You can try swapping out impunity for Op-CA as with the SK/Maghda fight there are enough adds around that OP resets pretty fast, but you shouldnt even touch maghda until SK is down. Stay as far away from Maghda as you possibly can, and that should solve most of your issues until you actually have to kill her. Especially with your AR as high as it is, OP-CA should net you a nice defensive cooldown (if you use it that way), or a offensive attack that happens to give you 30% damage mitigation. You have enough crit so that you should be able to keep the buff up long enough so that the down time between when it falls off and is reapplied shouldnt be more than a second or two. Another possibility is to swap bash-instigation for onslaught as you wont really need the extra rage on startup too badly due to your attack speed, and the extra damage from the reverberations is really nice (it also can activate into the fray as well). In those rare occasions that you need to use bash, the extra damage really helps, especially in terms of lifeleach.
Point for point, vit is worth more than % life to you right now.1% life is roughly 400 HP to you right now. 12 vit = that 400 HP. In the short run, the % life is fine, but as you start gearing more towards dps, you will drop the % life in favor of higher str/crit etc. Unless the IK helm you purchased had crit chance and a ton of str on it, it will be a downgrade as of right now. Your BK ring is also holding you back as your crit is really low (10% less than current due to the change to mighty weapons).
Right now your two biggest worries are crit chance and EHP. Though you have an okay amount of health, your AR being low is hurting you pretty bad. Right now (with the old gear), your AR is only 321. An IK helm that has high str and crit chance will run you a pretty penny, so chances are you didnt get one, which hinders you further. You want crit chance on both your rings, you can lower or even drop vit on them as rings are better used to purely increase DPS. Since you got the IK helm, I would either drop the boots for Firewalkers with high str and vit, or if the IK helm doesnt have crit chance, replace the gloves with ones that have AR. Strongarm bracers are nice, but you can get ones with similar stats, AR, and no life % for pretty cheap these days. For the neck replacement, remember that if it has no vit, you will lose roughly 5.6k HP from the life % loss. For the legs, since you broke the blackthornes set bonus, try to find a decent pair that has high str/vit with AR... doesnt necessarily have to have 2 sockets if you are on a budget. As far as the weapons go, try them out, and if they work for you for rage generation, then awesome. Bear in mind that you will lose a TON of crit damage swapping to those weapons as well as the 10% crit from weapons master.
As much as I feel bad for saying this, you should probably try to sell those weapons so you can get a 900+ dps mace/axe with crit damage (doesnt have to be > 70%), attack speed/str and a socket along with a dagger offhand (dps doesnt matter) with crit damage, lifesteal, attack speed/strength, and a socket. You can actually stick with your old axe in the mainhand, and try to find a good offhand dagger (for the 1.5 attack speed that sprint tornadoes benefit from) with the stats I mentioned above if you want to save gold.
Like I said, your main focuses should be swapping vit for life %, and getting your crit chance up, and getting your AR up. Replacing both rings with crit chance rings will give you between 6 and 12% more crit alone. I would heavily advise changing out OP-CA for impunity right now if you want to continue farming mp5 as you will see much more survivability from the ~70AR/armor you gain than the crushing advance buff. Until you can keep that buff up basically 100% of the time, impunity is better.
At your gear level, it would be much faster for you to farm mp2-3 than farming 5. You could probably do 2 mp3 runs in the same time you do a 5 run currently. Unfortunately the name of the game now is efficiency, and there is basically no reason to run MP levels that you cant do an alkizer run in less than 20 minutes at. Even though there is a 50% higher chance for rare items to drop (it doesnt quite work out linearly... its more like a 3% chance), the time clearing almost completely negates it.
I have both as well, Mempo without crit but as a good AR hat, and it's 4k+ better paper dps than my 170str 5.5 crit IK hat, so I'm wearing the Mempo atm. I just like resists though, I feel weird lowering them, lol.
Dps on paper isnt necessarily true dps. depends on how close to the next breakpoint on WW/tornado ticks you are if the IAS would be better.
As for 3% attack speed, it is actually no real match for the 3% crit from the soundrel unless it brings you just above the next ticking breakpoint, which is quite unlikely. However, the enchantress does also give 5% extra armor and has better MF potential.
Yeah, this is also a large part of why I prefer her. She gives me 22% MF by herself, and I really do like the armor buff as well. While the scoundrel does give me 1.6k paperdoll dps (about 13k tDPS) over the enchantress, I farm on mp5 or 6 usually now, so the difference in damage isnt really all that much. She actually does bring me very close to the next breakpoint for both weapons (2% AS mainhand, 4% offhand), so I think that I may try grabbing an item with some attack speed to see if it makes things go even smoother. After plugging it into d3rawr, if I gain at least 4% attack speed, the enchantress would be better than the scoundrel allthough if I gain 7%, the scoundrel takes back over as the superior one. Im guessing this is due to the fact that I am 7% IAS away from my offhand breakpoint without her buff.
do we need life on hit and life steal as a WW barb?
Depends on your dps. Ideally, you can get both. Once you get past a certain dps threshold (around 70k), LOH becomes less effective than lifesteal. Just today, I swapped out my dagger that had 500 LOH, 2.8% lifesteal and a socket for one with 3.0 lifesteal and 61% crit damage. Since LOH doesnt proc as much from tornadoes anymore, it has lessened in value versus LS. What this meant for me is that even though I lost 500 LOH, because of the gain in DPS that I got, I only ended up losing a total of 340 life per second (according to d3rawr). At ~130k dps, 1% of lifesteal = 541 LOH for me, which isnt really noticable unless I farm higher MPs than I do (5-7 usually).
But to fully answer your question, Try to gather both if at all possible. If you are under 70k dps, I would try to stay around 900 LOH or more with 6-9% lifesteal, or around 1400-1600 without any lifesteal. It really all depends on what difficulty you farm, and your playstyle. If you have higher dps, then using whirlwind aggressively works really well with the lifesteal as LOH only procs off of the first hit of whirlwind (as far as I know).
You dont honestly need 24% movement speed, but if you really did, than you would just need to replace the spear with a dagger, and get her some fire walkers (or any other boots with 12% runspeed). I run with 12% runspeed, and clear really fast as it is. I tried out using a similar lacuni bracer to hers when one dropped, and I really didnt notice that much of a difference versus 12%. I moved a bit faster, and maybe hit an extra mob a little quicker, but i really saw no discernable benefit.
If you swapped her mainhand spear with a mace with the same str, IAS, dps, socket, but with no LOH, and 50% crit damage, she would gain 6100 dps. If you swapped her offhand spear with a 738 dps dagger with 115 str, 2.6% lifesteal, 500 LOH, and a socket (with a 70% gem in it), she would gain 5400 dps. Even though she would lose a net 180 LOH and .3% lifesteal between the two new weapons, she would end up gaining 400 more life per second (not including the life regen from the shoulders) because of the difference in her damage overall. The dps gain is in large part due to the 10% bonus crit that she would get from swapping to weapons master and having a mace in her mainhand. With above 45% crit (after battle rage), WW barbs do not need animosity due to how fast they gain rage (especially with her having 55% crit now that she would have weapons master).
If she were to swap the shoulders for ones with similar(or more) str, no +armor, no regen, maybe slightly less AR, but with at least 26 vit, she would net gain survivability (26 vit is equivalent to the +265 armor in terms of survivability). For another big upgrade, you can grab her an IK helm that has on the lower end of strength (under 100 ), 5% crit, 10%+ life %, and a socket for extremely cheap. You can also just find a similar helm (that just isnt IK for probably under 1 million and may even have AR or vit). The nice thing about getting the IK helm is that you not only get the 2 set bonus (netting you 60 AR for free), but the helm also offers 5% less damage taken from melee.
I uploaded her character to d3rawr and swapped in the gear that I suggested with around the stats that I said. Set 1 is her normal gear, with nothing changed at all. Set 2 is with a new helm, shoulders, bracers, and the two weapons. With those 5 items, she would gain 20k damage which is actually gaining 90k true dps. True DPS is the actual DPS that she will be doing with her sprint tornados + the whirlwind damage. She goes from 158k tDPS to 249k tDPS. Her EHP would also increase by about 100k, as well as her actual HP by around 9k.
For some reason I cant change the text back to the color its supposed to be on the following paragraph.
http://www.d3rawr.com/d-sniAc Here is the profile with two sets of gear on a barb. Set 1 is her current gear, unchanged. Set 2 is her gear with those 5 items that I mentioned replaced. The dps for set 1 is a little bit off because I cant turn off weapons master for 1 set but not another. This shows a lot of information, but on the right side column under the attributes box there is a tab called "tDPS and life gained per second" which shows true dps as well.
Well, this is what is possible when most of your gear is 95% perfect rolls for all stats. Very nice gear and build. I have been considering trying out a ranged spec recently as my WW spec is starting to get a little stale. I may give this a try later down the line. It obvously wont be as fast for farming, but it may be a better spec for me to run ubers with as I usually 2man them with a DH, sometimes 3 with the DH and a WD (or 2). Seems like it would be fun (though less broken than being able to down IK/Maghda solo through arcane sentries and the bugs without caring whatsoever).
If you have mighty weapon in the main hand and use weapons master passive you gain 3 fury per hit this is great for keeping it up on single targets. On second inspection your crit should
Be fine as it is. Replace the offhand wep with a fast dagger or sword around 700-800dps with life steal , str , crit
Damage 60-100% and open socket and stick gem in . If you hang on until the weekend I've got a few offhand weps in storage ill let you try them out for free as they are Not of any use to me. Also try get boots with 12%
Movement speed aswell
If only he were on EU for you to be generous with. Swapping out weapons master for animosity will also give her free dps . To expand on what he is saying, you want a dagger in the offhand with (at her gear level) high strength, some LOH, lifesteal, and an open socket for now, as 800+ dps ones that have crit damage in addition to lifesteal/strength/socket tend to be way overpriced right now. Since yall are on US servers, I have a great offhand weapon i can let go of for really cheap (its like a 700 dps dagger with the stats i mentioned). With the offhand, dps really doesnt matter that much unless she is using whirlwind as a main source of damage output, which is not recommended until she has enough dps to make lifesteal better than LOH, threshold on that is around 60-70k dps. Switch to either a mace or an axe in the mainhand (you can use mighty weapon, but i find that the 10% crit from weapons master makes things much smoother). You can get her a decent 900ish dps mace with strength, crit damage, and an open socket for under 10 million pretty easily. Be sure that when you look for a mainhand weapon, that you look at the damage range for the weapon itself. A 1000 dps mace (assuming no IAS) with a damage range of 650-1030 will be outperformed by a 934 dps weapon with a damage range of 516-1046. The reason is that the tornadoes from sprint are based on mainhand damage, and the higher top end damage means that the tornadoes have a higher damage potential.
She can get a really nice set of fire walkers dirt cheap on the AH right now, as well as a set of IK boots, but it would be best for her to grab some fire walkers with high Str (140ish), and high vit (120ish) with little to no AR due to her lower health pool. Since she would lose some AR from the boots, you could purchase a decent rolled IK gloves with 80+ str, maybe some vit and AR, 9-10% crit for under 10 mil, and this would not only give her a bonus 60 AR from the 2 set bonus, but also 6% melee damage reduction that all IK gloves have(and you also get 4-5% from fire walkers too). If getting IK gloves proves too expensive right now, look into replacing her belt with a Lamentation as it would be a good DPS upgrade for her. Lamentations are extremely cheap for ice ones on the AH right now, though they may end up not having as much AR, but right now she needs a larger lifepool. Replacing her helm would for sure be a great idea (though the one you have is decent), mainly because she needs more vit at the current moment. Ill help look a little later, but you can get a really nice set of shoulders for a great price on the AH if you know how to look. You should be able to find shoulders with over 150 str, 80+ vit (or more), AR, and life% for pretty cheap. I have a ring laying around that would be a very nice replacement for her antique victor that I can give yall if you like.
As for the bracers, while Lacunis are really nice, she would see more benefit from a set of bracers with 100+ str, any vit, any AR, and 5-6% crit. The runspeed from them is nice, but since you are going to swap to runspeed boots, it will cancel out. Overall, I believe that IAS is somewhat overrated for WW barbs until they have towards the higher end of gear, so the swap to IK gloves without IAS that I mentioned earlier may be a dps loss on paper, but it will result in a more important survivability increase.
As far as the spec goes, its pretty standard, except I would recommend that she switch out Frenzy-vanguard for Bash-instigation once she switches out weapons as it will allow her to generate the fury needed to start spinning through mobs much faster. With instigation, you only need 2-3 hits to get enough fury to use Battle rage, only 1 hit if you use war cry. Like I mentioned earlier, swapping animosity for weapons master will give her a very nice dps boost, especially when she swaps to a mace/axe in the mainhand.
Feel free to add me in game, and I can help yall out some more (id be more than happy to help you look through the AH for great deals). I actually really enjoy helping the community, and it would be fun to help a new WW barb out. Fallactic#1486
Don't associate the "Damage" number with the amount of damage your character does. It all depends on the build and playstyle. Think about how individual stats contribute to where you draw damage from.
Exactly. For me personally, the attack speed from enchantress outweighs the crit from scoundrel because I am using my whirlwind as a primary source of dps now. With nearly 65% crit and 440% CD, my whirlwind damage is approaching 300k dps (average) by itself. Having at least 3 sprint tornados on an enemy increases that by another 100k. Character sheet dps is different than actual dps. The way character sheet dps calculates your damage is if you had no skill equipped as a primary attack, and you were just attacking normally (it doesnt even truly take into account the damagr increase from crit damage either). Its just sort of a metric to go by when figuring if you can or can not do certain content. Those 3 mil+ dps characters downing azmodan on mp10 in less than a minute usually show less than 400k dps on their character sheet.
He probably meant better for your wallet rather than better overall. Ideally you want both crit damage and IAS with a socket, but it is ridiculously expensive.
Ah, iv'e never seen something as beautiful as my example, so I was just citing what would be near perfect. In that case, replace the cold damage with % chance to slow/freeze imo.
high dps (1200 ish for a 1h, 1600 for a 2h)
frost damage (for the slow)
strength
attack speed
80%+ crit damage (180+ for 2h)
lifesteal
socket
Depending on the rest of your gear, having str, crit damage, and a socket would be decent if they are in your price range, but the item i mentioned above would be well over 2 billion easily. If you are a WW barb, IAS is nice to have, but I dont run any, and hardly notice any difference.
I mean i personally prefer the enchantress attack speed as I have 61.5% unbuffed crit right now, and the difference between the enchantress and scoundrel for my dps is 1.1k. I like the armor, and the erosion buff that she grants as it makes burning down extra health mobs that much faster. I also like the knockback of hers (sometimes). A big part of the difference in price between US and EU is pretty aparrent here, as i got a IK helm with 170 str, 5.5% crit chance, 12% life, and like 30 AR for around 25 mil. I think it had more AR, but my profile hasnt updated since i bought new gear this morning before the server downtime.
If you play solo, Soundrel is much better with a buriza. I have 20% freeze on him and it help so much.
Eh, the only reason I use a follower at all is the bonus to MF, and the occasional cool ability that they have. The difference between having and not having a follower is 2-3k dps... not a huge difference to me personally. Once I get higher paragon, it will prolly be worth it to switch back to scoundrel, but I dont really need either the buff or the CC from them personally as its barely noticable when I do a run as it is. The freeze weapon sounds interesting for mobs that like to run away, ill look into it.
I am in the same boat...I have an IK helm (have 5 piece bonus as well) but think i should move to a mempho. Good idea?
I am at 54% crit with shout
any advice?
Depends on the rest of your gear TBH. 5 piece IK really isnt worth it that much anymore, but theres also no reason to have 4/5 equipped unless you are willing to upgrade another item as well so you get max benefit from most of your gear. If you get a mempo (with similar crit), you should think about either replacing the belt with a witching hour or a really great roll lamentation, or grab a really good firewalker/iceclimber
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Right now your two biggest worries are crit chance and EHP. Though you have an okay amount of health, your AR being low is hurting you pretty bad. Right now (with the old gear), your AR is only 321. An IK helm that has high str and crit chance will run you a pretty penny, so chances are you didnt get one, which hinders you further. You want crit chance on both your rings, you can lower or even drop vit on them as rings are better used to purely increase DPS. Since you got the IK helm, I would either drop the boots for Firewalkers with high str and vit, or if the IK helm doesnt have crit chance, replace the gloves with ones that have AR. Strongarm bracers are nice, but you can get ones with similar stats, AR, and no life % for pretty cheap these days. For the neck replacement, remember that if it has no vit, you will lose roughly 5.6k HP from the life % loss. For the legs, since you broke the blackthornes set bonus, try to find a decent pair that has high str/vit with AR... doesnt necessarily have to have 2 sockets if you are on a budget. As far as the weapons go, try them out, and if they work for you for rage generation, then awesome. Bear in mind that you will lose a TON of crit damage swapping to those weapons as well as the 10% crit from weapons master.
As much as I feel bad for saying this, you should probably try to sell those weapons so you can get a 900+ dps mace/axe with crit damage (doesnt have to be > 70%), attack speed/str and a socket along with a dagger offhand (dps doesnt matter) with crit damage, lifesteal, attack speed/strength, and a socket. You can actually stick with your old axe in the mainhand, and try to find a good offhand dagger (for the 1.5 attack speed that sprint tornadoes benefit from) with the stats I mentioned above if you want to save gold.
Like I said, your main focuses should be swapping vit for life %, and getting your crit chance up, and getting your AR up. Replacing both rings with crit chance rings will give you between 6 and 12% more crit alone. I would heavily advise changing out OP-CA for impunity right now if you want to continue farming mp5 as you will see much more survivability from the ~70AR/armor you gain than the crushing advance buff. Until you can keep that buff up basically 100% of the time, impunity is better.
At your gear level, it would be much faster for you to farm mp2-3 than farming 5. You could probably do 2 mp3 runs in the same time you do a 5 run currently. Unfortunately the name of the game now is efficiency, and there is basically no reason to run MP levels that you cant do an alkizer run in less than 20 minutes at. Even though there is a 50% higher chance for rare items to drop (it doesnt quite work out linearly... its more like a 3% chance), the time clearing almost completely negates it.
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Blizz has said multiple times that they would rather buff than nerf, but they do the opposite.
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Dps on paper isnt necessarily true dps. depends on how close to the next breakpoint on WW/tornado ticks you are if the IAS would be better.
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Yeah, this is also a large part of why I prefer her. She gives me 22% MF by herself, and I really do like the armor buff as well. While the scoundrel does give me 1.6k paperdoll dps (about 13k tDPS) over the enchantress, I farm on mp5 or 6 usually now, so the difference in damage isnt really all that much. She actually does bring me very close to the next breakpoint for both weapons (2% AS mainhand, 4% offhand), so I think that I may try grabbing an item with some attack speed to see if it makes things go even smoother. After plugging it into d3rawr, if I gain at least 4% attack speed, the enchantress would be better than the scoundrel allthough if I gain 7%, the scoundrel takes back over as the superior one. Im guessing this is due to the fact that I am 7% IAS away from my offhand breakpoint without her buff.
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Depends on your dps. Ideally, you can get both. Once you get past a certain dps threshold (around 70k), LOH becomes less effective than lifesteal. Just today, I swapped out my dagger that had 500 LOH, 2.8% lifesteal and a socket for one with 3.0 lifesteal and 61% crit damage. Since LOH doesnt proc as much from tornadoes anymore, it has lessened in value versus LS. What this meant for me is that even though I lost 500 LOH, because of the gain in DPS that I got, I only ended up losing a total of 340 life per second (according to d3rawr). At ~130k dps, 1% of lifesteal = 541 LOH for me, which isnt really noticable unless I farm higher MPs than I do (5-7 usually).
But to fully answer your question, Try to gather both if at all possible. If you are under 70k dps, I would try to stay around 900 LOH or more with 6-9% lifesteal, or around 1400-1600 without any lifesteal. It really all depends on what difficulty you farm, and your playstyle. If you have higher dps, then using whirlwind aggressively works really well with the lifesteal as LOH only procs off of the first hit of whirlwind (as far as I know).
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If you swapped her mainhand spear with a mace with the same str, IAS, dps, socket, but with no LOH, and 50% crit damage, she would gain 6100 dps. If you swapped her offhand spear with a 738 dps dagger with 115 str, 2.6% lifesteal, 500 LOH, and a socket (with a 70% gem in it), she would gain 5400 dps. Even though she would lose a net 180 LOH and .3% lifesteal between the two new weapons, she would end up gaining 400 more life per second (not including the life regen from the shoulders) because of the difference in her damage overall. The dps gain is in large part due to the 10% bonus crit that she would get from swapping to weapons master and having a mace in her mainhand. With above 45% crit (after battle rage), WW barbs do not need animosity due to how fast they gain rage (especially with her having 55% crit now that she would have weapons master).
If she were to swap the shoulders for ones with similar(or more) str, no +armor, no regen, maybe slightly less AR, but with at least 26 vit, she would net gain survivability (26 vit is equivalent to the +265 armor in terms of survivability). For another big upgrade, you can grab her an IK helm that has on the lower end of strength (under 100 ), 5% crit, 10%+ life %, and a socket for extremely cheap. You can also just find a similar helm (that just isnt IK for probably under 1 million and may even have AR or vit). The nice thing about getting the IK helm is that you not only get the 2 set bonus (netting you 60 AR for free), but the helm also offers 5% less damage taken from melee.
I uploaded her character to d3rawr and swapped in the gear that I suggested with around the stats that I said. Set 1 is her normal gear, with nothing changed at all. Set 2 is with a new helm, shoulders, bracers, and the two weapons. With those 5 items, she would gain 20k damage which is actually gaining 90k true dps. True DPS is the actual DPS that she will be doing with her sprint tornados + the whirlwind damage. She goes from 158k tDPS to 249k tDPS. Her EHP would also increase by about 100k, as well as her actual HP by around 9k.
For some reason I cant change the text back to the color its supposed to be on the following paragraph.
http://www.d3rawr.com/d-sniAc Here is the profile with two sets of gear on a barb. Set 1 is her current gear, unchanged. Set 2 is her gear with those 5 items that I mentioned replaced. The dps for set 1 is a little bit off because I cant turn off weapons master for 1 set but not another. This shows a lot of information, but on the right side column under the attributes box there is a tab called "tDPS and life gained per second" which shows true dps as well.
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If only he were on EU for you to be generous with. Swapping out weapons master for animosity will also give her free dps . To expand on what he is saying, you want a dagger in the offhand with (at her gear level) high strength, some LOH, lifesteal, and an open socket for now, as 800+ dps ones that have crit damage in addition to lifesteal/strength/socket tend to be way overpriced right now. Since yall are on US servers, I have a great offhand weapon i can let go of for really cheap (its like a 700 dps dagger with the stats i mentioned). With the offhand, dps really doesnt matter that much unless she is using whirlwind as a main source of damage output, which is not recommended until she has enough dps to make lifesteal better than LOH, threshold on that is around 60-70k dps. Switch to either a mace or an axe in the mainhand (you can use mighty weapon, but i find that the 10% crit from weapons master makes things much smoother). You can get her a decent 900ish dps mace with strength, crit damage, and an open socket for under 10 million pretty easily. Be sure that when you look for a mainhand weapon, that you look at the damage range for the weapon itself. A 1000 dps mace (assuming no IAS) with a damage range of 650-1030 will be outperformed by a 934 dps weapon with a damage range of 516-1046. The reason is that the tornadoes from sprint are based on mainhand damage, and the higher top end damage means that the tornadoes have a higher damage potential.
She can get a really nice set of fire walkers dirt cheap on the AH right now, as well as a set of IK boots, but it would be best for her to grab some fire walkers with high Str (140ish), and high vit (120ish) with little to no AR due to her lower health pool. Since she would lose some AR from the boots, you could purchase a decent rolled IK gloves with 80+ str, maybe some vit and AR, 9-10% crit for under 10 mil, and this would not only give her a bonus 60 AR from the 2 set bonus, but also 6% melee damage reduction that all IK gloves have(and you also get 4-5% from fire walkers too). If getting IK gloves proves too expensive right now, look into replacing her belt with a Lamentation as it would be a good DPS upgrade for her. Lamentations are extremely cheap for ice ones on the AH right now, though they may end up not having as much AR, but right now she needs a larger lifepool. Replacing her helm would for sure be a great idea (though the one you have is decent), mainly because she needs more vit at the current moment. Ill help look a little later, but you can get a really nice set of shoulders for a great price on the AH if you know how to look. You should be able to find shoulders with over 150 str, 80+ vit (or more), AR, and life% for pretty cheap. I have a ring laying around that would be a very nice replacement for her antique victor that I can give yall if you like.
As for the bracers, while Lacunis are really nice, she would see more benefit from a set of bracers with 100+ str, any vit, any AR, and 5-6% crit. The runspeed from them is nice, but since you are going to swap to runspeed boots, it will cancel out. Overall, I believe that IAS is somewhat overrated for WW barbs until they have towards the higher end of gear, so the swap to IK gloves without IAS that I mentioned earlier may be a dps loss on paper, but it will result in a more important survivability increase.
As far as the spec goes, its pretty standard, except I would recommend that she switch out Frenzy-vanguard for Bash-instigation once she switches out weapons as it will allow her to generate the fury needed to start spinning through mobs much faster. With instigation, you only need 2-3 hits to get enough fury to use Battle rage, only 1 hit if you use war cry. Like I mentioned earlier, swapping animosity for weapons master will give her a very nice dps boost, especially when she swaps to a mace/axe in the mainhand.
Feel free to add me in game, and I can help yall out some more (id be more than happy to help you look through the AH for great deals). I actually really enjoy helping the community, and it would be fun to help a new WW barb out. Fallactic#1486
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Exactly. For me personally, the attack speed from enchantress outweighs the crit from scoundrel because I am using my whirlwind as a primary source of dps now. With nearly 65% crit and 440% CD, my whirlwind damage is approaching 300k dps (average) by itself. Having at least 3 sprint tornados on an enemy increases that by another 100k. Character sheet dps is different than actual dps. The way character sheet dps calculates your damage is if you had no skill equipped as a primary attack, and you were just attacking normally (it doesnt even truly take into account the damagr increase from crit damage either). Its just sort of a metric to go by when figuring if you can or can not do certain content. Those 3 mil+ dps characters downing azmodan on mp10 in less than a minute usually show less than 400k dps on their character sheet.
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high dps (1200 ish for a 1h, 1600 for a 2h)
frost damage (for the slow)
strength
attack speed
80%+ crit damage (180+ for 2h)
lifesteal
socket
Depending on the rest of your gear, having str, crit damage, and a socket would be decent if they are in your price range, but the item i mentioned above would be well over 2 billion easily. If you are a WW barb, IAS is nice to have, but I dont run any, and hardly notice any difference.
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Eh, the only reason I use a follower at all is the bonus to MF, and the occasional cool ability that they have. The difference between having and not having a follower is 2-3k dps... not a huge difference to me personally. Once I get higher paragon, it will prolly be worth it to switch back to scoundrel, but I dont really need either the buff or the CC from them personally as its barely noticable when I do a run as it is. The freeze weapon sounds interesting for mobs that like to run away, ill look into it.
Depends on the rest of your gear TBH. 5 piece IK really isnt worth it that much anymore, but theres also no reason to have 4/5 equipped unless you are willing to upgrade another item as well so you get max benefit from most of your gear. If you get a mempo (with similar crit), you should think about either replacing the belt with a witching hour or a really great roll lamentation, or grab a really good firewalker/iceclimber