Elemental damage armor in Diablo 3

Posted on November 16, 2012 by admin

Continuing on with the elemental damage gear from my earlier post about elemental damage legendary weapons, this time we take a look at what armor pieces can be used to buff your character’s unseen DPS.

One thing is having a high DPS on your character sheet, another is what kind of DPS you are actually doing. Anyone can take a piece of gear and see whether their DPS gets higher or lower. If they are smart, they also look at how their defensive stats are affected, and if they are really smart, they look at their skills and playstyle before deciding on an upgrade. But then there is the unseen DPS, that isn’t mentioned anywhere. That’s what elemental damage is all about.
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Which monster power level to farm? | Speed is king

Posted on November 11, 2012 by admin

With the new monster power settings in patch 1.0.5, and the Keywardens of D3, and the ability to farm Hellfire Rings, the game difficulty has once again changed. Pretty much since launch, it has become easier to farm Inferno and that didn’t really change with patch 1.0.5. However, seeing as pre-1.0.5 Inferno is about as difficult as current MP3-4 Inferno, are you better off running a lower monster power setting or a higher if you are after maximum farming per hour?
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Elemental damage legendary weapons | unsung heroes of D3

Posted on October 31, 2012 by admin

Diablo 3 is a very gear centric game. That is no secret. All of the focus on gear, is for one reason alone: more DPS. There are numerous ways to increase your damage: attackspeed increase, crit chance, crit damage, main stat increase….and then there is also increase to elemental damage.

IAS, crit%, crit dam and more main stat is pretty straightforward: you buy an upgrade, put it on and you DPS “score” increases. This is plainly visible on your character sheet. However, increases to elemental damage aren’t displayed directly on your character sheet, which means that they aren’t as popular as the “normal” options, which then again also means, that they are cheaper!
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Diablo 3 wizard lightning build | Frying stuff for fun and profit

Posted on October 23, 2012 by admin

Continuing the tradition of off the map wizard builds, these last few days I have had a lot of fun with this new build. I have focused on legendaries before, when patch 1.0.4 was announced and had its patch notes released. In 1.0.4 we saw a lot of legendary items be improved and they introduced legendaries, that you might actually want to be building your character around…so that is what I did!

Well, kinda what I did. I got a great deal on a decent legendary two-hander, and have been running around with it these last few days, and I have been having a lot of fun with it!
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D3 patch 1.0.5 is out | legendaries drop like candy

Posted on October 18, 2012 by admin

The new patch is out, in case you didn’t know. From the massive surge of visitors to the site and on the Diablo 3 farming FB group, I think it is safe to assume that a lot of people have decided to pick up Diablo 3 again…at least for a short while. But that is the beauty of a game being free to play. I was almost going to say: “That’s the beauty of a multiplayer game being free.”, but with the changes in patch 1.0.5, Blizzard have effectively killed multiplayer and the social aspect of Diablo 3
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Patch 1.0.5 releases this tuesday? | Scheduled downtime says so

Posted on October 14, 2012 by admin

This coming tuesday a shceduled downtime of roughly 8 hours has been planned.

With the recent minor bugfixes to the patchnotes for 1.0.5, this could very well indicate that we will see patch 1.0.5 hit this upcoming tuesday.

As mentioned on this site, the most exciting parts of this patch is the Infernal Machine and the Keywardens (that sounds like a band), which allows you to craft the Hellfire ring. This ties in closely with the new monster power setting, which was recently explained in more detail on the official blog.
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Diablo 3 auction house strategy – a primer on arbitrage trading

Posted on October 11, 2012 by admin

The real money auction house is a part of Diablo 3, whether you like it or not. The community seems to have gotten used to it and both gear and gold prices have stabilized on it. Of course there are still people with no concept of the worth of things that try and sell crappy legendaries for $250, but overall prices are realistic and it is becoming a very legit way of moving gear and gold, so my guess is that the RMAH is starting to become more popular now that the dust has settled.

With more buyers comes a more liquid market and that means bigger chances of consistent profits. But the question is, how do you check to see whether you can flip items between AHs for a profit?
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Diablo 3 farming exploit | Dupe your items

Posted on September 11, 2012 by admin

But why tell the World about it, then? Simple; as with any other exploit, when enough people know of it, then developers have to take it seriously or it spirals out of control. This has been the case with other in-game exploits in the game, like the Wizard god-mode exploit or the cancel-your-auctions-at-any-time exploit. These were fixed up pretty fast, so once they are out and enough people use them, then action must be taken.

But this one has been flying under the radar for while, but it works both duping items and restoring hardcore characters!
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Max MF/GF is bugged currently. Followers/shrines will allow you go above 300%

Posted on August 26, 2012 by admin

The cap on magic and gold find is 300%, but you there are ways to go above that!

Just a quick warning to people out there. In patch 1.0.4 MF and GF was capped at 300% before NV. With Nephalem Valor you could hit 375%.

However, currently followers and shrines don’t count towards the 300% limit, so with a full NV stack, you can achieve 405% MF/GF. This is pretty awesome, but it is not intended.

Currently the devs are looking in to fixing this small bug, so in the near future your followers will count towards the 300%. This also means, that you shouldn’t go out and spend stupid amounts of money on MF/GF gear for your followers, since you will hit the 300% cap pretty fast as you level up paragon levels fast in the beginning.

The new CM/WW wizard inferno build