First of all I want to say sorry for my English. It`s not my native language.
Barb is the worst class!
Deals no damage!
Not enough fury!
Go solo you gimp!
Almost every barbarian topic has these crying quotes. Pity cause it`s a total rubbish. Barb still can deal tons of damage and be a very useful party member. Just never give up on your class guys. Learn the mechanics of the class and try everything by yourself. No need to vine, barb still can kick some asses Build: Furious Chargewith “Merciless Assault” Rune (phys damage). One of the most important skills in particular build. It deals lots of damage, it generates fury and can save your butt from controlling elites like “Frozen” and “Nightmarish”. Take a closer look at my bracers. They give additional bonus for mobs who were knocked back. Furious Charge is a knock back skill.
Whirlwindwith “wind shear” rune (lightning). WW is a damaging and absolute free skill. It also can save your ass cause you can WW through the mobs. You even can accumulate fury if you have mighty weapon in your mainhand.
Battle Ragewith “Into the Fray” rune (phys Damdge). Yes yes! Into the Fray again! We must have as much CC on your barb as you can. Rend – is the most damaging skill in this build. And Rend is not very damaging skill if it doesn`t crit.
Rendwith “bloodbath” rune (phys damage). Why Bloodbath? Well, this rune has damaging chain reaction. For example you hit 10 mobs with Rend. 6 of them gets crit and 4 are not. These 6 dies fast and hits those 4 mobs with new Rend, which crits 2 of 4 rest. These 2 dies fast and crits last two. So the more CC you have, the faster mobs will die.
War Crywith “impunity” rune. We need all res on Torment 6 Ground Stompwith “Wrenching Smash” Rune. This skill is very important! Remember “Into the Fray”? After we pull enemy to ourself and stun them our CC jumps up. We need it for Rend. Also our Brawler passive starting to work (+20% to damage). Better to use Ground Stomp after the Furious Charge if you have
Strongarm Bracers. If you don`t have them, do the opposite way.
Passives: Brawler– let`s buff our damage with Ground Stomp or Furious Charge Ruthless– everyone must die! Weapon Mastery– crit chance, we need it! Gear: All my gear you can see in a vid. Lot`s of STR. Rend bonuses on the chest and shoulders. +Bonus to Phys skills on amu and bracers. Just notice that all damage dealing skills have phys runes. Bracers with legendary bonus helps a bit.
I never thought of the barb as being weak this patch, I use a different spec to others too. Rend, Ground Stomp and Charge spam spec for me. Lots of control, lots of self healing, lots of mobility and lots of damage! Removal of life steal % will have a nasty effect on survival though.
This is proper use of the barbarian's mechanics so +1 to you OP. With higher toughness, some life regen + loh, and going after health globes, this build should work just like any other.
I'm happily smashing mobs in t4 with Hota, my barb feels a bit more gear dependent but elites and bosses die pretty fast now that i got the new SoJ and some more +fire damage 73% total now. Barb definitely not the worst class
I don`t see any reason not to use LS till the ROS comes out. It will be a different game with other gear, builds etc. Today barb witout LS just lose efficiency. Or you seriously think that barb will become unplayable class in ROS cause it will not survive without LS which will not work. Damn gyus, why you are so unbelievably dumb!
My tank Barbarion can farm T6 act 4 without any deaths and has no life steal, it's slow though. My main Barbarion uses life steal, but why wouldn't it? You use what is best for you at this moment in time and when that is gone you adapt, there is no merit to playing without life steal at the moment, my tank barb would use it if it had a piece of gear with it available.
Barb is the worst class!
Deals no damage!
Not enough fury!
Go solo you gimp!
Almost every barbarian topic has these crying quotes. Pity cause it`s a total rubbish. Barb still can deal tons of damage and be a very useful party member. Just never give up on your class guys. Learn the mechanics of the class and try everything by yourself. No need to vine, barb still can kick some asses
Build:
Furious Chargewith “Merciless Assault” Rune (phys damage). One of the most important skills in particular build. It deals lots of damage, it generates fury and can save your butt from controlling elites like “Frozen” and “Nightmarish”. Take a closer look at my bracers. They give additional bonus for mobs who were knocked back. Furious Charge is a knock back skill.
Whirlwindwith “wind shear” rune (lightning). WW is a damaging and absolute free skill. It also can save your ass cause you can WW through the mobs. You even can accumulate fury if you have mighty weapon in your mainhand.
Battle Ragewith “Into the Fray” rune (phys Damdge). Yes yes! Into the Fray again! We must have as much CC on your barb as you can. Rend – is the most damaging skill in this build. And Rend is not very damaging skill if it doesn`t crit.
Rendwith “bloodbath” rune (phys damage). Why Bloodbath? Well, this rune has damaging chain reaction. For example you hit 10 mobs with Rend. 6 of them gets crit and 4 are not. These 6 dies fast and hits those 4 mobs with new Rend, which crits 2 of 4 rest. These 2 dies fast and crits last two. So the more CC you have, the faster mobs will die.
War Crywith “impunity” rune. We need all res on Torment 6
Ground Stompwith “Wrenching Smash” Rune. This skill is very important! Remember “Into the Fray”? After we pull enemy to ourself and stun them our CC jumps up. We need it for Rend. Also our Brawler passive starting to work (+20% to damage). Better to use Ground Stomp after the Furious Charge if you have
Strongarm Bracers. If you don`t have them, do the opposite way.
Passives: Brawler– let`s buff our damage with Ground Stomp or Furious Charge
Ruthless– everyone must die!
Weapon Mastery– crit chance, we need it!
Gear: All my gear you can see in a vid. Lot`s of STR. Rend bonuses on the chest and shoulders. +Bonus to Phys skills on amu and bracers. Just notice that all damage dealing skills have phys runes. Bracers with legendary bonus helps a bit.
Vid:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDS2tn0SPTo
You wanna see the Barb, whos playing T6 without LS, here it is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ7zx0B0pKQ
I don`t see any reason not to use LS till the ROS comes out. It will be a different game with other gear, builds etc. Today barb witout LS just lose efficiency. Or you seriously think that barb will become unplayable class in ROS cause it will not survive without LS which will not work. Damn gyus, why you are so unbelievably dumb!
I hardly believe thats what you do. sure you can do t6 but with 'no problems'.... mmmm prolly not
as for op. his build works because of lifesteal.
good luck at 70.
Life per fury spent works extremely well. Dont need life steal at level 70.
http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Bigbazz-2623/hero/14315553
Damage is low at the moment though, wrong gear equiped as I was experimenting with boosting toughness when I last played it.