Diablo III - General Discussion Thread

[Isengard]

Archon is a stunning ability but for the group I am in - 2 monks and a barbarian, I stay on the edges of a fight so that I can do my damage without really getting hurt, plus that way I avoid some of the attacks from the blue mobs in nightmare - which you cant see very well when 2 monks and a barbarian is going all out :P

I start the fight with blizzard, then disintegrate until my AP is done, but currently my regen is so fast I hardly run out, once my ap is at about 1/4 I switch to electrocute and in 2 or 3 secs my AP is full again and I can go mad with disintegrate. Because of my spell rotations mirror images are rather useless, my diamond skin absorbs so much dmg that I can cope.That is why I opted for the extra dmg instead of more spells to dmg with.

It's hard being in the front line, I can hardly see what I'm hitting half the time in those big mobs that we pull in with Cyclone Strike. Also, I'm a big noob, I didn't know about elective mode until now.

Why elective mode is so hidden is beyond me.

[OmegaFenix]

Yep for solo its a stunning ability, but being a wizard, for me that means being a ranged attacker, the mobs are not supposed to get to close to you.

I suspect if I played the wizard in solo mode I would have a completely different build.

Yeah, killing from a distance is def what the wizard is all about. With Arcon being so OP I might just stop using it until the game gets harder.

I found this early, playing Solo and Playing co-op I use completely different builds.

It's hard being in the front line, I can hardly see what I'm hitting half the time in those big mobs that we pull in with Cyclone Strike. Also, I'm a big noob, I didn't know about elective mode until now.

Why elective mode is so hidden is beyond me.

I had that through most of Act 3 with the Barb, I would just see chaos on screen with my barb occasionally whirling around.

Blizzard made D3 very casual friendly as such elective is hidden away to stop noobs from building shitty characters until they have learned to use the chars.

Does anyone, who plays solo, use the followers? My Solo char has only had followers during the scripted sections.

[Wyvern]

But, but, Isengard we have mentioned it a FEW times on TS :P

But you lot have the armour and health - hence you get the front lines :P Go have a play on their build site, so much fun to figure out what to do with the spells.

[OmegaFenix]

But, but, Isengard we have mentioned it a FEW times on TS :P

But you lot have the armour and health - hence you get the front lines :P Go have a play on their build site, so much fun to figure out what to do with the spells.

Yeah if only the barb felt more like a tank. When me and Spooner co-op I leap in and he sends in his minions. In our games I die most of the time, he's only started dying in Act III.

[MOnk]

I used the Templar follower throughout normal and he wasn't bad, not much dps but at least he served to distract some mobs and give me a bit of hp regen.

[Wyvern]

Same here, I do the dying and get slightly to excited when one of the others dont make it :P

But they tend to protect me as well since I am VERY squishy compared to them.

I actually havent played the wizard in solo mode - I have my monk for solo and the wizard is my co-op char.

[OmegaFenix]

I used the Templar follower throughout normal and he wasn't bad, not much dps but at least he served to distract some mobs and give me a bit of hp regen.

Didn't that make it incredibly easy?

Same here, I do the dying and get slightly to excited when one of the others dont make it :P

But they tend to protect me as well since I am VERY squishy compared to them.

I actually havent played the wizard in solo mode - I have my monk for solo and the wizard is my co-op char.

I think when we get to nightmare I might bring my Wizard into CO-OP but she feels entirely too OP and a Wizard Witch Dr would be too spammy. At least as a Barb I can distract the mobs and drop Earth Quake when it gets hairy.

[Isengard]

@Wyvern I'm definitely going to play around with the character builder during lunch time. I have high health, but I don't think my armor rating is uber or anything, I do dodge a lot so that helps keep the damage down, just a pity you can't dodge those death dealing laser.

[MOnk]

Not really, was playing a barb so I couldn't just kill everything before it got to me like you Wizards. The difference is pretty minimal, I mostly just brought him along for the flavour dialogue.

[OmegaFenix]

Not really, was playing a barb so I couldn't just kill everything before it got to me like you Wizards. The difference is pretty minimal, I mostly just brought him along for the flavour dialogue.

LOL! Makes sense I guess. Maybe on Higher diffs I will bring one of them along.