The Build
Barbarian - Game Guide - Diablo III
The Gear
Red = Required
Orange = Highly Recommended
Green = Recommended (if you don't have the highly recommended option)
Black = Last Resort!
(notes) = Preferred stats
Weapons - (Strength, Vitality, Socket)
- Shard of Hate
- Odyn Son
- +20% Sunkeeper
- Thunderfury
- -20% Sunkeeper
- Anything else with recommended stats
NOTE: Always put Odyn Son/Sunkeeper in your main hand for Earthquake Damage and gaining maximum benefit from Weapons Master
Head - (%Lightning, Strength, Attack Speed, Critical Hit rate)
- Andariels Visage
- Aughild's Spike
- Cain's Insight
- Anything else with recommended stats
Shoulders - (Strength, Vitality, Cooldown Reduction, Overpower Damage)
- Aughild's Power
- Spaulders of Zakara
- Anything else with recommended stats
Necklace - (%Lightning, Strength, Critical Hit Rate, Critical Hit Damage)
- Haunt of Vaxo
- Mara's Kaleidoscope (Not needed using this build unless your other gear is poor)
- Dovu Energy Trap
- Anything else with recommended stats
Gloves - (Strength, Attack Speed, Critical Hit Rate, Critical Hit Damage)
- Tasker and Theo
- Cain's Scrivener
- Anything else with recommended stats
Body - (Strength, Vitality, All Resist, 3 Sockets w/ Rubies)
- Tyrael's Might (20% Damage to Demons)
- Blackthorne's Surcoat
- Aughilde's Rule
- Anything else with recommended stats
Bracer - (%Lightning, Strength, Vitality, Critical Hit Rate)
- Aughild's Search
- Lacuni Prowlers (Attack Speed instead of Vitality)
- Anything else with recommended stats
Belt - (%Lightning, Strength, Vitality, %Frenzy, All Resist)
- Thundergod's Vigor
- Witching Hour
- Chilank's Chain
- Hellcat's Waistguard
- Anything else with recommended stats
Legs - (Strength, Vitality, %Frenzy, 2 Sockets w/ Rubies)
- Blackthorne's Jousting Mail
- Cain's Habit
- Anything else with recommended stats
Feet - (Strength, Vitality, %Movement Speed, All Resist)
- Cain's Travelers
- Blackthorne's Spurs
- Firewalkers
- Anything else with recommended stats
Rings - (%Lightning, %Elite, Strength, Critical Hit Rate, Critical Hit Damage, Attack Speed)
- Royal Ring of Grandeur
- Stone of Jordan
- Unity
- Wyrdward
- Anything else with recommended stats
The goal here is to get as many of the set bonuses (Aughild, Blackthorne, Cains) while wearing as many of the
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED and
REQUIRED items as possible.
IMO the "perfect" setup would be:
Head: Andariels
Shoulder: Aughild's
Body: Tyraels Might
Necklace: Haunt of Vaxo
Gloves: Tasker and Theo
Belt: Thundergod's Vigor
Bracer: Aughild's
Ring1: Stone of Jordan
Ring2: Royal Rin of Grandeur
Legs: Blackthorne / Cains (Blackthorn slightly faster kill speed and better defense, Cains give magic find. Hard to say which is better)
Feet: Blackthorne / Cains (Blackthorn slightly faster kill speed and better defense, Cains give magic find. Hard to say which is better)
If you can achieve this setup T6 Ghom kill speed should be under 8 seconds.
Paragon Points
Pretty obvious what to do here. Nonetheless, people seem to like to ask these things.
Core
Add points to movement speed so your total including gear is 25%
The rest goes in to Strength
Do not ever put points in max Fury
Offense
Cooldown reduction is useless to this build so prioritise Crit + Crit Damage until both maxed (try and keep your total crit and crit damage in a 1:10 ratio) then start dumping the rest in attack speed.
Defense
All resist, then armor, then health%, then regen.
Utility
Max life on hit then max resource cost reduction (the less Fury Battle Rage costs the quicker you reach max for Berserker Rage!).
Other two options are 100% useless.
Trinity Earthquake Fix
Lastly, you will need to edit your Trinity Barbarian combat file so Earthquake is cast only at full fury to benefit from Berserker Rage.
Go to: DemonBuddy/Plugins/Trinity/Combat/Abilities/BarbarianCombat.cs
Open in Notepad or Notepad++ if you have it.
Find this line:
Code:
public static bool ShouldWaitForEarthquake
And make sure the following two sections look like this:
Code:
public static bool ShouldWaitForEarthquake
{
get
{
return
Hotbar.Contains(SNOPower.Barbarian_Earthquake) &&
!UseOOCBuff &&
!IsCurrentlyAvoiding &&
!CanCast(SNOPower.Barbarian_Earthquake) &&
TargetUtil.EliteOrTrashInRange(45) &&
Player.PrimaryResource <= [COLOR="#FF0000"]108[/COLOR];
}
}
public static bool CanCastEarthquake
{
get
{
return
!UseOOCBuff &&
!IsCurrentlyAvoiding &&
!Player.IsIncapacitated &&
CanCast(SNOPower.Barbarian_Earthquake) &&
TargetUtil.IsEliteTargetInRange(45f) &&
Player.PrimaryResource >= [COLOR="#FF0000"]108[/COLOR];
}
}
The red numbers denote your personal maximum fury. Change this to what you have.