Atare, if we as barbs would want to play ranged, we'd go with wizards/dh! (Usually, some people love ranged barbs, but I don't really get the feel that a barb should be throwing things on people, we are BERSERKERS!)
If the WW bonuses would work additively, I would be very dissapointed... We wouldn't be insanely op, we would be on par with the other classes! ^^ If we would get perma wotb with this however, we would be insanely op, but extremely fun to play
Has anyone thought of theorycrafting different builds for the set anywhere? From what we've seen, I'd say a physical/lightning build seems most likely. A speed demon we were Flexy! But rend is still quite clunky with whirlwind. Stopping to rend in a pack or near it might get you killed. A better way of applying rend feels needed to me (I will play with the set anyway!)
If anything, this will atleast be supergood for T6 speedfarming, but pushing grs? Maybe not!
Rend attack animations are based on weapons speed so thats some forgiveness. Also there was a time when getting swarmed by enemies would stall the rends and they would never go off. Thank fuck they changed that. there are also certain attacks that allow you to begin the rend animation early almost before the end of the first attack. its a really cool feeling to be able to trigger attacks in such a subtle way to increase effectiveness.
if you trigger Hammer of the Ancients and like have way through trigger rend the feeling is different than a "revenge-rend" or a Ground Stomp-rend. So im a bit less hampered by the clunkiness of rend as you are
Obviously if rend and WW are shacked up tightly together, with these items you speak off mind you, then any clunkiness will be more pronounced. Knowing that I would examin ways to reduce that negative effect possibly.
all in all I like your post, I like your thinking and wish fucking items like this were in the game years ago.
These items are in the demo at Blizzcon, you can read of the others on the frontpage of Diablofans!
Barbarian: Whirwind and Rend - Triple Rend damage and duration, Whirlwind deals triple damage to targets affected by Rend.
Do you guys think the Lamentation belt for barbs make this do 6 times the damage when whirlwinding targets effected by rend?
To me, Rend feels clunky to use and it DOES make you stop casting whirlwind, might this be an issue?
Now, fire away at my shitty points! (This armor set is taken from Blizzcon and will most likely be added to the game)
Might this be a good time to buff the Shard of Hate to it's original bugged state? The item was cool to use when you could just see a massive amount of lightning procs flying around! It would probably still have a hard time keeping up with other weapons anyway... #1handersareuselessandshouldreceivestrongeffectsthatmakethemworthwile
If the WW bonuses would work additively, I would be very dissapointed... We wouldn't be insanely op, we would be on par with the other classes! ^^ If we would get perma wotb with this however, we would be insanely op, but extremely fun to play
If anything, this will atleast be supergood for T6 speedfarming, but pushing grs? Maybe not!