The sword I bought gives 20 life per fury spent, it is awesome. When you are moving, you are burning so much fury it is an insane heal if done properly.
I know alk uses one... what does it do exactly that makes it great? It's a barb weapon if I recall? so you lose 10% crit but you gain fury on hit from passive, other than that, the other thing I remember is that it gives life/fury spent.
I was thinking along the same lines as you... wanted to drop warcry for rend but no dice. I thought about dropping bash for it instead but obviously not a good thing without a resoure generating ability. Then thought about using superstition passive but my LS/LOH is too low atm to try.
I know alk uses one... what does it do exactly that makes it great? It's a barb weapon if I recall? so you lose 10% crit but you gain fury on hit from passive, other than that, the other thing I remember is that it gives life/fury spent.
I was thinking along the same lines as you... wanted to drop warcry for rend but no dice. I thought about dropping bash for it instead but obviously not a good thing without a resoure generating ability. Then thought about using superstition passive but my LS/LOH is too low atm to try.
I tried Stomp before and with the 1.05 buffs for CC it will be a good alternative for WW Barbs as well as Rend over warcry.
Do they really need to make enemies even easier?
Nah lol... I was on vl the first week of release. So i kinda played like crazy 14-15 hrs a day that week. I play around 3-6 hours on average coz i give up my weekends for the true MAIN BOSS (gf lol).
I can't wait to get out of my legendary slump... up to 28 legendaries since 1.04 patch and have made under 100m off of it. I had the last 3 days off work so I hit the game hard and got to paragon 50.
Think I'm going for tyraels might over the IK chest once I save up enough for the buy. They can roll stats close to IK. I think if I can do that and get a pair of lacunis, I can drop movement speed on boots and go for some [relatively]cheaper ice climbers w/o move speed with insane str/vit with life% and socket which more than makes up for the loss on tyraels. Plus tyraels has +dmg to demons which 75% of mobs are in game, and more so in A3 & A4. Also has dmg to elites. I think this is a better combo and probably easier than gearing up for 5 IK pieces.
So the goal:
tyraels for 12% move + dmg to demons + dmg to elite
lacunis: w/crit for 12% move and ias
IK belt + IK helm for ar set bonus
ice climbers
rare gloves with ias, crit, ar and other stats
blackthorns jousting mail with AR and higher str/vit for the loh
all of this of course is going to cost a fortune... figure at least 400m
Just know that Movement speed from equipment is capped at 25% so no need to spend a fortune to get more than that.
Not too exited about the upcoming patch, don't need to make the game easier with every patch. I think the difficulty right now is too low (end game inferno stuff I mean), at least for melee classes. Ranged classes are almost all glass cannons as it sits right now in act 3/4 inferno. So maybe they should just buff ranged classes' defensive abilities. Instead of trying to balance the difficulty of enemies for everyone they should just balance out classes. Or maybe not make any new balances at all - I would never go back to playing a ranged class after playing monk, though. Dying very rarely in act 3/4 inferno is nice
The sword I bought gives 20 life per fury spent, it is awesome. When you are moving, you are burning so much fury it is an insane heal if done properly.
Just know that Movement speed from equipment is capped at 25% so no need to spend a fortune to get more than that.
Do you have a rough estimate to what 20 life/fury spent equates to in loh?
Used the RMAH for the first time to buy an item (figured I made over $400 on the game, might as well spend some of it to get decent gear) and was banned... While waiting for the transaction to be reviewed, going through Act 2, I got banned. I have no idea why. Blizzard needs to get their act together.
That sucks :X - I'm going to take Paypal off my Blizz account and stay way from the RMAH. Like I mentioned a few pages back, I found an item I wanted, hit "Pay with paypal" and boom it automatically charged my paypal account, didn't open up a browser, didn't ask me for my paypal login, didn't ask me for my payment source (had no money in my paypal account so it just automatically chose my bank account). I understand it's made to be convenient but the lack of security or any confirmation page got me worried that if someone hacks my account they have unlimited spending to my paypal account. So eff that. Doesn't seem like they were really ready for the RMAH, I've heard of people getting banned for seemingly no reason for using it before.
Just know that Movement speed from equipment is capped at 25% so no need to spend a fortune to get more than that.
Not too exited about the upcoming patch, don't need to make the game easier with every patch. I think the difficulty right now is too low (end game inferno stuff I mean), at least for melee classes. Ranged classes are almost all glass cannons as it sits right now in act 3/4 inferno. So maybe they should just buff ranged classes' defensive abilities. Instead of trying to balance the difficulty of enemies for everyone they should just balance out classes. Or maybe not make any new balances at all - I would never go back to playing a ranged class after playing monk, though. Dying very rarely in act 3/4 inferno is nice
Well have articles in the coming days providing all the details on the upcoming patch, but we wanted to give you a sneak peek at what major features to expect.
Defensive Skill Changes
In our eternal quest to promote build diversity; well be making changes to defensive skills across the board while simultaneously reducing incoming damage. The net result is a survivability buff for players, and an increase in build options as defensive abilities become less mandatory.
New Event: Infernal Machine
The Infernal Machine is a device that will allow level-60 players to battle uber versions of some of Sanctuarys most nefarious bosses. While the rewards for defeating these bosses will be great, some assembly is required.
New System: Monster Power
Similar to the Players 8 command in Diablo II, the Monster Power system is designed to give players more control over how challenging enemies are in each difficulty.
Did anyone see this for the upcoming 1.0.5 patch? Seems to me they are adding the "Ubers" from D2 into the game:
So, D2 took until LOD and on (5-6 years ish) to be where it is today. D3 has been out 3-4 months and they are about to almost make everything in D3 equivalent to what was in D2. Only missing PvP and lack of an AH.
Interesting...
D3 is still missing rewarding game play.
What rewarding Gameplay did D2 have beyond loot?
Please tell me.
Most people love the loot and feel that is what D3 is missing (I don't feel that way but that is a popular sentiment on battle.net/incgamers forums). Players want better loot easier (i.e. drop rates for good rares and legendary's much much higher).
Anyone who truly, and I mean truly played D2, knows it could take 50-100 Bael runs to even find 1 AMAZING piece. Gear didn't come that easy. Just took time. Which now is basically what D3 is as monsters are getting weaker each patch and people are given more ways to get stronger to destroy things.
Anyone who truly, and I mean truly played D2, knows it could take 50-100 Bael runs to even find 1 AMAZING piece. Gear didn't come that easy. Just took time. Which now is basically what D3 is as monsters are getting weaker each patch and people are given more ways to get stronger to destroy things.
Someone put it nicely earlier. The Ah shows how amazing items are, so when you don't find as amazing of an item, it feels meh. Instead of in D2, you basically only saw what you had and what people personally showed off.
seems nothing is selling on AH anymore, i'm sure a lot of that is the paragon farming everyone is doing on the main character. nobody is gearing up their alts.