What is the EXACT formula for determining if a weapon benefits more from a 10% affix, or re-rolling the base damage?

7:15 pm, October 16, 2014 I feel it should be pretty easy to calculate but I always get confused. For example, this item here: http://i.imgur.com/8tMxKws.png A 10% damage increase would mean that it would roll to 3177*1.1 = 34 [..] View

2.1 Witch Doctor Proc Coefficients

7:15 am, October 2, 2014 X-Post from /r/Diablo3witchdoctors Hi! Since ZzEzZ stopped figuring out proc coefficients because of the loh change I decided to take things into my own hands and tried his proposed method of using [..] View

The Waypoint - Week of September 22

7:15 am, September 27, 2014 As anyone who plays Hardcore will tell you, it only takes one false move to end up in the Hall of Fallen Heroes. For this edition of The Waypoint, well be hearing your most embarassing Hardcore ***** [..] View

I'd like to clear up a common misconception about Exploding Palm (EP) scaling with mob health

7:15 am, July 4, 2014 Nearly every post I see about EP has a ton of people exclaiming how it is broken, like Furnace, and Rimeheart, because it scales with difficulty. This is not the case. Exploding Palm scales with your [..] View

How much does the + min/max dmg stat really do?

7:15 pm, June 4, 2014 I ask this because I recently got an amulet and I was looking at rolling a stat into increased critical hit dmg % and wasnt sure if i should reroll the +63 to 138 dmg or the resist all stat. As for as [..] View

Which legendary procs are affected by +% elemental damage bonuses?

7:15 am, April 18, 2014 Hello everyone. I was hoping to enlist the help of the community in determining once and for all which elemental damage procs benefit from +% elemental skills damage and which do not. I've li [..] View

Wizard DPS Spreadsheet

7:15 am, April 7, 2014 I got tired of guessing about the difference between stats when comparing items that the character sheet didn't account for (elemental damage/resource cost/etc) and when determining what to re [..] View

A thought on why some people are seeing so many Rings.

6:15 pm, March 14, 2014 There have been a lot of posts recently about people having a lot of Legendary Rings and I wanted to speculate a bit on why this might be the case given the new system for determining drops. Under the [..] View

Smart drops and you: Possible drop manipulation?

6:15 pm, March 13, 2014 So there's a thread on here where people are starting to realize that only certain legendary types are dropping for them, whether it's rings, boots, bracers, etc. Here's my tak [..] View

Reaper of Souls First Look: Exploring the Blood Marsh

6:15 pm, March 6, 2014 The rot of organic life assaults the senses as fetid earth gives way beneath each step. Murky water bubbles along the sunken trails and strange, violent creatures lurk just beyond light's rea [..] View

[X-Post] Toughness Reverse-Engineered

6:15 am, February 22, 2014 /u/HG_Johnny over at /r/Diablo3Monks has successfully reverse-engineered the "Toughness" attribute, determining mathematically how it works and how it differs from the EHP of d3up.co [..] View

Why do ROS legendaries need to be better than Vanilla legendaries?

6:15 pm, February 6, 2014 I was reading through the battle.net forums, and a certain post jumped out at me from the following thread I was reading... http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/11642844372 Hands down the problem i [..] View