[Official] Diablo III Information and Discussion Thread - Page 585

Originally Posted by OC'ing Noob 

Looking at some of those amulets and rings in the AH disgusts me.

Originally Posted by Murlocke 

I got to Inferno about 2 days after launch on my Barb. Still in Act 2. It's brutally hard and requires a crap ton of farming. I got around 140 hours logged already.
At this point, I can now Faceroll Act 1 without trying, but Act 2 is still very very very hard. I'm about 8/10th through it. For comparison, I can kill Diablo in hell in about 40 seconds at this point. Butcher in Inferno takes about 1 minute. No potions, needed anymore.
Still going to be a few days before I can beat Act 2, and Act 3 is going to be even harder and require even more farming.
No you don't, you need better gear. I can tank the butcher and any elite pack in A1 inferno without even using a potion now. I can tank 80% of the things in A2. I'm still pulling 14-30k DPS (unbuffed - buffed including wrath) with my 1H weapon which is capable of killing things very fast, so I really wouldn't say i'm a "tank" by any means.
Keep strength equal to vit, you want to stacks these and keep them within ~100 of each other. Keep dext at about 100-150, then ignore it and start getting intel for resists while still stacking str/vit. You want a bare minimum of 300 to all resists, if you can get about 200, then use the war cry rune to get to 300. Ideally you will want about 900 in resist by the time you are beating Act 3, while still having a huge health pool (50k+) with 8k+ armor. The best gear for us has str/vit/+all resists on it, but they are rare and expensive.
Expect to have about 1200 in resists, 10k armor, 100k HP by the time you are able to beat inferno. Barbs have soloed all of inferno, and that's about what you need. Many people don't even have 1/4th that yet, they need to farm more.
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/barbarian#WRVkPT!VcS!cZccZc
I would be surprised if you can get the game for under $60 in 2012, unless you come across some sale. I could see it not dropping under $50 in 2013. They aren't going to drop the price of a game selling millions at it's current price, it's the fastest selling game of all time.

Originally Posted by Crazy9000 

Ping to servers should not be affected by your PC in any way on a PC capable of running diablo 3 at all. You'd have to be getting under 10fps average for the load on your PC to be high enough to affect the ping.
Also I ping 60 to the OCN CSS server during peak hours. I'll test my ping on off peak and on peak there, and compare it to D3's... I suspect the increased ping is due to an overload on Blizz's end during peak, not on the users. Also, I've pinged German servers at around 250.. that is just insane to see in a connection to a US server.

Originally Posted by AllGamer 

after reading that, it's making me ponder again if i should continue to use the "easy" level up or the "manual stats" level up as in D2
the new method in D3 is balanced across all stats, doing it manually as in D2, you can only focus on 2 stats like Murlocke suggested, and only pump points into STR + VIT

Originally Posted by Masked 

I agree somewhat but, in the US there are glaring service discrepancies that...Up until recently, weren't as exposed as they are now. Especially in regards to net upload.
Blizzard is running a Ngix base with a rotating DNS outreach...So you randomly get tossed onto a server VIA a dynamic service...One that's local to you...And while there are some minor issues in regards to service and peak ~ There are still those glaring ISP server issues to consider.
While I was working with Bioware on SWTOR, these errors were extremely evident because SWTOR requires a constant up at a certain bandwidth...Many of the providers weren't actually providing that bandwidth out the door...However, customer 1/2/3 never knew the difference.
We're facing a very similar issue with the same ISP's, here.
For the most part, the people complaining are on Cox, SE Charter and Time Warner...The major 3 that Bioware had major issues with.
I'm not saying it's entirely client-side but, I am saying that some glaring issues are pre-existing to the issues already at hand and they need to be acknowledged as existing...

Originally Posted by AllGamer 

after reading that, it's making me ponder again if i should continue to use the "easy" level up or the "manual stats" level up as in D2
the new method in D3 is balanced across all stats, doing it manually as in D2, you can only focus on 2 stats like Murlocke suggested, and only pump points into STR + VIT

Originally Posted by Bobotheklown 

What...? There is no "manual stats level up" option.

Originally Posted by LuczOr 

someone confirm this manual stats deal