07-06-2012, 06:42 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-06-2012, 06:51 PM by Concillian.)
751 DPS weapon sounds like almost too much for Hell. You'd kill stuff before they get your cooldowns ticking down. I guess if you have so much DPS you don't need your cooldowns. That's when I use my Disintigrate / Ray of Frost / Diamond skin / glass cannon farming build I linked earlier. AP on crit and the +20 AP / 2AP per sec passive mitigates a lot of the AP drain when you have high crit. That much DPS kills stuff dead in Hell diff with a glass cannon build.
Inferno Act I is feeling fine with my 495 DPS weapon (with ~400 life on hit and about +120% crit damage from affix + gem). My character screen DPS is lower than 10k, but damage for inferno Act I feels fine to me. Currently at 71% DR from armor and 422 lowest resist with energy armor / prismatic.
I died twice to (and parked) a pack of fire chains / shielding leapers lastnight and retired for the night when I met some invuln minion / arcane / something spiderlings. It was late and I was not up to that task, so I just went to bed. Nothing else really gave me any trouble. I did find a 650+ DPS weapon with no Life on Hit or +crit damage (but a socket). Moved my gem over and the character screen DPS only went up 200 DPS. I would have had to use an Amethyst in there for the Life on Hit, so the overall DPS would have been significantly lower than my 495 DPS weapon.
Having the native +crit damage and native +life on hit, so I can use the +70% crit damage gem, is worth a TON of base DPS when crit is 25+%. It seems to be about equivalent to a 650 DPS weapon with Life on Hit or close to an 800 DPS 1H without either LoH or +crit damage. Since it's DPS number is low relative to what's out there, a weapon like that is CHEAP for some initial gear up to get ready for inferno. Goes back to my philosophy of using gold for some gems first. I bought this weapon for <30k and used my first large chunk of gold to craft up a star emerald for +70% crit damage and an Amethyst for flexibility later in case I end up with a good weapon without LoH (and I can use it for VIT in the meantime.)
I'm gonna try to do upgrades on a drop by drop basis for now. In other words, something really good drops, if it's not great for this build, sell it and buy a similarly priced item that does suit the build, then use the regularly dropped gold + small GAH sales for the truly insane high level gem upgrades. For example, I got a ring in Act III hell that was all resist + phys resist + dex + vit. Not super high on any of them, but a decent all resist number.... like 45 / 20 / 60 / 70 or something like that. I sold it for a few bucks on the RMAH and will buy something with the Blizz balance that is comparably priced, but suited for a wiz when the transaction clears.
It was fun finding stuff that was potentially an upgrade (that ring plus the 650 DPS 1H weapon). It looked like those kinds of things were not too expensive on the AH, like 250k-ish. I could easily spend gold and end up in much better gear, as I have a couple mill from farming Act III in gold find gear, but I'm not going to, as it's way more fun identifying rares when theres actually a decent chance they're an upgrade.
Inferno Act I is feeling fine with my 495 DPS weapon (with ~400 life on hit and about +120% crit damage from affix + gem). My character screen DPS is lower than 10k, but damage for inferno Act I feels fine to me. Currently at 71% DR from armor and 422 lowest resist with energy armor / prismatic.
I died twice to (and parked) a pack of fire chains / shielding leapers lastnight and retired for the night when I met some invuln minion / arcane / something spiderlings. It was late and I was not up to that task, so I just went to bed. Nothing else really gave me any trouble. I did find a 650+ DPS weapon with no Life on Hit or +crit damage (but a socket). Moved my gem over and the character screen DPS only went up 200 DPS. I would have had to use an Amethyst in there for the Life on Hit, so the overall DPS would have been significantly lower than my 495 DPS weapon.
Having the native +crit damage and native +life on hit, so I can use the +70% crit damage gem, is worth a TON of base DPS when crit is 25+%. It seems to be about equivalent to a 650 DPS weapon with Life on Hit or close to an 800 DPS 1H without either LoH or +crit damage. Since it's DPS number is low relative to what's out there, a weapon like that is CHEAP for some initial gear up to get ready for inferno. Goes back to my philosophy of using gold for some gems first. I bought this weapon for <30k and used my first large chunk of gold to craft up a star emerald for +70% crit damage and an Amethyst for flexibility later in case I end up with a good weapon without LoH (and I can use it for VIT in the meantime.)
I'm gonna try to do upgrades on a drop by drop basis for now. In other words, something really good drops, if it's not great for this build, sell it and buy a similarly priced item that does suit the build, then use the regularly dropped gold + small GAH sales for the truly insane high level gem upgrades. For example, I got a ring in Act III hell that was all resist + phys resist + dex + vit. Not super high on any of them, but a decent all resist number.... like 45 / 20 / 60 / 70 or something like that. I sold it for a few bucks on the RMAH and will buy something with the Blizz balance that is comparably priced, but suited for a wiz when the transaction clears.
It was fun finding stuff that was potentially an upgrade (that ring plus the 650 DPS 1H weapon). It looked like those kinds of things were not too expensive on the AH, like 250k-ish. I could easily spend gold and end up in much better gear, as I have a couple mill from farming Act III in gold find gear, but I'm not going to, as it's way more fun identifying rares when theres actually a decent chance they're an upgrade.
Conc / Concillian -- Vintage player of many games. Deadly leader of the All Pally Team (or was it Death leader?)
Terenas WoW player... while we waited for Diablo III.
And it came... and it went... and I played Hearthstone longer than Diablo III.
Terenas WoW player... while we waited for Diablo III.
And it came... and it went... and I played Hearthstone longer than Diablo III.