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Kanai's Cube

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  • Fury of the Vanished Peak

  

  Legendary Two-Handed Mighty Weapon

  • 1030 Damage Per Second
  • Secondary Stats
  • • Gain 2500 - 3000 Life per Fury Spent
    • Reduces the Fury cost of Seismic Slam by 50% and increases its damage by 400 - 500%.
    • One of 2 Magic Properties (varies)
    • +66 - 132 Minimum Damage
    • +88 - 176 Maximum Damage
  • + 3 Random Magic Properties
  Fury of the Vanished Peak
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  • Bracers of Destruction

  

  Legendary Bracers

  • 8 - 10 Armor
  • Primary Stats
  • • Critical Hit Chance Increased by 1%
  • Secondary Stats
  • • Seismic Slam deals 400 - 500% increased damage to the first 5 enemies it hits.
  • + 3 Random Magic Properties
  Bracers of Destruction
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  • Band of Might

  

  Legendary Ring

  • Primary Stats
  • • Critical Hit Chance Increased by 3.5%
  • Secondary Stats
  • • After casting Furious Charge, Ground Stomp, or Leap, take 60 - 80% reduced damage for 8 seconds.
  • + 3 Random Magic Properties
  Band of Might

This is my preferred Barb Build, despite the obviously more powerful HotA. This one is just more fun to play, IMO.

I have messed around with everyone else's builds, including the recommended Icy Veins build, but I could not get the right balance of survivable defense and adequate offense until I came up with this combination. It is slightly weaker than the Focus/Restraint variation, but massively tougher, and because of the slight decrease in strength, it requires a little more attention to the Oculus Ring (on follower) which makes it more fun to play.

Everyone seems to favor the APD wrists, but I don't like the dependence on both distance and the 3 second time window, it just wasn't enough for me to warrant wearing them. Your choice of bracer depends on whichever has better stats on it, Strongarm or the Bracers of Destruction, and cube the other. With that combination, we can offset the lacking damage from dropping the Bastions of Will rings, and the bonus from the Strongarm Bracers is a guarantee. Seismic slam always procs the bracers, as well as Leap's Toppling Impact and Call of Arreat runes, so the damage bonus is a guaranteed 30% damage increase.

I ditched the Focus/Restraint combination to give me the use of Band of Might's massive damage mitigation. With the former, I had to have RorG in the cube (to wear the Lut Socks) and was unable to take advantage of either the Band of Might or CoE. With this setup, I can have both, and when the Fire rotation comes up, I melt everything. Choose your rings based on best stats, for me, I don't have a good BoM yet with anything over 64%, so I want the most out of that and therefore cube it.

I use my Hellfire Amulet, which has Ruthless on it, so I have the freedom of having a 5th passive. I personally prefer the usefulness of Nerves of Steel, but you can select whatever one you feel suits your play style. But having the 5th passive is a huge boost and well worth wearing the Hellfire Amulet.

I am waiting on a decent Fury of the Vanished Peak to test out how well that might work. I want to because the Life per Fury spent on that weapon is almost double that of the Blade of the Tribes, but currently I haven't had a good enough one to make it worth testing.

I put +% Seismic Slam on everything that can have it, then +% Earthquake Damage on those that don't have Seismic Slam as an option, although it isn't the majority of the damage here. More damage is more damage.

With this setup, damage mitigation is more than adequate, although if you wanted to be a crazy tank, you could use the String of Ears and just take a beating. But I found that without the Girdle, it was taking a little too long to put stuff down and I had more than enough defense. I have a horrible MOTE set, not a single ancient yet, no augments, and I am farming 75s in 6 minutes and 80s without any death. I haven't pushed it yet because I was busy making my selections for the build itself, but this combination of skills and gear is the right amount of badass without being too glassy.

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