Psalms 77:18
Your thunder was heard in the whirlwind, Your lightning lit up the world; the earth trembled and quaked.
Lightening Rend
Disclaimer: This is my envisionment of a 2H Rend. This is not a build, nor do claim this to be viable in anyway.
*No CDR% required, can roll AD (114%) instead.
*230% DR: COTA/TAO, WW pc2, WotB:GS, BoM(or SoJ for more damage)
*Rend: Lacerate 250% increased damage
*Hard casting Rend and WW gives 100% WotB uptime.
*WW: Shear Wind, WM, and Superstition prevents Fury starvation.
*Sustain from IK belt, Mortick’s, WW:BF, BB (if necessary).
IK 4 / Wastes 6
Helm (Wastes)
- Strength
- CHC 6%
- Vitality
- Socket: Topaz
- Secondaries: Physical/Lightning resist
- Augment: Strength
Shoulder (Wastes)
- Strength
- Rend 15%
- All Resist
- AD 20%
- Secondaries: Pickup radius or globe bonus
- Augment: Strength
Chest (Wastes)
- Strength
- Vitality
- All Resist or Life %
- Sockets: Diamond or Ruby
- Secondaries: Reduced melee dmg and reduced ranged dmg
- Augment: Strength
Glove (IK)
- Strength
- AD 20%
- CHC 10%
- CHD 50%
- Secondaries: Stun on hit, Physical resist
- Augment: Strength
Bracer (Nems, Mortick’s, Strongarms)
- 20% Lightening Damage
- Strength
- Vitality
- CHC 6%
- Secondaries: Physical/Lightning resist
- Augment: Strength
Belt (IK)
- Strength
- Vitality
- All Resist
- 15% Life (or Life per Fury)
- Secondaries: Physical resist)
- Augment: Strength
Pants (Wastes)
- Strength
- Vitality
- All Resist
- Secondaries: Globe bonus
- Augment: Ruby or Diamond
Boots (Wastes)
- Strength
- Vitality
- All Resist
- Armor
- Secondaries: Globe bonus
- Augment: Strength
BB (IK)
- Strength
- 10% Dmg
- 24% AD
- Socket: Emerald
- Secondaries: Any except Fear
- Augment: Strength
Ring 1 (CoE)
- CHC 6%
- CHD 50%
- Str/ AD/ LoH
- Socket
- Secondaries: Physical/Lightning resist
- Augment: Strength
Ring 2 (SoJ or BoM)
SoJ (if your a skilled player or speed farming)
- Lightening 20%+ elemental damage
- Str/ AD/ LoH/ CHC 6%/ CHD 50%
- Socket
- 30% Elite dmg
- Secondaries: Physical/Lightning resist
- Augment: Strength
BoM (if you’re a panzy like me)
*STR
- CHD 50%
- CHC 6%/
- Socket
- Secondaries: Physical/Lightning resist
- Augment: Strength
CUBE
SKILLS
- WotB
- CotA: TAO
- Rend: Lacerate
- BR: Fray
- GS
- WW: BF
PASSIVES
- Relentless
- WM
- Rampage
- Superstition
GEMS
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What about Legendary gems?
Just updated with leg gems.
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Hey Dieharder, I know Free’s got most of the Barb guides cornered here but I still appreciate your work on testing and writing off-shoot builds.
Since Ambo’s detonates Rend in one second and Lamentation applies Rend twice, we need minimum 2APS for max Rend DPS (attack speed above that I think the consensus here is unneeded), can IK4WW6 achieves 2APS?
Hey Quilt, if you’re applying Rend via WW, you only need 1.0 APS to get max Rend dps. You can see this post for details, and results of most of my other testing is in the Zodiac Rend thread.
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Thank you Rage! I totally forget Dust Devils will apply Rend from Ambo’s and will help you hit the Lamentation cap.
So going back, will a 2-H IK4/WW6 build work? Using IK4 will mean perma Wrath and CofA and no need for a zodiac ring.
I was thinking a F/R combo with a generator for Fury generation or HP sustain.
Sure thing, man.
Yeah, a 2H IK4/WW6 setup will work, though it will definitely not be the best 2H setup, in terms of clearing higher GRs.
Yeah, 2H is hard to work with. There isn’t enough AS for sustain and keep WotB up, unless you spam Rend HC. CC and Waste is difficult as well, but I’m going to continue to mess around with 2H. There has to be away!
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Using a 2H mace, with 58% CDR and 1.31 aps (speed rolls on weapon, and a few other pieces), I could keep IP and Wrath up pretty much 100%.
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Just a crafted yellow one, but any mace should work.
Has to be a mace, specifically? I don’t get it
Schaefer’s Hammer, Furnace, Heart Slaughter… ect, any of these will make a good go at it. But IK/WW won’t work, CC/Waste is the way to go.
2h won’t work. The devs designed barbarian to be a dual wielding class. The remaining 2h builds we had they gladly killed it
I got give it the old college try. I did try 2H w/ CC/WW, but didn’t have enough CDR. I was using 40ish (nowhere near what Rage was suggesting). I’m out of town for the entire week of Thanksgiving, but when I get back I’ll be testing. 
I wish we could have a special affix on Gavel that made 2h HotA the meta amongst the HotA builds. Slow, but powerfully devasting hits
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I’ve personally found IK4/WW6 to be an exceedingly comfy, if suboptimal, setup.
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I’m going to give this one a sure shot try since IK is my all time fav set.