I've been using the mother-build of this one (Double Tornado) for a few weeks, and I have a few suggestions for people that are having trouble either finding the crit to back this up, or the Life on Hit.
This build can and has been done "on the cheap", the key being the Life on Hit is more important than the actual weapon DPS. Personally I have an 897 dps mainhand mighty weapon with 200 ish life on hit, and a 497 dps offhand with 600+ and a socket for 300 more with a star amethyst. The offhand is a terrible weapon with intelligence and set me back about 50k. The mainhand was about 200k and I overpaid even for that. Crit can be done with helm, gloves, bracers, amulet, rings. You can even just pick 3.
I believe that you can only have 5 tornadoes up at a time. You wouldn't be far off to estimate that your dps x5 is your potential dps from tornadoes, and then whatever else on top of that from whirlwind.
If you are having trouble generating fury once you've started sprinting, try using a mighty weapon mainhand until your gear catches up in crit chance. Mighty weapons get 3 fury per hit with Weapons Master passive, regardless of crit levels. Tornadoes hit about 3 times a second, PER TORNADO.
If you are having trouble killing elites, but other mobs go down easily, consider switching the rune on Wrath of the Berserker to Slaughter. If you have even a 25% total crit chance (30%+ should be easy to attain), the amount of extra damage this rune adds is ridiculous, and would be my go-to elite killer if I am having trouble in the later acts. No more infinite Wrath, but you can progress again.
One of the most important parts of this build is Whirlwind with Hurricane. What it allows you to do is move at your movement speed THROUGH mobs, and a cursory bonus I believe is it appears to drop tornadoes more frequently. No more getting stuck in a doorway with mobs on both sides or backed into a corner.
Contrary to popular belief, this CAN be used effectively against one stationary mob (I don't mean Belial specifically) without being Fury starved. This is a kiting build at heart. What good would it do to lay down some tornadoes and then veer off away from it, wasting that tornado on the open air?
Wrath of the Berserker increases your attack speed, which applies to tornadoes attack speed too.
Have a slow but powerful mob you need to drag through tornados? If it's a slow swingspeed let him stand still, sprint and whirlwind one time around him, and then run out when he starts to swing (big brutes with the attack that gets stuck in the ground in Halls of Agony comes to mind). Come back in when the attack lands, and do one more circle and go back out. Slow moving but fast attack? Always run away from it, but zig zag while you do it. The more ground you cover the more often you drop tornadoes. It takes some getting used to, but you will eventually get to the point that you always have 5 tornadoes up, and not a one is misplaced.
Frenzy build with the speed buff can be nice for people with less survivability.
Runspeed to boots is amazing for this build. I want to try it with runspeed on bracers just to see if it stacks.
I used this build with about 500k invested or less to get Act 1 on farm, and another 500k to get Act 2 on farm. My act 2 farm gear has gotten me halfway through Act 3. This is MUCH better than the 4 million or so I had into my tank set that barely got me through Act 1, not being able to consistently farm anything. Selling that gear (hello 1/4 resell value!) is what got me my Double Tornado build gear, and I haven't looked back.
I just got a new laptop, and I will be posting videos sometime of the little nuances I have learned about making a build like this, or the Double Tornado, or other variations work.
More importantly than anything, if inferno is making you want to quit your barb, this spec can change your mind. This is the most fun I have had in Diablo 3 by a huge margin.
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This build can and has been done "on the cheap", the key being the Life on Hit is more important than the actual weapon DPS. Personally I have an 897 dps mainhand mighty weapon with 200 ish life on hit, and a 497 dps offhand with 600+ and a socket for 300 more with a star amethyst. The offhand is a terrible weapon with intelligence and set me back about 50k. The mainhand was about 200k and I overpaid even for that. Crit can be done with helm, gloves, bracers, amulet, rings. You can even just pick 3.
I believe that you can only have 5 tornadoes up at a time. You wouldn't be far off to estimate that your dps x5 is your potential dps from tornadoes, and then whatever else on top of that from whirlwind.
If you are having trouble generating fury once you've started sprinting, try using a mighty weapon mainhand until your gear catches up in crit chance. Mighty weapons get 3 fury per hit with Weapons Master passive, regardless of crit levels. Tornadoes hit about 3 times a second, PER TORNADO.
If you are having trouble killing elites, but other mobs go down easily, consider switching the rune on Wrath of the Berserker to Slaughter. If you have even a 25% total crit chance (30%+ should be easy to attain), the amount of extra damage this rune adds is ridiculous, and would be my go-to elite killer if I am having trouble in the later acts. No more infinite Wrath, but you can progress again.
One of the most important parts of this build is Whirlwind with Hurricane. What it allows you to do is move at your movement speed THROUGH mobs, and a cursory bonus I believe is it appears to drop tornadoes more frequently. No more getting stuck in a doorway with mobs on both sides or backed into a corner.
Contrary to popular belief, this CAN be used effectively against one stationary mob (I don't mean Belial specifically) without being Fury starved. This is a kiting build at heart. What good would it do to lay down some tornadoes and then veer off away from it, wasting that tornado on the open air?
Wrath of the Berserker increases your attack speed, which applies to tornadoes attack speed too.
Have a slow but powerful mob you need to drag through tornados? If it's a slow swingspeed let him stand still, sprint and whirlwind one time around him, and then run out when he starts to swing (big brutes with the attack that gets stuck in the ground in Halls of Agony comes to mind). Come back in when the attack lands, and do one more circle and go back out. Slow moving but fast attack? Always run away from it, but zig zag while you do it. The more ground you cover the more often you drop tornadoes. It takes some getting used to, but you will eventually get to the point that you always have 5 tornadoes up, and not a one is misplaced.
Frenzy build with the speed buff can be nice for people with less survivability.
Runspeed to boots is amazing for this build. I want to try it with runspeed on bracers just to see if it stacks.
I used this build with about 500k invested or less to get Act 1 on farm, and another 500k to get Act 2 on farm. My act 2 farm gear has gotten me halfway through Act 3. This is MUCH better than the 4 million or so I had into my tank set that barely got me through Act 1, not being able to consistently farm anything. Selling that gear (hello 1/4 resell value!) is what got me my Double Tornado build gear, and I haven't looked back.
I just got a new laptop, and I will be posting videos sometime of the little nuances I have learned about making a build like this, or the Double Tornado, or other variations work.
More importantly than anything, if inferno is making you want to quit your barb, this spec can change your mind. This is the most fun I have had in Diablo 3 by a huge margin.