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IK whirlwind barb ( Patch 2.2 ) GR50 Capable

by last updated Apr 10, 2015 ( Patch 2.2 )
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Skills

  • Bash Punish
  • Whirlwind Dust Devils
  • Wrath of the Berserker Insanity
  • War Cry Impunity
  • Call of the Ancients Together as One
  • Battle Rage Swords to Ploughshares
  • Berserker Rage
  • Nerves of Steel
  • Rampage
  • Weapons Master

Items

More Details

  • Legendary Gems

    • Bane of the Trapped
    • Pain Enhancer
    • Taeguk

Build video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xs_SnP2ma7c


This build combines 3 sets


Immortal king is honestly an absolute requirement, you lose 100% dmg + perma Wrath of the berserker + perma call of the ancients without this.


Bull-kathos's weapons and focus and restraint are optional although they are the optimal pieces for this build. Convention of the elements, unity, stone of jordan, ring of royal grandeur are all possible replacements for Focus+Restraint.


For the shoulders you can really take anything, you can go Aughild's shoulders + bracers, you can go Profane for better pickup or death watch mantle or pauldrons of the skeleton king for their legendary effects.


For the bracers, either go aughild ( if you're going aughild shoulders ), or lacuni prowlers or any other bracers with an attack speed roll.


Stat priority is the same as every other spec in this game, get high crit chance and crit damage while getting toughness, the only difference maybe is that life/vitality is valued a little bit more in this spec as it gains a lot of health from health globes, which heal 15% of your max health, so life actually translates into healing as well. The secondary that increases healing from health globes is also very valuable. Attack speed is good but crit chance and damage are still more important.


I could list whirlwind % dmg in the stat priorities for boots, poison% is actually whirlwind % damage.

Paragon Priorities

Core

Primary Stat
Vitality
Movement Speed
Maximum Resource

Offense

Attack Speed
Cooldown Reduction
Critical Hit Chance
Critical Hit Damage

Defense

Life
Armor
Resist All
Life Regeneration

Utility

Area Damage
Resource Cost Reduction
Life on Hit
Gold Find

Build Guide

The build combines a heavy source of healing ( Battle rage swords to ploughshares ) with damage reduction ( Call of the ancient together as one and War cry impunity ) to stay alive in the higher greater rifts.


The damage comes from Whirlwind with the dust devils rune(physical), which is further amplified by the legendary gem choices.


Use bash every 5 seconds to keep up Focus and Restraint ( and the +12% damage from the Bash rune )


The build is very heavily aoe focused, just as the usual barb build, although the difference between single target and AOE is less than a furious charge build.