06-02-2012, 11:08 PM
(06-02-2012, 09:20 AM)Elric of Grans Wrote: I got into Act II/Hell earlier and have been debating whether or not I have any hope in Act II with my current equipment.
I have 22K Life, 2200 armour and resists vary from 20-100. This seemed fine in Act I, but perhaps I may struggle in Act II (there was a bug jump here in other difficulties)?
A bigger concern, however, is my DPS. My current bow (the best I have found) does 200 DPS. By late-Act I this seemed to barely be keeping me ahead, and The Butcher was just painful to grind: he never once hit me, but I was barely scratching him with anything I did.
Do I need better gear to go forward? If so, should I go back to Act I and farm, or would I be better trying to farm the start of Act II? Even if I wanted to use the AH, I have no gold whatsoever because I use the artisans heavily. If I wanted to; I really do not.
Anything above 2k character screen DPS should be sufficient. Slow, perhaps, but sufficient. If you're below that, though, you're probably going to struggle. The huge jump in difficulty between acts really doesn't hit very hard until Inferno, although it starts to show a bit in Hell.
I'm not sure if you'll find anything worthwhile on the Artisan. The gaps between crafting items are massive. I used him exactly once while leveling my Demon Hunter, and that was to make a magic Belt somewhere in Act II Normal I think (hadn't found a good one since the beginning of Act I). The rest of the time I was either too low level to use anything I could craft, or by the time I could it was so far below what I had already acquired as to be useless.
Roland *The Gunslinger*