Today I want to show a different build using highly optimized Call of the Ancients and Weapon Throw - a generator only pet hybrid. While this combination is not optimal to reach the highest tiers of Greater Rifts, I did G32 just fine, especially with 92% elite damage with Furnace.
My goal is twofold: to explore the damage potential of pets and the damage potential of a generator using the new Depth Diggers. While this combination isn't optimal, it'll hopefully get your head turning on ways to integrate into other established builds like Raekor's, Leapquake, WW, and so on. In a future follow-up I'll be looking at what I believe to be the ideal combo of perma-Ancients - Seismic Slam.
In this video I go over the build, gear, paragon points, discuss issues you'll run into at higher tiers, and solo a G32. I think G33 is possible with better gear/higher ranked gems and G34 with some good luck. Enjoy!
Excellent video. I've been trying to force a lightning CotA build to succeed but it fails pretty hard compared to your fire build. Lightning I can hit Tier 23-25. The same build with fire easily completes Tier 26 and usually clears Tier 27.
I was curious to see if Aughild / RoRG / Witching would yield more damage than SoJ / Lacuni / IK belt, so I plugged all your gear / skills / paragon into my dps calc. I used 5 CHC, 50 CHD, 10 IAS with 485 Str for paragon to match your armory Str. With Insanity + Rampage active (along with your other buffs that are always up), your ancients each do approx 136 mil / sec. Swapping out those 3 items, the damage went down to approx 132 mil / sec. I guess the extra 90% crit damage is well worth ~18% fire + ~15% elite. Good stuff.
One thing you may consider: I swapped out weapon master for Ruthless, and the damage went up to approx 143.5 mil / sec. In my calc, I average Ruthless damage, multiplying 40% bonus x 30% of the time, yielding a 1.12 total multiplier to your damage. Might be worth trying that out.
If you swap out Rampage for Ruthless instead, you'd only have 122 mil / sec, but that would be 100% uptime damage (with instanity) without concern for rampage stacks. Might be helpful on RG since given your setup your ancients drop to 109 mil / sec without Rampage active.
Anyways, good video as usual! I'm looking for taskers now to do an ancient build on my seasonal barb. I found a Furnace already, but not a Tasker... go figure!
Gotta say, this spec was just the thing to inspire me to ditch my outdated Cindercoat HoTA spam build. I was having trouble clearing Grift 21 and now I'm doing 26/27-ish and I don't even have T&T or Furnace yet. Great build, thanks so much!
Was doing a little theorycrafting and wondering - with depth diggers providing such a huge boost to weapon throw, could it be worth grabbing No Escape (25% damage), Simplicity's Strength (25% more plus upgrades), and Zei's (20% more at max range plus upgrades) for ridiculous Weapon Throw damage? With the bros running around and causing so much chaos it's hard to tell how much damage comes from me and how much from them. It's also hard to tell how much damage the bros are gaining from gems (well... enforcer is pretty clear lol).
Thoughts on gems for maximizing the DPS in this build?
Did some testing on this last night and the results were disappointing... bonus damage from Zei's, Simplicity, and No Escape must be additive with Depth Diggers because the numbers with the gems, while higher, were unimpressive. Meanwhile, the bros continue to rock face regardless, so it seems like gems buffing their damage is the way to go.
Currently running Pain Enhancer, Enforcer, and Bane of the Powerful. Not sure if there are better ones I could use (or if other stats on neck/rings would be a bigger overall damage buff).
Yeah, the third gem for this spec is very meh. There isn't really anything that shines. Pain Enchancer works with pets, but I just find that it's barely noticeable, if at all.
If Efficacious Toxin worked with pets, it'd be the clear choice, but it doesn't.
I've been thinking about using Moratorium because my Barb is HC though I'll wait 'til I get it to 25 first.
My goal is twofold: to explore the damage potential of pets and the damage potential of a generator using the new Depth Diggers. While this combination isn't optimal, it'll hopefully get your head turning on ways to integrate into other established builds like Raekor's, Leapquake, WW, and so on. In a future follow-up I'll be looking at what I believe to be the ideal combo of perma-Ancients - Seismic Slam.
In this video I go over the build, gear, paragon points, discuss issues you'll run into at higher tiers, and solo a G32. I think G33 is possible with better gear/higher ranked gems and G34 with some good luck. Enjoy!
Build: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/barbarian#gPjiRk!YXSj!ZZaZac
Legendary Gems: Bane of the Powerful, Enforcer
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One thing you may consider: I swapped out weapon master for Ruthless, and the damage went up to approx 143.5 mil / sec. In my calc, I average Ruthless damage, multiplying 40% bonus x 30% of the time, yielding a 1.12 total multiplier to your damage. Might be worth trying that out.
If you swap out Rampage for Ruthless instead, you'd only have 122 mil / sec, but that would be 100% uptime damage (with instanity) without concern for rampage stacks. Might be helpful on RG since given your setup your ancients drop to 109 mil / sec without Rampage active.
Anyways, good video as usual! I'm looking for taskers now to do an ancient build on my seasonal barb. I found a Furnace already, but not a Tasker... go figure!
Was doing a little theorycrafting and wondering - with depth diggers providing such a huge boost to weapon throw, could it be worth grabbing No Escape (25% damage), Simplicity's Strength (25% more plus upgrades), and Zei's (20% more at max range plus upgrades) for ridiculous Weapon Throw damage? With the bros running around and causing so much chaos it's hard to tell how much damage comes from me and how much from them. It's also hard to tell how much damage the bros are gaining from gems (well... enforcer is pretty clear lol).
Thoughts on gems for maximizing the DPS in this build?
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Krentz-1513/hero/65760215
Currently running Pain Enhancer, Enforcer, and Bane of the Powerful. Not sure if there are better ones I could use (or if other stats on neck/rings would be a bigger overall damage buff).
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Krentz-1513/hero/65760215
If Efficacious Toxin worked with pets, it'd be the clear choice, but it doesn't.
I've been thinking about using Moratorium because my Barb is HC though I'll wait 'til I get it to 25 first.
And may the odds be ever in your favour.
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