I wanted to try my hand at a Zbarb. So I spent most of the day gearing up my seasonal barb to best match what I saw other zbarbs set ups were on the leaderboard. I did swap back and forth from furious charge to WW. Tough to get the feel using furious charge so, for now sticking with what I’m use to.
I tried, briefly a rift run solo and failed miserably.
So that brought up the question to myself.
Am I doing it wrong, or am I overlooking something or does the Zbarb only work in groups?
My survive ability was next to nothing.
Anyone with any tips would be much appreciated.
Zbarbs are for groups.
If you are wondering about what was happening in the PTR with the Zbarbs doing GR 150 solo, it is all about the new Season Theme doing wonky things, like killing everything in sight in seconds, it will probably be fixed by the time the new Season starts.
Zbarbs are healers and monster gatherers for the Big Hitter Class, builds!
Yes, I understand that. The part that I don’t get is how easily I died and what mechanism would keep me alive in a group I was trying to keep alive.
It seems the zbarb is a “healer/tank” so I was surprised on how easily I was killed just experimenting solo. So in a group do I magically survive or are there other mechanics at work in a group that don’t happen when I’m solo that keeps me alive so I can keep the other alive.
I had a quick peak at your profile and you have no augments (strength = armour, or int = all res) and you’ve got pretty low paragon so not a lot to pump into extra vitality. That would help survivability!
You don’t have a lot of all res either. That won’t help you live against those nasty elite effects.
Also, how did you get two primal bul kathos weapons with only that much paragon?!!
u need to keep the buff on ur barb oh, which is :
- band of might ->80% dmg reduction (self) by stomping or charge
-war cry and igone pain -> 50% dmg reducton(also for group dr)
-if u a using ww make sure the 4piececs buff work -> 50% too
-if using ww usually u put aquila on so. -> another 50% dr (self)
-if using ww usually also use stone gautlet -> melee dr
all stone slot use diamod for resistance against all element
as zdps u put all ur paragon on vit and mov this will give huge vitality
i dont remember anoter thing, maybe someone can help fill the missing gap :3
oyea anoter thing, i saw ur profile, dont pput emerald on weapon put purple one it will incrs ur life /hit, since u a using ww type use 2 p savage set, aquila, leoric, stone gautnlet, matnle of chaneling
or u can use anoter variant with waste set but u lose 1 ring since u need rorg but this is more easy to play
raekor zbarb is meta but more harder to play and u need furious charge for this build not ww
Zurtle, thanks for the input, defiantly areas to work on but still seem more squishy than should be. As far as the swords, was dumb luck on the first one and the second one was a bit lucky too. Took about 150 rerolls in the cube. After awhile you know when you’re about due for a primal drop, so I waited until I thought I was due, and began rolling, it payed off.
WW zbarb is kind of old news now. Furious Charge is all you need for rat runs since you are just collecting globes and don’t need to group. I will be updating the zbarb wiki guide here soon to reflect s21 changes and how to play it. Stay tuned.
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Thank for your input Basshead. I will continue building my wanna be Zbarb after season 20 ends. Are there any good examples out there I could follow that are similar to a Zbarb for after the season has ended?
Please and thank you. 
The zpds wiki has been updated for S21. Pretty big changes across the board.
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