Hey everyone, my barb is about to ding 60 on HC. I want to have a similar playstyle to my SC barb, but with a bit more survivability. My question to you is what skill set I should use? I dont know what i should sacrifice to ensure i stay alive. My gearing of course needs to be different, and I pretty much know what to do there. Also, it should be noted, I have no desire to uber gear a HC character. I am just doing this for the achievements and to say I did it, nothing else.
The thing is I really want to use revenge and I have no idea what to use as my primary attack(fury generator). Do i really need revenge? My dps will be low, so i wont use LS, instead I will be using LoH. With such a large health pool, should I be using revenge as my main source of life gain, or will 800-1500 LoH be enough? Again I will most likely never leave MP0, so I am probably worrying about nothing, I just dont want to waste my 20-30 hours I spent leveling. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance!
Rend with bloodlust is an amazing tool for sustaining. Less spammy than revenge and it heals over time. Try it out and see if it fits your playstyle. It may be less effective if you have really low damage.
actually I use rend-bloodlust instead of sprint on ubers and MP7+. I love it. LOVE it. I just dont think it will work with the HC build im thinking of. Im gearing towards 60k+ health and only like 20k dps. my MH weapon will most likely be in the 700-800 dps range. I just dont think rend will be healing me for as much as revenge will be, or am I wrong?
actually I use rend-bloodlust instead of sprint on ubers and MP7+. I love it. LOVE it. I just dont think it will work with the HC build im thinking of. Im gearing towards 60k+ health and only like 20k dps. my MH weapon will most likely be in the 700-800 dps range. I just dont think rend will be healing me for as much as revenge will be, or am I wrong?
I have a HC barb, started as self-found until i got a crap mempo(it sells for hundred mill easily in HC) then i regeared. my HC barb is my 4th barb attempt.
Btag: apocalypsek#1789
So anyway, with 20 k dps, you can throw rend out of the window, unless your mitigation is high enough such that the HoTs coming in from rend bloodlust > than the net damage you are taking.
In this case, as the above posters suggest. Rend-bloodlust is an amazing skill in HC, with that said, don't glimp yourself too much on surv and have low dps, it can really hurt you. try to hit at least 50 k dps so you can kill at a decent pace and yet maintain good surv from rend.
Sometimes, having more dps and hence a stronger rend-bloodlust ===> more surv, think of it this way
With that being said, guage what is your overall hp pool. if you have > 60 k hp and <20 k dps, go inspiring presence. If you can craft a few pieces of BoA gear, it'll raise your dps very significantly.
Or if you got some excess SC gold, transfer it over to buy some HC gold from B.net, get a crap skorn, and u can go rend-bloodlust + bloodthirst and a decent LS belt and you are all set to destroy mp0 until u get some decent crafts.
I farm mp3-4 on my barb in HC.
Second EDIT: don't use revenge. it sucks. There will come a time, RNG will be bad and you need a revenge proc so bad but it doesn't happen. Don't rely on it. It sucks really.
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Here is a link to my SC barb skills:
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/barbarian#ahZURP!ZdY!bZZZYc
Here is what I am thinking of doing for my HC barb:
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/barbarian#WhZkRP!VbY!YZZcYZ
The thing is I really want to use revenge and I have no idea what to use as my primary attack(fury generator). Do i really need revenge? My dps will be low, so i wont use LS, instead I will be using LoH. With such a large health pool, should I be using revenge as my main source of life gain, or will 800-1500 LoH be enough? Again I will most likely never leave MP0, so I am probably worrying about nothing, I just dont want to waste my 20-30 hours I spent leveling. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance!
I have a HC barb, started as self-found until i got a crap mempo(it sells for hundred mill easily in HC) then i regeared. my HC barb is my 4th barb attempt.
Btag: apocalypsek#1789
So anyway, with 20 k dps, you can throw rend out of the window, unless your mitigation is high enough such that the HoTs coming in from rend bloodlust > than the net damage you are taking.
In this case, as the above posters suggest. Rend-bloodlust is an amazing skill in HC, with that said, don't glimp yourself too much on surv and have low dps, it can really hurt you. try to hit at least 50 k dps so you can kill at a decent pace and yet maintain good surv from rend.
Sometimes, having more dps and hence a stronger rend-bloodlust ===> more surv, think of it this way
With that being said, guage what is your overall hp pool. if you have > 60 k hp and <20 k dps, go inspiring presence. If you can craft a few pieces of BoA gear, it'll raise your dps very significantly.
Or if you got some excess SC gold, transfer it over to buy some HC gold from B.net, get a crap skorn, and u can go rend-bloodlust + bloodthirst and a decent LS belt and you are all set to destroy mp0 until u get some decent crafts.
I farm mp3-4 on my barb in HC.
Second EDIT: don't use revenge. it sucks. There will come a time, RNG will be bad and you need a revenge proc so bad but it doesn't happen. Don't rely on it. It sucks really.
EDIT: grammar