I have read the guides stickied here explaining the mechanics of WW, sprint, and WOTB and how to maintain 100% uptime. I BELIEVE i am following them correctly, but i just simply cant keep WOTB up. I can only gain around 3-4 bonus seconds. I do not have a clue what I am doing wrong. Is there any tips or suggestions you can give me? I do not have any way to record my gameplay, so all I can do is post my profile and hope my problem lies in my gear. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks!
What he said + Don't pickup all items. You can't have WOTB up all the time and pickup everything. So basically only jewels and legendaries, or say goodbuy to WOTB.
I also do believe your Crit chance is too low. You should get at least 50 with passive.
while youre whirling, spam sprint and battle rage. you gain bonus time by fury GAINED... you dont gain fury past 100 so you have to keep using and gaining and using and gaining. Also i reckon you may be playing on an mp level that's too low for your gear. what mp do you farm on?
That explains a lot. I'm constantly at full fury yet never gaining any bonus seconds and was wondering why and was also wondering why barb videos i watched people were spamming battle rage. Thank you.
What he said + Don't pickup all items. You can't have WOTB up all the time and pickup everything. So basically only jewels and legendaries, or say goodbuy to WOTB.
I also do believe your Crit chance is too low. You should get at least 50 with passive.
Yea when im going for high WOTB uptime i pick up almost nothing. I am getting no luck crafting a hellfire ring with crit% on it. that + i am saving up to buy an IKT helm will give me another 8-9 crit which will push me past 50. More crit definitely = more fury gain, but i think the first post about making sure im not at fury cap is where im going wrong. Thank you for the input though.
MP1 is way too low for your dps to maintain wotb. With your dps you should be at least MP4-5 or else you won't be able to generate enough rage because you will kill things before tornados have time to tick much at all.
MP1 is way too low for your dps to maintain wotb. With your dps you should be at least MP4-5 or else you won't be able to generate enough rage because you will kill things before tornados have time to tick much at all.
I choose MP1 because I can just roll through once and my one WW hit and tornados kill off everything. I do this to get as much XP/hour as possible. With the new XP bonuses to paragon levels, is going up to MP4-5 in my gear going to be better(in terms of XP gain)?
When pursuing low MPs Ground stomp outranks WOTB by quite a large margin, it has some pretty cool effects. When you reach a monster power more suitable for a permanent WOTB then I warmly suggest introducing both Whirlwind and a main nuke (HotA) for a more fulfilling experience.
I used to play with other barbs who used Ground Stomp. I liked them having it, but never preferred to use it myself. It has a lot of cool uses, I just dont prefer to use it, and my higher MP key farming/uber spec uses WW and HoTA and I LOVE that build. It makes me happy i picked barb as my main.
I choose MP1 because I can just roll through once and my one WW hit and tornados kill off everything. I do this to get as much XP/hour as possible. With the new XP bonuses to paragon levels, is going up to MP4-5 in my gear going to be better(in terms of XP gain)?
The best XP/time right now is actually MP10 Arreat Crater 2 killing the scorpions and then resetting but it is getting nerfed in 1.08. MP10 Keep Depths 2 is slightly worse XP but slightly better loot and isn't getting changed at all. I usually do both right now but will probably only do KD2 in 1.08. The build I use is pretty much standard WW spec with rend instead of any fury generator because on MP10 it's never a problem keeping fury up and you can keep moving if you know your rend/tornados will finish them off.
Strafir's advice is spot on, as usual. I had major problems with this too until I started playing on higher MP and I incorporated Rend. Something like Rend or HotA helps a lot as it's an additional way to dump fury beyond spamming BR and Sprint.
Also, be careful spamming Sprint as it takes a moment after you hit it before tornadoes start to appear. If you need to spam Sprint, you want to hit it 2-3 times quickly and not space them out at like 1 second apart. Max tornado count will come from hitting the new Sprint immediately after the old one expires.
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Ok, I still need to improve but i fixed my problem. Kinda silly but it was the first comment that solved it. I never took into account the fact that if i was at max fury, i technically wasnt gaining any fury, so no bonus seconds. After about 30 minutes of getting used to spamming battle shout to stay under cap i was able to keep up WOTB for an entire run. I appreciate all the feed back, suggestions, and tips. We can consider this topic closed!
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I also do believe your Crit chance is too low. You should get at least 50 with passive.
That explains a lot. I'm constantly at full fury yet never gaining any bonus seconds and was wondering why and was also wondering why barb videos i watched people were spamming battle rage. Thank you.
Also, i usually play on MP1 when farming.
Yea when im going for high WOTB uptime i pick up almost nothing. I am getting no luck crafting a hellfire ring with crit% on it. that + i am saving up to buy an IKT helm will give me another 8-9 crit which will push me past 50. More crit definitely = more fury gain, but i think the first post about making sure im not at fury cap is where im going wrong. Thank you for the input though.
I choose MP1 because I can just roll through once and my one WW hit and tornados kill off everything. I do this to get as much XP/hour as possible. With the new XP bonuses to paragon levels, is going up to MP4-5 in my gear going to be better(in terms of XP gain)?
I used to play with other barbs who used Ground Stomp. I liked them having it, but never preferred to use it myself. It has a lot of cool uses, I just dont prefer to use it, and my higher MP key farming/uber spec uses WW and HoTA and I LOVE that build. It makes me happy i picked barb as my main.
Also, be careful spamming Sprint as it takes a moment after you hit it before tornadoes start to appear. If you need to spam Sprint, you want to hit it 2-3 times quickly and not space them out at like 1 second apart. Max tornado count will come from hitting the new Sprint immediately after the old one expires.
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