Ultimate Endgame Whirlwind Barbarian Guide - P8 Pub Showcase - Diablo 2 Resurrected

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This is my level 98 WW Barb that I have been playing for the past month or so.
Using Grief and Azurewrath!
maxroll.gg/d2/d2planner/ie63j083
Uber Build:
maxroll.gg/d2/d2planner/aw94t0x9
Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
0:31 - Gear
2:37 - Stat Points
3:19 - Merc Setup
3:42 - Skill Tree
4:12 - P8 Chaos Sanctuary
6:17 - P8 Cows
7:51 - P8 Baal
10:30 - Conclusion
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[@davydee9488]

I'm actually working on my very first barb after all these years. I'm gonna use this!! Much obliged my man!

[@smalps-gaming]

Fantastic! Yea this was my first barb ever! Just was not into Melee builds at first, but I've changed my opinion, and I really like and enjoy this WW Barb. Its been pretty fun. If I were to start a ladder I would go barb. I think. Cheers

[@kristopherleslie8343]

Barb is the way

[@kristopherleslie8343]

Have you started yet

[@mihata-gaming]

Solid!

[@KrusherMike]

Great content aside, let's just take a moment to appreciate that refresh rate. I'm watching this on my phone, and it looks amazing. I usually take a quality drop on here, but nah. Not this time. Cheers, mate. You're doing great. 🤙

[@smalps-gaming]

Much appreciated! Hope the mosaic didn't drop frames for you!

[@wizrom3046]

Mr Popular at a Party 👍 Back in the day before infinity mercs were a thing, I had a paladin smiter with maxed conviction aura (was about lvl 26) and a long smite stun time. He was REAL popular in a Baal party! He would just smite Lister and his peeps and they would stand there stunned with a lvl26 conviction on them, while sorcs and druids etc destroyed them

[@smalps-gaming]

YES very nice for a party. A singer barb is also a popular guy at a baal run because of high level BO, and stunning every baal wave

[@kristopherleslie8343]

Pretty much every character is party friendly :) just depends on the phase of the game. I use to run a whole game smiter which is not common but it’s a few dedicated paladins that do it.

[@wizrom3046]

@@kristopherleslie8343 yeah I think infinity runeword wrecked teamplay a lot. I had some great smiters in the day with conviction, working as a support char for a sorc friend, questing and MFing together. Conviction and hit freezes target was awesome, smite would shatter the mobs. My conviction smiter could also do Ubers because his conviction aura was stronger than Mephs, but not quite as good as a fanat smiter optimised for Ubers. I used to love playing a support necro too, using all the right curses for the team and some well placed bone wall/prisons, especially when I played hardcore ladder with some excellent Japanese team players. Those were the days, when people really cared about teamwork.

[@kristopherleslie8343]

@@wizrom3046 your “old vanilla” smiter was changed about 2 years ago. You’re now capable of smiting, aoe and clearing all content these days.

[@kristopherleslie8343]

@@wizrom3046 infinity didn’t wreck anything. If you want an unstoppable team just go 6 paladins and a barb and Druid. Nothing stands in the way. Doesn’t even remotely require conviction lol.

[@creed5248]

The dual hotos not only help BO but also Find item

[@smalps-gaming]

yes that would help if I used find item haha

[@Dartlin]

Spin for the win!

[@smalps-gaming]

love spinning them up!

[@Goldhead88]

If one would have runes for Last Wish, would it be better than Azurewrath?

[@smalps-gaming]

I have a last wish and no not really. The only real benefit you get is the added CB. If you really cared you could add Ber to Azure and get 70% CB.

[@GPRSKRPRS]

Spread the teachings🙏🏽

[@smalps-gaming]

Thank you! people need to know lol

[@christophermanabat1934]

I literally just finished Hell on my barb I started 2 days ago, (I play offline since the Ping in Hawaii is terrible) I havent played barb in almost 10years. Nice to see things hasnt changed much other than the hork synergy. I found so much barb stuff MFing on with my sorc, I figured id make a barb to use it. sadly, my grief was awful lol. 34/359 but it still gets the job done. I used WW for the playthrough but gonna try the hype of a Hork zerker in trav and see how it goes. Gotta do 2-3k LK runs to make him an Enigma. I noticed you didnt put 1 point into zerk, Wouldnt that be helpful for singe target Phy immunes? I know you have the phy sunder but arnt they still hard to kill even after breaking immunity? wouldnt 1 point zerk be useful in that situation?

[@smalps-gaming]

Any Grief is going to be good enough! the thing is so good. I didn't put any points into zerk as it didn't seem needed. Yea using the sunder it break the physical immunes, but then the decrep from the merc takes their DR down even further. Also, most of the physical immunes are undead, and the sanctuary aura brings their DR to 0% anyways.

[@randalthor2859]

Glad you went with Azure. I paid entirely too many HR for the one collecting dust on a stuff character 😂

[@smalps-gaming]

Oh no! This is the only Azure I found and it was a NICE roll. So I like using a super unique item like this.

[@Rexiled]

Am I missing something, why put points in 'Iron Skin" instead of 'Shout' ?

[@smalps-gaming]

I have 1 point in shout, and max iron skin. It nets a higher defense overall. If you max shout, and 1 point iron skin, you have less defense.

[@kristopherleslie8343]

Unless your building a niche type of off meta build, 1 point is ok. You could put additional points into Natural Res (common sense, depends on your setup)

[@Rexiled]

@@smalps-gaming Then i'm really missing something, shout is 100% lvl1 - IronSkin 30% Max Shout is 290% - Max IronSkin is 220% 1Point Ironskin 30%, MaxShout 290%, which is a total of 320% 1Point Shout 100%, MaxIronSkin 220%, which is a total of 320% While i write this, i can see that i was wrong thinking that max shout is better in terms of % defense. The only reason i see maxing IronSkin with 1point in shout over maxing shout with one point in ironskin is because you have to shout every 3-4mn. So it's basically for convenience when playing solo, to not have to shout every ~4mn (but you still have to with BO + BC so you can basically shout too?) Otherwise, Maxing shout always win because you will have to use BO + BC + shout every ~4mn (or basically every begining or run) because it boost your allies defenses. Please correct me if i'm wrong somewhere with the math because that's the second time i see maxing ironskin in a youtubevideo and it boggles me somehow.

[@smalps-gaming]

there really isn't ever going to be level 1 ironskin or shout because you have plus to skill gear. In this setup, its literally exactly the same either way you go... g-Face 290 - Iron skin level 27 250 - Shout level 16 540 130 - Iron skin level 11 410 - shout level 32 540 a-face 150 - Iron Skin level 13 430 - shout level 34 580 310 - Iron skin level 29 270 - shout level 18 580

[@TheFiendRacer]

I always wondered this so i always split between the two. Actually shout has few more points. I might have to respec

[@coryj1984]

Doesn't the Sanctuary aura prevent you from horking undead?

[@smalps-gaming]

No, that would only be with Lawbringer as it has slain monsters rest in peace.

[@coryj1984]

@@smalps-gaming oh, my bad, I thought that was a side-effect of Sanctuary.

[@alexrichardson4376]

How do you pick up gear with full inventory on console?

[@smalps-gaming]

In the general skills, there is a skill called “loot to cube” allows you to pick up items straight to your cube.

[@alexrichardson4376]

What?!?!?!?!?

[@smalps-gaming]

@@alexrichardson4376 game changer

[@jonpomdamo]

If you didn’t care about fcr for mobility etc. wouldn’t different rings / belt be better ?

[@smalps-gaming]

Define better. Like you can say that string of ears is better because it has LL and DR. But there’s no issue with survival. You could get rings with better attack rating if you didn’t care about FCR.

[@jonpomdamo]

@@smalps-gaming yeah I guess AR rings or instead of a Cham on your helmet, a ravenfrost? Genuine questions to seek advice before I make my barb.. just getting your thoughts . String vs dungos?

[@smalps-gaming]

@@jonpomdamo if I didn’t have cham in helm, i would use a raven for sure. And a dual leech ring with AR. I would go strings for the LL, DR and MDR for elemental absorb.

[@creed5248]

I use the grief azurewrath combo on my act 5 merc

[@creed5248]

prefer the jah for the crushing blow or ber - whichever one gives crushing blow

[@smalps-gaming]

ber gives the CB. It would give the build 70% I just wasn't sure about committing to the ber.

[@smalps-gaming]

I liked infinity merc as well in the build. but it was slowed down a little bit vs some high DR monsters even though it got you 95% chance to hit everything. So I keep the RT merc for those cases. It seems to have smoothed out the clear speeds.

[@amyn227]

Battle Orders duel is such an honor lol

[@smalps-gaming]

I don't mind battling with other barbs, and respect the higher BO, I just HATE it when a lower level CTA guy tries to BO...

[@phil-l]

Been using AzureWrath since D2R launched!

[@smalps-gaming]

Very nice! I like it.

[@bienb4559]

No reroll grief for max breakpoints ww? Only 31ias

[@smalps-gaming]

Don't need much IAS to hit max breakpoint. already have two phase blades, and IAS from gloves and highlords. so the IAS is really irrelevant on the grief.

[@robantico2490]

Pretty rings

[@smalps-gaming]

pretty gg

[@amfitness5598]

I’m using my Last Wish in my off hand WW set up .

[@smalps-gaming]

How do you like it? I didn't really find much use out of it other than the CB.

[@amfitness5598]

@@smalps-gaming well I get my might aura, some MF. I run an act 5 merc with plague and Lawbringer combo for the auras and mostly farm in the pit. So it crushes all. I originally was using it on my Dreamerdin’ but now Crescent Moon is BIS there.

[@smalps-gaming]

@@amfitness5598 yup, if you are running act 5 merc, then its a good way to get the might aura still.

[@smalps-gaming]

When I was testing act 5 merc, I used LW and Lawbringer on the merc, with cure and COH. The issue I had with it, was that the life tap proc would overwrite the decrep proc. Do you find that LR overwrite the decrep procs?

[@amfitness5598]

@@smalps-gaming not really only bc this character is a P1 Bnet character everything dies fast. I do see it over ride sometimes I was thinking of just running CM in the off hand for the static proc?

[@haywoodjablomi7375]

Corpse explosion is best cows teammate.

[@smalps-gaming]

very much so. Barb needs a rune word that will cast CE on kill or something like that. Would be super nice for melee builds.

[@Kayote7]

It's a nice build but as a oldskool D2 player I can make a much more effective WW build

[@smalps-gaming]

Enlighten us then

[@gmoney7838]

I’m making this right now….level 83

[@smalps-gaming]

very nice! good luck

[@stupid_fix-wo4ve]

Change to water walks :) its the grief of boots...

[@smalps-gaming]

for what? the life?

[@stupid_fix-wo4ve]

@@smalps-gaming oops no sorry i mean war travs!! . grief boots

[@smalps-gaming]

@@stupid_fix-wo4ve yea travs have plus dmg, so its nice. But its not a huge boost.

[@stupid_fix-wo4ve]

@@smalps-gaming its really 30-50 damage (the items bugged, and there is an additional line of 15-25) thats effected by %ed and deadly strike (from mastery, helm, and if you use highlords)

[@UltimateEnd0]

Odd that you're using phase blades for WW

[@smalps-gaming]

Why’s that odd? I like that there are no repair costs and they are fast

[@jefflynchii3307]

Damage doesn't look all that good on p8. You're spinning in a pack of like 5 or 6 that you didn't kill while the rest of them are mopping up every thing. Good build but still lacking dmg. Melee really got shafted in D2. I'm working on a, similar build and having the same problems.

[@smalps-gaming]

well yea, its not going to be like a Nova or Mosaic. Its a melee build. Mostly for single target things. WW is just the most "AOE" type build and fun to play. While also being tanky, a party favorite, and mobile with teleport, and FRW. You can use Death + Beast for more dmg, but the repair costs for me were too annoying. Needing a decrep proc as well to do the most dmg. Often times its delayed by the merc.

[@kristopherleslie8343]

WW seems to be more for a single target or trash mobs. P8 well leap attack is probably better at this time and even it’s got limits

[@jefflynchii3307]

​@@smalps-gaming yea I'm using death and botd and I've tried using an a1 merc with brand and telestomp mobs to get her to proc amp dmg but it just doesn't proc enough and her ai makes her get out of the mobs asap even trying grim ward to help but I play mostly on controller and for some reason grim ward just won't activated with controller. The skill lights up to work but the barb won't do the skill but I can hork the same corpse so idk. Thinking about doing dual weapon spec to do grief and death

[@smalps-gaming]

@@jefflynchii3307 Yea, I thought about that too to get the amg dmg to proc. it would help a LOT in this build. I use gavel of pain for ubers, so that I don't need a RT merc, and go with infinity merc. Using Grief + Death for 100% CB vs those uber bosses. It works really well. But not practical for general PvM.

[@sursomsatan1225]

I always thought console ports were for people with very large thumbs and/or people named Fred

[@smalps-gaming]

Nope. Not named Fred. And the game is good on console. I haven’t played on PC in 8 years. And will not go back to PC.

[@UltimateEnd0]

What exactly is the point of this build? Really all there is to D2R endgame is magic finding, dueling, and ubers, and this build does none of that.

[@smalps-gaming]

Just playing the game man. Finding stuff, leveling, ubers. Not everyone is into the same things.

[@JVStark.]

I cant imagine playing D2 with a console controller q.p

[@smalps-gaming]

Works pretty well

[@smalps-gaming]

Won’t ever go back to M&K 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@TheFiendRacer]

Ww barb and my bowazon are my favorite characters but lack damage especially higher player count. Getting annoying. I’ll be working a group of cows or something and when I finish the run is almost done.

[@smalps-gaming]

Haha “working” that is a funny way to say it, but I know what you mean. Even decrep cows take some time P8. But barb is meant to PARTY! Not solo. Sadly it’s just not going to be good solo because there is no AOE really.

[@justblaze7907]

No points in find item…..pffft noob best skill in the entire game

[@smalps-gaming]

😂 what do I need to find?

[@teal_2v338]

No point cause he doing cold dmg anyway, so mots corpse Will shatter

[@justblaze7907]

@@teal_2v338 yeah was more sarcastic but find item is the best skill in the game imho in a game centered entirely around loot but I normally play solo self found so why I value it so much I guess

[@Misled334]

​@@justblaze7907 ppffftttt cold dmg yah nooblet, find another way to be an asshole!

[@bordianucosmin3942]

Not even close to a dual grief barb. Throw a pride on a might merc and it will rip. This is mu pvm barb

[@smalps-gaming]

I didn’t find pride to be that much more helpful. Ill test again.

[@smalps-gaming]

Okay I tested P8 with pride and dual grief: stone skin monsters were a major slow down. And extra strong uniques as well. And the survivability of the merc was much less due to no decrep proc. Vs undead in CS on P8 it was so slow. And even vs pitlords in there it was slow because of no decrep proc. I also got a dclone and it was much slower than RT merc and the merc almost died. Even with Grief + Azure, i did dclone faster on P3 than P1 with pride and dual grief. So that was my test. Not sure what scenario you say dual grief and pride is better.

[@UltimateEnd0]

Oof barely any mf

[@smalps-gaming]

I don’t care about MF. There’s nothing I need to find.

[@JoeKoors]

Wtf console lol

[@smalps-gaming]

Yes