Can anyone please help me with my DH M6 build? I cap at GR70 12min.. Thanks

[lenneth13]

DH M6 build I cap at GR70 12min.. any help? Please

What am I doing wrong and how can I improve it?

So average time is around 12 min which is really slow and I can't help noticing that I'm probably doing something wrong. I don't normally die even though my life is a little over 900k. The bot most the time just stands and kills the mobs really close so I guess I'm losing a lot of damage from not benefiting from Zei's and I feel my gear is probably not up to par like the rest of you. What should I do? Any gear change or any settings changes advice would greatly be appreciated.

I'd really like to have an average of about 7 minutes a run and run higher rifts (at that speed)!!

Thanks a lot for your time I am pretty new to D3 since I haven't played in four years but I learn quickly but apparently not quickly enough.

Help would be much appreciated!!

Thank you so much!!!!!!!!

This is how my rift goes at GR 70.
And exactly my gear and exactly my DB settings.

http://www.d3planner.com/552099738






[Adventurer][Rift] Runs count: 12
[Adventurer][Rift] This run time: 0:12:46
[Adventurer][Rift] Average run time: 0:12:30
[Adventurer][Rift] Best run time: 0:10:10
[Adventurer][Rift] Worse run time: 0:14:16
[Adventurer][Rift] This run XP Gained: 13,885,285,392
[Adventurer][Rift] This run / Hour: 65,246,902,766
[Adventurer][Rift] Total XP Gained: 181,974,781,315
[Adventurer][Rift] Total XP / Hour: 72,725,309,546
[Adventurer][Rift] Best XP / Hour (single run): 97,340,093,481
[Adventurer][Rift] Worse XP / Hour (single run): 62,063,825,782
[Adventurer][Rift] Best XP / Single run: 17,041,919,757
[Adventurer][Rift] Worse XP / Single run: 12,976,217,915

 

[alainbuddy]

I run very different than you and can run about the same 70s in about 8 minutes. I noticed you have CA damage on helm, sentry damage on shoulders (both of which I am missing) but I have 38% cooldown reduction for that 100% uptime on vengeance. I am also using Unity in cube instead of Elusive Ring and using Wraps of Clarity instead of Nemesis. If I could get a helm with CA damage and shoulders with Sentry Damage I might do a lot better.

And yeah, my DH always facetanking, not sure what is responsible for that but not much I can do about it either... at least I haven't figured it out.

 

[lenneth13]

Thanks a lot for the reply would you please post the gear that you are using? I'd really like to see and maybe change some stuff around.
My cooldown reduction is at 21.25% I didn't think those four seconds of no vengeance would affect the runs so greatly since there is only about 3.5 seconds without vengeance. Are you using the same skills? Please I'd really like to know how to change it up

I feel like if I put on wraps of clarity instead of nemesis my runs will slow down by a lot! But I could be wrong.. I could give it a try and get my CDR to 38% but I'd still like to see your whole build if that's possible. Also sounds like unity in cube is a great idea but my elusive ring gives 10% more and I'm not sure if the bot vaults on purpose to keep the 60% damage reduction up or it just vaults for battle and just so happens to give me the damage reduction.

Is split damage higher than damage reduction?

Thanks a lot for your time and reply

 

[alainbuddy]

I'm using Loaded for Bear and Spitfire Turret because I have Thrill of the Hunt passive from Hellfire Amulet. Wraps of Clarity instead of Nemesis Bracers, Unity in Cube instead of Elusive Ring and stacking CDR to 38% because 100% uptime is important if you are using Visage of Gunes for the damage reduction.

Unity is very important because it is 50% straight up damage taken away with no diminishing returns. The Elusive Ring is only if you use skills and we all know that it can slip away and you can spike very fast and die. Unity is too important for solo play imho.

Other than what I mentioned, everything else is the similar. I wish I had shoulders with Sentry Damage instead of 8% resource cost reduction and could really use Cluster Arrow on helm instead of Vit. I'm missing an ancient Focus and an ancient Hellfire ammy to put Caldesann on them. I'm not sure what I could do to make things better either... just wish my DH didn't facetank shit to use up Zei's better.

Edit: Might use Shooting Star and change my bracers to Physical since it has homing rockets for that passive but Loaded for Bear does more damage initially and I kind of like that.

 

[lenneth13]

I'm using Loaded for Bear and Spitfire Turret because I have Thrill of the Hunt passive from Hellfire Amulet. Wraps of Clarity instead of Nemesis Bracers, Unity in Cube instead of Elusive Ring and stacking CDR to 38% because 100% uptime is important if you are using Visage of Gunes for the damage reduction.

Unity is very important because it is 50% straight up damage taken away with no diminishing returns. The Elusive Ring is only if you use skills and we all know that it can slip away and you can spike very fast and die. Unity is too important for solo play imho.

Other than what I mentioned, everything else is the similar. I wish I had shoulders with Sentry Damage instead of 8% resource cost reduction and could really use Cluster Arrow on helm instead of Vit. I'm missing an ancient Focus and an ancient Hellfire ammy to put Caldesann on them. I'm not sure what I could do to make things better either... just wish my DH didn't facetank shit to use up Zei's better.

Edit: Might use Shooting Star and change my bracers to Physical since it has homing rockets for that passive but Loaded for Bear does more damage initially and I kind of like that.

I might try that but I still don't see how you can get half the time on a rift 70 without nemesis... will need to find a crossbow with 10% CDR and something else with CDR to have about 100% CDR.. also will have to run some keywardens and hope to get a good ancient Hellfire
You ever try that Taegeuk spammer plugin? it doesn't work for me I think it might be a great substitute for Zei but i might be wrong. i'll definitely try to fire build the nemesis first with loaded for bear then try wraps with fire build but it seems to be unlikely to be faster for some reason. It just wraps don't justify the speed that you speak of... but I'll have to try...

Any other ideas?

 

[version]

Wraps of clarity is too good to replace with nemesis. nems give u good progress but wraps will prob give u overall better progress than nems. Currently im farming 73 in 7-10ish minutes.

 

[alainbuddy]

Check PM. Hope that helps you. Biggest problem right now is stopping the DH from face tanking... not much we can do there. Taeguk Spammer doens't work... always drops stacks at 30. If Taeguk worked then I could drop some more toughness for damage I guess and maybe clear even faster.

 

[lenneth13]

TaegukSpammer works great it's amazing I just tried it page 6 fixes the problem and it shows up in plugins thanks to that guy lolitozorux.. Thanks so much for the help

here's the link to fix taeguk
https://www.thebuddyforum.com/demonbuddy-forum/plugins/206089-plugin-taegukspammer-6.html
and here is another link to set the ms interval to 100ms that way if you go through a door or something you wont lose your buff
https://www.thebuddyforum.com/demonbuddy-forum/plugins/206089-plugin-taegukspammer-2.html

I set the interval to 100ms and out of combat delay to 12000=12s so if you don't encounter mobs during 12 seconds it wont attack so it wont mess up your portal to town either way you wait while you do urshi and that counts as delay

it's great i just tested it out and it's also quite amazing cause the bot sometimes doesn't cast cluster arrow often enough and this makes it cast it as much as you can! it's great!!!

More tips would be greatly appreciated

 

[lenneth13]

Wraps of clarity is too good to replace with nemesis. nems give u good progress but wraps will prob give u overall better progress than nems. Currently im farming 73 in 7-10ish minutes.

what skill setup and items are you using? I can't get that low ever! One time I did a 9 minute run but I'm averaging at 12:30 a run which is so slow and I'm doing rifts 3 lvls less than you

 

[jbotwww]

I ran 72s on my DH in 9m average with:

Phys Cluster(fire and cold were about the same i swapped based on w/e better wraps of clarity I had)
Evasive Fire Focus
Companion
Guardian Turret
Veng Seethe
Vault Tumble

Ambush, Awareness, Custom Eng, Ballistics, Cull of the Weak

Trapped, Esoteric, Powerful

Dex gems in gear.

Don't roll skill dmg on any items unless you can get Dex/Vit on it as well.

Shoulders: Dex/Vit/RCR/CDR
Helm: Dex/Vit/CC

Only ran CDR on Shoulders and Quiver and gem in helm.

Cube: Dawn, Cloak of Garwulf, CoE

Nemesis suck... Elites suck tbh. Wraps of Clarity are way too strong.

Trash pack size to 5, radius 20. Kill pack of mobs worth more than 5%.

I was averaging around 115b exp an hour while I was running this. Granted at the time I was around 1500 paragon when I was messing around with my DH.

While inside Turret(which is literally always cuz face tank) I had around 730m toughness at all times.

Also, companion on CD.

 

[lenneth13]

I ran 72s on my DH in 9m average with:

Phys Cluster(fire and cold were about the same i swapped based on w/e better wraps of clarity I had)
Evasive Fire Focus
Companion
Guardian Turret
Veng Seethe
Vault Tumble

Ambush, Awareness, Custom Eng, Ballistics, Cull of the Weak

Trapped, Esoteric, Powerful

Dex gems in gear.

Don't roll skill dmg on any items unless you can get Dex/Vit on it as well.

Shoulders: Dex/Vit/RCR/CDR
Helm: Dex/Vit/CC

Only ran CDR on Shoulders and Quiver and gem in helm.

Cube: Dawn, Cloak of Garwulf, CoE

Nemesis suck... Elites suck tbh. Wraps of Clarity are way too strong.

Trash pack size to 5, radius 20. Kill pack of mobs worth more than 5%.

I was averaging around 115b exp an hour while I was running this. Granted at the time I was around 1500 paragon when I was messing around with my DH.

While inside Turret(which is literally always cuz face tank) I had around 730m toughness at all times.

Also, companion on CD.

What does "Kill pack of mobs worth more than 5%" mean?

why use Cloak of Garwulf, CoE? i mean cloak will only give you two more wolves with a maximum of 18% reduce damage instead of visage can give you 50% and CoE just sounds unreasonable but please tell me why both of those?

companion on CD what exactly do you mean by that?

Did you set your DH to not kite at all?

my paragon is at 970 so that's quite far away from yours so I do a lot less damage but i can still pull through kind of

 

[jbotwww]

What does "Kill pack of mobs worth more than 5%" mean?

why use Cloak of Garwulf, CoE? i mean cloak will only give you two more wolves with a maximum of 18% reduce damage instead of visage can give you 50% and CoE just sounds unreasonable but please tell me why both of those?

companion on CD what exactly do you mean by that?

Did you set your DH to not kite at all?

my paragon is at 970 so that's quite far away from yours so I do a lot less damage but i can still pull through kind of

No no kiting at all. Garwulf with a 8.8% or higher belt is almost a 0 toughnes loss. The way the 50% from visage vs another 18% from belt is actually about the same because of how they stack. I actually only lose like 7m toughness using garwulf and you gain dps and 2 more pets to tank mobs for you. Just try it with a 8.8% or higher belt. You will see its almost no toughness loss between the two items.

Companion on CD just uses companion on CD otherwise it only uses it on elites. Rather use it on CD to have over 50% uptime on it than literally not cast it until it finds elites. Its better for overall clear speed.

CoE is just more dps. Sure I die like 1-5 times in rifts depends on mobs but no rift is ever over like 11m counting townrun. I can kill rift boss in 1 coe ring from 100%. Same with elites. Dieing isn't that bad if its only to just shit affixes.

Kill packs worth more than 5% is rift value in the misc combat settings.

Seeing as you are 1k basically. You can prob run 70s like I did 72s tbh. Just cube those 70 gems on every item or higher gems. Since you are running 70s you should have plenty of 74s or so you can cube on every item.

 

[lenneth13]

No no kiting at all. Garwulf with a 8.8% or higher belt is almost a 0 toughnes loss. The way the 50% from visage vs another 18% from belt is actually about the same because of how they stack. I actually only lose like 7m toughness using garwulf and you gain dps and 2 more pets to tank mobs for you. Just try it with a 8.8% or higher belt. You will see its almost no toughness loss between the two items.

Companion on CD just uses companion on CD otherwise it only uses it on elites. Rather use it on CD to have over 50% uptime on it than literally not cast it until it finds elites. Its better for overall clear speed.

CoE is just more dps. Sure I die like 1-5 times in rifts depends on mobs but no rift is ever over like 11m counting townrun. I can kill rift boss in 1 coe ring from 100%. Same with elites. Dieing isn't that bad if its only to just shit affixes.

Kill packs worth more than 5% is rift value in the misc combat settings.

Seeing as you are 1k basically. You can prob run 70s like I did 72s tbh. Just cube those 70 gems on every item or higher gems. Since you are running 70s you should have plenty of 74s or so you can cube on every item.

I am going to try this out all i need is to find a decent ancient 8.8 belt or higher so far i only dropped 1 ancient zoey's and it's the one I'm using which is 8.1

How do I set it to cast companion on only elites? I can see the option companion off CD but I'm not sure what that means.

Thanks a lot for the info it helps a lot!!

 

[jbotwww]

I am going to try this out all i need is to find a decent ancient 8.8 belt or higher so far i only dropped 1 ancient zoey's and it's the one I'm using which is 8.1

How do I set it to cast companion on only elites? I can see the option companion off CD but I'm not sure what that means.

Thanks a lot for the info it helps a lot!!

Companion on CD makes it use it on CD no matter what. If you leave it unchecked it only uses it on elites as far as I saw before I turned it on. It def was not using it often enough without making it.

 

[lenneth13]

Companion on CD makes it use it on CD no matter what. If you leave it unchecked it only uses it on elites as far as I saw before I turned it on. It def was not using it often enough without making it.

so do i check companion off cd or uncheck companion off cd?

or is there some other checkbox i overlooked?

 

[Tatsumi]

Check that box

 

[lenneth13]

Check that box

Thanks so much!

Any other advice would be greatly appreciated

 

[Dacrit42]

I can clear 70 pretty consistently around 7:10. I did a few test runs to check again this morning and, depending on if I got a bunch of tanks, a crap rift, or a prime set-up, I was a high of 7:31 and a low of 6:52.

Here is my Gear: http://www.d3planner.com/510772144

If I put on my Physical Nemisis Bracers I can get my clear times to average closer to 7:00 but I have to be a bit more careful when I do that due to losing my 32% dmg reduction from WoC. Unity = trash. Don't use it. You should be using Focus and Restraint so that you get the two +50% damage increases. For me, it lines up like "1 Evasive - 5 Cluster Arrows - Repeat" Crucial to keep both buffs up to see a significant damage increase.

I have to disagree with anyone who says worry about toughness on a DH... We are glass cannons, simple as that. If you wear the gear i'm wearing (which is the gear anyone clearing over 80 is wearing but better rolls) you have a significant amount of damage reduction. I have 112 million toughness when standing in my Guardian turret + my bracer dmg reduction nets me at about 180-200mil but that's not the point. My point is you are a glass cannon. Only worry about Vit and crap on gear you can't roll extra damage on. We're not concerned with stacking Vit since we get our damage reduction from "% Dmg Reduction" on items. Sure, it's a nice bonus if you can get it but I much prefer to kill stuff quickly rather than try and tank it.

Cube:
Dawn
Cloak of Garwulf
Convention of elements
(Make sure you have "Wait for Convention Element" checked under "Trinity - Combat - Misc Combat Settings")

With my CD% at 33.35%, I only experience a minimal amount of Veng downtime. My gear isn't perfect but it's solid enough to farm the hell out of 70-74 and clear as high as 76.

 

[hitori82]

tick Companion on CD, change to clarity bracer, cube CoE ring, get your CDR to around 33% or more (you may think 4 sec is not a lot, but it means you are missing out 4 sec of at least 50% damage up and 40 resource=2 or 3 CA, which is a lot of damage, per CD!)

my DH was running GR70 average 8-10min with 800 Plvl with 2 million sheet DPS before I switched LoNsader.

 

[alainbuddy]

I can clear 70 pretty consistently around 7:10. I did a few test runs to check again this morning and, depending on if I got a bunch of tanks, a crap rift, or a prime set-up, I was a high of 7:31 and a low of 6:52.

Here is my Gear: http://www.d3planner.com/510772144

If I put on my Physical Nemisis Bracers I can get my clear times to average closer to 7:00 but I have to be a bit more careful when I do that due to losing my 32% dmg reduction from WoC. Unity = trash. Don't use it. You should be using Focus and Restraint so that you get the two +50% damage increases. For me, it lines up like "1 Evasive - 5 Cluster Arrows - Repeat" Crucial to keep both buffs up to see a significant damage increase.

I have to disagree with anyone who says worry about toughness on a DH... We are glass cannons, simple as that. If you wear the gear i'm wearing (which is the gear anyone clearing over 80 is wearing but better rolls) you have a significant amount of damage reduction. I have 112 million toughness when standing in my Guardian turret + my bracer dmg reduction nets me at about 180-200mil but that's not the point. My point is you are a glass cannon. Only worry about Vit and crap on gear you can't roll extra damage on. We're not concerned with stacking Vit since we get our damage reduction from "% Dmg Reduction" on items. Sure, it's a nice bonus if you can get it but I much prefer to kill stuff quickly rather than try and tank it.

Cube:
Dawn
Cloak of Garwulf
Convention of elements
(Make sure you have "Wait for Convention Element" checked under "Trinity - Combat - Misc Combat Settings")

With my CD% at 33.35%, I only experience a minimal amount of Veng downtime. My gear isn't perfect but it's solid enough to farm the hell out of 70-74 and clear as high as 76.

I can't make use of that CoE, my bot dies too much if I dont use Unity and that's a huge DPS loss. I got lucky with a few rifts but, some were reaaaaaaal long because of so many deaths.