Barbarian - Builds/Discussion - Page 107

On June 27 2012 23:30 r00ty wrote:
I'm also curious about the WW build. Anyone tried it with Life Leech? I mean Whirlwind uses 13% LoH and the Tornados use 20% LoH, if my spreadsheet is correct. Stacking Leech to 10-15% (2-3 "real" % in inferno) is way cheaper than getting 1500-2000 LoH. I'm not sure how to calculate, because i never used WW and am a math noob in general.

Is the leech calculated from all damage done no matter what by the way? Or does it also vary from skill to skill like LoH?

I'm aiming for a not too expensive Frenzy+WW build to farm at least Act II. Atm i'm doing it with a Thrower but it got boring. Good thing is, the gear is nearly the same for the WW and Thrower build.

Also i'd like to thank all helpful people (first of all TheYango) in this thread. I didn't post much but learned a lot in here! TL awesome as always.

On June 27 2012 22:26 Corvi wrote:
playing melee with decent dmg and not going full tank as barb in act3/4 is ridiculous expensive. dont even bother without tanklike allres and 1000+ loh or real high dps and ll (even worse to afford). if you only got like 200-300 allres, you could as well use none, because you will fail just like that. and the worst part imho is the time you gotta spent in the gold ah. its such a huge shithole and that one decent item which pops up every hour or so is the one some guy will grab 1 sec before you.

somehow blizzard gotta make that money. cant let people play that game like that want. where are we? diablo 2? hell no ...

On June 28 2012 07:38 Novalisk wrote:


Once you're tanky enough with a shield, you can get a good second 1-hander to switch into when you want more damage. Then against trash and easy champs/elites, you can dual wield, and against really hard champs/elites you can use the shield. Just a single right-click and you're set.

On June 28 2012 08:48 Corvi wrote:


full tank 1h/shield just switching into dual wield results in something like 16k dps -> 20k dps. not even remotely worth it for the lose of that block. i think you want at least 30k dps, 800allres (with shout) and 1000 loh (those numbers are absolutely minimum), to be viable with ww build in act 3/4, especially in a coop game. good luck doing this with the gold ah, especially nowadays, where drops have gotten so shitty its almost funny.

On June 28 2012 19:19 evanthebouncy! wrote:
Ahaha so the 1600 str 600 vit WW barb didn't really work out too well.

I could run the ballista part no problem. Big open area, you have to really make sure your WW carefully, i.e. NOT into hard-hitting mobs during their wind-up (i.e. cut straight line do NOT spin in small circles) You will feel like a melee dps hero, very squishy but the output is descent and you run blazing fast.

I run around mostly with sprint and I herded 3 elite packs with about 60 goats behind me, dodging them mostly and only dipping into the mob slightly with my WW when I know I can't die. I continue to use WW to phase through things, didn't really turn back to fight the elites (cuz they will 1 shot me AHahA) so I kept running! I killed the ballistas with uber micro and kept running through the rekki crossing, never losing fury and kept going and going. I was super-saiyan for about full 6 minutes.

Then I kiklled the siege beast with my ass-attacking micro (use ww to phase to his butt, and keep hitting his butt and don't face him front)

I have 2.8k dps
9k armour
650 avg resist
560 LOH
2.8k HP

Just be VERY careful where you are WW into. be VERY delicate, even more delicate than a raged caster because you are a squishy melee caster.

Anyways gonna buy more HP and resist and LOH item now, the problem now is ranged elemental guys that I can't chase down. After that I think I can fight more elites no problem Now I can only fight elites if there are like 40 mobs around them for the extra leech

Also a funny idea (if you dare to run w/o fury generator -- very risky) is to take ovwerpor-crushingAdvance. That is basically ignore-pain + revenge combined, AND with 0 cd cuz you crit all the time. That's how I managed to kill ghom (i switched out my WotB with ovrpwr)

very fun build haha! feels very fluid.

On June 29 2012 03:40 Stratos.FEAR wrote:
well the whole set bonus blows, but the two piece bonus is pretty nice

On June 29 2012 04:16 Krowser wrote:


I'm still having trouble understanding why some set and legendaries are so bad...

I got Andariel's visage this morning. I can't understand why everyone was going insane over this helm about a month ago.

And... 5 life per fury spent.. So you spend your whole ball and you get 500 health back? Whoop-dy shmuggah-boo?!

On June 29 2012 09:03 hunts wrote:
What's a good 2H build? I have pretty good tank gear with some crit now, decent amount of str, just got a pretty good 2H from a friend so I wanna give 2H a shot. Is it the WOTB/EQ build where you just blow things up in your Cds? or like leap/ignore pain and kill stuff that way?

if anyone cares that's the 2H + Show Spoiler +