Since I doubt I’m gonna max out all the beta classes to see their dps at 13, how high are some of the numbers you guys are bringing up? My 13 wiz only has 44 dps, but with a blue wand (does poison damage) with 1.56 attack speed and only a blue orb in offhand. I only have like 1 piece of equipment with intelligence and my 2 rings are +2-4. The ray of frost does like 55-60 (also seems to get crits at a decent rate) on king Leoric and it ticks pretty fast and lasts quite a while. I believe my arcane orb hits around 80-90 and I say it crit from 110-120.
Spectral blades also hits between 15-20 per hit and it does around 3 hits per enemy (Sometimes I swear it hit an enemy more than 3 times though).
I just want to see some numbers to other level 13, like DH rapid fire, WH Fire bats, etc. I saw someone with 18.0 crossbow and I felt like my ray of frost was ticking as fast as his rapid fire, but you can’t check dps or see their numbers in multiplayer, only enemy life ratios and bars and you have to take in account lag for comparing kill speeds like that. My other characters aren’t 13 and I didn’t do any gear grinding for my characters. Most of my wiz stuff is also just crafted.
edit: I got a Dh to 13 and I got really lucky with crafting and the shops. Once you break 2.00 aspd, the dps number jumps up significantly. I had 65 dps and around 2.05 aspd. Pretty beastly single target dps. I could boost up his dps even higher if I had more aspd gear on and dex but server is going down soon.
I also found out storage box is shared on the whole account, which sort of makes me mad because I broke down a yellow orb because I found it on my WD instead of passing it on to my wizard.
Played through with Barbarian, Monk, and Witch Doctor. Still liked Barbarian the best, though I can see them being a huge liability end game.
The beta itself was magnificent. The game feels extremely polished. Small details everywhere in every room, every ability from every class has a nice strong, satisfying feel.
Everywhere I’ve looked it’s $135-$150, but if you can get that near $100, that’s an awesome deal. 6850’s in X-fire is a pretty economical setup for the performance. 16x/8x SLI boards start at what? $80? That’s pretty good right there. :tup:
lol I got mine the day it came out. Paid out the ass if I recall. I’ve seen a few places throw it on sale occasionally. $100 was lowballing it though, I think the lowest I’ve seen was like 120 or something. Either way, X-fire’d up it’s sooooo dirty.
you ask this of somebody who still has a Voodoo card
Is it just me, or does the Monk appear to clearly be the best class in the game? Holy trifecta wrapped into one char, and all.
Also some of the WD’s abilities (frogs, leaping spiders) seem like clear downgrades, not happy with the class tbh.
Yeah it seems like the WD is going to be more of a support class for now since he’ll be getting some heal spells and confuse/status elements down the line. I do like his range on his jar of spiders though, his shift-click throw has hella range.
Wiz is by far the worst class in the game. Poor vitality, barely enough arcade energy to kill one or two monsters, bad auto attacks, frost nova is near useless. Huff. Not a fun class at all.
That sounds like the exact opposite of what I’ve experienced and I beat all the classes. Do you have a good weapon? all skills scale with weapon damage now. Even when I was level 8, the wizard had better aoe then a lot of other classes. You probably don’t have blades yet, but if you have a hard time doing aoe, shock pulse with the rune kills any crowd fast. Diamond skin also does not break in the beta at all. You could stand in front of Leoric when he does his super 3 hit combo and it would still be up, even at level 9-10 when you normally fight him.
Yea, it makes a difference for all damage you do now. The dps stat on weapons calculates it’s damage range with the aspd of the weapon. So if you wanted to do hard single hit nukes you might want a good 2 hand with damage, but if you wanted to spam something like blades or magic missile fast, you’ll probably want a weapon with dps.
Also one funny thing is that your dps stat jumps up by a significant amount once you get past 2.0 aspd. My demon hunter was only at ~45 dps, then i put on a keen ring of wounding and I jumped up to ~60 dps, and the ring only has 5% increase aspd with +1-2 damage.
You can also buy rings for more damage/ I recommend the ring that gives you +2-4 and 5% attack speed. The int ones don’t boost your attack that much in beta since we are low level, so flat damage would work better.
You can buy the rings from the northern merchant. The 3 merchants have different stuff and have random loot every time you join a game or spend a decent amount of time in the dungeon. If usually check to see if they have good rings before I do a run to Leoric and after, since they seem to change their inventory by then.
Nice. I haven’t seen any drop. Or gems for that matter. Or socketed items now that I think about it. Probably just a beta thing, oh well. Just got the Wiz to 13, so I have to get Barb, DH, and Monk to 13. 7k to level up my Blacksmith and thats all of the achievements for beta.