Trying to decide on a setup to kill 40k ar barbs. I'm not talking about the ingame trades only bnet traders w/ standard gear... I'm talking about those that actual real world rmt.. Those that actually bother spending $2000 for a 6 pt circlet and stuff. I'm already using an effective setup, which is the standard pub nuke gear, just looking for something even more effective, something that I can use to outgay the gays. I have an ultra-high def setup (32k) that will cut number of hits taken by around half, but with low dr. This also gives me another potential nuke with a fortitude scepter that gives +bh/conc/conv, which is about 200+ dmg from a base level FOH if enemy is at <0 lr. Because ar stackers won't have any stacked lr, this means they will have to gimp their own build in some way or they will just get fully wiped out by foh. The increased defense would probably be more significant than the drop in % dr, because a lot of the damage is coming from open wounds. In addition, some barbs use 2x doom and leap around so it is very difficult to land a hammer on them. The drop of the 26% dr is in fact negligible in this instance because most of the damage is dealt via open wounds. Stacked defense is exponentially more effective against worse ar, for example pub bvcs using fcr rings will get about 20% cth before factoring in bolck chance. In other words this setup is effective against those that actually bother to rmt their items etc, and
very effective against unprepared chars. Anyway this is all theorycraft at this point. Need some opinions before I spend all I have on the 2nd setup! Just so I know if I am spending everything on a total downgrade, lol. Which is better:
1) Standard items - hoto/spirit/dungo/coa
https://maxroll.gg/d2/d2planner/v101ihq5125fcr/86fhr,
13.7k hammers,
50% dr,
14k def,
4.7k hp (5.8k hp w/ oak),
33rep
min str/dex investment required: 0/49
Standard setup. Very inflexible, ofc
2) Crazy, ultra-gay,
ultra-expensive items - fort scepter bh+conc/exile/arach/circlet ber'd
https://maxroll.gg/d2/d2planner/5e01ih6q125fcr/86fhr,
13.6k hammers,
24% dr,
32k def (38k def w/ CA proc),
4.4k hp,
7rep
min str/dex investment required: 0/34
Special setup. Can get holy freeze or conv staffmods on scepter (if GM), can get faster movement speed. It's very flexible, kinda like a bisexual stripper
More on the 2nd setup. I could put a Ber SS on it to immediately have maxed % Damage Reduction. I could also get COA/Dungo but it won't be any good b/c of the slower fcr frames. Just looking for a more efficient way to play this matchup, especially since stash space is less of a problem now. ISO feedback on whether it's good/bad etc :)
I stopped reading when you said 6 point.
D2:R
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