last night Empyrian and I rose up to the challenge to try the very unusual combo of Barb + DH in 2 player. The main difference to the regular Wiz/DH + WD/Crus setups is the missing permanent CC both during the rift and for the rift guardian, which makes for very exciting gameplay because it requires a completely different level of coordination during the runs. One thing that many people complain about is the need for perma CC to be able to reach high rift tiers in groups, and this may be a first look at what things will be like after it will finally be removed in patch 2.3. Obviously many more things will change (as we will probably also see a rebalancing of damage taken inside GRs, as well as massive power creep to make sure we can go higher after the patch than we can do now, and obviously all the new class sets and items), which will make things completely different in the end. Nevertheless, both of us can only encourage everyone to go and try out some unusual combos like this, it's a lot of fun to play, and a very refreshing experience in general.
Even if it is not top notch, I guess that ~tier 60 can be done with basically any class combination in 2man (this one was pushed to 63 already by DutchFreak and Xemio on the EU servers a couple hours later). Considering that the top clears will probably cap out at ~68/69 this season, this is likely not going to be rank 1 material, but it's certainly viable to push into the mid 60s. We only did a couple of runs and in almost all of them we (could) have spawned the RG with a couple of minutes left, going for a more aggressive setup (e.g. running fire RoV instead of cold) will tremendously shorten fight duration in easy rifts, and in the end you can always gamble for a Stonesinger + Power Pylon and kill it off in 2 min even at tier 65 or something. We're definitely looking forward to push higher at a later point and see where we will cap out with it.
Both of us streamed and recorded the run, so you can watch it from both point of views. Enjoy: Barb PoV | DH PoV
"I can see this being the strongest 2 man setup post 2.3."
How can you predict this when you couldnt predict this duo? just asking
Why do you think nobody predicted this duo? I've thought about this comp ever since barbs started pushing solo 60 over a month ago. Barb is great at clearing trash, dh is great at killing rg, it makes sense that if they can each solo 60 then put them together and they can at least do mid 60's. Hell, people have been running barb/dh in 2's every season because raekor/m6 had the same chemistry.
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Hey everyone,
last night Empyrian and I rose up to the challenge to try the very unusual combo of Barb + DH in 2 player. The main difference to the regular Wiz/DH + WD/Crus setups is the missing permanent CC both during the rift and for the rift guardian, which makes for very exciting gameplay because it requires a completely different level of coordination during the runs. One thing that many people complain about is the need for perma CC to be able to reach high rift tiers in groups, and this may be a first look at what things will be like after it will finally be removed in patch 2.3. Obviously many more things will change (as we will probably also see a rebalancing of damage taken inside GRs, as well as massive power creep to make sure we can go higher after the patch than we can do now, and obviously all the new class sets and items), which will make things completely different in the end. Nevertheless, both of us can only encourage everyone to go and try out some unusual combos like this, it's a lot of fun to play, and a very refreshing experience in general.
Even if it is not top notch, I guess that ~tier 60 can be done with basically any class combination in 2man (this one was pushed to 63 already by DutchFreak and Xemio on the EU servers a couple hours later). Considering that the top clears will probably cap out at ~68/69 this season, this is likely not going to be rank 1 material, but it's certainly viable to push into the mid 60s. We only did a couple of runs and in almost all of them we (could) have spawned the RG with a couple of minutes left, going for a more aggressive setup (e.g. running fire RoV instead of cold) will tremendously shorten fight duration in easy rifts, and in the end you can always gamble for a Stonesinger + Power Pylon and kill it off in 2 min even at tier 65 or something. We're definitely looking forward to push higher at a later point and see where we will cap out with it.
Both of us streamed and recorded the run, so you can watch it from both point of views. Enjoy: Barb PoV | DH PoV
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fantastic work, I can see this being the strongest 2 man setup post 2.3.
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Curse PremiumWhy do you think nobody predicted this duo? I've thought about this comp ever since barbs started pushing solo 60 over a month ago. Barb is great at clearing trash, dh is great at killing rg, it makes sense that if they can each solo 60 then put them together and they can at least do mid 60's. Hell, people have been running barb/dh in 2's every season because raekor/m6 had the same chemistry.