Season 13 Starter Barb(Solo GR 20) No Legendaries

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by Shizzar last updated Feb 20, 2018 ( Patch 2.6.1 )

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Skills

Bash Instigation
- Bash
Generate: 6 Fury per attack

Brutally smash an enemy for 320% weapon damage.
Instigation

Increase Fury generated to 9.

Bash's damage turns into Fire.
Leap Call of Arreat
- Leap
Generate: 15 Fury
Cooldown: 10 seconds

Leap into the air, dealing 180% weapon damage to all enemies within 10 yards of your destination and slowing their movement speed by 60% for 3 seconds.
Call of Arreat

Shockwaves burst forth from the ground increasing the radius of effect to 16 yards and pulling affected enemies towards you.
Ancient Spear Boulder Toss
- Ancient Spear
Cost: 25 Fury

Throw a spear that pierces enemies and deals 500% weapon damage.
Boulder Toss

Expend all remaining Fury to deal 20% weapon damage for every point of Fury expended to enemies within 9 yards of the impact location.
Earthquake Molten Fury
- Earthquake
Cost: 25 Fury
Cooldown: 60 seconds

Shake the ground violently, dealing 4800% weapon damage as Fire over 8 seconds to all enemies within 18 yards.
Molten Fury

Increase Earthquake's damage to 6000% weapon damage as Fire.
War Cry Veteran's Warning
- War Cry
Generate: 20 Fury
Cooldown: 20 seconds

Unleash a rallying cry to increase Armor for you and all allies within 100 yards by 20% for 120 seconds.
Veteran's Warning

Increase Dodge Chance by 30% while affected by War Cry.
Avalanche Glacier
- Avalanche
Cooldown: 30 seconds

Cause a massive avalanche of rocks to fall on an area dealing 2400% weapon damage to all enemies caught in its path.

Cooldown is reduced by 1 second for every 25 Fury you spend.
Glacier

Giant blocks of ice hit enemies for 2400% weapon damage as Cold and Freeze them.

Earthen Might
- Earthen Might
Gain 30 Fury when Avalanche or Earthquake is triggered.
Ruthless
- Ruthless
You deal 40% additional damage to enemies below 30% health.
Rampage
- Rampage
Increase Strength by 1% for 8 seconds after killing or assisting in killing an enemy. This effect stacks up to 25 times.
Boon of Bul-Kathos
- Boon of Bul-Kathos
Reduce the cooldowns of your:
Earthquake by 15 seconds.
Call of the Ancients by 30 seconds.
Wrath of the Berserker by 30 seconds.

Items

Spires of the Earth

Set Shoulders

59 - 68 Armor

Primary Stats

+51 - 60 Resistance to All Elements

Might of the Earth
Pull of the Earth
Eyes of the Earth
Weight of the Earth
Spires of the Earth
Spirit of the Earth
Foundation of the Earth
(2) Set: Reduce the cooldown of Earthquake, Avalanche, Leap, and Ground Stomp by 1 second for every 30 Fury you spend with an attack.
(4) Set: Leap causes an Earthquake when you land. Additionally, Leap gains the effect of the Iron Impact rune and the rune's effect and duration are increased by 150%.
(6) Set: Increase the damage of Earthquake, Avalanche, Leap, Ground Stomp, Ancient Spear and Seismic Slam by 5600%.

+ 4 Random Magic Properties
Spirit of the Earth

Set Chest Armor

51 - 68 Armor

Primary Stats

Sockets (1)

Might of the Earth
Pull of the Earth
Eyes of the Earth
Weight of the Earth
Spires of the Earth
Spirit of the Earth
Foundation of the Earth
(2) Set: Reduce the cooldown of Earthquake, Avalanche, Leap, and Ground Stomp by 1 second for every 30 Fury you spend with an attack.
(4) Set: Leap causes an Earthquake when you land. Additionally, Leap gains the effect of the Iron Impact rune and the rune's effect and duration are increased by 150%.
(6) Set: Increase the damage of Earthquake, Avalanche, Leap, Ground Stomp, Ancient Spear and Seismic Slam by 5600%.

+ 4 Random Magic Properties
Pull of the Earth

Set Gloves

42 - 55 Armor

Primary Stats

Critical Hit Chance Increased by 6 - 6.5%

Might of the Earth
Pull of the Earth
Eyes of the Earth
Weight of the Earth
Spires of the Earth
Spirit of the Earth
Foundation of the Earth
(2) Set: Reduce the cooldown of Earthquake, Avalanche, Leap, and Ground Stomp by 1 second for every 30 Fury you spend with an attack.
(4) Set: Leap causes an Earthquake when you land. Additionally, Leap gains the effect of the Iron Impact rune and the rune's effect and duration are increased by 150%.
(6) Set: Increase the damage of Earthquake, Avalanche, Leap, Ground Stomp, Ancient Spear and Seismic Slam by 5600%.

+ 4 Random Magic Properties
Foundation of the Earth

Set Boots

30 - 35 Armor

Primary Stats

+78 - 83 Vitality

Might of the Earth
Pull of the Earth
Eyes of the Earth
Weight of the Earth
Spires of the Earth
Spirit of the Earth
Foundation of the Earth
(2) Set: Reduce the cooldown of Earthquake, Avalanche, Leap, and Ground Stomp by 1 second for every 30 Fury you spend with an attack.
(4) Set: Leap causes an Earthquake when you land. Additionally, Leap gains the effect of the Iron Impact rune and the rune's effect and duration are increased by 150%.
(6) Set: Increase the damage of Earthquake, Avalanche, Leap, Ground Stomp, Ancient Spear and Seismic Slam by 5600%.

+ 4 Random Magic Properties

More Details

Head
- Stat Priority: Str CHC Socket
Shoulders
- Spires of the Earth
- Stat Priority: Str Vit Skill: EQ
Amulet
- Stat Priority: Str CHC CHD
Torso
- Spirit of the Earth
- Stat Priority: Str Vit Socket Skill: EQ
Wrists
- Stat Priority: Str CHC
Hands
- Pull of the Earth
- Stat Priority: Str CHC CHD
Waist
- Stat Priority: Str Vit
Legs
- Stat Priority: Str Vit Socket
Feet
- Foundation of the Earth
- Stat Priority: Str Vit MS
Rings
- Stat Priority: CHC CHD
Weapon
- Stat Priority: Str Socket Max Fury
Offhand
- Stat Priority: None

This build is based around the first 2 Haedrig's gifts and assume that you have a 4 piece set bonus for Might of the Earth

Whatever 4 pieces you get, equip them and fill the rest in with lvl 70 rare pieces.

Weapon needs to be a 2 hander to maximize damage. An 2 handed axe, mace or mighty weapon will all do, but a mighty weapon has the chance to spawn with Max fury which will help a bit with your boulder toss.

Put a diamond in your helm rubies everywhere else.

Paragon Priorities

Core

Maximum Resource
Movement Speed
Primary Stat
Vitality

Offense

Critical Hit Damage
Critical Hit Chance
Cooldown Reduction
Attack Speed

Defense

Armor
Life
Resist All
Life Regeneration

Utility

Life on Hit
Area Damage
Resource Cost Reduction
Gold Find

I have added my priorities, but you will likely not have very many points to assign at this stage of the season.

Build Guide

This is a build specifically designed to get you past your solo GR 20 and was created assuming the worst possible circumstances: you found absolutely no usable legendary items to use while leveling, no paragon and no legendary gems. This is by no means a 100% best optimized build but after about 15 trials and variations, it always got the job done.

It revolves around having the 4 piece Might of the Earth(MOTE) set equipped and trying to do as much damage as possible.

Skill choices:

Bash-Instigation: Decent single target damage and lots of fury recovery. This build is decent at killing trash, so single target was more useful than AOE skills. I have also experimented with Frenzy and its a good option as well.

Leap-Call of Arreat: Since you get Iron Impact from the set, this helps to group-up enemies so your Earthquake can do max damage. Iron Impact makes you really tanky so use it as often as possible while near mobs.

Ancient Spear-Boulder Toss: This is our main way to spend fury. MOTE set reduces cooldowns of Earthquake, Avalanche, Leap and Ground Stomp by 1 second for every 30 Fury spent, so we can dump it often and it helps the whole build to work faster, also it is a solid amount of single target damage, something this build lacks.

Earthquake-Molten Fury: Primary damage skill, Leap causes this an Earthquake, so I have chosen the rune that does the most damage since it will trigger with the rune we have chosen. You can also cast it fairly often because the the cooldown reduction from the set.

War Cry-Veterans Warning: Additional Fury gain and toughness. Since you're low on resistances, Impunity doesn't help all that much, this seemed to help me survive the most.

Avalanch-Glacier: Helps a lot with crowd control. It freezes so can be used to interrupt animations of mobs to help you survive, or keep them in place so you can hit them.

Gameplay:

Start your War Cry as soon as you can, run around till you see a large group of mobs or an elite pack/champion pack, leap into them grouping them up because of Call of Arreat. Pop your Earthquake and use bash on the highest health target(usually the elite) Use Ancient Spear when fury is full. Use leap on cooldown to keep toughness up and Avalanche if something it trying to escape or just for more damage.

Legendary options:

If you were lucky to find any helpful legendaries, put them in the build. Some of the most useful ones out there for this build are:

Skular's Salvation- Change nothing, you hit the jackpot

Bracers of Desruction- Change Ancient Spear to Seismic Slam

Bracers of the First Men- Change Ancient Spear to Hammer of the Ancients

Lut Socks- Cube them and enjoy way more leaps, way more damage and more consistent toughness

Girdle of Giants- Change Ancient Spear to Seismic Slam and enjoy really strong Earthquakes.

This is by no means an exhaustive list of helpful legendaries, but its a good start.

Enjoy the build and good luck in Season 13!

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