Diablo 3

[hi19hi19]

332 thorns


omg scrub

[leonid]

can't touch me

[All_That_Chaz]

This may be a dumb question, but what does EHP stand for?

I have been continuing to solo through inferno on my barb. I remember inferno being harder than this. Did they nerf it or something? I stomped through Acts 2 and 3 with no real hiccups. Only deaths occurred late in Act 3 when elite fat shaman duders and spear thrower duders hit me at the same time. They had between them frozen, fire chains, arcane, desecrate, vortex, and others I'm forgetting. It was too much for me to handle. I can't be in super saiyan mode forever. I died twice while bringing down their combined health.

I also stood next to Belial, held left-click, and won. It was really anticlimactic. I didn't even bother changing my skills away from chain-stun stuff so I could retain my Valor stacks.

This is my barb right now, unbuffed.



I know I need more strength. Lots more strength. I'm working on it. Right now I'm just a slab of beef.

[PriestREA]

Originally Posted by All_That_Chaz

This may be a dumb question, but what does EHP stand for?

EHP is effective health pool.

[All_That_Chaz]

Oh okay. Well I have plenty of HP. I'm not really worried about that. In fact I'd probably trade lots of my Vitality to get my Strength to a more respectable level.

EDIT: Well levelling will help. I'm only Paragon 6 right now. I have 282 innate strength still on the way.

[leonid]

If you want to increase DPS, you will need to stack crit chance and crit dmg at some point. Or you could go meatshield mode and stack 200k hp, 1k res and 20k armor or something... idk

Crit chance is especially important for barb because many of its skills are triggered on critical hits. You can also go super saiyan mode indefinitely if you have enough crit chance and attack speed

[All_That_Chaz]

I just realized that Monster Power was a thing, and that I'm suddenly not as proud of my progress as I used to be, because it's probably defaulted to MP1. Oh well.

Yeah I'll have to start looking for crit gear if I want to optimize. Idk, I feel like if I can solo inferno, regardless of MP, I've "beaten" the game. If I need to get stronger, I'll optimize whatever later. Hopefully I can get through Act 4 with the end-game gear I had in mind.

[Reach]

Been playing this a lot again.

Wizard, 25 paragon. 170k dps, 5000 armor, 50k hp.

Really want to break 200k but it's expensive. Need to get an all resist pair of Zunimassa's so I can swap them for my ice climbers. Burned most of my gold on a witching hour though.

How the hell do some people make so much gold. o_o

[MinaciousGrace]

people have been running dozens of bots on a single machine 24/7 since the release of the game

so theres that

[PriestREA]

Originally Posted by All_That_Chaz

I just realized that Monster Power was a thing, and that I'm suddenly not as proud of my progress as I used to be, because it's probably defaulted to MP1. Oh well.

Yeah I'll have to start looking for crit gear if I want to optimize. Idk, I feel like if I can solo inferno, regardless of MP, I've "beaten" the game. If I need to get stronger, I'll optimize whatever later. Hopefully I can get through Act 4 with the end-game gear I had in mind.

If you need help doing MP5/6 runs I can probably lend a hand. I can solo MP9, maybe 10 - but for XP I'd recommend MP1 and for gear 5/6 because 8+ takes longer compared to what you'll actually get.

[Reach]

Originally Posted by All_That_Chaz

I just realized that Monster Power was a thing, and that I'm suddenly not as proud of my progress as I used to be, because it's probably defaulted to MP1. Oh well.

Yeah I'll have to start looking for crit gear if I want to optimize. Idk, I feel like if I can solo inferno, regardless of MP, I've "beaten" the game. If I need to get stronger, I'll optimize whatever later. Hopefully I can get through Act 4 with the end-game gear I had in mind.

Inferno is pretty easy now. The old inferno is like Mp2 maybe, though even then it's not a fair comparison because invincible elites have been removed, and the *what the fuck* level damage has been traded for more HP generally speaking.

[All_That_Chaz]

And here I thought I was just taking damage better because of all of my stacked all resist.

Also, invincible elites? I don't remember those.

[Reach]

Originally Posted by All_That_Chaz

And here I thought I was just taking damage better because of all of my stacked all resist.

Also, invincible elites? I don't remember those.

They were 'invulnerable' elites. There was usually one in the pack that wasn't invincible and they had to be killed to do anything. This was a massive problem for my DH. There was no way I could kill the elite with the invincible minions all over me, especially when they could kill me in like 1 shot.

Reflect damage used to be pretty broken, along with a couple other variations. They nerfed them to oblivion because reflect damage just ended up killing you if you had high DPS. The only way to get past these elites was generally stacking huge amounts of all resist and HP. Or reset and try again and hope for better elite rolls.



Another contributing factor is the AH prices tanked and it's easy to get set/legendaries now for cheaper than decent rares were back in the day.


Mp0 is simple for my DH now and he's not even geared well. Decided to switch to Mage though because Wizard and Barb are the strongest classes right now IMO.

If you want to experience something resembling the old inferno, I would go with Mp3. I can farm it pretty easily with my Wiz now, but he's pretty much capped gear wise without paying hundreds of millions for extra crit a number of pieces. Mp4 isn't terrible, Mp5 is survivable but slow. Mp6+ is too much for me right now though. D:


edit: I bumped my DPS up to 200k with a chest swap without sacrificing too much.

Mostly just need a better weapon now. Can probably upgrade ring a lot for a few million as well. Everything else is looking too expensive for my tastes XD

[All_That_Chaz]

Oh yeah, invulnerable. They were annoying. But since I was a barb sitting on 60k hp then, it wasn't as awful as I imagine it would be for a DH. My fear was just too much hard CC combined with elemental damage. Getting jailed on a desecrate/arcane/poisoned/electric/molten spot killed my barb pretty quickly then.

As for now I'm going to worry about beating Act IV with what I have before worrying about having to completely rebuild my barb to focus on crit.

[hi19hi19]

The biggest difference is now you can get legendary weapons with retarded good stats for cheap.
Back then a 1000 dps blue 2hander was like 40$ real money, now you don't even mouse over it to see if it's worth picking up.

[Reach]

Originally Posted by hi19hi19

The biggest difference is now you can get legendary weapons with retarded good stats for cheap.
Back then a 1000 dps blue 2hander was like 40$ real money, now you don't even mouse over it to see if it's worth picking up.

Yeah, lol.

When I came back to D3, my DH had a blue 1000+ DPS item. It was pretty good back then. I had like 70k DPS.

Swapped it out for some shitty Manticore I found in act three that didn't even roll Dex (Int + Str I think), upped my DPS to like 110k with just that swap and I probably couldn't even sell that manti on the auction house for more than a brimstone now.

It almost pains me to buy stuff now because prices are dropping constantly.

edit: I just found and then sold a -16 lv requirement zunimassa marrow for 150 million

WAT

My first big sell. ;-;

[leonid]

There will be huge changes on items from 1.0.8 and on. I suggest you stack golds and not use it. Regular gears will largely drop in price (at least temporarily)

Also @reach why don't you add me :P sun#1525

[hi19hi19]

Originally Posted by Reach

edit: I just found and then sold a -16 lv requirement zunimassa marrow for 150 million

WAT

My first big sell. ;-;

People still pay that much for -lvl req gear wat

Grats man!

[All_That_Chaz]

Took out Act IV without monster power with no problem. Just to see how bad my gear is I jumped right to MP10 Diablo. We basically couldn't hurt each other, but once I got to the shadow plane or whatever, a shadow clone + diablo were able to take me out. It's clear I need A LOT more dps. Started MP1. I think I'll be okay.

[PriestREA]

Originally Posted by All_That_Chaz

Took out Act IV without monster power with no problem. Just to see how bad my gear is I jumped right to MP10 Diablo. We basically couldn't hurt each other, but once I got to the shadow plane or whatever, a shadow clone + diablo were able to take me out. It's clear I need A LOT more dps. Started MP1. I think I'll be okay.

If you want to level - run Act 3 stonefort/keep depths/arreat and repeat