(Darkelf) Temper

I use all three Templar: I give him magic find and take his resource regen and health regen.he can save his heal for himself,he's gonna need it lol.I use him for trash mob bashing or general wandering. Enchantress: Load her up with whatever stats items.I take her crowd control skills and use her when I want to run from point A to point B with as little fighting as possible. Scoundrel: I give him all the plus damage/IAS//Crit/crit stuff I find and isnt good enough to sell on AH.I take him to boss fights.Does surprisingly good damage over time,if he stays alive.

TemperHC,37 Witch Doctor,Nightmare,Act 2,Black Soul Stone,died to yet another *You have been disconnected from battlenet* lol.Down to only 3 HC Witch Doctors now. =/ I take it my ISP is having some trouble or doing maintenance,really should check up on them from time to time. hahaha Neeext WD stepping up to the plate later today starts at Nightmare,Act 1,Fallen star.

TemperHC,44 Witch Doctor. *You have been disconnected from battlenet* =/ Nightmare,Act 3,Siege Breaker,Winged Molok. Lucky I have a backup character for my backup character,and another for that backup character and so on and so on. I usually delete characters that have died to lag/latency/disconnects,but I'ma archive this one,just to show some friends that,yes I actually do lose HC characters as well,even if it was to a disconnect this time.lol

But the guy said they were magic beans..... really they are

My condolences Knuckles. Coulda,shoulda,woulda.....story of my life....lol

Actually Knuckles,griefing is alive and well,even without pvp enabled. There are groups of sad people that will join your game,one guy at first,then he gets his friends to join the game.They proceed to play as normal until getting to a difficult spot.Then they co-ordinate rebuking all support (buffs,damage and whatever)Hit their escape/immune skills and let you to die.It's not a new technique by any means,but it never gets old for people like that. Often they post their glorious feats on youtube.I wont post any vids as that just encourages them.

Cant stand the place personally or physically ( makes my eyes hurt). Cant find anything in there that cant be found by progressing the main quest anyway. =)

Scrub that whole post lol.I just realized most my Characters are a good bit under level for where they are in game (cant even wear a lot of the items they find).So Im guessing that I should have payed more attention to the Amour/resist tooltip,that clearly states....This is how much damage reduction you get for fighting enemies YOUR OWN LEVEL.Makes me wonder about what kind of difference it makes to be = to,> than or < than enemies for damage reduction numbers. And welcome back to Hell Gogo ! Slow and steady mate,just slow and steady.

Looks like you had fun ! =) But still,I wont ever play pugs in HC.Ive had a few good pugs in online games,but the majority of them,even softcore leave a lot to be desired.

Ive taken a liking to the three portals at Kulles Terminus.It hasnt failed to produce some sellable items for me in either Nightmare or Hell and I always seem to get a crappy Legendary for crushing every now and then. As for inferno.... Ill probably be abusing *The Holds* potential for Gems,Tombs of Secrets and the 100% Guarantee of a goblin.Its a quick run and not too dangerous,downside is it only coughs up three NV stacks,which isnt a problem if you keep on going down further toward the Chamber of Suffering.Beside its the Tomb of Secrets and gems Im mostly interested in.

And the Monk scores a legendary drop !

Huzzah ! Upward and onwards mate.

Whether it's armor/resists not working properly or the speed of the DOT (this includes Fire Chains,Lasers and the like) ticking over paired with the speed and frequency that mobs (particularly Elites) are now casting is still being debated/tested. I play a damage avoidance game rather than a damage mitigation game so I was kinda late to the party on this subject.Didnt really notice it until I started progressing my two Barbs (one softcore,one hardcore.After what seemed unreasonable damage for a level 40 Barb to be taking in Nightmare act 2,I decided to switch to my Softcore WitchDoctor and do some detective work. Im no rocket scientist by any means and am crap with the math,so I have a pretty basic mind set to things like this.But it's simple really even for dummies like me.If my Toons have done nothing but improve,yet Im being hit harder and faster without progressing to a higher difficulty area,then something has changed/broken and I must exersize more caution or wait it out until its rectified. But in any case,I just did a Jay Wilson.I took my fear factor into account and then doubled it and now Im thankfull. (sorry had to have a dig at Blizz and JW)

Thankyou very muchly Gogo. I'm currently convincing myself to start yet another barbarian,to run alongside your Demon Hunters,so that you have a big dumb brute to hide behind. =) EDIT: how did I do it ? With extreme use of the run,duck and hide skill.Seriously tho,just go slow and steady and learn to read the Elites affix combo as quickly as humanly possible to make the fight or flight decision.When it comes to bosses,not much to say really,I dont fear them half as much as a bad Affix Elite lol.Most times a Boss never gets to hit me.

You guys do know that armor/resists have been broken since about a patch or two ago right ? Hence the outragous damage on caster mobs and more in particular Elites (which also now cast faster making the DOTS tick faster and more often). I havnt bothered taking any of my HC Witch Doctors to Inferno yet (Hell Act 2 soulstone)for this reason.Just biding my time with backup WDs and pimping them out,blacksmithing/selling on the Auction House,until the issue is addressed by Blizz. I have 6 WDs (1 Softcore and 5 hardcore)I wonder if there is a Achievment for more than two level 60s of one class ? =P Occasionally I switch back to Softcore to check out the state of Inferno,before making a decision on whether moving my HC Wds on to that difficulty.

I am on EU HC servers every Tuesday night when US servers go down for maintenance. I dont have much in the way of gold/items/inventory,but work on it once a week.It's pretty bad gameplay on the EU servers for me,because Im from Australia and am kinda forced to play Monk to compensate for latency/lag/bugs. I like to party,but feel I'd be a liabilty to the team on HC in any difficulty above Normal. By the by,it's been a long time since I posted here and THANKYOU Gogo for sorting out my Forum woes.It's nice to be back.

Same thoughts as everyone else! Been following this for some time.Loved TQ and still do.But going to need something a bit more substantial before I part with cash. Temper

Hi Gogo ! Yes it is kinda fun! However your question answers itself.....*but besides skellies I've never really known one to get to niobium with a good minion build.* Using a build specializing in Instill Belief to get to Niob would be beyond frustrating for 99.9% of people.Better just to have a character that uses it to mess around with once every 6 months. Trust me Gogo the fun value of it would wear off after maybe even your first play session.It's way to unreliable and buggy.Not to mention going thru the method of acquiring said minions EVERY time you want to play. This is only my opinion tho and your mileage may vary.Maybe since Ice and Blood the skill has been revamped?I wouldn't know..it was just that frustrating to use as a standard skill in original that I don't want to revisit it. Anyway make a seraphim to play around with mate.Ya got nothing to lose. Temper

Helloe Groosum ! What times are you playing? Generally I'm on proper after 7.30 pm (Queensland,Australia).Any other time I'm on and off to look after my two year old boy. Lately I've been playing at two in the morning and onward until about six so I can play with more people.(who speak english) There is a thread for when you are playing,maybe try advertising in that? Temper

Hello everyone! As much fun as Instill Belief can be,it's all kinds of too buggy for my liking.The most use I have for it is against the scorpion. I will admit tho that without this CA I would have not had all kinds of fun encounters in Ancaria while traveling the roads! Temper

Hey all! Never noticed it at the Great Wall.Maybe cause I don't stop to fight. I'll keep my eyes open for this now. Temper

Hi Etherian! Yep I see you on Closed nearly every night,but your server is always locked! Didn't deathblow get the chop from spells? Or are using DB for Archangels' Wrath?I can't test as I have already removed all DB from my gear and will need to shop for it again. I use just the boots from the RevTech set to raise nova and plus runspeed,Infinite revenge wings like you (priceless)Sofia's for arms and legs and the rest is the revelations set.At the moment I'm building up a set of Revelation armor and a set of Indijian's (SP) for testing.A full set of Revelation has netted some fair results with bosses,but run speed is so slow,and need to socket a lot of enemy - chance to evade and the like. For weapons/shield I use the same as you.Tinwora's and Glacial Defender.I have a second weapon slot devoted to a % life leeche halberd which I have been using with the Revelation set on bosses.(sorry I forget how much % life leeche that is giving me,maybe close to 3% I think,I'll check up tonight. With my Combat Arts I have actually paired up Radiant Pillar and Flaring Nova in one Combo,and also banefull Smite and ArchAngels in another Combo.I am currently trying out a different mod on Pillar(delude?)and it works ok when there is up to three people on server but not so hot with more people.I have three of these builds so I can play with mods a bit. I think in the long run this build will still be very effective,just a little more work.Besides that it's still a very fun build,with lots of CA toys to play with. Anywho I might catch you on HC EU soon ! Temper

Hi all! Mmmk this build quite a bit more work now that I've got Ice and Blood. The change to + all skills and Deathblow with the new gameplay has changed my view a bit. Currently working on the best combination for jewelry.Looking like - dot is going to have to be a major mod(undecided yet). It also seems with the Revelations set you now need more pieces for life leeche.So armor pieces are something else on my mind at present. Temper

Anyone for some online play of TQ ? Let me know here or at Clan DA forum Temper

Hey everyone! Yep finally broke and downloaded Ice and Blood,seeing as Australia dosn't seem to sell it off the shelf at all. Anyway I caught up with a couple of you briefly and am organizing my play time to sync with you guys. Oh and Gogo/Schot...did you ever make that leveling guide that you were pondering about? Also I have a bit of work to do redoing my Celestial Technobabes gear,so I wont be fully functional for a day or two. Temper