Diablo 3 Inferno Equipment Check

Playing in Diablo 3 inferno mode can be a quite a challenge and possibly frustrating. However, as a rule of a thumb, the difficulty and frustration levels increase drastically when the player progresses too far while being underequipped. It is important for players to stop and farm a bit more gold or items in order to equip themselves better to prepare them for the next act or arc of the act. Here are five essentials that players need to consider in their equipment especially when they are playing in inferno:

1) Weapon Damage / DPS

Without a decent and hefty damage, players would probably struggle here and there. Killing mobs or elites would be a pain if they take around thirty minutes to kill rather than just five. The longer the battle drags on, the more chances the player makes a mistake and eventually leads to his/her demise.  

2) Vitality

More vitality means more hitpoints. As the game suggests, lose all of it and the player is dead. In inferno, a vast majority of monsters deal very strong damage, without decent vitality (i.e. 20k~30k hitpoints for ranged or  40k~60k for melee) the player would get one-shotted by these monsters. Aside from vitality, the player should have some form of resistance in order to fully negate being one-shotted (discussed in #3).

3) All Resistance

The all resistance stat is pretty much one of the most important stats to have on armors in addition to vitality as they improve not only the player’s resistance to elements but also physical resistance. Having a tremendous amount of vitality without resistance would simply be a waste as the damage the monsters deal increase exponentially through acts.

4) Armor

This is one of the seriously underestimated stats in the game that actually helps quite a lot in inferno. Increasing the armor of the player would reduce damages coming from all sources. In reality, I personally believe it would be impossible to dodge all attacks even with a ranged class, hence increasing armor would be the next best thing to all resistance and vitality.

5) Critical Hit Chance

Increasing critical hit chances enable the player to deal burst damage to monsters which usually helps during elites, act bosses or that significantly annoying room with 99999 monsters. Though critical hits are chance based, increasing the chances would significantly boost damage output which makes killing monsters easier.

 There are other notable stats for equipment that can be valuable such as movespeed, resource regeneration, increased max resource, and the like which I did not really include as this is a general equipment check in inferno.