Gamersoasis

Ok, cheers. More powerful than I expected on DoT skills.

Probably worth keeping it on my WD if I can spread the Haunt around properly (I usually can), especially if the Manitou also affects it since that explodes with area damage thanks to the Barber. The 25% vs RGs/bosses is really noticeable.

Bane of the Stricken: "Each attack you make against an enemy...".

What counts as an attack? Easy to understand for a targetted direct-acting skill, either spell or weapon based. I'm not too worried about the details of channelled skills like whirlwind, presumably every time it hits (or tries to hit) an enemy instead of on a selected target. The skill types I have questions for are:

(1) Damage over time: (a) directly applied to monsters, e.g. bleed, poison, Haunt; (b) applied to all monsters in an area, e.g. Earthquake, Acid Cloud. My guess is it only counts the first hit on the monster, but it could count every time the game takes health off it???

(2) Skills and buffs that are activated and then randomly target monsters, e.g. Spirit Barage/Manitou rune, Wreath of Lightning legendary gem.

(3) Pets: do their attacks count?

I have everything for barb except wizardspike and my seasonal WD has one in the stash, so I'll get that when I'm sure she doesn't need to use it. Crusader most things. WD hardly anything because I'm saving DBs, but a lot are in the stash waiting. Haven't played the other classes properly yet.

I blew way too many DBs too early on the cube with my barb but it was fun to go for them all.

On Europe my score is 5390. I've spent some time knocking off achievements.

100% on general and crafting, severely let down by hardcore, set dungeons, and to some extent classes.

Haha I wonder how other people see it? I tend to think if you don't do any boss fights at all it's a sure sign of a moocher, and since I usually prefer kill-em-all quests I make sure I do a couple. Usually by the time my computer has loaded the level the boss is dead already, anyway. That's another reason I hate people joining me on random quests, my comp slows to a crawl.

There is one really annoying player on EU I've been in a few games with who has about half the paragon levels and jumps between the other three players, presumably taking the free drops and xp. He always turns up for a goblin or chest, which then fails because my game becomes a turn-based strategy. He then accused me of being a bot and kicked me because I ran in a straight line to the quest target without taking damage or attacking.

I got into Whimsydale and then in the same game, each within 5-10 minutes of finishing the last one, I got two Vaults! Needless to say I'm feeling very rich right now 

I went through all three special levels with the Broken Crown as my cube armour item, Whimsydale gave me over 200 gems, mostly imperial. I didn't count the gems from the Vaults, but I had some gold boosting gear, ended up with about 380 million.

How much of that xp difference is the bonus xp given by Orek, or are the monsters actually worth more?

Also do you get better drops from a GR boss than a nephalem rift boss (if so it would help make up for no drops from normal monsters)?

I agree that GRs seem easier than the supposed equivalent normal ones, although I wondered if they were just quicker cos you don't have to keep stopping.

Sounds good Bob.

I always wanted a skeleton army in D2 but never actually enjoyed it in practice, but I'm loving my summoning WD at the moment. How does that aspect of the necro differ from the WD? Are there golems? I would love the Iron Golem to be back.