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Nice, just sold a magic 2h mace with just over 1000 dps for a cool million. Saving for a new bow for my DH 
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Its possible, but imo it isn't worth farming bosses until 60 because of nephalem valor.
It's pretty worthless otherwise.
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Playing solo, why am i not using a follower facepalm
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Playing solo, why am i not using a follower facepalm
Yep....this is so much better with a templar
Just finished Nightmare with my Barb. Was pretty easy to be honest although I expect hell is going to be a nightmare...
what spec did you use?
You want to farm the furthest-in-the-game elite mobs that you can.
Try this build.
Stun mobs, whirlwind easier mobs down, frenzy rest while spamming revenge and stun again as soon as you can. Wrath of the Berserker if **** gets real. Get as much life steal, life on hit and regen as you can to survive. Make sure you use a follower. I'm not on Inferno yet but these tactics are doing me well in A3 Hell, only dying against star wars bitches, but then I find a doorway.
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I was at first using a spec I put together myself that was decent enough however I looked online and found this spec:
http://d3db.com/tool/calculator/barbarian/15537
It is amazing - I couldn't believe the difference. You can smash down mobs really fast while maintaining HP. I think I only died twice all the way through nightmare.
Barbs are quite gear dependent aswell so make sure you've got the best gear you can afford.
Cheers
Just got to inferno... blue monster packs are impossible
Oh is it ? thought ur wizard is invincible, just buy some lifesteal and its alright no ? ;p
I've ditched mine after couple of hours in inferno, dont have any good team and its useless to solo, each champ pack requires diff set of skills ( which removes ur buffs everytime u swap ) and 10min of kiting -_-. And thats only stuff that u can run away from which is probably 1/3 of the time.
Barb seems the way to go since armor reduces all dmg, pump 2000str, get enough dmg to wipe some champs in 10s and surv at same time. WIN.
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Resists also reduce all damage, resist all ofc.
What sucks with barbs is that their heals arent entirely reliable, and even with 75% damage reduction from armor you're going to be eating constant 5k melee hits.
Afaik most barbs in inferno are playing either wrath of the berserker / call of the ancients cooldown popping zerg builds, or bananas seismic slam / throw weapon kiting builds. They are far from having the most success.
all re: solo.
Ye but int only reduces magic
.My wiz gets hit for average 12k from champs and thats with defensive setup which includes 20% less dmg taken and 65% increased armor...
Also with that setup my dmg gets gimped a lot.
Regarding heals, be happy that u have them, I had to buy weapon with +HP on hit and gear with hp/sec just so i dont to chug potion everytime i get hit by a zombie.
And the cooldown zerg option works quite well, as long as u can do it, it doesnt matter what u use. Archon is useless since u cant use any other skills while in it -_-.
Ye but int only reduces magic
My wiz gets hit for average 12k from champs and thats with defensive setup which includes 20% less dmg taken and 65% increased armor...
Also with that setup my dmg gets gimped a lot.
Regarding heals, be happy that u have them, I had to buy weapon with +HP on hit and gear with hp/sec just so i dont to chug potion everytime i get hit by a zombie.
'All resist' gear applies to all damage including physical. I also think Int increases 'All resist' also meaning that it does infact reduce physical?
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Ye but int only reduces magic
My wiz gets hit for average 12k from champs and thats with defensive setup which includes 20% less dmg taken and 65% increased armor...
Also with that setup my dmg gets gimped a lot.
Regarding heals, be happy that u have them, I had to buy weapon with +HP on hit and gear with hp/sec just so i dont to chug potion everytime i get hit by a zombie.
Pretty sure int adds +physical resist, both int and str are pretty much identical from the get go iirc with regards to damage reduction, melee classes have an innate 30% damage reduction though.
Also - I heard hp on hit was bugged with wizard spells - might be worth looking into, but grain of salt.
I play monk though
, my coop buddy plays a barb, but even with 10k armor he gets absolutely trucked on inferno.Indeed it does seem to increase physical res, problem is, it doesnt seem to stack with armor one 
, otherwise I wont be dying in 2-3hits while having 35k hp.
Using runed energy armor increases both armor and resistances, if they stacked according to my tooltips I should have 120% physical dmg resistance, adding 20% from passive that should be way more than barbs? ;o
Anyways just done what I think is the fastest normal clear and lvling ever on my barb. Bought him full set of lvl10 gear with +XP per kill on it, around 80xp per kill total with +20%xp in headpiece.
Anyone lvling or making an alt, i highly recommend. The speed with which u lvl up is ridiculous. I've managed to get lvl32 when finishing normal and that's pretty much rushing through and not clearing areas, took me only 6hrs to go from 1 to 32.
I lvled up so quick that I finished normal while still having lvl10-15 gear LOL.
Barb dmg OP, lvl15 gear killing bosses in under 15seconds ;p.
, otherwise I wont be dying in 2-3hits while having 35k hp.Using runed energy armor increases both armor and resistances, if they stacked according to my tooltips I should have 120% physical dmg resistance, adding 20% from passive that should be way more than barbs? ;o
Anyways just done what I think is the fastest normal clear and lvling ever on my barb. Bought him full set of lvl10 gear with +XP per kill on it, around 80xp per kill total with +20%xp in headpiece.
Anyone lvling or making an alt, i highly recommend. The speed with which u lvl up is ridiculous. I've managed to get lvl32 when finishing normal and that's pretty much rushing through and not clearing areas, took me only 6hrs to go from 1 to 32.
I lvled up so quick that I finished normal while still having lvl10-15 gear LOL.
Barb dmg OP, lvl15 gear killing bosses in under 15seconds ;p.
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My lvl 33 barb now doing 500-1k+ dmg per hit. Seen some lvl 50+ barbs doing like 5k dmg per hit. Crazy.
Update, bought some new gear for my lvl, nothing too crazy or perfect stat wise, still mainly +xp per kill with some str just for lvl22-30 instead of lvl8 like i had before lol.
Slotted few str gems where I could, bought 2 new weps. Whole upgrade costed me maybe 10k gold only and LOL what a difference.
This is now idiotic, at lvl32 with average gear I already crit for 3.5k ??? My wizard did that at lvl50.
It's funny coz rares and champs on nightmare last around whole 3-4seconds.
Dont even have to use offensive skills, just furious charge and frenzy, this is silly.
Slotted few str gems where I could, bought 2 new weps. Whole upgrade costed me maybe 10k gold only and LOL what a difference.
This is now idiotic, at lvl32 with average gear I already crit for 3.5k ??? My wizard did that at lvl50.
It's funny coz rares and champs on nightmare last around whole 3-4seconds.
Dont even have to use offensive skills, just furious charge and frenzy, this is silly.
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I'm finding it difficult to skip through anything on Nightmare; had two legendaries drop, one from a random basic mob and another from a weapon rack, both before skelly king.
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