I did a summoner in closed beta and after a while your screen is just covered in zombies and skele's. It seemed kinda OP, went through all the difficulties np and was doing maps without issue.

With that said I seem to remember them talking about nerfing the hps on summons. If play it head straight for the minion exploding node.

Ok anyone knows recomended stats for melee class for merciless difficulty? Today i killed Piety on cruel solo w/o problems when on merciless 1. Q boss (medicine chest) basically 2 hits me.

There's a pretty cool summoner unique amulet. It was like 12% bonuses to 3 minions properties. I forgot which.

I witnessed a nasty death today in catacombs cruel HC. A lvl 57ish ranger got 2 shot and died pretty much instantly to a random boss pack in there. I don't know which mods it had but that place is pretty nasty. As soon as he died I left the zone because his gear seemed pretty good and I didn't want to risk getting 1 shot.

I'm up to cruel piety HC now but I dunno if I want to fight her. Level 59 atm with 2300 HP, 1.7k armor and max resists with around 250-700 dps depending on which skill I use.

I've suddenly lost the motivation to play this game. I finally made it to Cruel on my Witch, but then I thought how I wanted to start over and do a better build, like a Cold/Crit/Curse Witch.

Then I wanted to try a Marauder. Then I wanted to try a Templar. Then a Ranger again...

And all I kept doing is running the first part of the game up to the medicine chest. And each time I thought about how I know absolutely nothing about what gear to pick up or how to build the characters.

So I sit here overwhelmed. Blahhh

Just pick a character and play. There's also a lot of builds on the forums that will likely shove you in a decent direction.

I've seen so many builds while partying with people. There was a witch with a double totem build that used some type of mult-shot ice spear thing that just destroyed everything.

This game is really great with the build diversity. Most of the top end streamers are using different classes, most of the top 10 ladder has different builds and I run into all sorts of new builds every time I party with people.

Yeah Italian, just stick to Witch for now, I struggled hard with my duelist at normal A3 but I kept playing, thinking about what to change in build and asking for advice. Now I'm doing much much better, decided to rely on lifesteal and despite low dps I'm slowly progressing in act 2 cruel

Had my first near death experience in Act2 Cruel, got boxed in by those summon necros. God their annoying in cruel when your dps is low. LVL49 still alive !

Also i noticed grouping makes the game so much easier, especially with bosses

If anyone is bored, I'm planning on starting a new character. I seem to enjoy death by my own idiotic play. Somehow bit the dust in Chamber of Sin lvl 3. Though I have been rubberbanding a lot lately. Think I made it almost half way to the other side of a floor (prev explored)

My witch got owned by oak on normal =[. Might need to make a new char to die with some of my HC stash items. Lol.

imo no, I've tried to sell stuff like that before and especially as a str chest it just doesn't have real value. In general, you need a 5 link or a 6 socket for anyone to bother buying it. And many 6 sockets I just vendor.

I have an unidentified rare 6 socket bow right now (I think it's an ilvl 56 bow) and I haven't gotten any good offer on it yet. Honestly, I just tried to sell it and people offered me 1 chaos for it (I get this much by vendoring).

Stuff like rubberbanding all the time is why I don't plan on HC any time soon.

Yeah I noticed that it's difficult to sell those so I stopped bothering.

I had the "frozen at Vaal" thing happen once on normal. I got hit by the rocks. I thought maybe the rocks immobilized you but I guess not? Other than that and very mild rubber banding it's been quite smooth. I usually have a 50-60ms ping to the US server.

Maybe certain class skills rubber band you more often? My guy just runs at normal speed without any teleport or high movement skills. Just 1 quick silver flask.

Yeah I haven't had much issue with rubber banding -- it definitely happens but fixes itself within a second or two. It happens much less than in D2, IME.

Found my second unique - Sidhebreath (minion ammy). Guess I need to start a summoner now.

Not sure when I'll try, but my 3rd sacrifice to the Act 2 gods is almost ready.

RIP lvl 42 A1 cruel 1 missclick and I ran my ranger into a pack of mobs who all blinked on me and died instantly.

Dunno what i'll do next, i don't feel like doing another ranged character.

Just made it to A1 merciless on HC. Things are pretty real here. Right off the bat you're greeted with a level 58 side zone for the medicine chest. Ended up having to roll a magic double cold resist ring to fight him, otherwise my CR was too bad.

I'm level 61 now (fought cruel Piety at 60). Not sure how long I'll level for before trying Brutus but I'm pretty terrified of that fight and the rocky hill leading up to it. I already went down to 30% HP once just from a random boss pack in the depths.

Act 3 HC to play it essentially blind or not? I know about the one fun guy in the opening area, but other than that, no clue what the act is about really. I'll probably run through it with my SC shadow guy to see what it's like.

My current build is pretty terrible as I went for some health nodes that were fairly pointless. Wish I really understood the concept of CI. Is it just have a huge energy shield and hope to never get hit hard/repeatedly?

I played it blind solo except for the act boss I partied but still went into the fight without knowing what to expect.

I think CI works in the sense that you get 1 HP and then your energy shield acts as your HP. So you if you had 2000 energy shield and got hit for 300 damage, you would still have 1 HP but 1700 ES.

I think before open beta it also gave you immunity to chaos damage since chaos damage ignores energy shield. I dunno if they changed it so chaos damage now affects ES when you have CI.

having instant heal health potions has saved my life so many time now. Went to piety with only 20% cold resist not knowing what to expect. Cold resist seems the most important in that fight.

Q:

I use unique quiver which converts 40% physical to fire. So I assume that fire dps is higher as it skips armour?

I am using burning arrow, explosive arrow, flame totem with elemental damage + flammability curse + fire penetration and favoring fire damage and phys damage on weapons.

Do you think it is worth using a rare quiver or should I stick with blackgleam ? I'm just assuming that the dps is higher than stated because of Armour bypass and all the fire curse/penetration

I got so excited, thought it was 5L...

I've got a lvl 8 ranger on normal. Impressive, I know. For HC, do you guys recommend running thru on normal through the first act and try to get the lay of the land and then create a character on HC OR would you just keep creating characters on HC and do trial and error?

Might as well create your character in HC since it just gets copied to default when you die. I guess the question then is whether to keep running the character on default or start a new one on HC. I've personally just started new HC characters but I could see the merits of doing it either way.

I'm 76 bow duelist, HC

Have maps and no one to run them with since my friends keep dying.

Anyone to maps yet in HC? or soon to be?

I'd love some kind of map group


edit: I really can't play for the next 48 hours

Have 7 maps atm

There are pros and cons of each way. I prefer HC even though I am terrible at the game. However, it also depends on what your time allows.

SC run-through you can do whatever without any penalty. You will avoid a couple WTF battles that may cost your character. However, it's not as much fun imo.

HC you really have some heart racing moments possible (some of your own doing, some server related). However, if you get overconfident, you can quickly lose your character + gear to the default league.

hey havent tried the game yet but wondered if you have to chose a server and if your char is bound to said server once picked?