05-22-2012, 03:01 PM
(05-22-2012, 02:18 PM)Quark Wrote: Word is Force Armor no longer works in Inferno after the maintenance.
Seems Blizzard's patented Sledge Hammer o' Balance hasn't been retired yet. Pity, I had hoped this new team would have learned from the prior's mistakes. Oh well.
I've already found I couldn't beat the Butcher on Hell difficulty by myself. I had to enlist a friend to tank him for me while I could dodge and damage. Still took a long time, but we managed. I consider myself to be geared pretty well, with 3.5k DPS and over 30k life, but there was just no way for me to beat him. I don't know what his algorithm for lighting the fires is, but I would always die to that when he'd lock me into a corner with his fire (after dodging his charge attack), and then light the grate underneath me as well. I have ~62 Fire resistance (which I think translates to ~16% damage reduction), and my armor and dodge %'s are both near 30%. Decent resistance gear is just starting to come up from drops / auction house, but even then it's simply not enough to mitigate the DPS of the fire. I can cross two grates from full health if I choose my path carefully enough, but otherwise forget it.
I'm beginning to think I'm not going to get to - let alone enjoy - Inferno, which is a shame. We'll see, though.
Roland *The Gunslinger*