is absurd. Upgrading from a 59-60 weapon doubles your DPS. I think it's best if you avoid the AH as much as possible except to sell your shit, then gear up at 60.

The problem is that my 27 rare is better than anything remotely affordable to someone who isn't already solo farming inferno. I've finally traded it out, but it came at the cost of 300k, and I lost 2k DPS in exchange for 5k HP. And honestly it was a bargain at 300k compared to the rest of what's up there.

A legitimate soloing inferno build has come out for DH's already. Run sharpshooter to get 100% crit, crossbow (archery gives +50% crit damage) with a lot of +crit damage gear, then bandolier for 6 spike traps and caltrops with jagged spikes for 45% damage per second. You stack them all up on top of eachother and then facepull them into the trap. 1830% weapon damage with 100% crit and 50% base +crit damage. The guy who wrote it up is running a +crit damage rune in his weapon socket for another +45% as well as some other slts. He has a total of 215% crit damage with a 1kdps weapon, so he is solo farming act 3/4 in inferno. Should be possible to farm act 1/2 with less amazing gear. He is running stampede in one slot (the rain of vengeance that has knockback) but I would think valley of death would really be amazing.

 

I'll run through with you Jon. Finished my first play through with my Witch Doctor.

 

You're just barely starting, Jon? Honestly, I'd play for the story in hell or nightmare, not in normal. I'd want to rush the shit outta those quests fast so the real game can begin.