Diablo® III

Well, this is what iv planned as a WW build
EDIT: Final build
http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/barbarian#WhXkiP!bYW!cccaYZ

I'm not sure if i should take Hardened Wrath or Invigorate rune on War Cry
As for passive skills, I'm sure about Bloodthirst and Animosity, but I'm not sure if i should take Ruthless, Nerves of Steel or Weapon Master... Ruhtless would be nice for the gain fury crit procs.The armor gain would make sens at higher level, when you get a few k life.
And well, Weapon Master would also make sens with WW and mighty weapons..

As for followers, i would stick with the Templar for healing and fury generation ;)

Any feedback will be appreciated :D

Hello.

Feedback: Active skills are all fine. Passive skills should have some additional defense like Nerves or Tough instead Bloodthirst.

Overall nice choices.

To be honest I wouldn't put wrath of the berserker, imho it seems to me that this is a PVP ability because of the sudden unexpected burst it will provide you with... it's gonna be good for your first 15 sec, then what are you gonna do till the cooldown resets? I'd be you I'd get overpower with the 8% life back per ennemy hit. it feels like it's gonna be overpowered, you're never gonna hesitate to use it cause of the low CD on it, and it's a great way to stay in shape xD! I don't think you're gonna need armor then if you make the switch cause you'll have so much leech accessible, you should be able to make it :).

EDIT: BTW what are you going for weapon wise? dual wielding or two hander? Cause I don't think frenzy would suit the 2 hander, you'd probably have shorts of fury or maybe not who knows? I don't know your call anyways I haven't really experienced that lvl 60 spec yet xD

To be honest I wouldn't put wrath of the berserker, imho it seems to me that this is a PVP ability because of the sudden unexpected burst it will provide you with... it's gonna be good for your first 15 sec, then what are you gonna do till the cooldown resets? I'd be you I'd get overpower with the 8% life back per ennemy hit. it feels like it's gonna be overpowered, you're never gonna hesitate to use it cause of the low CD on it, and it's a great way to stay in shape xD! I don't think you're gonna need armor then if you make the switch cause you'll have so much leech accessible, you should be able to make it :).

EDIT: BTW what are you going for weapon wise? dual wielding or two hander? Cause I don't think frenzy would suit the 2 hander, you'd probably have shorts of fury or maybe not who knows? I don't know your call anyways I haven't really experienced that lvl 60 spec yet xD

Well, switching wrath might not be so bad! :P and i guess I'll stick with some extra armor, just for being able to soak up more physical damage. And the reason i chose frenzy, it to be able to have some "nukeing" on single targets and bosses, since the plan is to go for 2 handed mighty weapons ^^ Even use that to load i 20% more damage before i WW :D

Anyway thanks for the feedback:D

EDIT: Now that i think about it, I'm gonna leave wrath, since combined with frenzy (5 stacks) it will yield me 120% more damage and 100% faster attack speed for 15 sec, that should do nicely on unique mobs and bosses

Hello.

Yes Wrath is a good tactical skill that fits to builds like yours to quickly take out strong boss mobs. I would call your build a conservative or basic WW build. Something like this will be all over d3 when players get to high lvl.

The only thing I'm not 100% curtain now, is if I'll go with Bloodthirst or Nerves of Steel... Can't tell what will be better skill at high level, only time will tell ^^

Hello.

Nerves of Steel without a doubt as Bloodthirst can be provided by one high level affix. There are many boni for healing on equipment. Extra armor in big numbers is hard to get.

Dang, i didn't consider having "life leech" on a weapon! :S
Guess ill go with nerves of steel then ^^

Looks good. As an ex diablo 2 ww barb addict, it's the obvious choice for me. There's many directions to go with it. Impairment skills go great with it so you can keep them bunched up and take less damage.

hey, I like your build, and it got me thinking about my own WW build. What do you think about this:

http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/barbarian#ahXkiP!VYZ!YbaaYc

My goal is to minimize Whirlwind downtime by having very high fury generation. When using this build I would stack a lot of crit chance to maximize Blood Funnel and Into the Fray. Weapons of choice would be either Axes/Maces or Mighty weapons.

For bosses I would use WotB with Thrive on Chaos, which hopefully would stay up for as long as needed thanks to the insane fury generation provided by Bash/instigation and Into the Fray.

I was also considering taking Onslaught and Insanity instead. Maybe standing toe-to-toe with a boss in inferno for more than 15 sec is a stretch, in that case it's better to max out the damage from WotB over a shorter period.

The reason I chose Bash over Frenzy is that I prefer to get max fury generation over a short period of time so I can resume Whirlwind ASAP. Also from what I've been reading Frenzy might not stack well with fast weapons/attack speed bonuses, which would probably be useful for this build as I wish to max the amount of crits from Whirlwind.

http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/barbarian#ahXkiP!VYZ!YbaaYc

I'd take Ground Stomp with Wrenching Smash instead of leap to help increase the amount of enemies the whirlwind can hit, especially since they are all going to be stunned so you will get 4 seconds of slicing them down without any worries.

I like the idea Maukka, but I'm a little hesitant to drop the mobility and armor bonus from leap attack. I'm thinking about hard hitting archers/casters that you want to catch fast and not let them run away. The mobility + snare + armor bonus from Leap all help to accomplish this.

I'm just thinking you might be overcompensating with the amount of armour you have. Too bad we can't make practical tests yet.

Just about every discussion here boils down to this :) Only 16 more days...

To stay on topic, here is another build based around the same concept:

http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/barbarian#ahZdik!VYZ!YbZbYa

Instead of relying on WotB for Bosses/single targets, I took HotA with Smash. It seems more reliable; I would hate to get stuck with WotB on cooldown when I really need it.

Taking Dread Spear over Leap would give me more staying power against bosses, while still being useful in catching annoying/dangerous ranged targets.

With Instigation on Bash coupled with Into the Fray I could spam either Whirlwind or HotA for a long time.

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I would still go with leap, instead fo Spear, as it would both make a great entering move on packs of mobs, as well as a getaway "button" in case things go to hell :P

And it looks to me as you'r going for a crit based procs, because frankly, i don't see the use of blood funnel on WW, as the healing is pretty low,and it only procs on crits

And im not sure if Frenzy with Anomosity, will beat bash at fury generation, but i guess, only time will tell :P

Never the less, from what i have read, you can switch any skills, at anytime, anywere ingame, so if Frenzy works better on mobs then bosses for fury gen, ill just switch...

But i think that Frenzy with maniac will do much higher damage, because iirc in the beta, you were not able to spam bash at the same speed as frenzy, due to the animation of bash. And don't flame me for this, as im not 100% sure of it.

So i wouldn't really focus so much on fury gen on bosses, since, i wont be going WW bananas on a boss. I would rather focus on doing as much damage as i can in the shortest period of time, before i'll have to draw back to heal, in wich case leap would be a nice alternative.

EDIT: And i guess it's hard to tell if WotB with Thrive of Chaos will surpass Insanity, as the overall damage increase with Franzy and Maniac at 5 stacks and WotB will yield 120% and a 100% AS increas, guess only time will tell^^