Diablo 3 - Reaper of Souls

You probably don't want to pug either, since it also kills teammates. Granted there's a good chance they kill themselves at the same time but with proper positionning and defensive measures, I think you'd be able to kill melees easily enough with a crusader on HC.

There's a bunch of undocumented changes, one important being that apparently they removed the cap on crit dmg on all pets. That makes pet builds insanely stronger since it was before capped at 50%(which is a stupid low amount).

And yeah they apparently fixed elite %. The old one made no sense with them adding elemental % and skill % both which stacked additively. I wonder if they're all multiplicative with each other though, I know skill and elemental is supposed to. Also wonder where just overall damage %(like slam dance totem, wolf active and a bunch of passives) falls, if it adds up with elemental % or is multiplicative with everything.

The elite % one is pretty nice if you have the set ring because you can get the 3pc bonus aughild with 2pieces, which isn't much to farm/craft, and that's 15%(both damage and defense against elites), which stacks fine with a SoJ in other ring slot.

niss_sl said:

Are they now using your character +crit dmg? It really was stupid that for a pet build you'd have to forgo crit damage since it made no difference to your pets' DPS and thus effectively gimping your own spells.

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That's my understanding yeah, similar to how they get most of the other stats. As Delly said, this makes pet builds extremely strong but just pets in general strong, wolf is even better now for example. But yeah the WD full legendary pet build is most likely the safest and still a relatively strong build. Safest because you have like 20-25 units running around you at all times aggroing shit and body blocking both monsters and spells and at the same time it's an insane amount of damage that you don't even need to cast. There are many legendaries for this build but a starmetal kukri(everytime your fetishes hit something, reduce cooldown on army of fetish and totem), mask of jeram(increase pet damage by 100%) and tasker and theo(increases pet attack speed by 50%) is probably disgusting damage and most likely the #1 build for HC due to the complete safety of the build(and WD get a 2nd life passive too like a bunch of other classes but that adds up). Does take some luck to farm all of these though I guess.

So after running some numbers it seems the reflective rune is indeed bugged more or less like I thought it was, instead of applying 1/4 of your str bonus to your thorns damage, when you activate it, it applies 100%of your str bonus, and also lets it crit treating it as "normal" damage instead of thorns damage. Not sure that's intended but basically instead of doubling your thorns damage, it multiplies it by 8, which is obviously quite fucking broken, and letting it crit in combination with judgement for 100%crit means it basically multiplies it again by 2 to 3 depending on your crit damage. Since they decided to also massively buff the crusader thorns passive, it leads to quite a bunch of stupidity.

Seems they're going to be hotfixing Iron Maiden though so at least it won't be outrageous damage anymore.

Oh and since they fixed the proc(it has a 2secs cooldown apparently now), this can drop again: