Diablo 3 - Reaper of Souls

Oh for crying out loud. You have to click the advance tool tips option in the interface settings to see the actual elemental damage. Why the hell is this not a default setting? Ok, that is cleared up now.

I got a Magefist this morning, which made my gear fairly weird: +34% fire damage and +27% arcane orb damage.

Arcane Orb - Scorch is just awkward to use. To get the maximum benefit, you have to be positioned such that the explosion pops on top of an enemy. But that's like a full screen away. Either that or you try to lob the orbs against a wall, which only really works on some maps.

Instead, I'm trying a melee/EE build:Ling - Community - Diablo III

Keep Arcane Orbit up, hit Explosive Blast, Teleport into groups of enemies, and start hacking away with Spectral Blade. Seems pretty effective. But then again, I haven't tried anything past T1 and at this point in my gear, I can spec pretty much anything and still be fine in T1.

I control/alt/whatever button it is to look at stats on rares on the ground and everytime I do I get a lag spike. It's annoying as fuck, this is in addition to a lag spike when people log on and people get achievements.. Did they have an intern program the game?

No eta, but they are fixing it so that +% damage affects elemental type damage too so not just black weapons will be bis.

I've been having some poor luck with rerolls probably going to need to farm some gold this weekend.

Elerion_sl said:

And yes, +elemental damage is the strongest single DPS attribute in the game, as it works as a straight damage multiplier. If you use only fire skills, a bracer with +15% fire damage will be an upgrade even if it says "-10% damage" when you hover over it.

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I believe +skill damage works the same way. Obviously doesn't apply to all the skills on your bar like +elemental damage, but +15% arcane orb or +15% cold damage should be the same damage.

@deathwing A blue post confirmed it is multiplicative.

DeLLy_sl said:

I believe +skill damage works the same way. Obviously doesn't apply to all the skills on your bar like +elemental damage, but +15% arcane orb or +15% cold damage should be the same damage.

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Yep, but most builds have at least two damaging skills (builder+spender), which makes elemental better.

Time to stop running t1 rifts then i guess.

Neph_sl said:

I got a Magefist this morning, which made my gear fairly weird: +34% fire damage and +27% arcane orb damage.

Arcane Orb - Scorch is just awkward to use. To get the maximum benefit, you have to be positioned such that the explosion pops on top of an enemy. But that's like a full screen away. Either that or you try to lob the orbs against a wall, which only really works on some maps.

Instead, I'm trying a melee/EE build:Ling - Community - Diablo III

Keep Arcane Orbit up, hit Explosive Blast, Teleport into groups of enemies, and start hacking away with Spectral Blade. Seems pretty effective. But then again, I haven't tried anything past T1 and at this point in my gear, I can spec pretty much anything and still be fine in T1.

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Thats ok Xald, Im at 29% meteor + 37% cold with EE and set bonus for 25% to the rest.

Are you using Arcane Dynamo for EB? 60% more damage is pretty crazy for it or those orbs.

Elerion_sl said:

And yes, +elemental damage is the strongest single DPS attribute in the game, as it works as a straight damage multiplier. If you use only fire skills, a bracer with +15% fire damage will be an upgrade even if it says "-10% damage" when you hover over it.

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There's a breakpoint where raw damage is better than ele damage though. For DH at least, 10% raw damage is worth about the same as 15% fire damage. Actually that breakpoint should be the same for all classes, but what differs is which stat you allow to be considered for that raw damage number. For instance, I would never replace 15% fire with 10% 'other' if part of that 10% was made of IAS. IAS is useless to me beyond what unavoidable amount I get from my quiver and the 'free' IAS on my perfectly rolled Magefist. I only consider raw damage from dex/crit/crit dmg when I make upgrade choices. You just have to decide which stats actually matter to you for whatever class you play.

Blizzard_sl said:

To clarify: Horadric Caches can drop any type of Legendary (regular or Bounty-exclusive) EXCEPT those that require Torment difficulty on higher. As difficulty has no impact on Horadric Caches, this also includes the ability to drop Torment-only Legendaries. Kadala is similar, as she also cannot generate Torment-only Legendaries.

Only the gear from monsters, including Rift Guardians, is affected by Difficulty level.

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Pretty sure whoever posted that got it wrong. I received Shadow's Coil set legs from a T4 horadric cache last night, and really it doesn't make any sense at all that horadric cache contents would not be affected by the difficulty the bounties are done on. Why would anyone ever do a bounty above T1 if that was actually true?

3 days now. Zero upgrades. Am I missing something here? Have I hit a cap or some shit on gear? Even the set pieces I have had drop have been junk.

My monk gear still isn't great but it's at the point where I definitely need to look at specific slots AND then expect to enchant to get anything like an upgrade. Getting up to the high torments is gonna be a slog. I'm mostly working on leveling the other classes though, that way I have a better idea of what non-smartloot gear to save or not.

Krassus_sl said:

Thats ok Xald, Im at 29% meteor + 37% cold with EE and set bonus for 25% to the rest.

Are you using Arcane Dynamo for EB? 60% more damage is pretty crazy for it or those orbs.

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Switched out Blades for Electrocute - Arc Lightning for all 4 elements.

I'll have to try Arcane Dynamo. I guess I'll try swapping out Blur to maximize DPS

Deathwing_sl said:

You'll almost never have to make that choice. Maybe a well rolled Andy's where you have to choose between 20% elemental or 6% CC(or reroll the IAS?). No other slot forces you choose 2 out of 3: +elemental, CC, CD.

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Once you have all legendaries, that's true. Upgrading from a rare to a legendary can cause you to not know if it's really an upgrade, and dismissing the legendary because the rare has ele dmg and the legendary does not would be a mistake.

Take my rare amulet for instance: 583 dex, 11% fire (because fuck you Myriam, up to 1M gold rerolls and 11% is the best I ever got), 9.5% crit, 59% crit dmg. If I got a really good legendary that had more dex and crit dmg, but lacked fire dmg it would still be an upgrade as long as the char sheet damage change was greater than 7.33%.

I need to start farming malthael, i'm going to see if i can take him on T3 tonight.. might be a stretch but worth a shot.
The Holy Shotgun crusader build would benefit sooooooo much if i hadReapers Wraps - Game Guide - Diablo III

Actually, out of curiosity, you can roll elemental damage on a reapers wrap right? I really lack %holy damage and %heaven's fury damage still.. my FH only crits for 8m or so a beam... 10m if im with a group. so at most i'll ususally only hit for 24m a pop if i get all 3 beams to hit the mob.. this should be DOUBLE what i'm doing to truly be viable

Weird ass profile isn't showing my shield lol, but the build is fun. I just lack some serious holy damage. I need a holy SoJ, new amulet, bracers and preferably the hallowed defender shield with %20 holy damage.. can't find the plan though Based - Community - Diablo III

Good luck with that. Reaper's Fear droprate STILL has not been fixed. And yes, a perfect bracer is mainstat/eledmg/crit%/vit or allres. Also, even if Reaper's Fear wasn't broken, that chart above shows upcoming material droprates after the next patch. The current droprate only scales to ~25% at T6.

Diablo 3 Affix Planneris a nice tool for seeing what rolls on what slot (ignoring legendaries that break the rules with one of their guaranteed rolls).

I rolled + fire damage for my WD Needless, check my profile to see them

Oh he's still bugged? I assumed they fixed his shitty drop rate.. Ughh haha.. even then it seems T1 would be more optimal unless you can do T6 relatively easily.
Perhaps i'll wait on trying to farm them.