Whirlwind Request

General Discussion
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I think it’s sad that Waste set is such a waste these days. Please bring back Waste Whirlwind by increasing the bonus by 2x, doubling the Lamentation bonus, giving Bul Kathos swords a Whirlwind bonus, something, anything, please.

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I would combine with the Savage armor for Frenzy as the main attack.
Whirlwind swords are useful for travel and dodge because the Fury regeneration.
You don’t have to min and max everything, just set your gears for the right difficulty.

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I agree, but I want Pure Whirlwind to be good again. Hold down right click, spin to win style.

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What do all of you use to farm GR keys and speed GR as a barbarian? I am running whirlwind rend.

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For speed gr 115-119
90-120 s only Frenzy barb

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I wonder if spinning around look better than swinging with both swords quickly.
But I understood if it’s the Whirlwind Rend build for the set armor.

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i would literally play again if they’d get rid of rend and make WW great again.

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You can always cube Ambo’s Pride to solve that issue

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manual cast applies area damage. would be nice if they fixed ambo’s though.

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Rend is to soften the harden elites. You may not have to use rend if your whirlwind is stronger. Think as if rend is the softener before mincing the harden meat.

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I don’t mind using rend with whirlwind…I just want the whirlwind bonus/multiplier to be higher on the Waste set; it just isn’t good enough. I understand they don’t want a strong build to be one you can just hold right click to succeed, but a lot of people like that. Or add a Whirlwind damage multiplier to the Bul Kathos set (+200% whirlwind damage should be good?)

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Think as if rend is a special ability for some elites, you use it in a special time.
If you have to use it, that elite must be special.

Like it’s too strong that you have to use your ultimate technique.
“Taste my ultimate power REND!”

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While we’re on the topic of WW, the crucible power that makes WW pull everything in along with a reasonable WW and rend damage multiplier added to BK swords would be sweet to have in the core game since WotW doesn’t have the area coverage that other farming sets have.

I ran Barb exclusively all of S34. I started with BK swords but found I had to go to the ambo/ingeom/furnace setup. Otherwise, damage was a bit of an issue when it came to the goblin levels in fissures. After dropping BK swords, it did take a bit of getting use to not having infinite Fury and the drop in movement speed too… the latter made it harder getting to all the gobs on the bigger, open maps in fissures.

Note that:

  1. I did not augment a single thing but had a mostly ancient/primal set up quite early on
  2. I finished the season on P1000-ish and I played/farmed fissures all the way through till end of season
  3. Most of my legendary gems were no higher than rank 35 (LoD was maxed and my simplicity was rank 85… I got sick of gem leveling quickly)

This is pretty comparable to how I play most other seasons. Other class farming setups (DH’s GoD, Sader’s AoV FotH, etc) didn’t struggle like WotW did.

IMHO, BK swords should be amended to the following in order for WotW to be a more enjoyable farming setup:

  • Increases Fury Generation by 15 (Barbarian Only)
  • During Whirlwind your overall damage and movement speed doubles.
  • Whirlwind pulls in and holds all enemies within a 25-yard radius

Yes, I know the game isn’t in development… just my thoughts on what I think WotW needs.

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