Barbs need something

[Drlukifer]

Barbs seem like they need a bit of a boost, i've been brainstorming and heres my ideas to give barbs the chance they need.

-A barb shadow that uses your skills, at 50% damage(mainly need something that can take hits, but a little extra damage would make clearing areas like inferno cows and pits go much faster)

-A buff to natural resists that adds life%/DR. <---- or 5% max res

-A call of the ancients. Diablo 3 skill, calls the ancients to fight beside you for a short time.

I really hate to sound biast being one of the very few endgame barbs, but i have tried everything and i still havent made it past lvl 10 crucible by myself (i've gotten SO close), and i really cant think of many ways to make my barb better without losing too much DR or physical pierce

[Lockzilla]

Barbs seem like they need a bit of a boost, i've been brainstorming and heres my ideas to give barbs the chance they need.

-A barb shadow that uses your skills, at 50% damage(mainly need something that can take hits, but a little extra damage would make clearing areas like inferno cows and pits go much faster)

-A buff to natural resists that adds life%/DR. <---- or 5% max res

-A call of the ancients. Diablo 3 skill, calls the ancients to fight beside you for a short time.

I really hate to sound biast being one of the very few endgame barbs, but i have tried everything and i still havent made it past lvl 10 crucible by myself (i've gotten SO close), and i really cant think of many ways to make my barb better without losing too much DR or physical pierce

I will quote from Game. "Cruicble was never meant to be soloable. So I will most likely be redoing it in the near future."

But yes I agree. I think they need a small buff. Rather it be natural resists buff or a summon of some sort.

[Drlukifer]

More people would play barb if they were able to solo more endgame stuff. Not saying they need to solo level 20 crucible in under 15 mins like some other classes, but being able to get to cain alone would be nice. My barbs pretty much geared as good is it gets, i just feel like he should have a bigger hitpool, or have something that can tank for him so im not getting 1 shotted by bosses. life leech hardly works on physical immunes, making it hard to sustain a health pool, and you CANNOT JUVEE during a whirlwind, which is a huge downfall to a whirlwind barb doing 3.5 second whirlwinds, youre dead halfway though. Plus if you want to do any damage with whirlwind you likely wont be wearing a shield to block with, giving you less chant slots and sockets than almost every other class.

[Icehammer]

I support this nice idea.
A ww barb against physical inmunes is pretty hard to do, u need a lot of horad jewels and a lot of items with sockets to be able to kill some bosses like Mappo or some crucible bosses (with a lot of time and pattience). In my experience, doing Crucible with 2-3 guys more and get a physical inmune Cain in lv15 is ugly, you even can't tank him and probably you'll die in a shot.

[Lampogriz]

WW barb with shield works pretty good vs cain, tested it

[LordManhammer]

WW Barb with Corrupted Lightsabre and a shield is pretty strong in general.

[rrra]

WW Barb with Corrupted Lightsabre and a shield is pretty strong in general.

Whats the build? I just found a really nicely rolled one and am curious if its worth trying.

[LordManhammer]

Just a hybrid shield throw/WW setup.

Skull of the Unclean
Templar's Might
Corrupted Stormshield
IK Belt
Death's Advance
Steelrend
Con ring
BK ring
Highlord's Wrath

I was using shield throw for clearing packs of monsters and WW on bosses. You could probably just have the Buster sword in your weapon swap for stronger WW action on bosses but I like to use Warshrike for burst of speed and this felt tankier. It's also a whole lot easier to get 75% DR this way. I have three Ber runes in the helm from my previous setup so I didn't need Scourgelord's for DR. Went with the IK belt for the extra -10% phys res. I also don't have enchants. It was showing about 17k dps with 35k AR on shield throw. Similar numbers for WW.

Edit: I also have four Ber runes in the Corrupted Lightsabre for a total of 95% CB.

[LordManhammer]

Quill Storm+life on hit=I AM INVINCIBLE! At least while I'm being attacked by a crap load of monsters and as long as I'm not tagged with Amp damage Much funny.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TWkb40FAYg

[Icehammer]

@LordManhammer with ik set u can be ww or shield throw build and easily can clean A5 pits.
But i guess that the meaning of this all is to refer to the endgame content. Plaguelands, Dreamlands, Crucible, Time Rift, etc
Use your build in any endgame place and tell me your results