@@tyler71989 It sure is! About 3 tiers stronger than Frenzy, Rend, or HotA, and pretty much tied with Trag'Oul Nova Necro for second strongest build in the game (Tal Rasha Meteor is #1, of course).
@@Rage-rd3vx Probably because it looks squishy as fuck. Right now my shit geared wiz with zero augments has 1.3 TRILLION toughness and here you die fairly often and get extremely low on hp. Yes, you die as you can see from the cheat death.
This is the setup I'm using: maxroll.gg/d3/d3planner/193425356 I also have a (quite thorough) written guide to the build, here: us.forums.blizzard.com/en/d3/t/guide-raekor-ancient-spear/50370
@@Rage-rd3vx Thank you, got up to 110 gr so far, been playing for 11 years. Was on PC for the most part, but recently switched to try it on on the series S. Didn't think pushing on console was viable due to no numlock strats but its still very fun. This is my second favorite build ever, first being the Wizards exploding blast with ingeom in the cube. Set explosive blast with numlock, then have moving on scroll wheel and it was a Lotta fun back then. Sounded like the fourth of july
@@dustofhell You're talking about the 200 extra Fury from using Weapon Throw, right? You want to know how you get it? You don't. Let me explain, because it's kind of complicated and a bit counter-intuitive. There are basically two factors in why it's just not worth it to use Weapon Throw for extra Fury when you're fighting big packs of mobs. The first is your overall attack rate, and the second is Battle Rage: Bloodshed. First, your attack rate. If you just Charge, ideally as short a distance as possible, and then use Boulder Toss, you can produce a 150 Fury Boulder more than 1x a second, maybe something like 1 every 0.7-0.8 seconds. But, if you want to get to the full 350, it takes a lot longer. First, you have to Charge once, to get your Fury to 150. Then you have to start hitting with Weapon Throw. But, the way Arreat's Law works is that it gives you 1 extra Fury for every yard between you and the mob you hit with Weapon Throw. So, if you're only 10 yards away, you get 10 extra Fury per hit. To get the full extra 50, you need to be 50 yards away. And, in a Greater Rift where you're pushing and there are tons of mobs everywhere, it's extremely difficult to keep those mobs 50 yards away from you, because they're always going to be running right at you. So, the best you're generally going to manage is probably something like 25-30 yards of distance. At 30 yards, you'll get the bonus 30 from Arreat's, plus the base 9 from Balanced Weapon, so 39 per hit. And to pick up 200 extra Fury that way, it'll then take you 5-6 hits. Weapon Throw attacks quite fast, about once every 12 Frames, or 5x/second, but that still means it'll take a full extra second or more to get from 150 to 350. At that point, you're finally ready to throw your Boulder, but that brings us to the other part of this answer, which is about Battle Rage: Bloodshed. When you're fighting in density, most of our damage doesn't come from direct hits with Boulders, it comes from Bloodshed. That's because of the way Bloodshed calculates its damage, as well as the mechanics of the wave of Boulders. Let's say that each Boulder you hit with does 1x damage. Raekor 6-piece makes your initial Boulder spawn 10 more Boulders that shoot out in a sort of cone shape. That's 11 Boulders total, and if they were all to hit a single target, you'd do 11x damage. But, you really can't get them all to hit a single target, they spread out all over the place. The most you can probably have hitting one mob under normal circumstances is maybe 3, while the other Boulders hit other mobs further away. So a couple mobs near you might get hit by 3 Boulders and take 3x damage, a few more, a little further away, might get hit by 2 Boulders and take 2x damage, and mobs still further away will just get hit by one Boulder and take 1x damage. Battle Rage: Bloodshed deals damage equal to 20% of your Critical Hits, and is also discounted by the Proc Coefficient of the damage dealing skill, which for Boulder Toss is 47.1%. And, with this build, about 90-93% of our total damage comes from Critical Hits, with the remaining 7-10% coming from regular, non-Crits. That means the equation for the damage dealt by Bloodshed is: 1x (damage of 1 Boulder) * 0.2 (Bloodshed %) * 0.9 (% of damage coming from Crits) * 0.471 (Proc Coefficient) * X (number of hits on targets). For just one target hit, that's 1 * 0.2 * 0.9 * 0.471 * 3 = .25, or .25x extra damage. So that mob you threw your Boulder at takes 3x from being hit by 3 Boulders, and .25x from Bloodshed, for 3.25x total. Here, Bloodshed is only doing 0.25/3.25 = 7.7% of the total damage to that mob. But, in a good rift, you can be hitting A LOT more than 1 target with your Boulder Wave. For instance, look at the fight I have starting around 8:40 in this video. Here, I'm probably hitting 50+ mobs with each Boulder wave, and some of those mobs are getting hit by more than one Boulder, so the total number of hits is probably ~75. So at 75 hits, that equation becomes 1x * 0.2 * 0.9 * 0.471 * 75 = 6.4x Instead of doing just a little bit of extra damage here, Bloodshed is doing 6.4x, compared to the 3x a mob is taking from being hit by 3 Boulders. So the total damage to that mob is 6.4 + 3 = 9.4x, and Bloodshed is dealing 6.4/9.4 = 68% of the total damage, more than two thirds. And, it also deals that much
I really appreciate the video. I was wondering how clunky this build would be. The answer is very.
I wouldn't describe the build as clunky. What do you mean?
It’s literally a top leaderboard build for Barb lol
@@tyler71989 It sure is! About 3 tiers stronger than Frenzy, Rend, or HotA, and pretty much tied with Trag'Oul Nova Necro for second strongest build in the game (Tal Rasha Meteor is #1, of course).
@@Rage-rd3vx yeah I’m working on my build right now. I have 2 of the set pieces
Good job! Nice to meet you!
Nice clear! :)
I was thinking about making this build this season. But I'll have to take a hard pass after watching this video.
Hmm, why’s that?
honestly, my exact thoughts lol
@@Rage-rd3vx Probably because it looks squishy as fuck. Right now my shit geared wiz with zero augments has 1.3 TRILLION toughness and here you die fairly often and get extremely low on hp. Yes, you die as you can see from the cheat death.
@@lespretend Low HP is more DPS by the Way
@@patrick6302 Haven't touched barb in years and looked and yea I see the buff but still, it fluctuates way too hard
Thanks for sharing.
Good job man, any build link?
This is the setup I'm using: maxroll.gg/d3/d3planner/193425356
I also have a (quite thorough) written guide to the build, here: us.forums.blizzard.com/en/d3/t/guide-raekor-ancient-spear/50370
@@Rage-rd3vx Thank you, got up to 110 gr so far, been playing for 11 years. Was on PC for the most part, but recently switched to try it on on the series S. Didn't think pushing on console was viable due to no numlock strats but its still very fun. This is my second favorite build ever, first being the Wizards exploding blast with ingeom in the cube. Set explosive blast with numlock, then have moving on scroll wheel and it was a Lotta fun back then. Sounded like the fourth of july
@@Rage-rd3vx Without Zeis legendary gem, how are uou stunning them to proc Ancient Parthan Defenders
Parthans also works with Freeze, which is procced by the Cold Rush rune of Charge.
do you never use the weapon throw to charge up against trash mobs
Nope. It's less net damage than just Charging and Tossing as fast as you can.
@@Rage-rd3vx but how u get the 150 more main ressource? for more dmg? i thought u have to throw for more fury??
@@dustofhell thats for the boss.
@@dustofhell You're talking about the 200 extra Fury from using Weapon Throw, right? You want to know how you get it?
You don't.
Let me explain, because it's kind of complicated and a bit counter-intuitive.
There are basically two factors in why it's just not worth it to use Weapon Throw for extra Fury when you're fighting big packs of mobs. The first is your overall attack rate, and the second is Battle Rage: Bloodshed.
First, your attack rate. If you just Charge, ideally as short a distance as possible, and then use Boulder Toss, you can produce a 150 Fury Boulder more than 1x a second, maybe something like 1 every 0.7-0.8 seconds. But, if you want to get to the full 350, it takes a lot longer. First, you have to Charge once, to get your Fury to 150. Then you have to start hitting with Weapon Throw.
But, the way Arreat's Law works is that it gives you 1 extra Fury for every yard between you and the mob you hit with Weapon Throw. So, if you're only 10 yards away, you get 10 extra Fury per hit. To get the full extra 50, you need to be 50 yards away. And, in a Greater Rift where you're pushing and there are tons of mobs everywhere, it's extremely difficult to keep those mobs 50 yards away from you, because they're always going to be running right at you. So, the best you're generally going to manage is probably something like 25-30 yards of distance. At 30 yards, you'll get the bonus 30 from Arreat's, plus the base 9 from Balanced Weapon, so 39 per hit. And to pick up 200 extra Fury that way, it'll then take you 5-6 hits. Weapon Throw attacks quite fast, about once every 12 Frames, or 5x/second, but that still means it'll take a full extra second or more to get from 150 to 350.
At that point, you're finally ready to throw your Boulder, but that brings us to the other part of this answer, which is about Battle Rage: Bloodshed.
When you're fighting in density, most of our damage doesn't come from direct hits with Boulders, it comes from Bloodshed. That's because of the way Bloodshed calculates its damage, as well as the mechanics of the wave of Boulders. Let's say that each Boulder you hit with does 1x damage. Raekor 6-piece makes your initial Boulder spawn 10 more Boulders that shoot out in a sort of cone shape. That's 11 Boulders total, and if they were all to hit a single target, you'd do 11x damage. But, you really can't get them all to hit a single target, they spread out all over the place. The most you can probably have hitting one mob under normal circumstances is maybe 3, while the other Boulders hit other mobs further away. So a couple mobs near you might get hit by 3 Boulders and take 3x damage, a few more, a little further away, might get hit by 2 Boulders and take 2x damage, and mobs still further away will just get hit by one Boulder and take 1x damage.
Battle Rage: Bloodshed deals damage equal to 20% of your Critical Hits, and is also discounted by the Proc Coefficient of the damage dealing skill, which for Boulder Toss is 47.1%. And, with this build, about 90-93% of our total damage comes from Critical Hits, with the remaining 7-10% coming from regular, non-Crits. That means the equation for the damage dealt by Bloodshed is:
1x (damage of 1 Boulder) * 0.2 (Bloodshed %) * 0.9 (% of damage coming from Crits) * 0.471 (Proc Coefficient) * X (number of hits on targets).
For just one target hit, that's 1 * 0.2 * 0.9 * 0.471 * 3 = .25, or .25x extra damage. So that mob you threw your Boulder at takes 3x from being hit by 3 Boulders, and .25x from Bloodshed, for 3.25x total. Here, Bloodshed is only doing 0.25/3.25 = 7.7% of the total damage to that mob.
But, in a good rift, you can be hitting A LOT more than 1 target with your Boulder Wave. For instance, look at the fight I have starting around 8:40 in this video. Here, I'm probably hitting 50+ mobs with each Boulder wave, and some of those mobs are getting hit by more than one Boulder, so the total number of hits is probably ~75.
So at 75 hits, that equation becomes 1x * 0.2 * 0.9 * 0.471 * 75 = 6.4x
Instead of doing just a little bit of extra damage here, Bloodshed is doing 6.4x, compared to the 3x a mob is taking from being hit by 3 Boulders. So the total damage to that mob is 6.4 + 3 = 9.4x, and Bloodshed is dealing 6.4/9.4 = 68% of the total damage, more than two thirds. And, it also deals that much
@@Rage-rd3vx thanks for your explaining!!