Diablo 3 - Page 12

Never stated I've played the others. But I plan to. Figured I'd start from most recent to oldest. I just like doing things that way.


Oh don't I already know! Was almost done with nightmare mode last night. Kept saying I'd get off after each scene for about 5 hours. Game is just downright addicting.

In D2 you can use the /p8 console command to increase the difficulty and level faster.

OH CRAP. I completely forgot you can dual wield. Oh man, such an idiot!!!

So, can he dual wield 2-handed weapons. Aren't there a couple 2-handed weapons he can wield as 1-handed? Which ones are those?

Beat hell and started working on Inferno last night.

Hell actually got a bit difficult at the end. I hit Act IV at about midway through level 58, and I had to stop and go back and grind out level 60, get some gear, and then go back to Act IV and continue working through it. Some of the boss fights were legitimately tough, and I was getting wrecked by most champion packs.

Had to change my build a bit going into Nightmare. Using a Blizzard/Venom Hydra kiting build rather then just wrecking everything with disintegrate / arcane orbs. Works pretty well but I am worried about the lower direct damage to bosses.

Keep in mind, if you switch your builds at 60, it drops off the Nephalem Valor bonus that you have at the time....sucks finding out the hard way on Asmdeon and losing a 6 stack ;-)

Yeah the neph stacks are what make builds more complicated. Otherwise you can have an aoe based build for instance clearing and a direct damage build for bosses and switch back and forth. Due to neph you need that happy middle ground.

I think the blizzard build is my best bet at the moment because I don't really have the gear for inferno and get wrecked pretty fast when i get hit. It's slows everything down by 50% allowing me to run away easier, and does decent damage in the process.

Does that mean it is a lot harder to get inferno level gear from the AH?

Gear gets expensive really fast at 60. The good stuff goes for mult-million gold price tags. For some of the top of the line weapons we're talking 20m+ if not more. You of course don't HAVE to buy the top of the line stuff, but even the stuff that isn't really killer (but is useful) goes for a few hundred thousand a piece.

I have just been patiently waiting for deals, mostly using bid's rather then buyouts to try to sneak out with decent gear for cheap. I only have (had) about 500k to get my initial gearset going so it's a bit hard to stretch that out and get something for every slot.

Can anyone explain that nephalem valor thing to me? I don't understand what that is and how it works, is it something you find?

I believe it is a buff you can acquire after reaching level 60 when you defeat certain elite/champion bosses that boosts your magic-find chances significantly. You can stack up to 5 of these buffs so people usually do runs through certain areas to build up their NV while item hunting.

75% total MF on a stack of 5. Gold Champions work for stacking the buff as well, just not main/mini bosses. Also, while the neph buff is being nerfed on bosses, it is being enhanced on elite packs to where they will drop a guarenteed rare as well.

I don't have D3 but I just like to theory craft a lot so I was wondering if someone bored and has a high level wizard could try this build out.

I call it the Temporal Trap high crit Wizard build. The key is using slow time and Mirror Image to draw minions into a small slow moving ball that you can blast away at. So first step is to cast Mirror Image and then slow time and then pull back a little bit. Then you do your burst damage. This part is one that I don't really have a feel for since I never played. I picked using Astral Orb and then follow up with Electrocute. Electrocute can benefit a lot from a high crit build and since you can spam it quickly it gives you the chance to get a lot of crits in. I could easily see Meteor or Blizzard used as well; this part just needs a lot of play testing. The last important piece is you need Critical mass as a passive. Slow time and Mirror Image are both on fairly long cooldowns, by having critical mass and good crit gear hopefully you can minimize the time between bursts hopefully cutting it down to 10 seconds between bursts. Anyway here you go

Temporal Trap high crit Wizard build

Active Spells
Slow Time / Time Shell
Mirror Image / Mocking Demise
Arcane Orb / Tap the Source (or Meteor sound good here as well)
Electrocute / Forked Lightning
Teleport / Fracture
Diamond Skin / Prism

Passive Buffs
Critical Mass (This one is key the other two could be changed out depending on your other pics)
Temporal Flux
Paralysis

Equipment - items that add + crit

Why pick teleport? If they’re sitting back and shooting at you then you can teleport in and then use the slow time/Mirror Image combo or it just helps to evade stuff. Why use Temporal Flux...again don’t know if it works but hopefully if your Mirror Images have mocking demise when they blow up they cause temporal flux to proc and it combines with the slow from slow time for fairly long duration super slow. Why Paralysis...if you follow up your Arcane Orb barrage with electrocute hopefully it gives you time to stun all the mobs and keep them cooled out even longer.
Edited by spinoza_43221 - 6/7/12 at 9:52am

So you get the buff from fighting Champions but the buff only works on bosses?

I thought that boss farming wasn't worthwhile since you have to do the quest over.

No, the buff effects everything. I believe each stack gives you 20% gf + mf, stacking up to 5 times.

It was just programmed in so that bosses give guaranteed rare drops when you have full stacks rather then it being left purely to RNG.

Been playing quite a bit of this myself. Has anyone purchased an Authenticator yet? Is it worth it?

I've just been using the iOS app. Works great!

15% per stack.

Once you've unlocked NM difficulty with one character, can you skip ahead to NM difficulty with another character? I have a level 35 DH in NM right now but my level 32 Monk is in the middle of Act 4 on Normal. I was wondering if I could take my Monk into a NM game with my friend or if I had to finish a normal playthrough first.

You have to finish normal 1st.

Perfect explanation, that was very clear, thank you. Now I get it, cool, can't wait to give it a try!!!!

So does anyone think the blacksmith is worth it? I was debating wether to upgrade him or not and not sure it is worth all the gold and effort to find the pages, etc. or if you just find enough good stuff going through item drops and such.

Been playing on inferno with my Barbarian for the last week so so...soloed all the way up to there. MY GOD...I can easily get owned. I am currently rocking 40khps, 8k armor, 23k damage, and 300-400 all resists. Trying to find some new 1 handers, (700+ DPS with life per hit of 300+), but not having much luck, (and they are very expensive ATM). May have to go play my wizard for a while, as farming act 1 crypts and butcher runs are getting tiring, especially when all that drops is wizard gear . I gotta start leveling that wizard again to equip the gear and clear up some inventory space.