My Diablo III first impressions

[lestatdark]

Ail said:

Mummelmann said:

Ail said:

Mummelmann said:

I'm sorry, I meant finished Act I and started Act II!

I have around 43K DPS and 40K HP but my big weakness is resistance and DR, it seems. I have about 80 Secret Tomes that I'm considering using for more levels for my artisans. Have you upgraded your gem crafter any more? How much better do the gems get? I'm thinking of holding off on the leveling of artisans until the patch hits, its going to be cheaper and require less Pages/Tomes.

Hmm, those shoulders sound like they'd go nicely with my Barb... How much do you want for them?

I have a rocking 10.5k dps in Act 1 lol..( weapon is just 475 dps).

My life is up to 39k, my DR to 63% and my resists around 45-55% depending on the resist...( with buffs of course).

I need to up my damage big time....

It took me way too long to kill the Skeleton King but on the flip side he was hitting me like a wuss...

There's the trade-off though, both my characters have decent damage output (my Barbarian has about 35k DPS) and okay HP but poor defense and resistance. My roommates characters are the opposite, we work well in a pair though...

I don't pay too much attention to the displayed DPS either as it does not reflect accuratly the actual dps for a wizard.

Like my venom hydra is out and doing a tonn of damage while I am casting spell and it is not factored at all in the dps displayed...

Although to be honest it isn't so much a trade off issue at my level. I just haven't bothered to buy a high dps weapon  and this is what is limiting my dps the most ( wizard don't get dps as high as DH or bards anyway as stuff like +IAS might boost the number displayed but actually does very little in practice when we are kiting...)

Remember that the displayed DPS is the base average damage that your weapon does, after factoring Crits, Stats, ect. Spells, abilities, skills all have different %Weapon Damage modifiers, thus different accounts of damage can be made.

For example, I constantly crit for 45-48K with Nether Tentacles, while with Multishot I barely hit the 40K mark.