Diablo 3 - Reaper of Souls

Capping mob damage instead of just slowing the scaling would go a long way to making grouping actually fun. No one should be relegated to bitch duty in a group, who actually has fun doing that in an ARPG?

Yeah, I hit 411 doing a GR80 but would jump another 100 spots if I could squeeze out a GR81 but that really is the point where I would need to push for P800 + gem augments. Aside from the wand I just got there's no drop I got that would be considered top tier and couldn't upgrade without insane luck and this season wizards are in the boat where solo wiz shares literally none of the same items with group wiz so you would need to prioritize your augments.

The last pages mentioned going cold with UE, why is that? Fire used to be the go-to for a few seasons. I haven't followed this season really but plan to start a DH once I wrap up my goal in the PoE league.

I honestly don't understand it. If you change to Bat from Wolf, you never run out of hatred if you are having hatred issues. The 150% damage from wolf is 100% not needed in TX unless you are going super low damage to get some odd farming things equipped. My gear isn't fantastic or anything and I 1 shot most mobs and two shot yellows and blues without Wolf buff up.

That's exactly why, though. Farming TX efficiently means dropping Witching Hour for Goldwrap, two dps gems for Hoarder and Wreath, cubed CoE for Avarice, and at least one dps passive for Hot Pursuit. That's signficant dps lost to movement speed, so you need to keep everything else you possibly can if you want to still 1-2 shot everything.


Cold also applies bonus dmg from Cull the Weak (which replaces Ballistics) on the first shot, whereas fire requires Thrill of the Hunt to apply it at all, and even then only on the second+ hit. It's much harder to gear for, mainly due to having to find a perfect cold SoJ, but the build does more damage than the fire version with even faster movement. [For TX farming only, fire is still better for GRs as Pyros said.]

I tried out the HT Garg build on my non seasonal WD and wow that is funny. Just a stomp-train with mobs exploding in its wake. I may have to do WD as my second seasonal character.

What's the best way to go about getting ancient set pieces? You can't get them by converting set items, and I don't know if you could find them by upgrading an legend in the cube, but that would get real pricey real fast. Any suggestions?

Also I'm always looking for someone to grind with! Playing a monk this season. Currently at ~500 paragon. Volto#1506

Kadala is the obvious way because it takes very little time in a season to get to the point where you really have nothing to spend shards on, but you can also keep a spare set item and reroll it in the cube. 10% chance for it to be ancient, plus it could end up a better non-ancient than what you're wearing.

That said, I spent ~20k shards on gloves alone and never got ancient ones, and then just randomly got them as a drop. I'm at 5/6 ancient and correctly-rolled UE now and the only piece I got from her was the pants.

Over 80% of my shards this season have gone toward Orbs, and the only ancient Orb of Infinite Depths I got was 4% with no crit and no arcane power. Acquiring a full set of properly affixed ancient gear is entirely about luck and perseverance.

When I went hard a couple of seasons ago I got most of my ancient set pieces from kadala, well maybe 3 from kadala and looted 3. I wouldn't bother rerolling a set piece as unless you hit the lotto with your weapon you probably want to spend as many materials as possible rerolling it.

Yeah, I assumed that anyone asking about set ancients already took care of their weapon and offhand. I've never bothered with rerolls for a weapon anyway though, I've always just done rare upgrades until I get it.

Set dungeons are soul draining. I got the UE one done, which ironically was very difficult due to the RNG of mob mix and placement. I thought the whole point of set dungeons is that they are static, so you play repeatedly and figure out a strat that works. Well that one definitely isn't. Dafuq?

They have the same layout and mob types, not mob placement

350 kills should be trivial for just about everyone. Even if you can't solo it, worst case you reset games until you get the Cursed Peat bounty to pop and ask a DH or whatever to do it for you. Or just the Conquests community and get 4 people resetting games at once to speed it up.

And unless you're grouping to get your 3x65 gems or you enjoy gambling at 60% or less to upgrade them, it should be relatively easy to go up one more GR and hit the GR75 solo conquest. If you group to level gems and GR75 solo isn't realistic, then TX in 2 minutes is extremely easy in a group as well.

TX 2 minutes is all about fishing for the right rift but it's pretty easy.

All my characters got deleted, fml.

Starting over without the free set sucks pretty bad, managed to get some pieces together on a barb but can't do anything past t3.

Getting bored with the season, used this opportunity to try out all the classes and everything just feels clunky as fuck.

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All my characters got deleted, fml.

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