WW/Thorns Barb here. Have a 326% overpower dmg but 3% chance rate. How do I raise up that rate?
I notice nothing I see on paragon board has Overpower chance, and every item I get I don’t see it as a stat. How do I increase it? Thanks.
I believe there is no way to directly increase overpower chance. Instead, there are some effects such as 4 bash crits or 10 weapon swaps to get a guaranteed overpower. IMO, the 10 weapon swap doesn’t seem to work 100% of the time, it appears to be bugged in some capacity.
cant. its always 3%.
but there are legendary aspects that can proc it.
Whirlwind cannot Overpower whatsoever, from what I’ve heard as well as from my experience after I don’t even know how many hours.
If you want to make use of Overpower as a Barbarian, your best bet is Bash. I had a blast playing Bash with Hammer of the Ancients.
The legendary Andywho mentions (10 weapon swaps = Overpower) currently does not work correctly. Don’t use it. Don’t waste your time. I tested every single ability that Barbarian has, and the results ranged from it doesn’t work at all, to it works but it only deals Overpower damage on the first enemy hit.
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Overpower isn’t worth the stats on gear at the moment. It’s really lackluster with small chance to activate.
I created some really hard hits with overpowers and stacked health/fortify/affixes. Seeing that big blue number is nice, but I have really bad luck rolling it.
I’ve since switched over to focusing on crits. The hits aren’t nearly as big but with a 31% crit rate I feel I do more damage in the long run.
As a Blood surge necro, I disagree…
I am constantly seeing Blue and Orange numbers…
(irrelevant, didn’t notice this was in the barb thread)
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Attack speed is what you want
It does work sometimes, but it is HIGHLY inconsistent. I noticed that sometimes the overpower would proc but most times it didn’t. I’ve had it proc plenty on Iron Maelstrom’s 3rd hit and each hit of that (6 hits?) overpowers on every enemy hit. It’s really cool to see a ton of overpower hits on the whole screen. You are right though, it is definitely bugged and doesn’t work right. It’s pretty dope when it does work though. I don’t have high hopes it will be fixed soon since very few people even use it.
Thank you for this used Bash to get the last barb challenge easily was struggling with the 10 weapon swap leggo and not getting good results.
If the damage were multiplicative like vulnerable… 
Overpower should feel like like the most insane screen shaking proc in the game.
Well… no. The damage is actually good. The chance to do the overpower damage is small. If we can raise it to maybe 30% chance to overpower. It would be viable. But it’s baseline 3% with no affix to increase the overpower chance.
Pretty sure it’s damage is additive with all of the other damage increases aside from crit damage / vulnerable. You can easily surpass the damage increase with all of the other options like dmg to slowed / close / etc which can have 100% uptime.
^This. Overpower for Barbarian also requires Conditionals on top of Conditionals. Fortify Health, Max Health, Crit Chance, Attack Speed, all just to boost a single Core Damage ability once. Increasing Overpower Damage means not taking something else. When your options are:
- Vulnerable Damage
- Crit Damage
- Core Damage
- Strength or (Damage to CC, Damage to Bleeding, Close etc.)
Overpower will absolutely get overshadowed by literally anything else.
I went all out in investment. Rapid and Accelerating, Attack Speed where I could, High Crit Chance, 100% Berserk uptime, high Vuln/Crit Damage, maximizing Overpower with Gems, taking as Skills, Paragon and Bash. I could ger every HoTA Overpowering with high Fortify super fast and it still gets outshined.
I think overpower is really supposed to fill the “tanky brute” fantasy and it just fails. But if you want to play overpower, do it in necro or druid. They’re not the end game power builds, but their overpower builds are fun while leveling.