Frenzy Build Guide

Barbarian
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Here’s the planner. I’ll continuously update this post as I get time to.:

d4builds.gg/builds/04d89bb3-2621-4e8a-9579-d4e4b4c93cc8/

SUMMARY
Max res, crazy attack speed, mad heals, tanky af, big damage, and does all content with ease. 405% basic, 370% DWB, 42/325+ crit, 273+ vuln, 149% all damage, 155%+ close, 106% physical, 106%+ Damage while Healthy, 64% Damage to Elites, 60% Damage to Bleeding, 630%+ OP, 252 max fury, 39k+ AP, 17k+ life, 8k+ armor before Disobedience, and spammable cooldowns.

VAMPIRIC POWERS
Swap in Hemomancy during Helltides or Blood Harvest for simple clearing, and for AOE in NMD 90+. All others are crucial for build synergy.

RESISTS
2 resist gems and 1 skull in jewelry unless you roll an extra resist on your chest or pants, then it’s all skulls. Resist types don’t matter for each gear slot, you just want 4-5x 55+ rolls and alter your jewelery sockets accordingly to get to 70% on each.

WEAPONS
Ramaladni is BiS by far. I chose Mace for the second weapon. Axe will give you +6% attack speed, another sword will give you more crit and +15% attack speed on killing a cc enemy. Mace + Wallop is the highest numbers. 2x swords is the fastest and highest crit. Axe is the fastest on bosses. If you don’t do mace, take points out of Wallop and put them into Slaying Strike.

GLYPHS
The glyph in the starting board can be either Wrath or Territorial, but put Exploit there first until it’s level 15, then move it to the board in the planner to max it out. Wrath is the most damage, best for bossing, and Territorial is best for NMD 90+. I leveled Ire to 15 first, then Exploit, then Imbiber, then Ambidextrous, and whichever one you choose for the starting board will be last. Then start going to 21 in this order: Ire, Imbiber, Exploit, 1st slot, Ambidextrous. Put Brawl (fatter kicks) as a placeholder in the board with Imbiber until you get Imbiber to 15.

I’ll update as I go. I have some variations that I’ll include eventually as well.

Cheers, bros.

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Easy leveler I presume? Might try this as I lvl up a new guy

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I didn’t really have any issues. Leveling is fast now. It’s a little sluggish until you get Rapid and the vampiric powers, which is pretty quick anyway.

It really starts coming together later on. I get 1.3m-2m hits with only 3 glyphs at 15. It’s pretty gnarly with the outrageous attack speed.

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Appreciate it! Looks like so much fun…

Cant get Battle Trance to drop… i got 15 uniques from living steel boss, only 3 different one (magnum opus, armor for cdr and steel grasp two handed)

Im switching to this once battle trance drops

Edit: at least i got lucky with tusk helm it dropped from regular dungeon boss when i was doing tree of whispers lol

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I didn’t get a Battle Trance until level 83 or so. It’s not necessary to run the build. Any amulet with cooldown and + to a useful passive. Wallop is best if using a mace.

Any useful aspect will work as a placeholder.

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Do you remember from which boss did it drop to you

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Very nice build and im working with frenzy right now. Having a great time. Im using shouts instead but i might squeeze in stomp now with earthquake aspect.

I cant see a need for the chains. I know they give you berserk and vuln but i already have those covered with wrath of the berserker and vampire powers

The cooldown is so fast that i dont even use the cooldown reduction glyph. The vampire power resets it well before the berserk length has worn out.

Kick is amazing. Great way to empty your fury and get that huge wotb buff.

I use moonrise, prey on the weak, the one that gives you vampire curse on lucky hit (or sometimes i swap this to metamorphosis), the attack speed vampire power and and the one that gives you cooldown every 5 basics.

Im loving it so far.

Wondering if it can kill uber lillith easy because i literally just face tank everything.

Ill try some of your suggestions.

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Grigoire. You can look up who drops what. Still waiting for a 910+ .4 Ramaladni’s!

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yeah, running something similar, but with dswing and nados. Its effin good so far.

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I love DS, but I’ve done it twice now. This might be my only chance for Frenzy because of Moonrise, and it’s beastly.

Even vs Lilith. My DS builds tickled her without The Barber. This one chunks her face.

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yeah, and im not sure the nados hit her either kek.

But man the atk speed. Im farting nados non stop in NMD’s

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Steel Grasp is amazing. Pull mobs - stomp -shred. Constant Berserk, more Joritz procs, constant Vuln procs (Decimator), and pull is our best friend cuz melee. When you have Hemomancy on, SG procs it and clears screens from range.

You should put on Undying, it’s properly named. With my setup, I can almost have perm WotB, so the 20% Ult cooldown vamp power is also needed for this.

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yeah, im running rupture rn for the atk speed.

Basically just frenzy/dswing/rupture/wotb.

Altho I was thinking of dropping it for steel grasp and abuse the new decimator paragon node with dswing perma vuln.

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Currently 320%+ attack speed with Frenzy and 263%+ on Lunging when maxed out.

It’s absurd. I messed around with Hota in place of Kick to get another 50% from Accelerating, and it’s utterly ridiculous. If I added Rupture, I could be 410+.

Pure madness.

I use Decimator. I can’t tell if it stacks, but the wording suggests it should.

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yeah, I got frenzy with battle trance, rupture proc but using crimson to have the cd under 5 secs, azurewrath.

Maybe I can swap out crimson for another 2 hander and put the speed on core proc one.

still lvl 83 tho.

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Yeah, Accelerating is more than Rupture, and it’s constant. Plus, you’re losing massive damage from 2H affixes like DwB, Vuln, and all stats. You could still run Rupture and Accelerating, just swap to a sexy rare sword.

I want to use Ancient’s Oath, but I lose so much from no Basic damage and no crit implicit, that I’m not sure if the fat multiplier would be worth it. That’s one of the variants I plan to test next week.

However, for my build, I noticed a huge drop off in single target by moving Berserk Ripping to a non 2H slot when I was using Hota and Accelerating, despite the added attack speed. Still lots of testing to do.

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Frenzy is fun. I’m doing thornes with it. Along with shouts and Deathblow. The generator vampire powers are pretty neat.

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I thought about thorns, and it could be a viable variant, but you need 2x 2H affixes, Razorplate, and the Vamp power to really set it off. Plus the skill tree would need to be adjusted. I was all about Frenzy Thorns in D3. If we had a version of Hack - I’d be all-in.

We really need loadouts in this game, my bros.

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Yeah, only issue I have is accelerating doesnt benefit dswing/nados.

Unless im mixing up the basic and proc on core.

Rupture also does decent aoe.

If I were to swap it would be to oathkeeper i think and tweak dswing for perma vuln.

But yeah, the speed is bonkers and I dont think we are capped lol.

Even rupture fires off crazy fast.

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Thornes is getting a huge boost from that vamp skill. you dont need a lot of points im theory crafting, lol. There are all of these crit stats that don’t do much with the new damage buckets so why not put stats that dont crit. Im almost 40. I’m playing it by ear.

This is prob the best XP built ive played for barb. The frenzy stuff is great.

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