Hey board, I'm having a bit of trouble with my barb. I'm sure its a mix of equipment issues and perhaps not understanding how to keep the moving parts of the builds moving... I've played relatively casual since release as you'll notice by my kill counts and paragon levels.
As of yet I have never spent a dime in the real money AH, and I've never found a legendary worth anything or sold an item for more than 600k sooooooooo, my gear is a collection of random nearly good self founds and whatever I could bargain shop out of the AH here and there. It seems to be getting to a point for me where none of my gear is really great, but to upgrade it is getting unreasonable pricey, unless I'm just not thinking about it or searching right? Would love some input on upgrade priority and how best to find it and maybe a rough estimate of fair prices. Feel free to tell me the full amounts of what will benefit most or is required, I could potentially be swayed to spend some cash, or buy some gold or whatever.
As far as the builds... I'd love to run a WW build but I can't ever seem to generate enough fury to keep wrath up, not sure what it is but between the constant drain of WW and sprint I seem to be stopping, getting surrounded and stomped with wrath falling at the most inopportune times, usually right before a freeze explosion or some such. Is this gear related? Just not good enough to run it or am I perhaps missing something there as well? Also keep in mind I've never tried it with dual wield because it seems like proper main+EF costs a fortune.
Currently I'm managing, though not terribly efficiently on MP4. Efficiency loss doesn't seem to be due to damage, just due to the fact that I can't get WW to work for me so I end up running around trying to kill everything with HOTA.... Slows me down on the trash considerably as you migh imagine.
Anyway, I realize theres a ton of these threads, thanks for taking a moment to read through mine. All constructive comments are welcome.
WW gets clunky with a two handed weapon, increasing your attack speed will help (if possible) or switching to dual wielding. I'm in crap gear and use a two hander for my WW barb and I can handle MP6, I just use a gimped version of the standard WW build. I don't use sprint, but I use rend blood lust rune for a rage dump. I know it's a lot less efficient but it helps with keeping you alive and if your having trouble keeping up rage. I also use the windshear rune for WW to help with rage issues, again I know it's not the efficient way but it helps with crappy gear to keep up rage for WoTB.
As mentioned, crafting is always the cheapest way for upgrades. Focus on more crit % and IAS for fury generation. If damage isn't an issue start dropping those str gems for vit. If your not concerned with some additional exp an amethyst in the helm will really help as well.
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Alright, so I picked up a couple (what looked like) reasonable weapons for DW and swapped out the ammy, my HP definitely took a hit though. No luck crafting gloves so far
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As of yet I have never spent a dime in the real money AH, and I've never found a legendary worth anything or sold an item for more than 600k sooooooooo, my gear is a collection of random nearly good self founds and whatever I could bargain shop out of the AH here and there. It seems to be getting to a point for me where none of my gear is really great, but to upgrade it is getting unreasonable pricey, unless I'm just not thinking about it or searching right? Would love some input on upgrade priority and how best to find it and maybe a rough estimate of fair prices. Feel free to tell me the full amounts of what will benefit most or is required, I could potentially be swayed to spend some cash, or buy some gold or whatever.
As far as the builds... I'd love to run a WW build but I can't ever seem to generate enough fury to keep wrath up, not sure what it is but between the constant drain of WW and sprint I seem to be stopping, getting surrounded and stomped with wrath falling at the most inopportune times, usually right before a freeze explosion or some such. Is this gear related? Just not good enough to run it or am I perhaps missing something there as well? Also keep in mind I've never tried it with dual wield because it seems like proper main+EF costs a fortune.
Currently I'm managing, though not terribly efficiently on MP4. Efficiency loss doesn't seem to be due to damage, just due to the fact that I can't get WW to work for me so I end up running around trying to kill everything with HOTA.... Slows me down on the trash considerably as you migh imagine.
Anyway, I realize theres a ton of these threads, thanks for taking a moment to read through mine. All constructive comments are welcome.
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/TelenkPM-1911/hero/14399551 <= Rabrabian
(Note: Yes I use hota with Thunderstrike, if it still shows rolling it just hasn't updated back yet, I was messing around in an easier difficulty yesterday)
As mentioned, crafting is always the cheapest way for upgrades. Focus on more crit % and IAS for fury generation. If damage isn't an issue start dropping those str gems for vit. If your not concerned with some additional exp an amethyst in the helm will really help as well.