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Haven't seen an Ist... I think I have Ohm (Sweet Ohm) and Gul but no Ist. If I find an Ist, I will socket a wand / tiara as I have free socket at Larzuk's fine-but-still-useless weaponry and armory.
 
Gripphon said:
In general, the richer players is, the less important runes are for him.
For new players runes are most important aspect of LK because runewords are biggest game changers. Apart from runes, LK for them is about skillers which they lack big time when starting.

After Enigma/Grief/Infinity/whatever is farmed, priority shifts from runes to literally everything else. Biggest strength of LK is not only in runes, but most importantly in amount of charms, jewels and gems. If one is into rare kind of stuff, Travincal is better choice with farmed character, as well as some unique stuff.

What people pick up in LK, it is usually about charms, jewels and gems while runes are addition to that. Rare rings, rare circlets are also good picking choices. There were very few players who focused only on runes and ignored anything else, but loss is much higher than gain that way. After all, single charm or jewel drop easily outclasses any rune LK can drop by recent trade values. Best things in the game are not runes after all.
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Yes. If I were to re-start the game (or if I ever attempt untwinked clvl 99....), I'd start with a sorc, taking a huge pit stip at LK for runes (For HoTo, CtA, Fort (merc), Delerium (again, merc), CoH (maybe), maybe Infinity (but unlikely with a first sorc, who would likely be cold-based at first)) and then switch to running Trav or an area for items such as those mentioned by Gripp.

When I still ran LK with frequency, runes were the icing on the cake, but they were great for Ral/Sol/pgems - the items that can come from crafts and charm re-rolling can take a character from average to good to great.
 
Just quit D2. Killed Baal at Hell P8 untwinked ! Hell cows are too tough for me or I had a bad luck and went straight for a terrible boss pack. Anyway, I'm a Patriarch !
 
@RadTang Grats!
While I have a love/hate relationship with d3, will you play a pet Witch Doctor there? I had great fun when playing that for the first time, with the easy to get set items you can probably make a sweet build using various combination of pets and some AoE.
 
@T72on1, @Mezion IDK, I have a reliable and stable connection and I know I can go into games and play the one game nearly forever. Probably this will mean a long break from D2. IDK who I will choose for 1st time. Maybe Demon Hunter as I have the pad with her? :D Or go as overly manly barb? Crusader.? No thx, I don't need crusade in my house, I am atheist :D Witch Doctor seems to be crazy and funny. Or go as ordinary wizard. They were OP in D1 and Sorceress in D2 is quite OP too. I will post later my answer ;)
 
My favourite class in D3 is the one you didn't mention: Monk. Fast, agile, in your face ... just the way I like it.
 
Questions that I am presuming will follow for 1.07 as well:

I'm looking for more than +3 to holy freeze or prayer (or maybe other auras) and I'm wondering where they could be shopped...

Can I shop +1 skill tab in act 2? Act 3? Will these also spawn tier 1 skills or only tier 2, 3 etc.?
I'll settle for +4 if I have to.

On the other hand, which of these could I get from very high ilvl scepters? I'm guessing prayer wouldn't spawn on these but perhaps holy freeze would?
 
RadTang said:
I think I will play WD for 1st time :) Named him MkongO. Quite an Africa-inspired name. ;)
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Nice. Also did you play Path of Exile? While not in the diablo universe, its kind of a spiritual successor. The game is interesting for sure. I get my d2 fix from it when not playing d2.
 
Dazliare said:
Path of Exile is one of my favorite games. Over 2000 hours
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PoE is great but doesn't have the same magic as d2 for me. I took a really pathetic approach to the game. I beat it one character all the way through, no mapping just dry lake runs for exp. And then I quit it forever. I think I finished at level 91 or something with a dual fire totem witch. Someone told me it was a really boring build and that I should feel bad about myself but whatever.
 
NorthDakota said:
PoE is great but doesn't have the same magic as d2 for me. I took a really pathetic approach to the game. I beat it one character all the way through, no mapping just dry lake runs for exp. And then I quit it forever. I think I finished at level 91 or something with a dual fire totem witch. Someone told me it was a really boring build and that I should feel bad about myself but whatever.
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It's a really boring build and you should feel bad about yourself

In seriousness, it's not for everyone, but I love how many unique builds are available
 
Yeah NorthDakota that really doesnt help.

I like to make summoners for example (It is my obsession in any arpg/mmorpg, etc.) , so pretty much every league I try to make a new type of summoner. Made one that acted like a commandomancer by going melee (with splash) with my minions. At other times I just try to get out as much summons as I can. Last league I made an hybrid Chaos (Contagion/Essence drain) and summon (including 3x earth golem that multi-striked AoE slam everywhere). Are these build "efficient?" Sure, not really fast, but damn fun and "safe", but they are not coockie-cutter at all. For some reason I can't grind maps like I grind areas in d2, I get bored easily in PoE if I'm not making some fun build.

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@Mezion I played PoE a bit. Checked the 1st act. I like the skill tree. Should play it more. It's free and darker than D3. PoE is probably the only truly F2P game where your real life $ means just nothing. Hell, even ads would be welcomed and tolerated - they constantly update the game and put new content.

Edit: my D3 WD is here: http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/RadTang-2819/hero/82167315 :) Wish I could make some screenies. Have a cool transmog on the crown :) Really WD-ish :)
 
Mezion do you just come up with builds yourself completely? I felt a bit overwhelmed playing it at first. I tried to wing it at first and failed, which I hear you're supposed to do anyways, and then I figured I'd stick with a good starter build.
 
I usually try to make my "fun builds" myself, however its always good to look at a few builds that want to accomplish part of what you are doing. For example, the Chaos/Summon build is an hybrid, and you can find information about both easily. The challenge then, is to find a proper way to build you tree so it works.

I think its perfectly fine to look at guides to have a good grasp of how they are building the character. There are some nodes or path that are popular for specific class/builds since they are very efficient so its good to know them. For example if you want to try chaos inoculation (all ES build), there's already a few nodes that you take for sure. Then you could look at 3-4 different builds doing that to see what the difference are (do they go for crits, melee, charges, etc.) and from there understand how they move within the skill-tree. After a while you'll be good enough to know what you are doing, but it never hurts to still look at what others are finding, since new gems comes all the time and the skill tree is re-balanced constantly.

Short answer: I do my builds but not only by myself.

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Example for you. Last league I tried a Bow summoner with Null's Inclination.
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When planning the build, I looked at various way to do it. I wanted to focus on the summon part, and so it was witch or scion for it. I still looked at bow builds for shadow and rangers to see what interesting path they took that I could use. I settled to make it minion heavy and the results was not THAT impressive, even if the screen was getting full of minion (reanimated weapons, raging spirits) the (bow) damage wasn't there.

Now I know that if I do this again, I'll go for a bow focused build and minor minion focus instead, this way I'll kill much faster and actually have an impressive army from the kills.
 
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