Please UnNerf whirlwind. Melee builds suffer so much in this game. I tried A Fury Druid, Zealot Paladin and a Smiter paladin. After playing Sorc, Javazon and Necro its pretty clear Melee builds are just not as good.
Whirlwind was the exception. Whirl wind was the King of Melee builds. It Was cool. It was powerful and it did Area damage. It made all those dam unique mauls and spears I find worth something.
Does anyone want to buy a bonesnap? I got 8…
Whirlwind is just as much a staple of Diablo as a Summon necromancer. I’m not asking for a new skill. Just for Whirlwind to be like it has been in Vanilla diablo 2.
He’s great for making things stand still and taking forever to kill them. Maybe once I get my chains of honor, fortitude, anni, torch, and 9 shapeshifting gc’s, i’ll be able to do some real gnarly stunnage.
I’m also a heretic who thinks the game could use a balance pass. Sure, WW is great when you have 2x Grief Phase Blades but it’s incredibly unlikely you’re going to get to that point without farming on a different character.
I never liked that common diablo wisdom is to just use a sorc as you first char then grind for gear with her for any other class you want to make in all honesty. I’m not asking the sorc be nerfed, I’m not asking she be de-throned as the defacto farmer (which probably won’t happen as she has innate teleport) - I’d just like other classes and builds to at least be pulled out of the ditch.
You can just start as barb and run oath/lawbringer/whatever until you can trade up to a Lo. Barb gear is usually cheap because everyone plays casters. Barb can farm pit, trav, etc just fine, especially with find item giving you an edge. Thinking you have to start sorc is a myth.
ww aint the issue it is how difficult it can be to find a strong enough weapon. oath isn’t too difficult to create on your own and finding an eth balrog blade is relatively easy.
Nobody wants a bonesnap they are too slow. Hwanins bill is a great choice for its level. Also, I never tried steel driver but I bet it is good. IK mauls good too I bet I’d do ok whirlwinding with that.
Obedience is probably best early hell runeword imo. Level 21 enchant proc is crazy good for getting a ton of attack rating, its pretty cheap to make one and it has tons of damage and crushing blow and all res.
obedience can ok, i would probably use it until i get oath and respec into sword barb though. problem is obedience doesnt give any increased attack speed whereas oath gives 50% which in a balrog blade allows you reach the last ww breakpoint which is a pretty big deal for ww for any of you folks struggling with ww. yall should look up ias calculators. also good reminder, ww breakpoints can only be affected by weapon’s ias, ias outside of weapon does not count
It’s really just the enchant proc that I love about obedience. You could probably just keep it as a switch for the proc though.
The proc is adding over 2000 attack rating for me by itself, takes hit chance from 60s to 80s.
I will keep a look out for an eth balrog. Truth be told I didn’t really consider Oath since it costs some pretty high runes, but its probably worth it on an eth balrog after all.
I was kinda holding out to make a BoTD colossus blade. I know its silly, I know its not the best base, but I like the option of using 1 or 2h with it. Lets me do both 2h whirlwind and dual wield ww/frenzy with one weapon.
Edit: out of curiosity, would you use a passion balrog blade over the obedience? I made one earlier without thinking about the obedience I had on zon merc but now that you mention the ias… Would 25% ias on the balrog be better than the (much) higher damage on obedience?
