The first thing I noticed playing Barbarian is the lack of options for those who want to play with Two Handed Axes or Two Handed Swords. You are literally forced to play with Rend.
I wanted to play with Two Handed Axe and Two Handed Sword without relying on bleed build and Whirlwind doesn’t satisfy me in terms of brutality.
My suggestion: rename “Hammer Of Ancients” to “Onslaught of Ancients”, now Onslaught of Ancients not only requires two handed maces but can also be used with Slashing Weapons, if you are playing with Slashing Weapon the animation changes for one similar to Rend.
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both can go 3 out of the 5. all two handed weapons can. Rend is just slash specific and Hammer of the ancients is two handed mace specific. Could of just retitled this that you want to be able to use hammer of the ancients with a slashing weapon.
I understand how it works.
My point is not hammer of the ancients.
My point is to be able to use direct damage with Two handed axes and Two handed Swords without relying on bleed.
If you want to make a new skill just for this I don’t see any problem, it would be ideal.
My suggestion for hammer of the ancients was just to make it easier to apply.
Upheaval and Whirlwind aren’t bleeds are they?
Upheaval, you hit the ground.
Whirlwind, you became a bayblade, you are forced to play with tornado legendaries it looks like you’re doing magic, its no theme for barbarian.
I want to plunge my ax into the enemy’s skull. None of these skills do that.
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Ah, so nothing to do with bleeds then. That would be a single target attack and core spenders are aoe, so…
Theres nothing to do with AOE or single target
Its about direct damage and not damage over time.
You can make hammer of the ancients or double swing allow slashing weapon instead of being exclusive to a single type.
As for hammer of the ancients the two handed sword does a heavy chop or the double swing makes the two handed sword hit twice.
You can choose, or make a new skill for this.
It’s not though? I just gave you two skills that you can use with 2h slashing that deal direct damage and your response was that you don’t like the animations. Upheaval hits the ground underhanded, and HotA hits the ground overhanded… both are direct damage that deal aoe from hitting the ground.
Some people choose the wierdest hang-ups.
Both of them doens’t fit a two handed sword theme. I don’t want to create magical tornados or hit the ground.
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this build is pure slashing build (vulnerability & bleeding)
https://d4builds.gg/builds/eeb813be-bff7-4d9b-af8d-ab8faeebdcb0/
Then why do you want to hit the ground with hammer of the ancients changed to use a slashing weap?
If you read you will understand i don’t want to do that
Sadly there’s no option for that. For the core skills, if you want to use anything but maces (1H or 2H) you’re stuck with either upheaval, WW or rend (or that dual strike but uses 1H weapons).
If anything, the closer skill that may do what you want is death blow.
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Double swing or hammer of the ancients could be direct damage skills for two handed slashing weapon… removing bludgeon or dual wield exclusivity would be ideal
There is dopple slash for this.
Cant really see a “HAMMER of blablabla” being used with a sword or axe TBH 
Sure, it used to work like that in D3, thing is, this isnt D3.
Ah you are right, I missed that line.
Well, no such thing exists, hopefully we will see more skills added in expansions.
You may enjoy “Death Blow”, it likely has an animation you’d like. It doesn’t take the place of a core skill, obviously, but with the cooldown reset on kill it can be fun to spam for clearing out large groups of weak mobs.
I feel like if any argument can be made is “not enough duel wield abilities” I get that they want duel wielding more exclusive to rogues but I would love to see more duel wield abilities.
Back on topic I understand you want more skills for each type. We still havent seen what happens when we unlock the barb exclusive. Maybe it turns some of these into slash skills. IDK didnt get to play the private betas.
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AFAIK the barb exclusive mechanic works like you can benefit of certain weapon mastery using other weapon types, like using your 2H mace with the 2H sword mastery will aply some bleed to all your hits.
My point is that i want to chop my enemies with my Two handed axe, direct damage, not over time. Its not hard blizzard, come on.
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