Last night I tried to work on my solo progression and I made it up to 48.
Damage was not a problem at all. My issue was clearly toughness, even though I was pushing 85-95 mil. I feel like I'm totally gated at this point without double Unity but I have yet to find one. Ive had to sped almost all my shards on finding a boulder breaker so I just recently started rolling for rings.
Should I just hold off on solo until I get lucky enough to have 2 Unities or is it possible to hit the leader-boards (50+) without them?
This is my profile. I was running white gems for awhile too to see if that helped, which it certainly did but not enough to consistently keep me alive.
You could use the Esoteric Alteration gem leveled up and that'll give you a good boost in damage reduction.
I dont know about the unforgiving passive, you get alot of fury back just from your ancients attacking, you dont need to generate it. Nerves of Steel would be good to give you that extra life.
I've found 11 normal Boulder Breakers and not a single ancient one and highest i've done is lvl46. I use Taeguk, Bane of Trapped and Esoteric
I don't know why I don't see alot of people do this but you don't really need unity for barb.
The build I use is Bulkathos double blade set + WW6 no IK. Go max CDR, get Cassius pride with 6 sec cooldown and Gogok (level25), Whirlwind blood funnel. It should give you infinite Ignorance is Bliss. (You can add Ground stump Wrenching smash + APD but that would be an over kill)
OR
Same item as previous except go max attack speed (0 CDR), eye of Etlich, String of ears, Over power - Crushing advance, Esoteric alteration, and whirlwind blood funnel. With this build I recommend getting some Life per fury from belt and weapons if you feel like blood funnel is not enough when fighting against 1 opponent.
For both build use Focus and Restraint to boost DPS which mean you will need either primary skill or Furious charge ( recommended) Also for both build you don't have to worry about not enough fury since bulkathos double blade set + Furious charge is more than enough for generating fury.
Anyways I have completed Grift 52 with the first build and I've seen people go up to Grift 55 with both.
If you really want to combine IK with WW I suggest changing unforgiving with weapons master, Insanity with striding giant, and sprint with blood shed.
around 48/49 is possible without unity, even without EA or string of ears, i did a couple today with 6ww 2bk fnr and chinlakis, on the other hand my whole gear is ancient, so maybe dont expect the same results with non ancient gear.
I play with wrath of the waste set and bul-kathos weapons. I have double unity but I don't need them, I use Ignore Pain - Ignorance is bliss. I run this in conjunction with an "Obsidian ring of Zodiac" and CDR on my shoulders, diamond in helm and 10% from paragon points. With a levelled goguk gem I achieve permanent ignore pain and near permanent zerker (maybe 10 sec downtime between each zerker). - You want around 47% CDR, I achieve this by having roughly 32% from gear and paragon points, and then goguk fills in the other 15%.
So far I've cleared a 51, I'm pretty sure I can go quite higher (but I've yet to try it) and my biggest draw back is damage. I don't really have survivability issues. The healing rune on ignore pain is in my opinion far superior to double unity. It's 50% damage reduction with insane healing, i rarely find my hp drop unless it's extremely hard hitting monsters or bad elite affixes.
Last night I tried to work on my solo progression and I made it up to 48.
Damage was not a problem at all. My issue was clearly toughness, even though I was pushing 85-95 mil. I feel like I'm totally gated at this point without double Unity but I have yet to find one. Ive had to sped almost all my shards on finding a boulder breaker so I just recently started rolling for rings.
Should I just hold off on solo until I get lucky enough to have 2 Unities or is it possible to hit the leader-boards (50+) without them?
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Smokestone-1868/hero/61150813
This is my profile. I was running white gems for awhile too to see if that helped, which it certainly did but not enough to consistently keep me alive.
You could use the Esoteric Alteration gem leveled up and that'll give you a good boost in damage reduction.
I dont know about the unforgiving passive, you get alot of fury back just from your ancients attacking, you dont need to generate it. Nerves of Steel would be good to give you that extra life.
I've found 11 normal Boulder Breakers and not a single ancient one and highest i've done is lvl46. I use Taeguk, Bane of Trapped and Esoteric
Yeah, I didn't realize that i logged out in my speed farm gear. I was running Nerves of steel, Ruthless, Rampage and Superstition.
Ill try the 50% dmg reduction rune tonight and see if that helps out or if its too much of a trade off.
Thanks for the help!
I don't know why I don't see alot of people do this but you don't really need unity for barb.
The build I use is Bulkathos double blade set + WW6 no IK. Go max CDR, get Cassius pride with 6 sec cooldown and Gogok (level25), Whirlwind blood funnel. It should give you infinite Ignorance is Bliss. (You can add Ground stump Wrenching smash + APD but that would be an over kill)
OR
Same item as previous except go max attack speed (0 CDR), eye of Etlich, String of ears, Over power - Crushing advance, Esoteric alteration, and whirlwind blood funnel. With this build I recommend getting some Life per fury from belt and weapons if you feel like blood funnel is not enough when fighting against 1 opponent.
For both build use Focus and Restraint to boost DPS which mean you will need either primary skill or Furious charge ( recommended) Also for both build you don't have to worry about not enough fury since bulkathos double blade set + Furious charge is more than enough for generating fury.
Anyways I have completed Grift 52 with the first build and I've seen people go up to Grift 55 with both.
If you really want to combine IK with WW I suggest changing unforgiving with weapons master, Insanity with striding giant, and sprint with blood shed.
51 without unity or ear belt.
I've done 47 on season without unity but I only cleared it with 12 seconds left. Got Stonesinger. 49 with unity though.. so I'm pretty bad
around 48/49 is possible without unity, even without EA or string of ears, i did a couple today with 6ww 2bk fnr and chinlakis, on the other hand my whole gear is ancient, so maybe dont expect the same results with non ancient gear.
I play with wrath of the waste set and bul-kathos weapons. I have double unity but I don't need them, I use Ignore Pain - Ignorance is bliss. I run this in conjunction with an "Obsidian ring of Zodiac" and CDR on my shoulders, diamond in helm and 10% from paragon points. With a levelled goguk gem I achieve permanent ignore pain and near permanent zerker (maybe 10 sec downtime between each zerker). - You want around 47% CDR, I achieve this by having roughly 32% from gear and paragon points, and then goguk fills in the other 15%.
So far I've cleared a 51, I'm pretty sure I can go quite higher (but I've yet to try it) and my biggest draw back is damage. I don't really have survivability issues. The healing rune on ignore pain is in my opinion far superior to double unity. It's 50% damage reduction with insane healing, i rarely find my hp drop unless it's extremely hard hitting monsters or bad elite affixes.
My character profile is: http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/ryushoken-2421/hero/58508190 if you want to check it for reference