So... About the whole 2h Rend idea

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@Gasnick,

My first post in this thread was #33 (I think). It was to address 2 things.

1. The first is to highlight the fact that algebra could be used to modify the base damage of 2 handed weapons to improve parity with dual wielding.
2. The second was to state that I think whirlwind auto-applying rend is good. You suggested this in the past and I am glad that it was adopted into the live game in patch 2.6.7. I wanted to contrast my opinion with a prior alternative opinion posted in this thread shown below.

@Free-1746

BTW, y’all remember when I kept saying that “WW applies Rend” was a bad idea?

In relation to increasing the rend modifier on lamentation even higher, I suspect that this is highly unlikely to happen.As Free correctly noted, their current balance target is GR 141 for a non-season player with 10K paragon and godly gear.

@Free-1746

At 142, they considered a 10k Paragon player to be +1 over projected balance.

The GR target of 141 has been confirmed in other posts by the game producer. While we await the blog post on game balance, the game producer has given us a sneak peek. It is quoted in the first post in the thread linked below.

Game producer's post on game balance

This post by the game producer Matthew Cederquist gives some insights on their ideas on balance. As previously stated, a blog post will be coming in the future. I wanted to increase his post’s visibility as it is post 368 in another thread. From multiple other posts, the max target for top player @~10K paragon is GR 141.

Here is the current non-season/era leaderboard for barbarians.

|Rank|BattleTag|GR|GR Clear Time|Date/Time of GR Clear|
|1|风中劲草|145|13m55.550s|2019-12-08 21:50|
|2|darkpatator|144|14m36.50m|2019-12-10 01:49|
|3|九命|143|14m18.483s|2019-12-16 07:30|
|4|Ulmaguest|143|14m24.650s|2019-11-30 20:12|
|5|fw6263|143|14m47.383s|2019-12-03 20:45|

If the rend modifier was buffed to 400% and 500% respectively, this would lead to an additional +4.5 GR and +7 GR increase in terms of DPS relative to the current GR levels.