I’ve reached the end of hell quite recently and I’m trying to get a more solid damage. I don’t have a big knowledge about WW barb so I wanted to ask what would be the next step to improve my weapons.
I’m spec’d in sword mastery and currently double wielding unique Grandfather and Doombringer.
What RW and base would get me more DPS? And is it generally better to always double wield or just have only Grandfather 2h at this point?
I don’t have any high runes at this moment, I just started farming recently. I only want to know what to aim for before getting Grief into Phase Blade (if I’ll get it at all).
Well the Grandfather is better used one-hand because of the +damage modifier. Doombringer same. That’s pretty good swords but they are probably more suited to a frenzy build because they are slow.
For whirlwind I am not a fan of phase blade grief because the range is short at +2. For PvM a better sword will be Breath of the Dying in a War Axe or Colossus Blade for +3 range. It sucks that all other two-handed weapons were nerfed by 20% attack speed in this version of the game.
BoTD sucks in 1 handed weapons compared to Grief. BoTD is best in 2 handers, but Blizzard destroyed the 2 hander builds.
A good runeword on your way to Grief would be an “Oath” in an ethereal base.
Runes: Shael + Pul + Mal + Lum
It will make the weapon indestructible, grant 50% increased attack speed, and +210-370% enhanced damage. (My first roll last season rolled exactly the lowest damage…)
Good sword bases:
1h - Conquest Sword, Cryptic Sword
2h - Highland Blade, Balrog Blade
Cheers!
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Eth archon staff botd.
Eth thunder maul botd.
Eth glorious axe botd.
Eth waroike botd.
That’s if you want to be a cool guy that people admire.
Grief grief is the winner.
Upped bone maul or whatever it is before then.
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What about grief/lawbringer combo? The 15 decrepify seems really strong
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WW doesn’t proc, so Lawbringer won’t ever proc Decrepify using WW. Awesome for Frenzy though. I am a fan of the Sanct aura but given how WW does a hit check with both weapons that are in range during WW, using LB as a “stat stick” with low damage doesn’t work as well here, IMO.
Yeah, I prefer it to grief grief by loads. You want 2 fire sorcs no sunder? Or 1 fire Sorc with sunder plus slow plus undead 800% damage and so on. Lb grief forever
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