No clue what it means either. It's obviously not a percentage. And it can't be the raw number of damage negated. Makes gear selection really misleading.

6/7/2012 10:06:01 AM

up to 36 and nightmare with the hardcore toon.

Me and a buddy have been leveling these together and we had some disconnect scares (as scary as you can get at level 36) last night.

1st one he just disconnected but there were no monsters around so he was fine.

2nd time was in a confined cave fighting a rare and its minions. He disconnected standing in a poison pool with the rare hitting him (he is a WD, so squishy).

I had to run around getting healthglobes to keep his health up until I could kill the rare and make the poison pool disappear.

We decided to quit while we were ahead after that

6/7/2012 10:43:06 AM

For resists? You can see the damage mitigation in details.

In terms of Inferno, ~200-300 Resists will make you pretty durable (relatively speaking) as ranged in Act1. You can drop your hp a lot, if you get higher armor and resist pieces.

6/7/2012 11:25:55 AM

Yeah the resists are a percent, I think if you hover your mouse over them it will tell you in your player details.

Apparently I read that the physical/armor damage mitigation only applies when mobs are your level or lower, something like that. So in the inferno that mitigation is much less important because all the mobs are higher level so your resist matters way more than in earlier stages. I don't have the exact quote on it, but it was something that basically was saying resists are more important in inferno than armor which is helpful earlier.

6/7/2012 11:38:19 AM

im not good at playing the AH, i have however bought a ton of +all res gear on my barb and finally knocked out inferno butcher...still having fun

6/7/2012 11:52:41 AM

yeah im having a hard time letting go of all my HP for resists, just cuz im so used to stacking it and armor in earlier difficulties.

barb was at about 40k hp with no resists. gotten up to around 150-200 resists only dropping 3k or so hp, so i call that a win for now. only done inferno act1 once or so.

6/7/2012 12:35:45 PM

Got my best AH sell for an item I found last night. 1,275,000 felt nice to send to stash. I think it was an amulet with + DMG, high crit chance, high crit dmg, and a socket. I know the AH history tells the name of the item you sold, but I really wish it would show the items (or at least show it before you send to stash) so I know exactly what sold. These random names aren't helping.

6/7/2012 1:02:49 PM

God - Gronke#1268
Krallum - Krallum#1308
Lokken - Lokken#1551
adultswim - SteveBrule#1572
ActionPants - TheWiseTeen#1250
ssclark - lobsterzilla#1339
seedless - bumptown#1985
SmoothTalker - Velkrem#1287
stevedude - stevedude#1177
DamnStraight - Hysteria#1451
disco_stu - LuncheonLoaf#1968
Morphine Boy - Ronkkard#2778
tracer - Dayde#1133
ncsuallday - Spartan#1781
porcha/begonias - Porcha#1737
titans78 - FLuE#1374
BEU - BEU#1880
Shadowrunner - shadowrunner#1161
EmptyFriend - EmptyFriend#1781
JLCayton - RonMexico#1270
DM - Landry#1457
ncsu4good02 - wrathwalker#1882
Azaka - Azaka#1569
elise: Sparkles#1521
GKMatt: Roiidrage#1102
grimx: djgrimx#1384
ncWOLFsu: steelerblitz#1181
DoeoJ: DoeoJ#1912
wolfpack2105 : Josh#1280
Exiled : Draklav#1310
Novicane : Sysop#1149
ghost613 : Suicidlghost#1805
GenghisJohn : jrfowle3#1604
Stimwalt : Stimwalt#1245
The Gringo : BeerTundra#1547

[Edited on June 7, 2012 at 1:13 PM. Reason : .]

6/7/2012 1:12:58 PM

The AH market is a mess right now, hard to make money on it at the moment. It was easy just working 1 and 2 handed weapons which I did for a while. But the market is flooded with them now so not selling as fast.

As far as resist goes made a few more purchases to get up to around 600-700 resists. I should be able to finish act 2 now, less to do with being difficult more to do with just being boring/annoying. Don't like the desert thing and the sand temples.

6/7/2012 1:30:08 PM

just roll demon hunter. you don't have to worry about silly things like "vitality" and "resists".

pewpew.

6/7/2012 2:03:11 PM

I'm in the middle of Act 2 inferno with my monk now, and it's slow-going. I use the monk passive that sets all resists equal to your highest resist, so I have a few pieces with both physical resist and all resists that stack; that definitely helps me out, but Act 2 is still a beast. Gotta keep gearing up.

Also, apparently life steal is worthless; there is a hidden scaling penalty by difficulty level that reduces its effectiveness by 80% in inferno. Go with life on hit instead, which doesn't get penalized. I didn't realize that and wondered why life steal wasn't helping much anymore, but some of the lead designers did an AMAA on reddit the other day and that came up.

6/7/2012 6:18:19 PM

There is a vague trend on the AH where prices rise steadily starting at 5pm on weekdays then fall during the early morning. I suppose people log on and start buying things, then put up their auctions when they sign off for the night.

I found prices to be highest on Friday and Saturday, then lowest Monday morning.

6/7/2012 7:37:08 PM

6/7/2012 8:10:37 PM

I take it back. I only got geared out enough to get halfway through act 2. If I rolled any other class I'd probably already be onto act 3, maybe act 4. WD is a piece of garbage.

6/7/2012 10:13:21 PM

Quote :

"I have not been stuck on anything since i switched to frenzy+sidearm. "

that crap is powerful. I was using the rune that heals you before i switched to sidearm, and holy cow...those axes do some major damage. The spiders on the way to azmodan in act 3 were just getting ruined.

6/7/2012 10:30:39 PM

inferno diablo down. pre nerf. weeee

6/7/2012 11:41:40 PM

but did you actually clear to him

6/8/2012 12:07:47 AM

yep. me and a friend duo'd the whole game. dh/monk

6/8/2012 12:16:28 AM

botting has officially struck diablo 3 :x

6/8/2012 6:09:35 AM

botting < duping

lets be glad on that one..

6/8/2012 6:55:48 AM

Pindlebot?

6/8/2012 8:23:19 AM

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/5573706514

Pretty interesting read on the blizzard forum about a dude in china running computers/bots. He is making 4 mil an hour farming the blacksmith's wife? Not sure what that is. They also run programs that scan fan websites for email address and then use those to try to hack them. I guess a certain percent of people probably do things like use their email as their password, or use "password" or 1234 or whatever and if you have a bot doing that if you are able to run a thousands of them when they do hit they go in and take all the items. He was streaming on youtube and I think you can still watch the video.

6/8/2012 11:54:00 AM

Quote :

" that crap is powerful. I was using the rune that heals you before i switched to sidearm, and holy cow...those axes do some major damage. The spiders on the way to azmodan in act 3 were just getting ruined. "

Yeah that axe that flies out owns. I see it getting nerfed one day.

6/8/2012 12:37:46 PM

I thought the most amusing one was the thorns run in the butcher. Area. This guy stacked like 3-4k thorns and life regen with the templar pet. He went and stood afk between the two vents that constantly spawns monsters and left his acct. Afk for like aan hour. He came back to 200k gold 8 bkues and 3 rares

6/9/2012 4:28:51 AM

I'm buying this today...

AH

6/9/2012 8:38:28 AM

Is it worthwhile to try to maximize critical chance and damage or just to go all in on DPS?

I got my level 33 barb up to 23.5% critical chance and +175% critical damage, but I'm sacrificing a few hundred damage by using an emerald and the best critical chance weapon I can find rather than a ruby and the best overall DPS weapon I can find.

[Edited on June 9, 2012 at 11:27 AM. Reason : ]

6/9/2012 11:27:38 AM

Quote :

"Yeah that axe that flies out owns. I see it getting nerfed one day."

I'm trying to understand why this is favored instead of the rune that give +4% damage per stack of frenzy. But I see it used by almost all the Act II/III/IV Barbs, so I'm guess I'm going to have to go with it.

Thinking about switching out Rend for Leap/Iron Impact too.

6/9/2012 11:43:39 AM

all my farming/leveling exploits got nerfed last night

6/9/2012 2:04:38 PM

What? I didn't see a patch. Or did they hotfix something?

6/9/2012 4:20:15 PM

hotfixed a bunch of gold farming location/botting spots.

6/9/2012 4:22:30 PM

Quote :

"Thinking about switching out Rend for Leap/Iron Impact too."

i switched from iron impact to charge with the heal. Worth it for those elites that trap you or if you need a heal on diablo.

I was using rend but switched that out to ignore pain or whatever. I was skeptical at first of ignore pain because of the dps loss but you almost need for act 4 hell.

6/9/2012 5:30:16 PM

Finished Hell with my barbarian and was getting pretty bored of the game so I decided to start a DH character and I am thoroughly impressed with how much more fun the DH is. I have always been a barbarian fan but the DH kicks ass.

6/9/2012 6:58:55 PM

Quote :

"June 8 General In cooperative games, monster damage will no longer increase when additional players join the game. Please note that monster health will still scale based on the number of players in a party Bug Fixes Tyrael no longer has collision when he is your active follower Pots of ashes in Act I and vases in Act IV will now drop less gold when destroyed Fixed a bug where players could turn in the same quest repeatedly and always receive rewards as though they were completing the quest for the first time"

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/blog/6214196/Diablo_III_Hotfixes_-_June_-6_9_2012

6/9/2012 11:06:03 PM

Quote :

" In cooperative games, monster damage will no longer increase when additional players join the game. Please note that monster health will still scale based on the number of players in a party"

so its probably better i always group with someone...

6/10/2012 9:29:31 AM

The two players that "played" with me during my hack were batatudo and Asparagus, in case anyone cares.

6/10/2012 12:13:03 PM

^^ at the very least that helps when you are in the middle of fighting some elite/champ mob and some guy joins ur game and then idles in town for 10 minutes and then u just get 1 shot over and over.

Grouping up should be helpful or at least the same, not a handicap which it was previously. If you got a guy in your group that sucked it just made it so much harder.

6/10/2012 4:16:41 PM

the problem i've had with grouping is that when you have 4 people, people have difficulty staying together as a pack, so you find yourself alone with a pack of mobs.

6/10/2012 5:26:39 PM

Effective health calculator

and item compare EH

http://rubensayshi.github.com/d3-ehp-calculator/#intro

6/10/2012 6:59:37 PM

If they decided to make an expansion pack that was a remake of the original diablo with the new systems/characters I think I would nostalgia all over myself.

6/10/2012 7:07:28 PM

Speaking of, if you played D1 as much as I did this music should bring back some memories...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvvXsreyo30

6/10/2012 7:48:57 PM

Listen up dorks!

Impromptu LAN party at my place tonight. BYOC. We have 2 extra monitors. Some drugs/hookers may be provided.

PM for details or just show up if you know where I live.



[Edited on June 10, 2012 at 8:41 PM. Reason : bewbs for legendary]

6/10/2012 8:39:53 PM

FINALLY killed Belial in Hell (with my Wiz).

It's all downhill from here to Inferno.

6/10/2012 9:30:04 PM

act 2 is the hardest act, to be honest

6/10/2012 10:41:39 PM

I feel like I'm underpricing some things at the AH. I just listed a rare ring, level 34, for 35,000 gold and it sold literally seconds after the cancelation timer went off.

6/10/2012 11:31:58 PM

gah, lag and disconnected. boo blizzard.

6/10/2012 11:55:07 PM

Don't see how there is any ring out there at lvl 34 worth more than 35k.

6/11/2012 1:26:28 AM

Feels like rings and amulets (and everything else?) is a bit overpriced ha

6/11/2012 1:32:32 AM

I'd have come if I dindt have work

6/11/2012 4:12:54 AM

made some good gold farming act 1 with 5 stacks of valor. Definitely worth it to be grouping for inferno.

6/11/2012 7:03:04 AM

I've been doing Act 3 siegebreaker inferno runs... got a lot of good drops so far. if you are DH, it's a joke. I have just above average gear and am sitting with 112k DPS. I roll thru Act 3 inferno and then kill siegebreaker in like 30 minutes a run.

got 3 1400+ 2h DPS weapons saturday

6/11/2012 8:32:18 AM