Nothing too fancy, but with a 2h Rend should be pretty effective now, especially with 3 stacks of Punish. I'm not sure if the extra procs from Bloodbath stack or not, but if they don't I'll be switching the rune to Lacerate. Bloodlust might even be worth a try with the increase in damage on rend.
yah rend looks like it hits like a truck but it really doesnt, it does 140% weapon dmg per second which is same as cleave unruned, put lacerate rune and it goes to 180% weapon dmg per second, again nothing great
dont really see what's the big fuss about it except it being less useless than before patch
It has awesome damage for the Fury cost. With the damage rune, two Rends is almost as much as an Earthquake, and it doesn't have a cooldown.
So would a rend build not need crit?
Imagine a full strength/ 12% lifesteal barb with a +1400dps 2hander running around with rend.
not having to worry about gearing for crit or crit dmg would be a great moneysaver.
yah rend looks like it hits like a truck but it really doesnt, it does 140% weapon dmg per second which is same as cleave unruned, put lacerate rune and it goes to 180% weapon dmg per second, again nothing great
dont really see what's the big fuss about it except it being less useless than before patch
I think it more has to do with fire-and-forget nature of skill then the actual damage. You can still be hitting enemies with cleave or whatever while rend is doing damage.
And remember the factor "I can damage while kitting"...
I much rather prefer the factor "kill with NO KITING..."
WW Barb all the way. Cant say im not curious about trying a big badass 1500 dps axe though.... but only if i get it dropped.
EDIT: @ Schnech
I did one change and found it was a great improvement.
Swapped out Instigation for Punish on Bash...
Bash got its fury gain pumped and all i need is 3 hits with punish to start the combo... and for 5 seconds i get a huge bonus to dmg output.
During long fights I can just stop for 2 seconds and bash them three times to ragain the bonus...Against Siegebreaker it felt as i was literally doing double damage to him.
One thing though, it would be nice to have a buff indication just like Franzy has... maybe Blizz will add it in the future if more people start using this.
Using a 2 hander, trying to get the most I can out of Whirlwind while still be sufficient survival-wise. Only taken it through SK so far. Gonna see how high I can go before getting roflstomped
I have 880LOH (offhand), ~800 AR and 55k DPS buffed. I heal from LOH + 9% of rend. I easily killed Ghom without too much running and I kill elites standing in mortar with Wrath of Berseker activated.
I run with about 1100+ AR, 1500 LoH and 54k health clearing act 3 with minimal deaths, I've tried out many different of the buffed fury spenders and so far I really like Hammer with Birthright. I really like the fact it can hit more then 1 target, crits for around 100k for me and can drop yellows and loot or health globes to keep me up.
I run with about 1100+ AR, 1500 LoH and 54k health clearing act 3 with minimal deaths, I've tried out many different of the buffed fury spenders and so far I really like Hammer with Birthright. I really like the fact it can hit more then 1 target, crits for around 100k for me and can drop yellows and loot or health globes to keep me up.
I like to use many of the lifesteal-esqe runes to make sure my health never goes too low, and with the buff to rend it has great synergy with revenge (rend -> spam revenge -> refresh rend -> repeat til dead).
May seem like a little overkill, but I don't take chances on Hardcore ;p
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Am running with http://eu.battle.net...XQkP!ZYb!cZaccb - and i can farm first half of A3 with my mediocre gear :-D i was not able to do it before the patch, imbarend + nerfed elites = win
still not sure, what is better - overpower with healing or revenge. sometimes revenge does not proc, when you need it, and it is death for me
and for ppl, who are still wondering - ticks from rend can not crit, but the whole rend can crit, when you apply it. So it is has 2 states: all ticks on target are usual OR all ticks are increased(critical)
Nothing too fancy, but with a 2h Rend should be pretty effective now, especially with 3 stacks of Punish. I'm not sure if the extra procs from Bloodbath stack or not, but if they don't I'll be switching the rune to Lacerate. Bloodlust might even be worth a try with the increase in damage on rend.
R Click : sesmic slam ( strength from earth , reduce fury cost) I never used sesimc pre 1.04 but its GREAT AOE / dmg now
Skills
1 leap( iron impact)
2 war cry (impunity)
3 WOTN (insanity)
4 revenge (provoc)
wep master/ nerves of steel/ruthless
pretty fun set up im currently running, so far its easy act 4 inferno
I'm using this to farm Act II.
This is the spec I'm running now (pre-patch I used revenge instead of whirlwind):
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/barbarian#akiRhP!ZYd!bcbYbZ
Absolutely destroying act 3 with 70K unbuffed dps, 11% total lifesteal, 700-1K resists, dual wielding.
Imagine a full strength/ 12% lifesteal barb with a +1400dps 2hander running around with rend.
not having to worry about gearing for crit or crit dmg would be a great moneysaver.
http://us.battle.net...iXkP!Ydg!abZacZ
frenzy sidearm
rend lacerate
ignore pain, iron hide
leap, iron impact
warcray, impunity
wotb, insanity
ruthless, weapons master, brawler
Just a thought but im trying it out
edit: on second thought i still dont have enough money to test out this setup
I much rather prefer the factor "kill with NO KITING..."
WW Barb all the way. Cant say im not curious about trying a big badass 1500 dps axe though.... but only if i get it dropped.
EDIT: @ Schnech
I did one change and found it was a great improvement.
Swapped out Instigation for Punish on Bash...
Bash got its fury gain pumped and all i need is 3 hits with punish to start the combo... and for 5 seconds i get a huge bonus to dmg output.
During long fights I can just stop for 2 seconds and bash them three times to ragain the bonus...Against Siegebreaker it felt as i was literally doing double damage to him.
One thing though, it would be nice to have a buff indication just like Franzy has... maybe Blizz will add it in the future if more people start using this.
Using a 2 hander, trying to get the most I can out of Whirlwind while still be sufficient survival-wise. Only taken it through SK so far. Gonna see how high I can go before getting roflstomped
I have 880LOH (offhand), ~800 AR and 55k DPS buffed. I heal from LOH + 9% of rend. I easily killed Ghom without too much running and I kill elites standing in mortar with Wrath of Berseker activated.
Isn't that the whole intention of 1.0.4? To make everything more viable, and not just replace OP choice X with OP choice Y?
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/barbarian#WZVRkP!ZYb!accacZ
When I run clearing mobs for xp or the next spec I want to try out is an AoE type spec like this.
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/barbarian#bcVZkP!ZYd!aZcccZ
Cool. Could you share your battle.net profile?
Does that hammer with birthright really drop Rares on hit????
I like to use many of the lifesteal-esqe runes to make sure my health never goes too low, and with the buff to rend it has great synergy with revenge (rend -> spam revenge -> refresh rend -> repeat til dead).
May seem like a little overkill, but I don't take chances on Hardcore ;p
still not sure, what is better - overpower with healing or revenge. sometimes revenge does not proc, when you need it, and it is death for me
and for ppl, who are still wondering - ticks from rend can not crit, but the whole rend can crit, when you apply it. So it is has 2 states: all ticks on target are usual OR all ticks are increased(critical)
gear: http://eu.battle.net...3/hero/11122763
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Rolist-1597/hero/5582575
Weird playing Barb as ranged, but fun and lots of damage.
@ theKrucha
Thx...
Now...Anyone can answer the 2nd question?
Does Attack speed affect Rend ticks?