Help getting faster
My strafeazon just hit 73 and equipped her windforce. Yay! What a difference it made! My damage went from 304-912 to 320-2004, roughly doubling my killing power. (this was from goldstrike arch). My stats are:
s: 134 (160 or so w/gear)
d: rest
v: 85 (I intend to get it to 100)
e: base
I'm in act 2 hell having just taken down andy. I browse the threads here and I see a lot of people acting like 9/2 strafe is great and seemingly easy to get to, except, by my calcs, WF is a (10) bow and you'd need 120 IAS to get to 9/2. So, I figured, 9/3'd be okay, to, but even that seems out of reach. How do you get 120 IAS w/o eqiupping seemingly worthless (other than IAS) gear?
Here's my gear:
hat: Orphan's for CB/DS/etc
Amulet: Highlord (20ias)
Bow: WF (20ias)
Chest: Vipermagi w/ptopaz (stolen from my necro when he got trang armor)
Rings: Nature's peace, 7% manald heal (I need more ML. I run empty rather quickly)
Gloves: Venom Grip currently w/Souldrain (for more leech and allowing me to swap to raven frost ring) for when I hit 74 (1/2 a level).
Belt: Goldwrap (non-upgraded, but I need to upgrade for more potions. I die quite a bit). (10ias)
Boots: rares with faster r/w and some MF.
From this, I have 50ias which can easily become 70 w/a shael in bow, but that barely gets me from 11/3 to 10/3. My trade "reserves" are pretty low, but I can probably get ahold of some laying of hands gloves to put me at 90ias and break 9/3. What else can I do to drop this to 9/2? And is it really worth it? Where else can I find 30 ias short of socketing hat with ias (really want to wait to find shako to socket w/ias, I think). Is 9/2 noticible? Are any of you on uswest who can team w/me and show me the difference in "real life"?
My strafeazon just hit 73 and equipped her windforce. Yay! What a difference it made! My damage went from 304-912 to 320-2004, roughly doubling my killing power. (this was from goldstrike arch). My stats are:
s: 134 (160 or so w/gear)
d: rest
v: 85 (I intend to get it to 100)
e: base
I'm in act 2 hell having just taken down andy. I browse the threads here and I see a lot of people acting like 9/2 strafe is great and seemingly easy to get to, except, by my calcs, WF is a (10) bow and you'd need 120 IAS to get to 9/2. So, I figured, 9/3'd be okay, to, but even that seems out of reach. How do you get 120 IAS w/o eqiupping seemingly worthless (other than IAS) gear?
Here's my gear:
hat: Orphan's for CB/DS/etc
Amulet: Highlord (20ias)
Bow: WF (20ias)
Chest: Vipermagi w/ptopaz (stolen from my necro when he got trang armor)
Rings: Nature's peace, 7% manald heal (I need more ML. I run empty rather quickly)
Gloves: Venom Grip currently w/Souldrain (for more leech and allowing me to swap to raven frost ring) for when I hit 74 (1/2 a level).
Belt: Goldwrap (non-upgraded, but I need to upgrade for more potions. I die quite a bit). (10ias)
Boots: rares with faster r/w and some MF.
From this, I have 50ias which can easily become 70 w/a shael in bow, but that barely gets me from 11/3 to 10/3. My trade "reserves" are pretty low, but I can probably get ahold of some laying of hands gloves to put me at 90ias and break 9/3. What else can I do to drop this to 9/2? And is it really worth it? Where else can I find 30 ias short of socketing hat with ias (really want to wait to find shako to socket w/ias, I think). Is 9/2 noticible? Are any of you on uswest who can team w/me and show me the difference in "real life"?