Hey guys, today I show a Lightning Hammer of the Ancients build. It deals a ton of damage, scales incredibly well with density, great single target, good sustain via life per fury spent, and definitely high GR capable. Although I didn't spend too much time grinding with it, I cleared a 55 very easily. I go over the build, gear, gems, rune considerations, and show it in action. Really looking forward to smashing stuff in the next patch! Enjoy & discuss!
Why does everyone take the "ruthless" passive skill? I think it would be only usefull for high tear rift boss fights but besides that meh.
Everything dies fast anyway.
And its funny how people are using all kinds of runes on HoTA skill. Idk which one would suit best
Is life per fury spent only way we can stay full hp? I keep dying. But I rolled fury life spent into % dmg so I got low fury spent only from IK belt and passive but that aint enough to sustain sadly
I kill really fast in T10 but die really fast to trash mobs aswel.
Everyone takes ruthless because it's the best damage passive (always on, always useful). Useful in some cases more than others, but always there. If you 1 shot stuff anyway, there's nothing you could take to '1 shot faster'.
Also when RGs get low they start becoming really annoying - Ruthless ends the fight quick. Same with elites, by the time they get low there are tons of ground effects, etc.
Outside of straight mitigation (some diamonds + Esoteric + Relentless), only good form of sustain for barb is LPFS. If you don't get it on a mighty weapon + belt, you may need to go belt + Bloodthirst because 1 slot (1k LPFS) just isn't enough.
im just wondering if u can make a few videos for barb players who wanna play only barb at season 4.
barb seems like can play Speed GRs with sup build for xp. i think 2x barb is enough for season 4. 1x sup and 1x Damage Dealer.
i like to hear your thoughts about that.
Well for speed farming you want 4 man anyway for the added xp. What do you mean specifically though? S4 barb won't be much different from non-season. Only new thing is Bane of the Stricken, which won't be used for speed farming anyway (except maybe on WW).
im just wondering if u can make a few videos for barb players who wanna play only barb at season 4.
barb seems like can play Speed GRs with sup build for xp. i think 2x barb is enough for season 4. 1x sup and 1x Damage Dealer.
i like to hear your thoughts about that.
Well for speed farming you want 4 man anyway for the added xp. What do you mean specifically though? S4 barb won't be much different from non-season. Only new thing is Bane of the Stricken, which won't be used for speed farming anyway (except maybe on WW).
Why wouldn't the Stricken gem not good for speed T10 farming?
Because it takes too long to stack. It's now like 1.2% at rank 50 or so and has a ~1/3 second internal cooldown. Long story short even with high attack speed it takes about 10-15 seconds for it to overtake something like Taeguk in terms of damage output. When you're speed farming, nothing takes long to kill. For speed farming you'd be better off with Wreath of Lightning as a 3rd gem for movement speed.
Hey guys, today I show a Lightning Hammer of the Ancients build. It deals a ton of damage, scales incredibly well with density, great single target, good sustain via life per fury spent, and definitely high GR capable. Although I didn't spend too much time grinding with it, I cleared a 55 very easily. I go over the build, gear, gems, rune considerations, and show it in action. Really looking forward to smashing stuff in the next patch! Enjoy & discuss!
Build: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/barbarian#ZSPjRk!XZjg!YZZccc
Gems: Trapped, Esoteric, Gogok (or Stricken)
https://youtu.be/mUMONdExS-c
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Everyone takes ruthless because it's the best damage passive (always on, always useful). Useful in some cases more than others, but always there. If you 1 shot stuff anyway, there's nothing you could take to '1 shot faster'.
Also when RGs get low they start becoming really annoying - Ruthless ends the fight quick. Same with elites, by the time they get low there are tons of ground effects, etc.
Outside of straight mitigation (some diamonds + Esoteric + Relentless), only good form of sustain for barb is LPFS. If you don't get it on a mighty weapon + belt, you may need to go belt + Bloodthirst because 1 slot (1k LPFS) just isn't enough.
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hey MHM. great video as always.
im just wondering if u can make a few videos for barb players who wanna play only barb at season 4.
barb seems like can play Speed GRs with sup build for xp. i think 2x barb is enough for season 4. 1x sup and 1x Damage Dealer.
i like to hear your thoughts about that.
Well for speed farming you want 4 man anyway for the added xp. What do you mean specifically though? S4 barb won't be much different from non-season. Only new thing is Bane of the Stricken, which won't be used for speed farming anyway (except maybe on WW).
MeatHeadGaming - YouTube - Twitch - Facebook - Web
Why wouldn't the Stricken gem not good for speed T10 farming?
Because it takes too long to stack. It's now like 1.2% at rank 50 or so and has a ~1/3 second internal cooldown. Long story short even with high attack speed it takes about 10-15 seconds for it to overtake something like Taeguk in terms of damage output. When you're speed farming, nothing takes long to kill. For speed farming you'd be better off with Wreath of Lightning as a 3rd gem for movement speed.
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actually i just wanna learn about that new sup barb. im a barb player and for sure i ll play DD and Sup both.
hm this or Seismic slam would deal most damage ?
"Do you guys not have phones?"
They're relatively close. SS seems to be more of a group build (deals ridiculous damage to clumps of mobs), HotA seems to be a bit better solo.
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