Discontinued's quoute - "So your argument: Why can't I compete using a sub-optimal end game set vs optimal end game sets of other classes. Why do people think that Blizzard can perfect multiple sets for many different builds in an environment as competitive as greater rifts? There are a lot of factors to be considered outside of just raw statistics as well..
If you want to be competitive, you have to go to the best. This isn't "one build mentality" this is how every competition works for anything; sports, video games, doesn't matter. Optimality will always win out and will always be determined, that's how it goes; if you don't like it, then don't be competitive"
your missing the big picture here...first off, its NOT that hard to balance leapquake and furious charge. you wanna know how i know? because they WERE competitive with each other BEFORE they made leapquake not stack, now its just a joke. and quit defending blizzard, you think its ok that each class has only 1 build besides crusader? sure you have the option of fire charge and lightning, but guess what? fire is two times better. still just one. until people realize the major problem in this game nothing is going to change, yeah you might like your build. good for you, doesnt mean everyone does. its like when the trade centers went down, sure people in africa didnt give two shits most likely, does it mean that it was ok? people always have this well it doesnt affect ME mentality when actually it affects the whole cumminity which DOES affect you. do you have any idea how many people already quit this game for this EXACT reason? what happens when the game starts dying, and they dont make enough money next expansion because LOTS of people have quit because of things like these? they might not even MAKE a new expansion once they see they're numbers at the end of this one, how many people quit because of things like this. getting your favorite build essentially taken out of the game.look at pet doctors, they are a joke to. you think they are going to continue making expansions when they see how many people quit because of things like these? id love to hear your selfish response so go ahead. make fun of the "gear" that i dont even play anymore and gave away to a friend.
You really need to think before you post. Why do people think they know better about the potential customer/losing customer aspect of a video game more than the company itself? So incredibly silly. Honestly, I don't think you even know what their ROI is or how many customers they'll lose vs how many they'll bring back for the next expansion. I'm not defending Blizzard, I'm saying your logic is terrible. You say "one build", sure, for now. You're not a trendsetter and have yet to try anything besides "one build"; your build doesn't work at a competitive level so you complain and yet, you're unwilling to try anything else so you post on a forum about it. Quite hilarious to me. Also, if it isn't that hard, please, oh wise one, tell us how to balance them perfectly. Please feel free to give us a detailed description so that we have an accurate picture of your glorious balanced view. I want more comical material to read.
The numbers? Here are the numbers: 2.7 million copies in the first week. A combined 20 million copies altogether for D3 and RoS. RoS sold a LOT of copies; one of the few games that approaches WoW numbers in terms of retail sales....so I don't know which numbers you're talking about; please inform yourself. They might not make a new expansion? Said who? You? The only one who has made a selfish response is you. You want your build to be competitive, it's all about you and what you think, that's why you've made such outlandish comments without any real foundation for them: all I have to look at is your commentary on RoS' numbers... uneducated comment my friend. You just compared an act of terrorism to having multiple builds in a video game. That's pretty sad friend, I hope you're not American as that would be ridiculous.
I can legitimately say that the questions you're asking me you don't have an answer to: "do you have any idea how many people quit this game for this EXACT reason?" - No and neither do you. Capitalizing all of your words does not give them extra weight, credit or factual strength; all of which are non-existent here. If all of those magical people you're talking about who have quit do exactly as you have, then their next expansion will be fine. You're so in love with the game that even after you've had your fill of it, you still post about it in a childish rage on its popular forums. Blizzard's D3 franchise is doing just fine
if you read the forums daily youd notice witch doctors constantly complaining they cant go pet build, or they spent hundreds and hundreds of hour going pet build just to have to switch builds and spend hundreds and hundreds of more hours regearing for that new spec. i have tried multiple specs, lightning raekor...sucked...ice leapquake, only good for support, fire leapquake...sucked. ancient spear boulder toss was a joke. what else is there to try? you tell me.
also i have a lot of friends on diablo and many of them have quit, id say 50% and this was due to one class, one spec mentality. nobody wants to be the same class with all the same spells and all the same passives, its not fun. there needs to be build diversity for this game to be successful. says who? says all the people who constantly complain to me day after day and all of the people on the forums since ros came out, the funny thing is there is less classes and less builds to go now then when RoS first came out. and you dont see that as a problem? barbs only have 1 class , 1 spec, witch doctors 1 class, 1 spec, wizards,1 class, 1 spec. the only class that has multiple succesfull builds are crusaders. and not to get off topic but many people came to seasons for the new legendaries, and they all suck. except for crusader and the wizard wand...and thats only for running bounties. so how about you point out o me the GOOD things about this game instead of just counter whatever im saying with something thats completly untrue, and yes, they have lost many customers since ros came out, no doubt. you know how i know? because when i join a public game, it puts me in the same exact game over and over after i leave. wanna know why? because people are quitting the game not only because of the class issues listed previously but because theres no point to doing greater rifts first off besides leveling gems, its bad gear, and bad exp, and there is MAJOR density problem to the point where whoever is on top of the leaderboards got there from a conduit on the boss and killing lots of white zombies and skelotons. if you get a corrupted angel map guess what? you have to remake to compete. sounds like a winning patch to me. but your right, the games never been better. maybe half of my 80 friends quit because of something else. o wait...they didnt.
ooo and did i mention blizz doesnt even care if you exploit? and that they knew this exploit was in the ptr but failed fixing it...guess testing it before it went live was pretty hard huh? maybe as hard as making more then 1 spec per class?
there were more builds when ros came out then there are now is the problem, and there should be competive builds, i understand one will always be better, but wheres the options? i dont see any. i see a move you can spam every second that aoes mobs for upwards of 600 mil and a move that tics every 3 seconds for 60 mil with top end gear. thats not options buddy, thats suicide going into greater rifts. they ruined pet doctors as well, and even other demon hunter builds, and wizard builds. the game is moving into a direction that has no options. of course most people want to compete on seasons, doesnt mean everyone should be using all of the same abilitys, passives, and gear. its not even a competitive game at that point, its a lets see who can get the same greater rift with more conduits and more mob density and easier rift bosses, we all have the same gear so thats not a factor. because believe it or not at this point everyone's raekor gear and builds are EXACTLY alike. so you tell me then, whats the point in leaderboards when its all based on luck, not gear, not skills, not builds, not passives, those are allll the same. so whats left of the game at this point? go right on ahead, inspect all the top classes, you would be AMAZED to see how everyone has all of the same gear and passives. you know why? because they dont have a choice.
Took a break from Diablo and now Im back after 2.1. So OP mentioned earlier that earthquake does NOT stack anymore. Is this true? is there a blue post somewhere?
Took a break from Diablo and now Im back after 2.1. So OP mentioned earlier that earthquake does NOT stack anymore. Is this true? is there a blue post somewhere?
Thanks a lot in advance.
its true, im paragon 500 and ive been leapquake the whole time, theres a reason i made this post, wonder why nobody whos leapquake is high on the leaderboard unless theyre in a group? thats why. the damage was cut in 1/3rd essentially and everyone thinks thats completly fine. you know 66% less damage, not a bad thing at all for a class that wasnt even over powered to begin with. nope, completly fine. at this point if you wanna compete you HAVE to go coldquake with all support spells for your group. but i honestly dont care what you guys think, if you wanna believe it stacks go right on ahead champ..
Let's say a class has something like 20 potential builds that are Torment 6 viable. Let's say that 10 of those builds can get you to Grift level 35. Let's say that 2 of those builds can get to Grift level 40. Finally, let's say that only one of those builds can really handle Grift levels 41+.
Out of those 20 potential T6 builds, only 1 will get any attention and then we'll have people crying out, "lacks build diversity!" No, it doesn't lack build diversity. You just aren't willing to play any of the weaker builds, even though they're plenty strong. That's not a lack of build diversity. You can't expect every class to have a bunch of builds that are all just as capable as the others. The amount of balancing that would require is insane. Every minor change made to balance them would just break them even more. No class is ever going to have a ton of builds that can all handle the top grift levels and we really shouldn't expect that kind of thing.
my friend just started a wizard, got his firebird set in 4 day and is doing MORE damage then me. not complaining here but i think it seems kind of unfair seeing as to how i put hundreds of hours and sleepless nights into this and someone else whos a casual does more damage. wheres the logic there?
The logic there is that this is a game heavily influenced by RNG. My main DH has something like 400 hours put in and still hasn't gotten enough pieces for an M6 build. My seasonal DH, however, had an M6 build within 50 hours of gameplay. Don't look for logic in an RNG system.
I'm going to put this as simply as I can: Stop comparing yourself to other classes. Your barbarian is not a DH, so you shouldn't be concerned with how well DHs are doing in Grifts.
If other fellow barbarians are handling grift levels that you can't handle, then you need to figure out what they're doing differently. Grifts are meant to be competitive and competition requires strategies that aren't always fun. If the people on the leaderboards are avoiding elites, then you need to avoid elites if you want to be competitive. If you're not willing to do that, then you probably shouldn't worry about high-level grifts anymore, because you don't have the correct mindset to progress through them.
It sounds to me, OP, like you're simply frustrating yourself by comparing your position on the solo leaderboards to everyone else and thinking that it's not fair. Fairness doesn't come into this, only strategy. Either start thinking and playing strategically or quit worrying about it.
Took a break from Diablo and now Im back after 2.1. So OP mentioned earlier that earthquake does NOT stack anymore. Is this true? is there a blue post somewhere?
Thanks a lot in advance.
Can someone other than copealope respond to this? I tried to find a reference for it but was unable to find any mention of a leapquake nerf. I would've thought there to be 1000s of QQ posts about it but I've found none.
well i have to say, you kind of have to compare your class to others. i wanna be on the leaderboards with barbs in a GROUP setting, if im not carrying my weight we wont go as far, i dont like raekor, you knock the mobs everywhere even if you try not to and you have to skip many packs which your group can handle without you but this makes things MUCH slower. and im gonna hafta to say no...there is no diversity. im comparing barb to barb, raekor critting for 600 million and leapquake critting for 60 - 80 "with best in slot" million less often "about half as often" yes that seems very diverse to me, VERY competitive right? not even close, and like i said, it WAS balanced when leapuake STACKED. now it doesnt and its a complete joke. i shouldnt be forced into playing one build if i want to compete, yes COMPETE. its not a competition when one build blows out all the others rendering them completly useless for competition. and raekor is a SINGLE player build. because i guess i have to keep repeating myself or you just didnt read. you HAVE to skip LOTS of packs of mobs and when your in a group thats not gonna happen. you obvious play raekor and dont see the problem, in fact if you can link me your build with your leapquake gear ill comnpletly agree with you. YOUR the one who hasnt tried it and has no idea what your talking about. id love to see your armory i bet you dont even have lut socks or a stat stick or an earthquake cindercoat. dont judge if you havent tried it. and defending blizzard will only make this problem worse and then you will NEVER see class diversity. go ahead, name one class that even does half the ammount of damage as the one build one passive one set of gear class...there is none. and that right there is the problem that most of you fail to see and the ones that do see that have already quit and could care less about this forum. and i applaud them for that, nothing will change if people keep giving in saying things are ok.
not to get off track, but we ran 25 greater rifts earlier, 70% of elites were electrify, and the ones that werent were arcane torrent in a narrow hallway thats completly undodgable as melee. in fact, as leapquake, you cant even leap in or your inta dead. as raekor, you charge and knock them through the lazers. and you wonder why i complain about class diversity. go ahead, tell me another spec for barbs. id LOVE to hear it. because quite frankly im sick of being forced into playing one spec one build one set of passives that everyone else uses just to compete in a group setting. ice is NOT a damage spec, it is support 100%, and bad support at that. half the mobs cant be frozen and they can STILL cast affixes even if they are. but sure, i guess if you wanna call that class diversity why not..only problem is its not.
DEFINITLY does not stack, you guys will even lie to defend blizzard, interesting. although im guessing you just dont even play leapquake so, that to. how about you link your character profile before telling someone something like that, they might just go waste hundreds of hours based on that assessment and then end up seeing that i was right. honestly though i could care less if hundreds of people said it stacked. ive played for 600+ hours as leapquake and know it doesnt, i could care less what you think i just dont want other people to mess up and go leapquake. although im starting not to care about that either, if you read this whole post and STILL wanna go leapquake without researching then i guess theres no conviincing you anyways.
my best advise to anyone who wants to go leapquake, go COLD quake, use double rend with cold for group t 6 for 20% more group damage, can use call of the ancients for 10% more group crit chance, avalanche isnt bad as cold along with rend, and for high g rifts use the remeanents skull or w/e to charm enemies with the rune on threathning shout for extra health globes, also use ground stomp with the extra health globe chance, "the globes spawn when using the spell not when killing enemies" ignore pain "group rune" with pride of cassius and just become a half support class because you can just go ahead and give up on damage when people are doing 4 times the ammount. but honestly i wouldnt even reccomened this, with top end gear atacks are 21-65 million.
you dont even have the full earthquake set so how exactly did you test this? all i can say is if i lay 3 earthquakes on the same mob it tics every 3-4 seconds. so unless earthquake tics every 9-12 seconds then you might be onto something.
i guess it just procs so slow even with with 3 earthquakes its a 3 second per tic. but w/e im raekor now, MUCH better, im hitting 20 times harder and im NOT exaggerating and more often..
i guess it just procs so slow even with with 3 earthquakes its a 3 second per tic. but w/e im raekor now, MUCH better, im hitting 20 times harder and im NOT exaggerating and more often..
I thought you uninstalled diablo 3 and gave your account away? SMH
i guess it just procs so slow even with with 3 earthquakes its a 3 second per tic. but w/e im raekor now, MUCH better, im hitting 20 times harder and im NOT exaggerating and more often..
I thought you uninstalled diablo 3 and gave your account away? SMH
me and my friend share an account now, i neeed a break for a few days. after my friend discovered that cold quake can be used as support as reinstalled the game to try it. its okay, but the problem is bane of the trapped procs itself, so its suseless in that sense, also cull of the weak with demon hunters is procced by the demon hunters so unesless in that sense, also mobs can cast affixes while frozen, so useless in that sense. but mobs wont melee everyone and you can give health globes from threatning shout and helm of reisance and ground slam. also cold rend makes the group do 10 more damage. but pride of cassious does NOT work in groups, so ignore pain is really only for yourself, and maybe 4 seconds every 18 seconds for your group. all in all its still not good. but my friend likes it, and its pretty much to late to remake and gear a charcter at this point in the season..considering id play a dh with taskers and krider shot with a good immuity neck, dont think its gonna happen in time. made the mistake of picking the absolute weakest class in the game. and the only reason barbs are even on the leaderboards are because they got carried in trials, then got an easy rift, most likely with a shielding or conduit near the boss and easy white mobs and SKIPPED over half the packs.
tried raekor today, 28 million toughness, 70% damage reduction from skills, 85% armor, 72% all resistances, and i die easily in group in g rift 33 to absoultly everything. you kind of NEED a unity otherwise raekor is useless in higher groups if you dont skip packs.
Did a little testing for the sake of the thread, and specifically the 'lol earthquake doesn't tick over 100m' bit.
Here is an Imgur album that shows EQ ticks on a rift boss of 101, 134, and 114m. Hard to get screenshots because the ticks are so fast and there is so much number spam from the ancients. Look at the WHITE numbers, those are the dot ticks - the yellow numbers are not EQ (the 205m is Mirinae).
Also screenshotted is my passives - Nerves of Steel, Relentless, Superstition, Berserker Rage (plus Ruthless from hellfire neck, but none of the screenshots are below 30% health). 3 defensive passives - if there were offensive passives these numbers would be higher.
In before OP makes excuses about why this doesn't count.
Did a little testing for the sake of the thread, and specifically the 'lol earthquake doesn't tick over 100m' bit.
Here is an Imgur album that shows EQ ticks on a rift boss of 101, 134, and 114m. Hard to get screenshots because the ticks are so fast and there is so much number spam from the ancients. Look at the WHITE numbers, those are the dot ticks - the yellow numbers are not EQ (the 205m is Mirinae).
Also screenshotted is my passives - Nerves of Steel, Relentless, Superstition, Berserker Rage (plus Ruthless from hellfire neck, but none of the screenshots are below 30% health). 3 defensive passives - if there were offensive passives these numbers would be higher.
In before OP makes excuses about why this doesn't count.
-golf clap- guess what though? you cant kill white mobs at all with a furnace. i have more crit damage then you with a furnace and i cant even kill white mobs well in higher greater rifts..you need elemental damage. how about you take a screenshot of you hitting a white mob for more then 35 mill. not to mention, thats a high end number probably, earthquake ticks are all over the damn place usually. also lets say you could even crit white mobs for more then 60 mil...which you cant, it ticks every 2.5-3 seconds so its not a lot of damage compared to i dunno...any other class in the game? and and top of all that said your fire, which means your gonna get crushed in higher rifts unless you have someone cc for you.
But you know, I actually did complete several 41 and 42 greater rifts as fire earthquake in a group this season. I don't disagree that Raekor's is better in almost every way (except raekor single target is really shitty compared to EQ), but you absolutely can complete and contribute to 40+ greater rifts with fire EQ. Well, maybe you can't...
But you know, I actually did complete several 41 and 42 greater rifts as fire earthquake in a group this season. I don't disagree that Raekor's is better in almost every way (except raekor single target is really shitty compared to EQ), but you absolutely can complete and contribute to 40+ greater rifts with fire EQ. Well, maybe you can't...
you mustve gotten a conduit, shielding on boss, and lots of skelatons and zombies. theres honestly no other way as leapquake. and no it doesnt compete, look at the leaderboards nobody is leapquake at all. probably for a good reason. and any class can do do 40 with good gear and almost any set in the game bsides blackthorns and invoker given the right mob density and shrines for bosses.
lightning boss - 1 shots you insatly over and over unless your immune
Hoss that splits - 1 shots you if you even jump on him
iron maiden - jump on her = die + mortors that 1 shot..not likely as leapquake
rime - impossible as leapquake
mallet lord - more then likely your going to get hit and die leaping in and wont be able to leap out quick enough
Coldsnap - not going to happen as well, you jump in and the range to jump out usually isnt big enough unless you save 2 leaps which still doesnt work most of the time.
Man Carver - leap in, get meleed, dead, and its bound to happen usually but its possible if you have enough time left and play smart.
the bug boss with tornadoes - jump in to bugs, dead, unless you have stun, but if you had stun. you wouldnt of made it to a rift guardian on tier 40+ anyways. you have to leapquake and lure them into the quake and hope you have enough damage for them not to get through. and if your leaps on coldown, goodbye, very unlikely leapquake is gonna kill this boss either.
so thats what, 1 boss you can kill as leapquake? im guessing shrines had a lot to do with this rift, just like all of the other barbs high on the leaderboards "even watched some of the top 5 on stream witth shielding pylon" and yes, if you did a tier 42 rift in under 10 minutes, guarenteed there was a shrine involved at this point in time. raekor however can kill more of these bosses, and even thats bad. most other classes can kill almost all of these rift guardians.
The numbers? Here are the numbers: 2.7 million copies in the first week. A combined 20 million copies altogether for D3 and RoS. RoS sold a LOT of copies; one of the few games that approaches WoW numbers in terms of retail sales....so I don't know which numbers you're talking about; please inform yourself. They might not make a new expansion? Said who? You? The only one who has made a selfish response is you. You want your build to be competitive, it's all about you and what you think, that's why you've made such outlandish comments without any real foundation for them: all I have to look at is your commentary on RoS' numbers... uneducated comment my friend. You just compared an act of terrorism to having multiple builds in a video game. That's pretty sad friend, I hope you're not American as that would be ridiculous.
I can legitimately say that the questions you're asking me you don't have an answer to: "do you have any idea how many people quit this game for this EXACT reason?" - No and neither do you. Capitalizing all of your words does not give them extra weight, credit or factual strength; all of which are non-existent here. If all of those magical people you're talking about who have quit do exactly as you have, then their next expansion will be fine. You're so in love with the game that even after you've had your fill of it, you still post about it in a childish rage on its popular forums. Blizzard's D3 franchise is doing just fine
also i have a lot of friends on diablo and many of them have quit, id say 50% and this was due to one class, one spec mentality. nobody wants to be the same class with all the same spells and all the same passives, its not fun. there needs to be build diversity for this game to be successful. says who? says all the people who constantly complain to me day after day and all of the people on the forums since ros came out, the funny thing is there is less classes and less builds to go now then when RoS first came out. and you dont see that as a problem? barbs only have 1 class , 1 spec, witch doctors 1 class, 1 spec, wizards,1 class, 1 spec. the only class that has multiple succesfull builds are crusaders. and not to get off topic but many people came to seasons for the new legendaries, and they all suck. except for crusader and the wizard wand...and thats only for running bounties. so how about you point out o me the GOOD things about this game instead of just counter whatever im saying with something thats completly untrue, and yes, they have lost many customers since ros came out, no doubt. you know how i know? because when i join a public game, it puts me in the same exact game over and over after i leave. wanna know why? because people are quitting the game not only because of the class issues listed previously but because theres no point to doing greater rifts first off besides leveling gems, its bad gear, and bad exp, and there is MAJOR density problem to the point where whoever is on top of the leaderboards got there from a conduit on the boss and killing lots of white zombies and skelotons. if you get a corrupted angel map guess what? you have to remake to compete. sounds like a winning patch to me. but your right, the games never been better. maybe half of my 80 friends quit because of something else. o wait...they didnt.
ooo and did i mention blizz doesnt even care if you exploit? and that they knew this exploit was in the ptr but failed fixing it...guess testing it before it went live was pretty hard huh? maybe as hard as making more then 1 spec per class?
Took a break from Diablo and now Im back after 2.1. So OP mentioned earlier that earthquake does NOT stack anymore. Is this true? is there a blue post somewhere?
Thanks a lot in advance.
Let's say a class has something like 20 potential builds that are Torment 6 viable. Let's say that 10 of those builds can get you to Grift level 35. Let's say that 2 of those builds can get to Grift level 40. Finally, let's say that only one of those builds can really handle Grift levels 41+.
Out of those 20 potential T6 builds, only 1 will get any attention and then we'll have people crying out, "lacks build diversity!" No, it doesn't lack build diversity. You just aren't willing to play any of the weaker builds, even though they're plenty strong. That's not a lack of build diversity. You can't expect every class to have a bunch of builds that are all just as capable as the others. The amount of balancing that would require is insane. Every minor change made to balance them would just break them even more. No class is ever going to have a ton of builds that can all handle the top grift levels and we really shouldn't expect that kind of thing.
The logic there is that this is a game heavily influenced by RNG. My main DH has something like 400 hours put in and still hasn't gotten enough pieces for an M6 build. My seasonal DH, however, had an M6 build within 50 hours of gameplay. Don't look for logic in an RNG system.
I'm going to put this as simply as I can: Stop comparing yourself to other classes. Your barbarian is not a DH, so you shouldn't be concerned with how well DHs are doing in Grifts.
If other fellow barbarians are handling grift levels that you can't handle, then you need to figure out what they're doing differently. Grifts are meant to be competitive and competition requires strategies that aren't always fun. If the people on the leaderboards are avoiding elites, then you need to avoid elites if you want to be competitive. If you're not willing to do that, then you probably shouldn't worry about high-level grifts anymore, because you don't have the correct mindset to progress through them.
It sounds to me, OP, like you're simply frustrating yourself by comparing your position on the solo leaderboards to everyone else and thinking that it's not fair. Fairness doesn't come into this, only strategy. Either start thinking and playing strategically or quit worrying about it.
Someone clarify please.
not to get off track, but we ran 25 greater rifts earlier, 70% of elites were electrify, and the ones that werent were arcane torrent in a narrow hallway thats completly undodgable as melee. in fact, as leapquake, you cant even leap in or your inta dead. as raekor, you charge and knock them through the lazers. and you wonder why i complain about class diversity. go ahead, tell me another spec for barbs. id LOVE to hear it. because quite frankly im sick of being forced into playing one spec one build one set of passives that everyone else uses just to compete in a group setting. ice is NOT a damage spec, it is support 100%, and bad support at that. half the mobs cant be frozen and they can STILL cast affixes even if they are. but sure, i guess if you wanna call that class diversity why not..only problem is its not.
my best advise to anyone who wants to go leapquake, go COLD quake, use double rend with cold for group t 6 for 20% more group damage, can use call of the ancients for 10% more group crit chance, avalanche isnt bad as cold along with rend, and for high g rifts use the remeanents skull or w/e to charm enemies with the rune on threathning shout for extra health globes, also use ground stomp with the extra health globe chance, "the globes spawn when using the spell not when killing enemies" ignore pain "group rune" with pride of cassius and just become a half support class because you can just go ahead and give up on damage when people are doing 4 times the ammount. but honestly i wouldnt even reccomened this, with top end gear atacks are 21-65 million.
but leap quacke stacks, thats for sure
tried raekor today, 28 million toughness, 70% damage reduction from skills, 85% armor, 72% all resistances, and i die easily in group in g rift 33 to absoultly everything. you kind of NEED a unity otherwise raekor is useless in higher groups if you dont skip packs.
Here is an Imgur album that shows EQ ticks on a rift boss of 101, 134, and 114m. Hard to get screenshots because the ticks are so fast and there is so much number spam from the ancients. Look at the WHITE numbers, those are the dot ticks - the yellow numbers are not EQ (the 205m is Mirinae).
Also screenshotted is my passives - Nerves of Steel, Relentless, Superstition, Berserker Rage (plus Ruthless from hellfire neck, but none of the screenshots are below 30% health). 3 defensive passives - if there were offensive passives these numbers would be higher.
In before OP makes excuses about why this doesn't count.
http://imgur.com/a/CvZ2p
lightning boss - 1 shots you insatly over and over unless your immune
Hoss that splits - 1 shots you if you even jump on him
iron maiden - jump on her = die + mortors that 1 shot..not likely as leapquake
rime - impossible as leapquake
mallet lord - more then likely your going to get hit and die leaping in and wont be able to leap out quick enough
Coldsnap - not going to happen as well, you jump in and the range to jump out usually isnt big enough unless you save 2 leaps which still doesnt work most of the time.
Man Carver - leap in, get meleed, dead, and its bound to happen usually but its possible if you have enough time left and play smart.
the bug boss with tornadoes - jump in to bugs, dead, unless you have stun, but if you had stun. you wouldnt of made it to a rift guardian on tier 40+ anyways. you have to leapquake and lure them into the quake and hope you have enough damage for them not to get through. and if your leaps on coldown, goodbye, very unlikely leapquake is gonna kill this boss either.
so thats what, 1 boss you can kill as leapquake? im guessing shrines had a lot to do with this rift, just like all of the other barbs high on the leaderboards "even watched some of the top 5 on stream witth shielding pylon" and yes, if you did a tier 42 rift in under 10 minutes, guarenteed there was a shrine involved at this point in time. raekor however can kill more of these bosses, and even thats bad. most other classes can kill almost all of these rift guardians.