even if u partner with a tank, u still risk damage from teleporter, charging off screen mobs, vortex, fast mobs, closed corridors and so many other situations etc...

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no life on hit
super low resist
no extra discipline
no bonus damage to skill (elemental arrow etc) on quiver which is the main reason to use quivers
1 handed fast xbow with bad low end damage and no life on hit

fake damage boosted by 100% sharpshooter



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look at athene's vid on proper DH itemization

1. wasted an extra skill... not to mention high vit with low resist = terribad eHP
2. repeat after me: a dead dps is no dps
3. not enuff for solo-ing
4. irrelevant? u are saying a flat out 10% bonus to damage irrelevant? Watch more of athene's vids

This post has been edited by evofantasy: Jun 30 2012, 06:16 PM

2. getting 1 shotted = dead dps nuff' said... u gear enuff eHP so u can last 3 hits without dying when u get bad combinations... i am not asking him to go tank, but rather having enuff to survive 2-3 hits
3. solo downed diablo with tat 30 disc? doubt so unless u have the natalia set bonus... with the amount he spent aka 150M, he coulda gotten those pieces with the stats...
4. as i said, look at Athene's build... no matter what ur argument is, even for a glass cannon like athene's build; his is wrong... the main and biggest quiver stat to look for is the skill damage (reason y ppl carry 2 quivers - 1 for cluster, 1 for elemental) is cause of that flat out 10% damage increase which scales multiplicatively with ur dex and low-top end damage...

let's share the stat and build which u used to solo down act4 ya? i'm curious

i said eHP, not HP... eHP and HP is 2 totally different thing =.="
u can replace all the vit (he got 40k+ hp) for resist which gives soooo much more eHP...
vit is the worst eHP addition of all...
thus, if he spent so much on vit, why not replace it with resist which is so much better?

name me 1 stat which buff ur damage by 10% on a single piece of gear?
y i mentioned athene is because he is a well known theory crafter...
not because of his gear...
u can never argue against spreadsheet numbers...

do note:
the OP said he spent 150M and the gears are pretty subpar for the amount spent...
what we were talking about is how the other itemization would benefit him more for the gear...
no matter what style he play, u cant really neglect the extra damage...

This post has been edited by evofantasy: Jun 30 2012, 09:14 PM

all resist would be the best but if u are on a budget, fire resist would be better due to mortar (while plague, arcane etc is much easier to dodge)... physical for all those teleporting/ fast mob/ ninja mobs from no where/ steal mobs/ flying birds... as long as u dun get 1 shotted (or 2 due to latency) u are fine... smaller health pool with higher mitigation = easier to heal up from life steal/ life on hit effects...

if u look at the low end damage, u will find that xbow is way better...
fast weapon usually have very very bad low end damage and slightly lower top end damage...
if u are going for the crit build, u would want that gap to be smaller thus ur crits are nt wasted...

look for the top end damage followed by low end damage when buying a weapon (works with any non-LoH based builds)

slow weapons are good as they consume ur hatred at a slower pace but deals a truck load of damage (cluster arrow - loaded for the boar)...
but the first investment is of course the quivers with atk bonuses...
if u see the BiS list, those are the best upgrade u can get from the multiplicative stacking...

^ this, better optimization of gears especially chosing resist over vit

was wondering why u are nt using loaded for bears? O.o

2H xbow...
dun look at DPS but rather the damage itself...
xbow usually have a small gap between the min and max damage thus it is really stable...

those are already accounted for in the damage of the weapon...
so u can jz ignore those =)