Damn, Vault:ToC is too good to be ignored, but not too effective to be used as main-damaging ability with my current build.

Instead, I replaced my SS-Lingering Fog with Vault:ToC for kiting / damage avoiding, with 1500% damage as a bonus (and imba)

Gratz on godly find!!

Finally broke the 100k no-ShSh barrier. Not with farming set tho

I think that I should just sell off the DPS set, wasting slot only (since MF set is mainly used to farm whilst DPS set sitting dust )

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Roger boss! Then I gotta start selling my DPS set, since I not using them also.. haha.

GODLY manticore! Dropped at where with what MF / NV?

I just noticed Vault:ToC procs critical as well.. as I noticed my Night Stalker passive got proc'd like hell and kept regening during azmodan fight.

Or vaulting into packs and run out of disc, standing inside and...

Anyway, tweaked around my skill build and replaced Steady Aim (sad to see DPS drop tho) with Night Stalker. Can spam vault more often by clearing trashes with BL & regen my disc.
Just need a little more time for elite packs since I lost my burst (cluster bomb) & reduced DPS.

This post has been edited by polarzbearz: Aug 26 2012, 08:28 PM

Hmm, if the maticore comes with Dex then the dps will be better than existing bow. But most of them are.. so expensive.

For me, I messed around with DPS calculator and seems that Manticore 2 socket (lower tier) is not worth it, since the DPS boost is roughly the same but double/triple the price. Satisfied with my new bow.. haha.

Mine cheap cheap bowxbow only..

1179 dps w/ 64 crit + socket.

This post has been edited by polarzbearz: Aug 27 2012, 12:19 AM

Nice sales. Was it bid w/o buyout or bid w/ certain buyout set?

1mil ---> 82mil..

Did the price just skyrocket at last sec or what?

It's hard to get so many stats in one item while retaining high dps / low cost. My suggestion is to drop the dex, vit and loh, focus on high dps weapon since the other starts can be obtained from other equipments

That stats is more than enough to farm Act 3 with minimal deaths (dying to stupid packs such as Hulking Phasebeast with Fast / Teleporter).

From your skill build, try switching SoT to Devouring Arrow for more Single-target damage during kiting; and removing a skill and replace with Cluster Bombs for high-burst damage.

Additionally, you may try to use Night Stalker as one of your passive for discipline regeneration.

The build I used to run Act 3 kinda smoothly with similar stats as yours now (but lower DPS) last time was: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/demo...;XeY!YaZYYc

Hungering Arrow: Devouring Arrow
Elemental Arrow: Ball Lightning
Smoke Screen: Lingering Fog
Shadow Power: Gloom
Cluster Arrow: Cluster Bombs
Preparation: Backup Plan

Archery
Night Stalker
Steady Aim

This post has been edited by polarzbearz: Aug 29 2012, 10:28 AM

About nightstalker chance, I can't really answer that. I'd say around 30% or higher/lower. It procs kinda often when I was at 49% crit rate.

As for the cluster bomb, I did keep both BL and CB. One for trash-killing (and disc regen, since more hits = more proc) and one for bursting elites pack down. And yes, that was with a bow as well (just recently switched to xbow cause it's a cheap deal).

As for aiming, it takes some practice. Easiest is kite them to a certain distance, drop bomb infront of you, continue running. 70% of the time it'll hit them (since they are following you).

Anyway, an update to my DPS:

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Guess it's gonna be a long time before next DPS jump. Final year started, gotta go semi hiatus with gaming again

Haha thanks

But still long way to go to chase up with sifus here like Lau Pan's high DPS (and now AR too).

Insane DPS as always

Sorry to hear your loss. Yeah, D3 is wasting our time.. a lot..

Like Lao Pan said, usually (B) yields higher DPS but it's totally depending on your current stats.

This DH DPS Calculator is pretty accurate for me, you can use it to compare DPS boost/differences of current item and new items before making your purchase.

1.0.4, i61 and i62 can roll high DPS as well. Thus 9xx and 1xxx dps bows/xbows are easy to come by. Thanks to the market confusion I managed to grab my 1179 DPS xbow w/ lifesteal at cheap price

Good bye vault
Kind of expected from Bliz
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/6470437675