[Guide] MOTE6 Earthquake

Rotation looks correct, also keep in mind you can Shout mid-air. I have not experienced what you mention with EQ… does it happen all the time, or just occasionally? Unlike Leap, the EQ animation doesn’t render you CC immune, so sometimes when trying to HC EQ, you can get Feared/Stunned/Frozen… I often won’t HC EQ when I am in the midst of really bad mobs or affixes. HC EQ is mostly just to add a little bit of extra Fury-- it only adds a tiny amount of extra damage, so don’t worry about missing it, as long as you’re getting your Leap reset.

As for Wrath, I generally save it until I’ve got a pile of density together. With some monster sets, trash dies really fast, and in certain cases I will kill a modest sized group of wimpy mobs without popping Wrath, because I know that the next room or screen will likely have big density, so I’m saving my pop for that. Another time I’ll often pop Wrath is during a big Conduit, particularly if there are Frozen or Vortex elites in the pile. Even though most of the damage is coming from the Conduit, getting Vortexed into a Molten or Frozen explosion really stinks.

You can also try out different setups, if you like-- there are lots of options. It looks like you’re using what I cleared 134 with, and that is indeed a good, and quite forgiving, setup. But, you can also try trading Zei for Gogok (or even Esoteric), Parthans for Strongarms (in which case use Leap:CoA), BR:StP for BR:ItF, BR for WC, etc. Just remember you always need to have either Parthans or BR:StP. Without one or the other of these, you die.

What GR did you try?

Thanks for the tips, I’ll try to incorporate it and have another go once I finish my set of aug gems. I opened 125, 127, and 130. I closed the 125 and 127 easily enough, but missed 130. Just wanted to try some different GR levels to see how the game play feels like. Ah, one more question, what vit or hp pool are you aiming for? With rend, I put nothing into vit and stacked all str for my paragon points. My rend barb can survive with 515khp, but get one shot by raiziel or erethon.

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With the 25k Str I’ve got, I run about 5k Vit (about 700m toughness). Once you’re Auged up, you’ll probably be close to 35k I guess… might be able to get away with 4k vit. It depends a bit too on if you are using War Cry or Gogok or Esoteric… I guess generally I’d say get to 5k Vit, that’s a pretty good amount.

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Le sigh… another close call on 135 yesterday evening. Got to the RG with 3 minutes and a Power, could have killed Saxtris, Binder, Hamelin, Cold Snap, Perdition, and maybe Man Carver or Crusader King…

Drew Rime…

:cloud_with_snow: :snowflake: :snowflake: :snowflake:
:skull_and_crossbones:

Edit Edit:

TL3 gone again. What a preposterous system. I guess it’s time to randomly strew some likes around for no reason!

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Yeah, the whole system is broken and, frankly, stupid. I haven’t been posting much and it downgraded me to TL 2. The new CMs aren’t as supportive or communicative as Nev was, either.

The quality of community infrastructure around here could really use some TLC.

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Agreed. If I’ve said it once I’ve said it a hundred times, but any system that forces you to throw likes around, or make regular posts (regardless of whether you’ve got anything of value to say) just so you can maintain your own guides is a ridiculous one.

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I hardly ever post anymore, but I do put a few likes down here and there when it is deserved, I also throw out a odd Flag when needed for good measure and I am still a Regular kind of guy :star_struck:! I am the one person I know who needs TL3 the least, go figure! :thinking: :crazy_face:
:peace_symbol:

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Welcome to the new and improved Blizz communication :shushing_face:

Agree with all of these, it’s a completely broken system.

When known trolls are able to hold a TL3, yet those who actually help people and genuinely contribute can’t hold a TL3, or can’t have it because of an infraction, there is something very wrong.

But as per above, don’t expect anything better. It seems every time they promise better communication, it actually gets worse than it was before they made the promise.

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Windigo,

On August 17, 2020, Blizzard reduced the requirements to become TL3 and you were one of the forum posters who met the new requirements and maintained TL3 to this day.

I also received confirmation from one of the CM team about the reduced TL3 requirements. Personally to date, I have interacted with two members of the new diablo community management team and had positive experiences. I am not sure the number of posts required to be/maintain TL3. I did notice that one of the recent/current TL3s only has 48 total posts in the last 10 months.

Yeah, posting a lot is not what really makes TL3. They don’t want to encourage post spamming.

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Unless it changed, I think the minimum post requirement to become a non-manually awarded TL3 was to reply to 10 different threads in total. There were other requirements of course, but making posts was very modest requirement.

New Forum Guide - Syntax & Features - General Discussion - Diablo 3 Forums (blizzard.com)

Some of the requirements noted in the link above definitely became less in mid-August.

For manually awarded TL3s, one of them has 22 post total where 2 have occurred since April 2020. Another manually awarded TL3 has not logged in over 4 months and last post was in August 2020. Therefore, it would appear that there is not a high bar for posting to maintain TL3 for either manually awarded or met through forum requirements.

Well, this afternoon’s almost-but-not-quite run certainly started auspiciously: Battlefields with a crazy good haul of Transformers. Not only that, but an elite with illusionist skeletal summoner minions, and a conduit. Left the level with the largest lead I think I’ve ever had exiting a level one…

https://imgur.com/a/dTyZ2ji

But, the second level was Corvus, and my lead shrank, and shrank, and shrank…

Ouch! How many keys did that one cost you?

Keep going, you’ll get there! :muscle:

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Not that many so far… just under 100 I think.

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99 too many for my liking :joy:

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You want to get the clear in -3 keys?! :wink:

Schrödinger’s MOTE
That’s where you both have and have not cleared the GR and you don’t know which it is until you open the box and find out that the Barb is dead. Or something like that…

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That basically happened a year or so back when Nubtro got a rank 1 HC clear but died from a Voracity poison cloud right after he’d killed the boss.

One key wonder :rofl:

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LOL, the exact same thing happened to me once. I remember thinking dang, would have sucked if this was HC. But then again, I don’t have the discipline to play HC. :rofl:

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