Jul 4th 2012, 20:04:21
well 6mil in 200 hours played off of pure gold coin pick up should still be slightly low. I'm not gonna elaborately defend my comments, but i'll say this, if i spend 10 hours on AH i'm sure I can put together a barb/monk/DH (sorry dont know wiz/WD enough) set for 3mil and be able to put act1 on farm. Especially monk, since that's my main. Obviously 10 hours on AH hunting items is no fun, but then if your banging your head against the monitor and smashing your keyboard and mouse after over 100 hours of play and still not be able to go through act1, then i suggest make valuable assessments of gear direction, and look for good solid upgrades at rock bottom costs.
Martian, a 1100 dps without stats is prolly 20k. Obviously you either have a 2 of 3 stats (high dex/crit damage/socket) on your weapon for it to be worth 5mil. properlly valuing gears when you either buy upgrades or sell loots is the best way to advance. If you rely strictly on soloing out gears and not utilizing AH, then this game becomes extremely tedious. I had rings with 100dex, 60vit, 30 resist, and 3crit that I was using. I switched in rings with +80 combine damage, 60 dex, 60vit, 30 resist and 4 crit for roughly 3-5mil each. Those upgrades gave me at least 2k dps per ring. On top of that, i sold my old rings for more than 5mil each. That's gear evuation and people just dont pay attention to easy upgrades.
Right now people look at big natural stats like int/dex/strength, oh the more the better. After you reach a certain point, +damage, +crit, +chd, +AS just scales better.
I know general numbers for monks, so i'm only gonna comment on monks. Act1 is basically 500 resist, 16k dps, 30k hp and minimal maybe 500 LoH, and you can pretty much breeze through it. Your not gonna faceroll molten/descrate/arcane mobs, but obviously you can sidestep descrate, facetank molten, or give yourself a good 10yards on arcane till you can see the beam position. I know those numbers are fine because my full MF gears when i farmed butcher had roughly those stats.
Now about not being able to farm gold. Locket already posted act3 nightmare has the best undergear gold farming in the game. It's widely accepted and why perfect roll Goldfind gears are so high. U dont even need perfect roll, a 18GF body peice with 100+ main stat can sell for upwards of 500k. This leads me to believe just how many people is doing act3 gold coin farming. If your having problems with act1 inferno, go to act3 hell and farm for some gold to buy gears. If your having problems with act2, go farm butcher some more. Drops are fine, each run will yield at least 1 or 2 peices of 63 (usually more), just look on the forums for a good path.
Most guys that complain about this game is the ones that wont put in the time to farm. Normal mode was a teaching tool, nightmare was slightly harder but still faceroll, hell was a wakeup call but still doable with whatever u found and bought for 10k or less, but inferno just bashed people over the head. Suck it up, accept it, and farm some gears. For the wow players, you werent exactly rolling in to MC with full greens right? You did scholo/BRS/Strat runs. You got gears first. Dont undergear and keep trying to progress, if your dying on trash or weak affix elites, that means your not gonna progress with your gears. When you get a peice of gear that looks good (150 primary stat, 100vit, 50+ all resist + whatever the slot had extra or sockets for pants/helm/chest or life% on belt), look up AH for similar quality gears and put it at 80% BO. Sell your loots for max value and 10mil is literally 4 or 5 days work in act1. Again if you roll like garbage for weeks on end...then GG, quit diablo, cause blizz hates you=)
BTW if anyone wants to play together, I do act2 coop runs pretty often, I'm not gonna do act3 coop unless I have a high dpser with me while i tank or else my dps gears cant withstand 2man. Emao#1902 is my ID.