05-29-2012, 03:02 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-29-2012, 11:08 PM by Sir_Die_alot.)
For a long time I was using:
1 elemental arrow with tentacle rune (if you're not high enough level to use this yet, it is exactly like the ball lightning but with life steal and Japanese erotica)
2 vault with the half cost rune
3 smoke screen with lingering fog (swapped to this after inferno act 1 just kicked my ass)
4 caltrops with 80% reduced speed rune (again swapped to this from the 2s snare because inferno monsters could be so fast the snare was irrelevant)
5 Hungering arrow with the rune that makes it split into 3 when it pierces
I've now started really moving into act 2, and despite kicking butt in act 1, I was again getting my ass kicked. So my new build is this:
1 elemental arrow with the fear skull rune
2 preparation with the backup plan rune
3 smoke screen with lingering fog
4 caltrops with 80% reduced speed rune
5 Hungering arrow with the increased chance to pierce rune
I took it slow around the edges and I was able to push my way to the witch with 5 stacks. The fight itself was easy just avoid the flies which 1 shot me. I only skipped one boss pack that was extra fast mortar. My current strat is pretty obvious. Just fear spam.
With mortar just spam SS and refill with prep. It's dumb but there is no way around it. Mortars are murder for a DH. When I walked into act 2 the first time I was sporting 400+ all resists and about 27k life. One of the bomber cat loled at that and 1 shot me with a 40k bomb. I've dropped resists in favor of hitpoints since then I'm sporting about 250+ with about 32k life.
When servers are back up I plan to move on in act 2. I'll need more gear for Azmodan. A monk I play with ran past everything to try to just skip the act and between a monk, barb, sorc and myself in different combinations I just couldn't survive the fight since everything he does in the last phase is a 1 shot, and being 100% perfect long enough to make his health go to 0 is a lot to ask.
1 elemental arrow with tentacle rune (if you're not high enough level to use this yet, it is exactly like the ball lightning but with life steal and Japanese erotica)
2 vault with the half cost rune
3 smoke screen with lingering fog (swapped to this after inferno act 1 just kicked my ass)
4 caltrops with 80% reduced speed rune (again swapped to this from the 2s snare because inferno monsters could be so fast the snare was irrelevant)
5 Hungering arrow with the rune that makes it split into 3 when it pierces
I've now started really moving into act 2, and despite kicking butt in act 1, I was again getting my ass kicked. So my new build is this:
1 elemental arrow with the fear skull rune
2 preparation with the backup plan rune
3 smoke screen with lingering fog
4 caltrops with 80% reduced speed rune
5 Hungering arrow with the increased chance to pierce rune
I took it slow around the edges and I was able to push my way to the witch with 5 stacks. The fight itself was easy just avoid the flies which 1 shot me. I only skipped one boss pack that was extra fast mortar. My current strat is pretty obvious. Just fear spam.
With mortar just spam SS and refill with prep. It's dumb but there is no way around it. Mortars are murder for a DH. When I walked into act 2 the first time I was sporting 400+ all resists and about 27k life. One of the bomber cat loled at that and 1 shot me with a 40k bomb. I've dropped resists in favor of hitpoints since then I'm sporting about 250+ with about 32k life.When servers are back up I plan to move on in act 2. I'll need more gear for Azmodan. A monk I play with ran past everything to try to just skip the act and between a monk, barb, sorc and myself in different combinations I just couldn't survive the fight since everything he does in the last phase is a 1 shot, and being 100% perfect long enough to make his health go to 0 is a lot to ask.