Nice videos indeed! I enjoyed them a bunch. It's also nice to see some 2 hand barb love. I simply refused to give into the sword and board for act 2 and although gearing up as a 2 hander seemed tedious it has worked out for the best and has been rewarding. Now clearing act 2 and every pack I find along the way pretty easily. It's a blast still, even having fully cleared act 2 as many times as I have. Now if only my wife would stop stealing all my good caster drops for her wizzard I may could make some gold haha.
Made my way to Ghom in act 3 with 5 stacks the first night in there but hit a brick wall with him and did I mention how painful the packs were? lol Farming act 2 for now, waiting for the patch to hopefully make it a little more rewarding.
Going to try out your spec when I get around to going back to Act 3. Thanks for the videos and I agree with the others when saying You shouldnt stop with just these clips!
Going to try out your spec when I get around to going back to Act 3. Thanks for the videos and I agree with the others when saying You shouldnt stop with just these clips!
Thanks for the encouragement! I think those wizard items might be a small loss compared to what you would face if she found your auction history instead ;)!
That's absolutly sick gear m8, with 1/3 investments i would faceroll as sword and board. Nevertheless thanks a lot for pointing out that Cydaea/Asmo is a better run then siegebreaker - done it twice just now, not only champs/elites are easier compared to one leading to Siegebreaker but indeed 2-3 goblins spawned along the way both times (killed none, damn my gear - 18.5K dps under berseker rage and no steroid skill to kill goblin). Only retarded elites are soul rippers but i simply skip them, go to next lvl and get remaining NV stacks in starting zone of Act 3.
P.S. Scorpion champs are just lol, always glad to see them))
This is my first video I used no editing at all I just wanted to show you how fun this spec can be so don't expect much flash ;p. I have been doing Cydea + Azmo for a while now I find it much better for loot than siegebreaker runs!
I got terrible champ packs and an unlucky run but this is how it a lot of times. I recorded this on the first try and did the commentary while playing (I am so so so sorry!). I am happy with the result, it has suggestions, tips, strategy, and of course female barb dying sounds! I hope you enjoy it and in turn inspires you to try 2h also, viva la revolution fight the sword and board oppression!
Nice vids, but to be honest to get to the point that you are in you either have to spend 150+ mil if not more as i havent even seen a 1700 dps 2h on AH and or have friends farming ACT 4 inferno daily passing u upgrades. To be honest i think it would probably be cheaper at moment to go sword and board than go for that high of 2h dps build....but great vids keep up the good work!
I disagree. The only item that will cost a massive amount is the weapon. Even that, you don't need to get a 1700 dps weapon to [just as] easily destroy the trash.
If you put 9m (roughly the cost of a Stormshield + decent 1H weapon), you could get a nice 1400 dps 2H that should do the job just fine.
I disagree. The only item that will cost a massive amount is the weapon. Even that, you don't need to get a 1700 dps weapon to [just as] easily destroy the trash.
If you put 9m (roughly the cost of a Stormshield + decent 1H weapon), you could get a nice 1400 dps 2H that should do the job just fine.
This is accurate. Furthermore the higher DPS you have + slower weapon is better (with higher dps of course) is the best for this build. The axe I had was .25 faster than a mace with similar +IAS. Seismic slam would be hitting 20%+ harder if my weapon was a mace instead of an axe.
That's esentially all of these posts come down to anymore.
TIL: Get 100m+ gold and X spec is viable!! Herp derp.
With that kind of gold, I bet all kinds of specs are viable, such as DWing, Ranged only builds, etc. Nothing in the video here is new and/or exciting. Same information has been circulating since the 2nd week of Inferno.
Would you consider one weapon type superior to another - assuming they have similar stats of course - simply because of their bonus from Weapons Master?
Would you consider one weapon type superior to another - assuming they have similar stats of course - simply because of their bonus from Weapons Master?
Sword is simply better, mace is better than axe due to the lower base attack speed.
Gnarf just needs a hug or something. I've got a 1 yr old golden retriever pup that loves to give sloppy kisses if that will help.
This thread was intended to inspire more Barbs to consider using 2 handers. The fact the Op has a ton of gold invested into his gear is beside the point. You can still be viable as a 2 hand barb without sinking as much gold into your gear as the Op has. Now you probably won't be steam rolling near as hard but you can still be sucessful and have a blast doing it.
I havnt sank even a fraction of the gold the Op has into my gear and I steam roll act 2 as a 2 hander barb and the main thing holding me back in act 3 is resist. Mind you I can still get to ghom with 5 stacks it's just painful lol
Oh by now way am i dising OP but to be honest if you expect to buy a Stormshield with 28%+ block and 900 dps 1h with a soket for around 9 mil you are either talking about D3 2-3 weeks ago or you are dreaming lol a 28%+ SS goes for min 10-15mil and anything over 30% is auto 20-30mil, and thats not even talking into consideration that you will drop another 3-6mil on 1h with soket for LoH... after 1.03 i may revisit 2h barb as i enjoy that play style much more than 1h + shield but i switched in order to progress..
This thread was intended to inspire more Barbs to consider using 2 handers. The fact the Op has a ton of gold invested into his gear is beside the point. You can still be viable as a 2 hand barb without sinking as much gold into your gear as the Op has. Now you probably won't be steam rolling near as hard but you can still be sucessful and have a blast doing it.
Thanks for getting this back on topic. I only made this to inspire people to try it out for themselves! For those who are hating, thats fine but I think you will get to the level soon enough you can try it for yourselves and maybe you will take some of it back ;).
Its obvious that this kinda steamrolling act3 inferno requires alot of gold, thats the game,
right now still farmin up sword/board style being poor in gold as fuck, but thats kinda how u gotta start with it right Sarac?
That's how I started, however I was lucky enough to pick up a justice lantern for 500k and a 31% vit rolled SS for 10mil. This was weeks and weeks ago though no chance in that anymore :(.
a lil more intel on how u came to that point in terms of farming would be nice, of course it requires a lot of time;
I geared for pure defense until I could kill/survive and then started subbing in items with more str/crit/crit dmg and IAS when I found them on the AH, in game or was gifted them. I slowly moved from 10k dps to 35k dps 1h while maintaining my survival stats and then simply splurged and bought a huge 2h and sold my sword and shield all in.
despite the gear, my group still lil low in dps, me running round 70k hp close to 800 allres and cute sacred shield not immortal though and wanna provide maximum support so we can farm more easly, thx bro luv ur idea of giving inspiration to others
I tried pure tanking for my friend who was a glass cannon DH while my dps was still low and honestly it didn't work all that well until I went pure defensive abilities/passives. At that time I could do a decent job of keeping stuff bottled up for him. I also tried a stun build which wasn't terrible but it also wasn't amazing. I assume it would be kind of nice if you had a nice tanky monk in front of you. Just keep up the farm you will get there, be persistent! =
I've geared a bit more defensively 1360 physical resist, 1k other resists, 9k armor, only 21k dps and just smash mobs with 2H and frenzy/revenge not sure I like seismic slam making barbarians almost a ranged class but awesome vid. Think your spec would be doable with lesser gear while my bruteforcing through stuff really is gear dependant. Act3 still hurts and act4 just isn't pretty, done upto diablo but rarely if ever killed champ packs in act4. Good to see other people doing 2H barb
Too many haters. SaracenS seems like a nice guy, I don't see why some of you are trying to infer else-wise.
Regardless of how many other threads there were, the purpose of this thread was just to demonstrate that it is possible to play Barb without sword/board and stomp on everything. I enjoyed the videos and the overall content/information of this thread. It's just fun to watch and see all the different ideas behind every 2H Barbarian's tactics. I've cleared everything on Inferno except Diablo - it would definitely be more fun to clear it this way though :P.
All in all, I don't think this is as hard as some of you think it is. I wasn't fortunate enough to have the luck SaracenS did (not hating on you bud), but I'm pretty close to being able to do what he does. I'll give him props for being helpful and not being an asshole like the bulk of the professional gamers ("hey come watch my stream and donate money so I can show you how to play!").
Too many haters. SaracenS seems like a nice guy, I don't see why some of you are trying to infer else-wise.
Regardless of how many other threads there were, the purpose of this thread was just to demonstrate that it is possible to play Barb without sword/board and stomp on everything. I enjoyed the videos and the overall content/information of this thread. It's just fun to watch and see all the different ideas behind every 2H Barbarian's tactics. I've cleared everything on Inferno except Diablo - it would definitely be more fun to clear it this way though :P.
All in all, I don't think this is as hard as some of you think it is. I wasn't fortunate enough to have the luck SaracenS did (not hating on you bud), but I'm pretty close to being able to do what he does. I'll give him props for being helpful and not being an asshole like the bulk of the professional gamers ("hey come watch my stream and donate money so I can show you how to play!").
You prolly don't know that but youtube actualy pays for viewers...
$ 0.0033/1 view
$ 3/1,000 view
$33/ 10,000 views
$330/ 100,000 views
$3300/ 1,000,000 views
So yeh, he is not the "watch my stream guy", he is "watch my youtube"
If I read this correctly a youtube partnership requires you to have 100k views to even begin to be monetized. Please don't try to make it out like I was doing this for me. My only intention was to get other people to think outside the box a bit and have some fun while they were at it :). I hope I did that and on the same token I also understand where you are coming from, as the brits would say 'cheers'.
Edit: I remembered wrong.
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Made my way to Ghom in act 3 with 5 stacks the first night in there but hit a brick wall with him and did I mention how painful the packs were? lol Farming act 2 for now, waiting for the patch to hopefully make it a little more rewarding.
Going to try out your spec when I get around to going back to Act 3. Thanks for the videos and I agree with the others when saying You shouldnt stop with just these clips!
Thanks for the encouragement! I think those wizard items might be a small loss compared to what you would face if she found your auction history instead ;)!
P.S. Scorpion champs are just lol, always glad to see them))
Thanks for the videos. Not sure I'll try it but its great food for thought
Anyways, you should make more videos. Maybe with more Soul Rippers?
If you put 9m (roughly the cost of a Stormshield + decent 1H weapon), you could get a nice 1400 dps 2H that should do the job just fine.
This is accurate. Furthermore the higher DPS you have + slower weapon is better (with higher dps of course) is the best for this build. The axe I had was .25 faster than a mace with similar +IAS. Seismic slam would be hitting 20%+ harder if my weapon was a mace instead of an axe.
TIL: Get 100m+ gold and X spec is viable!! Herp derp.
With that kind of gold, I bet all kinds of specs are viable, such as DWing, Ranged only builds, etc. Nothing in the video here is new and/or exciting. Same information has been circulating since the 2nd week of Inferno.
Anyway nice video and nice barb.
Sword is simply better, mace is better than axe due to the lower base attack speed.
This thread was intended to inspire more Barbs to consider using 2 handers. The fact the Op has a ton of gold invested into his gear is beside the point. You can still be viable as a 2 hand barb without sinking as much gold into your gear as the Op has. Now you probably won't be steam rolling near as hard but you can still be sucessful and have a blast doing it.
I havnt sank even a fraction of the gold the Op has into my gear and I steam roll act 2 as a 2 hander barb and the main thing holding me back in act 3 is resist. Mind you I can still get to ghom with 5 stacks it's just painful lol
Thanks for getting this back on topic. I only made this to inspire people to try it out for themselves! For those who are hating, thats fine but I think you will get to the level soon enough you can try it for yourselves and maybe you will take some of it back ;).
People have a good reason to hate, don't hate on them for hating ;).
That's how I started, however I was lucky enough to pick up a justice lantern for 500k and a 31% vit rolled SS for 10mil. This was weeks and weeks ago though no chance in that anymore :(.
I geared for pure defense until I could kill/survive and then started subbing in items with more str/crit/crit dmg and IAS when I found them on the AH, in game or was gifted them. I slowly moved from 10k dps to 35k dps 1h while maintaining my survival stats and then simply splurged and bought a huge 2h and sold my sword and shield all in.
I tried pure tanking for my friend who was a glass cannon DH while my dps was still low and honestly it didn't work all that well until I went pure defensive abilities/passives. At that time I could do a decent job of keeping stuff bottled up for him. I also tried a stun build which wasn't terrible but it also wasn't amazing. I assume it would be kind of nice if you had a nice tanky monk in front of you. Just keep up the farm you will get there, be persistent! =
Regardless of how many other threads there were, the purpose of this thread was just to demonstrate that it is possible to play Barb without sword/board and stomp on everything. I enjoyed the videos and the overall content/information of this thread. It's just fun to watch and see all the different ideas behind every 2H Barbarian's tactics. I've cleared everything on Inferno except Diablo - it would definitely be more fun to clear it this way though :P.
All in all, I don't think this is as hard as some of you think it is. I wasn't fortunate enough to have the luck SaracenS did (not hating on you bud), but I'm pretty close to being able to do what he does. I'll give him props for being helpful and not being an asshole like the bulk of the professional gamers ("hey come watch my stream and donate money so I can show you how to play!").
props to you sir.
+1
If I read this correctly a youtube partnership requires you to have 100k views to even begin to be monetized. Please don't try to make it out like I was doing this for me. My only intention was to get other people to think outside the box a bit and have some fun while they were at it :). I hope I did that and on the same token I also understand where you are coming from, as the brits would say 'cheers'.
Edit: I remembered wrong.