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Interesting, although I'm not a big fan of WotB.

How do you manage to keep your health up without LoH? =O

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spec is bomb warguyver. i have some questions though:

do you bother with attack speed? (ring/neck/gloves)

how do you decide between stats? (str/vit/res/armor/sockets/LoH/atkspd)

favorite places to farm in inferno?

I love attack speed. If possible, I try to get it on everything

Stats, as long as I'm above 40k hp, I tend to prioritize all resist > armor > phys/fire resist > str/vit. I feel fairly comfortable at 1000ish LoH; I would recommend getting at least that much before tackling Act3/4 inferno.

Favorite place to farm is probably a combination between Inferno ponies, Inferno Diablo (5 stack). Siege breaker is extremely easy and quick as well, but the loot doesn't feel as good.

The block% and armor on stormshield are what determines its value for me. I spent 6 mil on my SS.

Quote from MaddogBG012788

well to be honest and i hope i dont sound like an ASS i am not surprized you think inferno is balanced for barb, you have gear well worth over 40-50mil. Also the point i want to make is that you basically have to be 1h + shield to go past act 2.

Well, Inferno is designed to be challenging. If you could 5 stack kill Inferno Diablo without spending more than 10 mil on gear, would you really consider the game balanced/challenging?

i guess i am just kinda pissed that people playing DH/WiZ can do ACT 4 with like half the gear i have.

I was too, but then I realized that wizards /DH in the same level of gear as me struggle -more- in act 4 inferno. Barbs eventually reach that level where they're too tanky to kill, and we can grind down any elite pack. Wizards/DH on the other hand will always be squishy. A fallen angel pack will randomly kill them regardless of how much gear they have.

My wizard/DH friends are complaining about how I have no problems with act 4 inferno now, and yet they continue to struggle with it no matter how much better their gear improves.

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I'm currently having trouble tanking in act III inferno. I have 750-900 resistances, 36k hp, 30% block, 10k dps. Any advice you could give me? I tried a lif eon hit weapon but it doesn't seem to affect me so much =/. Was a +371 lifeo n hit weapon with holy damage i believe.

EDIT: forgot to mention I got 10.1k armor aswell with enchantress buff, any help appreciated

Hmm, your stats seem good except your hp is a bit low. You also need to increase your resistances, especially physical/fire to above 1k. Put a lot of priority in gear that has AR + phys/fire resist + armor; armors like these are huge boosts to your mitigation.

Act 3 is still kicking my butt. 881 res all and 10.8k armor with shout and enchantress up, and about 950 life on hit. I still seem to get 2-3 shot by many normal mobs.

Your armor is far outpacing your all resist, you should look to equalize them.

Playstyle wise, are both of you using threatening shout? If not, I would recommend picking it up as it's essentially another -20% damage taken. Also try to utilize leap (iron impact) as much as possible and only fight the difficult packs when you have the 300% armor up.

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Warcry + Revenge + Frenzy are must haves.
Leap + Furious charge has been the core of my build, and I wouldn't switch this combo for any other.
I've been a big fan of threatening shout (grim harvest) as it's essentially another -20% damage taken with 15% additional loot generation.

Quote from Cudez

Thanks for sharing. Let me share few things as well:

Stormshield loses to Sacred shield cause the latter has better block amount.and higher base armor. SS has about ~2.7-3.7k block amount when Sacred shield has ~3.7-4.7.

SoE is not the BiS in item as the OP mentions cause its base stats are literally bad. Its not a bad belt but, if you reduce the damage reduction + the melee reduction you get a benefit of around total of 5% for 20% SoE.

Where is your Justice lantern and Helm of command? Those give 19% more block^^

Thanks,
Cudez

1300+ armor storm shields beat out sacred shields due to the 4% melee 4% elite reduction. Sure, sacreds block ~150 more damage on average but with Diablo inferno as the standard (hits for about 4k), 4% melee = ~160 reduction per hit, 4% elite = another ~160 reduction per hit.

I'm also trying to work in double Ias rings/Andy's helm into my gear. I find myself surviving fine but I'm looking for more damage.

Hopefully they make it a passive so I don't have to smash on the key all day.

Sorry guys, I was using threatening shout - falter (attack speed).

Stormshield (using a 27% one with 1300 armor) was one of the best purchases I ever made. This shield is worth it's weight in gold. I would definitely try to snag one asap -IF- it has +armor and a decent block% (25-26+). I'm personally of the opinion that shields are 100% necessary right now for smooth runs. You can get away with dual wielding, but you'll probably be dying significantly more.

SoE, imo, is not mandatory. As others have mentioned, there can be a considerable stat loss using SoE. Further, things that tend to kill you (fiery chains, molten) are often not melee attacks. I'm probably going to try another belt soon as comparison.

Another note, I'm currently at 46966 hp (yes you're reading that right) and I'm feeling extremely comfortable at this level of hp. I don't feel like you really need monstrous amounts of hp because you won't get 1 shot as a well geared barb. What you really need to focus on is ways to mitigate and sustain the incoming damage.

Weapon: http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/441/screenshot019cr.jpg/
Helm: http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/571/screenshot020uo.jpg/
Shield: http://imageshack.us/f/15/screenshot021ca.jpg/

Stick with your passives, swap wrath of the berserker for leap (300%) armor.

Vs fire chains and molten, always fight walking backwards. Hit only the target on the outside of the pack. Leap --> fight till you're low --> furious charge out --> repeat.

Solo'd it earlier today; just did my first 5 stack kill.

http://imageshack.us...nshot008js.jpg/
Note: I did have someone bug in my enchantress merc just for safe measures =P. I probably could've killed him it without.

Stats:
http://imageshack.us...nshot012cn.jpg/

Build:
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/barbarian#WgXSkV!bVe!aZaccc

Overall thoughts: Inferno Diablo, is more or less a joke for a barbarian. He literally cannot kill you unless you decide to walk into shadow prisons at half hp. We probably have the easiest time farming valor stacks as well due to the fact that corrupted angel packs tend to destroy DH/Wizards. Personally, it took me about 55 minutes to farm 5 stack valor.

All in all, I'm quite happy with Barbarians at the moment. Act 2 was extremely frustrating, but now looking back it was really just a big gear/play style check. Once you start breaking 9.2k+ armor, 800-900 all resist, 500-600+ life on hit, the game gets a lot better.

Yes, having 1000+ life on hit is a big milestone. You get to a point where you can only mitigate so much damage, but revenge healing alone is not enough. You need life on hit to sustain your hp levels. 1000ish life on hit can be 1.5-2% of your max hp per hit, which is pretty insane considering how fast you hit with frenzy.