u/PactainCipard

Looking at #1 leaderboard build (yeah, I know it's broken, but we're learning from the best here). I do not quite understand his chest:

https://prnt.sc/TUgKXwSjdq9L

Str

• Max Res

• Res Cost reduction

• (Crit) Defensive Skill

Defensive Skill temper

Armor

Ok, Str, Max Res and Armor is standard. Resource Cost reduction is needed for constant COTA spam and more defense from selig.

But I'm curious about Defensive skill ranks. He's got Rallying Cry and Challenging Shout (raging upgrade), pretty standard for barb build this season. Question is - why investing into defensive ranks this heavily?

Rallying Cry ranks bonus does not give anything useful except a bit more speed

Challenging shout gives ~1% Damage reduction per skill rank, and on paper sound a lot more useful than Rallying Cry

I think I'm missing something fundamental here, but dont' know what it is.

I'm also curious why nearly all builds allocate 15 skill points to Rallying Cry, and only 4 points to Challenging Shout, as I'm sure RoH builds can benefit for more DR.

What does the group think?

On a side note, RNG being cruel and all, the only chest roll with xPhys I got this season, was on that "let's test this build" chest I quickly put together. duh. And ofc I "enchant locked" max res there so I can fully cube the chest, so I can't even reroll other affixes there.

https://prnt.sc/l1zFnNAvQAKQ

Immortal selig, standard issue build. After about 3k crafts the unicorn dropped. Very pretty, very shiny.

https://prnt.sc/WkHY1sZsOkxm

I'm assuming I used up all my luck for this season and hoping that transfig will not be an unspeakable value. So this will be main amu for a while.

Now the first world problems begin:

1. Which affix to reroll?

2. What to reroll to?

3. What temper?

I'd like to keep GA Res Gen, and reroll Str to Max Resource. This will certainly be a boost. But Phys damage also looks good.

On the other hand res gen can be rolled in other places, so it's not that big of a deal.

Temper - cooldown definitely. After some lengthy discussion with a fellow barbarian - my thinking now is as follows: all dps based tempers are additive, and being put into an additive bucket. So even if a number is large, like +60% vuln damage, in reality it's pretty small, as this bonus being put into an already large additive bucket and overall it would not make much of a difference. Cooldown is another story: all cd reductions are additive across the board, and you get what it says on the tin. In reality however slotting amu with cooldown temper only reducest WotB cooldown by about 1-2 seconds on my config, but it may free up another slot or transfig.

Thoughs? Suggestions? Any help greatly appreciated.

Started with maxroll guide, but made a few tweaks to it before mythic fix: primarily resource generation in most of the places. Right now going back to maxroll layout, slowly removing res gen. Pretty much steamrolling everything except Mephisto. Meph is steamrolling me. Right now trying to minmax it further, want to take my power fantasy to the limit.

Currently have this:

https://i.imgur.com/aKJhi7c.jpeg

Crit chance: 95%

Crit dmg: 6380

Vulnerable: 517%

All damage 326%

Physical: 516%

Health: 595

Fury: 706

Armor: 80%

Resistances: 76-80%

Have a bunch of questions:

1. Is there a good guide with all the necessary breakpoints on cc, crit dmg, vulnerable etc?

2. Is All Damage a good stat to sprinkle across the build or not?

3. Current Health is 595 - which is almost unkillable. Few things can kill me - a combination of lag and large amount of boss attacks, and stacking poison puddles. And Mephisto. Only have 1 unescapable life node in paragon, have no idea where the rest of health is coming from.

4. What multipliers are the most important for the build?

Doing pit 120 in about 2-3 mins give or take, but want to push a bit further.

full gears

https://i.imgur.com/n6KheY9.jpeg

Appreciate any help in advance :)