Just managed to get a half decent clear of the first part of act II today. I've never played anything but solo barb. While I agree with you guys that the game is heavily biased against melee I think the tuning difficulty is'nt actually too far off. I've got optimium rare lvl60 act I gear in about 90% slots and I can now *just* clear act II. It seems that they have the tuning set exactly right for barb. In that you need 90% of the current act gear in every slot to take on the next act. The problem is that kiting as ranged means you don't have to have that almost perfect gear if you never get hit by anything.
Biggest advice I can give other barbs trying to solo at the moment is to stop stacking vit. This isn't wow and we don't need huge health pools to suck up massive burst so our healers can keep us up. You need to mitigate incoming damage and spread out your mit through equal amounts of armor/resist all/dodge as to make the best of the curve. Also, make sure your using the enchantress, shes by far the best follower imo. Armor buff is huge and her occasional CC is life saving. That and mine does about 2.5k dps.
I run a 2h Barb, and I have no problem with Act 2 Inferno (with the exception of Belial). You do not need to be super tanky to be a Barb in Inferno, and I have never used a 1h and shield in Inferno while solo. In some ways the best defense is a good offense.
Calling BS, there's way you have no problem with Act 2 inferno. Belial is actually pretty easy for barb as long as you have a good strat for second phase.
I find it really really hard to believe that so many of you say you have act 1 on farm.
Judging from what I read here my gear is better than most of yours (50k hp, 70% dr and 13K dps, etc...) and I still die a fuckload.
Sure I've killed SK with 5 stacks up but to call it "farm" .. nah far from
Then you suck. Inferno act 1 is a joke; I just timed my last run. From start to SK kill --> 28 minutes. SK --> Arach 36 minutes. Arach --> Butcher 42 minutes. Died twice to fiery chains + molten pack, rest was a breeze.
I honestly don't think it's possible for a barb to solo Act 2 or 3 Inferno. I can die to normal packs with ignore pain and 60% dodge wrath of berserker up. I'm not sure gear can even help with this one.
Just tested act 3 in my full tank gear (63k hp, 7000ish armor, 55% physical reduction, 35% dodge) and I died in 2 hits from a random white dog.
Farming gear: 15000~ damage with battle rage, 45k hp, 5600 armor, 25% dodge with dodge warcry.
Using an 820ish damage 2h weapon with 2.5% life leech (15% mf)
Can solo Inferno right now at ~13000 damage, 45k hp, 5.5k armor, 35% dodge. I can farm everything up until butcher. Barbs feel pretty good right now actually.
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Holy shit it's working.
Calling BS, there's way you have no problem with Act 2 inferno. Belial is actually pretty easy for barb as long as you have a good strat for second phase.
Then you suck. Inferno act 1 is a joke; I just timed my last run. From start to SK kill --> 28 minutes. SK --> Arach 36 minutes. Arach --> Butcher 42 minutes. Died twice to fiery chains + molten pack, rest was a breeze.
Just tested act 3 in my full tank gear (63k hp, 7000ish armor, 55% physical reduction, 35% dodge) and I died in 2 hits from a random white dog.
Using an 820ish damage 2h weapon with 2.5% life leech (15% mf)
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Max self healing build, took inspiring presence because sometimes you have to kite until your ignore pain is back up.
I can solo SK --> butcher runs in about 2 hours as long as I don't get retarded rare spawns.
Act 1, all in all, is pretty easy now.
Act 2 however, someone please tell me how you're supposed to solo this.