Just found the Rupture sword with +6 skills. wondering if I can combo that with a core skill. anyone have a good rupture build?
Apparently its bugged or useless like most things on the barb
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I’ve been using rupture as part of a bleed/thorns build… However, even at like r13 rupture really doesn’t do a whole lot, just makes a cool pool of blood graphic for it’s 400 damage.
The skill needs serious developer attention.
Well wasn’t on patch notes. I guess r12 skill doing 500dmg as expected.
A bigger fix might be required…still very annoying though!
The only useful part of the weapon is the CD reset if you combo it with the unique chest. The bleed pool ticks and each hit on an elite has a chance to reduce cds.
The issue with it, however, the damage is garbage. Do not get baited by the 6+, all the rupture points do is reduce CDs, and that reduction is multiplicative rather than additive, meaning the game description is wrong.
When I get to 17 levels of rupture, the 18th point reduces my CDs by 0.04 seconds.
You are better served just literally putting one or two points in rupture, having 3 on the helm, and having the legendary aspect that makes WM skills have an additional use, so you get 2 ruptures and having a legendary sword with vuln and crit. The weapon is garbage.
My opinion of the ability is that it sucks, the reason is that it used to be buffable, but they removed that, you cannot buff its damage with any WM damage buffing skill. IT is annoying to use, takes a long time even with attack speed maxed on gloves, and is easy to miss with it especially on fast moving targets.
They should have kept it to be a bleed multiplier but reduced its effectiveness. Blizzard balancing when it comes to nerfs is a sledge hammer.
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Rupture scales very bad with levels since it only reduce its cooldowns. You are much better of by getting the aspect which gives you +1 charge to mastery skills so that you have 2 rupture charges if you want to play rupture. The Crimson sword does nothing for rupture other than decreasing its cooldown a little. Rupture alone is also very bad so there is no need to have it on a very low cooldown.
The skill needs way more than a few tweaks it’s need some thought and a full rebuild IMO.