Just moved to MP1 and I'm a bit squishy. Want to feel more comfortable farming and aside from the rest of the IK set which i don't quite have the gold for, what should i look into upgrading first? Got some great advice and starting items @yoyo. Just looking into trying to eek a little bit more out of it without spending a lot.

I was going to offer some gear, but you already have decent gear. I think overall, you're a bit lopsided in focusing too much on DPS (I do too..) and not enough survivability. I would get your hp above 35k at the minimum - easiest way is to replace tyrael's might (you don't need an additional 12% move speed, it caps at 25%) and Depth Diggers with a blackthorne's chest and pants. Also, replacing lamentation with a IK belt will get your resistances up again. Again, you'll likely lose some DPS in the process, but for MP1 you'll have plenty. Blackthorne's chest can role IK chest stats, but for much much cheaper IMO. Net net, if you sold both your current pants and chest, I think you could use that gold to get a decent blackthorne's chest and pants (also keep in mind the 2-set bonus is +100 vit).

Alternatively, you could replace your Firewalkers with ice climbers with some vit (while keeping your Tyrael's for the movement speed).

One final note, the most budget route you can go is probably replacing your Tyrael's with a rare chest - I keep focusing on chest because you can have up to 300 vit (before sockets) on a chest... and you got none.

Ya know, i totally forgot i found one of both of those!! they are lower rolls, but I just outfitted those with a Balckthornes pants. 50k HP lmao. Dropped about 15k dps

@eleganthobo : Big thanks! Actually doing pretty decent on MP2 now!! got back up to about 93k dps, and still sitting at about 45khp. had a PS Amy sitting in a pair of Ice climbers i dont use so i put that along with 2 rubies in the chest. Now i'm doing good there, it's hellfire time. I have been waiting too long to go ahead and get me at least 2. Gonna put up a looking for group to see if i can get some help with the ingredients.

No problem @stukthrtl I feel like you could easy crank it up to mp5/6 to solo farm keys with your current gear. Feel free to add me for ubers, i'm usually on on weeknights.

Guess i'll have to give it a shot! :) and thanks, i'll hit ya up!

Looking at your gear again, I realized you have really low All Resistances - I find 500 is comfortable up to MP7 maybe MP8, 600ish is better for any higher (while maintaining at least 40k HP). Unfortunately I don't see a super cheap way to upgrade this without losing DPS or other stat.

For cheaper end replacements, you could
- replace Firewalkers with low-level IK boots, but you'd lose 100+ str
- replace Firewalkers with ice climbers, but you won't find any with movement speed.
- replace Lacuni's w/ CC to Lacuni's w/out CC and STR + A/R
- replace IK Helm with Mempo to get A/R, but you'd lose CC and gain some Atkspd.

Do an item compare and see which one gets you the most gain and least dps loss for the buck.

@stukthrtl you might want to change the WOTB passive to Thrive on Chaos. Keeping your WOTB up against ubers is very important.

@eleganthobo solid advice bro. :)

Yea, was playing around with Insanity as running into double/triple/quad elite packs would kill me pretty good. Had at least one triple tonight. Pretty much all affixes aside from Reflect and Dampening.. Moltenx2, desecrator, jailer, frozen, arcane and ranged from what i could tell. woo fun!