infamous0ne
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This is a guide for barbarians, sword and board, 1-60. This will help you get to inferno fast. The first section will cover some gerneal concepts while the secodn will be a step by step guide.
Skills:
-Use cleave (rupture)
Highly underated, this will make large groups of mobs go poof in one or two swings with higher dps
-Use sprint (rush<marathon)
Use as often as you can, you're speed running so this should be an obvious choice
-Use leap (iron impact)
Use for movement as often as possible, and use when you run into some baddies that hurt, well, bad (ie: the hammer guys in act 1)
-Use threatening shout, swap out for war cry (hardend wrath<invigorate)
Threatening shout is a great damage mitigation tool, war cry is better
-Use ignore pain (ignorance is bliss)/ground stomp (wrenching smash)/rend (blood lust) until you get WotB
Ground stomp is an excellent starter, wrenching smash will bring the baddies in close to cleave and revenge away, use rend over ignore pain - if that isn't working for you ignore pain is better damage mitigation but provides no DPS boost
-Use WotB (insanity)
Save this for elite/champ packs - it burns them down fast and prevents them CCing you
Items:
-Focus on str/vit/exp anything else is a bonus
-Aside from the note at the start of the step by step section, only pick up yellows (and legendaries). In regards to what to put on AH:
a decent DPS weapon with a socket
armor with some combination of mainstat/vit/experience
at later levels vendor armor that doesn't have sockets where possible
vendor the rest, if you have lots to list on the AH vendor class specific items
-For all the following items if you can get experience on them relatively cheap do it
When you hit level 15 buy, in this order:
Weapon with socket
Helm with socket
Put a flawless square ruby in each.
Boots with best move speed
-For all the following items search both vit and str, see which has a higher stat cheaper
When you hit level 20 buy:
Chest with 2 sockets, vit/str
Pants with socket, vit/str
Fill your sockets with vit/str gems
Example items from AH for a level 20:
Helm - With flawless square ruby, 10 exp (2100G)
Chest - 2 socket, 18 vit (5000G)
Pants - socket, 27 vit (2100G)
Weapon - 27 DPS, socket, 11 experience (5000G)
4x flawless square ruby (6180G)
Total - ~20,400G
-Note that rings and amulets can have sockets at low levels as well
-I can't stress enough how important it is to have experience on your items to get to inferno fast, this is a necessity, a lot of items you pick up will have experience on them, put them on, even if it has dex or int or pickup radius. The chest/pants/weapon will carry you very well till later levels. At later levels you may need to look into items on the AH for more mainstat/vit as well as experience if you can get it.
-Keep in mind we will be buying very expensive items at level 45-50, so don't spend outrageous amounts.
Step by step:
-For the first few quests pick up blue items, fill your slots, then only pick up yellows.
-Only kill mobs that are in your way, and elite packs that aren't far out of your way. We want to complete each act in under 1 hour except act 1 normal and possibly act 2 normal.
-Complete act 1 and 2, get rushed to act 4, if you can handle it jump to the spire and just own diablo.
-Skilled players with decent gear can start on nightmare at 25, otherwise you should be able to start at the latest 30
-When you enter nightmare, take this time to upgrade a piece of gear or two of your worst gear, also upgrade your weapon and if you can get more move speed on your boots, do so.
-Complete act 1 and 2 again but this time blaze through, shoot for under 1 hour each you should be around 35-40 by the end of that, upgrade your weapon and one or two pieces of your worst gear if you're having a hard time.
-At any point if you find yourself dying more than a few times you need to step back, upgrade a piece of gear or two, or consider changing out some passives.
-When you hit 45, and even a short while before you hit 45, start searching for items with -15 level requirement and ONE stat that is high, go for vit on chest and pants and str on belt and shoulders, this is the most cost effective way to do things. Get some all resist as well. 100 all resist will help immensly in hell. At this point getting +experience on your gear isn't so important, focus instead on high str, high vit, sockets, a bit of all resist, get crit chance on gloves, shield and amulet, get crit damage on rings and amulet. Use the passives superstition, ruthless, weapons master. When you buy your weapon get an axe or mace, you don't need a socket anymore as the reduced level requirment weapons will have outrageous DPS. If you get a socket cheap use a green gem. Don't cheap out on your weapon. You can get a killer weapon and less strength and do very well. Killing faster is (almost) the same as high damage mitigation. Maces will hit higher more often but are slower. Axes hit fast but can do less damage. You wont be able to afford all the reduced level requirement items you need at level 45. Don't sweat it, take some time, if you can't find a good deal on one slot, look for a different item slot, prices fluctuate. Buy what you can, return later, and keep in mind when you return later you wont need to get a -15 level requirment item, you may only need -12 or -10 which will increase the number of item choices exponetially.
http://www.thebuddyforum.com/demonb...reduced-level-requirement-you.html#post752297
This is a guide written by me to aid those searchign for items at around level 45
-I personally found doing the ramparts in act 3 beneficial to leveling fast, if you need to, go through the keep depths as well. Do this and then jump to the start of act 4, complete act 4 and you should be about 50
-Hell can be entered at level 50, you want to be at act 1 hell by 50
-Hell is a rehash of nightmare, again aim for under 1 hour on each act.
So in total, you complete:
Normal, act 1 and 2, as little of act 4 as possible (about 2.5-3 hours total)
Nightmare, act 1 and 2, ramparts in act 3, act 4 (about 3 hours)
Hell, act 1 and 2, ramparts in act 3, act 4 (about 3 hours)
That is 8.5-9 hours to 60.
This is the fastest possible way I have found of getting to 60. I didn't do this on my first try, I've been through several characters. I see this method reasonably turning out like this for someone reading and understanding it with only having done one character before:
Normal, act 1 (1.5hr) and 2 (1.5 hr), as little of act 4 (0.45hr) (3.45 hours total)
Nightmare, act 1 (1.5hr) and 2 (1.5hr), ramparts in act 3 (0.33hr), act 4 (0.45hr) (call it 4hr)
Hell, act 1 (1.5hr) and 2 (1.5 hr), ramparts in act 3 (0.33hr), act 4 (0.45hr) (call it 4 hr)
This totals about 12 hours and is in no way unreasonable.
Cheers! This is my small contribution to the demonbuddy forums for all the well written and well coded tutorials and guides.
Skills:
-Use cleave (rupture)
Highly underated, this will make large groups of mobs go poof in one or two swings with higher dps
-Use sprint (rush<marathon)
Use as often as you can, you're speed running so this should be an obvious choice
-Use leap (iron impact)
Use for movement as often as possible, and use when you run into some baddies that hurt, well, bad (ie: the hammer guys in act 1)
-Use threatening shout, swap out for war cry (hardend wrath<invigorate)
Threatening shout is a great damage mitigation tool, war cry is better
-Use ignore pain (ignorance is bliss)/ground stomp (wrenching smash)/rend (blood lust) until you get WotB
Ground stomp is an excellent starter, wrenching smash will bring the baddies in close to cleave and revenge away, use rend over ignore pain - if that isn't working for you ignore pain is better damage mitigation but provides no DPS boost
-Use WotB (insanity)
Save this for elite/champ packs - it burns them down fast and prevents them CCing you
Items:
-Focus on str/vit/exp anything else is a bonus
-Aside from the note at the start of the step by step section, only pick up yellows (and legendaries). In regards to what to put on AH:
a decent DPS weapon with a socket
armor with some combination of mainstat/vit/experience
at later levels vendor armor that doesn't have sockets where possible
vendor the rest, if you have lots to list on the AH vendor class specific items
-For all the following items if you can get experience on them relatively cheap do it
When you hit level 15 buy, in this order:
Weapon with socket
Helm with socket
Put a flawless square ruby in each.
Boots with best move speed
-For all the following items search both vit and str, see which has a higher stat cheaper
When you hit level 20 buy:
Chest with 2 sockets, vit/str
Pants with socket, vit/str
Fill your sockets with vit/str gems
Example items from AH for a level 20:
Helm - With flawless square ruby, 10 exp (2100G)
Chest - 2 socket, 18 vit (5000G)
Pants - socket, 27 vit (2100G)
Weapon - 27 DPS, socket, 11 experience (5000G)
4x flawless square ruby (6180G)
Total - ~20,400G
-Note that rings and amulets can have sockets at low levels as well
-I can't stress enough how important it is to have experience on your items to get to inferno fast, this is a necessity, a lot of items you pick up will have experience on them, put them on, even if it has dex or int or pickup radius. The chest/pants/weapon will carry you very well till later levels. At later levels you may need to look into items on the AH for more mainstat/vit as well as experience if you can get it.
-Keep in mind we will be buying very expensive items at level 45-50, so don't spend outrageous amounts.
Step by step:
-For the first few quests pick up blue items, fill your slots, then only pick up yellows.
-Only kill mobs that are in your way, and elite packs that aren't far out of your way. We want to complete each act in under 1 hour except act 1 normal and possibly act 2 normal.
-Complete act 1 and 2, get rushed to act 4, if you can handle it jump to the spire and just own diablo.
-Skilled players with decent gear can start on nightmare at 25, otherwise you should be able to start at the latest 30
-When you enter nightmare, take this time to upgrade a piece of gear or two of your worst gear, also upgrade your weapon and if you can get more move speed on your boots, do so.
-Complete act 1 and 2 again but this time blaze through, shoot for under 1 hour each you should be around 35-40 by the end of that, upgrade your weapon and one or two pieces of your worst gear if you're having a hard time.
-At any point if you find yourself dying more than a few times you need to step back, upgrade a piece of gear or two, or consider changing out some passives.
-When you hit 45, and even a short while before you hit 45, start searching for items with -15 level requirement and ONE stat that is high, go for vit on chest and pants and str on belt and shoulders, this is the most cost effective way to do things. Get some all resist as well. 100 all resist will help immensly in hell. At this point getting +experience on your gear isn't so important, focus instead on high str, high vit, sockets, a bit of all resist, get crit chance on gloves, shield and amulet, get crit damage on rings and amulet. Use the passives superstition, ruthless, weapons master. When you buy your weapon get an axe or mace, you don't need a socket anymore as the reduced level requirment weapons will have outrageous DPS. If you get a socket cheap use a green gem. Don't cheap out on your weapon. You can get a killer weapon and less strength and do very well. Killing faster is (almost) the same as high damage mitigation. Maces will hit higher more often but are slower. Axes hit fast but can do less damage. You wont be able to afford all the reduced level requirement items you need at level 45. Don't sweat it, take some time, if you can't find a good deal on one slot, look for a different item slot, prices fluctuate. Buy what you can, return later, and keep in mind when you return later you wont need to get a -15 level requirment item, you may only need -12 or -10 which will increase the number of item choices exponetially.
http://www.thebuddyforum.com/demonb...reduced-level-requirement-you.html#post752297
This is a guide written by me to aid those searchign for items at around level 45
-I personally found doing the ramparts in act 3 beneficial to leveling fast, if you need to, go through the keep depths as well. Do this and then jump to the start of act 4, complete act 4 and you should be about 50
-Hell can be entered at level 50, you want to be at act 1 hell by 50
-Hell is a rehash of nightmare, again aim for under 1 hour on each act.
So in total, you complete:
Normal, act 1 and 2, as little of act 4 as possible (about 2.5-3 hours total)
Nightmare, act 1 and 2, ramparts in act 3, act 4 (about 3 hours)
Hell, act 1 and 2, ramparts in act 3, act 4 (about 3 hours)
That is 8.5-9 hours to 60.
This is the fastest possible way I have found of getting to 60. I didn't do this on my first try, I've been through several characters. I see this method reasonably turning out like this for someone reading and understanding it with only having done one character before:
Normal, act 1 (1.5hr) and 2 (1.5 hr), as little of act 4 (0.45hr) (3.45 hours total)
Nightmare, act 1 (1.5hr) and 2 (1.5hr), ramparts in act 3 (0.33hr), act 4 (0.45hr) (call it 4hr)
Hell, act 1 (1.5hr) and 2 (1.5 hr), ramparts in act 3 (0.33hr), act 4 (0.45hr) (call it 4 hr)
This totals about 12 hours and is in no way unreasonable.
Cheers! This is my small contribution to the demonbuddy forums for all the well written and well coded tutorials and guides.
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