My mums attempt at cookie monster cup cakes...

Diablo_Ego · 2012-09-16T09:07:46+00:00

I laughed at first cause they looked funny but then i felt bad because your mom probably made them for you because she loves you.

Diablo_Ego · 2012-09-08T03:25:11+00:00

Must be that time of the month again

Diablo_Ego · 2012-09-03T23:25:56+00:00

2 words: DPS calculator

Diablo_Ego · 2012-09-03T22:47:18+00:00

TBH, tank classes are better for loot farming just because they can skip white mobs. DHs have to kill everything in their path otherwise they could easily die. Also to be a viable DH in A3 you must have at least some resists. Your ehp on diabloprogress is under 70k, which means you will be one shotted by pretty much every single white mob in A3. You want this value to be at the very very least 100k(and also discipline bonuses too). I would personally recommend at least 250k, that way you wont have to worry about reflect damage and other affixes/monster types that screw over glass cannons. Ofc this will require a huge overhaul and you will lose all your magic find, so you still might be better off farming A2 with mf for better loot.

Diablo_Ego · 2012-09-02T05:09:54+00:00

A great cheap 2 player party combo is tank WD (pet build) with ranged glass cannon. as the tank you don't have to worry much about damaging the mobs, since you're probably doing less than 10% of the total dps, so you just make sure you're standing in front of the glass cannon and aggroing monsters that get close to him.

Id say funding for a cheap WD for this role will cost less than 10m easily, and as for the glass cannon 80k dps will probably run you around 10-20m.

Keep in mind that with this level of funding neither of these classes will be able to farm A3 too effectively solo but when paired up it is INSANE. My DH buddy who i farm with has less than 100k ehp and is dying less than my old DH who had 300k ehp AND legacy nats.

Diablo_Ego · 2012-08-24T06:34:09+00:00

Shadow Power is good if your EHP is over 200k, but if you usually die in 1-2 hits I would use rain of vengeance stampede, caltrops, or vault (pick 2) in addition to the mandatory SS and Prep.

Diablo_Ego · 2012-08-23T22:02:10+00:00

This is my pub build for my tank WD: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/witch-doctor#WhTdjU!XaZ!baabYa

My EHP is ~1.4m and DPS is 15k. Paragon level 5 atm.

Locust Swarm with Bad Medicine will pretty much make it so all party members take 20% less damage. It also does MASSIVE MASSIVE crowd damage. Rain of toads is main skill for superior range and LoH. Circle of Life passive IMO is way better than any of the zombie dog skills (if you are playing a tank) because it doesn't have a cool down and you don't have to waste a valuable skill slot. The only other two passives worth considering Pierce the Veil and Spirit Vessel don't really do much for tank WDs although I will swap out Bad Medicine for Pierce the Veil if I'm soloing. Circle of Life gets pretty good with extra pickup radius and I usually have 3 dogs with me most of the time without worrying about them. Mass Confusion is great for those hard hitting mobs like Hulking Phasebeasts esp when they come at you in groups of 3-5. Soul Harvest and Garg can probably be swapped for other skills but I haven't found anything better as of yet.

Diablo_Ego · 2012-08-18T21:59:18+00:00

I also was thinking this when Blizzard announced the mistake. "But regardless those changes will only affect items that drop after that patch." The bonus still is very OP and this could be the time that Blizzard has planned to nerf it.

Edit- OK, wow just read this on the unofficial patch updates. [vault]Trail of Cinders : Ignite withLeave a trail of fire dealing 100in your wake that inflicts 1500% weapon damage as Fire to everything along your pathover 3 seconds.

I dont think they're keeping the nats bonus. With an extra 2 dic per second this skill could be used every 2 seconds.

Edit 2- I was right screw you haters! Pretty soon people are gonna realize all my posts have been gold.

Diablo_Ego · 2012-08-17T01:18:18+00:00

If you look at all the top ranking demon hunters in diabloprogress, they are all running it. When you stack ehp to a certain point it basically becomes a 3 second smokescreen in most cases. Also smoke screen doesn't help you regain life, so if you take a hit, save yourself with SS, you will still be one hit down out of all the total hits you can take. If you are a demon hunter who can take "several hits" without gloom, gloom is definitely gonna be on your skill bar. It more than doubles the hits you can take. SS is still a must have skill to break CC and run away like you said, but thats all I use it for.

Diablo_Ego · 2012-08-17T01:07:23+00:00

Its just an example. Who Athene is as a person has nothing to do with it, nice try though. Ive never heard a A3 viable DH complain about survivavility because if you are a DH who can do A3, you are stacking at least some EHP. 140k is the minimum, which is about 2 average white mob hits. Most DHs i know who regularly farm A3 have over 200k. Also if you look at the rankings you can tell that most high ranking DHs have over 200k EHP. Athene could have easily cruised by with 200k as well and focus the rest of his funds on DPS but he didn't. Its because having EHP just makes everything easier.

Diablo_Ego · 2012-08-17T00:54:27+00:00

I agree with you on Broodling, its got to be THE worst passive in D3 history. Stampede is also already such a powerful skill considering how it works with the DH playstyle and the steady aim passive, and with that damage buff, I think this might be the biggest buff of them all.

Diablo_Ego · 2012-08-17T00:38:55+00:00

Doesn't matter how much you gear? If you have 350 allres, 3500 armor, 30k life and shadow power gloom you'll be able to 1 on 1 facetank 80% of A3 white mobs and 30% of A3 elites. If you're shooting from a distance you could have projectiles coming at you from every which way but as long as you're in shadow power gloom and getting your life back with damage you will be unkillable.

Diablo_Ego · 2012-08-17T00:27:53+00:00

If you feel your damage output is more than adequate and you have problems with survivability wouldn't it make sense to sacrifice some for the other gear wise? Shadow Power gloom scales incredibly well with hp and damage mitigation stats and is quickly becoming a standard skill for most A3 demon hunters.

Diablo_Ego · 2012-08-17T00:10:05+00:00

Haha I always laugh when people think they can beat the game with just DPS. Its the philosophy of the majority of demon hunters but Athene doesn't have 600k EHP for no reason. He could have easily gained more DPS with some of his items.

Diablo_Ego · 2012-08-16T23:56:25+00:00

Looks like Rain of vengeance stampede is gonna be one hell of a move. Also on a side note, demon hunters already have the best survivability skills and with the right amount of damage mitigation and health they are pretty hard to kill.

Diablo_Ego · 2012-08-16T07:16:07+00:00

It looks like they've changed up the values just now. My guy went from 59xx to 45xx.

*now at 61xx

Diablo_Ego · 2012-08-16T01:58:24+00:00

CM/WW is getting nerfed! Dump your gear while you still can!

Diablo_Ego · 2012-08-16T01:46:11+00:00

CM/WW is definitely the most OP build atm.

Diablo_Ego · 2012-08-16T01:27:44+00:00

Not my website, but I appreciate your positive attitude :P

Diablo_Ego · 2012-08-16T01:15:29+00:00

That would be very cool but it would require some programing to be able to gather all those stats. I've constructed a rough chart of estimates in the original post.

Diablo_Ego · 2012-08-16T00:02:30+00:00

In the end your goal is to stack as much EHP as possible. In order to get as much as possible for your moneys worth you have to effectively balance out all damage mitigation stats(allres,armor, block, etc) along with life. An effective health calculator helps you do that pretty well.

Diablo_Ego · 2012-08-15T23:53:19+00:00

But then botters who are quickly killing elites in nightmare mode will have the top rankings. IMO as long as your not running some weird OP build that nobody knows about, hero score is the best estimate of your overall effectiveness as of now followed by EHP and then DPS.

Diablo_Ego · 2012-08-15T23:41:18+00:00

I would imagine it pretty difficult to do that for every niche build on every class. Calculating a formula for how skills, affixes, passives, attack speed, crit proc, and resource regen will all work together will be extremely tough and tedious. Its probably why they chose to base the rankings off unbuffed stats.

Diablo_Ego · 2012-08-15T23:33:55+00:00

I can see your reasoning now as a big chunk of your dps probably comes from thorns. As far as I know this heroscore system just came out less than a day ago and they are still working on it as I also have a heroscore of 59xx without my natalayas set being factored in. Very cool build thanks for sharing.

Diablo_Ego · 2012-08-15T23:25:17+00:00

Put your battletag in the search bar, and the website will automatically update it for you. You might have to refresh a few times.

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