i’m 230 paragon, double swing barb.
I got my first mythic yesterday, starless.
I’m trying to 100% maxmize my damage with Godslayer and/or Crown of Lucion and Tibaults Will (using offensive powers in defensive slots).
Ramaldini 0.50% with 240 fury cap.
My atk speed in capped.
My crit chance is 75%.
3400% crit damage.
I’m barely doing pit 60… i just saw a Spiritborn paragon 50 doing 10 times more damage than me in Helltide.
I played double swing two seasons ago it was good then but it’s never going to be a top spec
i’m playing since the release, it was never better than tier C. I thought it would be good this seasons due double swing hitting twice temper, but i was mistaken… its worse than before.
The question is will barb anything be good?
i got 4100 strengh, my amulet provides 30% STG my damage is not going up… why its scaling is so bad?
Because Blizzard sucks and put less than zero effort into class balance with the launch of this expansion. I’m a barb with 4 mythics and I still hit like a wuss. I have a lot of damage reduction so it feels like playing a tank spec of a class. I don’t want to be a tank I want to be a DPS player. Buff barb core skills, Blizzard.
Windslasher aspect should provide a flat 50% multiplier for double swing, dust devils should increase ALL DAMAGE caused by barbs not only tornados.
DS is only good with Devils. On it’s own the damage just isn’t enough, the AoE coverage just isn’t enough, it just always feels lackluster without nados.
I make a DS/DD barb every season and can always do all content at a reasonable pace. Haven’t done that this season yet. So idk if it still works or not.
I have 3 dust devil aspects maximized, glyph lv 54 etc.
70% DS strike twice chance 66% chance to cast dust devil twice chance. 1000% dust devil dmg
Hm … interesting. I have seen a lot of people complain over the ;ast few seasons about not being able to make DS work. I don’t seem to have issues with it. Was doing T8 hordes last seaon. But, again, I haven’t made mine yet for S6. Guess I’ll have to get on that and see what’s up. I’ve been working on a DW atk speed throw barb for fun since they wrecked my Lightning Raven druid, with the last patch, I was making. Guess I could convert him over to DS.
I’m doing DS since the first season, with new tempers this spec is suposed to do better but for some reason is weaker than before.
I usually hit pit 100 with DS, the wall is about 120…
This season is barely passing through 60… feels like the wall is around 70,75
So for reference …
You got me wondering so I picked up my S5 DS/DD Barb that is sitting in Eternal now. Plowed through the VoH campaign in Penitent with my 540 gear 1 shotting literally everything including all bosses (except the ones that have un-avoidable phse changes). Hit 60 and Dropped a random smattering of para-boards and glyphs that looked like 1/2 decent based on the build that used to be with 7 boards. Did not take quake in any way.
Went to the pit and started progressing through it … Still in my 540 gear and lvl 21 glyphs with no runewors . Just finished pit 45 in 3 mins … in my 540 gear and lvl 21 glyphs with no runewords.
I do believe I can say DS/DD will work just fine. And playing it made me miss it. Will likely change my AS Throw barb and convert him over to DS.
I wish you luck in your quest to rip the air into tornadoes to slaughter hordes of demons!!
Edit: I looked a little closer at your main post.
Your problem is that your trying to make doubleswing your main source of dmg. There’s just no way to do that effectively. It’s just to lackluster. DS is your devil producer. And devils are your main source of dmg. Start focusing harder on the nados and stop trying to pump dmg into the DS skill (Atk spd, crit chance, crit dmg, Tuskhelm, Passive Amulet … anything that buffs your general/physical dmg is waaay better than gear like Rama’s and Lucian b/c those only affect the DS skill dmg). You will be much happier with the result.