Hey guys, I'm relatively new to these forums, although I've been an active member of MMO-Champion for years.
I've recently got back into D3 quite heavily, although I've never really been a theorycrafter like I was in WoW.
Im playing my Barbarian (I cant post URLs until I've made a post, so i'll make it the first comment) and have been having some survivability issues in MP4 (and sometimes in MP3, but not as noticeable) and was just wondering if you could provide me some advice on pieces of armor I can pick up that will increase my EHP and not lower my damage too much. For the record, I know my gems can be better, but i'm relatively poor at the moment
There's two major things you need to look at. The first is that you're missing a lot of all resistances from your gear. I quickly counted just over 260 and with your war cry you'd bring it up to about 310-315. I suggest dropping crit hit damage or attack speed on some of your items to pick up the all resistances and getting to roughly 450 unbuffed (to fit your budget). Don't drop the crit chance as it's what's helping keep your fury up.
Your armor is fine for MP3/4 though, so no worries on that. The second thing I can suggest is getting life steal. You might want to read up on "Proc Coefficients" and how they affect your Life on Hit. With you doing 145k dps, 3% lifesteal would trump the 1379 life on hit you have on your skorn. You might want to simply switch out your Witching Hour belt for Immortal King's belt. You'll ( a ) get 70-80 resistances, ( b ) get lifesteal, ( c ) the 3 piece bonus set reducing melee attacks by 4% is more effective than you'd think.
I know that dropping your dps and picking up more survivability is a hard thing to do, but to fit a budget it's what needs to be done unfortunately. After all, you can't DPS when you're dead
Edit: also you may want to try switching out Inspiring Presence passive. Tough as nails is a massive damage reduction bonus but I don't think it makes that much of a difference in MP3/4. Superstition on the other hand helps with elites so much. I'm assuming that white trash monsters aren't really a problem and the 2% life regen won't benefit you as much.
What if I switch out insirping presence for bloodthirst?
The reason I had the LoH skorn is I was playing WW before, and I got it really cheap (1m) and I dont have the money to get an equally good one with life steal.
I'll have a look at the belt, thanks. Would getting more Vit help? I feel as though my health is really low.
Sorry for all the follow up questions, and thank you so much for the help\
EDIT: What would the ideal stats be on an Immortal King's Tribal Bindings? Most of the ones I'm seeing lose me 10-15k dps, and that is A LOT
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I've recently got back into D3 quite heavily, although I've never really been a theorycrafter like I was in WoW.
Im playing my Barbarian (I cant post URLs until I've made a post, so i'll make it the first comment) and have been having some survivability issues in MP4 (and sometimes in MP3, but not as noticeable) and was just wondering if you could provide me some advice on pieces of armor I can pick up that will increase my EHP and not lower my damage too much. For the record, I know my gems can be better, but i'm relatively poor at the moment
Thanks a lot guys
Your armor is fine for MP3/4 though, so no worries on that. The second thing I can suggest is getting life steal. You might want to read up on "Proc Coefficients" and how they affect your Life on Hit. With you doing 145k dps, 3% lifesteal would trump the 1379 life on hit you have on your skorn. You might want to simply switch out your Witching Hour belt for Immortal King's belt. You'll ( a ) get 70-80 resistances, ( b ) get lifesteal, ( c ) the 3 piece bonus set reducing melee attacks by 4% is more effective than you'd think.
I know that dropping your dps and picking up more survivability is a hard thing to do, but to fit a budget it's what needs to be done unfortunately. After all, you can't DPS when you're dead
Edit: also you may want to try switching out Inspiring Presence passive. Tough as nails is a massive damage reduction bonus but I don't think it makes that much of a difference in MP3/4. Superstition on the other hand helps with elites so much. I'm assuming that white trash monsters aren't really a problem and the 2% life regen won't benefit you as much.
What if I switch out insirping presence for bloodthirst?
The reason I had the LoH skorn is I was playing WW before, and I got it really cheap (1m) and I dont have the money to get an equally good one with life steal.
I'll have a look at the belt, thanks. Would getting more Vit help? I feel as though my health is really low.
Sorry for all the follow up questions, and thank you so much for the help\
EDIT: What would the ideal stats be on an Immortal King's Tribal Bindings? Most of the ones I'm seeing lose me 10-15k dps, and that is A LOT