Maybe it’s my builds, lol. Doing T4 even in set pieces and legendaries stuff does not die fast at all. Even on my Wizard. And on a Crusader–it takes years at Master to kill anything.
Daagar
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Are you doing a thorns build, Wombat? It is a different playstyle - you really want as much attacking you at once as possible, so everything ends up taking thorns damage (usually fed by spamming Punish+Celerity). It took me a while to understand this, because I was mostly playing in groups previously so things weren’t always focused on me, so killing was painful. Once I went solo and gathered up entire screens, things began to melt.
This season I’m focusing on yet another Wizard and a WD. The Wizard I’m running a few pieces of Firebirds and odds and ends I’ve found, using Disintegrate with the cubed proc that fires off whatever other spender (in this case, Blizzard) I have slotted for free, plus Slow Time, Magic Weapon, and Storm Armor. Paperdoll DPS is about 400k. T1 is easy but TTK is not optimal at all. But the gear is simply not dropping.
I hate the Crusader, and simply don’t play it much. I have HC 70s in all the classes (two of each usually so I have to kill them off for Seasons) but I really only play the casters much.
Blessed Hammer/Limitless and then whatever you can do to gain Wrath can kill relatively effectively, but it’s definitely a different playstyle.
I leveled primarily with some variation on:
Slash/Smite
Shield Bash/Pound (or whatever, really, the rune isn’t terribly important)
Phalanx/Bowmen
Steed Charge/Endurance
Laws of Valor/Unstoppable Force
…something else, often Falling Sword of some variety. Condemn and Heaven’s Fury are also good, or Akarat if you need long-cooldown burst rather than medium-cooldown sustained murderpower.
General-purpose gearing advice applies: Pick up crit wherever you can, 5x sockets in armor/pants if possible, get your 25% movespeed between gear and paragon, an emerald in your weapon, diamond in your helm (some classes/builds prefer amethyst, but crusaders should pretty much always go diamond IMO), and do your thing.
e: hah, posted this before I saw Wombat say he hates his Crusader anyway. Oh well!
Nah, good stuff, thanks. I pretty much do these things, but the Crusader doesn’t click with me. I’ve leveled a couple to 70 in HC but, eh, never play 'em much. Just not my cup of tea I guess.
Mostly, I know what I should be doing in Diablo III, but either I get bored before I can make it all happen or my wrist starts to hurt again. This game kills my right arm for some reason.
Lantz
4886
Amulets are always frustrating. I was about 14 hours paragon 60ish before a single one dropped and then I got 4 in an hour.
Almost cheaper to get yellow amulets and then use the cube to upgrade them to legendary/set items.
Than buying them from Kadala, anyway.
Oghier
4888
Yep. Kadala is great for armor and offhands (orbs, quivers, shields). She’s a bad bargain for accessories or weapons. Those are best made in the cube, upgrading yellows you forge at the smith or the jeweler.
Here’s some info on class distribution for Season 5. Looks like DHs are on the outs, and most people playing solo are doing Crusaders or Wizards. This is from diablorank.com.
I want to push myself to try to like something other than Wizards and Witch Doctors. I really like the idea of the Crusader and Barabarian, for example, but they’ve never clicked with me. And the DH, while initially the character I most wanted to play when the game released, was a huge disappointment for me. I’ve never gotten the hang of it, and more, I’ve never really “felt” it. But it seems so cool, in theory.
I’ve been playing the Thorns crusader build that’s been linked a few times and man is it an absolute blast. I did all the steps to get the Invoker six piece and am now farming T6 rifts for items/gold/mats before I try digging into the cube system to try and get the rest of my gear up. The only part of the season journey I have left to get the portrait frame and pet is the damnable set dungeon. I walk in and just get murdered. My gear just doesn’t leave me survivable enough to take the hits that are required yet. But overall I haven’t had this much fun in D3 in ages.
Yeah, T6 is a bit too squishy for that Crusader set dungeon. Think I mastered it once I was easily clearing T8.
Still, nothing beats DH’s for rift speed-clearing goodness.
I am just a handful of gem levels and a second conquest away from the free stash tab. Managed to solo GR45 with no set items for the first conquest, now just working on setting up an Avarice run (50mill gold streak outside of the Vault). I have GF gear in my inventory, so when I finally run into a Gilded Baron in a TX bounty or rift, it should pop. Otherwise I’ll need to set up a run through Ruins of Corvus or something.
Do you even need goldfind for the conquest on a TX Gilded Baron?
shang
4894
Nope (at least not much). I just got it from a TX Baron without any specific +gold gear.
So I decided to only play hardcore for season 5 and rolled up a wizard. I started the campaign because I never completed it in HC and its predictably tedious. In the new patch, is there any reason at all to play the campaign?
Achievements I guess. Not sure why else you’d do it.
Yeah, other than achievements (and a couple of the conquests), pretty much no reason. Leveling is faster in bounties/rifts. Faster leveling generally means faster clearing, more drops and faster advancement. From memory first boss kills on a story run through guarantee a legendary, so that may be worth something while leveling.
Also, HC would be less risky with pure bounties, as you get to choose your battles instead of hitting a boss wall. Bounties also naturally start generating the bounty mats you need so you have some post 70 when you start using the cube in earnest.
I know I have asked this before, but is any admin of the QT3 guild actively playing at the moment?
Otherwise it would be handy to pass the reigns to a regular. There a few of you playing I don’t think are in the DIII QT3 guild…
Don’t you have to finish the campaign in order to unlock Adventure Mode in non-Seasonal play?
Yes, but you only have to do that once for both soft and hardcore. Once it is done, it is done, so you don’t need to do it in a new season.
