[Nemo]

To any moderator, feel free to move our digressions to another thread if you feel like so. I should add that those figures I gave where good for a Wizard that can benefit from Force Armor and then can have limited HP. For a barb / monk More HP / resistance would certainly be needed in exchange for dps. But even as barb, you need dps because the best defense is often the attack. For example that's why Demon Hunters have so huge dps, because they can't afford to be hit and the longer the mobs live, the more you're going to be hit no matter what.

Originally Posted by Delraich

Hmm.. I am at 16808 dps with 300k gold, so I reckon I'm in a similar boat to asrathiel. Grinding doesn't seem to give enough gold in relation to repairs to really buy anything much better than what I have now. I am in act 2 and only got so far and now getting owned. I lost a ton of money throwing myself at the Butcher, which didnt really help. Decent weapons seem to cost around the million mark, so unless I find something really decent soon to sell on the AH I guess hoping for a good weapon in act 1 is the way to go. What dps weapon do I need to hit 26k? My resistances are between 288-300+ so at least that is doing ok.

I have a 2-3 million weapon that I bought for maybe 500k. So check gear before playing and after systematically and especially items that are freshly sold (1d11h or 1d12h left). You often can have very affordable items than can be bought right away. In fact, never buy gear the usual price.

BUT you don't need AH in reality. Act 1 drop, every run or 2, 800k+ 2 handed weapons. Take those until you can farm easily the classic runs warden + butcher + Nephalem wood.

To farm and gain money you need not to die more than once every half an hour in average (1 a hour is good). So you need to choose the adequate zone to farm accordingly. If it's hell act 3 or 4 so be it. Act 4 of hell gives you a lot of gold, especially if you put Gold Find gear.

Then when you're at the level I told you to be, just farm the end of Act 1 which is purposely incredibly easy compared to other part of Act 1 (spiders ... ) or Act 2+. With the new nearly 50% drop rate of 60+ objects, you're soon going to be very well geared and will be able to make some good sells (100k to 500k).

Originally Posted by Asrathiel

Will add that my armour and HP are sufficient by those numbers, in fact I think I have 38k HP and over 4000 armour... just the dps and extra bells and whistles letting me down

What is the class ? 38k might be needed for a tank. For the moment, be sure to aim at maxing Main char + Vit + Resist * 2 for each of your item, with at least half of your gear to have 80+ of your main characteristic.
If you found the occasional item that gives you more because of Attack speed, Critical, pure basic damage, etc., wear it.

When you're at that point you will be able to build (slowly) more Crit oriented build instead of pure main characteristic.

Originally Posted by Trinion

Hm, I am quite the opposite. I have 42k dps but only about 24k hp so I get 1 to 2 hit quite a lot. But since I am a wiz I get energy armour

More or less the same. 39k dps and 26k life I think. Rarely one hit in Act 1 (Butcher charge, elite explosions do ...).