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#221
Nov 6 2012 08:22am
Quote (anpalcactus @ 6 Nov 2012 15:20)
is %dmg to ele (let's say, 6% lightning dmg from soj) affecting my dps when im using lightning dmg wep? (which has +x-y lightning dmg) ??


It affects what ever damage you are doing! It adds the given percentage as lightning damage on top of your previous dps. Lets say you do 100k damage (what type doesn't matter, let's say its the damage form "Cuddly bears") then you will do 100k Cuddly bears damage and 100k*0.06=6k lightning damage!
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#222
Nov 6 2012 08:27am
Quote (BloomTwig @ 6 Nov 2012 15:06)
Well, hurricane makes you move faster, thereby letting you place more (afaik) and better placed tornados. Effectively raising your healing ability by a lot..

Regarding gear I'd like to say two things:
Get more life steal. I know you lite blood funnel, but if you are asking for advice I have to advice you on what I believe works best. Get more life steal, Ideally from mainhand + bloodthirst (drop animosity). This brings us to the next bit..
Get an off-hand weapon instead of shield. Shields are good, but with an off hand that also brings life steal you can get up to 9% while keeping your main-hand (Bloodthirst, belt off-hand). While loosing the crit chance from the shield, you gain attack speed (off-hand should be as fast as possible, ideal options are Echoing fury, though good ones are sick in price, then dagger, and then sword). Attack speed will help with fury generation making the switch away from shield manageable with respects to fury.

EDIT: checked your numbers in a dmg calculator, each crit damage% is worth roughly 4.7 str and each crit damage is worth 1.7 crit damage. Thus, for pure tornado damage you will equal the damage if you get 91% crit damage. Start your search for a dagger with LS crit damage and socket and see where that lands you. If your budget allows it try to add more stats.. you need crit damage to do more damage, it's as simple as that!




Thanks for the advice :)
Yeah, this faster movement making more tornados thing doesn't seem to be 100% sure, perhaps I will need to make some tests myself. Or even try out the WW-rune with winds - should mean double procs after all, right?
The animosity/unforgiven still comes from the time where I didn't play with a no-fury-attack (bash in this case), might be worth giving bloodthirst a shot and dropping blood funnel, yep. Although I already HAVE problems keeping up berserk... :(
I really hate echoing fury's fear, so I'd rather stick to a dagger if I switched to dualwield at all - should be cheaper anyway ;)

Edit: Thanks for even adding calculations, mate!

This post was edited by Surtur on Nov 6 2012 08:29am
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#223
Nov 6 2012 08:52am
Heya!

The main purpose for me in this game has always been to make some extra cash off of RMAH so I played the AH tycoon for a long time. I quit a couple of weeks before 1.0.5 but this patch has been really fun so far and I'm enjoying a whole new aspect of the game ( at least new for me ). The main goal for now is to make my character as good as it can be.

I had no gear when I logged in on 1.0.5 but had like 8 million gold so I bought the gear I have now. Since then I made ~230million gold by farming only, so I'm looking for some help to upgrade my barb the most efficient way. I haven't really upgraded any character in diablo 3 at all, I have never really cared about gear as I said before. Now that I do I have no idea where to start it or how to do it efficiently. Should I get one really good piece or upgrade as much as possible?

Could you please help me out with this? The budget I have at the very moment is 230 million gold.

http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/buks-2803/hero/14074416

Thanks.
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#224
Nov 6 2012 09:42am
Question: Why doesn't every barb, and pretty much every character out there use one Stone of Jordan? How can you ever do better than an extra 30% damage to elites with 1 single item? Of course your listed DPS will be lower if you use SOJ, but your effective damage will be 30% higher.


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#225
Nov 6 2012 09:49am
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Hijinx-1253/hero/12138741

What piece of gear on my barb is limiting me the most? Like, what would be the quickest most effective update?
Also I'm not looking for anyone to just tell me how stupid I am for using Skorn or how bad Skorn is, I like and prefer Skorn and I've seen plenty of top tier barbarians who use it.
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#226
Nov 6 2012 10:48am
http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Nightmare-2241/hero/15525001

Why can't I do MP 4 +? What do I need to upgrade to be able to play MP4+?
Thanks =]
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#227
Nov 6 2012 10:54am
Hey
What can i do to improve my barb?
http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Tom-1984/hero/12667546

Like what are the weak spots and would be a good idea to upgrade, thanks in advance!
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#228
Nov 6 2012 05:11pm
Hey, its really great what you are doing in here, ive learned a lot. But now i need some advice too.

http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/lemon-2939/hero/15858336

I can farm mp5 pretty ok but i want to do more. What do you think is the next thing that i should improve? i guess my weapon, but i dont know what i should choose. dual wield or a better skorn with ll/str? budget: ~70-80mil
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#229
Nov 6 2012 05:55pm
I want some advice. I'm currently just playing MP2. Can I go higher? What pieces should I work on next? http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Jo0-1688/hero/13739662
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#230
Nov 6 2012 07:40pm
Quote (Surtur @ 6 Nov 2012 15:27)
Thanks for the advice :)
Yeah, this faster movement making more tornados thing doesn't seem to be 100% sure, perhaps I will need to make some tests myself. Or even try out the WW-rune with winds - should mean double procs after all, right?
The animosity/unforgiven still comes from the time where I didn't play with a no-fury-attack (bash in this case), might be worth giving bloodthirst a shot and dropping blood funnel, yep. Although I already HAVE problems keeping up berserk... :(
I really hate echoing fury's fear, so I'd rather stick to a dagger if I switched to dualwield at all - should be cheaper anyway ;)

Edit: Thanks for even adding calculations, mate!


Having run some tests:
Dust Devil is a nice idea but the ridiculous amount of dds + their random aim make them terribly ineffective. Hurricane INDEED (I refused to believe it ;)) makes rltw spawn more tornados and they add so much fury generation that I can easily swap animosity for bloodthirst.
Thanks a lot for this hint, Bloomtwig :)
I will keep my shield for a while, though, I guess. Reason: I would take another offhand for extra LS to get more survivability while losing survivability from my shield. It would also need to be a strong (meaning: expensive) offhand to also improve myself damagewise, whereas no one plays with shields and I wouldn't get much for my shield. As you were right about the Hurricane rune, I will kindly ask a friend to lend me a good offhand so I can really test this out, we'll see.
I will also try to lend a Tyrael to break this mysterious 24% MS BP everyone's talking about :P I will than test if the extra MS is really worth it or if I should rather go for a kickass 150+str 3sock 70 allres armor (Aka "IK armor, most of the time).

Thanks a lot for your help.
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