HC GR60+ SPEEDY Whirlwind

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by Sarsoman last updated Mar 21, 2018 ( Patch 2.6.1 )

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Skills

Battle Rage Ferocity
- Battle Rage
Cost: 20 Fury

Enter a rage which increases your damage by 10% and Critical Hit Chance by 3%. Lasts 120 seconds.
Ferocity

Increase movement speed by 15%.
Whirlwind Blood Funnel
- Whirlwind
Cost: 10 Fury

Deliver multiple attacks to everything in your path for 340% weapon damage.

While whirlwinding, you move at 100% movement speed.
Blood Funnel

Critical Hits restore 1% of your maximum Life.
Ignore Pain Bravado
- Ignore Pain
Cooldown: 30 seconds

Reduce all damage taken by 50% and gain Immunity to all control-impairing effects for 5 seconds.
Bravado

While Ignore Pain is active, gain 40% increased movement speed and knock enemies away as you run.
Sprint Marathon
- Sprint
Cost: 20 Fury

Increase movement speed by 30% for 3 seconds.
Marathon

Increase the movement speed bonus to 40% for 4 seconds.
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.
Wrath of the Berserker Insanity
- Wrath of the Berserker
Cooldown: 120 seconds

Enter a berserker rage which raises several attributes for 20 seconds.

Critical Hit Chance: 10%
Attack Speed: 25%
Dodge Chance: 20%
Movement Speed: 20%
Insanity

While active, gain 50% increased damage.

Nerves of Steel
- Nerves of Steel
Fatal damage instead reduces you to 15% Life. For 3 seconds afterward, you take 95% reduced damage and are immune to all control-impairing effects.

This effect may occur once every 60 seconds.
Weapons Master
- Weapons Master
Gain a bonus based on the weapon type of your main hand weapon:
Swords/Daggers: 8% increased damage
Maces/Axes: 5% Critical Hit Chance
Polearms/Spears: 8% attack speed
Mighty Weapons: 2 Fury per hit
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.
Berserker Rage
- Berserker Rage
You deal 25% additional damage while near maximum Fury.

Items

Helm of the Wastes

Set Helm

Primary Stats

+626–750 Strength
+4 Random Magic Properties
Empty Socket

Wrath of the Wastes
Helm of the Wastes
Pauldrons of the Wastes
Cuirass of the Wastes
Tasset of the Wastes
Sabaton of the Wastes
Gauntlet of the Wastes
(2) Set: Increase the damage per second of Rend by 500% and its duration to 15 seconds.
(4) Set: During Whirlwind you gain 50% damage reduction and your applied Rends deal triple damage.
(6) Set: Whirlwind gains the effect of the Dust Devils rune and all Whirlwind damage is increased by 800%.
Pauldrons of the Wastes

Set Shoulders

Primary Stats

+416–500 Strength
+91–100 Resistance to All Elements
+4 Random Magic Properties

Wrath of the Wastes
Helm of the Wastes
Pauldrons of the Wastes
Cuirass of the Wastes
Tasset of the Wastes
Sabaton of the Wastes
Gauntlet of the Wastes
(2) Set: Increase the damage per second of Rend by 500% and its duration to 15 seconds.
(4) Set: During Whirlwind you gain 50% damage reduction and your applied Rends deal triple damage.
(6) Set: Whirlwind gains the effect of the Dust Devils rune and all Whirlwind damage is increased by 800%.
Hellfire Amulet

Legendary Amulet

Primary Stats

+4 Random Magic Properties
One of 3 Magic Properties (varies)

+626–750 Intelligence

+626–750 Dexterity

+626–750 Strength
Cuirass of the Wastes

Set Chest Armor

Primary Stats

+416–500 Strength
+4 Random Magic Properties
Empty Socket

Wrath of the Wastes
Helm of the Wastes
Pauldrons of the Wastes
Cuirass of the Wastes
Tasset of the Wastes
Sabaton of the Wastes
Gauntlet of the Wastes
(2) Set: Increase the damage per second of Rend by 500% and its duration to 15 seconds.
(4) Set: During Whirlwind you gain 50% damage reduction and your applied Rends deal triple damage.
(6) Set: Whirlwind gains the effect of the Dust Devils rune and all Whirlwind damage is increased by 800%.
Strongarm Bracers

Legendary Bracers

Primary Stats

+220–349 Vitality
Critical Hit Chance Increased by 4.5–6.0%
+2 Random Magic Properties

Secondary Stats

Enemies hit by knockbacks suffer 20–30% increased damage for 6 seconds.
One of 3 Magic Properties (varies)

+220–349 Dexterity

+220–349 Strength

+220–349 Intelligence
Gauntlet of the Wastes

Set Gloves

Primary Stats

+626–750 Strength
Critical Hit Chance Increased by 8.0–10.0%
+4 Random Magic Properties

Wrath of the Wastes
Helm of the Wastes
Pauldrons of the Wastes
Cuirass of the Wastes
Tasset of the Wastes
Sabaton of the Wastes
Gauntlet of the Wastes
(2) Set: Increase the damage per second of Rend by 500% and its duration to 15 seconds.
(4) Set: During Whirlwind you gain 50% damage reduction and your applied Rends deal triple damage.
(6) Set: Whirlwind gains the effect of the Dust Devils rune and all Whirlwind damage is increased by 800%.
Pride of Cassius

Legendary Mighty Belt

Primary Stats

+85–108 Strength
+11–20 Resistance to All Elements
+3 Random Magic Properties

Secondary Stats

Increases the duration of Ignore Pain by 4–6 seconds.
Tasset of the Wastes

Set Pants

Primary Stats

+416–500 Strength
+4 Random Magic Properties
Empty Socket

Wrath of the Wastes
Helm of the Wastes
Pauldrons of the Wastes
Cuirass of the Wastes
Tasset of the Wastes
Sabaton of the Wastes
Gauntlet of the Wastes
(2) Set: Increase the damage per second of Rend by 500% and its duration to 15 seconds.
(4) Set: During Whirlwind you gain 50% damage reduction and your applied Rends deal triple damage.
(6) Set: Whirlwind gains the effect of the Dust Devils rune and all Whirlwind damage is increased by 800%.
Sabaton of the Wastes

Set Boots

Primary Stats

+416–500 Strength
+416–500 Vitality
+4 Random Magic Properties

Wrath of the Wastes
Helm of the Wastes
Pauldrons of the Wastes
Cuirass of the Wastes
Tasset of the Wastes
Sabaton of the Wastes
Gauntlet of the Wastes
(2) Set: Increase the damage per second of Rend by 500% and its duration to 15 seconds.
(4) Set: During Whirlwind you gain 50% damage reduction and your applied Rends deal triple damage.
(6) Set: Whirlwind gains the effect of the Dust Devils rune and all Whirlwind damage is increased by 800%.
Obsidian Ring of the Zodiac

Legendary Ring

Primary Stats

Attack Speed Increased by 4.0–5.0%
Critical Hit Chance Increased by 4.5–6.0%
Reduces cooldown of all skills by 4.0–7.0%.
Reduces all resource costs by 5.0–7.0%.
+1 Random Magic Properties

Secondary Stats

Ignores Durability Loss
Reduce the remaining cooldown of one of your skills by 1 seconds when you hit with a resource-spending attack.
Convention of Elements

Legendary Ring

Primary Stats

+416 - 500 Strength
+416 - 500 Dexterity
+416 - 500 Intelligence
Critical Hit Chance Increased by 4.5 - 6%
Sockets (1)

Secondary Stats

Gain 150 - 200% increased damage to a single element for 4 seconds. This non-static effect rotates through the elements available to your class in the following order: Arcane, Cold, Fire, Holy, Lightning, Physical, Poison.

+ 2 Random Magic Properties
Bul-Kathos's Sacred Charge

Set Mighty Weapon

206.7 Damage Per Second

Primary Stats

Increases Attack Speed by 6 - 7%
Critical Hit Damage Increased by 51 - 55%
1 - 2.6% Chance to Knockback on Hit

Secondary Stats

One of 7 Magic Properties (varies)

+(132 - 308) Physical Damage

+(132 - 308) Fire Damage

+(132 - 308) Lightning Damage

+(132 - 308) Cold Damage

+(132 - 308) Poison Damage

+(132 - 308) Arcane Damage

+(132 - 308) Holy Damage

Bul-Kathos's Children
Bul-Kathos's Sacred Charge
Bul-Kathos's Tribal Guardian
(2) Set: +100 Strength
+5 Maximum Fury
Bul-Kathos's Tribal Guardian

Set Mighty Weapon

206.7 Damage Per Second

Primary Stats

Increases damage against elites by 3 - 4%
10 - 30% chance to inflict Bleed for 73 - 147-146 - 294 damage over 5 seconds.

Secondary Stats

One of 7 Magic Properties (varies)

+(132 - 308) Physical Damage

+(132 - 308) Fire Damage

+(132 - 308) Lightning Damage

+(132 - 308) Cold Damage

+(132 - 308) Poison Damage

+(132 - 308) Arcane Damage

+(132 - 308) Holy Damage

Bul-Kathos's Children
Bul-Kathos's Sacred Charge
Bul-Kathos's Tribal Guardian
(2) Set: +100 Strength
+5 Maximum Fury

More Details

Head
- Helm of the Wastes
- Stat Priority: Str CHC Skill: WW
Shoulders
- Pauldrons of the Wastes
- Stat Priority: Str Vit CDR AD
Amulet
- Hellfire Amulet
- Stat Priority: Physical % CHC CHD
Torso
- Cuirass of the Wastes
- Stat Priority: Str Vit Reduced Elite Dmg
Wrists
- Strongarm Bracers
- Nemesis Bracers
- Stat Priority: Physical % Str CHC Vit
Hands
- Gauntlet of the Wastes
- Stat Priority: Str CHD CHC AD
Waist
- Pride of Cassius
- Stat Priority: Str Vit AR Life per Fury
Legs
- Tasset of the Wastes
- Stat Priority: Str Vit AR
Feet
- Sabaton of the Wastes
- Stat Priority: Str Vit Skill: WW MS
Rings
- Obsidian Ring of the Zodiac
- Convention of Elements
- Stone of Jordan
- Stat Priority: Str CHC CHD
Weapon
- Bul-Kathos's Sacred Charge
- Stat Priority: Str CDR Dmg % AD
Offhand
- Bul-Kathos's Tribal Guardian
- Stat Priority: Str CDR Dmg % AD

Legendary Gems
- Taeguk
  Taeguk
  
  Gem
  
  Primary Stats
  
  Gain 2.00% increased damage for 1.5 seconds when you spend resource on a channeled skill. This effect stacks up to 10 times.
  Gain 2.0% increased Armor for every stack. (Requires Rank 25)
- Gogok of Swiftness
  Gogok of Swiftness
  
  Gem
  
  Secondary Stats
  
  Gain Swiftness with every attack, increasing your Attack Speed by 1% and Dodge by 0.5% for 4 seconds. This effect stacks up to 15 times.
- Pain Enhancer
  Pain Enhancer
  
  Gem
  
  Primary Stats
  
  Critical hits cause the enemy to bleed for 2500.0% weapon damage as Physical over 3 seconds.
  Gain Blood Frenzy, granting you 3% increased Attack Speed for each bleeding enemy within 20 yards. (Requires Rank 25)

Kanai's Cube

The Furnace

Legendary Two-Handed Mace

15.75 Damage Per Second

Secondary Stats

Increases damage against elites by 40 - 50%.
One of 7 Magic Properties (varies)

+(132 - 308) Physical Damage

+(132 - 308) Fire Damage

+(132 - 308) Lightning Damage

+(132 - 308) Cold Damage

+(132 - 308) Poison Damage

+(132 - 308) Arcane Damage

+(132 - 308) Holy Damage

+ 3 Random Magic Properties
The Furnace
Mantle of Channeling

Legendary Shoulders

59 - 68 Armor

Primary Stats

+201 - 230 Vitality

Secondary Stats

While channeling Whirlwind, Rapid Fire, Strafe, Tempest Rush, Firebats, Arcane Torrent, Disintegrate, or Ray of Frost, you deal 20 - 25% increased damage and take 25% reduced damage.

+ 3 Random Magic Properties
Mantle of Channeling
Skull Grasp

Legendary Ring

Primary Stats

Critical Hit Chance Increased by 3.5%

Secondary Stats

Increase the damage of Whirlwind by 300 - 400%

+ 3 Random Magic Properties
Skull Grasp

Just to clarify, this is a HARDCORE build.

Pretty standard item set for a WW Barb with a few differences. Use Nems if you're not having issues with damage for faster clears, use Strongarms for higher GRs for the 25% damage bonus (w/ Bravado rune for Ignore Pain)

Pride of Cassius over Chilaniks because w/ enough CDR, you can keep a 100% uptime on Ignore Pain and 40% movement speed buff. Chilaniks requires you to use War Cry, which is just another CD that can take up Obsidian Ring procs, which are crucial in keeping a 100% uptime on Ignore Pain and WOTB.

I've found that around 35-45% CDR gives you 100% uptime on Ignore Pain and WOTB. You can easily achieve this with CDR on your weapons, shoulders, and gloves. AD% afterwards.

Hellfire Passives: One of the first four, otherwise Rampage, Ruthless, or Brawler.

CoE vs. SoJ is really up to you, CoE is probably better overall as it really helps with bursts on elites and RGs. If you've got an SOJ w/ a higher physical % and elite %, it could provide better overall damage.

You can also use Bane of the Stricken in place of Pain Enhancer in higher GRs if RGs are giving you issues.

Paragon Priorities

Core

Movement Speed
Maximum Resource
Primary Stat
Vitality

Offense

Cooldown Reduction
Attack Speed
Critical Hit Chance
Critical Hit Damage

Defense

Life
Armor
Resist All
Life Regeneration

Utility

Area Damage
Resource Cost Reduction
Life on Hit
Gold Find

Build Guide

Just to clarify, this is a HARDCORE build.

This is the speed WW build I've been playing and tweaking with for the past week. I've been working on getting the highest possible speed while having enough damage and defensives to hold your own and not die. I've been clearing GR60s in less than 2 minutes and no issues with toughness. As a HC player, I could probably clear GR70+ but as a HC player you have to be careful, so I'm taking baby steps.

With the Ferocity and Bravado runes, combined with Sprint and WOTB, you move REALLY REALLY FAST.

Blood Funnel and Ignore Pain keep you alive but always gives you fury issues, so I take Weapon Master to keep topped off for Berserker Rage.

Just keep channeling WW and keep Ignore Pain and WOTB up at all times. That's about it.

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