Diablo III

[Saif]

I just rolled through more or less in whatever gear and gems I found. Near the end I had too much money so I just leveled up the BS up to 5 and bought 5 pages from the AH and I think he crafted me a rare staff and a couple of other pieces but even those I replaced with some Act 4 drops. I did double up on a Force skill instead of taking a Mystery skill.

The Wizard is insanely op on every boss and all the trash except Diablo -I just felt like they tuned the difficulty up a little bit for Diablo with the 3 phase fight or at least it felt that way with how squishy Wizards are in general. I had to spec out of all my dps into a snare/stun build to keep him at bay the whole time while my hydras killed him.

Trash and most bosses build: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/w ... aXY!aZZaZa

Diablo build: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/w ... aXW!aaZaaZ

Though I think I'd get rid of one of my mouse skills and replace it with either Teleport or Meteor next time on Diablo.

Want to start Nightmare already!

[Questionor]

I just rolled through more or less in whatever gear and gems I found. Near the end I had too much money so I just leveled up the BS up to 5 and bought 5 pages from the AH and I think he crafted me a rare staff and a couple of other pieces but even those I replaced with some Act 4 drops. I did double up on a Force skill instead of taking a Mystery skill.

The Wizard is insanely op on every boss and all the trash except Diablo -I just felt like they tuned the difficulty up a little bit for Diablo with the 3 phase fight or at least it felt that way with how squishy Wizards are in general. I had to spec out of all my dps into a snare/stun build to keep him at bay the whole time while my hydras killed him.

Trash and most bosses build: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/w ... aXY!aZZaZa

Diablo build: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/w ... aXW!aaZaaZ

Though I think I'd get rid of one of my mouse skills and replace it with either Teleport or Meteor next time on Diablo.

Want to start Nightmare already!

Ahhh I understand now, I thought you meant in general not just bosses but I've been respecing before act bosses since Belial(sp?)
I went in to Belial with my normal spec with leap and aoe and stuns and such and got my ass handed to me hard.
2nd time, I respeced for single target dps and added Call of the Ancients to already using Earthquake and ditching my passive that gives extra dps for full fury (as I'm just burning through fury massively on bosses) with some life steal and the fight was trivial.
So I've been doing that as SOP before the act bosses.

Going from memory this is what I was using for trash http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/b ... cZY!aaaaZa
And this for bosses http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/b ... dZY!aZaZba

I guess I also don't know how well the bosses scale for more people. It's rare that someone doesn't jump into my game (or me theirs); I can't believe how many people I know who are playing this.

[Saif]

I'm really enjoying the bosses on solo mode but they have been really easy fro Wizards. The only ones I had to try multiple times was the Butcher and Azmodan - other than Diablo. Trash is just a non-issue as a wizard. At least so far. I'm hoping it gets a lot harder! The bosses don't get more abilities with more people do they? I imagine the more people you have the easier it is....

[Questionor]

I'm really enjoying the bosses on solo mode but they have been really easy fro Wizards. The only ones I had to try multiple times was the Butcher and Azmodan - other than Diablo. Trash is just a non-issue as a wizard. At least so far. I'm hoping it gets a lot harder! The bosses don't get more abilities with more people do they? I imagine the more people you have the easier it is....

I have no idea how they get harder or how well it scales. My guess is they just raise the bosses dps and health.

[Saif]

Boooo.

[Questionor]

Boooo.

IIRC they might get more powers when you progress through the difficulty tiers.

[Falgrim]

I'm really enjoying the bosses on solo mode but they have been really easy fro Wizards. The only ones I had to try multiple times was the Butcher and Azmodan - other than Diablo. Trash is just a non-issue as a wizard. At least so far. I'm hoping it gets a lot harder! The bosses don't get more abilities with more people do they? I imagine the more people you have the easier it is....

I have no idea how they get harder or how well it scales. My guess is they just raise the bosses dps and health.

I am fairly certain this is how it is handled on Normal when facing a boss with multiple PCs. I fought the Skeleton King and Butcher with both groups and solo and in both cases the bosses were tougher in a group. They hit much harder and soaked up more damage. It actually made them more fun IMHO.

[Saif]

Yeah, that should help, I'm just hoping to get mechanics and stuff. At least so far, Nightmare mode is pretty easy. Will report back once I get through some bosses there. Skeleton King at least was giggleworthy.

[DeadmanNYC]

Iskatu on nightmare turned out to be my first stumbling block. Tough fight.

[Ninesling]

I am having a stupid amount of fun. I have a new battle.net account, if anyone wants my name just holla