Dear Barbros,
Here is the video link by airuo(void) in China server. 140
www.bilibili.com/video/av77763475
Fire Rend 142
www.bilibili.com/video/av77971851
Fire Rend 144 no conduit
www.bilibili.com/video/av78111819/
Bloodbath 145 9:46
www.bilibili.com/video/av78456912
Still Songhe’s clear
150 8:46
bbs.d.163.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=173805716
Blood Lust + In to the fray+ Zei
https://www.bilibili.com/video/av79564796
Looks like a Sever weapon hit…
Actually a zdps barb with “bazooka”.
Loving that conduit around 2 min 40 sec. Great harpoon work in the second map. Then just watching for the theme to hit 150 stacks due to adds around the boss leading to the big boom. Super.
What is the sort of blue-ish buff icon that gets 5 stacks?
stone gauntlets buff
@JustinFan: do you think W6 with Stone Gauntlets cubed comes out ahead of W5/Captain Crimson?
Also why is the Rend button reddish-purple? I also saw it on the buff bar with stacks as well.
If u consider only dps, NO.
However, currently season buff is bugged. To maintain buff you need high toughness. Also players only have at most 2000 paragon right now and you have to hard cast in >100 mobs.
At least for season, W6 will dominate for a long time.
So the buff is being maintained and triggered on hit? and kill does not have to occur?
some times if nerves of steel happens, the buff stacks will be clear. There is a blue post about this bug.
What is the point of hardcasting? Surely it’s a DPS loss, as you’re not detonating Rends, and just applying it.
Area damage could never make up for it?
so how does this work ? get area dmg in paragon and on weapons ?
than hardcast 2x rend into 100+ mobs and everything explodes because area dmg hits everything 200 times ?
It’s just Pandemonium on the video. If I understand correctly hard casting advantage is that you apply Rend on (almost) all monsters in about 20 yards radius. Although the damage is the same it’s allow you to clear a pack faster.
P.S. The damage from AD procs is multiplied by your total AD. So if you have 3+ AD stats the damage will be higher.
He was doing about 0.1% HP of damage per hit.
Then when RG was 60% HP dead all of a sudden!
Pay attention to the Pandemonium stacks. He starts the boss fight with 147 stacks. The boss starts to summon adds at 75% HP. When each add dies, it adds a Pandemonium stack. It takes him a while for 3 of the adds to die, taking it to 150 stacks, which spawns geysers right under the boss and it’s those that instagib the boss.
The effect of Ambo’s applies to hard-cast Rends as well as those applied by WW.
I gotta say: the seasonal bonus makes it pretty hard for me to assess how much is actually being contributed by AD in this video. Chaos…
On a related note, does anybody know whether the pandemonium effects scale off your own damage, or are like a Conduit pylon, that is entirely independent from your damage?
Seems independent. The entire season is essentially a huge fishing exercise where you want to gather all of the trash mobs like minnows and then work on killing them so the pandemonium bonuses take out the shark elites. It’s a fun mechanic and there is some strategy involved but if anything they keep introducing mechanics that make this game even more of a fishing simulator. Here’s a visual to get a theme for this season and Barbarians:
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/xvPoW
Is the Rend skill actually different in the China version? Color is different and don’t recall ever seeing a stack buff icon for it:
Chinese version censored all blood related icons. The game mechanic should be the same.