In NM act 2 with my DH (due to being late for work I've not got time to open D3 and give you the exact amounts I currently have) what sort of DPS + life should I be looking at?
These are very tricky questions to answer, unless someone has a DH at your level and posted those stats but even then it shouldn't mean much to you
My DH had at level 32, 2K DPS and almost base HP (I have no idea how much that was, 3k?) and was using this build.
The overall goal with my DH was to kill everything in 1 hit but yours might be different like 'I want a kiting DH'/'I want a tank DH' or many others so the stats I had are a little irrelevant.
Anyway I'll try to give the same answer as hucca. Since there is no 'right or wrong' DPS, upgrade only if the answer to 'Am I killing things slow and do I want it to be faster?' is yes. Slow can be whatever you want, more than 1 hit or even more than 10 hits (the same goes for how much faster you want to be in the end). For HP a good general thought is to get enough to be make you feel comfortable playing ('Am I getting killed way too fast?' if so buy some more +vit items to make a difference). And depending on your style of play you can look for other ways to improve your survivability other than +vit items ('Am I kiting enough?'/'Am I using smoke screen fast enough and at the proper time?'/'What abilities can I switch around so I can kite better?'/etc/etc).
Starting from A2-3 normal and all the way up to A4 Hell you can get enough DPS to one-shot mostly anything (bosses/champions are a bit tougher of course). And if you plan to go for that know that it is very easy and cheap to achieve.
And finally the very good tip for purchasing weapons: look for Reduced Level Requirement items (ie. You're level 37, look for level 45 items with a minimum of 5-8). At level 48-50 this is ridiculously overpowered because you can get 600-900 DPS weapons.
Edit: I forgot about my level 30 Monk. 5.8K HP, 620 DPS (2 hits to kill any white enemy), Defensive stuff 35% dodge, 60% Armor Dr, 19% Resistance Dr.
well, ahem, guess I'm not "everyone" here when I look at the dps mentioned.
My HC, single pass, untwinked, AH-less monk is currently in Act I NM, around level 36 IIRC and does a whopping 230 dps with 4k life. Yes, indeed. But I still have MF packed at 70% or so :-P so I could probably double those noumbers with crafted/bought items. It works fine though, he's safe (for now...).
The tip for referencing the AH is really only applicable if you're using the AH yourself. As someone who hasn't, I'd highly doubt that the DPS on my DH weapon would have matched something that was 20 pages in when I was in NM.
That said, I can't really comment on what you *should* have, though I'm also very interested in the suggested DPS/life/resists a character would want at various stages of the game. I think that it's too early to give specifics since the game's been out for just over a month, but it's a topic worthy of discussion.
Regarding your health pool, I think a good rule of thumb for Act II is to have enough HP to take one of Belial's bombs and still survive. Perhaps this isn't possible in Inferno (and my DH was barely beneath the number needed in Hell), but it seems like a sound strategy.
My DH just finished A2 NM with 1.9k listed DPS and 7k health. But like others have said, it's not always size that matters. For example, whenever you're running away waiting for cooldowns to expire, you have an effective DPS of 0.0k. The only thing that really matters is your enjoyment. Upgrade if the killing, kiting or dying becomes frustrating. Otherwise, you're probably better off saving up for a future investment.
@Grisu: I find DPS comparisons across classes fairly impractical. According to character screen comparisons, my monk should be pathetically slow. Even my barb, who's fallen 9 levels and nearly 3 acts behind, manages to list 10% more DPS. Yet in terms of actual killspeed, my monk beats all my other characters. So much so in fact that, if they actually had egos to shatter, the other four would be reduced to rocking back and forth in a corner whilst crying softly. And before anyone says "hyperbole", let me point out that both my wizard and WD generally take more time to fail at NM Diablo than it took my monk to succeed.
@muzz: True. Still, 6-7x the dps is still a lot more even if compared across classes But as I said, I don't really have trouble killing things, it just takes longer, but with my skill setup it's pretty safe. No one-shot killing for me though
But as I said, I don't really have trouble killing things, it just takes longer, but with my skill setup it's pretty safe. No one-shot killing for me though
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