Diablo 3 - Reaper of Souls
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The chances of getting anything useful are incredibly slim. I know for Wizards amulet and shoulders are potentially BiS, but you hear horror stories of people having crafted literally tens of thousands of items and never gotten anything they can actually use. I've now crafted like ~250 amulets and not gotten anything better than a 1.2mil one I got off the AH.
I still salvage things, but I'm just banking the materials in case loot 2.0 fixes anything.
Zaphid
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If you are on a budget, craft your own shit, since it seems like the "good" items inflated into ridiculous prices, like I can't find a decent ring under 10M. If there is an item you should drop all money on, do it for weapons.
Add me to the Active list of battletags in the OP please! - ratama#2610
Paragon-levelling away on the EU side.
Paragon-levelling away on the EU side.
I'm on console so for all intents and purposes i am playing a single player game.
Arch
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I'm in a similar spot, trying to bargain bin a TR monk with ~1.9 mil, managed to get almost everything dirt cheap on bids but I'm screwed on the pants, no way I'm getting those cheap.
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Cloud of Bats, Zombie Bears, or Acid Rain seem to be the main three skills. Cloud of Bats hits really hard but I didn't like how it played. The AE size is really small and you have to farm specific zones/mobs for it to actually work better.
Zombie Bears has the same problems but a larger area, so it's more manageable.
Acid Rain doesn't kill fast enough to scale into higher MP. Which is a shame because it's a versatile skill.
Oh, if you have a lot of money, you can do 0CD zombie dogs. Constantly recasting the dogs(effectively cutting your dps in half) leaves me dubious as to whether 0CD zombie dogs is actually better than bears or bats.
I'm hoping the expac fixes a lot of the problems with the WD class. They have some cool mechanics but seems to suffer from wanting to be in quasi-melee range and doing a half-assed job at it.
Zombie Bears has the same problems but a larger area, so it's more manageable.
Acid Rain doesn't kill fast enough to scale into higher MP. Which is a shame because it's a versatile skill.
Oh, if you have a lot of money, you can do 0CD zombie dogs. Constantly recasting the dogs(effectively cutting your dps in half) leaves me dubious as to whether 0CD zombie dogs is actually better than bears or bats.
I'm hoping the expac fixes a lot of the problems with the WD class. They have some cool mechanics but seems to suffer from wanting to be in quasi-melee range and doing a half-assed job at it.
Shoulders, Amulet, Gloves. Technically all three can be BiS but some super rich super decked out Barbs use IK's gloves with trifecta rolls so they can get the 2set bonus of +60 AR from IK (along w/ the chest) and use Witching Hour belt instead of IK belt. But that is super optimized. For the most part I'd just worry about crafting those three.
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You're probably thinking of Acid Rain. Or Locusts. Neither of which scale that well.
As for +% elemental damage, that stat is VERY poorly worded. That stat will take your physical damage(referred to as white or black damage) and add a percent of damage in the element specified. So if your damage is 100% physical(before your skill changes it to something else), +6% fire damage is actually a 6% dps increase. This applies even if your skills do non-fire damage. You'll just have 100% poison damage and an extra 6% fire damage. It's these mechanics why cold SoJs are valued above non-cold SoJ(the cold damage will snare). And it's also why black damage wands the only rare wands worth anything. If your weapon has +elemental damage, it will reduce the efficacy of +% elemental damage.
Confused yet?
Whatever the dropped recipes are called. For completely optimal you want to craft gloves of STR, shoulders of VIT, amulet of STR.
Haast
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Unless things changed drastically lately, the recipes should be available in the GAH for practically nothing.
Amulets are 100k per attempt. I forget how much the other slots are but the Amulet was the most expensive. The others were like 50-75k or something.