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My Barb farmer... Looking to make it more efficient

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billybobbotter

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Paragon 54 WW Barb sitting @ 140k dps (with battle rage) 33k HP (no amethyst in helm), 575 AR (with impunity), 7.5k armor (with warcry), 24% MS, 4.7% LL. I use the typical WW barb build:

Typical WW Spec

I do A3 CH profile on MP1 and I get about ~20M xp/hr and about 400k gold/hr (before selling). I typically die on average once every other run, due to random pack that is arcane sentry + minions and its like a freaking disco light show and my char isn't smart enough to not stand in the middle or he is fighting in a small enclosed area which doesn't allow for maneuvering. I have altered the radius of some things to avoid in Giles Trinity as well as made it so he doesn't avoid some things, but it doesn't seem to matter to much because the same stuff typically kills him which are OP occultists packs and minion packs that are arcane.

I just recently started botting (yesterday), but I feel like this could be made so much better or efficient. I use RadAtoms and Giles Trinity plugins for their amazing effectiveness and overall ease of customization. I pick up every rare (due to not wanting to miss out on any good rolls ilvl 58s can roll just as good as ilvl 63s) as well as all flawless gems, all tomes/recipes. The only things that don't get picked up are blues of any kind and gold piles less than 200g. I have been looking into making a custom loot setup so that I can apply my knowledge to make this more efficient, but it really looks complicated and after reading through the tutorial thread it seems like it gives people a lot of trouble. The looting and town trips seemed like where I could cut the most time out of my runs and create more opportunities to get a higher kill/hr for higher chances @ legendaries, but I tried a run with only looting ilvl 63 armor rather than i58-i63 and really didn't see a noticeable difference between the two runs as far as the xp/hr and g/hr was concerned.

Here I am reaching out to the community and preferably other successful barb botters for any tips or tricks that you have acquired along your path to a successful farmer. Thanks for any and all feedback, and if you are new and reading this and want to know more feel free to ask and I can lend my experience :). I hand leveled my barb to paragon 48, so I did a good amount of farming on him and have a pretty good understanding of the class as far as farming/ubers are concerned.
 
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I am fully aware of barb mechanics and how they work. If I were doing ubers I would have ~20k more hp easily, but seeing as how it isn't hardly necessary for this farming routine it really isn't worth spending the extra gold to get more vit until prices drop on good gear.

The mechanics behind WW and sprint ticks has been around for a while ----> WW & Sprint RLTW tick frequency mechanics - Forums - Diablo III
I know my class and how it works... I have IAS in basically every slot except neck and I am at 20/23 ticks with my MH / OH. I use an EF in the MH and a dagger in the OH.

Thanks for the reply, however it didn't really teach me anything I didn't already know. Theoretically if I wanted to pump 500M into my barb I could pick up another 30k life and 100-150 AR and 100k dps, but MP1 is the most efficient to farm in, so whats the point?
 
if you go under giles trinity you can change what is looted.. that plugin does everything.. take a look around it and make it customized to your barb
 
lckwjl said:
if you go under giles trinity you can change what is looted.. that plugin does everything.. take a look around it and make it customized to your barb
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I realize this... and I have done it, but I can only change generalized looting schemes rather than specific. Like not looting 2 handers, or 1 hand bows or monk/WD helms, or shields. I have found rares of these items to typically be under valued and don't sell well even when a good roll happens.
 
i dont pic gems/tomes/recipes.Get the max of crit/dps u can.Buy a maximus for your enchantress( with attack speed on it).Get a 2 hellfire rings ( one for you, and one for your enchantress).You need more health - 50 k health at least ( counting the red gem).Get some money and invest on your toon to start.Remember that you are using a bot is not you playing, soo he will not deal with fights the same way was you would, he need more survavility was possible (more hp, more loh), if you gonna choose betteween dps, and survivility go for the second.
 
johnny1730 said:
i dont pic gems/tomes/recipes.Get the max of crit/dps u can.Buy a maximus for your enchantress( with attack speed on it).Get a 2 hellfire rings ( one for you, and one for your enchantress).You need more health - 50 k health at least ( counting the red gem).Get some money and invest on your toon to start.Remember that you are using a bot is not you playing, soo he will not deal with fights the same way was you would, he need more survavility was possible (more hp, more loh), if you gonna choose betteween dps, and survivility go for the second.
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Why a maximus on my enchantress? I have been using 45% MF staff, and why hellfire ring on enchant (fireball?)? I typically just use a follower as an added MF bonus (25% at the moment I think).
 
So what's your problem now? You seem like know everything.
Easy answer here, increase your dps while maintaining your IAS if you want the run faster. Increase your AR to 700 after buff and HP to 38k. You won't die at all in MP1.
Beside, the higher MP you wanted to go, main concern is LL. Good luck.
 
lilobat said:
So what's your problem now? You seem like know everything.
Easy answer here, increase your dps while maintaining your IAS if you want the run faster. Increase your AR to 700 after buff and HP to 38k. You won't die at all in MP1.
Beside, the higher MP you wanted to go, main concern is LL. Good luck.
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I know about barbs, not specifics about botting... just looking for tips where the botting is concerned really. I know how I should gear myself out, but in the US economy prices are dropping significantly on all legends/set items due to increased drop rates, so there is no point to spend lots of gold to get better gear. The best approach is to bot to paragon 100 for the moment and sell everything I can along the way. Prices will be significantly lower in the coming weeks on just about everything as I am sure most of you have seen in the price drop within the last few weeks since 1.0.5.
 
billybobbotter said:
I know about barbs, not specifics about botting... just looking for tips where the botting is concerned really. I know how I should gear myself out, but in the US economy prices are dropping significantly on all legends/set items due to increased drop rates, so there is no point to spend lots of gold to get better gear. The best approach is to bot to paragon 100 for the moment and sell everything I can along the way. Prices will be significantly lower in the coming weeks on just about everything as I am sure most of you have seen in the price drop within the last few weeks since 1.0.5.
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u can try... the darkfriend own loot rules which combine with trinity could make it faster (never used so not sure if it ignores items or just id's and dumps them). You could try different skills, try overpower or something of the sort. You could try turning all the avoid off most ww barbs do this. Other than that only thing you can do is upgrade your barbs items. There isn't some special config that boosts your items per hour or makes your bot run faster or more effcient.
 
Since your unbuff DPS is high, try changing your skills to sprint with marathon (so you move faster and longer and use less fury overtime), whirlwind with wind shear (to gain more fury faster, works well with your WOTB and thrive of chaos), and change your bash to frenzy with vanguard (the 15% speed boost helps overall if you think about it)

With those combos, you'll be covering the map a lot faster since you will be constantly moving at above max speeds.

To increase items per hour, the only way is to cover the map faster while still killing at the same time (you'll want to keep sprinting and killing constantly).
 
What you aren't realising is playing the character by hand is different than leaving it to bot. One of the most important things to consider when botting is survivability, u might have 9999999dps but the bot does stupid things sometimes and with 33k hp u will die, every time u die ur GPh and iph will drop considerably.
It might be a wise move to just swap a bit of gear around for some added survivability.

Also, don't bother picking up anything under i61 - the majority of people do not search for anything below level60, so you are wasting your time there.

Don't bother picking up gems or tomes either IMO, they aren't worth the movement time.

I find it rather confusing that you set it to pick up only 200g piles but u bother picking up gems and tomes? Unless u are in the USA as I have no idea of the auction prices over there, but in eu it's not worth the time.
 
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