WW barb post patch

Barbarian
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TLDR: I’m discouraged and disappointed, what are your thoughts and experience?

So I was in a fortunate enough position that I only needed to chance 1 temper on a ring from crit damage to berserking damage to fill the extra 150 berserking damage (actualy 20% away, 10% of which I could gain if I tripple hit it with master working, but leaving it at a double for now)

Now that said I gained 10%(x) from decimator getting a buff and 13%(x) from the Blood Rage change. Before this I was able to clear Pit 90 with up to 2 minutes to spare. I decided I would jump right into Pit 95 and yolo it. Was actually surprisingly close to clearing it, I got the boss down 30% by the time the timer ran out. Now I still have 7-8 levels left to grind for each glyph to reach 100 and I could get my 1h and 2h mace upgraded if I can get them with GA Crit and GA str rolls AND I can grind for tripple Masterwork hits on all my items (currently I have 5 items with 3x perfect hits while the rest are 2/3)

So if I get all of the above upgrades I am confident that would push me over the threshold of clearing Pit 95. Please correct me if I’m wrong but I recall blizz saying viewed pit 100 as what they wanted every build to be able to attain given they were geared and built reasonably? I’m putting obscene effort into building and gearing my WW barb. I expect only a few others of us are in positions to put in the amount of time and have the experience and understanding of the character to get this far. So even being among the most experienced, dedicated, knowledgeable and having the time to do it… we won’t be clearing pit 100.

I’ve only seen 2 WW barb manage it one did it with Rupture and just have WW, the other has even more obscene gear than myself. I don’t know… I’m just really discouraged. What are everyone elses thoughts/experiences?

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Unless Whirlwind again gets to a point where it can take down pit 100 bosses quickly then I’m not interested in playing it which probably means it will be a while before I play it again if ever since D4 devs idea of buffing is just not going to be good enough to match what the Barbarian could before they hit it with a bunch of undeserved nerfs.

I hate feeling weak and taking forever to kill a boss, unless you’re in a really high pit tier. That is not my idea of fun.

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I am working on it, i get distracted though and build experimental lol so, I really need armory to help, so I can save before i get too creative lol and come back to the focused build.

But yeah, I tried a few different things, but i am using WW as a basic skill atm, which is fun.
I went with bleed so it is more difficult, I should probably have gone CS, I think CS weapons and damage, with the aspects to buff, and zerking could be a build. using the tusk Helm.

There are non Twister builds i think, but much harder puzzle to solve. I like the challenge though. It’s in there somewhere.