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Stumbled across this last night. (No pic)

Ring

110 Int
120 Vit
68 Resist All

Anyone know if this is the kind of this a wiz would get chuffed with? Not sure if resis all is of interest to range?

Thinking I'll take my first dive into the RMAH tonight.
 
CliffyG said:
Anyone playing a witch doctor? I'm level 34 and just walked through the skelly king on nightmare. At the moment i have the following skills:

Primary: Poison Darts + triple shot rune
Secondary: AOE Root + reduced cooldown
4 x Zombie Dogs
Gargantuan with enrage
AOE dmg increase per mob hit with + heal
Swarm aoe with extra jumps

Passives are reduced damaged, increased life for pets and the one that lets me take a death shot.

Seems to give me enough single target damage with poison darts and the root and swarm spells eat through trash mobs in no time. I have a feeling my pets will become useless later on though as even now it's unlikely all the dogs live past a blue mob and the cooldown is so long they barely feature against bosses. The gargantuan seems pretty tough though and i've rarely had to resummon during fights. Anyone have any suggestion for maximising damage?
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Zombie dogs are pointless at the moment, I'd replace them with Zombie Wall or Spirit Walk. I still use the Gargantuan in Inferno act 1, it falls quite quick to champion packs but I normally use it as a distraction.

Swarm is very good however it's got such a short range it causes problems at later levels when you want to keep distance. Try using Rain of Toads or Acid Cloud as your main aoe damage. Rain of Toads can also hit fast moving targets as it has a very quick cast time so it's great for kiting.

If you want to use pets then try the following out:

Gargantuan > Big Stinker Rune
Zombie Dogs > Burning Dogs Rune
Corpse Spiders > Spider Queen Rune
Plague of Toads > Rain of Toads

Stack Stun, Freeze, Fear, Chill, Slow on hit items, you don't need much of it. WD pets and passive effects trigger the on hit effects of items, with the above you can lock down targets easily.
 
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Had a tool around with my DH this morning, even with the bits I have sold off i was at 60kdps and whilst I could kill stuff in Act 3, it just didnt feel fun any more. They have really killed it for me tbh, so just listed everything again on the ah and will maybe come back in the future once they have stopped screwing around with it.

Kiting a pack for 5 mins was fine whilst I was playing through for the first time but becomes horribly tedious when doing it for the 200th time. The fact that packs regen when off screen now if you die just rubs salt into the wounds. The change to nether tentacles has made reflect damage packs a total chore rather than the annoyance they were previously. Add in extra health and/or shielding and its bordering on masochism to even attempt.

I hear the barbarians are owning now. Have fun with it whilst it lasts coz no doubt whatever it is that makes the game fun for you will get nerfed into the ground soon.

So yeah, screw Bliz I'll take my cash and maybe come back when you have stopped ****** with the game!
 
So does anyone have the issue with the launcher getting stuck at Initializing and not downloading the 1.0.3 patch? I've got a EU client installed from the disc and I now can't get in the game...
 
MooMoo444 said:
Bashiok will get the sack if he keeps up.

He's supposed to be a community manager and do his best to keep everyone happy, but he just trolls and insults people as of late.
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I'd be happy if I could find his frigging boss. I've had that stupid Blade in my stash for ages now in the hope he'd turn up eventually but no such luck.

Brok said:
I hear the barbarians are owning now. Have fun with it whilst it lasts coz no doubt whatever it is that makes the game fun for you will get nerfed into the ground soon.

So yeah, screw Bliz I'll take my cash and maybe come back when you have stopped ****** with the game!
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Sounds convincing. I just powered my way through Act III on Hell but then I think I have a few pieces of 60 gear and a 1000 dps 2H sword to thank for that. Fully buffed (w/ Battle Rage, Frenzy x5 and max Fury) I'm currently at 40.5k dps. Looking forward to trying out Inferno.
 
Dr Delphi said:
So does anyone have the issue with the launcher getting stuck at Initializing and not downloading the 1.0.3 patch? I've got a EU client installed from the disc and I now can't get in the game...
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Find the folder program data, it's a hidden folder on your main drive and delete the whole battle.net folder. if it won't let you force close agent.exe in task manager and try again. should install fine after that.
A friend had the same problem last night, strange that it still happens now, would have though they would fix it from beta.
 
Last night was ridiculous, In 3 hours I managed to rack up over 120K in just repair costs :eek:

I've taken a huge hit to my IAS and DPS - Well played Blizzard. I'm going to take a break until this **** clears up.
 
VelvetAcid said:
Zombie dogs are pointless at the moment, I'd replace them with Zombie Wall or Spirit Walk. I still use the Gargantuan in Inferno act 1, it falls quite quick to champion packs but I normally use it as a distraction.

Swarm is very good however it's got such a short range it causes problems at later levels when you want to keep distance. Try using Rain of Toads or Acid Cloud as your main aoe damage. Rain of Toads can also hit fast moving targets as it has a very quick cast time so it's great for kiting.

If you want to use pets then try the following out:

Gargantuan > Big Stinker Rune
Zombie Dogs > Burning Dogs Rune
Corpse Spiders > Spider Queen Rune
Plague of Toads > Rain of Toads

Stack Stun, Freeze, Fear, Chill, Slow on hit items, you don't need much of it. WD pets and passive effects trigger the on hit effects of items, with the above you can lock down targets easily.
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I just find every primary other than poison darts so slow. Pet's i'm not too fussed about fully utilising but want to keep the gargantuan. My templar companian is pretty good at keeping agro too. I guess i just want to get the most damage out of my remaining slots.

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I want to keep the AOE snare too.
 
Anksy said:
its the first time in 3 weeks that my auction list is ''10 of 10'', ive undercut by 50-100k on each item, and none have sold, the gear is also high int, vit, res, which is the most sort after atm, it doesn't look good tbh, im currently searching the net for other games to play :(, i didn't think this would happen so soon.
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What's the high int/vit/res gear you have...may be interested!
 
Last night I did act 2 inferno with two friends and we cleared the whole act in about 3 hours. I died the most due to my glass cannon dh build but I managed to make around 300,000 gold. I have 20+ items ready for ah and alts, and I have almost another hundred essence to sell from disenchanting the useless lvl 60 items.I highly recommend farming whole inferno acts with friends now, it's very viable!
 
sharingan_sasuk said:
Took me about an hour to farm all the stuff for the staff:
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whats that location ???



anyone here has a Monk ?
Problems on Inferno ? Im trying different builds but I tend to die quite a lot...and now repair costs are kiling me :/
 
Flickeh said:
Last night I did act 2 inferno with two friends and we cleared the whole act in about 3 hours. I died the most due to my glass cannon dh build but I managed to make around 300,000 gold. I have 20+ items ready for ah and alts, and I have almost another hundred essence to sell from disenchanting the useless lvl 60 items.I highly recommend farming whole inferno acts with friends now, it's very viable!
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exactly, i see inferno as more of a multiplayer difficulty mode and everyones complaining about it being difficult to solo lol
 
CliffyG said:
Anyone playing a witch doctor? I'm level 34 and just walked through the skelly king on nightmare. At the moment i have the following skills:

Primary: Poison Darts + triple shot rune
Secondary: AOE Root + reduced cooldown
4 x Zombie Dogs
Gargantuan with enrage
AOE dmg increase per mob hit with + heal
Swarm aoe with extra jumps

Passives are reduced damaged, increased life for pets and the one that lets me take a death shot.

Seems to give me enough single target damage with poison darts and the root and swarm spells eat through trash mobs in no time. I have a feeling my pets will become useless later on though as even now it's unlikely all the dogs live past a blue mob and the cooldown is so long they barely feature against bosses. The gargantuan seems pretty tough though and i've rarely had to resummon during fights. Anyone have any suggestion for maximising damage?
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I've got a Witch Doctor up to level 54 currently.

Attacks:
Poison Darts with triple shot rune
Acid Cloud with Kiss of Death (used area and duration runes prior)
Horrify with extra armour (for when I get surrounded completely)
Soul Harvest with extra duration rune
Grasp of the dead with 80% slow rune
Gargantuan with restless giant (rage mode!! :D)

Passives:
Gruesome Feast (extra int from health globes)
Spirit Vessel
Vision Quest

I tend to briefly run towards weak mobs first to soul harvest 5 souls wherever possible as this gives approx an extra 500 int currently, pin them with grasp of the dead and spit acid over them. They'll then often then just pop straight away, hopefully drop a few health globes. By this point my Int is approaching 2000 and dps is pretty brutal. Then just work through enemies pinning them down, spraying acid and using darts for the main damage. Keep the Gargantuan spawned wherever possible. Occasionally you'll be able to respawn him mid fight without him dying - this can allow him to enrage quicker so very useful against elites.
 
Flubble said:
exactly, i see inferno as more of a multiplayer difficulty mode and everyones complaining about it being difficult to solo lol
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Yup. I was a bit down earlier in the day trying to do solo siegebreaker runs and failing miserably. Later three of us jumping into act 2 and found really easy, one was a monk and the other a tank spec'd dh. it went really well.

people are welcome to join us, will probably do the same tonight. I forget my battletag, but I added it to the ocuk list that was about when the game was released.
 
Woke up to an email from Blizz this morning.

Check the game and saw this as well :D

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I'm fairly happy with it at the moment. Now to sort out my build and gear as my poor DH just hit inferno and the first elite pack I ran into was Jailer, Arcane,Frozen and Waller :(
 
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