Short Questions Thread

What locations/bosses are considered 'gear checks' in the natural progression of things? I'm going through terror with a green melee necro and I noticed that the Butcher seemed much more of a gear check than Andariel...

Also, for melee necros, am I really going to be using summons that much to justify level challenge 2? I know that skipping LCs is a bad idea, but LC2 only gives necro minion boosts and +1 extra totem so in a WDM strength parasite build like I've been doing is that REALLY something I need to concern myself with?

Dude Love wrote:What locations/bosses are considered 'gear checks' in the natural progression of things? I'm going through terror with a green melee necro and I noticed that the Butcher seemed much more of a gear check than Andariel...

Also, for melee necros, am I really going to be using summons that much to justify level challenge 2? I know that skipping LCs is a bad idea, but LC2 only gives necro minion boosts and +1 extra totem so in a WDM strength parasite build like I've been doing is that REALLY something I need to concern myself with?

If you want to beat everything in the game, you need to respec sooner or later, so it's always adviced to get every bonus you can get.

tbh Butcher in terror is not adviced to be killed while you're leveling and going through terror. The black road challenge is best done after reaching lvl 120 and after improving your gear.
General Gear check locations are:
Act 2 hatred (Resist max)
LC1 (at least 5 k Defense for TA)
Terror A1 and Destruction A1 (max ress, Life leech)
everything else depends on your character. But you should be able to get to Destruction without many problems. btw I'd always MO my gear to the maximum possible for your current level. Makes it easier to get through dest.

HechtHeftig wrote:
Dude Love wrote:What locations/bosses are considered 'gear checks' in the natural progression of things? I'm going through terror with a green melee necro and I noticed that the Butcher seemed much more of a gear check than Andariel...

Also, for melee necros, am I really going to be using summons that much to justify level challenge 2? I know that skipping LCs is a bad idea, but LC2 only gives necro minion boosts and +1 extra totem so in a WDM strength parasite build like I've been doing is that REALLY something I need to concern myself with?

If you want to beat everything in the game, you need to respec sooner or later, so it's always adviced to get every bonus you can get.

tbh Butcher in terror is not adviced to be killed while you're leveling and going through terror. The black road challenge is best done after reaching lvl 120 and after improving your gear.
General Gear check locations are:
Act 2 hatred (Resist max)
LC1 (at least 5 k Defense for TA)
Terror A1 and Destruction A1 (max ress, Life leech)
everything else depends on your character. But you should be able to get to Destruction without many problems. btw I'd always MO my gear to the maximum possible for your current level. Makes it easier to get through dest.

HAHA FUCK I JUST NOW REALIZED I MEANT TO WRITE 'SMITH' NOT BUTCHER LMAOOOOO

Good stuff though, thanks a ton

i have problems with getting azmodan trophy & rathma square charm. just got some tips like summons & honorifics with 30% reanimates. i'm open to more suggestions.

my character is a melee(katar)/broadside sin & single player only. thanks

getting a trophy and a charm that has 1/6 chance to drop is about being lucky . blink/run straight to the boss and kill it , don't bother with the rest . Make sure you smaxed perfect being .

being lucky was when I was doing TA trophy runs. hopefully that will change later when i get back there. already smaxed perfect being

chippvant wrote:I remember reading somewhere that Time Strike has 1 sec delay, is that a really big disadvantage ? Why do people prefer Arrow over other procs ?

Well Time Strike has 4 ND so for chars that hit gazillion times per sec it's more efficient to use no ND Arrow procs for example. It's a nice proc to spread poison dmg (I think, I'm not a fan of poison based builds) as it's 3/2 wdm.

annoying cat wrote:being lucky was when .... hopefully that will change later ...

you may try having a drink first . In my experience alcohol works as a potion of luck O-)

Why do enemies drop nothing when killed by a necro totem, or totem reanimate?

HechtHeftig wrote:Hey I got a problem. I can't find a Sacred Marrow staff, despite me wanting to rely on it to craft a better weapon.
I've tcowed dcowed baalrunned diarunned so many times that I'm simply sick of it. I even farmed D dunc to find one and asked 5 friends of mine to look out for one, but still, for 3 days straight - nothing. Is it really meant to be that hard to find an essential part of gear for crafting purposes only? It's not even a SU what I'm looking for.

Q: Where can I find a sacred marrow staff easiest?

basically anywhere, but u would want to farm where there is highest chance of dropping rare items, so u should go to hall of pain.