Best alternative barb builds to double WW?
Are there any strong alternatives to WW, such as a seismic slam build?
Posted Oct 24, 2012, 4:37 AM UTC
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Weapon throw hybrid does okay but yeah nothing beats ww, the immunity from CC just makes it so much better.
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Weapon throw/WW hybrid is amazing. No more chasing annoying kiting packs anymore, and I feel that weapon throw is awesome at keeping WotB on cooldown compared to sprint.
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Mentioned in the comments is a variation of volcano barb that you can find the build for here on reddit. Full gear and skill guide and as the commenter here states its actually a really high damage build
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I've been running a seismic slam build lately that has been pretty fun
Marathon lets you keep your distance (and clear faster), Furious Charge is a great escape spell, and Merciless Charge keeps it on a low cooldown. Good fury gen in high density areas. With a decent amount of crit you can spam Seismic pretty constantly and keep really high uptime on Crushing Advance. I'm using a 2h sword with lifesteal right now, but saving up for a decent Skorn :)
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Inspiring Presence? Put in anything but that :(
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I play frenzy-maniac/rend-bloodlust and use overpower-crushing, revenge-provocation, battlerage-marauder, WotB-insanity.
This gives me simple AoE to kill trash mobs with revenge, rend and overpower; but high DPS to kill bosses and elites with frenzy+battlerage+WotB.
Fast attack speed and a moderate base damage gives balanced efficiencies for LoH and LS.
I don't like WW because its much harder to dodge stuff like arcane, desecrate and molten if you are constantly moving. If I get to stand still I can focus on my health and make sure I don't die.
I spose I was a big fan of zeal paladins from D2, explains my build style.
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Here's what I use these days link. I got 40% crit unbuffed and get 10% from revenge and 10% from over power. Hammer of the Ancients also gets 1% CC for every 5 fury meaning 20% boost at 100 fury for a grand total of 80% crit chance on hammer of the ancients.
White mobs die so fast like that which stuns everyone in 10 yards with the thunderstrike rune, and if there are mobs around elites it is possible to perma-stun them. Even without the buffs from revenge and over power I have a 60% CC with the hammer at full fury.
I am lacking some LOH or life steal but I am working on that for now. This and a little more armor is the only thing preventing me from going past MP3. Once I get some life steal or LOH and add some armor I should be able to go up in MP.
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Ya know what's funny? Using the new leap rune. It used to give you 300% armor for 4 seconds, but now it's 100% armor for 3 seconds for each enemy hit by the leap. It sounds weak, but landing a leap on a mob of 8 guys makes you INVINCIBLE for 3 seconds. Plenty of dancing time.
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The old leap was pretty much invincibility for 4 seconds too though. I remember with the old 1.0.2 ww build, leap would be used to give 4 seconds of near invulnerability where you could WW in the middle of a pack, after which you had to go out and kite for 6 seconds.
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I'm on my phone so sorry in advance. I've been trying out a tankish build that is working well with mp2. I am geared for max magic find all my stats are a bit low. But I've been using leap, ground stomp, rend, ignore pain and frenzy. The runes are 100% armor, Wrenching thing, 900% dmg, damage dealt as life and 4% increase attack. Rend provides nice kiting when needed but with everything else I can just stand in the shit and take very little damage.
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Strong alternatives? No. WW is still much better than everything else.
Alternatives? Yes. I personally run this sword and board build.
There are a couple of other popular Barb builds, like the Hammer Barb (1 fury for Hammer of the Ancients) or the Ranged Barb (Lots of Weapon Throw and Ancient Spear).
Here are a couple of Barb guides though: http://d3up.com/guide?class=barbarian
Of course, the whole point of D3 is to make a build YOU like and run with it.
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I've made my own version of the Fire WW Build and I think it is amazing. I honestly feel like it does more DPS overall than Double WW. I do 233% Fire WW and it is insane. And the build I use is also extremely tanky. I tested it with MP10 and killed 3 blue packs and 1 yellow pack all grouped up with trash I gathered, without even coming close to dying. Although, my gear isn't exactly horrible either.
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Go on...
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Ha, I just ran some numbers and it seems it does do more DPS. All together with my gear, Standard Double WW does a total of 340k/s counting 4 sprint nados up, WoTB, and WW all going at the same time.
My build with my gear does a total of 435k/s with Rend, Overpower(put it refreshing every 10secs, which is very reasonable), and Fire WW. For refrence, not counting Overpower it does 416k/s, so still more.
My character sheet: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/xaombie-1378/hero/1508103 I usually have a SoJ in place of the Hellfire ring, just had it on for farming some xp earlier. I suppose the only down side is the run speed. But at higher MP, group play, and ubers I don't think that run speed is really that important.
Edit: Another thing I love is the Axe procing the 65% damage reduction for 5 seconds like every 10 seconds.
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Thanks for the response! The spec looks like raw power.
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Can't look at gear because on mobile, but wouldn't a tals ammy with +3% fire be great for that or am I thinking if the d2 version.
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What about comparing it to a WW build with rend or killing spree? I don't think people are doing the standard vanilla double tornado build anymore.
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I love the idea of your build, let it be known :P But anyway is there any other fire increasing items except for sankis that you can use?
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Only other item is magefist and you gotta make the call on it, this build was posted several months ago as the volcano barb, instead of rend and overpower it had wotb:insanity and earthquake:mountains call for high burst damage quick down elites
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Spin2win.
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http://www.reddit.com/r/Diablo/comments/11vwxu/hello_nonww_barbs_show_me_your_build_and_explain/
I posted this a couple days ago, hope this helps!