Hi sifu DHs,

just started my lvl 70 dh last week and Krider dropped on me yesterday (along with a mara glove, bombardier rucksack and T&T) life was good. Krider was average but I'll take it, Should I reroll:

1. +1044-1264 Arcane damage to higher range?
2. roll out %chance area dmg to +10% dmg? That would give me 2514 dps



I run sentries, so does sentries take the +10% into account on my weapon damage? Thanks all for advice

This post has been edited by jaychow: Jun 4 2014, 11:07 AM

You are right, if I reroll elemental damage with a similar range as yours, will result around 2.5k-ish dps; however will lose the chance for %area damage if I roll for straight 10%dmg and result 2514 dps max.

Looks like the better deal is to reroll the elemental damage, so have 2.5k dps AND %chance area dmg; almost though +10%dmg will be the obvious. Thanks for sharing your better Krider sample too

This post has been edited by jaychow: Jun 4 2014, 11:48 AM

And I though I was lucky *yesterday*.. GG

This post has been edited by jaychow: Jun 4 2014, 02:56 PM

Am collecting Mara, left the head and chest piece ... at crossroads if should I keep fire or go physical damage for the pet and sentry damage? I got t&t, cinders, magefist. Fire not doing justice to pets so would the switch to broadside, shooting stars worth it to arsenal + load for bear?

Or heck even lightning stun build.

Like the glass of life synergy with reaper's and weasel grab... mmm maybe try that tonight.

Saw your build not running hate generator, so just pet and sentry attacks? You have my latest bad karaoke album

After 2.0.6 went live, tried your build, throw away kridershot/frost arrows and use 2h xbox without hate generator and rely on reaper's wraps.

OK I can see how bad the sentry 'bug' is with elemental arrow combo. Now using MS + CA only it fires like a boss + harrington + companion howl ... mobs GG

PSS... no time to release album, tengah busy demonhunter-ing

Running fire now cause of SoJ borrowed from my firemonk; will switch over physical tonight and see how it plays out and hopefully end my fire vs physical debate. Thanks

Currently the popular end game T6 build is sentry/pet Mara6 + 2h xbow which gives all your sentries superior firepower (shoot your hatred spenders also) with the elemental flavouring of your choice (fire/physical/lightning/poison).

For starters, go fire as it has the highest single damage output for hatred spending as you don't have your multiple pets/sentries yet. Andy, cindercoat, magefist, SoJ gives you those elements. Serrated arrows decent for fire hatred generator, or Entangling shot: JiS for slowing mobs. For aoe either CA: Loaded for Bear or MS Arsenal. Pick companion wolf/bat and Turret spitfire/guardian. For defense/kiting can use Vault: tumble and Smoke screen: healing vapors. You will feel squishy at this point till you get Mara4.

Later on once you have Marauder 4 piece (3 if you on RoRG) thats where the pet fun starts(unlock to use all pet abilities); 6 piece is where your sentries start firing your hatred spenders.You are still squishy but GG. Good luck Disclaimer: this is just one playstyle, there is melee knifer; strafe rocketman and other builds out there, so experiment and see what's yours.

Best place to farm legendaries? Rifting at high Torment. All leg drops are RNG except for bounty cache specific items like RoRG.

This post has been edited by jaychow: Jun 12 2014, 12:07 PM

Can check out your build on fan of knifes? Have the belt so need to go figure.

Am looking forward for Chanon Bolter, Windforce and Calamity to complete my full bow collection. The hardest part of the collection.

For survival-bility Perfectionist and awareness are staples and almost perma slot at high torment. Popular passives are blood vengeance, steady aim (good in groups), cull the weak (if you running slow attacks), custom engineering, ballistics, ambush (for solo), tactical advantage.

RNG = random number generator; meaning total random drop anywhere, anytime
RoRG = ring of royal grandeur, one of the most wanted ring in game

Yeap, bounties will reset after you exit game, basically farm rift key fragments so you can unlock rift mode.

My opinion and recommendation; perhaps other sifus could give better advice. Immediate upgrade:

1. Helm reroll vit to +15% cluster arrows; assuming CA + sentries is your main dmg output
2. Reroll shoulders vit to +15% sentries also
3. You vit 500k hp generally high (some DH run with 300-400k hp) so if can roll your rucksack vit to +15% sentries (tough roll koz quiver can roll any skills)
4. Swap in 2 or 3 diamonds for pants/chest ... so you can live with lower hp.
5. try 2h xbow; the dmg range is smaller so your sentries will consistently hit harder

Things to get/aim for:
1. SoJ with Fire + crit chance/crit dmg
2. Quadfecta neck - Fire, crit cc, cdm, dex/ats.
3. Cindercoat with +15% sentries w 3 sockets
4. Look for trifecta mara gloves dex, cc, cdm, ats
5. Maybe a better shoulders with dex, vit, +15% sentries, cdr or AR

And GG

On CDR topic, I had the option to roll cdr or ats off for my gloves; would it better to have cdr instead? I.e. dex, cdr, crit, cdm for mara build. Cause ats is useful to speed up sentries attack no?

Agree with @lksing78 1h xbows on sentry build is a dps loss as just from casual observation 2h xbow, the sentries hit harder being the fact that sentries follow your main weapon damage range gap.

Looking at wlcling's weapon post, you can see typical high end 1h xbow dmg range is 1.2k-2.2k; 2h bow is 1.4k-2.5k (2.7k dps kridershot); 2h xbow is 2k-2.6k (2.6k dps hellrack). So kebarangkalian of your sentries on firing harder and more kaboom for your buck, is higher on average for 2h xbow due to a smaller high damage range.

And yeah you lose the extra sentries by not using the rucksack. 2 sens.

This post has been edited by jaychow: Jun 18 2014, 06:01 PM

Actually I am looking forward to a viable 'melee' DH ninja build(fan of knifes?) ... looks quite badass with a shard of hate equipped

Agree of the choices, just hate to say that to be viable (ez mode) on T6 at the moment is mara6 + 2h xbow. With the current build aoe is imba, but can't do jack on single targeted dps where sometimes goblins live another day cause my sentries are not paying attention and hit other stuff

Still don't have my calamity yet; would like to try the aoe m4d combo

Got my hexpants dropped on my monk; witching hour donated from clanmember; so yeah sometimes you have to count other people/toons' luck.

Thats a GG chest, keep sentry as that's a must have for mara sentry build. Roll off AR for 3 socks. I want this and kadala instead gave me goldnuts and batman cloaks instead

Very indepth review on 6pc Mara and hatred spender combo. You can read it up on the technical analysis here.
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/12674389831#1

Simplified general conclusion:
1. 6pc Marauder's set is bugged w/ hatred spender combinations that only cycle hatred spenders at 1.00 aps
2. Each hatred spender has their own cooldown, and is activated in a specific order.
3. Current best combo that's not 'bugged' and follow your aps is CA + MS, in other words fires more often.

This post has been edited by jaychow: Jun 23 2014, 11:51 AM

1. Would suggest crafting crimson belt and pants; the CDR helps for your companion and vengeance/sentries. Replace belt with witchin hour/harrington once you have Mara pants/boots.
2. suggest use spitfire sentries if you are going Mara route soon.
3. Roll 3 sockets on your chest for more gem. But if you go fire, cindercoat is the better choice (if you can get another Mara piece).
4. You need 50% crit; roll helm for crit > %skill if below 50% crit. RoRG reroll LpH to 6% crit.
5. CA is our main burst damage, reroll boots for % CA.

Good luck.

This post has been edited by jaychow: Jun 23 2014, 04:15 PM

I had 5 bombadier drops on my short time as dh (but again got tonnes of other junk quivers), gave 2 away to clannies; from datamined loot drop rate bombadier is just slightly rare-er than other quivers. T&T is very rare, think its 2.18% for DH same as Shard of Hate/Kridershot.

This post has been edited by jaychow: Jun 24 2014, 02:21 PM