What you guys think about the Bleed & Thorns build? It looks so fun… do u think it’s viable?
Im on wt3 runnning thorn/bleed. Its good so far
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Good to hear that 
I hope it’s good for endgame too
Bleed is. Thorns should be secondary
You can reverse that and have thorns as the main clearer.
Rob cleared T53 with Thorns.
Just need the Needleflare aspect to make Thorns main damage and some scaling after you get Razorplate.
The mechanics of certain bosses makes thorns useless, tomb lord is one.
He has adds don’t he? Well then the add will trigger thorns on the boss.
I mean you can kill a Goblin with Thorns too if he in a pack of mobs.
Some bosses are better than others. Had thorns insta kill one so. It’s still very strong for clear speed. Especially on trash or adds with a boss/elite.
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Tomb lord casts bone prison which turns to bone explosion. Itll fill a room quickly if you cant destroy them. Ive encountered a few enemies like this. Core damage to bleed is important. Makes it to where thorns becomes secondary for me
Right Thorns will still do damage to them though in the Aoe. Not sure if you understand the full build. Thorns does Aoe.
Think you missing the point. Thorns is for fast clearing and will kill everything before you can bleed them. Then you get to Tomb Lord Thorns still works and you now can use bleeds too.
You can do a Thorns build as the focus. It works. It does massive damage and is an end game build.
Ah okay. Makes sense.
Absolutely smashing things i shouldnt be with bleed/thorns.
What are the best stats to focus on? Thorns, life, and sockets? Atleast as a baseline?
i’m using it and litterally tearing thru WT3 right now…
I tried testing out a thorn build. Jump into a random cellar while on my way to a dungeon. Stumble upon three goblins in the cellar. All three of them escaped. Teleported back to town. No more thorn build for me.
i have a level 98 bleed thorn build. its viable end game but the only problem im having on it is that your a lot slower on clearing dungeons. Plus monsters that attack slow are a pain.
Bleeds and thorns go well together until a point. At some point putting on something like Razorplate, and over stacking thorns you lose a lot of damage reduction, resource gain and fortification gain (build dependant)
so at some point you have to chose what do you want to go into more the bleed or the thorns. On bleeds you might focus gushing wounds key passive, and swords in all slots possible. Or the thorns which might suit unbridled rage and Axes in all slots.
That said thorns on barbarian is good in any Barbarian build so much benefit for a few passive points.
Been using thorns / bleed since level 68. Level 95 now, still running it. It’s good for grinding till 100, then you switch to HOTA for higher tiers and pvp’ing
Just changed to Bleed/Thorn leveling build from Mobylogics (sp?), from WW. It does more damage and its fun to pull them in, I do miss leap sometimes but that’s about it. The extra speed from swiftness is nice.