I've come to the conclusion that Glass Caononing > Bothering with Vit at all. Most the hits you take are going to knock you down low, no matter how much vit. At least now, I can almost rambo while soloing act 2 in hell, with 7k dps, besides unique mobs.

diamond skin + teleport + mirror image + dpsing as high as possible = the nuts. **** health. like you said, why add 3k points of health if im just going to get 2 shot anyways. plus the hardest hitting mobs are also the mobs which are easiest to kite.

energy shield is nice when u get last rune. instead of getting 1 shot u get 3 shot.

A thinly veiled brag and an image to show how important base dmg is.

My main hand weapon is a 1.2 speed POS. If it were a 1.5 speed wand the difference would be even bigger.

12k+ 3k of that from the boost in base dmg from the off hand alone with glass cannon and sparkflight familiar (seriously, why use anything else if you gonna use a familiar?) I am still wearing old gear. Wizards with better access to +attack speed (HUGE boost) gears and +dmg rings are probably pushing ~18k, maybe more.

A wizard who solo'd the act 4 boss in inferno had close to 5x your DPS.

http://i.imgur.com/fmyl9.jpg

holy mother of god. 18k my rear. jebus christ.

He did it total glass cannon style too with that vitality.

Just tried to solo Inferno Belial about 50 times in a row and failed. Any suggestions??

stats are as follows:

Well, I just solo'd hell Belial.

I ran:

Diamond Skin (Crystal Shell)
Hydra (Arcane Hydra)
Teleport (Fracture)
Energy Armor (Force Armor, this is a MUST have, imo)

Electrocute (Chain Lightning)
Arcane Orb (Tap the Source)

Astral Presence
Evocation
Glass Cannon

Assuming they didn't add any extra stupid stuff for inferno:

Pop DS and Hydra as soon as fight starts, orb down snakes. Teleport to a corner, spam Electrocute till you have enough arcane power to spam orb, pop DS when snakes start getting close, or tele behind them if necessary.

Pretty much same thing once belial comes down. Throw Hydras up whenever Belial moves, go to corner, spam orb/electro, tele or DS. Rinse and repeat. Only thing you gotta worry about his avoiding his green projectiles, where are extremely easy to dodge; they move pretty slow.

Belial's true form, I sit in the on the far right side corner, for best visability. Throw up a hydra as far away as possible from you, and make sure you keep one up at all times. It's just a matter of dodging stuff at this point. If I sit in his arm smash, I teleport to my left, then run back right, ASAP. If I absolutely have to, I either pop DS or just eat it. Throw an orb or two out when you can. The main important things to really remember in the fight is to:

1) Keep Hydra's up at ALL TIMES.
2) Keep Energy Shield up or die. You will make a mistake and end up eating an arm smash or one of his green exploding circles. Without this up, you die.

It's just a matter of learning to be able to dodge, beyond that.


*note* If hell's fight is somehow no where close to the inferno fight, feel free to ignore or berate me, your choice

The biggest problems are the snakes, its hard enough to get past phase 1, let alone phase 2.

Belial himself isn't too hard, its just being able to death with both threats when you get 3-4 shotted regardless of setup - I tried a mixture of CC and survivability, with few threads (hydra / blizzard), but I just couldn't make it work. Will probably have to party up to make it past.

He said he died a ton. It's funny how his wiz has less HP than me (mid 30s) but has 43,000 damage while I have 600. Chances are he's not even too tricked out with gear.

I'm thinking about some lowhp build, I have 4900 hp in my magicfind gear and with force armor glyph (35%hp lose/hit tops) and some liferegen items, hmmmm if anyone played Guild Wars, I'm referring to the 55hp monks here

I wonder if it can be viable (on inferno obv).

brag

how are u guys getting 2-3+ million in gold?

prob selling junky rares for 300k

I only have something like extra 20% MF from gear but running inferno act 1 with 5x nephalem valor means probably like 1 million gold for each run (whole act from q3) on average, if not more. You make a few hundred thousand just on gold drops, then the rest by AHing the loot.

700+dps weapons go for 250-400k around, have to be lucky

how did you run diamond skin and teleport at the same time

Guessing elective mode

wow something that changes the game that much is hidden in the menus

like other people have said, just from selling stuff on AH.

Normal rares with ok stats (i.e. vit + one primary stat, MF) go for 100-150k, weapons can go for 1 mil+ (sold an 830 dps bow, 730 damage 1 handed claw for a few mil).

People will just buy everything and anything!

Gold drops don't really increase in higher difficulties, but running around with 5x neph valour gives 75-80% increased gold find, and if you have 4 valours every boss drops at least 1 rare + like 7 magic items (bosses like spider queen are very farmable in a1), and 5x neph valor guarantees at least 2, usually 3 rare drops.

Wow I didn't know about this. This changes EVERYTHING!

You're probably long past this now, but I was looking back through this thread as some of the builds and came across this. But I thought he was one of the easiest bosses in the game. I just kept diamond skin and hydra up, and then just ran away from him. He eventually got trapped behind a post somewhat unexpectedly, so then I just unleashed disintegrate mercilessly, but hydra+diamond skin+armor+run away plus the occasional potshot with disintegrate/arcane orb/electrocute works pretty well for a lot of bosses.

Decided to blow off some steam after losing my HC demon hunter.

Run into a group of mobs, cast Frost nova, time bomb, spam arcane orb, refresh arcane power with health globes, spam arcane orb, Diamond skin if everything hasn't blown up

Basically raped everything in act 3 in a few hours. Died a couple times but it was fun as hell. Templar dude also saved me from death countless times with that skill where he knocks back enemies and heals you if you get too low.

Thanks Wookie. I'm not actually past that guy, I haven't played in a few days. I'll see if I can make something work with the strats you suggested, otherwise I'll wait for my graphics card

I've not looked into it too much but if you can get a shield with two sockets you can get pretty huge DPS boost from it anyway