Quote Originally Posted by Devile View Post
I went with barbs on non-season and I think I made the right choice. Wizards are amazing and it was the right choice for S3, but I missed how smooth Condemn Crusaders were, going very fast thru the content with perma immunity and without having to stop much. Just run around killing stuff. U simply can't do that with wizards. U have to stop, cast a kinda complex sequence of skills and keep an eye on stacks, move around to avoid ground effects, etc. Sure they can deal very high damage and clear GR40 fast, but not that fast, not to mention the lack of immunity and how squishy they can be compared to melees. Sure u can add a zDPS Crusader to help improve some of this, but still, is not rushing thru the content.

I want to do back to back GR42 or higher with full exp gear (ruby on helm, leoric/hellfire ring and leoric crown if possible) in less than 5 minutes. Or GR35 with more exp gear but in less than 3 minutes. Basically looking to get the highest amount of exp/shards per hour I can get with the least amount of effort/attention so I can watch TV and relax while doing this. Yeah, I know ... but I really wanna hit paragon 1000+ without burning myself from playing D3.

I wanted something that could go as fast as Condemn Crusaders or faster, be able to go thru mobs with perma immunity. Sadly, Crusaders suck right now compared to other classes and the only way to make Condemn do "ok" is to add F&R which means no Leoric's Crown and that kills your CDR unless u stack it everywhere. Doable but will be harder to build to keep 100% AC uptime. Was going to go with DHs but its the same as wizards. Sure, no complex skill sequence but still, u need to stop and cast. Strafe with Natalya's is a good choice and does very high damage, but no immunity and they are still squishy (less than before tho).

So, I tried barbs and man ... I'm glad I did. WW is so much fun!. I have suboptimal items to say the least and I'm destroying T6. I just needed 2 Immortal King's parts and whatever I had left from Crusaders and T6 goes down in like 2 minutes or less depending on density. My toughness sucks, my damage sucks, but T6 melts. Stacking Warcries and simple Ignore Pain round robin took care of survivability. I had perma immunity and pretty much never died with like 6m toughness unbuffed. Damage? My lvl45+ gems did most of it, but besides that, F&R + WW Dust Devil is crazy efficient! Single pass and all whites die. Elites take a couple circles and I'm gone. No Fury issues, pretty much no dsync issues as well. Not even using WotB. Sprint Marathon + Chilanik's take care of the movement speed.

This is my starter build:

http://www.d3planner.com/708585926

The other barbs have pretty crappy gear as well with DEX F&R and random legendaries. Tho they all have T&T, Hexing Pants and non ancient Furnaces, so that kinda makes the whole thing work very good for T6. With this I'm farming stupidly fast and relaxing. Actually too fast and sometimes its a hard to control in close maps.

Now, from what I see, I have 2 clear choices: Go with the 6 pieces WotW or go with 6 WotW + 4 IK. Not sure yet, I have a lot of farming ahead and will have to test. Again, my goal is the highest amount of exp/shards per hour, not pushing GR50+. I'm inclining to 6 WotW with Leoric's Crown + Leoric Ring + RoRG. Sure perma WotB sounds nice, but it also adds dsync if not careful and I can get perma immunity without WotW ... sure I will miss the damage, but as long as I'm hitting a good amount of exp/shards per hour, I'm ok with not doing the highest possible dps. I understand RG can be a pain so I'll have to test a lot before deciding.

Ideas?

PS: Only thing I'm not liking is Waller. Is not a big issue, but still there's no way around it. Illussory boots maybe? dunno
Focus and restraint is too much damage to give up for speed farming.