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My first ever God tier primal. Re-rolled AD -> CHD and now I've got an item that's actually better than the top leaderboard Crusaders'! I was gonna augment everything 85 this season, but for this item I've just gotta do 100. Anything less would just be wrong.
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mewse posted:The leveling performance of the different classes is all hosed up and they're not spending dev dollars trying to fix it when you can get powerleveled to 70 in 20 minutes. Following up on this, I jumped back onto my Monk tonight and suddenly had no problem killing stuff and snowballed through a bunch of bounties and such and she's doing just dandy.  It might have literally come down to switching to a different resource builder. Either that or I just numbersed my way past the early hard speedbump.
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This is my first season ever. I have a Sunwuko monk that can do GR95 comfortable enough but seems to not have the DPS to push higher. I'm at a bit of a loss on how to improve the character beyond a few more Caldesanns though it will be nigh on impossible to get a better amulet and rings than my current non-Ancient ones. Is 95 considered high? I'd like to be able to clear a 100. https://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Mills-6466/hero/96717237 Mills fucked around with this message at 03:03 on Jan 3, 2018 |
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Jan 3, 2018 01:39
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95 is pretty drat good. How quickly do you do it and do you have augmented gear? Augments are really necessary to push the upper echelons and often it's better to run lower rifts because it's so much faster.
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Mills posted:This is my first season ever. I have a Sunwuko monk that can do GR95 comfortable enough but seems to not have the DPS to push higher. I'm at a bit of a loss on how to improve the character beyond a few more Caldesanns though it will be nigh on impossible to get a better amulet and rings than my current non-Ancient ones. Is 95 considered high? I'd like to be able to clear a 100. Occy ring on your follower is mandatory, it's a 75-85% dmg buff when you're in the circle. I prefer templar for heals+spirit regen, throw tfury/occy ring/unity/templar token (upgrade yellow tokens from blacksmith till you get an invincibility one). Gear wise I think you're fine, but I would roll your vengeful wind 10% dmg to life per hit. Drop the belt for a witching hour, Kyoshiro's Soul doesn't really do much since you only lose sweeping wind stacks when you don't attack mobs. Just get in the habit of tapping sweeping winds when you enter/leave new levels. I'd start looking for a unity ring on your monk, I think hardcore uses zodiac, softcore can go for more damage.
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GTJustin posted:Occy ring on your follower is mandatory, it's a 75-85% dmg buff when you're in the circle. I prefer templar for heals+spirit regen, throw tfury/occy ring/unity/templar token (upgrade yellow tokens from blacksmith till you get an invincibility one). The belt is helpful when you die on a boss. It can be a huge pain in the rear end to otherwise get your stacks back. But I suppose the answer is to never die.
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I switched to Kyoshiro just because I'm lazy on GR85 and below but I do have a Witching Hour (although at 32% CHD and 6% AS it could be improved). Off the top of my head I clear GR85 in 5 minutes. I can do GR80 in 3 minutes. Something like that anyway. My attempt at GR96 had me reach the boss with 2 minutes to spare and I couldn't seem to down him, seemed like a huge buff over GR95. The one thing I've noticed with this Vengeful Wind compared to my previous (which had 2800 damage listed instead of 3000, and CDR instead of AD) is that I do significantly more area damage but the cooldowns don't quite pop as often as I'd like (which is not a surprising effect given the stat change but it's actually quite noticeable which did surprise me). I take your points regarding the Templar and his gear so I'll look at making changes there.
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I've done a 102 in 13:30~ with slightly worse gear, but I have: 4 more 90 augments, slightly higher legendary gems (102 bane of the trapped, 95 stricken 98 zei's), 70~ more paragon, unity equipped, an 85% oculus ring on my templar (it's like having a second CoE Fire rotation), and life per hit on one of my weapons. I'm also using Kyoshiro's Soul because I'm lazy.
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Thorg posted:I've done a 102 in 13:30~ with slightly worse gear, but I have: 4 more 90 augments, slightly higher legendary gems (102 bane of the trapped, 95 stricken 98 zei's), 70~ more paragon, unity equipped, an 85% oculus ring on my templar (it's like having a second CoE Fire rotation), and life per hit on one of my weapons. I'm also using Kyoshiro's Soul because I'm lazy. OK cool that is great to know. Do you find the LOH necessary? I saw GTJustin recommended it too. I have a hard time working out what 10% Damage on weapon actually translates to in game.
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Mills posted:OK cool that is great to know. Do you find the LOH necessary? I saw GTJustin recommended it too. I have a hard time working out what 10% Damage on weapon actually translates to in game. I think it's pretty helpful yeah. If you're surviving without it I guess you can hold off on using it.
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I took the re-roll costs on that weapon to 5 mio per roll to get the 10% damage, and passed up perfect CDR several times along the way which is what I had thought the alternative was going to be!
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I started this season a bit late, went Necromancer because hey I bought him but never tried him out. Got to around 68 and just gave up and switched to WD, I know the Necro is really good eventually but man he's painful right now. The season set for WD was Arachyr's which I already knew was a really loving good set, because firebats. Boy am I glad I switched! Managed to find Channeling Shoulders around 40 and then a perfectly usable loving Bakuli belt at 61 which I could never even loving find the last season I played. As soon as I hit 70 I got the Traveler's set, and then got an ancient Chiro staff for speed-farming, and then just earlier I got an ancient Soul Harvester for GRs. I just need to find a Vile Hive, Lakumba bracers, and Ring of Emptiness and I'm set to hit up at least GR 60 and start the slow grind to 70 to unlock those extra ancient drops or whatever.
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Mills posted:I took the re-roll costs on that weapon to 5 mio per roll to get the 10% damage, and passed up perfect CDR several times along the way which is what I had thought the alternative was going to be! It's a good idea to check leaderboards for whatever class you're pushing. Ignore the 5000 paragon/120+augments on primal gear, but do take notice of the gear rolls. Life per hit is usually on a fist or bracers for SWK Monk, can't deal damage if you're dead all the time.
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Back when I started playing, I never knew about adventure mode. Which led to every session being a romp through story mode.
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SmallpoxJenkins posted:Back when I started playing, I never knew about adventure mode. 
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Mills posted:OK cool that is great to know. Do you find the LOH necessary? I saw GTJustin recommended it too. I have a hard time working out what 10% Damage on weapon actually translates to in game. My understanding is 10% damage , especially on just one weapon, is bad for dual wielding. Ideal stats would be dex, cdr, ad, loh on both weapons. Then if you can’t do that then try To maximize CDR and AD while getting LOH on one weapon at least.
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The ecstasy of unlocking the first three tiers of season goodies for my monk, the agony of realizing I have a long way to go before I can even think of attempting a level 20 grift to get the final bunch.
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Doing the GR20 for chapter 4 really isn't that much of a stretch in difficulty beyond running regular T1 rifts. Mob damage goes up, but its hp doesn't anywhere near as much. It just seems more daunting than it really is.
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Hobold posted:Doing the GR20 for chapter 4 really isn't that much of a stretch in difficulty beyond running regular T1 rifts.  Also for monk specifically, abuse exploding palm with a slow 2h mace and you should get a GR20 down pretty quick
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I mean, GR20 is the equivalent of T4, yeah? Knocking out Urzael and the Keywardens involved me kiting around and abusing the hell out of seven-sided strike because nothing else would put a dent in enemies. 
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GRs are set up with fixed damage, but severely diminished HP, because they balanced it around 4 manning them. So when running it solo, mobs have a fraction of the HP that they would in regular rifts, or out in bounties. You're just going to have to watch damage spikes, avoid standing in poo poo and be careful. e; I might be explaining this wrong. Gist is, GR20 is easier than T4 rifts.
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John Murdoch posted:I mean, GR20 is the equivalent of T4, yeah? Knocking out Urzael and the Keywardens involved me kiting around and abusing the hell out of seven-sided strike because nothing else would put a dent in enemies. Are you using a build designed for it? Each season I've done that unlock as soon as it's available and have never come close to failing.
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Oh, okay. I didn't know about the fractional health thing and I wasn't in a rush to waste a keystone to find out. I'm using the cookie-cutter set build that brings a nice chunk of survivability on top of the main nuke combo, so it sounds like I'm better off than I thought. Still need 1-2 gem recipes too tho. 
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Yeah, it should be easy. Do an act 1 bounty(s) for the gem plans. Then you have a chance of getting RROG which is always helpful.
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My wife and I just started playing again, but we're on PS4. Is there any way to join you guys?
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Each console and the pc are segregated environments. There are some co aolw guys in here though who might speak up. Not sure if they are Xbox or PS4.
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Turns out I still needed to run a handful of g-rifts to unlock level 20 in the first place, but that's chapter 4 all done now.  Thanks for the help, guys.
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John Murdoch posted:Turns out I still needed to run a handful of g-rifts to unlock level 20 in the first place, but that's chapter 4 all done now. For future reference, you can run the equivalent Nephalem Rift to unlock GR levels (up to T13/GR60-ish). If you complete a T4, you will unlock GR20/21.
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Thorg posted:Oh Challenge Rift, I thought you had a decent character this week but you tricked me. I looked at the Crusader's gear and it seemed fine. Roland's with the set flail/shield. Decently rolled gear, high paragon, decent regular/legendary gems. Good god, do people actually build squishy characters like this on non-Hardcore? I get that dying it's not the end of the world if it lets you push higher ranks earlier, but we're talking instagibbing on the first pack of trash in a GR55. On a semi-related note, I've started my Crusader on Roland's because that's all the game feels like giving me. It was okay, until I unlocked the 6-piece set. Now it's just loving awful because the massive attack speed means I'm always out of Wrath. 
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Jan posted:Good god, do people actually build squishy characters like this on non-Hardcore? I get that dying it's not the end of the world if it lets you push higher ranks earlier, but we're talking instagibbing on the first pack of trash in a GR55. You gotta bunch of dudes and flail away at the big pack to maintain wrath regen. You should always be full if you have all the gear. You do have all the right gear?
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A Buff Gay Dude posted:You gotta bunch of dudes and flail away at the big pack to maintain wrath regen. You should always be full if you have all the gear. You do have all the right gear? Not remotely, no -- the Crusader is just a side thing to blow blood shards on when my Wizard gets full. I don't have Golden Fleece, so I use Provoke to refill Wrath... But since I also only have 5/6 Roland's, that means I subbed out cubed Zodiac for RoRG and Provoke doesn't happen nearly as often anymore. Just your regular gear grind... 
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Jan posted:Good god, do people actually build squishy characters like this on non-Hardcore? I get that dying it's not the end of the world if it lets you push higher ranks earlier, but we're talking instagibbing on the first pack of trash in a GR55. Someone on reddit suggested the build is probably something he threw together for the Years of War conquest (complete 6 55 grifts with different sets.)
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A Buff Gay Dude posted:You gotta bunch of dudes and flail away at the big pack to maintain wrath regen. You should always be full if you have all the gear. You do have all the right gear?
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would someone mind taking a look at my gear and making similar recommendations (that aren't just switch to Sunwoko's): https://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/SonOfADiddly-1736/hero/95516164 I made it this far in the season journey:  that set dungeon will be the end of that, though. must have tried 25 times to beat that piece of poo poo. this is my first seasonal character ever and im not sure what else to do with her. i seem to be topping out around GR67 in 14:30.
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boar guy posted:would someone mind taking a look at my gear and making similar recommendations (that aren't just switch to Sunwoko's): Have you not enchanted anything? Using eye of etlich instead of traveler's pledge is hurting you a lot.
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mewse posted:Have you not enchanted anything? Using eye of etlich instead of traveler's pledge is hurting you a lot. i can't get the goddamn traveler's pledge to drop  and no, no enchants. not really sure how they work.
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Ok here's how I'd enchant your uliana gear: Lion's claw: attack speed to CDR. replace the purple gem with an emerald. Fist of az: spirit regen to area damage. Hat: LTK to EP Shoulders: all resist to CDR Gloves: all resist to CDR Chest: all good rolls CoE ring: vit to CDR Bracers: lightning dmg to cold dmg Belt: crippling wave to literally anything else Legs: way of the hundred fists to something else Boots: LTK to EP Change the emeralds in your chestpiece for diamonds
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much obliged  edit: i mean christ the goddamn fist of azturrasq didnt even drop until like, GR65
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Neck: holy to crit chance Compass rose: movement speed to CDR?? if possible? or vit to CDR e: and at least you've got both unity rings. that's what took me forever this season mewse fucked around with this message at 23:58 on Jan 3, 2018 |
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