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Tenks

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I want to say they fixed that Tenks, checking the tooltip with a Ruby equipped would confirm.

But I'm almost certain that more XP != more grift progress.
So it multiplies now? So like if I have a Leoric + Ruby I get (BonusXP) * 1.82?
 

Pyros

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Don't the rubies just add the XP? So if you're already getting 1300% bonus XP why bother with 1340%?
That's in normal rifts, which use whatever torment bonus you're on. GRs give xp at a base value, so any % will give you a lot more xp. That's why there's a lot of bitching about the 2.3 changes to shared xp(where everyone shared the xp% gear of the group, rather than just affecting whoever wears it), because you can farm paragon at a retarded speed with one or two leeches with leoric crown+ruby in helm and like maybe a leoric signet too.
 

Tenks

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That's in normal rifts, which use whatever torment bonus you're on. GRs give xp at a base value, so any % will give you a lot more xp. That's why there's a lot of bitching about the 2.3 changes to shared xp(where everyone shared the xp% gear of the group, rather than just affecting whoever wears it), because you can farm paragon at a retarded speed with one or two leeches with leoric crown+ruby in helm and like maybe a leoric signet too.
This is interesting news. To the GRs!
 

moonarchia

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Just did a round of bounties and a rift. WD on t4 with 2pc helltooth is still a champ. Only 82 pp so far, but I don't have that college stamina to play anything for 96 hours straight anymore, much less D3. Got a furnace and juiced it, though. Kadala is an evil ho. 20 bracers and not a single legendary, much less a Jeram's.
 

Pyros

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Ooooh legendary gem leveling isn't linear. I thought it'd keep going down, so I assumed to upgrade from 59 to 60 doing 60 rifts, I'd need to roll a 10% chance, but apparently I was still at 60% chance to get to 59. Need to see what's the chance of 60, but that changes everything(well kinda). So now my only problem is doing the torment 10 clear in 3mins. Any really well geared EU players want to try doing that shit? Will probably take a bunch of resets just to find the right rift.
 

Needless

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Whats a good alternative for a beartooth WD cubed weapon? I don't have a furnace or a in-geom yet to extract
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I've just been using that shitty weapon that summons fetishes since i don't have a belt of transcendence yet either

also.. rip servers, least it happened when i finished the rift lol
 

k^M

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Whats a good alternative for a beartooth WD cubed weapon? I don't have a furnace or a in-geom yet to extract
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I've just been using that shitty weapon that summons fetishes since i don't have a belt of transcendence yet either

also.. rip servers, least it happened when i finished the rift lol
Mr bigglesworth (cat offhand), humunculous (dog every 2 sec). Remember weapon enchants use your offhand/shields too, so there's a lot of offhand options much better than the gidbin.
 

Needless

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Mr bigglesworth (cat offhand), humunculous (dog every 2 sec). Remember weapon enchants use your offhand/shields too, so there's a lot of offhand options much better than the gidbin.
I forgot about humunculous, i might do that.
I'm currently using the cat offhand since it was a pretty good ancient roll and i haven't gotten an ancient thing of the deep or anything yet to replace it.

I like the idea of using the ceremonial knife that brings soul harvest up to 10 stacks... an extra 50% movement speed at all times would make rifting real, real fast lol
 

Pyros

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The cat mojo offhand is definitely great and fixes most toughness issues until really high, because when you're grinding shit that dies in seconds, mitigating the first hit they do to you is all that matters, and that's especially true for chargers and shit. I used that most of the time until I got both my furnace and my ancient scrimshaw, and I was doing 50ish GRs already at that point. There's the offhand that splits 30% of the dmg you take onto your dogs too, but you need to slot dogs(or well use a passive or shit but it sucks). Starmetal kukri, assuming you got one, can be nice, you just replace soul harvest with voodoo(the defensive rune if you need tankiness, the mana rune if you need damage) but you need belt of transcendence before you can use that decently.

If you don't have any of these, keep farming, just use whatever, but gidbin is kinda weak.

Oh and yeah Sacred Harvester is actually nice, assuming you can keep it at 10.
 

Needless

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Yeah Gidbinn is trash. Basically anything is better than it but most of my extracts have been weapons for my DH so i'm limited on the WD shit i have currently.
I'll just keep farming and use whatever i find until i get a furnace lol

Thanks boys~
 

moonarchia

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I run with Wormwood in weapon cube slot for now, it's just really fun to wade into groups of mobs and have them all automagically get locusts and necrosis.
 

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Jeez, 511 barb already? I started my seasons WD yesterday morning and I've only managed paragon 97 in a few hours. That's a good reminder Im long past my poopsocking days I guess. Unless there's some clever new strat I'm missing. Are they stacking +exp or greed gem builds for exp?
I hit 100 and that's all from 4 different people dragging me through T9/T10 rifts and/or power leveling. The first WD was ~100 (and got me to 70), the barb was 250, other WD was 450, and a third was a 420 WD. I can't believe their levels but god damn it's awesome flying through paragon.

Depends on what you're doing, honestly. If you're grouping for grifts, hammer barbs are best. If you're grouping for rifts, WW or hammer work. For bounties, though, WW is best because there just aren't enough packed elites to keep In Geom up most of the time(for quick repeated charges).

Good video of speed clearing T9 rifts(yes, he's a douchebag streamer):

2.3 SpeedFarming Barb Guide / Diablo 3 Reaper of Souls - YouTube

Is there a good video of speed farming with a WD?
Thanks, I was going to ask about that. I want to do WW for Bounty/Rift farming, but I have NFC how to gear or what to even start moving toward... is it wastes + IK and RORG? Do I need the BK weapons? Where should I sink my Paragon points?
etc ad nauseam

I'd love advice, the seasonal barb in the signature is what I'm using now. I'm really just getting started and have gotten pretty much everything through leaching. I've got a few other ~3.3k dps weapons and I have the BK set weapons (and the IK set weapon).
 

Ryoz

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Can't get hell tooth pieces to save my life. Knee deep in jade harvester and the pet set. Got a belt of trans, short finger ring, grim reaper, and skrimshaw today. Also got the dbl toad exploding wep which rolled ancient with nice stats. Currently running a pet build with piranhado, toads, and bear zombies. Is there a better build I can run without 4/6pc helltooth?
 

Xevy

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Roll crit damage over vit on your neck. Use the cold dodging rune on dashing strike.

Not sure what your damage is going to be able to pull, but right now afaik only 6 piece Ulianas with Lions Claw/Fist of Az or a full Raiments set is going to be able to get up there in damage. For reference I have the full Uliana's build and I clear GR45's in about 4 minutes.

I'll be working on some theoretical monk shit today, hopefully, I'll let people know if any of it has any sort of capability in GR55+.
 

Brahma

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Roll crit damage over vit on your neck. Use the cold dodging rune on dashing strike.

Not sure what your damage is going to be able to pull, but right now afaik only 6 piece Ulianas with Lions Claw/Fist of Az or a full Raiments set is going to be able to get up there in damage. For reference I have the full Uliana's build and I clear GR45's in about 4 minutes.

I'll be working on some theoretical monk shit today, hopefully, I'll let people know if any of it has any sort of capability in GR55+.
Thank You.
 

Deathwing

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Gen build seems to be up there with Uliana's based on leaderboards, but I don't think it uses Inna's. 2pc Raiment at least.
 

Janx

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I hit 100 and that's all from 4 different people dragging me through T9/T10 rifts and/or power leveling. The first WD was ~100 (and got me to 70), the barb was 250, other WD was 450, and a third was a 420 WD. I can't believe their levels but god damn it's awesome flying through paragon.



Thanks, I was going to ask about that. I want to do WW for Bounty/Rift farming, but I have NFC how to gear or what to even start moving toward... is it wastes + IK and RORG? Do I need the BK weapons? Where should I sink my Paragon points?
etc ad nauseam

I'd love advice, the seasonal barb in the signature is what I'm using now. I'm really just getting started and have gotten pretty much everything through leaching. I've got a few other ~3.3k dps weapons and I have the BK set weapons (and the IK set weapon).
Wish you hung out last night with Harfle man. Got him full wastes + weapons and a decent Hellfire amulet with Ruthless passive. And I want to say ~140 paragon. (He started at level 42). Pretty insane for just a few hrs of work. As always just send me a tell or something if you need a hand gearing/leveling your barb.