D3 update

[VKhaun]

Who is still playing, and how are you doing? I have 4/5 at 60 now, about to get to inferno with my third. I'm down on the RMAH by about $30 because I like to buy them badass il63 1K+dps weapons when they hit 60 rather than scale my weapon up over time, but I'm consistently selling items so I'll make that back.



My monk just hit 60 using piercing trident/dashing strike and a bunch of defensive stuff, very fast and fun to play. I'm Stacking dex/fire res/all res, attack speed where possible, and using my sockets for vitality. My Armor, resist, and dodge are all looking nice and even. Hitting mantra of evasion for the 3sec double buff puts me at 52%dodge, 60%resist, 59%armor. I can fight any hell rare pack without issue and my gear is still not great with lots of low numbers and missing bonuses. Looking forward to trying it in Inferno and continuing to build him up.

Demon hunter is in full glass cannon mode. Got cheap items with dex/crit and have her at cap crit with tons of damage, working on replacing each part with the same or better offensive stats and more protection. She absolutely slaughters Act1, but then the butcher's chain fan one shots her in her current state. On a good day I can dodge it, but it's rare you have a good day AND the floor where you need to dodge to isn't on fire. :P

My barb is a big pile of fail. He's leaning way too hard towards str/vit and has almost no resists or dodge chance. He can take several hits, but can't regain all that HP back so he gets crushed in inferno. He also went full frontload with a 2h hammer that has RETARDED minimum damage, but still can't one shot medium size things with the bash +2x reverberations rune, and big things take forever to bash down due to slow speed and low crit, so that needs to be replaced as well. I'll probably sell most of what he's wearing and leave him naked in the list, build him back up with money and items found by the others.

My wiz will be the last to 60, she's 54 and has junk gear. My friend and I duo'd into the end of Act3 hell at only 52 and I got frustrated with her uselessly low damage. It wasn't until my monk walked into the same area 58 that I realized how under leveled and geared she was. Planning on doing the same thing as the DH. Buy her a super pimp source/weapon, glass cannon her out with cap crit, with arcane power on crit items, See if I can run disintegrate all day and work on building protection without losing offense.

WD is stalled. Lv60 in act4 hell, way too squishy, covered in gold find and pickup radius though. She can make 500K+ doing the second half of act 3 and fill her inventory with rares, maybe finding something for the AH. I just never feel like sitting there and replaying act3 hell when I could be in inferno, and she's too squishy to beat act4 hell with all the dashing, casting, teleporting going on. Her 'houndskull' helmet type dyed green makes her look like a treasure goblin though, haha.

[Zavon]

You are the only person playing this game. In the entire world.

[Zoobi]

In the entire world.

Of Diablocraft?

[Dumah]

I'm kind of... logging on sometimes. The fact that I'm on vacation this week and have gotten so much done around the house is very telling. I don't really feel the same compulsion to play like I did with D2. Maybe when my house is spotless, I own three businesses and the girlfriend and I have our second kid, I'll get online a bit more often.

[Pyrrhus]

I play when I can. Not having a subscription fee makes it easy to log on when I feel like it. I'm not trying to become the best in the world. Have a 56 or something Demon Hunter in Hell. Pretty much impossible to continue soloing. Hope to hit inferno by the end of the week.

[VKhaun]

You are the only person playing this game. In the entire world.

Andile and Garal get on sometimes, but yeah they and Dumah don't play nearly as much as I do.

[Draconian]

I've stopped. My whole crew faded out so I just kinda lost interest too... solo runs are not fun, although with the monk getting multiple loot drops with exploding palm was fun for a little while. I assume they've fixed it by now though. I have 3 inferno 60's.

Your monk is gonna have to beef up the all resist + fire pieces, every single piece that can have it should have it (there are exceptions obviously and it's a process to build it up, but...), and not 30's and 40's - get better rolls. My monk was at 75% resists and a little lower armor in his maxed out suit, and then swap a couple pieces to his magic find suit with 259 base MF built in (pre stacks) and like 68% resist. I really suggest trying to do something similar for inferno farming; I pick up all yellows and blues and my inventory is always majority yellow items when I'm doing ACT1 in my MF gear. Also, helm of command with a really high +block shield gets you up to mid 30%'s blocking rate, extremely valuable - easy to find tons of variations on them since they're craftable.

I'm no expert or anything but that's what I rolled and it worked incredibly well. The Barb was my first 60, then made a monk when I got a sick 932 life on hit monk fist weapon with 850dps as well, socketed. The monk is such a better tank IMO it's not even close, the resist passive really is incredible. Put that kind of mitigation behind great dodge and blocking 1/3 of the shots in the first place, plus multiple immune abilities and direct heals... conviction for act 1 and evasion for the tougher stuff - it just doesn't get any better IMO. Fuck the Barb.


Been playin Civ5 lately instead on a super long playscale with the new expansion. Enjoyed diablo while it was poppin tho.


I'm sure I'll drift back if some interesting patch hits.

[Andile™]

My WD is pwning it up in A3 NM.




Like a boss.

[Boxy Brown]

I've stopped. My whole crew faded out so I just kinda lost interest too... solo runs are not fun, although with the monk getting multiple loot drops with exploding palm was fun for a little while. I assume they've fixed it by now though. I have 3 inferno 60's.

Your monk is gonna have to beef up the all resist + fire pieces, every single piece that can have it should have it (there are exceptions obviously and it's a process to build it up, but...), and not 30's and 40's - get better rolls. My monk was at 75% resists and a little lower armor in his maxed out suit, and then swap a couple pieces to his magic find suit with 259 base MF built in (pre stacks) and like 68% resist. I really suggest trying to do something similar for inferno farming; I pick up all yellows and blues and my inventory is always majority yellow items when I'm doing ACT1 in my MF gear. Also, helm of command with a really high +block shield gets you up to mid 30%'s blocking rate, extremely valuable - easy to find tons of variations on them since they're craftable.

I'm no expert or anything but that's what I rolled and it worked incredibly well. The Barb was my first 60, then made a monk when I got a sick 932 life on hit monk fist weapon with 850dps as well, socketed. The monk is such a better tank IMO it's not even close, the resist passive really is incredible. Put that kind of mitigation behind great dodge and blocking 1/3 of the shots in the first place, plus multiple immune abilities and direct heals... conviction for act 1 and evasion for the tougher stuff - it just doesn't get any better IMO. Fuck the Barb.


Been playin Civ5 lately instead on a super long playscale with the new expansion. Enjoyed diablo while it was poppin tho.


I'm sure I'll drift back if some interesting patch hits.

Same.