I'm having a rough time of it with gear choices and upgrade priorities. I have a fairly large budget, but am new the class as I haven't played a barb since 1.01. I've got the spec mechanics down okay but I find myself confused as to what I should be upgrading and with what.
I came from a monk (and may still go back) but would like to know my bearings if I decide to progress with this class. I am having a lot of fun.
At first glance I would say that your critical hit chance looks good but your crit hit damage needs to be much higher, that will make your dps jump up substantially. I like weapons with both crit hit damage and a socket.
As far as your Life on hit goes, you can usually find very high LoH amulets so that your main hand remains pure damage while your offhand is your life on hit (+ life steal if possible) weapon.
I would also try to replace your boots with something a bit stronger, 40ish strength and vitality is a bit low.
I've recently replaced Hurricane on Whirlwind with Blood Funnel and Reckless with Inspiring Presence and it gave me amazing results in higher monster power. Try one or both if your struggling to survive.
I see that you're still in Act 1 with your barbarian. With just a few changes you will be able to breeze through, at least on MP 0 and 1.
I hope this helped a bit. Let us know how your progress goes!
It's what Cel said really. Your crit chance is good but your crit damage is pretty much non existent. I'd work on finding gear with crit chance and crit damage and also upping some of the gear you currently have to more +str/vit.
Then once you reach around 70k ish dps look for LL
cheap and affordable upgrades, Your DPS is way to low:
get 2 90% crit damage gems(if u can afford 100% do it because no matter what class u play u'll always use it.) and a second crit chance ring. after that i would probably get a new main hand and offhand. i see your going WW spec...? are u having issues keeping WOTB up all the time? if so by a new main hand mighty weapon. i also noticed that u went life steal on ur main hand and not ur belt. life steal really doesnt do anything unless ur over 80k dps and is much cheaper to find on a belt... even though your offhand has very low damage its substantially boosting ur builds dps which doesnt reflect properly on ur character sheet, so maybe for now just get a much harder hitting main hand. get one very high dps with a socket, or something around 800 dps with a socket and 90%+ crit damage. if ur not having issues with WOTB uptime then get a mace for the extra crit and slow attack but high damage. one ur around 60K+ dps focus on getting another 12% movement speed item.. so u can keep WOTB up for much longer.
30k life seems to be my issue, yet I can't seem to find any affordable ways to upgrade my survivability without losing a ton of damage. I feel like I'm pretty much stuck. I'm also having a hard time keeping up WotB but I feel like that will come with gear.
My survivability is about where I think it should be. I am now at a brick wall of upgrading my DPS without losing too much survivability. I don't feel my tornadoes are doing enough damage (around 20-24k crits). Things just don't seem to be dropping as fast as I'd like them to.
Assuming a moderate budget, I could use some gear suggestions for upgrades. I feel like I'm stuck at a brick wall when it comes to upgrades without going into the hundreds of millions.
some ideas:
got my IK belt for 22mill. could go cheaper, but i really wanted weapon throw fury reduct to mess around with builds in party play XD
vile ward for 6 mill
pants 3 mill
IMO lacuni suck. U loose so many stats for ias and ms. MS is great but if u want to kill stuff faster and keep zerk up longer, 6cc will do u much more. If u want the MS back, get a tyrials might chest piece which also gives a good amount of deamon + damage
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Thank you in advance for any help.
I'm having a rough time of it with gear choices and upgrade priorities. I have a fairly large budget, but am new the class as I haven't played a barb since 1.01. I've got the spec mechanics down okay but I find myself confused as to what I should be upgrading and with what.
I came from a monk (and may still go back) but would like to know my bearings if I decide to progress with this class. I am having a lot of fun.
As far as your Life on hit goes, you can usually find very high LoH amulets so that your main hand remains pure damage while your offhand is your life on hit (+ life steal if possible) weapon.
I would also try to replace your boots with something a bit stronger, 40ish strength and vitality is a bit low.
I've recently replaced Hurricane on Whirlwind with Blood Funnel and Reckless with Inspiring Presence and it gave me amazing results in higher monster power. Try one or both if your struggling to survive.
I see that you're still in Act 1 with your barbarian. With just a few changes you will be able to breeze through, at least on MP 0 and 1.
I hope this helped a bit. Let us know how your progress goes!
Still sorta struggling to survive though things die much faster now. Could honestly use some gear suggestions though.
Then once you reach around 70k ish dps look for LL
get 2 90% crit damage gems(if u can afford 100% do it because no matter what class u play u'll always use it.) and a second crit chance ring. after that i would probably get a new main hand and offhand. i see your going WW spec...? are u having issues keeping WOTB up all the time? if so by a new main hand mighty weapon. i also noticed that u went life steal on ur main hand and not ur belt. life steal really doesnt do anything unless ur over 80k dps and is much cheaper to find on a belt... even though your offhand has very low damage its substantially boosting ur builds dps which doesnt reflect properly on ur character sheet, so maybe for now just get a much harder hitting main hand. get one very high dps with a socket, or something around 800 dps with a socket and 90%+ crit damage. if ur not having issues with WOTB uptime then get a mace for the extra crit and slow attack but high damage. one ur around 60K+ dps focus on getting another 12% movement speed item.. so u can keep WOTB up for much longer.
411% crit damage (sheet total). 50% crit chance with axe passive. 58k unbuffed DPS.
30k life seems to be my issue, yet I can't seem to find any affordable ways to upgrade my survivability without losing a ton of damage. I feel like I'm pretty much stuck. I'm also having a hard time keeping up WotB but I feel like that will come with gear.
My survivability is about where I think it should be. I am now at a brick wall of upgrading my DPS without losing too much survivability. I don't feel my tornadoes are doing enough damage (around 20-24k crits). Things just don't seem to be dropping as fast as I'd like them to.
Suggestions for my current gear to bump up DPS?
some ideas:
got my IK belt for 22mill. could go cheaper, but i really wanted weapon throw fury reduct to mess around with builds in party play XD
vile ward for 6 mill
pants 3 mill
IMO lacuni suck. U loose so many stats for ias and ms. MS is great but if u want to kill stuff faster and keep zerk up longer, 6cc will do u much more. If u want the MS back, get a tyrials might chest piece which also gives a good amount of deamon + damage