First of all, thank-you to anybody that gives the time to read this and help out. Barbs are my newly found fav char and I just want to make mine better. This isn't a "what can I get for my budget," post, as that always changes, instead, it's mostly a, "what gear/skills should I change," topic. Something to consider is that I love WW and HotA (HotA a little less but am open to anything, as long as it's the best option!)


I'm looking for the best/most rounded barb possible, I can't afford perfect gear and at the moment, have a 5billion-ish (non duped tyvm) budget at the moment but like I said, that can change since I'm going to sell some of my characters and fg. I want to be able to solo mp10 uber and do mp8 and higher fairly quickly and efficiently


Any gearing help would be really appreciated.. And again, thanks to anybody that has the time to help me.. The goal is to have the highest DPS possible while retaining sufficient EHP like all res, life, armor, etc. Like for example my immortal king's gloves, getting trifecta's loses the all res, if a suggestion is to get the trifecta's (IAS/CC/CD), where would I recover the lost res? I do have a DPS ring that gives me 14k more damage, the EHP one on the left is a cheapo but the AR helps a lot


link to my barb:

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/DreDay!@#$%^-1607/hero/8570045


stats:

260k ish DPS non buffed
I have 550 all res and 600 light res
59% total cc (with passive skills and skoundrel)
follow the link for the rest please, these stats are ones that aren't shown


also, one question about main hand vs. off hand:
When my rare wep is on my main, the APS is 2.5x attacks per second (can't remember exactly) and with my EF on my main, it's 2.39... how come my DPS stays the exact same no matter what wep is on whichever hand and my APS is different? I am guessing that the it's because the combined APS is the same?

And come someone PLEASE tell me the differences between MH vs OH? I heard glitches/bugs, not sure what the facts and rumors are? Besides the obvious differences from the passive skills, weapons master, are there are any advantages/differences in choosing which weapon to wear on my main hand?


I can do mp 8 rather slowly with 2-4 deaths per 20 minute act 3 run and would like to be able to do 9-10 with limited deaths.

suggestions on my skills would help, as mentioned, I love ww but I'm open to HotA.. I'm currently playing around with different skill sets so ignore the sprint/ww rune combo

I think, with HotA build u need a expensive gear for kills ubers, WW build dont is expensive ^^, with this gear u can kill easy (only monsters white) Mp10

This post was edited by NaniyoLod on May 8 2013 05:53am

So what gear would I need to improve to do mp 10 elites?

You want to shoot for 60k life and 650 all res thats what my barbs at and i die to ubers sometime in party of 4

You probably want to get a black damage MH. If you get a elemental based weapon it will not stack with +elemental DPS such as SOJ or zuni boots. If you are not wearing + elemental gear than you can get an elemental weapon, since you have a ton of gold get a black damage. As far as switching weapons you are correct on the attack speeds remaining the same so no screen dps change. To determine which weapon is better you need to look at the average damage not weapon dps. Most of the time a rare mace is going to have much better average damage than some of the best echoing fury's out there.

Search Average damage 900 CD 50 OS Life steal 2.5

Should only populate a few maces.

My friend is selling the #2 weapon for these stats for 2.5bil if you are interested.
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/43/bestmace.png/

Echo OS CD Str. I would sacrifice CD or weapon dps to get a .25 echo. That way you don't have to get 9ias on all of your gear to reach 2.86.

A well geared HOTA player is going to kill mp10 E faster than WW period. If you are comfortable with WW you can remove bash for rend lacerate, put a ruby in your mainhand, with 300k unbuffed you can drop mp10 elites in under 20sec. It's really easy to play without bash since new patch.

As far as 60k hp and 650ar I have to disagree. Ubers are pointless so gearing for bosses that you will play <1% of the time is a waste for me. I get by on mp10 with 37k hp 5k armor 430ar

GL

This post was edited by andrewcvety on May 8 2013 05:33pm

when it comes to MH (main hand) and OH (off hand) and EF, first of all it doesnt matter in wich hand your EF is, the + 0.2x aps effects both hands regardless of wich hand you have it in.

now when it comes to rltw damage, it is based on your MH raw damage now in turn this also effects procs from MH so if you use EF in MH the fear proc can get triggered from rltw nados, if you have it in your offhand it can not proc fear from nados but your ww/normal attacks can still proc the fear. another note here is that a rare axe/mace will probably have better raw damage then your EF so if you use EF in mainhand it can proc the fear and will probably deal less damage than if you used an axe or mace in mainhand with the same dps.

i cant see your barb when i click on the link so i dont know. im running with 40khp 550ar 5.7% LS and i can do mp8 easily mp10 gets a bit tricky sometimes i have 206k (100% unbuffed dps, that is without passives etc etc) i can run mp10 if i play a bit carefully and avoid some packs, molten, arcane is what i dont like all other mods on them feel irrelevant, but on mp10 i dont like killing elites since it takes a long time to kill them.

my skills are these: sprint, battle rage, overpower (crit), wotb, (left mouse - hota) (right mouse - ww) if you dont have -hota cost gear this works, if you spam battlerage while auto attacking without fury with your hota attack you will gain enough fury to cast battlerage, same with sprint without spending fury on a hota attack. if you use -hota cost gear this gets tricky so you might have to switch out overpower for hota and get bash/frenzy on left mouse button instead.

us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/DreDaybiatch-1607/hero/8570045

or for less survival more killing: http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Baronmad-2448/hero/4200806 (the dps is a bit wrong its around 290k with passives only)

@Anomandaris - that hellfire is ugly & you are 100, your other ring is crazy nice. IAS on MH weapon is misleading and wasted stats, fake dps, ect. Judging by the rest of your gear sell that axe asap. Nice barb tho.

@Mambo-45 your echo has slightly higher average damage than your axe ATM. you should swap them if you can deal with the fear proc. Or better yet get a new MH.

if I want to be pure hota:
soj
ik belt
trifecta gloves

anything else?