Pre Nether Tentacles leveling builds

[Jaytron]

Hi all,

I just picked up D3 (I know a week late) and I'm about 42ish, and am looking for some leveling build help. Most of the builds here are more end-game style builds, but what did you guys use when leveling? This is what I'm working with now: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculato...VXd!Yec!bZZbZb

I'm thinking of going this: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculato...VXd!Yec!YaZbZb
But I feel like it doesn't have enough ways to slow enemies.

Any ideas or tips on what you guys used to level?

[Matuse]

I played around with nearly everything as it unlocked, but the bread and butter of leveling up were always Twin Chakram and Ball Lightning.

[ssamcjames]

Your second build is pretty much exactly what I used to get to Inferno/60. Caltrops is awesome for slowing things down until Inferno. Once you get there, though, it stops having much of an effect. You'd be much better off using BL instead of FA.

I would recommend is that you use Acrobatics instead of Tumble for a Vault rune. You're going to be stretched for discipline, so the cooldown really helps. Just use it as an extra escape plan. I also like Rain of Vengeance with the Stampede rune for keeping enemies from swarming you. Throw that down a hallway and then spam BL and everything dies.

Good luck.

[Jaytron]

Your second build is pretty much exactly what I used to get to Inferno/60. Caltrops is awesome for slowing things down until Inferno. Once you get there, though, it stops having much of an effect. You'd be much better off using BL instead of FA.

I would recommend is that you use Acrobatics instead of Tumble for a Vault rune. You're going to be stretched for discipline, so the cooldown really helps. Just use it as an extra escape plan. I also like Rain of Vengeance with the Stampede rune for keeping enemies from swarming you. Throw that down a hallway and then spam BL and everything dies.

Good luck.

Thanks for the tips!

I've seen a lot of good things with RoV and Stampede. I'm trying to find alternatives till I have it. After playing around with different options, I may just go with this: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculato...VXd!Yea!YaZbZb (maybe BL instead of Screaming Skull) or http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculato...VXT!Yea!YZbbZZ (Took FA for slow since there is no Chain Gang)

Dropping caltrops and vault, to prep myself for not using them in higher difficulties. SS/Prep+TA passive with Chain Gang or Frost Arrow should be enough to get me out of most hairy situations.

[Sulle]

I personally used elemental arrow(screaming skull), caltrops(jagged spikes) for crowd control and impale(chemical burn) for bosses. A lot of things work it just depends on what you like :-)

[Morsetlis]

I have a 60 WD and 60 DH. I thought leveling the DH was harder, but of course in the endgame my DH does about 3x the damage of my WD, lol.

I leveled with Hungering Arrow, Frost Arrow, then Spike Trap: Scatter (this is amazingly good in Hell, esp. Act 3 with all the grouped monsters), Caltrops with 80% or 2 sec Immobilize, depending on taste. Caltrops + Scatter Traps = easy kite/killing of elites in Hell.

For defense I used Smoke Screen (Lingering Fog), Preparation (any), and Vault (any).

Of course once you get Nether Tentacles you would be around Act 4 in Hell and you should own Diablo with it quite easily. I bought cheap Xbox with a socket to put an Emerald in, and bought cheap crit/attack speed/critdmg/hatred gear from the AH. Spending 10k gold at level 20-25, another 50k gold in the middle of Nightmare, and about 100k gold at the beginning of Hell made leveling really easy, although of course you don't need to spend anything to clear the game (it just makes it faster for the time invested since you can farm the gold back easily at the end of Hell / beginning of Inferno).

[Hadrial]

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculato...VXc!YeW!baaZZa

This is roughly what I use, only 34 currently and doing pretty well so far. Two multishots will normally clear a room. Rapid fire for single target.

[phor]

Any weapon with socket, highest level Ruby you can afford.
Hungering Arrow - any rune
Elemental Arrow - ball lightning
Smokescreen - any rune
Vengeance - to keep you swimming in hatred/discipline

Does anything else really even matter?