Hota barb season 4 reddit lunging strike, HotA, Deathblow - Iron Skin & Rallying Cry - Any tips? Everyone, please remember Rule #4: No critiquing the game or other users on threads with the "Showoff" or the "Appreciation" Flair. I’m smashing everything including Uber bosses and UL. I am wondering while i wait on the Doombringer sword to drop (& The grandfather fingers-crossed) Are the Magnum Opus & Butcher's Cleaver @ Item LVL 925 viable options. Switched out to upheaval for a bit, but thr animation is way too slow and clunky. Maybe HOTA can now only take advantage of 1/2 of your total overpower bonus? Seems like a stretch. I've leveled two HOTA barbs to 100, one this season and one in eternal, so I can offer a little insight. Great build for those looking to get into barb and have a skill they can use 1-100 and have a good time Make sure to check out his video as he does explain everything well and without the video there's no planner (obviously). Do I kept going back to HotA cause it just hits like a truck, the animation is fast, and its pretty smooth sailing. " is better to use than "Your shout skills generate 4 Fury per second while active. ADMIN MOD Season 1 “Ethical” HOTA Barb I will say, however, that the hota pit mat farm is hands down the best all around build this season bar-none, and only recently challenged by the newly buffed WWBleed build, and I generally recommend the average player to stick with the hota pit mat farm build until they get the gear, money, and reroll materials to take the next step. It was kinda fun, but I missed the range of CL. + 4 to warcry and hota should net more dps than the helms chance on hit boost. I haven’t tried double swing without barber thou. Movement speed is actually good now with double rolls+Ghostwalker aspect. The starting board is best used with a dex glyph. Level 89 WW barb here. ) I have 2h sword on leap and mortal draw glyph to get as much crit chance as possible (leap then swap to hota 2h mace slam). I havent pushed hard yet, planning to do that in next couple days. I’m looking for ways to rework gear to get more armor baseline and cut using disobedience if I can. WW is really really really shit to play untill you get some aspects, cooldown reduction, resource reduction and the unique chest item. I'm guessing it's the gain 40 but I just want to be sure. On rogue you can play any spender you want and succeed. Went straight to dopamine tunnels in tier 3 at level 41 and grinded to 45, and since been doing world stuff and a couple of the new trap dungeons. Upheaval, rupture, two shouts, stomp. Videos included for gameplay examples. level 100. Basic skills generally being more useful. so I'm quite the ARPG noob, played some D3 with a random Sorc build for the story and then a WW Barb during the season where everyone played WW because of the gifted set, some might remember. I'm level 100 hota barb and would like to know if "Gain 40 of your primary resource for every 25% you heal. If you have a shako and grandfather, then you can hit the billions if you follow robs build. I have found a couple of builds utilizing basic skills a lot but for 95%+ of builds, they aren't used much later on/only for effects/builders. Hota is also nice as the aspect of ancestral force is available in the codex (although we may have the new upheaval aspect there from the season journey too). use the overpower hota to get +30% dmg for the next 5 seconds. Speed and damage wise. This season is the first time I play barb 47 votes, 31 comments. You can’t make upheval do as much damage as HOTA even if you tried. BUT i have max roll on the possible fury cost reduction, max roll on leg aspect of fury generation (like the one that gives fury when a shout is active Roll from 2 to 4, only 4 Works. Hey all, I was wondering what builds people recommend for rogue this season for someone who enjoyed playing HOTA barbarian. Ran barbarino S1 and S2. Andariel life stel take care of toping up health bar :) I am only on 15,1k HP due not focusing much on +% HP paragon nodes but with above listed setup it is enough for all content. Use your Ultimate (often) to generate resources and buff yourself 3. They are both pretty easy to play, ww has an easier time dodging since you are always moving, but hota clears the screen pretty fast. You can definitely still kill bosses and clear high content. I’ve recently hit 50 and starting the paragon journey. So try HOTA and make sure to stack Vuln dmg Welcome to the un official Diablo 4 subreddit! The place to discuss news, streams, drops, builds and all things Diablo 4. Hota gets a lot better as you fill in the paragon board and get well rolled items, I ran Hota all the way to level 100 and I don’t see how any build feel better. For more Barbarian Class Guides, Builds, Discussions, Questions, etc, click on the "Barbarian" Flair, this Link (for new reddit), or this Link (old reddit) (where you'll find a list of all threads on the subreddit that have the "Barbarian" Flair) and the D4 Barbarian subreddit. For example, upheaval barb doesn't stand a chance IMO against HotA, WW, Bleed build, etc. 1,2,4 are less reliable because they are on timers. Can one shot bosses with it. Use War cry/Charge to start Berserking 2. gg/cwdTSPrb) there are some good guides, I know Crow specifically has HOTA leveling and progression guides that go from no uniques to some to all of the relevant ones. BL sorc is just such a fast class, whereas HotA is just slow. Barb's hota cost less (relatively) resource per hit, and barb has multiple rings to help generate fury. I’m noticing that the completed board is probably not what was used while leveling. As i really want to play Barb in Season 1 besides these HOTA or Whirlwind Builds, your build looks interesting. Expectant is still ×30%, greater than Edgemaster and you'll be swinging basics for Might DR likely. The damage they do doesn't bother me. I havent tried ww this season, but I do have a decent hota barb. Double swing is good once you got barber. It's way more playable as i mark 9-10 bodies around me. I transcribed Alk's HotA video guide into a planner for those that needed it. 3 hota smashed cost 210 fury but I’m getting back 63, so it really only cost 147 fury. this is the window of damage so chains for berserk/vuln then bash away, and refresh the hota buff as necessary. Excited to give him a Shako from my seasonal stash, and farm for a GFather with all of the mats i collected in season. Hello, I am new to barb and have a question about the “Hota Barb” endgame build on maxroll. 2 million crits to 600k-1. The damage calculation shows the main stat such as Strength is the standalone multiplier for weapon damage, but the HotA build completely ignores it and choose other additives instead. On threads that have the "D4 Appreciation" or the "Showoff | Gameplay | Item Tooltip | Transmog" Flair, critiquing the game, other users (e. (I realise there are other barb builds as well but those are the 2 I've dabbled in) I recently tried swapping to Wujido's double swing shoutless variant. Paragon Boards. The thing that took my build from op when shouts are up to op all the time was the Banished Lords Talisman. For example, I’m currently running a frenzy/double swing build. I use ancients charge and the one where they explode after dying to charge. Seriously pure whirlwind or hota barb is boring af but this build makes you switch between multiple core skills/weapons to increase damage and just feels way less repetitive. If you still want to go Barb even after warnings, my lvl 86 HOTA Barb is doing just fine, just have to conserve fury a bit more, and killtime is a bit slower overall and cant just run into packs No more with my head under my arm. Really like it but glacial is too rare to want to bother with the build. But for my taste UH was too slow even with AS or AS aspect. I played pulverize Druid in preseason and HotA Barb until level 40 or so in season and don’t really see how they’re similar. Yeah, it’s “the meta” but things go that way for a reason. 2h sword for hamstring for massive fury gain when you bleed. Had a decent ww barb s1, and hota is more destructive and faster imo. Post patch my barb is doing less damage but it still felt pretty good. Don't know what the health difference is for Ashava and Lilith but atleast it wasn't getting one shotted. Don't follow Rob's builds. Hey all, currently this season I’m level 82 on my barb after taking a break since S1. The silver-lining is this build doesn’t use fury so Melted Heart typically has a full secondary health pool when extra tanking is needed. If you want to play something fun, upheaval. For instance, a hota barb wouldn't benefit from the 2h slashing weapon or dual wield weapons when they use hota, but they could put ancestral charge on dw along with tempering that boost charge, and assign dw to charge. 4-6 basic attacks then 1 Hammer of the Ancients and everything Welcome to the un official Diablo 4 subreddit! The place to discuss news, streams, drops, builds and all things Diablo 4. Most of end game build in D3 didnt require generator. I’ve been thinking of trying a end game bleed build after the rupture and bleed buffs. But HOTA was so satisfying to play. Well not technically a one shot you need the 4 crits with the resource building ability first. I agree with others that the overall DPS feels close to Season 3 HOTA, without the giant one-shot crit potential. 0; May 6th 2024: Guide restructured, updated for season 4; April 16th 2024: Ownership of page transferred, build Revamped, paragon adjusted, unique items added; March 5th 2024: Updates for Patch 1. If stuff doesn't die in 3 seconds I'm in for a Slug fest Furor guarantees a crit at 30% increased damaged after spending 100 fury, which is 2 HotA’s. I leveled up a barb from scratch (no boost), leveled glyphs to 21/15 and tried lots of builds and new tech. edit: updated Monk build (area damage on weapons and shoulders) updated WW Barb (changed Strongarm Bracers to Lacuni and added Area Damage on offhand) added HoTA Barb to the list because people wanted to see the build added GR60 HoTA Barb video Havent played today to check things but I believe my LoD hota barb has done gr132 at paragon 1100 and its easy. for liking the game) or heated discussions are not allowed. You want to make sure you have max resources before using the last 2 hota's, and then use them back to back. Unfortunately barb is bottom tier in terms of dps. I am running a HOTA BARB current lvl 84, my first Barb run. I’ll be trying out ranged rogue next season or maybe give necromancer a try A subreddit dedicated to the Barbarian class for Diablo 4 the open-world action-RPG video game developed by Blizzard. I have played both pulverize druid and hota barb this season. Now that I have all the gear, glyphs and decently filled up paragon boards the build is insanely fun. Fun is purely subjective, of course, but personally I did find HotA to be the least fun build for barbarian. My evolution this season: chain lightning sorce, ball lightning, switched back to CL, blood surge necro, switched to lance, HotA barb. I enjoyed hota a lot while leveling but having to time hota with overpower in the endgame is not fun to me at all. Official subreddit of Asmongold (as seen on Netflix) aka ZackRawrr, an Austin, Texas based Twitch streamer, YouTube personality, and gaming organization owner and content creator of One True King (OTK), a group of mostly Austin, Texas based content creators and owner of Starforge Systems, selling prebuilt gaming PCs. The meta still revolves around 3 shouts, so very little build diversity. I build my paragon to the hota recommendations and do a bit of a mix for the talents and aspects. But truth is if you want bigger numbers, HOTA. But i play Lunging Strike so you can't temper HOTA range as you would sacrifice your bash temper for it. Here's some quick tips to help my fellow HotA barbarians out there: Some friends of mine recommended mobalytics over maxroll in general. There’s nothing like one shotting a world boss ๐Ÿ˜Š It's not a build that has impressive visuals either, if that's important for you. I prefer to play one button meta builds cause I'm unimaginative and lazy. I based my build off of maxroll, but you can build on your own if you focus your stats, paragon, and aspects on increasing damage and reducing cooldown and mana cost. i just want the best build for the barb because i wasn't that lucky with my other characters Edit: thanks guys for all the suggestions I think I'll stay with WW or switch to HotA A bit torn here, I typically use a rend build for leveling up new characters at the start of a fresh season. Barbs were already squishy before, and even more so now. Like many people during this season, I've learned that the best defense is a good offense - e. I wish they buffed upheval. Console Barb here so never had a chance to abuse the hell out of HoTA like some players did. Hota lucky chance is higher than UH but small damage. I wanted to shake things up a bit and try starting out with either a double swing barb or a kratos weapon master barb. 5. I built a HoTA barbarian primary at the end of season 2 and had a blast clearing Tier 100 NMDs with it. I did HotA from 1 to 100. I started season as firewall sorc, transitioned into BL sorc but it was so op I found it boring. I started playing as Twisting Blades rogue and got to about level 20 last night, but it’s not really clicking for me (yet). BL is also too broken for my taste, just not as satisfying for me. BUT the 1/3rd health waves are PURE RNG and there is a VERY HIGH chance you'll get the entire circle covered by waves and her body slam despite trying hard to bait them in the edge. HOTA carries hard. I briefly tried a WW build that I used on release, but HotA just performed better. Made a second sorc to do blizzard. I wanted to recreate that in D4, started as a WW Barb but quickly switched to the Icy-Veins HotA leveling build because my WW wasn't working out at all. Charge hota is great, I use it and I’m still hitting 300-400m+ hota. You'll definitely enjoy the more consistent dps boost and added defense. Hota quake marks enemies like 3-4 bodies around you. I’ve been looking at HotA builds and I’m finding basically the same build but with a few minor differences (rage regen abilities, etc). Almost everything works on rogue, that's the best part, when I play the other classes I feel too pigeon holed. For more Barbarian Class Guides, Builds, Discussions, Questions, etc, click on the "Barbarian" Flair, this Link (for new reddit), or this Link (old reddit). It also has constant vulnerable application plus the stun and knockdown hearts works well with it. first phase, I stand in the middle and just trigger as many balls as I can and she melts away. Most hota barb uses 3 shouts, and that greatly helps with resource issue. I've enjoyed Upheaval and Double Swing a lot more, and unless you're aiming to 1-shot Lilith, you don't really need HotA's numbers anyway. Iron maelstrom has a shortened cooldown to 45 seconds now plus another incentive to combo your skills together to shorten the cooldown by 1 sec each time you swap weapons. While the HotA is by far the stronger class in the end game in my opinion, I enjoyed the BL sorc more. Just rolled my very first barb. Charge Barb has strong potential to be good considering you can fit it into several other builds like Hota or Double Swing, and even Whirlwind. Once you do that, the next bash will be a guaranteed overpower power. For those saying "just hit her 2 or 3 times lol" they made a change where she always summons 4 blisters that start shooting the 1 shot fireballs throughout the rest of the fight. It's definitely more fun to play then undergeared HoTA but I do miss the dopamine hits that suddenly massive HoTA slams can provide (the doubleswing ability is pretty boring). A lot of people are overlooking resistances because the devs said it will be easy to cap but the numbers do not add up. Skill setup and Paragon kind of usual for Charge/HOTA Barb with focus on HOTA. I played flurry barrage rogue to 100 pre season, bone spear necro to 100 in season so far. Members Online L69 Barb loadout. A lot has changed it seems (Ubers, Duriel??). I also really enjoyed HOTA with PVP, the stuns and basically 2 shotting was ridiculous. Comparing the two builds, they look pretty similar, but I'm questioning mobalytics because their build appears to roll with Lunging Strike in the end game build. The second must have board that you should absolutely use, especially as a HotA barb, is Warbringer. double shout and ancients, bash 4x to get guaranteed overpower on next hota. My Barb is pretty yoked now and I'm looking to swap him over to HOTA. My hota barb is technically better, but honestly found upheaval more fun. For HOTA, you need to make sure your fury is full before you smash if you want to hit big funny numbers, so you want your 2H weapon aspects to build on that. Definitely worth nabbing a Hellhammer if you do try it. So depending on your Crit chance. A subreddit dedicated to the Barbarian class for Diablo 4 the open-world action-RPG video game developed by Blizzard. Then I made hota barb and it's like lol welp now this is actually the super op build that trivializes the game even more than ball lighting. I'm lv100 hota barb with just shako and pretty much all the desired stats, using robs paragon board guide. Yeh really really hard right now to keep up disobedience stacks on my HOTA barb. While it naturally has a very small area of effect, we solve this by using Tempered Hammer of the Ancients Size and the Aspect of Ancestral Force (which, conveniently, can always be imprinted Aug 15, 2024 ยท How to play 1. So 2 strikes usually kills a HOTA or at least shocks him hard enough to back off a bit New to Barb in any Diablo game this season and I'm only like a 26 or 27 so far so just wondering if I should stick with upheaval for leveling, or if I go HotA since it seems like it's bigger AoE Reply reply For more Barbarian Class Guides, Builds, Discussions, Questions, etc, click on the "Barbarian" Flair, this Link (for new reddit), or this Link (old reddit) (where you'll find a list of all threads on the subreddit that have the "Barbarian" Flair) and the D4 Barbarian subreddit. Something only known by hota players is the big flashy hits only happen 1 in every 5 or so hits. Prior to S2 many streamers/content creators thought TB Rogue would be meta but it turned out to be HotA Barb and BL Sorceress. My build contained around The Grandfather, Andariel's Visage, Temerity, Flickstep, Red Furor, and Starless Skies. I mean I switched over to a bleed barb for fun and I’m wrecking, can clear t100’s. Pulverize Druid. I have a lvl 100 eternal HoTA barb that had a shot at Uber Lilith and was generating enough damage to get her down to 1/4 health 1st phase in 2 minutes. I leveled up as a WW barb from the start and it was an absolute pain. But I simply do not see Blizzard finding a way to balance out that build without directly affecting how overpower works with HOTA. Welcome to the un official Diablo 4 subreddit! The place to discuss news, streams… Running druid this season and have about 26k, but every point of that past 15k I am definitely stuck with a hard trade off between life and damage outgoing. Banished Lord’s Talisman also guarantees an Overpower after 300 (4 HotA’s) AND ALSO makes your overpowers that crit deal 120% increased damage, which is massive. I saw a hota barb today at world boss with Harlequin Crest, Doombringer and Grandfather. BL sorcerer and HOTA barbarian - so I'm curious to see if there are folks using Soulbrand/Temerity now. I enjoyed my HotA Barbarian much more than my Werewolf Druid. With 185 max fury on my bard and hota costing 70 per cast, i can smash hota 3 times in a row in less than a single second with accelerating aspect proced because i get 21 fury back every time i hit a boss. Gr120s take 3-4 minutes in any layout, the good ones even less. Any barb builds that utilize these? All I see is HOTA this season. I did each capstone 10 levels under. Have a Andariels Visage and 925 max roll Razorplate drop on my BL sorc. Some of the pre-season builds were disgustingly powerful (nadowolf, whirlwind Barb, HOTA Barb, bone spear necro, pre nerf twisted blades), more so than most meta builds in season 2, yet I still managed to beat the wt4 capstone at level 61, with a completely non optimal build Otherwise agree with those for HotA, aoe 100% still strong and Limitless Rage is synergy with being at max fury constantly and overcapping. Lunge and hota, all else shout skills & wrath so not using the dual wield swords really besides the bonus they give. Aka , if you don’t have sufficient fury gen, it can be an issue. 4-2. And double swing barbs will kill just about any HoTA barb. I played a Stormclaw Druid, got it to 100, and then played a Hota Barb to 92. You're also the counter to the barb's greatest problem - rogues. But my survivability in high NMDs is iffy. 90 HOTA barb here. Attack power is 17655 armor is 12k life is 22k all resistances are at 70. In general, charge got a massive buff, both in terms of dmg and in spammability, so it will probably be very good for any leveling build. Hope this convinces a few people to give Barb a chance :) Cheers -Tichron --- Welcome to the un official Diablo 4 subreddit! The place to discuss news, streams, drops, builds and all things Diablo 4. 924K subscribers in the diablo4 community. I’m currently using Robs no generator build (tweaked with a iron skin helm since I don’t have shako and using the new unique ring and unrelenting fury instead of echoing fury) for a hota barb. so for season three I’m using a barbarian and I’m trying to go with the hammer of the ancients I’m level 31 and I’m only doing about 1400 damage I’m not the best at looking at stats I know that’s part of the game but where can I improve to get my attacks to be stronger? Is the thorns Barb any better than this strugglathon HOTA, which was the highest recommended leveling build for Barb? EDIT: I feel like a lot of people are zeroing in on the “followed a maxpro build”, the only reason I mention it was that “even” if I followed the “levelling guide” verbatim it felt clunky and unfun. He was still lvl93. I was using UHeavel till 70 ish. I just wandered in there for a grim favor, and a rogue 10 levels higher attacked me and my buddy, and I was scared to shit, then realized ohh man, stun stun stun, smash ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚. From character builds, skills to lore and theories, we have it all covered. Barb was the worst class in season 1, and now that their strongest asset was nerfed, it's up in the air as to whether or not barb will be viable. Hi, i'm 70 and i'm having fun with hota build, but i just get a nice 795 Ancients' Oath, i would like to use it in another build, but i don't know if it works fine with Walking Arsenal or something similar. The HOTA ape is big enough for him to prob thorns on each individual pack and they can’t be one shot. I’m sure it’ll be fine for season 1. I couldn’t deal with how slow HotA Barb was so I respecced to WW and at level 94 it’s fast AF, hits up to 4-5M and extremely tanky with the right affixes (+15K life) Welcome to the un official Diablo 4 subreddit! The place to discuss news, streams, drops, builds and all things Diablo 4. I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. I expected it Nov 23, 2024 ยท Welcome to the Diablo 4 Hammer of the Ancients Barbarian Endgame Build Guide! This is a fan-favorite skill that returns to the franchise for Barbarians. 1-25 is Upheaval/Death Blow, at 25 Repsec to HOTA/Death Blow into Walking Arsenal. Apr 9, 2024 ยท Played a lot of ptr. The aps on hem is sort of irrelevant to hota as it just speeds up the animation and almost everything will pop in 1 hit. It's on a ring if that makes any difference. In a conventional Hota build, you spam Hota as often as you can while using a fury generator such as Lunging Strike to get the fury you need. That said, I reckon the juice is worth the squeeze if you persist with it I have a tricked out HoTA barb and it’s a lot of fun, for me at least. second phase, she starts chipping away parts of the floor—just stand under her, spinning balls, then trigger flame shield I re-purposed my WW barb in eternal to the same build out as the overpowered HoTA barb in season 2 - minus the Season of Blood bonuses, of course - and he can easily 1-shot bosses - Duriel included. Use Rupture every 5 seconds to gain the 40% Attack speed (ATS2) boost 4. Currently level 60 using HotA but swapped out a few aspects for WW and ran with that, outside of shouts you can only whirlwind for like 2 seconds, with HotA I can at least build up some rage with lunging strike for a decent hit while shouts are on cool-down. The only way I’ve killed a HOTA barb as a thorn build was swapping my thorn gear off of my barb and putting it on my necro minions. It's honestly pretty simple. Barb can be kind of a grind until endgame, at least in my experience. I will say, with season 3, the loss of vampiric powers will definitely shake things up a bit. Does Duriel in one hit about half the time, which is kind of its bag; hota but a bit less efficient/reliable. Good sorcs can kite for days, if you want to disengage, no one can catch up. Maybe at some point I do HoTA barb on like season 5 after checking rest of the classes. Post-patch Barb feels the same, but worse. If you have a Shako that is ideal, but most don't. I play hota with leap with no basic attack and it works. Look out for the rolls you need on gear as you level (you probably want to shoot for 2/4 in terms of rolls you need on gear, then go 3/4, and finally 4/4 when you get to that point). For me there is no difference for playwise. Werewolf Druid feels a little undercooked to me, you can use Shred to chase enemies really well but it feels very lacking in mobility from what I expected, I also hate the lack of passive Spirit regen outside of battle, I typically just have to basic attack the last enemy so I don't Spent 2-3 weeks trying to optimize Barb leveling to World Tier 3. Hota barb, got the charge leggo and it turned into easy mode. It solves its aoe issues and gives it almost the same feeling of hota imho. There are other barb builds than WW and HOTA. So you’re just running around waiting for the cd to expire. Appreciate your effort and I'm going to watch your twitch leveling guide. On the webpage I noticed a slider for paragon that has a note reading “Level the Paragon Board by scrolling. I agree, the crest should be better intirely but hard to say. I’ve solo’d NMD 100s but i die more than I Good rogues will melt a barb in seconds Good druids are practically immortal, even if they can't kill barbs. Barbarian has the best self healing and sustain I've found with the right skills. Items are all pretty much 925 and with all stats, strength, overpower dmg, dmg while berserking. First, your weapon aspects are reversed. You get the HOTA aspect. 6 milliom crits. I couldn't decide between thorns or Kratos Barb, but now i will start with your thorns version. May 29, 2023 ยท October 3rd 2024: Guide updated for Season 6 and Vessel of Hatred; August 2nd 2024: Guide updated for season 5 and patch 1. I rolled barb this season and frenzy thorns with the chains pull ability and for me it’s the most fun barb build. HoTA is the only barb build I know to manage tier 100 ND but I'll stick to WW for now. If you go to the barb channels on the Sanctuary discord (https://discord. DR is key, you need enough damage reduction to reduce to a point where fury regen outpaces damage. Cons id say i wouldnt use it without the season 1 hearts or basically in eternal. My take after messing around with all 3 so far, all between 25-30 playing solo. The add phases in phase 1 actually do feel much smoother as whirlwind than HotA, but the DPS during the non-add phases just feels so terrible because the damage windows you get are so short - where hota can fire off 10m+ hits during these short windows, whirlwind barely has time to set up a good snapshot let alone spend a significant time Previously, she'd just start destroying the platforms if you burst her down quickly enough and you could finish her at your leisure. Personally I’ll be running a Whirlwind Charge variant early on for helltide farming then swap to double swing or Hota build for duriel farming. is best for Hota Barb - 2 Handed Mace . It also helps having a legendary helm so you can apply both Might and Disobedience aspects. It was fun in Season 1, and even more fun this season. With hota you can still overpower crit in the milions, meanwhile, with ds i went from 1. Members Online Unbuffed intown (My life b like) Official subreddit of Asmongold (as seen on Netflix) aka ZackRawrr, an Austin, Texas based Twitch streamer, YouTube personality, and gaming organization owner and content creator of One True King (OTK), a group of mostly Austin, Texas based content creators and owner of Starforge Systems, selling prebuilt gaming PCs. Is insanely strong, the only problem of using it with any build other than hota is that you lose quite a bit of damage. That'll queue up your red ring of furor, which makes your next hit a guaranteed crit. You would notice that they run out of juice at the 7th to 8th second of the fight and start running away and you just use Shadow Step on them to finish them off since they I ran both HotA and BL sorc this season. Overpower damage is 2031% Not maxed but still powerfull. Is there currently any barb builds that can do as much damage as the season 3 Hota build? Welcome to the un official Diablo 4 subreddit! The place to discuss news, streams, drops, builds and all things Diablo 4. 3. I played a Barb in the pre-season, and I tried a whirlwind build up to ~lvl 45. There is almost no difference in skill tree and paragon board. I use maxroll pulverize druid season 2 build. HOTA seems to be more beneficial to my clear speed for now, I'm still struggling with barb as is. I only played BL for about 10 levels ~85-95. I've killed her this season as hota. Never played the class before. Druid only has 1 ring that helps with resource regen, and it's not even that great. Having to dash around to make the blades work feels strange for lack of a better word. HOTA was probably the biggest surprise. I preferred the double swing version but WW is spinning and winning. Tried both whirlwind, double swing and both. I’ve swapped to a charge/rend/rupture focused build and it has been so enjoyable in comparison that I may take it the whole way to 100 or at the very least WT4 before I change it up again if I even Welcome to the un official Diablo 4 subreddit! The place to discuss news, streams, drops, builds and all things Diablo 4. Blowing up a whole screen never gets old. I don't enjoy playing with the 3 shout meta, and most of the recomended builds are slow to come online. They were both strong but the Hota Barb is OP. So I pretty much only played hota barb during the pre season leading up to season 1, but after the mega nerfs decided to give the ole druid a try, man its night and day bigger aoe a shockwave that travels outward leaves quakes and just feels beefy to use, hope they give barbs some love in this new patch. I more or less played the meta charge/hota build except I swapped charge for leap. Now, the BL sorc will cause endless lag with World Bosses, which scared me quite a few times (playing HC) if there are more than a couple of Welcome to the un official Diablo 4 subreddit! The place to discuss news, streams, drops, builds and all things Diablo 4. Check robs videos differ both skills. In WW Hota, you are using WW before every Hota and initially, you would probably thin Since the HOTA barb shouts only last 6-7 seconds and Escape Artist lasts for 10 seconds, the difference in the 3 seconds is what makes this a direct counter to HOTA barbs. Welcome to the un official Diablo 4 subreddit! The place to discuss news, streams, drops, builds and all things Diablo 4. I went pure damage and got all of the passive damage nodes. This means sacrificing Tibaults for 4 damage reduction rolls on pants, and 4 rolls on armor. I was checking Maxroll for Barb builds and I noticed the priority of weapon stats is different for WW and HotA. It's the generic Welcome to the un official Diablo 4 subreddit! The place to discuss news, streams, drops, builds and all things Diablo 4. I just picked up Diablo 4 a week ago, been playing Barbarian, Druid, and Rogue on a world tier 2. I don't use Shako. g. New players often have misconception about Seasons in Diablo 4, because in ARPG's like Diablo, Seasons work differently than in other games or genres, so please also familiarize yourself with the threads below, if you have questions or complaints about Seasons in Diablo 4! I don't know if it's necessarily only because there's more stuff that is OP, the game just seems easier generally speaking. Nobody knows what the meta will be in season 3 at the moment because they have not released the patch notes with nerf/buff to classes. I started to struggle, so I explored the meta answers and didn't like what I found. Very fun to play and very smooth leveling experience. Now it's no longer the case, so you need some mad dodging skills to successfully kill her and get the 100% season completion. Barb has to play all shouts, sorc has to play 3-4 defensives, necro's only unstoppable is blood mist, druid is really shit until you get uniques / drop the right legendaries. I'm really struggling with vulnerable uptime on the barb, I'm basically relying on exploit glyph. Most noticeable are the nerfs to armor and resistance. Any thoughts on this? What would you consider to be the most effective barb leveling build you have come across? Get Furious impulse asap. It gets bonus points for being resistant against mobs moving (aka charge barb resistance). Solo'd the capstone dungeon at level 40 with only gear from drops and no gems, had two deaths, one on floor 1, and one on the last boss. 6 fury every time you switch a weapon is great + this is affected by your fury gain, so the HotA enhancement and Rallyign cry increase this effect. At the end of the day a barb has got to get in the pile and brawl so they can be damage kings with no crying from me. Hota normal can hit in the millions when going all in on OP, crit chance and damage. I tempered HOTA range to all my 4 weapons adding almost 120% HOTA range which applies to the quake itself. Before this season I had a barrier build. I was a bit concerned about the much talked about nerf to HoTA barb that was coming in S3. Can't be asked to farm the aspects and gear all over But it would still open up more options for barb or rogue if they use their secondary weapons for other skills. My barb is on eternal though so I won’t be running AoZ on him though. This is evidenced by min maxed vids of Uber lilith with every class. Because I've now seen several sources that arrange it in different tier lists and I haven't found anything on youtube what to play as a barb this season. I had a Shako and other uniques from my Druid so that was very helpful though. This season is my first “real” attempt at barb on D4 but I started at hota and hated how boring it was despite enjoying barbarian otherwise. Tonger banished online you need to spend 300 resources, that's 5 hota's (for me). Most of my gear has 2 or 3 affixes that maxroll recommends but none are 4/4 or even 3/4. With above survivability is very high, I very rare use heling potions. Also if you mis-time it, you could have your basic attack eat the overpower charge from 1,2, and 4 Welcome to the un official Diablo 4 subreddit! The place to discuss news, streams, drops, builds and all things Diablo 4. Dust devils is obviously very strong and good for casuals and consolers (super game ๐ŸŽฎ friendly. I have switched from bleed build to Hammer of the Ancients, and holy shit the complete deletion of anything and everything. It does seem, at first, counterintuitive which is why it took a while for the players to discover this build. 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