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Sep 6 2012 02:34am
Quote (getmorecoins @ Sep 6 2012 08:20am)
Yes, bears is shockingly better than anything else. The other runes of charger are a joke. I was surprised that none of them got love in 1.04.

If you can kill fast, you should give grave injustice a try. You may not have the pickup for it, but it's a fun way to manage cooldowns. Horrify, jaunt, soul harvest, and grasp of the dead all get even better. When I run grasp in keeps I can often have 3 grasps out at once, sometimes 4.

Also, while it requires very specialized gear, <10 second dogs with sacrifice spam is loads of fun too. Pets WD is also a much more group friendly build than builds that rely on GF and GI.


Yeah, Grave Injustice is a TON of fun. I played around with it a little right after the patch when I still ran a completely cooldown orientated build (Horrify, Barricade, GotD, Hex) and it worked wonders.
But I don't think that it will add much to my current build.
Also my current skillset (both active and passive) are pretty much invaluable to my play style right now.
Barricade, drop Big Bad Voodoo and watch everything melt. Happy days.

As for passives I do genuinely think that Gruesome Feast is possibly the best one that we have. An absolutely insane passive.
Spirit Vessel is important for me because I rely on it a lot to Dart down those elites. Especially Fast.
Pierce the Veil works great for me because my build is very light on mana - Acid Rain is my single mana drain so the extra 10-15k DPS that it grants is effectively 'for free.''
But to be honest it is a little underwhelming... Gruesome Feast gives plenty more than that without having to sacrifice anything...
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Sep 6 2012 02:53am
Quote (getmorecoins @ Sep 6 2012 07:29am)


edit: I would definitely use the SOJ instead of your left ring. Yours probably has +8 or something darts and added elemental damage and at least 20 vs elites. I can almost guarantee that +35% on primary and +27% on everything will do more for you than your int/vit/AR/crit ring. With your DPS/LS/build you shouldn't need more survivability.


Thanks for the SoJ tip! Done a couple of runs with it and it's working out great!
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Sep 6 2012 03:14am
Quote (FF-Paradox @ Sep 6 2012 05:02am)
Ugh, so my brother decided that he would play my wd and buy a new mojo with my 10m..

He upgraded from this http://i48.tinypic.com/fc1em0.png

New one is currently being worn.. Not worth 10m imo..

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/PotatoSalad-1794/hero/238396


Its worth 10m, but I wouldn't upgrade that item first ;)

So it wasnt really a bad trade afterall
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Sep 6 2012 06:55am
Quote (Orvar @ Sep 6 2012 01:14am)
Its worth 10m, but I wouldn't upgrade that item first ;)

So it wasnt really a bad trade afterall


Yeah, after sleeping on it, I feel a lot better about my brothers purchase :)

Also, what sort of critical hit chance is everyone getting around. I think with upping most of my gear, I'll be around 40% with new gloves, bracers and ammy. Looks like for a WD, that sounds about right.

EDIT: This morning I bought a new knife for 300k LOL check it out http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/PotatoSalad-1794/hero/238396

Added 3k dmg.. not bad :)

This post was edited by FF-Paradox on Sep 6 2012 06:56am
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Sep 6 2012 08:46am
Locust Swarm --> Pestilence rune

Spirit Barrage --> Manitou rune

Firebomb --> Ghost Bomb rune

Spirit Walk --> Jaunt

Zombie Dogs --> Burning Dogs

Gargantuan --> Big Stinker

Bad Medcine / Pierce the Veil / Spiritual Attunement

I do this build for the best running around and dpsing as possible. 2 of your spells (barrage / swarm) require you to only cast it once every so often, and firebomb is very good aoe dmg....big stinker and burning dogs add more aoe for faster farming. I use bad medicine because locust swarm pretty much spreads to everything on the screen...making your enemies a lot weaker.
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Sep 6 2012 08:53am
I tried locust swarm build wirh decent gear, 14% bonus from ring and helm, but still wasn't enough for comfortable a3 run. It is too dependent on crit chance, monsters that roll crit die very quickly, but if they don't, their health drains really slowly.
It is still good in places with tons of weak fallens, can kill them instantly, but to make it work vs all trash in a3, it requires really insane gear.

As for zunimassa set, tbh I don't think it is worth it atm. Overprices as hell. You can easily buy better rares for half that price, that even beat the 130 int bonus from 2 pieces. Need to wait more till prices settle.
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Sep 6 2012 11:01am
Quote (getmorecoins @ 6 Sep 2012 02:20)
Yes, bears is shockingly better than anything else. The other runes of charger are a joke. I was surprised that none of them got love in 1.04.

If you can kill fast, you should give grave injustice a try. You may not have the pickup for it, but it's a fun way to manage cooldowns. Horrify, jaunt, soul harvest, and grasp of the dead all get even better. When I run grasp in keeps I can often have 3 grasps out at once, sometimes 4.

Also, while it requires very specialized gear, <10 second dogs with sacrifice spam is loads of fun too. Pets WD is also a much more group friendly build than builds that rely on GF and GI.


As far as Zombie Charger runes go, yes. But compared to other abilities, not so much.
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Sep 6 2012 11:31am
What is close to bears?
Consider character with decent balanced gear, that doesn't need minions and doens't need to stay back, can just facetank all trash and elites.
3x 238% damage per cast, pierce, can multihit. Nothing is even close to zombie bears.
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Sep 6 2012 11:34am
Alright so it seems my damage boosting has gotten out of hand and my life and res have tanked.
Here's my profile: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Skywalker-1357/hero/15684041

I have about 5m to work with so what specific item(s) should I switch out to get my health and res back up, without sacrificing too much damage?
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Sep 6 2012 12:12pm
Quote (Skywalker @ Sep 6 2012 05:34pm)
Alright so it seems my damage boosting has gotten out of hand and my life and res have tanked.
Here's my profile: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Skywalker-1357/hero/15684041

I have about 5m to work with so what specific item(s) should I switch out to get my health and res back up, without sacrificing too much damage?


You should be able to buy a rare belt with similar (or slightly lower) INT but way more VIT and +life% and allres for a few mil.

Only consider swapping all of those INT gems for VIT ones meanwhile?

And those boots are really crap - should easily be able to find more rounded ones for a few mil.
At such low VIT your resis don't really matter all that much, just get boots with 200+ INT+STR and some allres and move speed.
Move speed% is a must imo. Getting Lacunis boosted my survivability immensely, but I'm not sure how much they're going for these days.
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