Hey guys,
yesterday I found the Hellhammer.
Anyone found working builds for around level 87+? Thought of +burn while berserk and +dmg (not physical or stuff) to buff the burn effects? Ghors Gloves would be nice for a buff too but with that I would loose ranks for upheavel.
Maybe combine it with some leap quakes or things like that. Just a fire build.
Sure HotA and WW will outperform this but 3 shouts + X is boring af to play. Maybe someone tried and build around?
Had the same idea with ice builds in Necro for a while. There are some ice items but felt simply bad and just looked nice in theory. So I don’t expect anything for Barb. 
I’d do some sort of weapon mastery build with the +fire while berserking aspect somewhere. Ghor’s would just be a waste imo.
Lunging with DW or Flay with 2h Slashing, Upheaval with 2h Blunt, Leap (whatever is left), GS, Maelstrom, Ironskin?
Leap, upheaval, and lunging can all proc berserk. GS will lower Maelstrom’s cooldown and reset leap which will all proc weapon mastery. only problem is 1 source of unstoppable and potential low vuln uptime.
It wont be a 2 minute lilith killer but it will definitely be viable for farming and NMD as long at they aren’t too crazy above your level.
could also drop leap and GS and do Death Blow + Rallying Cry for single target more unstoppable.
The aspect of Burning Rage is something i think everyone has dismissed but no one has really tested. there could be some potential there for it to do some crazy stacking somehow, or it could just be bait.
Honestly maybe leap/quake with Fist of Fates and just add Upheaval in but Hellhammer really isnt worth it.
I tried this out yesterday for fun. Hellhammer looks cool but ultimately is a wasted aspect. Upheaval performed better with another legendary aspect in the slot.
It was… ok. I saw Upheaval hits for 2 million.
In the end, I had to face the fact that Upheaval is just worse than HotA in every way. 
man if only hellhammer had given upheaval + ranks to it’s ability then maybe it would be decent to be used.
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You’re playing upheaval wrong.
1st build (Unbridled Rage)
WW
Upheavl
Challenging shout
Rallying Cry
War cry
Iron skin
2nd build (Walking Arsenal)
WW
Upheavl
Challenging shout
Rallying Cry
Death Blow
Iron skin.
This is the way you play Upheavl because WW will stack the
Furious Upheaval
Dealing direct damage to an enemy with a Skill that is not Upheaval causes your next cast of Upheaval to deal 3% [x] increased damage, stacking up to 10 times.
So fast.
Upheaval itself isn’t terrible.
Hell Hammer, however, is bad. Taking a unique that skips a possible vulnerable affix is going to be a bitter pill to swallow.
It’s not terrible. I said that. The problem is HotA gets a much much larger multiplier based on max fury, which is so easy to get to 200 max fury for solid 200%[x] damage when full.
Not to mention it’s attack animation is like 3x faster, hits just as big of an area, and has a bug which makes it double dip on the shockwave… just ugh.
Thanks for all the replies!
Thought about using WW with Upheaval as well. Don’t know if this will work in terms of fury generation for me but I like the idea. Rogues playing alot core only too. Playing these two cores Ghors would make also sense for WW, the buff for non phys dmg and fire proc itself.
Time to grind some gold, aspects and just give it a try I guess. Just want something new to play. Uber Lil and high NM are not my goals for now so it should work for my low NM stuff. Looking for fun and something different at the moment.
If you want to add some fun use kick!
It’s surprisingly useful in the right situations, and can hit crazy hard.
My highest kick is 3.1M so far.
Rob made a kick build that did 30M+
Let me save you some time and respec costs here.
All. Barb. Uniques. Are. Trash.
Don’t try to make a build around one like blizzard advertises you can. They weren’t talking to us. They were talking to Druids. They lied to us. Scammed us. Sucks to suck. Just accept it and move on.
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Yeah, I can see that happening. This build is ment for defense while playing higher level nightmare dungeons with my friends and I still kick hard. I’m sitting at 21K life and disobedience regularly gets me up to 15K+ armor. Allot my aspects, affixes, and paragon are tied to defense.
A more offense oriented build with high fury, yeah I see kick doing that much damage.
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I played HotA and right now WW bc I got my Gohrs (mediocre roll so I even don’t know if its better than my +4ranks gloves) and I know everything else is not performing that good for sure.
As I said I am looking for fun to play builds that maybe perform a bit worse but offer a bit more fun than faceroll shouts and hold r Mousebutton while watching Disney+. A compromise If you will.
This game has to offer more than that…holy. 