Build Guide
Hello, DatModz here! Introducing the Season 19 GR135+ Whirlwind Barbarian Push Build!
Basic Overview
- Maintain your Band of Might Damage Reduction by Stomping and Wrath of the Berserker for your survivability. Use Ancient Spear to build density and use the Pandemonium Kill Streaks to kill the mobs.
- You can run Nerves of Steel in place of Brawler if you are dying, but you should have extremely high toughness,
- You get the Wrath of the Wastes set for free from your Haedrigs Gift so it will be one of the best Season Starters!
Stat Priorities
- Helmet- Socket, Strength Critical Hit Chance, Vitality Secondary Stats: Secondary Resist
- Shoulders- Strength, Cooldown Reduction, Rend Damage, Vitality or All Resistances Secondary Stats: Health Globe Bonus & Pick-up Radius
- Amulet- Socket, Critical Hit Chance, Critical Hit Damage, % Physical Damage to Skills or Strength Secondary Stats:Secondary Resist
- Chest- Socket X 3, Strength, Vitality or Reduced Damage from Elites, Rend Damage Secondary Stats:Secondary Resist & Reduction from Ranged/Melee Attacks
- Belt- Strength, Vitality, All Resistance, Life % Secondary Stats: Pickup Radius
- Legs- Socket x2, Strength, Vitality, All Resist Secondary Stats: Pickup Radius
- Bracers- Critical Hit Chance, Strength, % Physical Skills Increase, Vitality Secondary Stats: Secondary Resist
- Boots- Strength, Vitality, All Resist, Movement Speed Secondary Stats: Pickup Radius & Health Globe Bonus
- Gloves- Strength, Critical Hit Chance, Critical Hit Damage, Cooldown Reduction Secondary Stats: Pickup Radius
- Ring 1- Socket, Critical Hit Chance, Critical Hit Damage, Cooldown Reduction Secondary Stats: Stacking Resist
- Ring 2- Socket, Cooldown Reduction, Critical Strike Chance, Attack Speed Secondary Stats: Stacking Resist
- Weapons- Socket, Strength Cooldown Reduction, Vitality Secondary Stats: Life after Kill
Alternative Gems/Skills/Items
- Nerves of Steel(Passive) - Replace Brawler for a cheat death
- Stone Gaunlets(Item) - Replace Mantle of Channeling in your cube for more toughness but less damage.
- Area Damage - You can run area damage on your weapons instead of vitality and manually cast rend during your Physical CoE rotation for more clear -- Area Damage does not work with automically applied Rends via Ambo's Pride
Templar Setup
- Weapon - Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker or Azurewrath
- Relic - Enchanting Favor
- Rings - Ring 1: Wyrdward & Ring 2: Oculus Ring
- Amulet - The Ess of Johan
- Shield - Freeze of Deflection
Gemming
- Helmet: Flawless Royal Diamond(12.5 CDR)
- Armor: Flawless Royal Diamond
Ideal Stats
- Health: 600K+
- Armor: 20K+
- Resist All: 800+
- Critical Hit Chance: 50%+
- Critical Hit Damage: 475%+
- Cooldown Reduction: 55%+
Torment 16 Speed Farm Build: https://www.diablofans.com/builds/105698-datmodz-t16-whirlwind-speed-farm-build
Happy Pushing in Season 19! If you have any questions, leave a comment below or you can catch me live @ twitch.tv/datmodz.
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Posted Nov 26, 2019I don't know what I'm missing, but I have this exact build +- some minor stats here and there. I'm fairly close to the ideal stats but I only have 250mil toughness with all my buffs on. Using War Cry, Ignore Pain, and Wrath of the Berserker. My AR is over 1000+ so I feel like I'm just missing some multiplier.
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Posted Nov 26, 2019unfortunately, the multiplier you are missing is strength. this is an endgame build, as in really high paragon.
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Posted Nov 26, 2019wouldnt the "skull Grasp" ring be better then the CoE or even paired go better with CoE over osbsidian?
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Posted Nov 26, 2019No, the damage comes from Rend, not Whirlwind.
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Posted Nov 27, 2019You guys need to look at the in game leader boards to find the top builds, GR 132 is the top as of the time of this post this build is not one of them.
P.S.
Not even MODS.
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Posted Nov 27, 2019I kind of disagree with the whole "if you are dying too often swap....".
Obviously it can work, but if you instead just go with Band of Might build (losing the COE dmg multiplier) you are simply better of. WW build isnt exactly a burst build. COE more or less does average increase (50% for barbarians).
If you swap that for BOM you lose that 1.5 dmg multiplier but you gain instead Falter and Berserker rage back (1.25x1.25), you can swap ignore pain to wrenching smash for grouping or furious for mobility and on top of that your toughness is even higher (BoM proc is 2.5 times less damage taken then IP) , so you can potentially swap bulkathos for istvan (a bit higher damage and even more toughness) and run Wind Shear, or swap sword to plowshares for into the fray.
Basically this is a very high paragon build, IF you die too often, instead of trying to force this build to work, go with Band of Might while working on paragons.
Also Id like to point out that Area damage for solo play is still very much an option. Before someone says "it doesnt work on Rend", it does - it doesnt work on AMBO applied rend, it does work on manually applied rends, and it absolutely obliterates high density packs. Lets be honest WW is a lazy build as is, and its not that hard to put few manual rends in while making sure taeguk or other stuff doesnt fall off. People do complain about lags, but i havent run into problems with lag in a SOLO play using it - also if you want to avoid lag you need to get rid of Area everywhere including paragons.
Im not saying its a must - it doesnt do much on Rift guardians or lower density stuff - so you can very well go without it - and maybe it just isnt worth it. Im simply saying i wouldnt completely rule it out just yet - not when people had like a month to play with Ambo so far.
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Posted Nov 27, 2019Thanks, havnt played a WW barb since like the first 4 seasons so was a little confused.
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Posted Nov 28, 2019Thank you for great guide ... like an always