Mostly witch doctor stuff

[Aahzmadius]

Your gear is amazing and your stats are shockingly bad, Aahzmadius. I would guess that you would insta pop in T2 if anything remotely damaging nicked you.

Uhh...thanks? I think? Funny example of this last night, I was with another monk farming Asheara's mats (Iron Wolves Doctrine). They drop from Ssthrass, who is right outside the Ancient Waterway. So the idea is you switch to Campaign mode, get the checkpoint, and then go backwards into the Oasis and he's right there. The monk had the difficulty raised to T3 with the understanding that if we saw another elite pack we would run back through the waterway. Great. The only problem for me was, Ssthrass casts Thunderstorm in addition to his serpent magus AoE spell. That hit my DH *hard.* We did about 10 runs and I used 10 potions to make sure I stayed alive. A little scary, but I picked up a few mats.

Difficulty-wise, I feel OK in T1, but in talking with some other DH's I switched out Vengeance for Vault/ToC. That should help add a little defense, although it's still an aggressive build. I would probably tackle T2, but only in the right group. The DH is an alt, so I'll be a little risky. Meanwhile, my monk probably has enough Toughness for T2 (barely) but lacks DPS. Like I mentioned, most of the guys I run with are happy to speed through T1 and aren't worried about T2 yet. Yet.

All in all, Elendra is a resilient little cookie despite her low profile toughness. I survive better than most other wizards who have double my profile toughness, cause they think stacking vitality over mitigation is going to save them. It won't.

My dps is also pretty misleading (though 800k profile dps is still somewhat relatively high even in SC - I've seen a few people break 1 mill profile dps but this is extremely rare still), since in game buffs give me 1.2 mill sheet dps, and that number doesn't even include the substantial amount of + arcane skills dmg/+arcane torrent dmg I get from gear and skills.

I wish Blizz would fix the profiles though, so that they give us a more accurate picture of where a particular char is in terms of both dps and ehp. Right now, it's just incredibly unreliable since it doesn't tell us much.

I agree with all this, F.I.T.-and I do feel lucky to get the Ice Climbers. Your gear is awfully good as well, especially that Thunderfury! Oh, what my monk wouldn't give to get a good TF. I loved the old armory profile, perusing those sometimes when I couldn't play. But the site I miss the most is D3up, which is being updated-but even it's delayed because Blizzard has errors in its API. I can't get too upset because they pretty clearly prioritized getting the expansion out in Q1, and it's in pretty good condition. There are still some problems with Enchanting, as you mentioned, and I'd really like some way to re-roll bounties at the beginning of a game if you're searching for leg mats. But while I'd like the armory profile improved, I'd still prefer they concentrate on fixing some of the in-game issues that remain.

Oh, and also, as you can tell from my DH and monk, I'm with you completely on life pool vs. mitigation. I don't have Amethysts equipped anywhere, and really the only one I'd consider is the helm. Now in HC, you are supposed to maintain some type of minimum pool, probably 350k at the lowest for T1, but once I get there I'm usually looking at damage vs. mitigation. Clearly my glass cannon DH tends towards the former.