Hi guys,

any skill combination for inferno act 1? i just stepped into it yesterday and completed first quest only... i was not being careful and got hit by grandpa zombie, 1 hit caused me 24k HP....

my current build is,

Mouse :
Hungering Arrow + Spray of Teeth
Elemental Arrow + Nerther Tentacles

Numpad :
1 - Smoke Screen + Lingering Fog (Increase the duration of the effect to 3 seconds)
2 - Preparation + Backup Plan (There is a 30% chance that Preparation cooldown will not be triggered)
3 - Impale + Grievous Wounds (Critical Hits cause 100% additional damage)
4 - Mark of Death + Death Toll (Heal attackers for 1% of the damage done to the marked target)

Passive :
Archery
SharpShooter
Vengeance

dps : 26k
armour : 2k
hp : 35k

ya... i feel that my dps is kinda low, need to farm more to upgrade my hand bow, between i am using 1 hand bow for faster attack speed instead of 2 hand comes with higher damage but slow, just cant stand the attack speed... i am on 2.02 att speed currently... guess still too weak in inferno...

ok sifu noted your advice and will try on it tonight, probably need to change the skill from time to time when hunting elites and boss... will update here again after try.

my guess it must be due to the passive skill named : Archery

Bow : 15% Increase damage
CrossBow : 50% Critial Hit Damage
Hand Crossbows : 10% Critical Hit Chance

When i used a 400dps 2 hand CrossBow, it gives me about 20k damage with slower speed, i upgrade my 1 hand crossbow with 8xx dps, it gives me 26k damage... so my guess will be the passive skill which doing the trick out there.

P/S : supposing the 8xx dps 1 hand crossbow should give that damage, my point is when we are using 2 hand CrossBow, it tends to boost up the damage with slower attack speed.

haha not leh, currently using 1 hand crossbow with quiver, still looking for a better one with comes with dex,vit,speed,hatred regen and resistance. Yup, DH is about damage dealing

Hell Mode Act 3 is relatively easy to me atm, which i advice my barb fren to pump gold finding gear and do the tanking, whereby i am at the back shoot like nobody business.. good for them but well, i am helping them out

hey guys, lets do some testing, please remove all the passive skill and post up in the field as below, lets find out which passive skill which actually boots up the damage.

Type of Bow : Bow / 1 Hand Crossbow / 2 Hand Crossbow
Clean Damage :
Damage without Sharp Shooter :
Damage without Archery :
Damage with Sharp Shooter & Archery :

i think from the above we should know...

Sharp shooter = boost 3% critical chance every sec until 100%
Archery =
Bow : 15% Increase damage
2 Hand CrossBow : 50% Critical Hit Damage
1 Hand CrossBow : 10% Critical Hit Chance

As what i observed, when i'm tele to town to sell stuffs, my damage will be keep on increasing until the extend - the critical chance becoming 100%, add-on with Archery : 50% critical hit damage, it will be omgosh.. (i was using 2 hand crossbow that time)

whereby for 1 Hand bow, it doesn't make a big effect for this, because it only increase the critical hit chance by 10% which adds a little damage to our dps only...

please correct me if i am wrong


So, basically 2 handed crossbow will only make a big damage on the first hit, and everything will reset to the original stats when in the battle with slower att speed compare to 1 handed crossbow/bow

This post has been edited by NeoXeroX: May 28 2012, 12:32 PM

oh ya i think we are the same stage too, bought 872 dps bow for like 800k, i am happy for that and farming happily too

hi there, i personally wouldn't suggest you to farm now at level55, due to the buff x 5, which makes a lot easier for you to farm rather than farming now at level55 in nightmare mode, endure the pain and frustration, get it over, until you reach level 60 and farm on act 3 Hell, which is more suitable IMHO... been there, done that too, next stage i face is inferno

you can try to ask him that, after the first critical damage done, open inventory and have a look on the raw damage, i believe it will not be the 70k dps consistence.. probably 40-50k range or might be lower

Steady Aim helping to boots up the damage too, IAS if not wrong should be Increase Attack Speed

yes, it will count in the damage, but when we done on the critical, it reset to the original stage and start increasing again and again until the critical chance hit 100%

for your DPS, i gotta comment, it's because you're on bow, with not much DPS madness increment with the passive skill helping by Archery. Thus your damage will constantly staying roughly 30-35k per shot approximately, whereby for those who is taking 2 handed crossbow, it gotta have the madness DPS for the first few hit, and then the DPS will drop quite a volume. refer ZeratoS's post for better understanding too

In Short :
get a decent 600-700 dps 2 handed crossbow to try it out, you should see the differentiate between them. Remember to hook up your passive skill : Archery.

This post has been edited by NeoXeroX: May 29 2012, 05:24 PM

it's always better to slot in emerald than ruby, according to your formula on top already can tell that, each shoot we can gain from ruby is about extra 300-600 constantly, be it max out 6k damage extra for 10 shoots, i believe out of 10, at least 2-4 will strike critical depending on the critical chance rate. if 2 provided with the Radiant star emerald(100% damage when critical), the extra damage we gain is extra 30k..


with your current AS, i believe you should be doing fine, i doubt you can stand the speed though

errr, perfect square and above the price,tomes,quantity of gem will still remains after 1.0.3 patch, i see no point waiting though

This post has been edited by NeoXeroX: Jun 8 2012, 08:58 AM

Here

for those who missed out, the dps showed is actually without SS...