Recovering from a dead character in PoE, I went back to my wizard in Diablo 3. I love how arrogant she is.
I tried to do all the Act V bounties. One of them was to kill Matheil, which would take some doing. I tried it on Torment for about 30 minutes before going to Master difficulty. Another 30 minutes later I finally beat him. The other bounties were easy in comparison. I like that even on Master difficulty, Mathiel requires a lot of dodging and weaving and player skill. If you walk into one of his little clouds, itās instant death. If you get hit by any of his bullet-hell firings, itās instant death. On the other hand, my glass cannon wizard also has some serious fire power, so on Master difficulty I didnāt have to last as long during a fight, which is what pushed me over the edge.
In the back of my head, whenever Iām doing this fight, Iām always wondering āhow will I do this for my eventual hardcore run?ā I dread that moment. Going through that final portal to fight Mathiel, knowing Iām likely going to get my character killed.
Why not bump the difficulty down? Do you enjoy spending 30 minutes on a single boss?
I did bump it down. It was still tough. And yeah, it was enjoyable. Most of the attacks are telegraphed and can be dodged if youāre on your game. I wasnāt last night. But I suspect if I ever play it in hardcore Iāll be playing it on the lowest difficulty possible.
Iām not sure itās possible to die on normal even if you afk.
Just curious by the way, I noticed you said you got a character to level 70 achievement and killing Mathaeil achievement. Did you remember what difficulty you did it on? I would think Normal would take too long because youād earn experience really slowly. So Iām guessing Expert might be the sweet spot?
Yes, I beat Malthael and got a character to level 70 in hardcore. As I recall it wasnāt especially difficult and I do believe I did the whole thing on the lowest difficulty. I also chose the Crusader, assuming that a more defensively oriented character would work better in hardcore - not sure thatās totally valid but it did work for me. But as you say, itās impossible to get to level 70 in one campaign run on normal so I think I did some adventure mode stuff after Malthael to get to 70.
Essentially, I donāt do Mal any more, except when I absolutely have to, like for a chapter requirement in a season. Once Iām playing in the Torments, on HC, I just donāt go near him. Itās certainly feasible to kill him and you will, more often than not, but the risk is just not worth the reward on hardcore. Too many insta-gibs from that boy.
SamS
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Well after all that effort to finish the season and get the Rathma set, I donāt particularly like it. Rather than taking out mobs with corpse lance, Iām babysitting my mages and essence to make sure I can keep at least 3 or 4 of them active to get the big set damage bonus.
I like Rathma much, much better with Devour than Revive.
Get a ring of Naijulās Evol (gamble it with a level 4 necro then cube it). You summon two at a time and it feels way better. Also you can grab the extended servitude passive to keep them around longer.
SamS
6355
I donāt understand what this means.
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make a new character. Make sure it is seasonal (so you can put it in the stash your Rathma necro uses
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level that character to 4 and go back to town (I said necro, and that might be best, but not certain it makes a difference)
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gamble rings at Kadala with the level 4 character (blood shards are shared among all seasonal characters)
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once you get the ring, extract the power into kanaiās cube (if you donāt know about the cube, let us know. We can explain it)
The reason to use a level 4 is that you can get that ring and only a few others. The pool of possible uniques is small, so you have the best shot and it will take fewer shards.
SamS
6357
Ah OK, I know about extracting powers. I didnāt know the trick to shortening the odds at gambling shards.
It works really well if you need a unique that can drop at low level and you are ok with having it in cube.
Now youāve suddenly made me want to look up a list of low level uniques.
Wanna try the hands down laziest build ever in D3? https://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Ultrazen-1639/hero/93212930
Bone armor build, with a bunch of AOE mods. You literally have to cast nothing except bone armor once every 60 seconds to clear TX+ in 2-3 minutes. The ultimate lazy farming build.
As you can see, my gear is fairly horrible, none of itās great, and I can still cakewalk through TX in about 3 minutes without ever casting anything. Iāve been trying to make point blank auto AOE builds forever, the necro is hands down the king for this due to a couple of gear and spec choices. Just plain silly, but so much fun if you just want to zone out and farm mats or level gems.
The bone armor spreads the poison from gem of toxin, + the poison from Andyās helm, + the phys damage from pain enhancer and cold from bone armor, and it gets modified by auto curse, and 5 different damage bonus items. With 15 stacks of bone armor, youāre pretty much invincible as well. You have so much reduced damage, you can stand in bad and not even flinch. When you bother to cast decrepify or bone spirit (which triggers the second CC for Krysbins), you can get another 300% damage on stuff that getās stunned.
TLDR: Ridiculous easymode build.
Edit: Probably the best possible use of convention of elements as well. Necros only have 3 damage types, poison, cold, and phys, and this build has all 3. Bone armor is cold, pain enhance is phys, and then toxin and andyās for poison. Your COE is literally always boosting something. No āwindowsā to keep track of, no timers to worry about, no cooldowns to worry about, zero downtime, and you literally never stop moving. It also one shots TX rift bosses via the magic of standing there.
DeepT
6361
Sounds awesome. I wonder how well it will work with shitty gear.
Kadath
6362
Thatās similar to Zombeaverās LazyStorm
http://www.diablofans.com/builds/93538-inarius-lazystorm-txiii-gr60-70-speedfarm?page=2
Which is what I use. Itās pretty capped around GR75 tho. Iām struggling to go higher
Yah I donāt think itās really a push build, itās just for lazy farming. Push builds all seem to revolve around big cooldowns now.
And to Deep T, I have shitty gear lol.
Daagar
6364
Iām so glad Iām not the only one that plays this way! I always feel bad when I feel Iām not playing right (āoptimallyā). To the point I stop playing sometimes, which is silly.
