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Set Dungeons - Barbarian - Weight of the Earth Set

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Skills

  • Leap Call of Arreat
  • Ancient Spear Boulder Toss
  • Ground Stomp Deafening Crash
  • Earthquake Chilling Earth
  • War Cry Charge!
  • Battle Rage Ferocity
  • Earthen Might
  • Pound of Flesh
  • Animosity
  • Boon of Bul-Kathos

Items

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  • Legendary Gems

    • Gogok of Swiftness
    • Molten Wildebeest's Gizzard
    • Wreath of Lightning

Kanai's Cube

  • In-geom
  • Lut Socks
  • Ring of Royal Grandeur

You can find general Set Dungeon information and Set Dungeon guides for the other classes at my Set Dungeon Thread.


The Weight of the Earth Set Dungeon is one of the Set Dungeons that you want to reduce your damage on, so that you don't kill the Elites too quickly. If your damage is too high, your initial leap will kill the Elite before you have time to Ground Stomp and then cast Earthquake. Ways of reducing the damage you deal is to remove gems from your sockets (weapon, armour, pants, rings, amulet).


As mentioned below, try not to panic if you miss a Leap/Ground Stomp/Earthquake rotation! Because of the long cooldown on Earthquake, you will likely need to do at least TWO full Triple Leap/Boulder Toss combos in order to reset the cooldown on Earthquake. Just make sure that if you've already encountered the elite that you move away from it so that you don't deal unnecessary damage to the elite before you can try for another rotation!


Notes:


One thing that annoyed me in PTR while doing this Set Dungeon was the elites spawning too close to each other. Earthquake would be still on cooldown which would usually fail the objective as the Elite would walk into the previous Earthquake area and die before I could do the Leap, Ground Stomp, Earthquake combo. This still happens and there's not much you can do about it other than to try and reset the cooldowns on your Earthquake by doing 2 full Triple Leap/Boulder Toss cooldown resets. If your damage is low enough, you may be able to get a second Leap/Ground Stomp/Earthquake rotation off but the main thing is to not panic when you accidentally miss a rotation!


Try to stack as much cooldown as possible for this Set Dungeon, to avoid the above scenario of having Earthquake on cooldown. I actually did my first attempt using the Earthquake - The Mountain's Call rune (which reduces the cooldown), only after I finished the Set Dungeon did I realise I didn't complete the freeze objective (stupid me!). I highly recommend using Ring of Royal Grandeur/using it in the cube and wearing either Leoric's Crown/Lut Socks and using the other in the cube slot.

Paragon Priorities

Core

Maximum Resource
Movement Speed
Primary Stat
Vitality

Offense

Cooldown Reduction
Critical Hit Chance
Critical Hit Damage
Attack Speed

Defense

Resist All
Life
Armor
Life Regeneration

Utility

Resource Cost Reduction
Area Damage
Life on Hit
Gold Find

Build Guide

Welcome to my Set Dungeons Build Guides!


You can find general Set Dungeon information and Set Dungeon guides for the other classes at my Set Dungeon Thread.


This build focuses on the Weight of the Earth Set for the Barbarian.


Requirements for Mastery

  • Kill all monsters.
  • Use Leap, Ground Stomp, and then Earthquake in under 6 seconds on every Elite, there are 7 Elites.
  • Freeze and kill at least 1 enemy every 10 seconds for 1 minute.

Location: Act 2, City of Caldeum. From the waypoint, go all the way to the entrance of the Belial Boss fight, to the right of the entrance is where the portal spawns.


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