05-30-2012, 01:21 PM
(05-30-2012, 04:18 AM)RedRadical Wrote: Even when you do gear yourself for defense, it only works for so long. I have 33k life on my DH, which really should be plenty for Act 1, but its really not once you get to the mid-later parts of it.
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Even most of the people who are in the later acts of Inferno say you pretty much have to get gear from Act 3 or 4 just to get through Act 2
1) HP alone is nothing. If you gear just for +VIT, then all you're doing is making health orbs and life steal suck. Listing just HP is not enough. You need to list HP, Armor, Dodge, and Resistances to get a true understanding of durability. My HP in Act 3 Hell is 30k and I think my survivability is terrible - because my armor sucks.
2) Your statement about gear is completely countered by what I've been reading in EJB (Elitist Jerks Benefactors). They start in Act 1 roughly, barely scraping by. Get some gear and slowly progress. Make it to Act 2 and get destroyed. Head back to Act 1, farm some stuff, and all of a sudden they're not dying as often. Now Act 1 is a breeze, Act 2 is doable, and Act 3 ... well, let's not go there yet. This is w/o any gear from Act 2 and 3. This is classes Wizard, Demon Hunter, and Monk (that I've seen say Act 1 becomes easy for eventually, no idea for Barb/WD).
Basically everything you're saying is true for Act 1, I see others say is true for Act 3. So which is it? Well, they can handle Act 1 fine, so ...
Quote:In Hell difficulty, even though both my mouse buttons put 60% Slow on enemies, they are still moving at the same speed as me; Fast enemies remain faster than me with the debuff.
I don't think they I've seen a gain in speed; though they do gain resistance to snares.
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