If using Azurewrath, for sure you’d swap out Rampage, because you often drop those stacks. If using Echoing Fury, it’s kind of a toss-up between Rampage and Ruthless.
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what sort of dps difference is using echoing fury over azurewrath rage ?
Question: are you Lebrones legit alter ego? Lets get the full reveal!
They’re very close.
Assuming we are talking non-season:
Azurewrath gets you 20% Cold, which is +14.28% damage, plus a more reliable damage bonus from the H90 2-piece, since mobs don’t run away. You only have 20-25% uptime on 100% extra damage, since mobs build up CC resist, but let’s call that another ~20% damage, so that brings our total to a ~37% damage buff.
Echoing Fury’s main effect is, at full stacks, to take you from the 7/8 Frenzy breakpoint (with/without WOTB active) to 5/6, which is a bonus of 40% damage with WOTB up, or 33% when it’s not. Plus, in an ideal situation, where you have so many mobs around you that an outer ring who doesn’t get feared pins in the closer mobs who do get feared, you do get some help from the H90 2-piece. Let’s call it… maybe 10%, in an ideal situation.
So EF then gives you ~45-54% extra damage. But of course, it’s pretty easy to drop your stacks, so it’s really a question of uptime. You need something like 85% uptime on full EF stacks to match Azurewrath, and more than that, to exceed it.
I think that in a really ideal rift, something like a 1-floor Fields or Festering with Swarms, Accursed, Summoners, etc, EF is maybe a 5-10% damage improvement over Azurewrath. But in a rift that is only a little off of perfect, the two weapons are pretty close to equal. And in a rift that is just “good”, Azurewrath is probably going to be superior.
Lol, nope! I am not nearly that good at this game.
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Watching your last barb push video was bittersweet! I was expecting a nail biter last 0.1 finish with multiple RG deaths.
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Can I have your stuff? 
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You talking about my Slam clear or my Rend 140? The Slam one is definitely kind of a nail-biter, since I drew the only boss I could possibly kill in the remaining time, and even then it was pretty close.
Or, did you watch my Frenzy 143? That’s the closest call I’ve ever recorded… which is saying something!
If I could hand it all over, I would do so gladly.
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Well, everybody: this is goodbye.
I’m going to miss you all. Being your Mathbarb has been an honor, a privilege, and a pleasure, and I wish every one of you the very best.
I’m going to leave you with something I was reading recently, some writing by the Medieval Japanese monk Yoshida Kenko- somehow, they feel like the right words for this moment:
"Are we only to look at flowers in full bloom, at the moon when it is clear? No, to look out on the rain and long for the moon, to draw the blinds and not to be aware of the passing of the spring- these arouse even deeper feelings.
There is much to be seen in young boughs about to flower, in gardens strewn with withered blossom. Men are wont to regret that the moon has waned or that the blossoms have fallen, and this must be so; but they must be perverse indeed who will say, ‘This branch, that bough is withered, now there is nothing to see.’
In all things it is the beginning and end that are interesting. The love of men and women- is it only when they meet face to face? To feel sorrow at an unaccomplished meeting, to grieve over empty vows, to spend the long night sleepless and alone, to yearn for distant skies in a neglected house, to think fondly of the past- this is what love is.
Rather than to see the moon shining over thousands of miles, it sinks deeper into the heart to watch it when at last it appears toward the dawn. It never moves one so much as when seen in gaps between the trees, pale green over the tops of the cedars on distant hills, or behind the clustering clouds after showers of rain. When it shines bright on the leaves of oak and evergreen, and they look wet, the sight sinks deeply into one’s being, and one feels- ‘Oh! for a friend with whom to share this!’"
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Thanks for all the help & feedback. Good luck. Assuming you arent going to do a one man assault on the russian army or taking up day drinking as your new hobby. You are always welcome back once you escape the gulag.
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The perfect blossom is a rare thing. You could spend your life looking for one, and it would not be a wasted life…