Is this even an option. At least to farm act 2 with? I have a geared DH to farm act 3 with just curious if i could play a barb that is maybe not one shotable but still have fun dpsing and killing stuff.
Honestly, not really. Not without ridiculously over-gearing everything. Ranged classes can focus dps because they are ranged and play style revolves around not getting hit. Barb would have to have the gear to both deal ridiculous damage AND living through at least a few hits.
If you want stats, for A2, you would want 550+ resists, 6k+ armor (unbuffed), ~40k hp, and then a LOT of dps. That's a sweet weapon you have, and if you have your DH able to farm the gear, you could probably get to that point.
I cleared Act 2 with a 2H barb. The answer is yes, but you definitely have to pour much more gold into your gear than any other class currently. I had at least 10million invested in my gear as I was progressing. For the last bit (Zoltun + Belial) I used a 1350DPS blue 2hander I scooped off the AH for 2.3mil (which was a good price at the time). I killed Belial with like 24k DPS, 550+ RA with shout, and no Life on Hit.
EDIT: I also only had like 5800 armor AFTER shout.
The answer is yes, it's possible, but man it takes a ton of gear. The hardest part of the entire deal was phase 1 Belial because those adds hit sooooo hard. Using Pound of Flesh is a must for that fight. I've done it without but it was exponentially more difficult. I used Pound of Flesh and the two armor passives.
Currently progressing in Act 3 as Dual Wield with 31k DPS, ~1400 Life on Hit, and 3.20 attacks/sec and doing fairly well for myself. Of course by this point I now have at least 45mil invested in my current gear, with another 10mil or so to go.
I just started DPS barb.. as most people already said you need abit more gear then anyone else. Im currently rolling with 50k dps (with DPS shout).
One thing thats important when it comes to wpn, dont look blindly at its DPS... you need high max damage on it also as thats what most of our skills feed on For example.
A wpn with 1100 dps and 1700 max damage is better then a 1300 dps with 1600 max damage (no other stats).
It's not that hard to outgear A2 once your resists are at 1k or maybe a little higher you can just faceroll your way through everything.
@OP: Dps barb is viable it just needs a little more gear (~100 resist ~500-1k armor) then going in with a shield. I enjoy the extra dps but progressing with a shield is a little saver most of the time.
Running at 78k DPS 37k HP 1100 phys resist 900 other res 8k armor w/ enchant/shout. I can clear all acts and all packs it requires alot of kiting and shift + attacking melee mobs out of their range. Infact I actually have started swapping MF into my main set I have 150% I run with now.
Is this even an option. At least to farm act 2 with? I have a geared DH to farm act 3 with just curious if i could play a barb that is maybe not one shotable but still have fun dpsing and killing stuff.
I have it quite easy with my progression gear in act 2, i can even use my 240% MF gear on most elite packs there, that is without the NV stacks.
Thats 2 handed barb with ruthless passive + armor arm passives, but i can drop 1 of those for weapon master, since i have over 9k armor with warcry.
Point being, even 2 handed barb with 2 DPS passives + DPS build can do act 2 quite easy, it will be even easier later this month when the patch hits.
In other words - completely possible. It takes alot more money to get the thing rolling than DH for example, but its also much more safer to play since you can just literally spam everything to death without ever coming close to dying. No one hit KO's because you got distracted by a phone call or something, just kill stuff to death.
In other words - completely possible. It takes alot more money to get the thing rolling than DH for example, but its also much more safer to play since you can just literally spam everything to death without ever coming close to dying. No one hit KO's because you got distracted by a phone call or something, just kill stuff to death.
Well thats what I am looking for. I understand things will be better when they fix the dmg curves across act 2 and 3 anyway. I was just curious if I could at least farm act 2 without kiting for weeks like on my DH. I want to smash some stuff, move out of stuff and not rely entirely on my discipline as health.
You do realize that things like frenzy/cleave work with attackspeed and thus dps? Just things like revenge/earthquake work with weapondamage. You can safely say that a higher dps weapon is better most of the time...
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EDIT: I also only had like 5800 armor AFTER shout.
The answer is yes, it's possible, but man it takes a ton of gear. The hardest part of the entire deal was phase 1 Belial because those adds hit sooooo hard. Using Pound of Flesh is a must for that fight. I've done it without but it was exponentially more difficult. I used Pound of Flesh and the two armor passives.
Currently progressing in Act 3 as Dual Wield with 31k DPS, ~1400 Life on Hit, and 3.20 attacks/sec and doing fairly well for myself. Of course by this point I now have at least 45mil invested in my current gear, with another 10mil or so to go.
One thing thats important when it comes to wpn, dont look blindly at its DPS... you need high max damage on it also as thats what most of our skills feed on For example.
A wpn with 1100 dps and 1700 max damage is better then a 1300 dps with 1600 max damage (no other stats).
This is the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
@OP: Dps barb is viable it just needs a little more gear (~100 resist ~500-1k armor) then going in with a shield. I enjoy the extra dps but progressing with a shield is a little saver most of the time.
I have it quite easy with my progression gear in act 2, i can even use my 240% MF gear on most elite packs there, that is without the NV stacks.
Thats 2 handed barb with ruthless passive + armor arm passives, but i can drop 1 of those for weapon master, since i have over 9k armor with warcry.
Point being, even 2 handed barb with 2 DPS passives + DPS build can do act 2 quite easy, it will be even easier later this month when the patch hits.
Well thats what I am looking for. I understand things will be better when they fix the dmg curves across act 2 and 3 anyway. I was just curious if I could at least farm act 2 without kiting for weeks like on my DH. I want to smash some stuff, move out of stuff and not rely entirely on my discipline as health.
REad what your skills does, then come back ait?
They do % of WPN damage not wpn DPS.
Retards will always be retards.