How to play efficiently on high torments?

[Kelz]

Hello,

I see many people playing in higher torment (4/5/6) and I am wondering how they do.

With my friends we have a decent dps (1M +, depending on classes and stuff) and around 5M toughness.

So, the thing is: Killing monsters in higher torments is extremely long, like really really long. Knowing that the top DPS only go to 1M4 +, I don't think anyone can kill monsters really fast at these high difficulties. So, is it really worth it to play in these modes? I don't really feel like dropping more so...

And if it is worth it, how do you manage it? I play a demon hunter, which means no armor/resistance and it's one shot land. My wizard friend dies a lot less just because of the insane resistance boost from intel, that let him stay in aoe or whatever and stay alive, but the DH just dies in a demi second. I could get a bigger toughness, but to do that I'd have to lose most of my DPS. As of now I was at ~4M toughness, I had to get rid of ~90% bonus to chakram (poison + chakram bonus) to get to 5.7m toughness and 1M dps (buffed). But now I'm doing even less damage so...

So for people playing in high torment, what are your builds, your runs, how do balance between toughness and DPS, what would be your advices?

[rmxstyle]

You need to learn that sheetdps is completly useless in RoS - Skillmodification, Elitedmg and Elemental %dmg are soooo strong and arent included.

our wizard got 1.4m sheetdps but he also got ~100% firedmg and the opwand with 3 exploblasts, same with our DH & same with our Barb. And me as a Monk do my DPS through Exploding Palm. Im there to spam Cyclone Strike. Really easy to farm T3/T4 (we oneshot nearly everything)

[Kenjuro]

Party synergies are important too. Running 4 barbs is prolly the most inefficient thing to do. Use classes that complement each other. A good support monk is a must. 2 high DPS wizards, a good monk and a barb can take T5-6 without much trouble.

Done T4 very fast and T5 acceptable with clan. My wizard has 1.2M sheet DPS buffed but with a lot of arcane and skill %.

[Miiiep]

Gloves of worship. yip, thats all.

[BlackOctober]

T4/5/6 is only truly efficient if you have a Monk who can use Exploding Palm decently. Exploding Palm is the great equalizer. You only have to kill 2/3 mobs and the whole pack is dead.