HoTa with Flickerstep

They can go higher level than NMD 100 but not by much. It is enough however that you need about 500ish more Armor to hit the 85% DR cap for enemies. The exact numbers were posted before. Not sure how people figure it out and it is a shame Diablo 4 does such a poor job with tooltips that players have to basically data mine and run elaboratr backwards math to figure out how things get calculated.

In Grim Dawn, the Tool Tip shows your stats for the Last Enemy on your Character Sheet. This makes it very obvious how you stack up against enemies. Their Character Sheet is correct and Grim Tools is miles better than mobalytics or d4builds. Sure would be nice if THE DEVELOPER with massive amounts of resources would put in their own Character Planning Tool via outside the game in an App AND in game.

The thing I absolutely despise in D4 is planning Paragon. It is not intuitive in the slightest and is way too much effort in such a clunky system. It is way easier to theorycraft Skill Tree. Paragon is such a bad system it makes me want to slap whoever came up with it.

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I use flickerstep with HOTA, it’s really great way to stay alive. My hota guy is

Hat- Shako
Chest - Disobedience / armor / challenge shout / fire / lightnight
Hands - Relentless Zerker +4 hota / crit / lucky / lucky
Pants - Tiba Will
Shoes - Flicker
2H mace - HOTA / all stat/str
2H slash - grandfather
1H mace - Berserk Ripping / all stat / str
1H axe - Butcher Cleaver
Amulet - Selig
Ring - Bold Chief 1.9
Ring - Red Furor
Then 1. Zerk 2. Challenge shout 3. Rally Cry 4. War Cry m1. lunge/bleed m2 hota
Then use Tears, Marshall, disembowl, dominate, wrath
Bone Breaker, Blood Rage, Warbringer

Why of all things use Butcher Cleaver? Perma fear everything including vampire bosses LOL

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The paragon board is nice. Not the greatest but it works. I’m just glad barbarian doesn’t have meaningful paragon boards. I can switch playstyle without worrying about reseting the entire thing for a build.

It’s a lot better than it used to be. Blood Rage is mandatory. Decimator is worthy. Warbringer, Carnage, and Wrapon Master are all used for the highest AoZ clears.

/facepalm I never want to hear that line. Welp nerf incoming. Just like Hamstring. I’m just glad blizzard hasn’t balance barbarian into a point dump where it’s require to take said node or suffer.

I really hope they don’t nerf us again. It’s mandatory because it’s synergistic power that aligns with the class’s skills and aspects. In reality, it’s just compensation for the crit and vuln nerfs.

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goofing around with hota, you can use unconstrained without noticing damage loss until aoz 7. much more fun xp lol

Well technically you get the +20 fury from Ramaldani…not the best use of a slot but it’s not nothing when HOTA is enhanced by extra fury.

@OP, I could see a scenario where you use HOTA during mob clear and then switch to different boots for bossing.

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I’m not sure what you mean. If you’re doing 200 million damage with Unbridled Rage when the monsters only have 50k health then use Uncontrained to deal 100k damage it doesn’t matter much.

I stop reading rest of your post after seeing you have a grandfather.
For a guy trying so hard to get this uber unsuccessfully, I would imagine once I get this awesome uber, I can run around naked with only GF in my hand in 100 nmd and destroy everything.
So, your post is invalid. Only way I can agree with you is one day I finally get this uber and try it out myself. Until then, words don’t count from people with GF.

Rumor has it sometimes Apache222 runs around with only a level 1 white 2H sword to feel what us mere mortals feel like. And then HOTA so strong that it’s still 7 figure damage against 5 figure health mobs.

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