HC WW speed farming build gr 90 avg time 3:15

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Posted this thread in barb forums too here: HC WW speed farming build gr 90 avg time 3:15

It’s good for SC too, but as I almost exclusively play HC that’s the only place I’ve tested it.

I have 2200 paragon, all stat points are in str except for 25% ms ofc.

Legendary gems for all runs:

  1. molten wildebeest’s gizzard - keeps squirt up

  2. bane of the trapped

  3. taeguk

For t16 key runs, I did 10 in a row.

Avg time 1:58
picked up all db
picked up almost all legs

for GR 90 I did 10 consecutive runs:

  1. 2:45
  2. 3:00
  3. 3:20
  4. 4:39
  5. 2:59
  6. 3:15
  7. 2:55
  8. 2:52
  9. 3:46
  10. 2:55

avg time: 3:15

GAMEPLAY:

With 63% cdr and 4.44 aps breakpoint up entire rift except vs RG its really easy to just spam everything constantly. I’m easily able to keep up bravado and wotb 100% of the time against the RG even without pride of cassius.

For the t16 key runs I was pretty well optimized for speed, but still had morticks and all dps gems:

bk oath: 45%
marathon: 40%
chilaniks: 40%
wotb: 20%
bravado: 40%
echoing fury: 25%

For the GR 90 I replaced marathon with threatening shout-falter and used mantle of channeling instead of chilaniks in cube. Oh, and without marathon I was free to take out weapon master and put in ruthless in cube.

Build setup:

It’s been several days and I still can’t link my profile, so I’ll list gear and dps/toughness stats here:

Gear is the exact same for both types of runs, only difference is passives/cube, so I’ll talk about gear first, then passives and cube.

Gear:

  1. weapon 1: bk oath - preferably with attack speed and cdr or ad

  2. weapon 2: bk oath - same as above

  3. 5 wotw set pieces in helm/chest/shoulders/gloves and either pants or boots. stat priority is cdr/ad/str/AR/vit. I’ve got pretty great rolls on most pieces but focused on cdr with no ad at all on gear right now.

  4. 2 capt crimson set pieces - belt and either boots or pants - same stat priority as #3 above.

  5. Bracers - morticks. Warzechians or nems are also ok, but as I use volcanic eruption, I gain double toughness plus get all my healing from morticks. Haven’t tried switching to blood funnel, but if you can give up the 16% dmg boost from volcanic eruption plus the doubled toughness from all wotb runes then these are certainly options.

  6. ring 1 - obsidian ring

  7. ring 2 - skull grasp - cc/cd/cdr/ad/avg dmg/str are all useful rolls here, take 3 of them. I’ve been gambling rings for nearly 300 hours of gameplay this season and still haven’t found a great one yet.

  8. amulet - squirts. fire %, cd, cc, cdr, str, ad - build defining item, but might take some work to get a really great one. I’m stuck using 10/99/8cdr/os one right now.

So, every single gear slot except boots/pants is set in stone, and those 2 you just get either capt crimson or wotw set piece, one of each.

My build that achieved the above stats has following:

3.9m fire dmg completely unbuffed
63.43 % cooldown
50% ad (so no ad on gear right now)

You want attack speed on weapons and obsidian ring only - cant hit 5 bp with ef buff up unless you drop bott, which isn’t ideal for speed builds like this, so dont get any attack speed on gear except weapons and obsidian ring.

passives:

for t16/super speeds I have cubed:

weapon - Echoing Fury
armor - chilaniks chain
jewelry - rorg - could wear a great rorg and cube skull grasp too, but eventually you can just get much better rolls on a skull grasp than you ever can on an rorg.

t16 speed runs passives:
nerves of steel
rampage
boon of bul kathos
weapon master - I’ve tried ditching this for ruthless but kept running out of fury after spamming too much marthon.

t16 skills:

  1. ignore pain -bravado - spammed constantly
  2. wotb - make sure it’s up 100%
  3. ww - volcanic eruption
  4. sprint - marthon
  5. lmb - battle rage - bloodshed
  6. rmb - war cry - impunity is normally what I use but have been using Charge! lately with great results.

with 25 rampage stacks plus bravado up I have 670 mil toughness, though tbh I dont stress much about toughness in a t16. I do proc every so often when I get careless but with experience you can run this build and never die even in HC.

GR 90 runs cube:

weapon: Echoing Fury
armor: mantle of channeling
jewelry: rorg

Gr 90 passives:

  1. nerves of steel
  2. rampage
  3. boon of bul kathos
  4. ruthless

Gr 90 skills:

  1. ignore pain - bravado
  2. wotb
  3. ww - volcanic eruption
  4. threatening shout - falter
  5. br - bloodshed
  6. war cry - impunity

with 25 rampage stacks and all buffs up I’m at 891m toughness, but bravado drops a lot during rifts unless I micro it vs lightning elites or the RG.

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Just a heads up, lightning bypasses shields for purposes of maintaining squirts, even if you have a shield pylon lightning will still cause your squirts bonus to drop though your health doesnt move. From discussions I’ve had, this is not a new problem and seems highly unlikely to be fixed.

Also, my lon hota with similarly-good gear and also fully augmented runs 90s in 3:00 min avg and 100s in 4:45 avg times. If the forums ever allow us to link profiles again I’ll post up my lon hota speed farming setup.

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The Echoing Fury seems viable. Just did GR101 with it and a few Augments. Still haven’t reached Paragon 1000. Esoteric Alteration and Rampage works well together. Ruby gems in Chest/Pants could be used for GR90, but a little more risky when starting GR100+.