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Well unfortunately had some PC issues , typical, book time off to play this and pc breaks, the gods telling me to grow up!
I actually got a new motherboard and SSD and turns out the MB was DOA, just took three days to arrive to that conclusion.
I did get some playtime on release day and a little bit here and there.
Cleared normal with a party ( bastards all got to 60 working on inferno while my pc was down
) and I also got a Barb up to 20
Thoroughly enjoyable game, more so in a party where the game is more challenging and more fun.
Working my way through nightmare at the moment.
So far its been extremely enjoyable, and cant wait to keep on playing and exploring
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No he can't. One lad did it after 100 deaths on diablo with a clever but gimmicky Force Armor build. Thats going to be patched fairly quickly.
On inferno, Wizard actually has pretty poor survivability. Everything one shots you regardless of gear and the only playstyle is kiting. You have to keep teleporting and dropping hyrdas and run around the map. Barbarians and monks can actually engage. If you want survivability, go with them.
There's a loadout to use that makes it very difficult to be one shotted. I'm not high enough of a level yet to try but if you run Energy Armour with the Force Armour rune and the Galvanising Ward passive skill then you can have Energy Armour active for 240 seconds (increases armour by 65% for double time due to Galvanising Ward), the Force Armour rune makes any attack that deals >35% of max life only deal 35% of max life and Galvanising Ward allows you to regain 310hp per second while you have Energy Armour active. This looks to be an excellent way to stay alive as a Wizard.
The only downside is that Energy Armour takes off 20 from your maximum Arcane power but to counter this, activate Astral Presence as a passive skill too to get the 20 Arcane power back. Hope this helps somebody
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Im finding nightmare okay so far on my 39 Wizard. I'm about halfway through act 2 and have only died a couple of times. I'm using Shock Pulse, Arcane Orb, Arcane Hydra, Diamond Skin, Frost Nova, and Magic weapon.
Haven't found the need to change yet but I did swap out familiar for Frost Nova. I didn't need to at the moment but I figure it will eventually become risky to purely rely on Diamond Skin to keep me alive so I may aswell drop familiar now and get used to it. I lose damage but the extra survivability is nice.
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/wizard#bcXRYS!YcX!baaaaZ
Aye nightmare is pretty easy, diamond skin is really quite weak in hell mode tho. Mirror image seems to be the best defensive skill in hell for me, actually gives you a few seconds against those packs to put some distance and continue with the kiting.I'm on Act2 Hell now on my Monk and i'm finding it fine so far but I had to heavily change my build for Hell. Some champion packs can be tough but they are all do-able. I now have no offensive abilities at all, everything I use is for defensive / healing purposes. DPS is not great, I have about 5k but it's just auto attack damage so it can be slow!
Have a wizard friend however and when we team up it's a completely different story, he has insane DPS and rips through everything. So I group em up and he takes em down. Very fun, can't wait to try Inferno!!
Does seem to be the best way to do it, tank and dps. I've heard monks and barbs are the best solo classes so im not suprised you can at least engage (Would be pretty harsh if you couldn't tbh). 0 -
There's a loadout to use that makes it very difficult to be one shotted. I'm not high enough of a level yet to try but if you run Energy Armour with the Force Armour rune and the Galvanising Ward passive skill then you can have Energy Armour active for 240 seconds (increases armour by 65% for double time due to Galvanising Ward), the Force Armour rune makes any attack that deals >35% of max life only deal 35% of max life and Galvanising Ward allows you to regain 310hp per second while you have Energy Armour active. This looks to be an excellent way to stay alive as a Wizard.
The only downside is that Energy Armour takes off 20 from your maximum Arcane power but to counter this, activate Astral Presence as a passive skill too to get the 20 Arcane power back. Hope this helps somebody
Think thats the gimmick hes talking about. I'm using this setup, but its still not really that useful against packs. It does make the bosses very doable tho, im thinking of just grinding out till 60 and then skipping past all the trash and going straight for bosses. With it the less HP you have the better i think as you'll regen it almost instantaneously if you have enough regen.0 -
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Think thats the gimmick hes talking about. I'm using this setup, but its still not really that useful against packs. It does make the bosses very doable tho, im thinking of just grinding out till 60 and then skipping past all the trash and going straight for bosses. With it the less HP you have the better i think as you'll regen it almost instantaneously if you have enough regen.
aah yeah that would make sense, only skimmed the top line
I'm still on normal mode so I don't know what the set up is like from experience. Just doing some research and see that lot's of people have success with it. It does seem quite clever though.
@Kirby Out of interest, why would you reckon that build will be patched?
EDIT: just saw your above post. Won't be planning that as my future build in that case.0 -
Up to level 43 now near the end of act 3 Nightmare. The bump in XP gain in nightmare is fairly large. I was 35 this morning.
Did a session with Wondaboy. We tore that place up
. There was one elite though with ultra fast movement speed that killed us several times. mad hard to kill. Had to just keep using Teleport with Reversal rune to keep him confused and running back and forth. 0 -
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Seems to have been loads of people losing items/gold/characters over the last few days. Looks like some kind of hack judging by the forums. Hope nobody loses out on this.
If you haven't already, install the authenticator app on your phone.
And set it to require authentication each login attempt.
It is actually just the one or two people that seem to be doing it as they are the only names I see appear on the threads, Yet a US thread has already been maxed so it is pretty widespread.
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