It's easy to predict where a desynching WW barb will be.

WW barbs either desynch by running fast which will only desynch them around half a screen, or by namelock WW, which will let you know they are following you.

hmm, i cant see how your going to take down a ww barb with 3.5k + life with 2 fissures. they must have pretty awful fire resists. most ww barbs will have.
70 res sanctuary
30 resist arreats
15 stone/duress
35 natural res
50 nokozan relic
45 anya quest


without factoring in res on charms, belt or rings thats still over 80 stack res in nm 85 fire res with gores(or 90 fire res with ww boots, more res and stack if you got frw charms and equip hotspur but the barb looses much frw.)
a barb should have more frw than you as they got one point in inc speed. i really cant see how a barb would drop to two fissures.
also to cast your fissure you have to stand still at some point and thats when you get ww d.

maybe you could explain were ive gone wrong with my calcs?
vs a smiter with 1 point in charge, using hotspur and sanctuary it should be quite easy for him, vigor charge smite or just vigor charge , rinse and repeat.

Obviously you lose if he has 95 res. Too much +max res is BM imo. It's really hard to draw the line as to how much is ok before it becomes BM, but everyone must agree that 95 res is way too much.

I think an 85 res barb is beatable though. He is going to take a lot of fissures chasing you.

Also, if he uses sanct, he can't dual wield.

45 anya quest - it's 30 res from anya, but that doesn't really matter

hehe, sorry about quest stat doh. yes 95 res is bm and not a duel. my point is a barb can easily get up to 90 res without much problem with item switching so i fail to see how the jacquesstrap manages to take down ww barbs with 2 fissures. obviously all this is just talk and its often different in a duel but exagerating with a statement like that disproves ones theory more than it proves it.

90 res seems bm to me too. Noka alone is ok though. Like I said it's hard to draw the line between how much +max is bm, but thats just my opinion.

the difference between 85 and 90 is a whopping 1/3 damage reduction.

jaquestrap tested a fissure on my HLD barb with enough stacked res to stay at 75 +1 dwarf star, and it hurt pretty bad.

well ive only dueled a couple of fissures and just used nokozan to give me 85 res as i dont carry hotspurs on any character. ive used a liby with nokazan and a bow with -fire res and the duels have been pretty straightforward. yes it is debatable what is a fair matchup in terms of max res 85 or 90. it just seems to me in a pub game most opponents will equip hotspur which makes the duel tough. in reply maybe the druid should equip some pdr to compensate.additonally against good opponents i really dont believe 60 frw is near enough.
a fussure druid is an interesting build but i dont really see it as competetive against enough builds to see it as more than a fun build.however fun builds keep this stale game intersting ( to play and also to duel against) so good luck to anyone who tries a build like this that you wont see in a high level duel game.

i dont use any + max fire resist vs fudge and i consider it a fair duel. 85% is where id draw the line and its what i do vs any elemental casters unless they bm.

negating chars is retarded.

You forget,

if a barb WW over a fissure it hits around 6-12 times

That's why i love facing ww barbs....when theyre stuck in WW lock they can't just run out to the side of the fissure like other chars can, they have to go across the whooooooole thing.