I still farm it somewhat when messing around trying new builds or some easy gold if you need help or get bored of soloing which I do often.

Back to messing with barb been doing a dps/tank hybrid which is oddly doing very well. Though it needs a lot of upgrades it's all ready doing 200k crits(well with wraith of the berserker up) with 1 hand axe and shield with almost 10k armor and 500 resist. With upgrades though I could see it being very promising in Acts 3-4. Anyways was off subject but if you need a farming buddy or help Darkakuma#1450.

farm act 1 with a good magic find set. its the best by far. I can say this because i have gotten thru all acts in inferno even can do ponyland with 0 deaths and act 1 steamrolling with magic find is by far the best. Especially with the new magic find info(well not new but new incite on old info)

yeah but people aparantly have tested and it does indeed increase the quaility of an item. Magic find increases the amount of affixes the item has and thus making for a better chance of getting a better overall item.

Honestly in terms of farming i would say skip act 2 all together because imo the packs are way to spread out to even kill a decent amount in a decent amount of time.

Yes if u can farm act 3 in 15-20min then by all means do that, but at that point im pretty sure u either must really love this game or are simply farming for money to get via RMAH, because your gear is most likely going to be crazy sitting at over 100k damage. And at that point im just like well you beat the game what more is left for u to do.


Oh and also (this is just for me) in terms of magic find runs without the previous info and just stating that Magic find increases the quantity of a blue/gold item wearing 300 magic as opposed to nothing-150 is a big difference. And i rather get 2-3 sometimes 4 rares on a pack rather then 1-2 sometimes 3. Yes there is a higher chance for ilvl63 in act 3 but it still drops lvl 50's trash also. Like i said its just me, i have no math or testing to back it up or anything but i mean i would only say farming act 3 is better then act 1 if you can completely steamroll it in full magic find gear or they made it where not only is there a higher % of ilvl63 but also a minimum ilvl gear that can drop.

Its nothing like getting an immune minion/fast soul ripper pack just to be rewarded with a lvl 55 and a lvl 60 rare.

Oh i wasnt aware of the nerf but again i havent really played much less done act 3+ for awhile now.

ANd yeah u could always just switch i guess if thats what you like. its not hard or anthing just annoying really and sometimes depending on the mob/affixes gets u killed. Well depending on the gear of course.

But yeah to each his own, i say whatever works for you do it. I just know for me with the amount of trash that this game gives you even in act 3 and 4 and ponyland i rather eliminate ALL risk of death and make my runs 10-15mins at max and just hope to get a lvl 63 and then have it not be crap then dealing with the harder stuff, maybe having a few deaths, gotta actually pay attention to the game and try and then still get crap.

I just dont think doing 10 runs of act 1 and 10 runs of act 3+ should net you the same amount of upgrades/money. I was really let down after i was finally able to farm the harder acts just to be rewarded with the same crap i get in act 1.

In my experience I get way better gear in Acts 2-4. Can farm Act1 all day sometimes and I get nothing but gold for the most part. You must be having way better luck on random generated stats then me. Like weapons I have yet to roll over 1k dps in Act1 but in Act2 yesterday in somewhere between 15-20 pack kills and beliel I rolled 1400 and 1200 dps 2 handers and a 1090ish 1 hander. Also a amulet I sold for 5M had dex and MF or something. Sure that's one of my better runs but it's something I haven't even come close to in Act1.

Though I could just be getting negative because I am getting bored of the game. Well that compiled with the increased graphic lag I have been getting last couple days.

I've read some theories about MF increasing the quality of drops and seen some very suspect math trying to prove it (though the gains seemed minimal and within the realm of normal statistical deviation to me), but I'm fairly certain that Blizzard has said that MF works exactly like it did in Diablo 2, and in Diablo 2 it only affects the chances that a dropped item will be white (normal)> blue (magic)> yellow (rare)> green (set)> or orange (legendary).

That said I've found exactly 1 item in Act I that I would have had to seriously save up for if I wanted to buy it. Somewhat luckily, I suppose, it turned out to be something I wanted to keep (amulet with 230 INT, 52% crit damage, 1 or 2 forgettable stats, and a socket). I'm still pretty much stuck farming Act I though. Made it a bit more than half way through Act 2, but with repairs and selling everything I found I was usually breaking even on money and had to skip certain packs (particularly super fast tiny spiders -- they're just crazy). I really need to work on getting some critical hit chance+ gear with good defensive stats because right now I sort of have crit gear or defensive gear. Very little that has both.

Yeah about the only thing I get in Act1 that might be useful is rings or amulets and even then it's usually to sell and 90% of the time they are below level 60. The ilvl 63's I get are complete junk. Though I basically scrapped my MF gear. Was just getting annoying at least when solo because 1 crit on barb with wrath up can randomly kill a whole pack. Maybe not one but they are going down in 5-10 seconds unless it's something HELP I AM TRAPPED IN 2006 PLEASE SEND A TIME MACHINE like those undead witch things that like to run halfway across the map.

Though in the same respect Act 2-3 last couple days has been a death feast. Been taking absurd amounts of damage that I am not completely understanding. Not so much melee mobs but ranged mobs are lighting me up. Like the undead skeleton archers in Act 3 taking almost 1/3 of my life per attack? Don't remember it doing it before and I had less armor and resist. Swear I am getting some weird hidden diminished returns or something.

Either way think I might just step away from the game until some new stuff is released and I get a new comp. Between the lag and getting better gear just to do worse is not making me happy. I say that though I am very stubborn don't like giving up but it's starting to get on my nerves.

If u need help progressing just let me kno i think u already on my friends list. i might get back into the game.. Found a good WD pet build i might give a try with stacking CC and bleeds.. figured it would be a nice change of pace.

I kno i personally like dying, but dying with purpose. Dont like to just die then have to pay a large repair bill just so mobs drop more trash.

I'm experiencing the same thing in act 2 and 3, I can faceroll act 2 before but ever since they did some patch last week. The packs in act 2 are giving me trouble and sometime even kills me a few time before I can take it down, then act 3 I don't know what the *** going on the normal mobs now hit me for huge damage and can sometime kill me if there are too many around. I swear they ninja nerfed LoH or nerfed resist because it don't make sense before the patch I was doing fine with 998 RA /w buff then I upgraded to 1058 RA w/buff with the same 6.9k armor and now I get my *** raped by white mobs in act 3.

I dunno about liking to die lol.. but yeah I don't rage or anything because of it. Guess I was just hoping I wouldn't need to revert to full defense mode when in a group. Think I just need to reup gear more for the current build to be effective. Which I mean I completely destroy act1 even with my graphic lag I can pull the butcher to a corner toss wrath up and kill him before it wears off.

Just act3 when in group I am getting raped. Which I think with some gear upgrades I can fix it and maintain the current dps build I am trying to run. Little more vit, lifesteal, and maybe regen/LoH. Used to think lifesteal was a joke until I started crit'ing for over 100k.
Guess I will just suck it up and try to farm gold/gear again for a couple days.

Yeah I am starting to think the same. Even pulled wizard out this morning and messed around in act3 with trouble. Which I didn't have before. I thought it might of just been me being rusty though.

Well not just playing to die, but i like the difficult part of the game rather the just steamrolling thru everything and then its just a complete farm fest of things u can do while watching netflix and actually paying attention to a convo about hair with your gf. Much how i do act 1 lol. i like that its harder and u actually die in act 3 and 4 but i would just like to be rewarded for doing so.

That's one act1 run today. Did a little more then usual because Mitosis joined in after I had 5 stacks and wasn't sure what areas he liked etc.
Generally I just do cemetery, woods, tower in highland if up, then warden/butcher. Have done this run dunno about 20 times today and other then some GF boots for DH it's all been junk.

Did Act2 runs a couple times last night sticking to areas that I don't graphic lag and wasn't much better. Still have issue's with Act3 though taking way more damage. Gear could be better but really starting to wonder if Act3 mobs were buffed or un-nerfed since patch 1.03.

Any thoughts on these two?

The hands are certainly Monk Hands since they have a passive ability that equates their highest resistance to equal all resistance. and the Dex is nice then add the crit. A few million easy if not more.

As far as the ring its really good too since people are now stacking any Crit stat now so its a Barb ring. So that could easily break a million also.

Both are decent but could be better. Gloves can stack IAS, crit hit/damage along with higher main stat, base armor and I like vit when possible too but that's a personal choice. Ring is nice for a hybrid dps/MF set I suppose if your not into swapping. If your just looking to sell I just look up similar gear and adjust it accordingly.

so i got tired of dying on my wiz (on tank build, cuz im pretty bad at it). so decided to go back on my DH.

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Evilfish-1601/hero/9172124

46k DPS
crit chance 39.5
crit dmg 206
1733 dex
641 vit
220-250 resist all

This is my current gear/skills (im pretty much glass cannon. i interchange shatter shot and devouring arrow alot)

Im not sure which gear i should upgrade next. Any suggestion?

(also, is there a way to survive those wing beast that spit fire in act3 inferno? they always oneshot me >.<)

Edit: i only have 1mil gold cuz farming act1 is really not bringing me alot of income >.<

You're probably going to want more res all than that, and what's your armor at? For my own DH, I'm just trying to get to the point where I can survive more than 2 hits in A3 from normal mobs before progressing any more. My monk wades through everything, but I can't even finish the first A3 quest on DH, makes me sad.

i have 3.5k armor.

Edit: how much Resist All should i be aiming for?

what class?

cuz probably like 900+ >_>

im a DH. i didnt think DH needed that much armor (especially since im playing glass cannon style)

o...if you're a glass cannon. then screw armor/resists, more dps! kill everything in 1~2 shots :D


(but shouldn't really do that >_> if you want to farm inferno effectively)