05-24-2012, 08:13 AM
(05-24-2012, 01:34 AM)Skandranon Wrote: The general consensus is that no such gear exists. Each act of Inferno is currently tuned like a new difficulty all on its own: act 2 inferno hits something like 50-100% harder than act 1, and the same for act 3 over act 2. Meanwhile, drops from those difficulties are confirmed to only scale up linearly or in some cases not at all.
Ah hah. That makes sense with what the developers said pre-release -- that one would farm one act of Inferno to be able to progress well in the next act. They said something about effectively whole sets of gear that are specific to an act. Perhaps Blizzard has held off releasing the real Inferno gear drops until they see what people do without it. That is, they might want to see what exploits or unbalanced skills people find first before releasing the good gear.
I do have an observation, though. You keep saying that you have 30k health as if that were a lot, but I have 27.5k health right now as a level 53 at the start of Act IV nightmare. I only have one auction house item, and that's a level 42 item. (There is very little on the hardcore AH with level req's after 50, and most of those that are there are blue items). I suspect that by the time we slowly work our way through Hell that I'll be sporting at least 40k health. Frag is aiming for 50k with his barbarian.