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hey guys i am having some trouble on diablo. I can push his 1st phase without getting hit but the shadow phase he just constantly is on top of me. Do you have any tips for a Demon Hunter on diablo nightmare difficulty and above ?

Wonders Australia. May 28 2012 12:39. Posts 730

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On May 28 2012 10:32 dottycakes wrote:

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The general rule I use is: enough survivability to not get one shot by hard to dodge or unavoidable damage, rest into more damage. So for Act 1, enough to survive the Butcher's arc chain attack.

Forgot to add that the best defense the DH has is stacking as much damage and max discipline as you can, and killing things before you run out of discipline.

How much survivability is that? Is 25k health, 2k armor and 100 or so resists enough?

Black Gun Germany. May 28 2012 13:51. Posts 3865

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On May 28 2012 12:39 Wonders wrote:

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How much survivability is that? Is 25k health, 2k armor and 100 or so resists enough?

if your damage is decent, then its easily enough for act1. in act2, you will probably die A LOT with these stats though.

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carmon United States. May 28 2012 17:39. Posts 113

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ya you definitely need more hp or resists if your trying to go into a tanky build, otherwise I think it would be best if you just maximized your damage and killed things before they got to you

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superbabosheki United States. May 28 2012 17:46. Posts 1466

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On May 28 2012 17:39 carmon wrote:
ya you definitely need more hp or resists if your trying to go into a tanky build, otherwise I think it would be best if you just maximized your damage and killed things before they got to you

Pure tank monks with 60k+ hp, 800+ resists, and good dodge can barely tank act 3-4, so there is no point for a DH to even try. When you tank up you have to go 100% all out otherwise it isn't going to do anything. Past act 2 it is always better to go 100% dps.

akatama Romania. May 28 2012 18:07. Posts 406

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Any tips on belial inf? sitting at 32k dps before sharpshooter and i can't burn him down fast enough in p2; he has >50% health when the vipers start coming, and then i get overwhelmed.
I managed to get him to p3 only 2 times, but died due to being too greedy with the damage.
build i found best for this

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mawno Sweden. May 28 2012 18:45. Posts 80

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On May 28 2012 18:07 akatama wrote:
Any tips on belial inf? sitting at 32k dps before sharpshooter and i can't burn him down fast enough in p2; he has >50% health when the vipers start coming, and then i get overwhelmed.
I managed to get him to p3 only 2 times, but died due to being too greedy with the damage.
build i found best for this

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Gheizen64 Italy. May 28 2012 20:24. Posts 794

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Actually trying a ShadowPower/gloom tanky build. I'm at 250 all res, 36hp, 42k DPS. Thanks to this, white mobs don't oneshot me, and i can tank most mobs with ease with Gloom and Nether spam. Elites are hit and miss. Those who have fast or invulnerable are the most problematic usually, because they will close in alltogether and kill me even under gloom. Invulnerable is still a leave game and reload sadly. I use SS only to avoid death situations, coupled with tumble and the ability that give more Ms after it.

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Silidons United States. May 28 2012 21:03. Posts 2785

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On May 28 2012 06:33 superbabosheki wrote:
Here's some random stuff, I have better gloves and some of my items are in the AH. http://i.imgur.com/l3HF3.png. Some parts I need to improve but that's the gist of it.

we all couldn't abuse chests. i know the game is easy if you were able to abuse farming locations. rofl.

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Ko1tz France. May 28 2012 21:07. Posts 492

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I feel kind of weak. I have somehow managed to finish almost half of act 2. I can easily kite most stuff and resist one or two hits, the problem is that I just don't kill stuff fast enough, I have been skipping every rare and champion pack I see because I know I'm done for if I ever even attempt to take them down.

What are things you think I could improve there?

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/demon-hunter#aRYdTV!TeY!YcZbZc
That's the build I'm using btw

PS: Also, sorry for all the French in the menus

ilbh Brazil. May 28 2012 21:11. Posts 1563

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any DH having success farming inferno act 2?

by success I mean not getting one shot and being able to kill all champions and elite mobs.

I can easilly farm act 1, but for act 2 my gear is just terrible lol

so, I'm curious to know how are you guys gearing for act 2 and beyond.

thanks!

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Kuznagi Canada. May 28 2012 21:31. Posts 53

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When fighting champions with mortor what's the best approach ? Going up close or going at max range and dodging mortors?

How do you fight reflect damage I end up killing myself lol

Kreb May 28 2012 21:48. Posts 2075

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On May 28 2012 21:31 Kuznagi wrote:
When fighting champions with mortor what's the best approach ? Going up close or going at max range and dodging mortors?

How do you fight reflect damage I end up killing myself lol

Max range mortars (can be done against many affixes, pretty sure it works against vortex, teleport and waller too).

Reflect is a pain. Just rotate through what you have to heal yourself with (pot and preparation heal). Also try to use smoke screen when you're about to do the most damage (when your nuke is about to pass through several mobs at once), and keep using it until you run out of discipline. Other than that Nether Tentacles helps to get a little bit hp back.

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Crushinator Netherlands. May 28 2012 22:28. Posts 1191

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On May 28 2012 21:11 ilbh wrote:
any DH having success farming inferno act 2?

by success I mean not getting one shot and being able to kill all champions and elite mobs.

I can easilly farm act 1, but for act 2 my gear is just terrible lol

so, I'm curious to know how are you guys gearing for act 2 and beyond.

thanks!

Having the same problem. Act 1 so easy, but act 2 I can't kill any reflect or invulnerable minion packs. It makes things very tedious. I have 35k dps and about 26k hp almost no resists. Act 1 doesn't seem worth farming and act 2 seems very inefficient right now. I'm getting a bit sick of it.

thoradycus Malaysia. May 28 2012 22:40. Posts 3212

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http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/demon-hunter#aRXdTV!TeY!YcZbZb

Ive been using this build and Im wondering if either SS or vault can afford to be replaced with something like RoV?

whoso Germany. May 28 2012 22:45. Posts 358

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On May 28 2012 22:40 thoradycus wrote:
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/demon-hunter#aRXdTV!TeY!YcZbZb

Ive been using this build and Im wondering if either SS or vault can afford to be replaced with something like RoV?

running a similar build with multi shot - suppression fire instead of vault, so yes its certainly possible

LaSt)ChAnCe United States. May 28 2012 22:49. Posts 2105

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smoke screen with extra duration and prep

ZAiNs United Kingdom. May 28 2012 22:55. Posts 3467

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If I had 32k DPS I could crush him. But my 16k DPS makes it insane

kanada Canada. May 28 2012 22:57. Posts 228

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I am through act 1 inferno, Have been using a 1H crossbow and quiver the whole time. Am I a fool? doing about 2.65 attacks per second. only 45k dps with sharpshooter.