I usually play barbs but decided to run an Incinerate, then firebolt as my first this season. Got to P40 so decided to run my usual barb as second character.
Got to level 15 and took a look at barb imbuements. Did they mistakingly add a zero to the percentage damage increase? Dear gawd that’s pure insanity.
Well, I do love basic builds so I’m using it till it gets nerfed.
Bash Cleave tempering does multiplicative damage. Other skills +damage temperings are additive but bash is multiplicative.
This is the test I have done. Same gear only difference is the other weapon has 190% Bash Cleave temper. Recorded 50 hits, disregarding crits, overpower and vulnerable.
No Bash Bonus Average Hit - 6142.3
190% Bash Cleave Temper - 18873.2
Ratio - 3.072660078
That’s exactly what I realized, that you very excellently put into words.
I’m doing a bash/upheaval overpower build. It’s crazy strong. Did capstones at 35 and 45 respectfully. Elias gave me a bit of trouble from one shots but eventually got him.
Ok bash is basic attack… question is topaz or emerald on weapons the better choice?
I went with topaz to get the base damage for bash as high as possible. I’m not neglecting crit damage though just figured I’d get the base damage up as high as possible then let the crit and overpower multipliers do their thing.
I’m curious has anyone tried bash builds w/frenzy (& the frenzy unique ammy for attack speed)? Currently, I’m running w/a frenzy doubleswing build, but shouldn’t be too much of an issue to tweak it from doubleswing to bash. I’m already using the vamp aspect for basic attacks anyway. (most of my aspects are vamp abilities, since doubleswing and frenzy boosts are in a couple of unqiues). I prefer the hack & slash play style, so this could work.
I would say use Rupture for the attack speed plus guarantee Overpower proc. Hectic aspect will reset Rupture.
Here is my Bash build, fun so far. Will probably tweak some things:
d4builds.gg/builds/8cf103a4-9155-46b8-b497-fc64306cda06/?var=0
Bash build is what i was using prepatch with frenzy, ofc + tempering now, works great and a lot of things to aim for. Curently running pit 90s for 50 neitheron, you need 550 for the last 4 maserwirking updates. Aim for three madterwork crits on bash temper, so urs a lot of grind ahead:).
I’m going to see if I can get Wrath of the Berserker 100% uptime.
It is pretty easy if you take Ground Stomp. Max CDR is 75% which you can hit with CDR + WoTB CDR. Doing this brings WoTB from 60 to 15 second CD. Just 1 well placed Ground Stomp will knock 10 seconds off bringing it to 5 seconds. GS should be enough to do this on every WoTB pull.
You can also get IM to be spammable with a LeapQuake build. I might end up building this to where IM is my Primary Damage Skill and LeapQuake becomes my Utility and supplementary damage. The only problem is I wish I could solely assign Ramas to it and go pure Max Fury with Seligs.
That ‘Damage while Wrath’ is so enticing. I’ll… come up with something. Need to do some loot hunting for affix. My laundry list is just getting longer at this point.