Please help - or I quit this game...

[ScottieK]

Dont look for a new dagger, your dagger is fine. It has LOH and a socket, and it is a dagger, which is perfect for now.
Edit: Found out this is a new dagger; nice buy

What you should replace is your main-hand. You want to find a mace which luckily for you is the cheapest option. The reason for this, is that run like the wind tornado's damage is based from main hand damage only, thus you want your slowest/highest raw number damage item in your main-hand.

These tornado's are your main source of damage; they are much stronger than whirlwind or bash, and thus are your priority.

However you also want one with LOH. LOH is more important than how much damage you get on your weapon. If I were you, I would look for a mainhand mace with 650+ LOH. Any stats on it are a plus. Make sure you don't get something with attack speed bonuses, since similar weapon DPS numbers without ias, will actually be stronger.

Also you aren't strong enough gear wise (defensively) to be running a double whirlwind build in A3. I recommend getting your LOH mace, and then trying this build http://diablo.incgamers.com/forums/s...lish-ALL-acts)

You really need 2 defensive passives for your gear level, instead of weapons master.

If double whirlwind build is what you want to be doing in A3, this will get you there and has the same type of gear.

Here is my profile, I have cleared inferno with that gear/build
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/P...2/hero/7053286

Hope it helps

[magicrectangle]

Dont look for a new dagger, your dagger is fine. It has LOH and a socket, and it is a dagger, which is perfect for now.

His profile shows a LoH dagger now because he followed my advice and got one. Such communication ambiguities I suppose are bound to happen now that people are linking active (changing) profiles rather than static snapshot images. He had a shield when he posted the thread.

As far as build, charge/sprint is a valid choice rather than ww/sprint, if that's your thing. I've played with and liked both. charge/sprint has more room for diversity in build, since charge is a fury generator rather than spender, so that's nice. Charging through stuff is also safer than whirling through stuff, so long as you don't get stuck surrounded with charge on cooldown (usually avoidable by skillful play). Whirlwind is faster farming, and so long as you don't just go plowing through the center of dangerous packs, isn't much harder to stay alive with - particularly if you're carrying thrive and therefor are perma-immune to crowd control.

When I finished Inferno as whirly my gear wasn't any better than yours, scottie. Reasonably defensive play solves a lot. The only major gear block for whirly is having enough crit to keep it up, and that isn't too hard to get with base 23% from skills (ruthless, weapon master, battle rage, 5% base), you just need another ~20% from gear and you're fine.

That's not to say that charge/sprint isn't better for low gear levels - it is, but the OP's gear is good enough to whirly farm a2. He could take charge/sprint to a3, and make progress though if he wanted. One of the nice things is that gear between charge/sprint and ww/sprint is pretty much the same, so you can swap around as much as you want, as needed.

[ScottieK]

That's not to say that charge/sprint isn't better for low gear levels - it is, but the OP's gear is good enough to whirly farm a2. He could take charge/sprint to a3, and make progress though if he wanted. One of the nice things is that gear between charge/sprint and ww/sprint is pretty much the same, so you can swap around as much as you want, as needed.

Good thing he took your advice on the dagger

Yeah he is geared enough for double WW build for Act 2 for sure. Taking a look at his gear again he may be able to do A3 with double WW build but probably not without overpower due to how much resistances he has (possibly he could, maybe I'm wrong; if you play more defensively/carefully I spose). If this is the case though, farm wise for A3, charge/sprint may be easier and not having to sacrifice frenzy can be a plus, which is why I suggested it for A3 (not A2).

As you said the good thing is that gear wise it is the same

[magicrectangle]

In terms of loot/hour I don't think his gear is in a place where farming a3 with either build would be as effective as farming A2. If he wanted to do progression in A3 charge/sprint would work though, as you say.