All in all I say i’ve had a great experience with the game and I’m genuinely looking forward to playing more Act 2 Inferno when I have the opportunity. When we all finally get to act 4 i’m looking forward to some whimseyshire action. Have a magic find gear swap for those clouds waiting in the wings.

Good luck and happy hunting as always!

Good luck with Act II! We farmed the AH (and Act I) for a week before trying it, so don’t get too discouraged if the wasps seem awful at first

We are both working on building resist sets, but it’s been a little slow going, and unfortunately resist gear is fairly expensive on the AH (or I’m looking for the wrong things!). I’m hoping before we get too deep into everything, we’ll be able to build up our gear a little more so that we have more resist on it. As we find stuff worth selling, we are doing it, but we are both still fairly cash poor (I’ll blame my obsessive “must do everyone” complex, and my expenditures on building up both my BS and JC for my poorness!). I’d love to hear any tips you might have for AHing!

I would definitely agree on not being able to use some of the more traditional specs when grouping. Brade and I have both read up quite a bit on our classes, but have both deviated from some of the more “standard” (can those even really exist?) specs, so that we can better navigate together. We both have CC talents, we both have some survival talents (well…at least I think he does!). But so far we’ve manage to figure out solutions for things seemingly impossible. I’m hoping that we will have time to finish Act 1 tonight and see what is in store for us in Act 2

The problem with farming is that the rewards in Act I aren’t really proportional to the effort required (a downside to having Inferno scale up in mob level/difficulty/rewards–Act III/IV is the real endgame). I think it’s a lot more fun to get gold by killing champion packs than playing the AH, but the AH is sadly more profitable. I’ll search for certain item/stat combos under a fairly low price point–anything that shows up in that price range I will be able to flip for a good 100k more. (Side note: Level 45+ items can have great stat combos–don’t limit searches to just 60.)

In contrast, maybe I’ll get one item per run from Act I that’s of use. It’s weird how the most efficient way to get gold is to play the AH instead of playing your character, and that translates into being the fastest way to gear up a character and allow meaningful progression, as opposed to a skill cap/strategy. It sounds really odd after what I’m used to in WoW, but D3 was designed to feature an AH, so it does make some sense that most of the items you’d get by looting have junk stat combos–else there’d be no use for the AH. (Act II is an even stranger place, where the increased difficulty + awful base mob types like wasps, huntresses, and naga, coupled with level 49 items dropping, makes it really unappealing to ‘farm.’)

Anyway, I still enjoy Act I speed clears since I get bored of the AH eventually and free gems/pots are nice, and have started doing a bit more exploring for book/dungeon achievements We found that doing Skeleton King runs with clearing out the Cemetery crypts usually yielded 5 stacks, and when our gear got better, we switched to Butcher runs, which included two Halls of Agony floors and the prison. It’s also been fun seeing how my NV spec has changed as I’ve gotten more upgrades, both dps and survivability.

At this point I’ve also switched a lot of my vitality gear to resist gear. I started inferno with something like 37k HP, and rethought it when a monk friend was carrying us through with drastically less vitality and 600+ resists as I was dead 90% of the run. I’ve halved my vitality while really beefing up my resists (as well as having some glass canon pieces if I ever solo), and my survivability has gone way up.