Didn’t enjoy frenzy so now I’m trying ww after abit of a break what’s the better set up dual grief phase blades or zerker axes I can run grief/death, grief/botd, or death/botd.
Running fortitude g face also have max arrears I could swap in
Dual grief pb or botdx2zerker and highlords/laying of hands. If you have 2 grief pb just use that.
That’s the crux of it I can go any of those… do you lose the stats on the offhand cuz only some show on char screen
For the moment dual grief Pb is even more bis. Lying od hands + highlords and you won’t have problems when slowed by chill/decrep/holy freeze.
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If you are pvm and dont care as much about holy freeze and decrep and actually want to try something different you can try grief/death combo. With the new WW ias calculation changes it opens up viability for slower weapons. If you run highlords and loh while dual wielding the dmg from death is actually really high.
As mentioned above if you want the absolute best its still hard to beat 2x grief pb but if you want something fun and different thats almost as good try griefz/edeathz.
I still find it odd that we doesn’t have a synergy to increase its dmg almost everything else does
Probably bc of the nature of the skill. Its an aoe ability that can hit several targets that you can continuously channel. If they added a dmg synergy it might get too OP. Honestly i dont ever see them adding a dmg synergy unless its something like how berserk synergizes with frenzy
For now ill take the AR buff and the base dmg buff so it at least doesnt start with negative dmg.
Barb is not allowed to have good DPS😅. Up to patch 2.4.3 ww was acting somewhat like spell. It had fixed attack frequency and the best frequency i.e 4fpa for 2handers and 2fpa for dual wield was not that hard to achieve (with lets say end game gear). It was justified, DPS wise, not to give ww good dmg and ar modifiers.
Now ww frequency is subject to slowing effects (chill/decrep/holy freeze) just like zeal and fury. This can mean massive DPS loss. But then again we arent having those dmg and ar modifiers adjusted.
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So you build a frenzy charge before you ww?
You technically can, but bumping those charges all the time is ridiculus especialy for 2handed imo (making you hybrid losing time in battle (dps), swapping for dual wield 2 set+ losing skillpoints to bump frenzy dur via inc stamina a litlle and then faster moving from frenzy doesnt help to land more concentrated hits).
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^^ What they said.
Swap in one Death for the extra CB if you feel Baal or other high life targets are dying to slow.