Trying to follow the HotA build on Icy Veins that Oxygen published, and I have one dilemma:
he specifies I should be selecting two-handed sword expertise to benefit from the “% of direct dmg as bleeding”, but the problem is this barb never touches a slashing weapon, therefore my two handed sword exp is 0 (respec’ed @ 72) do I switch my generator to Flay instead of Lunging Strike until I get my expertise to 10 then go back to Flay? Only answer I can see.
You can level any weapon quickly at higher levels. At least you could before the update. I took dual wield to 10 in an hour or so.
ok, so the answer is just to use flay (slashing) to level it, with a 2h sword of course, then go back to LS?
Why switch to Flay? You can use Lunging Strike with a 2h sword… just go to where you assign skills and switch LS to make use of the sword.
If you are going to switch skills, WW was effective (pre-patch) at levelling weapons quickly.
Just go ww, it’s still a very strong build. Never used HotA so don’t care about the nerfs lol.