[Official] Diablo III Information and Discussion Thread - Page 694

Barbs most economical??? Pardon??? Monks/Barbs are the most gear dependent classes. At lower levels you don't feel the strain but once you are in Inferno gear is a premium and you can't do what the range classes do which is just stack your main stat + IAS because we actually have to get beat on while we do damage so we have to find gear with +resist to all as well.

Since Barbs are so gear dependent you will spend a load of money on the AH trying to play with the range classes in Act2 Inferno and beyond. Barb gear is also the most expensive late game because we are pigeon holed into one build type which requires str+vit+resists all to be competitive and we aren't really competitive at that.

I have 100h played on the barb and I love the class but the late game gearing is annoying. I have much more fun on my Wizard. Gear is cheap (relative to my barb) and I am at 60k dmg and in Act2 inferno with little effort.

Wow so i totally and i mean totally redid my gear last night. On a budget (which is why i prob have no HP lol) I transformed my old setup which was something like.

Lv 60 Monk for only a few days.

-35k HP, 11-12k DPS, 208 Resist to all (bec talent), had a normal set and a MF set.

Now my new spec looks like.

-15k HP (LOL), 13k DPS (15.7kdps self buff), 1516 Dex, 401 Vit, 4502 Armor, 577 Resist to all, 35 dodge, 60% damage reduction, +113 Magic find in my DPS gear (168 in some blues)

I have been steamrolling Hell act 4 like its not even funny then i figured lets try inferno that place that made me cry in my first 5 mins, and So far I have been steamrolling all of act 1 i have random save points and just kept jumping portals and killing the floor then porting to another etc. I gotta redo it in order and prob should be able to clear Act 1 now when before just the first 2 quests were brutal.

So what am i trying to say among all of this is rather simple.

Having a lot of health is nice, but not being able to properly heal that health doesnt work unless you can back it up.

I traded 20k Health for + 370 Resistance and some Armor, I am now super beefy and only need to heal 15k total health back from 1. It seems to work for now, I am only in Act 1 inferno and i destroy Act 4 hell.

for whatever its worth, my upgrades will be near identical items except have some vitality i hope

on a slightly side subject

Does anyone know of a counter to the Arcane 360 Laser beam trap, other than staying the way far away from it?

it's really annoying when a group of elites / champions mops just drops like 5 of them in a row, and you have no where to run to avoid those lasers

Yeah that is my opinion as well. Also, my 12k hp is entirely sufficient with the mantra of healing + hp per hit rune then just have cutting winds or w/e popped and I hardly ever even loose health. So far with that build NM has been CAKE, there are very few elite mobs that I can't just sit infront of and pound to death, my health hardly even drops in most cases. Even if they do hurt me a bit I have 2 healing spells on top of it that I rarely even touch. It will be fun to get to inferno get rofl stomped and come back here QQing about how terrible I'm doing hahaha.

Run far, far, far, away...Then run some more.

You counter the lasers by being as baller as Mario and not getting hit by them in the first place

Once the beam actually comes out it is easy to dodge them. Until then, it is best to just stay out of the way until the beam comes out and you know how to avoid it. That being said, the odds are in your favor that a beam won't hit you if you stand next to it as it has to pop the beam in the small area where you are. I usually just stay out of the way however until I see which direction the beam starts from to rotate.

i definitely enjoy playing the monk more than the barb for the same reason

it's great at boss fights, and the ability to always "teleport" to the boss makes it that much more rewarding, it's odd that the monk misses a punch to get back HP

Life on Hit gears works way better on the monk than on the Barb

but once you hit the later stages of Hell, and as many already commented on Inferno

you'll have to practically forgo most of those to get +elemental protection stats gears

LOL for the very same reason why i rather farm on NM / Hell until i'm all geared up for to finish the Quests on Inferno



it's easy when it's only a couple

i can handle up to 3


but when they drop 5 in a row... and a big horde or mobs around you, there's no escape

specially when they use that skill that teleports You back to where they are standing

really hate that combo LOL

worse is, when they do that in a Walled map

is not as bad in an open field
Edited by AllGamer - 6/4/12 at 10:41am

For some reason I went back to my level 5 monk over the weekend, and I've been enjoying him quite a bit. I'm actually pretty excited to get back home and play him, which I wasn't quite feeling for my wizard.

I just wish there was some way to get rushed to the end of nightmare or something . Not much of a challenge in normal.

I've tried the hex/chicken and fetish army but never with bears.

I'm using a 1h 850 dps 1.2 A/S with a 150-299dmg +vit/+int mojo.

When in doubt, push teleport or diamond skin!