I thought they were hitting a little too hard for Together as One! Well I agree it is safer but you might not have made the timer otherwise. You are using more DPS talents than a lot of the other people on the leaderboard... the mix of Parthian Defenders and Bul-Kathos is the main difference gear wise that seems to allow you to get away with that.
Again, impressive even if you didn't get any 5-pack-fire-chains hate.
You seem to have changed to an IK / Raekor hybrid build. Anyway you probably will need double Unity to stay alive in higher greater rifts. You have +armor on your IK chest which is pretty bad. Strongarm bracers are probably better than slave bonds, for Raekors and Leapquake. Haunt of Vaxo is ok but you're better off with a good Hellfire amulet or a Lightning / Fire immunity neck. Rest of your gear seems OK but I would put a little more priority on Cooldown Reduction.
...plus most of those barbs are coldquake with support skills and barely do any damage...
I am the #1 barbarian in 4-man group on season ladder and I did that as fire. When we were the #2 ranked 4-man group I was hundreds of ranks ahead of the next barbarian. Every other barbarian in 4-man on the ladder appears to be Raekor (there aren't many!). In the 2-4 minutes it took to kill a rift boss with 160b hit points I probably did 40-50b damage where a Raekor barb would be mostly AFK - and I died less often than the crusader. IK Ancients Council Rises + fire EQ is very good single target damage.
Removing Pylons from rifts would be a step in the right direction for sure, but I don't see any post that says that. It is funny that you mention that with respect to Leapquake though... Leapquake can actually do damage and kill a rift boss without a conduit, it is Raekor's that struggles horribly with single target. Also at some point _no_ class can kill a riftboss in less than 15 minutes with or without a conduit due to the extreme health scaling. Blizzard has set up greater rifts in such a way that you literally can't win! If you beat 55 somehow, there will be 56 with another 10% hit points.
*** Strategy for 4-player is basically the monk piles everything up so you can nuke it with earthquake.
*** I am also the #3 barbarian on the 2-player ladder as Raekor barb with a Demon hunter, behind Alkaizer and hyorc. Strategy there is Raekor summons the boss and the DH kills it. Works very well and more reliable than hunting for a conduit.
I don't understand why there is so much mad in this thread lol.
Look, I progressed from 30's through 42 with a 4 man group - DH, Pull monk, Crusader, Leapquake Barbarian. No other group is that comp that I've seen. We cleared probably a dozen 40-41 rifts and a couple 42s. Not a single one was a conduit on a boss. We stalled at 43 and the monk decided to go play hardcore. I tried lots and lots of variations on the build to be able to survive and deal damage in 40-41-42.
I haven't played very many solo greater rifts but I'm sure leapquake is not very good at all past 34-35. I agree Raekor's is better even for group play because it is much higher AOE DPS - I was playing Leapquake for so long because I preferred that and it was the set I completed first in the season.
I'm just saying that people claiming you can't do 30+ with leapquake either haven't tried very hard, or are terrible at the game. I agree you're probably not going to clear a 40+ solo with leapquake, but you CAN and I have cleared many, many 40+ _group_ rifts with it. To hear people say it's impossible or that you have to get lucky or carried is all pretty funny to me.
But you know, I actually did complete several 41 and 42 greater rifts as fire earthquake in a group this season. I don't disagree that Raekor's is better in almost every way (except raekor single target is really shitty compared to EQ), but you absolutely can complete and contribute to 40+ greater rifts with fire EQ. Well, maybe you can't...
Did a little testing for the sake of the thread, and specifically the 'lol earthquake doesn't tick over 100m' bit.
Here is an Imgur album that shows EQ ticks on a rift boss of 101, 134, and 114m. Hard to get screenshots because the ticks are so fast and there is so much number spam from the ancients. Look at the WHITE numbers, those are the dot ticks - the yellow numbers are not EQ (the 205m is Mirinae).
Also screenshotted is my passives - Nerves of Steel, Relentless, Superstition, Berserker Rage (plus Ruthless from hellfire neck, but none of the screenshots are below 30% health). 3 defensive passives - if there were offensive passives these numbers would be higher.
In before OP makes excuses about why this doesn't count.
You can do over GRift 40 in a group with leapquake. I personally have done 42, in season, at paragon level 200-something in a group full of paragon 200-somethings. It has problems but it is miles ahead of the 'second spec' of most every other class. Honest.
Not really replying to the OP here since he is a troll, just to other barbarians who might stumble on this thread. We do have problems sure, but in GROUP PLAY at least you can play Fire DPS Leap-quake through at least greater rift 42 and contribute to the clear. I did it myself.
I cleared a couple 42s in a 4 man group with a fire leap barbarian on season, and we had a pretty average rifts - not terrible act-5 mobs in a cave, but not hordes of zombies either. Raekor's is better yeah but the ceiling for Leapquake is not 30-34 it is higher than that. I did a 41 in a 2 man group using Raekor's so I have experience with both specs.
With Furnace and only defensive buffs from Crusader/Monk (so I didn't get one-shot gg) earthquake ticks were 100-120m, so you can get it to be higher than what you're experiencing. I do agree leapquake damage is not close to what other classes can get, but honestly not very many classes can contribute to a group doing 40+ with their 'second' spec. It's a problem with every class that there is one clearly superior set-based spec.
I have not played much solo though as I usually am playing with friends, so I can't speak to that.
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Again, impressive even if you didn't get any 5-pack-fire-chains hate.
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Here I did a 35 greater rift as leapquake (sorry it's muted Twitch doesn't like music). http://www.twitch.tv/successbear/c/5267181
You seem to have changed to an IK / Raekor hybrid build. Anyway you probably will need double Unity to stay alive in higher greater rifts. You have +armor on your IK chest which is pretty bad. Strongarm bracers are probably better than slave bonds, for Raekors and Leapquake. Haunt of Vaxo is ok but you're better off with a good Hellfire amulet or a Lightning / Fire immunity neck. Rest of your gear seems OK but I would put a little more priority on Cooldown Reduction.
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Removing Pylons from rifts would be a step in the right direction for sure, but I don't see any post that says that. It is funny that you mention that with respect to Leapquake though... Leapquake can actually do damage and kill a rift boss without a conduit, it is Raekor's that struggles horribly with single target. Also at some point _no_ class can kill a riftboss in less than 15 minutes with or without a conduit due to the extreme health scaling. Blizzard has set up greater rifts in such a way that you literally can't win! If you beat 55 somehow, there will be 56 with another 10% hit points.
*** Strategy for 4-player is basically the monk piles everything up so you can nuke it with earthquake.
*** I am also the #3 barbarian on the 2-player ladder as Raekor barb with a Demon hunter, behind Alkaizer and hyorc. Strategy there is Raekor summons the boss and the DH kills it. Works very well and more reliable than hunting for a conduit.
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Look, I progressed from 30's through 42 with a 4 man group - DH, Pull monk, Crusader, Leapquake Barbarian. No other group is that comp that I've seen. We cleared probably a dozen 40-41 rifts and a couple 42s. Not a single one was a conduit on a boss. We stalled at 43 and the monk decided to go play hardcore. I tried lots and lots of variations on the build to be able to survive and deal damage in 40-41-42.
I haven't played very many solo greater rifts but I'm sure leapquake is not very good at all past 34-35. I agree Raekor's is better even for group play because it is much higher AOE DPS - I was playing Leapquake for so long because I preferred that and it was the set I completed first in the season.
I'm just saying that people claiming you can't do 30+ with leapquake either haven't tried very hard, or are terrible at the game. I agree you're probably not going to clear a 40+ solo with leapquake, but you CAN and I have cleared many, many 40+ _group_ rifts with it. To hear people say it's impossible or that you have to get lucky or carried is all pretty funny to me.
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Here is an Imgur album that shows EQ ticks on a rift boss of 101, 134, and 114m. Hard to get screenshots because the ticks are so fast and there is so much number spam from the ancients. Look at the WHITE numbers, those are the dot ticks - the yellow numbers are not EQ (the 205m is Mirinae).
Also screenshotted is my passives - Nerves of Steel, Relentless, Superstition, Berserker Rage (plus Ruthless from hellfire neck, but none of the screenshots are below 30% health). 3 defensive passives - if there were offensive passives these numbers would be higher.
In before OP makes excuses about why this doesn't count.
http://imgur.com/a/CvZ2p
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Not really replying to the OP here since he is a troll, just to other barbarians who might stumble on this thread. We do have problems sure, but in GROUP PLAY at least you can play Fire DPS Leap-quake through at least greater rift 42 and contribute to the clear. I did it myself.
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With Furnace and only defensive buffs from Crusader/Monk (so I didn't get one-shot gg) earthquake ticks were 100-120m, so you can get it to be higher than what you're experiencing. I do agree leapquake damage is not close to what other classes can get, but honestly not very many classes can contribute to a group doing 40+ with their 'second' spec. It's a problem with every class that there is one clearly superior set-based spec.
I have not played much solo though as I usually am playing with friends, so I can't speak to that.