Your stats are fine, except for one glaring mistake. You have no Life on Hit and/or Lifesteal.
You need some type of staying power in fights, and from your latest screenshot, you're most likely relying on revenge/potion/health globes. My barb has ~500 resists with shout up, 8500 dps, 9k armor and 55k HP, 20% block @ 2700-3800 value, and ~900 LoH. I can tank and spank most champ/elite packs except firechains and invul minions. I still do die on some packs picking off 1-2 mobs with WotF, but I understand my current gear is not optimal.
Frenzy with maniac rune: why sidearm if I have rend/revenge. Also it's increase the damage of rend so it will heal you for more.
Rend with bloodlust rune: soooooooo overpower, you guys have to try it out. I rarely go out of fury so rend is almost 100% active on enemies, just love to take packs and packs of monsters with this. With revenge procs this heal is amazing.
Leap/furious charge: a must. so much mobility and survival with those guys. just take it and try to master it uses.
Just wanted to say I've been following this thread because I'm in the same boat. Not sure how far you got in act 2 solo, but I was able to get up to where you have to get kule's blood and the other part of him. I'm actually only at about 500 res all, but my block rate is alot higher than yours. I'm using a Stalwart dreadshield of interception which is 1033 def 26% block rate with block amount 2794-3704 and all it has is 14% life. That plus helm of command gives me a woppin 34% block rate. Saves my arse lol.
In terms of res, these guys are right. I have a monk friend who walks around with 1k res in act 1, and he still dies to elites once and a whlie. As I read on here:
Which someone mentioned earlier, defense is a must. Though you still got about 1k more defense than me. Honestly at this point I'm thinking the only way to survive is to have insane hp. I seen a guy walking around with 60k hp, and still pulls off decent dps and high res. He makes it look like a walk in the park lol.
I've tried pretty much very combo I can think of in regards to builds, but in the end I stick with the same:
The only diff is I switch out berserk for brawler, but I'm currently still doing jailer/butcher runs. I did try out ignore pain again, which I do love...but then I get in bad bad trouble with elites. Seems like having 2 skills to get out of danger saves my arse alot.
I tried rend but honestly it didn't do crap for me. I keep hearing either that its good, or that it bugged. I'll have to check it out again.
I'd post a screenie of my character too, but I'm on my other computer to post lol. Probably not better than what you have by any means. I can tell you i got 30k hp 500 res all, 7.6k def buffed and about 12k dps. I really need to get my vit and str to an even 1k, but hard to find gear like you stated. I'm thinking about trying to get a string of ears for the DR %, and see how that helps out.
What really blows my mind is my weapon has 400 life on hit, and its still not enough to survive sometimes lol. I just started messing around with act 2 today, so I'll see what I can figure out. For sure the enemies hp is not the problem, its the crazy elemental dmg. It spikes so high compared to act 1, and I took quite fast notice of it. Wasps poison is just insane, and as is any elite shooting lasers out its arse. I take less dmg from the elite blocking the path to magda (gold mallet demon) then a cultist shooting a fireball lol.
So i'm guessing to get more LoH, gotta find rings and ammy to stack with weapon, which is already socketed with amy. Anyone know a safe LoH # for act 2+?
Just wanted to thank all you guys, cause I wouldn't have gotten as far as I did without reading all this. Now I just need to win the lottery (in game joke of course) and buy a stormshield lol.
Just wanted to say I've been following this thread because I'm in the same boat. Not sure how far you got in act 2 solo, but I was able to get up to where you have to get kule's blood and the other part of him.
- My last attempt to run Act II failed: I tried a run with a DH friend but we couldn't reach Maghda. Last night I only ran Act I again to farm more gold and maybe get some upgrades - but, of course, didn't drop anything good for me =/ (I have the amazing luck to get STR/INT in all gears, Bow, Monk Helm, Wizard Hats, Staves etc).
I'd post a screenie of my character too, but I'm on my other computer to post lol. Probably not better than what you have by any means. I can tell you i got 30k hp 500 res all, 7.6k def buffed and about 12k dps. I really need to get my vit and str to an even 1k, but hard to find gear like you stated. I'm thinking about trying to get a string of ears for the DR %, and see how that helps out.
- 12k DPS? Nice. I'm trying to keep my health high (40k+) while I try to buy gear with more Str but still hard to find pieces that I can afford =/
What really blows my mind is my weapon has 400 life on hit, and its still not enough to survive sometimes lol.
- Nice! Do you know the DPS value of your weapon and how much you paid for it?
I bought my dagger by mistake (missclick sucks) but at least it's not that bad (I had to buy the Gem with LoH, but it's only 105), i think i paid around 130-200k, not sure + 40-50k gem (OUCH) =/
Just wanted to thank all you guys, cause I wouldn't have gotten as far as I did without reading all this. Now I just need to win the lottery (in game joke of course) and buy a stormshield lol.
First off once again thanks to everyone here, I was able to beat belial 3 man! Got as far as the catapults in act 3, before I had to stop lol. Like everyone has stated before both resistances, and defense are important. I didn't realize this until I noticed just how good leap with the rune that boosts your defense by 300% was. I still can die in act 2 if I'm not careful, but long as I have the right skill set its pretty hard for me to go down.
Venom, I actually have a 703 dps dagger with a star amethyst for 300 life on hit. I'm being told that to survive act 3, you need about 1k life on hit. So i'm going to try and find something to fit that. The reason I went dagger, is in order to get my resistances up, I had to drop my attack speed gear. So with life on hit you still need a decent attack speed to build up with fury, in order to survive.
From my own experience in game, and from what people said above. Block rate doesn't seem to mean jack lol. I lowered my block rate alot, because I found a shield with 80 vit, and 65 res all. It had a good block amount 2.7-3.5k or so. All I noticed when I had the same helm as venom aka helm of command, and a 27% block rate shield is that I blocked more. Did it lower the amount of damage I seemed to take any differently? No. In fact several times I blocked a power attack from say a berserker, and I would still get 1 shoted (at least until I upped my gear). I'm sure block has an advantage only when you have extremely high res, defense, and damage reduction gear..then i'm guessing it probably shines aka stormshield ;p
One thing I did do in the belial fight is when berserk was up, I threw on a 2 hander. Once it wore off I switched back to sword/board. Hardest thing about that fight was for us to get the dodging explosion down lol. Now to figure out how to survive in act 3 >.<.
Oh, and I tried to find a blue 9XX dps weapon...guess there hard to find these days lol. Well back to farming goblins ;p
A friend of mine sent me a String of Ears and now i'm not sure what belt to use... (I think i'm going to stick with SoE, so I can get the meele resistance).
16% reduced melee damage is huge, that's why SoE is a good belt, and you have STR/VIT on it (though of course you lose some compared to your old belt.)
Looking at your latest gear post i would suggest upgrading your weapon as a priroity.
If you can grab a 800dps sword with a socket your dps will skyrocket. It should cost <1mil.
Other than that the gear looks reasonable for act 2.
Last night I got a new weapon with 700+ DPS (I don't remember the exact value right now) plus 400+ LoH and >90 Vit/Str, my DPS increased (around 11k DPS when i have 5 stacks of Frenzy+100% Fury) and now I have around 750+ LoH but I still couldn't do Inferno Act II! ahahhahahahha
I think I'm just a bad player (which is weird since I play games since forever but... happens, right?) so I'm going to farm Act I, get more gold, wait for the Nerf Patch and then I can have fun again.
I for example plow through act 2 with 24k dps, 0 loh, 0% life leech but 10k armor, 56k hp, 23% sacred and ~900 resists. Those health globes every now and then are enough to keep me up while playing with the cookie cutter defensive build (charge, leap, ignore pain).
Just wondering, how can you get 24k DPS, 10k Armor, 56k HP and 900 resists with Act II Gear + AH? How much did you spent in your Barb? I believe you already finished the game, farmed Act IV and now have this stats, right?
Right now I noticed it's impossible to buy better gear costing less than 800k each piece (with good stats + All Resists).
Anyway, I can post my stats/gear/build but I'm not sure what I can improve without buying gold or playing endless Act I runs (or using the RMAH :ouch:) - Once again, I think I just can't understand how this Inferno difficult works eheheh (or maybe I'm really unluck with RNG w/ Drops and Elites Spawns).
After the 1.0.3 Nerf I could run much better in Act II. I couldn't rush into elites and loot the goodies but I was able to kill all of them (ok, few packs I died a lot, but I'm not a very good player).
The trouble I have now is BELIAL.
After 3 minutes (usually 25% health) he starts to Summon-Without-Stop-Meteors and no matter how good I am to dodge (latency >= 250ms -:sigh: Brazil- that stuff I die.
Anyway, anybody else is having trouble to kill Belial with this "soft" (yeah right, "soft" is when the boss does more 25% damage) enrage? Is it a Bug? (the patch notes says he will spawn MORE and not Constantly ehhee)
Thanks a lot folks.
V.
PS: I was able to kill 2 elite packs at same time but only because they had really "easy" affix.
in short - your dps is not high enough - swap out superstition for beserker rage (make sure ur resists are above 900 before doing so)
if its still too low and assuming u have a 900+ dps weapon get more crit chance (even attack speed if you got none already) on gloves , rings, ammy , other pieces can to if you get lucky on ah can give a decent dps boost
Right now, i am raping thru A2 with 400 resist all, 5k armor and 36k DPS with a 2 hander. Use the earthquake + WotB + Ignore pain (bliss) build with frenzy (sidearm). To be able to do A3 more comfortable i'll need to push up my resists to about 550ish.
Honestly, i do not understand WHY do you want to play a shield defense stacking barb. Since 1.0.3 there really is no point in doing that anymore. With this build and gear i rush into a pack of champs, drop earthquake with WotB and ignore pain, by the time ignore pain wears off i'm already looting their corpses. No, i do not bother reading their affixes, because i don't care what they are anymore, they ALL die in 3-4 seconds flat.
Look, this game is about chances. Lets say you have a 1% chance of finding a good item, even in A1 right now. If you kill 10 packs of champs, your chance of getting anything is..... 0.1% If you kill 100 packs of champs your chance is 1%. etc. If you want to get good items, maximize the amount of chances you get, you can only do that by killing fast and moving on. If you're in defensive build with 1k resist, 10k armor and 10k dps; compared to my 400 resist 5k armor and 30k dps, i will outfarm you any day at the rate of about 10 to 1. At the end of the day you will whine about not moving fast enough.
Well, you're not moving fast enough BECAUSE of YOUR own CHOICE. Game changes, gear changes, you find good deals, you get something good. Change your build, style, etc according to that. You cannot just sit there with a mindset predetermined to go with that build and only that build and nothing else. You will end up spending months finding perfect gear for that build. Use what you have right now and maximize the potential of that with the way you use it.
Also, as you should be aware right now - if you cannot, quite literally, rape stuff right now in A3, go back to A2 and do speed quick runs. You can get ilvl 63 there, even in A1. Do not be shy to take a step back where you feel comfortable and you know you can maximize your loot chances by having massive amounts of yellows. I can do A3, decently well, however i do die there a fair bit, i have to wait for more CDs, after 1 hour in A3 i get 14 yellows. After 1 hour in A2 i get 35 yellows. Do your math based on that. Why on earth would i want to go in and squeeze my balls in A3 when i can comfortably outfarm in A2?
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shield provides mf % and in average gear now allows you to chain pull elite packs - never quote u can outfarm someone 10 to 1 just cause you can melt packs in seconds - best gear sometimes never drops off elites
shield provides mf % and in average gear now allows you to chain pull elite packs - never quote u can outfarm someone 10 to 1 just cause you can melt packs in seconds - best gear sometimes never drops off elites
Dude, for example:
rare drop chance = 2% maximum MF on the shield = 20%, that means your benefit of the 20% MF shield is going to give you a 2.2% chance of getting a rare. The rare drop rates for normal mobs (forget about chests now completely) is even lower, 1% or less.
Please do some math on the MF benefit from the shield vs benefit of killing a very minimum 2 times more mobs. Put it this way, if you kill twice as many mobs as someone else does it actually pretty much equates to 100% MF simply because you double the chances. With a 2 hander i'm not talking about doubling, it's realistically more of 5-10 times more mobs and champions killed. So unless your shield can provide you about 500%ish MF then you will get a comparable result.
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back to topic though: venom just get your hp high enough so u can literally take more hits !!!!!
Solo farming, using enchantress geared with pure MF gear, my own gear has about 35% MF only, she has 2x MF rings + MF weapon + MF amulet all near top end in terms of MF. Even though i think only 1/3rd of her MF counts to me, her best possible 2k DPS is not missed at all considering the fact she's dead half the time anyway, MF benefit stays even when she's dead though as far as i can see
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less than 1/3 apparently - that being said when i run solo my enchantress is around 6k dps after the ias nerf on gear she was almost able to kill goblins in a1 pre-patch herself
You need some type of staying power in fights, and from your latest screenshot, you're most likely relying on revenge/potion/health globes. My barb has ~500 resists with shout up, 8500 dps, 9k armor and 55k HP, 20% block @ 2700-3800 value, and ~900 LoH. I can tank and spank most champ/elite packs except firechains and invul minions. I still do die on some packs picking off 1-2 mobs with WotF, but I understand my current gear is not optimal.
Some points:
Frenzy with maniac rune: why sidearm if I have rend/revenge. Also it's increase the damage of rend so it will heal you for more.
Rend with bloodlust rune: soooooooo overpower, you guys have to try it out. I rarely go out of fury so rend is almost 100% active on enemies, just love to take packs and packs of monsters with this. With revenge procs this heal is amazing.
Leap/furious charge: a must. so much mobility and survival with those guys. just take it and try to master it uses.
My stats:
8779 damage
900 resist all
8888 armor
21% block
630 Life on Hit
48k HP
1,1k str and vitality.
helm with star gem and 2 items with 5% hp
OBS: Rend guys, REND!
http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/6682/venomwebbarbgear15jun.png
And my build is:
http://us.battle.net...XkVP!bVc!ccaccY
I'm pretty much farming act I w/o any trouble at all - so, I still need to figure out how I can handle Act II w/o issues.
I marked with a Red Square the gear I want to replace, but right now I couldn't find any REAL upgrade costing less than 1k D:
Any ideas?
PS: I didn't find *any* gear with LIFE ON HIT and good stats (Vit/Str) in the AH =/
Just wanted to say I've been following this thread because I'm in the same boat. Not sure how far you got in act 2 solo, but I was able to get up to where you have to get kule's blood and the other part of him. I'm actually only at about 500 res all, but my block rate is alot higher than yours. I'm using a Stalwart dreadshield of interception which is 1033 def 26% block rate with block amount 2794-3704 and all it has is 14% life. That plus helm of command gives me a woppin 34% block rate. Saves my arse lol.
In terms of res, these guys are right. I have a monk friend who walks around with 1k res in act 1, and he still dies to elites once and a whlie. As I read on here:
http://us.battle.net...opic/5149150485
Which someone mentioned earlier, defense is a must. Though you still got about 1k more defense than me. Honestly at this point I'm thinking the only way to survive is to have insane hp. I seen a guy walking around with 60k hp, and still pulls off decent dps and high res. He makes it look like a walk in the park lol.
I've tried pretty much very combo I can think of in regards to builds, but in the end I stick with the same:
http://us.battle.net...SXkP!Vbc!accacZ
The only diff is I switch out berserk for brawler, but I'm currently still doing jailer/butcher runs. I did try out ignore pain again, which I do love...but then I get in bad bad trouble with elites. Seems like having 2 skills to get out of danger saves my arse alot.
I tried rend but honestly it didn't do crap for me. I keep hearing either that its good, or that it bugged. I'll have to check it out again.
I'd post a screenie of my character too, but I'm on my other computer to post lol. Probably not better than what you have by any means. I can tell you i got 30k hp 500 res all, 7.6k def buffed and about 12k dps. I really need to get my vit and str to an even 1k, but hard to find gear like you stated. I'm thinking about trying to get a string of ears for the DR %, and see how that helps out.
What really blows my mind is my weapon has 400 life on hit, and its still not enough to survive sometimes lol. I just started messing around with act 2 today, so I'll see what I can figure out. For sure the enemies hp is not the problem, its the crazy elemental dmg. It spikes so high compared to act 1, and I took quite fast notice of it. Wasps poison is just insane, and as is any elite shooting lasers out its arse. I take less dmg from the elite blocking the path to magda (gold mallet demon) then a cultist shooting a fireball lol.
So i'm guessing to get more LoH, gotta find rings and ammy to stack with weapon, which is already socketed with amy. Anyone know a safe LoH # for act 2+?
Just wanted to thank all you guys, cause I wouldn't have gotten as far as I did without reading all this. Now I just need to win the lottery (in game joke of course) and buy a stormshield lol.
- My last attempt to run Act II failed: I tried a run with a DH friend but we couldn't reach Maghda. Last night I only ran Act I again to farm more gold and maybe get some upgrades - but, of course, didn't drop anything good for me =/ (I have the amazing luck to get STR/INT in all gears, Bow, Monk Helm, Wizard Hats, Staves etc).
- 12k DPS? Nice. I'm trying to keep my health high (40k+) while I try to buy gear with more Str but still hard to find pieces that I can afford =/
- Nice! Do you know the DPS value of your weapon and how much you paid for it?
I bought my dagger by mistake (missclick sucks) but at least it's not that bad (I had to buy the Gem with LoH, but it's only 105), i think i paid around 130-200k, not sure + 40-50k gem (OUCH) =/
- Same here!!! ahahahhaha
Thanks a lot!
V.
First off once again thanks to everyone here, I was able to beat belial 3 man! Got as far as the catapults in act 3, before I had to stop lol. Like everyone has stated before both resistances, and defense are important. I didn't realize this until I noticed just how good leap with the rune that boosts your defense by 300% was. I still can die in act 2 if I'm not careful, but long as I have the right skill set its pretty hard for me to go down.
Venom, I actually have a 703 dps dagger with a star amethyst for 300 life on hit. I'm being told that to survive act 3, you need about 1k life on hit. So i'm going to try and find something to fit that. The reason I went dagger, is in order to get my resistances up, I had to drop my attack speed gear. So with life on hit you still need a decent attack speed to build up with fury, in order to survive.
From my own experience in game, and from what people said above. Block rate doesn't seem to mean jack lol. I lowered my block rate alot, because I found a shield with 80 vit, and 65 res all. It had a good block amount 2.7-3.5k or so. All I noticed when I had the same helm as venom aka helm of command, and a 27% block rate shield is that I blocked more. Did it lower the amount of damage I seemed to take any differently? No. In fact several times I blocked a power attack from say a berserker, and I would still get 1 shoted (at least until I upped my gear). I'm sure block has an advantage only when you have extremely high res, defense, and damage reduction gear..then i'm guessing it probably shines aka stormshield ;p
One thing I did do in the belial fight is when berserk was up, I threw on a 2 hander. Once it wore off I switched back to sword/board. Hardest thing about that fight was for us to get the dodging explosion down lol. Now to figure out how to survive in act 3 >.<.
Oh, and I tried to find a blue 9XX dps weapon...guess there hard to find these days lol. Well back to farming goblins ;p
A friend of mine sent me a String of Ears and now i'm not sure what belt to use... (I think i'm going to stick with SoE, so I can get the meele resistance).
http://img707.images...enshot013me.jpg
Thoughts?
Last night I got a new weapon with 700+ DPS (I don't remember the exact value right now) plus 400+ LoH and >90 Vit/Str, my DPS increased (around 11k DPS when i have 5 stacks of Frenzy+100% Fury) and now I have around 750+ LoH but I still couldn't do Inferno Act II! ahahhahahahha
I think I'm just a bad player (which is weird since I play games since forever but... happens, right?) so I'm going to farm Act I, get more gold, wait for the Nerf Patch and then I can have fun again.
Anyway, thanks a lot folks!!!
=)
V.
Just wondering, how can you get 24k DPS, 10k Armor, 56k HP and 900 resists with Act II Gear + AH? How much did you spent in your Barb? I believe you already finished the game, farmed Act IV and now have this stats, right?
Right now I noticed it's impossible to buy better gear costing less than 800k each piece (with good stats + All Resists).
Anyway, I can post my stats/gear/build but I'm not sure what I can improve without buying gold or playing endless Act I runs (or using the RMAH :ouch:) - Once again, I think I just can't understand how this Inferno difficult works eheheh (or maybe I'm really unluck with RNG w/ Drops and Elites Spawns).
Thanks again!
V.
The trouble I have now is BELIAL.
After 3 minutes (usually 25% health) he starts to Summon-Without-Stop-Meteors and no matter how good I am to dodge (latency >= 250ms -:sigh: Brazil- that stuff I die.
Anyway, anybody else is having trouble to kill Belial with this "soft" (yeah right, "soft" is when the boss does more 25% damage) enrage? Is it a Bug? (the patch notes says he will spawn MORE and not Constantly ehhee)
Thanks a lot folks.
V.
PS: I was able to kill 2 elite packs at same time but only because they had really "easy" affix.
if its still too low and assuming u have a 900+ dps weapon get more crit chance (even attack speed if you got none already) on gloves , rings, ammy , other pieces can to if you get lucky on ah can give a decent dps boost
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/177527_492480574101237_1204272808_o.jpg
Almost died twice (due his meele hits) but...
Doable with 3mins enrage timer but I don't think it's possible (FOR ME) to farm 5x NV then do Belial
Honestly, i do not understand WHY do you want to play a shield defense stacking barb. Since 1.0.3 there really is no point in doing that anymore. With this build and gear i rush into a pack of champs, drop earthquake with WotB and ignore pain, by the time ignore pain wears off i'm already looting their corpses. No, i do not bother reading their affixes, because i don't care what they are anymore, they ALL die in 3-4 seconds flat.
Look, this game is about chances. Lets say you have a 1% chance of finding a good item, even in A1 right now. If you kill 10 packs of champs, your chance of getting anything is..... 0.1% If you kill 100 packs of champs your chance is 1%. etc. If you want to get good items, maximize the amount of chances you get, you can only do that by killing fast and moving on. If you're in defensive build with 1k resist, 10k armor and 10k dps; compared to my 400 resist 5k armor and 30k dps, i will outfarm you any day at the rate of about 10 to 1. At the end of the day you will whine about not moving fast enough.
Well, you're not moving fast enough BECAUSE of YOUR own CHOICE. Game changes, gear changes, you find good deals, you get something good. Change your build, style, etc according to that. You cannot just sit there with a mindset predetermined to go with that build and only that build and nothing else. You will end up spending months finding perfect gear for that build. Use what you have right now and maximize the potential of that with the way you use it.
Also, as you should be aware right now - if you cannot, quite literally, rape stuff right now in A3, go back to A2 and do speed quick runs. You can get ilvl 63 there, even in A1. Do not be shy to take a step back where you feel comfortable and you know you can maximize your loot chances by having massive amounts of yellows. I can do A3, decently well, however i do die there a fair bit, i have to wait for more CDs, after 1 hour in A3 i get 14 yellows. After 1 hour in A2 i get 35 yellows. Do your math based on that. Why on earth would i want to go in and squeeze my balls in A3 when i can comfortably outfarm in A2?
Dude, for example:
rare drop chance = 2% maximum MF on the shield = 20%, that means your benefit of the 20% MF shield is going to give you a 2.2% chance of getting a rare. The rare drop rates for normal mobs (forget about chests now completely) is even lower, 1% or less.
Please do some math on the MF benefit from the shield vs benefit of killing a very minimum 2 times more mobs. Put it this way, if you kill twice as many mobs as someone else does it actually pretty much equates to 100% MF simply because you double the chances. With a 2 hander i'm not talking about doubling, it's realistically more of 5-10 times more mobs and champions killed. So unless your shield can provide you about 500%ish MF then you will get a comparable result.
back to topic though: venom just get your hp high enough so u can literally take more hits !!!!!
**** 20% mf on shields is also not the highest btw *****
also 40% is not the highest on neckpieces either as alot of people think
Solo farming, using enchantress geared with pure MF gear, my own gear has about 35% MF only, she has 2x MF rings + MF weapon + MF amulet all near top end in terms of MF. Even though i think only 1/3rd of her MF counts to me, her best possible 2k DPS is not missed at all considering the fact she's dead half the time anyway, MF benefit stays even when she's dead though as far as i can see
You have really good resist. semi good health but no armor. i would change superstition to touch as nails and bash to frenzy sidearm.