[Official] Diablo III Information and Discussion Thread - Page 543

2 handed, vs dual, vs shield +1h isnt the issue, its having gear thats actually good

things you want

+damage
+strength
+armor
+vitality
+attack speed

those will help you survive the most

+health on hit or kill is also good if you are looking for other specs

the life steal works on ALL hits DH does, right?

mostly interested in interactions with rapid fire (would be pretty awesome if i can get massive life steal that way)

I kind of wish blizzard write their skill tooltips with more elaborations so that we can do our maths right, for example the first few runes of entangling shot (or whatever it was) has one that let you attack 4 enemies at a time instead of 2, the rune after it says it will shoot lightning shots.

Now since its the rune AFTER the 4-hit rune, I would assume the damage that the lightning adds is decent, however without actually numbers or percentages, we are just blinding going with our feelings like "hmm....i still like the idea of slowing 4 enemies at the same time instead of 2" or "that lightning damage gotta be great, I'm just gonna use that rune because its a later rune, gotta be an upgrade right?"

I'll try that.


When you say attack skills, are you also pertaining to secondary attacks that are equipped to the mouse right-click?

Gotcha in the percentage. So for monks, how do you actually compute/know the total DPS?

Right, thanks.

Oops, I am sorry Kev, i should have said dexterity instead of strength, i thought barb not monk

personally, i advise against this if someone is just playing the game in normal mode for the first time. normal mode is pretty easy and if someone is having a hard time, i say take it as a challenge. AH takes away a lot from the game by overpowering whatever character you are using. at least up until nightmare difficulty. ive yet to try hell and above.

I cant believe so few play Witch Doctor, by far one of the best survival + crowd control class I've tried out. Pretty darn fun to play, although against single targets, eg. bosses, I would probably suggest other class.

One of the achievements is to go weaponless in hell -- I can't wait for that...

And another thing...The dungeons are random...So, even when you "clear" normal entirely...You're not actually done.

Each instance is completely random...For example, I reset my game on purpose just to spawn another set of dungeons...I think there are 6/7/8/9 something like that and you only get 2 per.

An example of this is defiled crypts in the first area...Those 3 crypts actually randomly rotate and there are 3 completely different events based on which version you get...

I've cleared them with friends about 20 times now and there's still 2 dungeons I have yet to get...

I never really had a problem, then again I played through the beta often so knew what to do...

Remember, Monks are NOT limited to fist weapons. Until you find a good pair, you can use any 1 hander that you like. Stuff with high dps, and preferably some dex/vit. Maybe +health on hit.
For a while, I was even using daggers, since the attack speed was utterly obscene

High dps is key, really.

I'm playing the characters in reverse of popularity

i'm loving the gargantuan and the spirit walk (which let's me escape from jailers and everything).

What rotation are you using so far anyways?