Again, always thankful for the advise. I did grab a STR based Unity and matched with RoRG and swapped to a Maras instead of the squirts. It has the worst rolls ever, but I threw it on anyway. First time out, ran through grift 42 with 11 minutes left over, much better than my previous high of 40 with a minute left. Survivability increased dramatically, especially since I didnt die once in that entire run until the RG, and even then only died once during that fight due to a lack of concentration and an encounter with an arcane turret. Previously, I would die often and tried to rely solely on the speed of killing mobs faster than they could kill me. My overall sheet damage went from 1.1mil to 850k, but I cleared two levels higher easily. I am also able to hit WotB quite often. It's not permazerk, but it's up more than it's down. Depending on mob density and how often I can spam Rend, I can keep it up for two or three cycles without any down time and still not run into wrath problems.
Thanks again guys, I know it's coming along slowly but surely. It's now right on par with my M6 DH, which makes me happy.
I had 5Waste/3Ik and just found the restraint ring, so I swapped it out. I was running Skull Grasp with RoRG. I have a bunch of Unity rings in the stash, but none are strength, all dex or int unfortunately. Also, I forgot to mention Im strictly solo play, well sometimes play 2 player with the wife, but her DH is fairly weak, so no high pushes there, thats just for fun. Ive also been searching for a decent Maras, again have one with Int. on it, but not strength.
I guess im kind of holding off until the next patch so I can break down either the Maras or Unity to help with damage mitigation. Just seemed kind of off that I am only doing high 30s when I read people on here doing 40s with pretty much the same setup. I will try to reroll some of the life stuff into damage and see if that helps until I can find the damage mitigation I need.
It's gone through so many changes. Right now it's the best it's ever been, but I know there is still a lot left for potential since I see people pushing a lot higher grifts than I am capable of (I havent even broken past 40 yet, not reliably at least). I know having all ancient items makes a difference, but that cant be the only reason. Should I ditch the IK stuff and try to find the BK weapons? I have one of the two right now.
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Again, always thankful for the advise. I did grab a STR based Unity and matched with RoRG and swapped to a Maras instead of the squirts. It has the worst rolls ever, but I threw it on anyway. First time out, ran through grift 42 with 11 minutes left over, much better than my previous high of 40 with a minute left. Survivability increased dramatically, especially since I didnt die once in that entire run until the RG, and even then only died once during that fight due to a lack of concentration and an encounter with an arcane turret. Previously, I would die often and tried to rely solely on the speed of killing mobs faster than they could kill me. My overall sheet damage went from 1.1mil to 850k, but I cleared two levels higher easily. I am also able to hit WotB quite often. It's not permazerk, but it's up more than it's down. Depending on mob density and how often I can spam Rend, I can keep it up for two or three cycles without any down time and still not run into wrath problems.
Thanks again guys, I know it's coming along slowly but surely. It's now right on par with my M6 DH, which makes me happy.
I had 5Waste/3Ik and just found the restraint ring, so I swapped it out. I was running Skull Grasp with RoRG. I have a bunch of Unity rings in the stash, but none are strength, all dex or int unfortunately. Also, I forgot to mention Im strictly solo play, well sometimes play 2 player with the wife, but her DH is fairly weak, so no high pushes there, thats just for fun. Ive also been searching for a decent Maras, again have one with Int. on it, but not strength.
I guess im kind of holding off until the next patch so I can break down either the Maras or Unity to help with damage mitigation. Just seemed kind of off that I am only doing high 30s when I read people on here doing 40s with pretty much the same setup. I will try to reroll some of the life stuff into damage and see if that helps until I can find the damage mitigation I need.
Thanks of all the replies guys.
Ok, so how bad is my barb really?
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It's gone through so many changes. Right now it's the best it's ever been, but I know there is still a lot left for potential since I see people pushing a lot higher grifts than I am capable of (I havent even broken past 40 yet, not reliably at least). I know having all ancient items makes a difference, but that cant be the only reason. Should I ditch the IK stuff and try to find the BK weapons? I have one of the two right now.