This build works fine with no ias at all, if you can get extra on your gear it's a bonus, but it's not nearly as valuable as strength and crit/crit damage.
Edit: Having too much IAS with no crit gear actually makes this build harder to play, you want to prioritize crit much higher than ias.
Sorry I haven't really been posting any more info on this, I've been really bored with the lack of any endgame besides gear farming. Thank you Liquidbeaver for that post, I think it breaks down everything really nicely. As for everyone saying that there's no way for this to work without a huge investment, I think it's really due to everyone looking for amazing gear to start off with. I really can't comment on the EU auction house, but you can pick up low dps with mid-high loh for much less than some people are saying. Like I've said over and over again, I've only invested about 1.5mil into my gear and can speed farm elites in act 1 and 2, and handle myself if I play smartly in act 3.
If you want to keep that high health, you can pick up blood funnel from Whirlwind, which scales incredibly with your health pool. Also, this build does work with 1h/shield just as well, if you're looking for some more defense. If you have any specific questions, feel free to hit me up on my stream where I can answer them live.
I may make another video with the same gear showing how easy it is to kill Inferno Diablo as well.
Play with what you feel comfortable with, and what you have fun playing. There are a ton of variations of this build, and all of them are just fine to play.
I'm making similar videos to show effectiveness against act1/2 packs tomorrow, I'm too tired to finish them right now. I used this build with this gear through the entirety of inferno, skipping very few packs. I don't usually play on softcore anymore, so I threw this gear together with what little money I had left on my softcore toons, which was about 3million gold. I really only spent about half that, though a few of my pieces I've found on my own. That is much cheaper than gearing out with high vit/resist gear, which averages at well over a mil a piece.
edit: I actually started this gearset/build as a cheap and easy way to get the inferno D Barb kill achieve, as I'm an achievement hunter. I then added the whirlwind setup and started to use it to farm elites when I didn't feel like playing hardcore. This spec is really meant for elite hunting, I was just showcasing how easy it was to kill belial with no effort even with the stricter enrage timer, something that I've seen overly defensive barbarians with much more expensive gear fail to do.
Yea, life steal is still very effective as your dps goes up, especially when your laying down so many attacks at once. I just didn't include it in this video since it revolves around being effective with very low base damage.
It looks like my second video will have to wait until the morning, having an issue with my encode and I'm too exhausted to deal with it.
edit: I was able to clear act 1 with ease with about 1/4 the loh I have now, I just used resist shout to help with the damage, and you can subsitute the Hurricane rune out for Blood Funnel if you're still hurting for healing.
My weapons took a bit of bargain hunting, but nothing too extreme. I believe a 2hander alternative to this build would be very effective and much cheaper, it's definitely worth a try and I'll keep an eye out for a 2hander to try it with. The downside of lifesteal is that it scales down in inferno, it's something like 8% life steal = 1.2% in inferno. However, you can get lifesteal on items that you can not get loh on, such as your belt. And life steal becomes more and more potent as your gear increases. It's definitely a viable stat for this build.
@Faithful The most important stats are crit and loh. Str is of course very nice, but totally a luxury stat. I would focus first on getting decent crit and loh, then defense, then damage.
@Maddog this build actually fairs surprisingly well against champ packs, especially with the immunity to CC that wrath grants. In later acts, you usually have to drop overpower for resist shout, unless you can play with a more defensively built barb in your group. I'm making a video of handling elites in early acts now, and I'll work on more videos for later acts tomorrow.
This build is strong because it works very well with very little gear, and then just gets ridiculously strong as your gear improves.
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Edit: Having too much IAS with no crit gear actually makes this build harder to play, you want to prioritize crit much higher than ias.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe9_3ohDdNE&feature=youtu.be
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ouAAF5Vs60&feature=youtu.be
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You can gear this spec up enough to speedfarm act 1 with only a few million.
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I may make another video with the same gear showing how easy it is to kill Inferno Diablo as well.
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edit: I actually started this gearset/build as a cheap and easy way to get the inferno D Barb kill achieve, as I'm an achievement hunter. I then added the whirlwind setup and started to use it to farm elites when I didn't feel like playing hardcore. This spec is really meant for elite hunting, I was just showcasing how easy it was to kill belial with no effort even with the stricter enrage timer, something that I've seen overly defensive barbarians with much more expensive gear fail to do.
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It looks like my second video will have to wait until the morning, having an issue with my encode and I'm too exhausted to deal with it.
edit: I was able to clear act 1 with ease with about 1/4 the loh I have now, I just used resist shout to help with the damage, and you can subsitute the Hurricane rune out for Blood Funnel if you're still hurting for healing.
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@Maddog this build actually fairs surprisingly well against champ packs, especially with the immunity to CC that wrath grants. In later acts, you usually have to drop overpower for resist shout, unless you can play with a more defensively built barb in your group. I'm making a video of handling elites in early acts now, and I'll work on more videos for later acts tomorrow.
This build is strong because it works very well with very little gear, and then just gets ridiculously strong as your gear improves.