I've been using Sidearm, and to me, the piercing axe doesn't seem to happen all that often and it appears to go off into space. Of course, in tightly packed mobs (which much of Act3 is) it's hard to see its effect. On the other hand, 4% up to 20% extra damage with Maniac seems like a lot, although I'm not sure what the CD is on each stack and whether moving from mob to mob starts the stack over again. It appears that once frenzy is at 5 stacks, it stays that way through dozens of mobs --- and if it affects all that Rend .... And with 100K buffed DPS, that could amount to a great increase for me.
This has already been discussed many times. I've found an old thread where they probably said what you need to hear. http://www.diablofan...arm#entry934207
Thanks for the reference and sorry for the duplicate post!
I suppose a great deal from your damage output comes from rend and revenge, maybe you could put an approximate number on that. And in that case i am confident to say that maniac will be a bigger overall boost to damage output.
In static 1v1 fights however, sidearm should be on par and maybe even be a slightly bigger boost than maniac since you will hardly use rend/revenge. But those situations should be rare and the difference little, so go with maniac.
Why would you assume I wouldn't use Rend or Revenge in 1v1? I actually use them regularly particularly in boss fights --- they don't interfere with spamming frenzy. and I'm not spending fury anywhere else.
if u r using rend, manic will be a good choice since rend will be doing the AOE dmg (replacing the axe from sidearm). Rend is user trigger thus u can cast it whenever u wan to. As for sidearms, it is trigger which each strike at 25%. Therefore, it depend on how 'lucky' u r.
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Has anyone knowledge of how these skills compare?
I've been using Sidearm, and to me, the piercing axe doesn't seem to happen all that often and it appears to go off into space. Of course, in tightly packed mobs (which much of Act3 is) it's hard to see its effect. On the other hand, 4% up to 20% extra damage with Maniac seems like a lot, although I'm not sure what the CD is on each stack and whether moving from mob to mob starts the stack over again. It appears that once frenzy is at 5 stacks, it stays that way through dozens of mobs --- and if it affects all that Rend .... And with 100K buffed DPS, that could amount to a great increase for me.
Thanks, guys!
Thanks for the reference and sorry for the duplicate post!
Why would you assume I wouldn't use Rend or Revenge in 1v1? I actually use them regularly particularly in boss fights --- they don't interfere with spamming frenzy. and I'm not spending fury anywhere else.