Diablo 3: Reaper of Souls

[MrHat]

I was trying this out earlier, seems pretty awesome:
https://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/wizard#WcQjSO!Zhd!YZcbcc

Melee wizard with all the +barrier skills and arcane orbs.

It works.  Super strong build.

Fixed it.

[schild]

Copy and paste link in new window and it works.

[Hawkbit]

I tried a similar build on my 47 wiz tonight, took him to 52 without a single problem.  A lot of the +barrier abilities are 55+, so I had to supplement with next best abilities.  However, melee wizard for these five levels felt stronger than my monk or barb.

[Soulflame]

Wizard feels like the only complete class to me.  I've tried hunter, barb, witch doctor, and monk as well.  None of them feel quite as solid as the wizard.

[Sjofn]

My DH can facetank pretty well these days, I've been doing Torment 2 and I basically stand there while mobs swarm me and it's fine until some asshole elite starts making me run around so I don't stand in fire or something. My build isn't anything special, in fact it's so uninteresting I can't be bothered to link my armory or anything, but the Brooding passive is pretty good now.

It's the melee classes I don't super like playing as, but that's usually the case for me in ARPGs, for some reason.

[luckton]

BTW, AH is dead. 

[schild]

Which means you can suddenly trade gold and uniques again, ya?

[Pagz]

What will we need gold now for?

[Ironwood]

The Mystic.  Making Gems.  The usual shit.

[apocrypha]

Interested to see how they'll balance the gold cost of things now, given the vast disparities in gold that must exist.

I know from looking at the AH a few weeks ago that there were plenty of people with billions of gold, multiple billions. I never had more than about 8 million - I didn't play the AH, I find that meta game boring, so if things get balanced in any way for the billionaires then I'll be completely excluded. I hope that isn't going to be the case.

[Soulflame]

I currently have almost 6 million, I'm pretty sure that's the most I've ever had.

Then again, I started under 3 million, so getting gold isn't that hard.  Just play.

[MrHat]

Interested to see how they'll balance the gold cost of things now, given the vast disparities in gold that must exist.

I know from looking at the AH a few weeks ago that there were plenty of people with billions of gold, multiple billions. I never had more than about 8 million - I didn't play the AH, I find that meta game boring, so if things get balanced in any way for the billionaires then I'll be completely excluded. I hope that isn't going to be the case.

I'm actually really curious about this as well. I have a feeling that those with billions will have more gold than they need/can use or congrats to them they are able to gamble forever.

[Rokal]

The Mystic.  Making Gems.  The usual shit.

Yeah, it sounds like Mystic is their intended new gold sink. Reroll an affix until you get the one you want and then reroll that affix until you get the value you want. Since you always get to choose whether to keep your old affix/value or the new one that you've paid for, you can safely enchant into your desired affix and value if you have enough money. The unwashed masses may settle for rerolling a good affix (+3% crit chance) but people with a lot of gold can safely keep rerolling that until they get the max value too (+10% crit chance)

[Merusk]

Yeah, combining gems gets damn pricy as it is. There's a new tier of gem in the expansion so that, plus crafting, plus rerolls are going to eat plenty of gold for those who weren't catassing the AH.

Plus, as has been mentioned, getting gold is fairly quick.  There's Paragon skills for it and no lack of equipment with +goldfind and drops have increased to a point it's also a good source of income.

Just don't do Whimsyshire. 

[MrHat]

Everything I've read about preparing for RoS points to there being tons of gold available.

[schild]

I love this Wizard build, hat.

[Fabricated]

I'm doing a melee wizard build but mostly with damage-boosting runes rather than defensive ones. It's pretty fun outside of it being kind of annoying to chase down treasure demons.

[schild]

I've left Archon / Improved Archon on my hotbar because it's just so fucking good at punching out treasure pygmies/goblins/whatever.

[MrHat]

Ya, the build is surprisingly flexible after you get Calamity + Illusionist.

[Azuredream]

Just tried it out, love it- thanks for that. I used to run that Critical Mass build where you'd run right up to the elite packs and spam all the buttons for huge damage, but I was kinda at a loss for how to build my wizard since they removed Critical Mass.

[Pennilenko]

I love this Wizard build, hat.

The right gear choices make that build super destructive.

[schild]

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/schild-1679/hero/42090187

She's tankier than my Barbarian.

[schild]

Finally got a pair of Nemesis Bracers. Makes schild a happy boy.

[Ironwood]

Always on my fucking arsehole.

[MrHat]

Wow.

I'm so excited for RoS that I might stay up next Monday.

[Setanta]

Sydney based servers up that Aussies get directed to after login.

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So this is what the game is supposed to feel like?


Where the fuck has this been all my life Blizzard?

[Ironwood]

Where were you getting directed to before ?   

[Setanta]

We always played on servers in the US - even if the game was an Oceanic server.

[Ironwood]

Ironicaly, there was a time of horrid lag and unplayableness over here in the EU at the start where playing on the US was far, far, far better.

Didn't last a huge amount of time, but it was both hugely frustrating and hugely lolworthy at the same time.

[Polysorbate80]

Gave in and pre-ordered.  It was the wizard that did it.  I decided to level her to 60, and the damage/survivability of the class were just over the top compared to all the other classes.  Oh, and the RNG likes her better than my WD; she got a Tal Rasha belt and the Cain's set plans.

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Flaffy-1442/hero/26508992

It's a variant of the tank wizard MrHat posted, using all arcane damage with boosts from Arcane Torrent and +Arcane damage/+Arcane Torrent damage gear, glass cannon rather than unstable anomaly, and the damage reduction after teleporting rune.  Running T3 solo with no difficulties at all, unless I try to stand in the fire AND the poison AND the lasers at the same time    If the gear were a little better optimized, I'd try T4-T5.

Hell, her Templar has better DPS than my 60 barbarian.

I'm sure I'll wind up at least test-driving the Crusader; I'm a sucker for the plate-armored sword-n-board type of class.

[Merusk]

I've run the barb a few nights now and recognize it's inferior in so many ways to the wiz ATM. No wonder all the pickup groups are wiz and witch doctors.  Think I'll give the wiz build a try tonight. Not like farming gear is worthwhile. 

[Signe]

So I bought this.  I had to buy the first one again because the one I had was for the console and I gave it away anyway.  I have to restart the tattoo fund.  Again.  I'd prefer playing on the 360 but it doesn't look as if that's happening. 

I want some Crawfish Boil, now. 

[Cheddar]

I patched and logged in last night.  Damn, everything is different.  Going to bite the bullet and roll a new toon.  Probably wd, I wonder if pets are vuable build now?

[Ragnoros]

I patched and logged in last night.  Damn, everything is different.  Going to bite the bullet and roll a new toon.  Probably wd, I wonder if pets are vuable build now?

Most of your damage will come from your abilities (e.g. poison dart, acid cloud, etc), but pets are very effective at tanking elites/bosses and distracting things in general. So, yes.

[Ingmar]

Pets have been viable since long before this last patch.