I just rolled my first melee class today (barb). It's interesting to see how much different the game plays with a ranged and melee class. So many mobs react different based on how far you are away from it.

One thing is constant though. If you stick to the edge of vision on a ranged class and have room to kite every single non-big boss mob in the entire game will blindly chase you in a straight line or until it hits a wall/edge/whatever.

I think people are exaggerating when they're whining how bad barb is. It might be lame to solo since most builds (with limited gold) have very low DPS, but tanky barb offers so much utility for the party. If playing solo high dps DH might maybe be able to use 20% of his real dps ini fights, when playing with a tanking barb it's probably like 80%+. So even if the barb doesn't do much damage himself, I think barb+dh is much better compo than 2 casters.

Also it needs more expensive gear, but on the other hand when you get GOOD gear, barbarian should be really easy to play. If the melee classes would be buffed, barbarian would probably become way too powerful class in a month or two, when people get properly geared up. Almost everyone (even those running acts 3-4) still have relatively bad gear, compared to what is possible.

I don't really think they could "fix" the gear dependency to same level, without changing some drastic game mechanics and/or making the endgame too easy for melees. Maybe slightly increase the chance of damage reduction stats on random attributes or something?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdO0rBVFHm0

"Now this strategy for gearing up your monk is extremely easy and powerful, so Blizzard will most likely nerf monks to compensate"

Does anyone know of a place that lists what level the monsters are in each act and difficulty? I know them approximately but it would be nice to know exactly.

It really tilts me that you can't tell the dps increase or decrease of an item when you're looking at it before purchasing. If I'm going to spend milions on an item, it'd be nice to see what it can do for me first

Sick brag about having millions to spend.

imolin,

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/...lYlI4TUE#gid=2

I use this thing all the time. Pretty soon you start to get a better feel for how different stat changes are going to affect your dps

Zultan XP exploit is <3.

I don't feel bad using it to catch up to my friend so we can quest through hell togehter without him having to wait to let me catch up

This is worth a read. Someone asked about the disparity between melee and ranged classes.

I love that mortar change.

I said I didn't use pots in the other (now locked) thread, and everyone responded that I must still be in normal difficulty.

Also, I came to an agreement with a fellow 2p2 poster regarding the 10m gold loan which is to be transferred at his earliest convenience. Congratulations "Larry Legend" who I believe is still in nightmare difficulty playing very casually, so it should be quite a help for him.

so my barb has 1.9 aps and 18% movement speed and now when I try to play another character, I feel like I stuck in mud with slicks

As a wiz, I don't.

Mortar was clearly meant to be anti ranged, and it was one of the few elite modifiers in that category. Yet it seemed like it hurt melee characters just as much, since they are either in melee range taking ridiculous damage from autoattack, or they are doing no damage at all just running around trying to dodge mortars. While ranged classes had the best of it, being able to attack without taking damage at all.

After that change, mortar could quickly become the type of pack that players will automatically skip, much like invuln minions and nasty things involving soul lashers.

1.9 aps is very slow actually, any loh barb should have more than that. I've seen loh daggers that had 1.85 aps by themselves. Good movement speed though, I love maxing out my ms... when doing corpse runs for questing.

as long as im not in a tight room and they arent superfast or something, mortar elites are ezpz for my wiz ya

even mortar/vortex/jailer/waller or some combo of the above isnt hard to deal with. if my teleport cooldown isnt up i just spam click teleport and as long as only 1 or 2 mortars clip me at once illusionist will reset it and i can peace out

I don't really know any wizards or dhs that complain much about mortar specifically, which is why the change is being made.

I think I'm missing something from that comic.

Agreed. But, what about invulnerable minions/fast/etc/etc? And I ran into a chained/fast/molten/etc yesterday that wiped me out so quick. I had 4 stacks of NV and couldn't beat them. And when I tried to park them in a corner, they kept showing up close to their original spot. Diamond skin and run as fast as you can ftw.

My barb is lvl 43 and cleared nm, what's the fastest way to get to 50 to unlock hell?

I have party to help if necessary

3 approaches:

1) if it's possible, zerg yourself at them constantly until they are dead. this isnt always possible

2) die, go get a snack/drink and come back when tyrael has them all dead. obv only possible for siegebreaker.

3) just drag them to a random corner of the dungeon and die and then skip.

Where did the verb "zerg" come from? Is this a new thing?

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=zerging

zoltan runs are good, also first quest in act 4, that one takes about a minute as well and gives good xp.

blizz is requiring an authenticator to use the rmah.

source

so apparently I can solo unicorns inferno without too much problem or taking too much time (at least so far havent seen a too annoying boss).

Ill be selling the chests+pinatas after cleaning up with 5 nephalems. if some of you guys wanna get in on the goods.

i think they sell em for like 150k with pinata and 100 without on the forums?

i can do a bit less ill go get more info

Thinly veiled brag.

I know a lot of people are selling runs like that, but I'm a bit curious. It is really better to kill everything with slow MF, than corpse-run the clouds/pinata with 300% MF and probably do 3+ runs in the same time. Is the loot from ponies really that much better? We tried killing stuff there once, was super slow and painful for us (undergeared ldo) and we decided to give up on trying to kill, just loot run instead.