Diablo 3

[a500lbgorilla]

lol Act 2 inferno. I lowered my head and rushed through to Magda but I can see why everyone hates this act. So many mobs have the ability to kill you from off screen.

I thought I saw them lower the cost of gem upgrades to 2 but that doesn't seem to be the case?

[jackvance]

lol Act 2 inferno. I lowered my head and rushed through to Magda but I can see why everyone hates this act. So many mobs have the ability to kill you from off screen.

I thought I saw them lower the cost of gem upgrades to 2 but that doesn't seem to be the case?

This will only be for lower level gems, the highest gem you can get in a drop is flawless square (9) and these fixes are only for gems 1-8, you'll only need 2 gems and the gold price will drop significantly for those lower level ones. (I heard 100 gold instead of 20k, but not sure about those numbers)

This patch will come at the end of the month.

Thats not till the next patch rilla.

and fuck everything in act 2. just, fuck it. FUCK IT ALL. Im geared to the point that i can run pretty much any build in act 1 now...but none of that matters. So stupid! Rarghhhhhhhhhh

You should be able to gear up from the AH rather cheap, to the point where the only big problem in act 2 is Belial. Use smoke screen with move speed passive (tactical advantage), just max range everything constantly and spam nether tentacles and hungering arrow (devouring arrow rune) at them. Put down caltrops with the disable rune and run backwards. Especialy hard mobs you will want to max range, kill them from more than a screen away while caltrops and your Templar to slow them down a bit.

This is good practice anyway because in act 4 you need to kill everything by not even being on the same screen as them, or you insta-die, they all hit 4x as hard as the mobs in act 2. Also use Rain of Vengeance with knockback rune. This is pretty amazing to keep faster mobs at bay. On bosses switch this to stun.

(don't forget to switch Elective Mode on so you can use multiple skills from the same tree)

I just read that they already hot-fixed the mob damage scaling in inferno (used to be +15% dmg per extra player so at 4 man team you were lookingat mobs smacking you around with +45% dmg) but now they will hit the same no matter how many people you have. So if you can't do it alone just run with a decently geared tank and it should become easy.