Wanted to see what Barbarians are running in reality - I think with the online calculators before actually getting to play with them I had assumed would be using Unbridled Rage or Unconstrained but every since unlocking it I’ve been using Walking Arsenal as it seems to be way more consistent uptime. Are the others really worth aiming for, Unconstrained looks good if I swapped for more Berserking buffs.
I use unconstrained. I like to stay berserk as long as possible. I trigger it with chains, deathblow, and shout.
Has great uptime, assuming lots of trash to oneshot with deathblow. WT2 lvl 44.
Unbridled Rage. Makes my Hammer of Ancients melt everything when I can also guarantee Vulnerable, Berserk, Bleed, and Overpower. If I hit that when a Boss is Staggered, I can drop it anywhere between 25% and 40% of its total health pool and I am still WT2 at LVL 50. Using Aspects to increase damage while Barrier is Active, Core Skill Damage x2, Damage to Stunned Enemies, Ground Stomp Damage Modifier, and HoTA quake is laughable. I can do this 3 times in a row and by time I do the 3rd round, it has all reset to let me sustain it.
Using unbridled rage with HoTa aswell.
With the gear ive got at lvl 58 i have a lot of fury gen and specced into gaining more fury whenever i swap wepons so i regen it up quick.
HoTa is critting for me atm for over 40,000 dmg with Unbridled rage at lvl 58 in wt3
If I knew exactly how Unconstrained actually worked I would probably use that. As it is, it is worded so poorly that I use walking arsenal.
Living arsenal, I’m a weapon swap iron maelstrom barb. Because 45 % damage is a big bonus and the gameplay is interesting swapping between attacks.
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Unconstrained, it’s better against 99% of content. Damage is good enough with berserking. Unbridled Rage costs too much furry and slows me down. Probably for min-maxing and great gear with cost reduction and enough resource generation Rage would be better, but I find it too demanding.
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It increases Berserk’s (multiplicative) bonus to 60% (from 25%) and doubles the maximum duration: from 5 seconds to 10.
Without it, you can only get 5 seconds duration from a single source of Berserking, despite how much increased duration you have.
By far our best choice now.
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Note that you lose 75% damage compared to the other passive, but at this point you don’t need damage, just clearing speed and the less you waste time on using resource generator the faster your are.
Unbridled Rage is great but to keep up the fury you need to be in super density. They don’t have the free CC hearts like last season so I have nfc how to run that in speed content. Gushing Wounds is pretty good if you do bleeds. Unconstrained feels like the winner. I just tried all 3 in back-to-back NM maps. 4 if you count WA but I couldn’t even notice that to be honest.
I use walking arsenal. For me, it makes the class feel more dynamic constantly swapping weapons and makes the class feel fun. I like to pair it with a legendary aspect that increases fury gain by at least 20% while all 3 bonuses are active and it really pairs well with the overpower aspect where after swapping weapons 8 times your next move is an overpower.
Walking Arsenal. While you can make most of the good weapon swap stuff (Mortal Draw, Earthstrikers, etc) work with other barbarian builds, 100000 Steps is pure WA and probably my favorite item in the game.
That being said, Unconstrained is very efficient this season and none of the other passives can really compete with it (at least until they tune down Berserking damage / Blood Rage).
Unbridled was my fave then went hard into berserking and brawling so I’m on Unconstrained.