My Witch Doctor plowed through the Spider Queen. The baddies that gave me the most trouble were the bull looking things in the Field of Misery that charge straight at you.
I think I’m learning how to finally play my WD without dying on nightmare; stay away from the things that are killing you. :D
Lots of slowing + lots of poison = death to all.
Naturally, after bitching about it I get right through the encounter.
I didn’t have trouble the entire game as a wizard except on the final boss, in which i died atleast 15 times for some reason :|
Me and my brother one shotted Diablo somehow. We were really close to dying at times, but managed to pull out a victory. The funny thing is we had a much tougher time trying to kill the Butcher. We died at least 5 times. :D
Joe_M
5427
It would appear that rare champions have an enrage that depletes your health bar extremely quickly if you’re in range of it. Unsure if it’s an Inferno-only deal or if you’re just unlikely to run into it because they don’t have enough health in Normal through Hell, but it was an amusing discovery.
I died multiple times on the Act 2 boss with my Demon Hunter, but the Act 3 boss died in under minute thanks to Rapid Fire. Unfortunately, he fired off a fireball right as I killed him, and I neglected to dodge it. As it turns out, those things can kill you in one hit!
This always on server shit drives me crazy. I can’t play my game the last two nights because I’m on a shitty overwhelmed hotel connection and the lag is so bad it’s unplayable. I either die a lot or get booted.
Fuck. This. System.
olaf
5430
Yeah its retarded. So anti-consumer, its really sad.
In an effort to combat piracy things have been becoming more and more unfriendly to consumer, at little detriment to pirates unfortunately.
This is just kind of rough. I was looking forward to the game, and I’m getting it as a gift, but now I don’t want to even attempt an HC character with the always online server dependent.
So playing regular characters I will be.
I’m seriously considering restarting as a Barbarian. I’m just too squishy playing the Demon Hunter. It’s probably not the best class for me.
aeneas
5433
Thats what I’ve done. I eventually got through normal with my DH but died far too many times. I am 2/3rd’s of the way through Act 2 with a Barbarian and have yet to die. Mind you I have got awesome gear on him as a result of the DH play through which is helping.
I love my Barbarian. Except, I suck. The Butcher (on Normal) kicked my ass several times. I guess I have died a few times outside of that and I am nearing the end of Act II. However, I am not patient and rush in more than I should.
My followers are useless.
The secret to effective DHing is staying out of the way of the mobs. I use Vault with the stun rune (and the 60% faster run speed bonus after vaulting), Caltrops with the damage rune, and Fan of Knives with the stun rune on that. That way I can either vault away or slow them enough so that I can just run.
My favorite thing to do is vault into the middle of a large pack, drop a caltrops, hit FoK, vault out again and then rapid fire the survivors. Works amazingly well if you have enough DPS.
Follower’s really just provide support - they don’t deal a lot of damage directly. The templar is nice because he can heal, tank, and provides faster resource generation for example.
Also Tyjenks, I actually tried to reply to your message about you buying Diablo III but you are set to “offline” so I couldn’t, not sure if you were aware of that. I hope your enjoying it! :)
LMN8R
5437
The Butcher was incredibly easy for me with a barbarian on normal. I just kept whacking him with Frenzy, Hammer of the Ancients + Smash, Leap + Iron Impact (which adds armor), and Revenge. Add the Ruthless passive skill in there, and I had a huge change for critical hits, huge DPS, and plenty of armor too.
aeneas
5438
Yeah you are right no doubt. I found execution of that strategy difficult on a regular basis…
RichVR
5439
I haven’t tried the other two companions. The Paladin fits my Monk perfectly. And if I need to there’s that spirit companion as well. Sure they don’t have a lot of DPS but they can tie up a few baddies. And honestly, right now a Monk with all rare items doesn’t seem to need companions.
Pogo
5440
No, see, you take one character to Act 2, and then immediately roll a new character and give him gear and get him to act 2, and then you roll yet another character and give him gear and get him to act 2.
Rinse and repeat until you have 4-5 characters at Nightmare!
