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Cool. Too bad there is only one more PC class introduced. Sounds a bit like the paladin from D2, Heavy mele with some casting options. I wonder if we will get a few more character slots with the expansion.

Another evening fishing off the dock brought another awesome sunset. It started out kinda neat then it kept changing and getting larger. Yeah just have a look at how it ended.

I only played the first one on demo. I was greatly disappointed in the judgement call of your char so early in the game. "Wow, this party was so off the hook that they left their smack, with a needle the size of an icepick, only partly used lying on the floor, let's try some for no reason at all!" *stab* Honestly a junkie that strung out that he would try something like that with no prompting could never have found their way onto an airplane in the first place.

mmmm trout? was it dinner or was it released?

Bass, like the beer, it was good eating. Earlier in the month it would have still been catch and release.

Interesting. I have 2 of those but both are better for casters. Might try it out on my monk when I return . If no one else manages to see it in action before then that is.

Finally I finished the DH list!

Nice crafting for the both of you. Hope to see even better stuff soon.

Got my first legendary in hardcore today. To bad its not much use to me.

Also picked up The Inna's weapon. Pretty good but needs more of the set to be worth using right now.

Next after getting through HC I also got the friends like these achievement. This is much easier now with the increased mob density. Managed it in the cathedral level 4. Saw a good sized mob of skels off one side and a mob of bats ahead so I used tempest rush with my monk to see if there were any harvesters nearby. I found 6 of them along with another big mob. So i quickly kited them all together, focused my attack on one harvester and let it pop. The down side was I used all my spirit in getting the group together so I got caught up in the blast and pulled the achievement postmortem.

Lastly thanks to my ISP's legendary ability to crap out at the drop of a hat I managed to get some shots of the barbarian whirlwind sans the extra vfx. Dance fat boy dance!

New weapon for me. Might have to make a char to use it. The stats on this are almost perfect.

Well, no Skorn's today. Did pick up some mediocre legendaries a very nice follower token and some IK gloves. Decent haul.

Nice Holstone
Named for the character Nice Holystone from the animated series Baccano. There were just not enough spaces to get the full name in D3. Nice is a girl who after a childhood injury from making explosives where she lost one eye and got third degree burns over half her body didnt learn her lesson. She is a bona fide bomb freak who keeps a last resort cherry bomb in the empty socket behind her eye patch.

Profile:   http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Fogtreadder-1202/hero/27102715

Skills:  http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/demon-hunter#PSYVUc!XgV!aYaZZc

Prefered weapon: Dual 1 Hand crossbows

Primary: Cluster Arrow / Dazzling Arrow
Secondary: Strafe / Rocket Storm

1: Caltrops / Hooked Spines
2: Preparation / Punishment
3: Grenades / Cluster Grenades
4: Rapid Fire / Bombardment

Passives: Night Stalker, Grenadier, Numbing Traps

Method: 
Open with a bang. Unload cluster arrows until the hatred is used up. If the mob is elite or especially large use punishment to reload the hatred and hit them again. Next start throwing out grenades all over the place. If they start getting too close or the fight gets too hot, throw down caltrops and evade with strafe. By this time hatred regen from grenades should be enough for short bursts of strafe. Alternating between grenades and strafe with the help of caltrops is pretty good at keeping a safe distance from most enemies but I also want to hit cluster arrow whenever I have enough hatred. Rapid fire, though very effective is kept in reserve for stunned or slow moving enemies and to take out magic support monsters like fallen shamans.

I put grenades on a number key to make it easier to use. By simply holding down the key I can then throw them without having to be locked onto a target. Thus I can quickly carpet bomb the area and even immediately attack anything that might try to sneak up from behind. With this and strafe I get two skills that can be used back to back which both can deal damage to large widespread groups without the need to get a target lock. This way Nice is a character that is just as effective if not more so in open areas than on narrow choke points.

Both cluster arrow and rapid fire with the bombardment rune are skills that can bypass any mob to hit a selected target. That means Nice does not have to kill all the weak minions first to get through to the shaman or elite that is just hanging back.

Optional skills:
I have just started using Preparation mixed with the passive Night Stalker to get some quick boosts to my hatred. It works well enough that I can get more Cluster Arrows out but since grenades do provide good hatred generation it is not necessary. I am also considering changing Numbing Traps for Ballistics to get more damage out of strafe. Right now she is near to finishing hell and can handle it at the higher MP settings. At inferno I shall try a few modifications to see how they perform.

This build was made just for a laugh but the combination of skills, high rate of fire and mobility makes this character pretty fun to play. That and everything Nice does ends in lots of explodey goodness!

I agree with you there Mo. I imagine they figure if the group finds the game to easy they can still turn up the MP. I like the MF and GF bonuses idea. You won't hear me complain about having too much of that.

Why not add Keep depths 1 and 3 while you are at it? Same monster density, Level 1 is accessible from 2 points, and the third also has a waypoint, is small and easy to navigate. Also level 2 is the one where the fallen maniacs spawn. So, really?! (Interabang) Why only that level? I am not seeing an advantage to this thinking.

Very nice! Sweet name too.

Got a new toy tonight. Fog like.