Lvl30 Barb - Topic

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Dec 5 2022 11:57am

Foreword:
To me, barbarians are and always should be passion projects. It's a build that has many moving parts, swaps, and tactics. This is not the same teleWW of LOD. Best in slot has many different faces many are unfamiliar with.

**This blog is not a guide, it's to help people understand. For me, it's to track the growth of character mechanics.**
I will publish a guide in the future.

Patch 2.3: https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/d2r/t/diablo-ii-resurrected-122-pc-patch-notes-23-build-67314/74170

Whirlwind interactions feel clumsy.

Initial two hitchecks do not output damage. This was noticed with the new hit indicator:
- A visual indicator has been added to show when a character’s attack misses an opponent in PvP.

Whirlwind desync following teleports would sometimes rubberband your character to where the player originally teleported from:
- Fixed an issue where player attack and skills would not always stay in sync between client and server.

Patch 2.4(PTR): https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/d2r/t/diablo-ii-resurrected-126-pc-console-patch-notes-2301/78454

Weapon swap could be bound to mouse wheel, enabling faster more consistent teleswaps:
- Fixed an issue where players were unable to bind mouse wheel inputs to skills.

Patch 2.4(Post patch): https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/diablo2/23788293/diablo-ii-resurrected-patch-2-4-coming-soon

Masteries:
Increased base attack rating bonus to 40% (from 28%)

Sword mastery:
- Renamed to blade mastery.
- Now affects daggers in addition to swords.

Throwing Mastery:
- Increased base attack rating bonus to 44% (from 30%).
- Added chance to not consume quantity per level up to 55% chance at level 20.
- Critical strikes with throwing weapons now replenish quantity.
- Added chance to pierce.

Whirlwind:
- When targeting an enemy with Whirlwind, the Barbarian will move to the initial position of the enemy--it will not track them as they move.
- Whirlwind will be performed even when targeting adjacent enemies (used to perform a basic attack).

Leap:
- Baseline minimum distance increased.
- Speed of the leap motion increased by 75%.
- Leap now has a minimum jump height and duration.
- Tooltip updated to now display Knockback Radius.
- Can leap immediately following whirlwind.

This post was edited by Faxx on Dec 5 2022 12:01pm