with 1.05 and the "player level" system i have a feeling we might go back to pre 1.03 barbarian style oof play if we want to be able to complete or slowly farm the latter levels of the game.
For this reason i decided to get back my old defensive gear and also to stock up on some legendaries before they get crazy expensive.
This led to an interesting finding, you can have 2 justice lanterns equipped, as long as one is legacy and the other one is 1.04!
I managed to also grab a 34% stromshield with life % (crazy how much cheaper they are than in pre 1.03) and just for lulz also a doomsbringer with decent dps.
Now I have 71% block chance, isnt that OP??? have to admit my dps has fallen to about 25k, but i rememebr running with less than 12k dps in prepatch times...
All this assuming that they will also ramp up damage and not only life of mobs in latter difficulties. hopefully they will not add more affixes (current 4) to elites
with 1.05 and the "player level" system i have a feeling we might go back to pre 1.03 barbarian style oof play if we want to be able to complete or slowly farm the latter levels of the game.
For this reason i decided to get back my old defensive gear and also to stock up on some legendaries before they get crazy expensive.
This led to an interesting finding, you can have 2 justice lanterns equipped, as long as one is legacy and the other one is 1.04!
I managed to also grab a 34% stromshield with life % (crazy how much cheaper they are than in pre 1.03) and just for lulz also a doomsbringer with decent dps.
Now I have 71% block chance, isnt that OP??? have to admit my dps has fallen to about 25k, but i rememebr running with less than 12k dps in prepatch times...
All this assuming that they will also ramp up damage and not only life of mobs in latter difficulties. hopefully they will not add more affixes (current 4) to elites
Can you link your battlenet profile...
I like to check out your gear .. Might try to model my barb like yours.
with 1.05 and the "player level" system i have a feeling we might go back to pre 1.03 barbarian style oof play if we want to be able to complete or slowly farm the latter levels of the game.
For this reason i decided to get back my old defensive gear and also to stock up on some legendaries before they get crazy expensive.
This led to an interesting finding, you can have 2 justice lanterns equipped, as long as one is legacy and the other one is 1.04!
I managed to also grab a 34% stromshield with life % (crazy how much cheaper they are than in pre 1.03) and just for lulz also a doomsbringer with decent dps.
Now I have 71% block chance, isnt that OP??? have to admit my dps has fallen to about 25k, but i rememebr running with less than 12k dps in prepatch times...
All this assuming that they will also ramp up damage and not only life of mobs in latter difficulties. hopefully they will not add more affixes (current 4) to elites
Can you link your battlenet profile...
I like to check out your gear .. Might try to model my barb like yours.
Thanks
unluckily i play in asian server so my profile is in chinese/korean and i dont have 10 posts yet.
But overall my barb is simple, uniques i mentioned above, plus crit on every allowable slot and try to get as much as vit,life%, rest all. Str is more secondary, nice to have but dont over pay for it.
Personally I'd be sticking to WW/sprint, I don't think I can bear the thought of playing more tank builds (shudder at the thought of waiting for revenge procs).
If I start dying before I can get the tornados going, I'll just stack more vitality. If I find my health gain can't keep up with the damage output, I'll stack more resist/LoH.
I think people are overreacting to the reduce to warcry and impunity. I'm actually looking forward to possibly moving away from the rune or the skill entirely.
71% block is pretty cool.
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"For the price of one bullet you can eat 4 hotcakes." - Vash the Stampede.
It's not just the warcry that has us concerned, it is the fact that inferno is currently set to difficulty 2-3 as default for the moment. When 1.05 comes out you can crank it to 10.... combine that with the warcry nerf, and then on top of that you will be fighting or will want to fight über bosses at difficulty 10 for the absolute best loot possible.... Pretty much guarantees well need to up our survivability. Blizz said they had no Intention to change the sprint/ww barb.... They said nothing however about indirectly changing the system so ww isn't viable at Max difficulty w über bosses.... Hope that makes sense.
I'm sticking with my 2H but will switch the few pieces I have without all ress for something more defensive. Getting better gear might actually be worth it again.
I wonder why the ptr patchnotes only hurt monk passives while barbarian passives like nerves of steel, though as nails or superstition remain untouched in addition to threatening shout/ignore pain!?
I was wondering that myself too, guess the war cry nerf is big enough for barbarians.
Edit: The enchantress buff goes from 15%>5% so that's kinda sucky but that goes for all classes.
I am sticking with my 2hand, charge/rend build - works wonders atm, and I might even be able to get rid of war cry in this patch and replace with WFTB or earthq.
Would you mind posting it? What are your stats? (armory maybe)
I currently use 1 hander/shield build and I cant complain, sure things don't die as quickly but I have 47k dps unbuffed, then with Rage it goes to about 58k then with WOTB it goes up to the low 70's which is fine for me. I see me having to add a few resist pieces back into the mix, and maybe getting a helm of the command with crit and resist and that should be it. While these changes will make it difficult to maintain the build, as others have said..if you've already got the gear..it wont affect you that much.
I often can't even keep WOTB up because stuff dies to quick and I can't find any mobs close enough to keep it up constantly.
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For this reason i decided to get back my old defensive gear and also to stock up on some legendaries before they get crazy expensive.
This led to an interesting finding, you can have 2 justice lanterns equipped, as long as one is legacy and the other one is 1.04!
I managed to also grab a 34% stromshield with life % (crazy how much cheaper they are than in pre 1.03) and just for lulz also a doomsbringer with decent dps.
Now I have 71% block chance, isnt that OP??? have to admit my dps has fallen to about 25k, but i rememebr running with less than 12k dps in prepatch times...
All this assuming that they will also ramp up damage and not only life of mobs in latter difficulties. hopefully they will not add more affixes (current 4) to elites
Can you link your battlenet profile...
I like to check out your gear .. Might try to model my barb like yours.
Thanks
unluckily i play in asian server so my profile is in chinese/korean and i dont have 10 posts yet.
But overall my barb is simple, uniques i mentioned above, plus crit on every allowable slot and try to get as much as vit,life%, rest all. Str is more secondary, nice to have but dont over pay for it.
If I start dying before I can get the tornados going, I'll just stack more vitality. If I find my health gain can't keep up with the damage output, I'll stack more resist/LoH.
71% block is pretty cool.
I was wondering that myself too, guess the war cry nerf is big enough for barbarians.
Edit: The enchantress buff goes from 15%>5% so that's kinda sucky but that goes for all classes.
Would you mind posting it? What are your stats? (armory maybe)
I often can't even keep WOTB up because stuff dies to quick and I can't find any mobs close enough to keep it up constantly.