I'm calling upon you for a little bit of help for a DH build and itemization and synergies for a DH/Barb duo lvl 55 atm.
I am the barb and my girlfriend plays the DH. I know more about barbs than DHs. These are our first characters. I am an experienced gamer who doesn't play quite as much as I use to. She is not very experienced and still dies too much for my liking. I play my barb as a tank to help her as much I can but I am looking for advice for her.
I've been trying to convince her forever to use Smoke Screen but she is very reluctant to change anything in her build. She relies too much on Vaults for survival and can't fathom taking it out of her build!
Specifically, I'm looking to change perhaps some of her damage abilities and maybe some passives. I seek to increase her survivability while maintaining synergies with my barb. I have excellent control and can take a lot of damage but she still takes a beating in some situations. For her, I try to prioritize Vitality >= Dexterity > %Dmg to life.
When I was leveling, I loved vault. I used it as my primary escape skill even though I had smoke screen in my build. I always thought I was dying due to lag, but then I saw a post by Blizzard specifically stating that they designed the game so you can't dodge attacks. You're suposed to mitigate them. If your girlfriend is vaulting away from a blow, only to die on exit, then she vaulted too late regardless of how soon it looked like she vaulted. There is no way to dodge some attacks once the attacking monster has reached a certain point in its attack animation.
While demon hunter is my favorite, I can't help but laugh at how moronic it is to build a class who's defense mechanisms are designed at dodging attacks in a game where you're not allowed to dodge attacks.
I set that in bold because its so ironic, I laugh every time I think about it. My solution to the problem was to switch vault and smoke screen in my build, therefore my muscle memory would trigger smoke screen in place of vault, and I could still use vault to get around outside of fights. In your girlfriend's case, I would recommend swapping vault out for smoke screen, at least for a while. Additionally, if she isn't too attached to Impale, she could put vault there, but I would definitely put smoke screen where vault is regardless. If she isn't lacking too much on DPS, I would switch Cull of the Weak out for Tactical Advantage. This way when she triggers smoke screen, she can still get a fast escape.
As far as your end of the deal goes, I think your build is pretty solid as long as you're trying to help by triggering ground stomp at the right times. You could also try Threatening Shout with Demoralize, it has a slightly larger radius of effect. It's been a while since I played my barb, and I can't remember which skill I favored, I usually used whatever my ranged friends preferred at the time.
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I am the barb and my girlfriend plays the DH. I know more about barbs than DHs. These are our first characters. I am an experienced gamer who doesn't play quite as much as I use to. She is not very experienced and still dies too much for my liking. I play my barb as a tank to help her as much I can but I am looking for advice for her.
Our builds:
My girlfriend the DH: http://eu.battle.net...YdVZ!Yce!aZZbbZ
Me the barb:http://eu.battle.net...SVkY!cVb!ZZZcbZ
I've been trying to convince her forever to use Smoke Screen but she is very reluctant to change anything in her build. She relies too much on Vaults for survival and can't fathom taking it out of her build!
Specifically, I'm looking to change perhaps some of her damage abilities and maybe some passives. I seek to increase her survivability while maintaining synergies with my barb. I have excellent control and can take a lot of damage but she still takes a beating in some situations. For her, I try to prioritize Vitality >= Dexterity > %Dmg to life.
What would you do different in our situation?
While demon hunter is my favorite, I can't help but laugh at how moronic it is to build a class who's defense mechanisms are designed at dodging attacks in a game where you're not allowed to dodge attacks.
I set that in bold because its so ironic, I laugh every time I think about it. My solution to the problem was to switch vault and smoke screen in my build, therefore my muscle memory would trigger smoke screen in place of vault, and I could still use vault to get around outside of fights. In your girlfriend's case, I would recommend swapping vault out for smoke screen, at least for a while. Additionally, if she isn't too attached to Impale, she could put vault there, but I would definitely put smoke screen where vault is regardless. If she isn't lacking too much on DPS, I would switch Cull of the Weak out for Tactical Advantage. This way when she triggers smoke screen, she can still get a fast escape.
As far as your end of the deal goes, I think your build is pretty solid as long as you're trying to help by triggering ground stomp at the right times. You could also try Threatening Shout with Demoralize, it has a slightly larger radius of effect. It's been a while since I played my barb, and I can't remember which skill I favored, I usually used whatever my ranged friends preferred at the time.