Thanks for the links, wudijo. Was watching your stream yesterday while grifting myself, so couldn't ask in time - but at some point you said it might be better to go coldfire together with a barb. Why coldfire? Why not pure fire? Wouldn't the AoE barb and a pure single target DPS fire DH be the best possible combinations for 2p?
Btw, EU is a bit behind on the entire barb thing - in US and Korea many of the top spots in 2p are already occupied by barb+DH. Hades and Gaby are #1 on US with a GR51 clear, for example. I guess in your clan Empyrian is working really hard to catch up ;-) We've got some people interested in trying out barbs as well in our clan, but need to figure out who's "best" in doing this, and it takes lots of practice. It's kind of sad that people bitch about barb being "lame" and whatever, when it actually in my opinion is the class that requires most skill. It doesn't require skill to be playable - but a really good barb can just take any group 5 levels higher, whereas a mediocre Raekor barb will not help a lot. Plus, barbs are doing "their own thing", away from the group, so it's difficult to assess if the barb is "good", "very good", or "awesome".
Anyways, interested in your opinion what the best pure single target spec is, because you kind of got me confused there yesterday ;-)
Thanks wudijo for this awesome and detailed guide, and the "commented gameplay demonstration" which helps a lot to not only understand the theory, but also see how it's being done in practice. Now I'm only missing a looooooot of practice
This is awesome. And here I was believing all those people that told me that lightning/Helltrapper is useless in Greater Rifts (I don't main a DH nor am I interested in solo, so not a big deal, but it's still interesting that only so few people are willing to "try something out" for more than one run).
@OP: Congratz to rank 1 (which you might enjoy for quite some time now, given the recent trial change).
@All those saying "oh, it's just because of a good rift": You don't clear a GR45 solo without having the "right" density, type of mobs, and an easy boss. The other GR45 solo clears (and probably most GR44, 43, maybe even lower) weren't done with a long sewers map full of act 5 mobs, yellow electrified/jailer/frozen/thunderstorm packs, and Saxtris as rift guardian. Of course you need a good rift gifted to you by RNG, we all know that.
That changes absolutely *nothing* about this impressive feat.
Btw, EU is a bit behind on the entire barb thing - in US and Korea many of the top spots in 2p are already occupied by barb+DH. Hades and Gaby are #1 on US with a GR51 clear, for example. I guess in your clan Empyrian is working really hard to catch up ;-) We've got some people interested in trying out barbs as well in our clan, but need to figure out who's "best" in doing this, and it takes lots of practice. It's kind of sad that people bitch about barb being "lame" and whatever, when it actually in my opinion is the class that requires most skill. It doesn't require skill to be playable - but a really good barb can just take any group 5 levels higher, whereas a mediocre Raekor barb will not help a lot. Plus, barbs are doing "their own thing", away from the group, so it's difficult to assess if the barb is "good", "very good", or "awesome".
Anyways, interested in your opinion what the best pure single target spec is, because you kind of got me confused there yesterday ;-)
@OP: Congratz to rank 1 (which you might enjoy for quite some time now, given the recent trial change).
@All those saying "oh, it's just because of a good rift": You don't clear a GR45 solo without having the "right" density, type of mobs, and an easy boss. The other GR45 solo clears (and probably most GR44, 43, maybe even lower) weren't done with a long sewers map full of act 5 mobs, yellow electrified/jailer/frozen/thunderstorm packs, and Saxtris as rift guardian. Of course you need a good rift gifted to you by RNG, we all know that.
That changes absolutely *nothing* about this impressive feat.