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T6 Speedfarm Whirlwind IK/BK

by last updated Apr 9, 2015 ( Patch 2.2 )
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Skills

  • Frenzy Vanguard
  • Whirlwind Dust Devils
  • Wrath of the Berserker Insanity
  • Battle Rage Bloodshed
  • Call of the Ancients Ancients' Fury
  • Sprint Marathon
  • Berserker Rage
  • Weapons Master
  • Unforgiving
  • Rampage

Items

More Details

  • Legendary Gems

    • Taeguk
    • Pain Enhancer
    • Wreath of Lightning

Build video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vBkF1v-rXo


This build combines 3 sets


Immortal king 4 set is pretty imporant for perma berskerer , the crowd control immunity and permanent movement speed boost alone are reasons enough to take it, the 6 set isn't as important on T6 so you can try mixing up a different combo of gear.

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. On the T6 version I really don't recommend ever dropping the BK weapons, they're just amazing for speed clears.


For the shoulders you can really take anything, I recommend profane pauldrons when you're using reaper's wraps.


For the bracers,


Either go nemesis ( for more elites, take this option if you have real sick gear and basically one shot elites, when you're still low gear, elite packs die too slow to really bother running nemesis )


Or go warzechian if you want to move even faster.


Or go reaper's wraps if you're lacking damage/toughness, this allows you to swap the fury generation passive and fury generation call of the ancients to either a defensive or offensive version. The reaper's wraps will take care of your fury generation ( Take + max fury in paragon if you use reapers )


I couldn't list whirlwind damage on the gear list : Get it on helm/boots, although you should prioriize 6% crit chance on helm over 15% Whirlwind damage.

Stat priority is the same as every other spec in this game, get high crit chance and crit damage ( and this build benefits from attack speed as well ), when using BK weapons there is NO need for CDR at all, it's a wasted stat, so go whatever in your helm gem, you can even take a topaz for farming T6 or a ruby, even though they both barely do anything in T6, you don't really need life, CDR does nothing, so there's few options left. Or just be lazy and go wiht life anyway so you can facetank molten without caring.

You can easily just go full offensive in T6 and just use the 50% toughness rune on Call of the ancients to make up for going zero toughness, ancients don't really do much damage anyway, and the fury generation from them isn't great on T6 either as the mobs die too fast for them to hit much.

Paragon Priorities

Core

Movement Speed
Primary Stat
Maximum Resource
Vitality

Offense

Critical Hit Chance
Critical Hit Damage
Attack Speed
Cooldown Reduction

Defense

Resist All
Life
Armor
Life Regeneration

Utility

Area Damage
Resource Cost Reduction
Life on Hit
Gold Find

Take Max fury in Core if you're using reapers wraps.

Build Guide

The build combines several sources of movement speed with high damage.


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


Use frenzy every 4 seconds to keep up Focus and Restraint and the movement speed buff, in reality you'll often not be able to hit frenzy as stuff dies to fast, so only hitting frenzy on an elite pack is good as well, the F+R damage will help to kill the elite pack, and the frenzy rune will help you moving on after the elite pack.


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, the rift guardian will still take 5-10 seconds to go down on T6, but the speed/aoe before getting to the RG is worth it.