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PinkFloyd said:
Which stage of Belial is killing you? The final stage you should easily be able to avoid being hit by everything except his fire (not sure if the DH evasion moves will dodge that or not)

On the earlier stage I'd have thought with that dps you'd easily wear him down and can just keep some range from him. I don't recall him hitting at all hard there, I've only ever died on the later part when he goes massive!
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Smoke Screen will avoid his breath attack. Other than that everything can be dodged easily if you're moving around a lot and you can always trigger SS or Vault if you get caught in the wrong place. And unless you have zero res and armour, there is no way his breath will 1 hit you with 35k hp.

I had more trouble with his earlier stages but then I was basically 1 step above a glass cannon.
 
Evilsod said:
Any skill that deals 1500% weapon damage over 3 seconds and isn't some sort of ultimate is clearly broken. The fact they call it a bug is laughable when it was quite clearly a stupid change on there part that they didn't really check. Just by reading the change log you could tell that skill was going to be totally broken.

Don't they have people buying cheap legacy sets of Natalyas just for the disc regen so they can spam that skill more?
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Given the cheapest nats ring is about 50 million and you need 3 other piecesvwith cheapest chest with disc being about 30 million its hardly cheap, at which point the arguement about ww barbs relying on expensive gear kind of falls down doesnt it.
 
Evilsod said:
I had more trouble with his earlier stages but then I was basically 1 step above a glass cannon.
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I've always been able to just stand next to him and keep hitting on that bit with my Barb. Used to die on the second stage where rather than dodging on the hands in the floor bit I just tried to tank it! lol.

Thinking about it, I've not got that far with my witch doctor yet iirc.
 
Semiskimmed said:
I wasn't having a pop at anyone on here you know, more the type of wingnut you get on the official forums who moan about x class being op after watching a silly geared character on youtube but just blames the class. I'm sure any class with top line gear can blitz through the game there's that many gear combinations its frustrating at times especially if you have a low budget, which i'm sure fuels the whines.
If the noise around a class is loud enough, it'll get nerfed regardless if its not needed
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Good point. I've got 3 million to spend and my gear isn't even that great and I can't find a single item to replace anything I have currently. The AH has skyrocketed in pricing.

My WD is looking pretty epic though!

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i'm the same really. Not much to upgrade thats not at 100million atm. I thought the price of items would go up. I have thought about levelling up another toon in the us version and see what thats like, as long as the ping is ok lol.

I dont suppose anyone has had or fixed silly amounts of lag on the first time going into combat? I always get it the first time i go into combat but its fine after that. Rather annoying when the first pack is elite! I'm on a ati card if its something to do with graphics cards, tia!
 
Brok said:
Given the cheapest nats ring is about 50 million and you need 3 other piecesvwith cheapest chest with disc being about 30 million its hardly cheap, at which point the arguement about ww barbs relying on expensive gear kind of falls down doesnt it.
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Does that have any relevance to the skill being broken? So it might be gimmicky, its still broken. And I was under the impression the WW barb was supposed to be usable with average gear.

Yeah that is annoying the hell out of me too semiskinned. Every time I load up the game the first fight or 2 are almost unplayable which is great fun when you walk into an elite pack.
 
Not sure what you'd gain from playing on the US server. I'm sure the market will be no different.

I get the lag in first combat, although it doesn't seem as bad as it used to be...
 
PinkFloyd said:
Not sure what you'd gain from playing on the US server. I'm sure the market will be no different.

I get the lag in first combat, although it doesn't seem as bad as it used to be...
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I think there's more items on the US market thus lowering the average value of each item.
 
any idea - why this item in particular is selling well (relatively anyway - for me - 10 hrs left and at 265k) - note other items I've sold have all been sub 10k and "looked to me" - better than this item

just so I know what to look out for in the future

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Evilsod said:
Does that have any relevance to the skill being broken? So it might be gimmicky, its still broken. And I was under the impression the WW barb was supposed to be usable with average gear.

Yeah that is annoying the hell out of me too semiskinned. Every time I load up the game the first fight or 2 are almost unplayable which is great fun when you walk into an elite pack.
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No, but it has relevance when the arguement for not nerfing ww barb is that it needs good gear. Well guess what, so does ToC.

I'm not surprised its getting nerfed, its just not fair to assume that every DH out there is pwning with it in the same way that not every barb is pwning with WW. It needs a specific set of gear to make it more effective than any other build, and with good enough gear you can clear just as fast without it. Sounds familiar no?

Its the 3rd significant nerf to a DH build and you have got to understand people's frustration at the constant rebalancing.

I've grouped with some of the guys on here who have seen this build at work but you have to put it in perspective, I have stupidly good gear and can destroy at almost the same speed with several other builds. Its not accurate to assume every other DH is able to do the same.
 
Buckster said:
any idea - why this item in particular is selling well (relatively anyway - for me - 10 hrs left and at 265k) - note other items I've sold have all been sub 10k and "looked to me" - better than this item

just so I know what to look out for in the future
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It's got high armour, a gem slot, decent crit chance and the two core stats for Barbs (Str and Vit).

So its a good combination of stats - everyone wants a gem slot, and crit chance, added to the very high armour makes it worthwhile.
 
buckster, its got a nice amount of armor, crit, fair str and vit plus the socket. Helms are all about the socket nowadays :)
Was just thinking that the us region is likely larger, i'm not bothered about the rmah much its more about just using my limited gold to upgrade even one piece of gear.

Bah too late :p
 
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could someone spec me an item build for a level 60 monk
havent played since mid-june and have about 2.5mil to play with, i know its not much but i put all my current gear on the AH. i would really love to get into the game again.

so could someone kind enough, tell me what to look for in each item such as,
head - crit chance + vit?
shoulder - ???
amulet - crit dmg ?
bracers - crit dmg + dex?
gloves - crit chance + crit dmg?
chest - dex + all res + another res maybe vit?
belt - as above?
pants - as above again?
boots - as above again?
weapon - dual wield, with 1 having huge dps with crit chance and the other mid dps and lots of life on hit + crit dmg?

thanks in advance :)
 
get a gem slot in the helm with as much crit as possible, with decent amount of dex/vit. Other bits might be high dex and life % on shoulders and belt if its similar to a barb. Other things are life steal if you cant find much loh on your weps. All i can say for sure really
 
Brok said:
Its the 3rd significant nerf to a DH build and you have got to understand people's frustration at the constant rebalancing.
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So what? I'm assuming these other 2 nerfs are Smoke Screen which is crazy overpowered just because of what it does (though I disagree with reducing its duration, they should've given it a recharge time) and this nerf hardly took it off peoples skillbars and the other nerf would be Nether Tentacles? which anyone can tell you was broken because of the way it hit multiple times for massive damage.
 
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