D'oh!! I should have been using this all along...

[kromagnuts]

The question is has anyone found a skill that they had previously passed on that turned out to be awesome? I have a 49 Wizard and decided to try using the hydras for the first time yesterday. The fire and ice ones are nothing special, but the venom hydra makes me go all Homer Simpson. It hits HARD, and makes solo clearing much easier. I know using a specific build can get you better dps, but I want to experience all aspects and come to my own conclusions.

So has anyone else had such a revelation?

[Vongimi]

Earth Ally on my monk... My little mini-Kormac is so helpful

[Deleted]

I started playing a demon hunter instead of my witch doctor and i thought "wow... this game is so easy!" Sort of the same thing

[vian]

Used hydras from the second I got them.

[frequency]

I started playing a demon hunter instead of my witch doctor and i thought "wow... this game is so easy!" Sort of the same thing

I did the same thing!

[Deleted]

I started playing a demon hunter instead of my witch doctor and i thought "wow... this game is so easy!" Sort of the same thing

Yeah, until you hit inferno and don't have enough gold to get decent gear.

[Drakhar]

Furious Charge!

I'm sorry I neglected you so long.

[florestan]

The question is has anyone found a skill that they had previously passed on that turned out to be awesome? I have a 49 Wizard and decided to try using the hydras for the first time yesterday. The fire and ice ones are nothing special, but the venom hydra makes me go all Homer Simpson. It hits HARD, and makes solo clearing much easier. I know using a specific build can get you better dps, but I want to experience all aspects and come to my own conclusions.

So has anyone else had such a revelation?

actually the same: I had used Arcane Hydra for some time during Nightmare/Hell but eventually moved to a Frost Nova/Teleport/Energy Armor/Magic Weapon build and didn't find any way to fit a Hydra in there - until I decided to drop my signature spell in favor of the Hydra (in combination with Arcane Orb: Tap the Source).

Invulnerable Minions packs take a little longer to kill than with Shock Pulse: Piercing Orb but overall the difference is pretty big (especially when farming Act I content where the Hydra can kills normal mobs while I run around looting corpses, barrels, ...).

[4KhazModan]

Rune of Bolt Lightning, I'm so sorry, I have no Idea.

[Forsedar]

I started playing a demon hunter instead of my witch doctor and i thought "wow... this game is so easy!" Sort of the same thing

I rolled a Barb and got stuck in Act 2. Rolled a DH and now I'm farming Act 3 with 5 stacks! I have like 40 hours played!

[Deleted]

got through act 2 inferno on my wizard and then wiped a few times on belial.

'Lets see what all the fuss over force armour is about'

5 minutes later ... ' Heh, well that wasn't so hard'

Diamond skin + force armour combo is still pretty silly :P

[Girlyman]

WD - Spirit Walking - Started using it on Hell I think, I believed it to be a scouting spell. Then read a suggestion here and started using it.
It's tooltip is poorly worded I believe. Though your body kept taking damage once you used it.

And while lvling my monk the passive and runes to decrease dmg made my way to nightmare diablo a breeze. Was struggling with Izual and his stupid close range charge that took 90% of my life.

[Joels]

Smokescreen and preparation on my demonhunter... dont know what i was thinking!

[Maki]

Spirit Barrage-Phantasm. Just started using it in Inferno via suggestion. Grasp+SB-Px5=AOE awesomeness.

[Alta87]

Yeah, until you hit inferno and don't have enough gold to get decent gear.

If you can't afford good gear on a DH, you can definatly not afford it for a monk =P

[iggie]

Got to inferno Act 1 before I learned about the elective mode. (on a barb no less)

[Porcell]

I resisted using Smoke Screen on my DH and didn't start using it until after the nerf. I can only imagine how OP it used to be, because it's still pretty OP...

I've tried all kinds of combinations on my Wizard and still don't have a good Kit that I am comfortable with, so I just keep changing it.

[melodramocracy]

Earth Ally on my monk... My little mini-Kormac is so helpful

I need to try this one. 'Mangle' hits pretty damn hard as well, I've discovered 50 levels later :P

[Deleted]

I resisted using Smoke Screen on my DH and didn't start using it until after the nerf. I can only imagine how OP it used to be, because it's still pretty OP...

I've tried all kinds of combinations on my Wizard and still don't have a good Kit that I am comfortable with, so I just keep changing it.

Try force armor, imbue weapon, diamond skin and hydra 1-4 and then magic missiles and arcane orb as left/right-mouse. works pretty good in inferno

[Porcell]

Try force armor, imbue weapon, diamond skin and hydra 1-4 and then magic missiles and arcane orb as left/right-mouse. works pretty good in inferno

Yeah I've been using Diamond Skin (with duration) and Force Armor (with the 35% max hit). Recently I tried "full buff" with both Familiar (Sparkflint, 12% damage buff) and Enchant Weapon (not sure which rune to use though; 15% damage and Knockback I guess). Then I was using Electrocute with Lightning Blast (for the penetrative effect, and it fires very quickly) and flipping between Arcane Orb and Disintegrate. I don't really like the channeled spell, so I kept going back to Arcane Orb with Tap the Source.

I use Hydra on and off, but I kept forgetting to put it down... just not used to playing the Wizard enough.