[Official] Diablo III Information and Discussion Thread - Page 905

pro mathcrafters please help me out.

im lv 58 DH using the passive that nets you diff bonuses for type of weapon i equip (currently bow so 15% bonus dmg)

am now debating whether i should go for sharpshooter instead

my related stats :
attack per sec as of now = 1.67
crit chance : 10-13, i forgot
i *think* my bonus crit dmg is roughly 50% (what is the original bonus dmg for a crit anyway?)


i figured my attack is pretty slow, so the potential of slow crit gain is more valuable (say if i attack insane fast, raw dmg maybe better as math goes?)

also SS great in kiting

any thoughts?

also, what is the best single target dps skill against boss? ive been using rapid fire all along because it is said to deal 228% dmg AND slow the target for 80%. is there a skill better than that?
Edited by HarrisLam - 6/30/12 at 11:29pm

My personal rule of thumb on that is you can lose SS at 30 crit chance, below that it's usually worth keeping. What are your other 2 passives? I'd keep archery as one of the three...

Thanks for explaining but I already do all that. Sometimes there's an odd item that cannot be compared directly. Also sometimes people overprice their items way too much that comparing to that price doesn't really help either.

So salvaging lvl 60+ items is now even MORE useless... Price of exquisite essence dropped another 500g in a day! Went down from 1800 per unit to between 1k - 1100 now... How pathetic...

I sell about 80-120 essence a day, I used to be able to get 150k+ easy for a stack of 80-100... I just tried to sell a stack of 70 earlier... under 80k!!! and that is PRE-blizzard cut. This really kind of sucks. Now I feel like all these magics and rares are going to complete waste...

I don't know why i'm getting so bent about these stupid essences haha.

On a positive note; I got a fiery brimstone from salvaging a rare... So I guess that is still motivation... Considering i've salvaged probably somewhere near a thousand lvl 60s and in the low hundreds for lvl 60 rares... that was a first for me haha If people overprice their item and you have one like it, then list yours for a lower price.... Another option... Don't set a buyout and see what it goes for... Or does this not work for some reason I am not understanding? And if the item is unique and there are none to compare to... two things; first, no one probably wants to buy it and that's why none are listed. Second, people are eating it up and buy immediately, in which case either of those first two options will work for you.

However, no item is "unique" to the auction house to where you can't find a price comparable... It simply is, what it is... and if it is not one thing, then it is another... In other words, its all about attributes and to that end you can always find comparables...

No one on here knows any more or has access to any different information than you do regarding what other people will pay for an item... and the only reason I even responded to your comments regarding this is because you didn't even post the item your asking about.
Edited by likethegun - 7/1/12 at 12:04am

I actually have a similar setup, except that I don't use evasive shot. I probably should, given that I have a problem with taking too much damage.

My question is this, though: How do I get the templar to actually tank? He sure as hell can't deal damage, so I'm wondering how I can get him to actually take aggro from me? I'm in Tristram on Nightmarish, and these enemies are tearing me apart a lot more than they should be.

not sure why you have purple gems in your 1h xbows. I would use reds. that should increase your DPS a good amount.

just be on a look out for dex. more dex equals more damage. helps to have criticals and IAS too.

i know SS is worth keeping, it sure is one of the better ones, was just thinking about how it fares against that passive i mentioned in particular

the other 2 are i think cull the weak and brooding(or whatever it was, the hp regen one)

cull the weak was for entangling shot as regular and rapid fire / elemental arrow with slow. brooding is for survival. very convenient in the level entrance trick

longer the game has been out, the more people getting to, and being able to farm, inferno. Less people needing to buy the essences off of ah. More people farming inferno, salvaging items and getting the more expensive essences. More supply, less demand. Act 1 Inferno 'good enough' gear is also more readily available and cheaper to buy. Now the only thing left at real expensive prices are the good rares and decent set items, as these are being mainly dropped in the higher acts that are not everyone is able farm easily.
Basically: if you're doing well enough now to make a major profit, continue on. Otherwise either try to get to that point slowly, or devote less time to it and just wait it out til even more people get to the higher levels and the real good items are cheap enough for you to buy.

That null eagle is very nice - easily worth around 200K, i'm farming Inferno Whimsy with worse than that on my DH (not because I can't afford better but because I want to find my upgrade as a drop ) i'll leave it to someone who really needs it though...
Edited by Sainesk - 7/1/12 at 9:32am

I second that, nice addition for someone out there.