If it makes you feel any better I still get either 2 or 3 shotted in act 3, so I wouldn't worry to much about that part.

I'd say that you need to choose between either getting a gf/mf set to farm act 1 with, or if you want to actually progress into act 2 don't worry about getting gear with gf/mf right now. I can't even really farm act 2 with my gf/mf setup, but with my "real" gear and 5 stacks of NV my gf/mf gets up to about 150/120 which is still pretty decent. I find that if I run act 1 with my gf/mf gear I will clear literally about 100 rares on a run, but 99% of them will be shit. Whereas in Act 2 or 3 I may only clear like 30 or 40, and to be fair they're still mostly crap, but they are better than act 1 stuff and there's a good amount of ilevel 63 drops. Also remember that you get 20%(?) of your follower's GF/MF stats, so I roll with the templar and have him loaded up with equipment that's fairly shit but has high gf/mf. So that might be something to keep in mind to help supplement your stats there if you drop those to get better gear.

yes sounds good, im dying a lot on act2 but if i play it with a partner we can do it quite well. and fewer drops but better quality as you said.

also i dont get how u got such a good price on the andarials... the us market must be inflated as hell. Prices are through the roof on the EU one

I keep hearing about how the EU and US markets are jacked up in different ways, so no idea.

I had multiple huge breakthroughs yesterday, and have completely turned the corner on the game.

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Between a two different 4-5 million rares I found and sold doing Act 2 Vault runs, I cleared about 11 million, and upgraded majorly to the Gloves, Shoulders, and Cloak I have equipped now. Without Sharpshooter now my base damage is up to 81k and crit % is up to 29.0. Also I still have an impressively high 41k HP, and also unintentionally have 989 Life Regen a second, which combined with Gloom makes Reflect Damage elites a joke now. Also with the Cloak I now have 50 Discipline, which is a huge difference as well.

Right now I have what seems to be a pretty good Stone of Jordan up for a Monk on the AH at 15 million. However none of the stats on that ring are searchable on the AH, so I may have to drop the price on it a few times before it moves since I had to filter by lowest price like 15 pages deep to find anything even comparable to it for Monks. But in either case I'm down to a million now, but I'm starting to have good success finding middling rings and amulets doing Act 2 Vault runs so I'm clearing a lot of 200-500k items. Once I get back up to somewhere between 6-10 million I can get a quiver with crit % on it (mine currently has none) which should get my base crit % up to around 34-35%, at which point I can drop Sharpshooter which will be amazing. I'll probably switch back to Act 3 runs at that point as well. I could probably do that now, but I'm completely facerolling Act 2 so I'm just kind of cruising through that now.

whats your route for act2?

is it to start at The lord of Lies and clearing some mobs alcarnus?

Basically the main thing you want to do is hit the Vault of Assassins with 5 stacks, since there are always 5 or more Elites in there. I do what most people do:

1)Start at the Soulstone Quest (forget the exact name, but the one where the Waypoint is Desolate Sands)
2)Run any combination of the following areas to get 5 stacks:
-Sewers of Alcarnum (?) Usually has 1-2 Elites
-Black Canyon, Usually has anywhere from 1-4 Elites
-Road to Alcarnus (head across the Northeast bridge to the Cult encampment place, usually 1 or 2 Elites)

Some people will also run the Oasis area, whatever works for you. I will usually just do the Sewers and the Black Canyon area, will usually wind up with 4 or 5, occasionally 3 but not usually.

3)Go to the Desolate Sands Waypoint and find the Vault of the Assassin and clear it. The big key here is once you clear it, back out of the game and then Resume Quest. Once you do this, it will have checkpointed you inside the Vault. Take the teleporter out of the Vault to the Desolate Sands; by doing this you'll be able to see exactly where the Vault is in the Desolate Sands, so you're not having to look everywhere for it. Then from there I teleport to town, and hit the first two areas listed above. I'll usually get anywhere from 3-5 stacks hitting just the Sewers and the Black Canyon, then I'll take the Desolate Sands Waypoint. Since you know exactly where the vault is on the map, you can head straight towards it, and I'll usually hit a Elite on the way there from the Waypoint anyway. Rinse and repeat.


Also my Stone of Jordan sold! Bought a good Quiver, lost 2 Discipline, but my damage without Sharpshooter is over 87k now, and my crit % is 36.5%, so I think I'm ready to drop Sharpshooter. I'll probably run Steady Aim for now (which takes me to about 105k damage when nothing is near me), but Vengeance or Night Stalker seems potentially interesting. Going to go back to Act 3 and see how this goes.

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OMFG. Are you for real. ITS A TERRIBLE WORD! STOP USING IT.

Basically what happened there is she got upset.

Yeah, she overreacted a little, basically.

(I do love any post that begins with "basically" and continues with a stream of incoherent jargon)

He does this OFTEN. Always START it off with that word consistently. It would seem insulting too.

Now I know what will be the topic of discussion during dinner.

(Unless you both eat separately, basically)

Basically, I bought another Calamity for 9 million and sold 30 of my remaining 31 million for real money. I'm hoping to resell said Calamity for 20 million, but if not, at least I have an 1194 damage one hander with high critical damage to use if I ever decide to turn this game on again after Borderlands 2 comes out.

LOL, we already ate. :D I cooked some delicious shrimp scampi.

Basically, I'm going to talk like this for the rest of my life.

Basically, I think Philia's posts should have "Basically," appended to it from now on.

Oh god. What have I wrought. BRB, changing the title, and my username now. :P

EDIT: Basically I forgot that only Admins can change the user's name. D'oh.

Basically you've created a monster.

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Voting every post in this thread be automatically prefixed with "Basically, ". Hop to it, Acer.

Holy shit at these patch notes: PTR Patch 1.0.5 Notes - Forums - Diablo III

Fucking crazy. We're out of beta people!

Almost everything in here is amazing and awesome. Holy fuck.

Basically.

Basically since my laptop can't play Diablo triple, I'll just play Torchlight II for 20bux.

Basically the same game, only cheaper (and more expanse, no doubt).

They seem to be doing some different things. Impressions from people on the game seem to be all over the place, some people love it, and I've seen some people who were really looking forward to it actually being disappointed and going back to D3. I would have picked it up if not for Borderlands 2, shit timing on that.

I picked up Torchlight 2 using some of the money that Diablo 3 players put into my Paypal account.

I have a feeling Runic is okay with that.

Sold my immortal king helmet for 65m... first time i really got that kind of monies (could probably have RMAH it)... now i dont know what to buy lol. Got really lucky and got 1 set and 2 leg items, 3 days in a row (one on each day).

I don't know if anybody's been keeping up with it, but 1.05 hit today, and the changes in it are substantial. People in the public preview of it the last couple weeks have been pretty psyched about it overall (outside of Monks apparently still getting shafted). Came out today, full patch notes are here, it's fucking crazy:

Patch 1.0.5 Now Available - Diablo III

Seeing a ton of very skeptical people today gushing over how awesome it is with the changes to drops and Monster Power in particular. I plan on getting back in there in the next day or two (haven't played in 2-3 weeks) to check it out, but this is worth a look for anyone with the game.

Edit: Jesus, people on GAF are getting multiple Legendaries and/or plans a run now running Monster Power 3-5+, holy fuck.

awww yeah been waiting for the market to crash so i can pick up a cheap manticore and a dead mans legacy. or a amulet cant decide.