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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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  • Lut Socks

  

  Legendary Boots

  • 44 - 57 Armor
  • Secondary Stats
  • • Leap can be cast up to three times within 2 seconds before the cooldown begins.
  • + 4 Random Magic Properties
  Lut Socks
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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

I got incredibly lucky and had a Primal set of Istvan's Blades drop, so I have been playing with how to use them as much as possible. I designed this build around them and the Leapquake build, but this has moved away from the "quake" part and towards the Slam, hence the name.

Istvan's Blades - using them means I have moved away from trying to maximize my Earthquake damage since I don't have the Blade of the Tribes anymore. I lose the avalanche and earthquake with each threatening shout, but the rest of the build makes up for the lost damage and then some.

MotE Set.

No more Girdle of Giants on the waist because the boost it gave to Earthquake wasn't as much of a damage boost as using The Witching Hour. I have an exceptional Witching Hour which helps, but if you have a decent Witching Hour it should outperform the stat boost to earthquake anyway.

Bracers of Destruction. I tried wearing the Strongarm Bracers with a different setup but overall it did not perform as consistently to do that and have to wear the RoRG, so the Strongarms had to go.

I usually use Unity but this build is so strong with damage mitigation from the BoM that it is unnecessary. I had been trying to wear CoE with RoRG with a previous setup but it was not as consistent as the Bastions of Will set, leap and Seismic Slam grant permanent damage boosts from the set.

Whatever passive your Hellfire Amulet has, you get a fifth using it. I choose Nerves of Steel, but Bloodthirst is nice too because you use so much Fury so quickly (with the increased AS).

IMPORTANT NOTE: In my opinion, unless a build utilizes getting hit to generate damage (like Holy Shotgun), the followers weapon should always be Eun-jang-do. It is relatively easy to get one with 20% on it, and by the time you get to the end of the Rift Guardian, when they normally do their biggest and most deadly attacks, having them frozen for the vast majority of the final 20% of their life pool is INSANELY helpful. If you haven't been using it, you might have a little laugh when you first equip it because that hardest part of the Guardian fight can end up being the most relaxing. Just make sure you get CDR on it so your Templar can heal you up more quickly.

Paragon Priorities

Isn't everyone over 800 now? This build use so much fury with the speed of Seismic slam and Istvan's blades that you do not have to drop the RCR like in some other Barb builds in order to get the Life per Fury Spent. Interestingly, I have zero Life per Fury and because of the Bloodshed rune and having over 50% crit chance, I have more than enough life recovery. In order for this build to work well, you need high crit to keep your recovery up. Area Damage is also really nice but only after you get your crit chance and damage up. Luckily, using Istvan's blades gives you 2 crit gems in your weapons.