Emerald

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Why does this make me think you've tested something crazy?

i havent lol just wondered cos ruby ups your weapons average damage

so may work well in hand xbows?

This post was edited by jackherer on Jun 11 2014 09:16am

still playing a physical Fan of Knives build
http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/aspa-1407/hero/6571986

FoK is not influenced by attack speed, so as long as there are enough health globes you can spam that thing as fast as you can click. Screen damage is not really relevant because it's obviously calculated using attack speed. I'm getting crits up to about 25mil with my current setup and I can spam those very quickly after each other.

The problem with this of course is that you need to be right in the middle of a ton of monsters to make it effective, needs a lot of toughness and I haven't tried it any higher than T4 so far. Being so close to a ton of monsters leads to occasional deaths, getting frozen and burned or getting killed instantly by having a bunch of monsters hitting you at the same time without any chance to escape...

very nice build bro how fast are your rifts in t4?

test it and let us know!
but probably emerald

interesting.

hand to hand combat is fun, thats why i use spectral blade with my wiz lol

i wonder if you swapped those boots with maybe a nat helm to keep the bonus and put ice climbers on, itd stop you from being frozen if thats truly a problem. i feel like the slowing proc in FoK would allow you to use different bracers, tho i know you need the reapers for the resource renewal.. what about resource cost red? wonder if thatd help out that hefty hatred price.

I tried going with ice climbers, but the bonus to physical from andy's is just too good. The thing is, the damage bonus is constant whereas the benefit of the ice climbers only applies when you're actually frozen, and that shouldn't be to often given that you can vault out of most situations before being frozen.
I also tried going with calamity and nat's slayer, then exchange the boots for ice climbers, but again, the loss of damage from losing the FoK bonus on the quiver plus the low base weapon damage of hand cross bows will reduce the effective damage a lot (screen damage is about the same, but mostly pushed by the AS gain of dual wield which is of no use to FoK)

Going with a 2H crossbow would be nice of course, but I like to keep spamming those frost arrows. FoK does not interrupt the frost arrow attack, so basically I just keep spamming those and then overlay FoK whenever I have the hatred for it. At least up to T4, the frost arrow damage is still good enough to kill many of the white mobs or at least significantly speed up their deaths, so I think the kridershot is still adding some value here, but I haven't found a perfect 2H crossbow yet to actually test this in a best case scenario.

hey im interested in making changes and i could use some advices

well like i said i didn't like my old Mard\physical build with sentry.. so i switched for fire and i like it more. ( with the old build i clean'd T6 pretty easy, hated the play style. )
now i just need some upgrades.

http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/cocainhore-2167/hero/5589629

i wanted to ask what ya thinking about these changes :

- new nat bow with bigger damage ( got new one in stash just gotta reroll it at weekend when i come home )
- new amulet with fire % \ duel crits \ dex - something like Cameo
- switching for a new Quiver like Arch with Dex\Speed\Crit\Elite Damage\and Cluster Arrow damage
- gambling for a new Witching Hour till il get old

these 4 changes will be first, after that i thought about just upgrading items ( like better Cindercoat with Vit \ better Mard pants and so on.. )
and continue with paragon leveling. you guys think im making something wrong with the build ? should i change items.. if so - why ?
like i said before i like the cluster spam \ running play style. ATM im doing ok T6 and easily T5.

thank you !

This post was edited by darksoho on Jun 12 2014 07:45am

you can't really use a 1h xbow with sentry because the base damage of 2h is just so high.

i've been thinking of making the switch over to physical myself to rely on pets more (since i just found TnT) for a more passive playstyle. i'd rather just lay sentries and sit back.
what is the playstyle variance?