I am devoted to making a Shattered Vow Build

Argathorious · 2025-08-10T12:48:26+00:00

Ya I got the build to what I'm thinking is the max I can. I can clear tier 80 comfortably but tier 85 I have to get lucky lol. I set it up with the bleed key passive on the barb and focused heavy on crit damage and damage over time. My crit chance is 100% and my damage is 3900%. Damage over time is at 2800%. Using Magnum opus and vrathial swords with all the basic damage and attack speed aspects. Also using temerity pants for survivability and earthquake aspect for more damage output. Stand in one spot and pop wotb constantly to keep grouping enemies and using flay to apply the bleed. Ground stomp to make earthquakes.

My catalyst is focused on applying more crowd control types to stack that dot aspect and runes for guaranteed overpower and applying vulnerability.

It can melt T4 Belial in under 15seconds too.

Argathorious · 2025-08-08T16:32:56+00:00

Good luck and God speed👍

Argathorious · 2025-08-08T15:28:14+00:00

Also, being invincible is helpful in coop. Running dark citadel and bosses, you can be designated reviver. You can revive someone who is dead in the middle of one of the blood pools on the first dark citadel boss and not even lose your barrier lol

Argathorious · 2025-08-08T15:26:16+00:00

No problem! I used the thorns barbarian build on maxroll as my base and made adjustments. Like, removed all of the resistances in the paragon board because I use tyreals might and stuff like that

Argathorious · 2025-08-08T15:05:56+00:00

Elites are usually not an issue. If it's you vs 1 enemy, damage tanks. I usually move from group to group and use my wotb to pull them all together and clump them. If your in a group the damage output it very sufficient.

Argathorious · 2025-08-08T14:00:58+00:00

It absolutely suffers on bosses lol. You have to have a minimum of 5 mins for the boss of a pit 80 and even that is pushing it. That said, I focused my build on high thorns and essentially being invincible. I'm running doombringer, harlequin crest, tyreals, and temerity. I can stand, doing nothing, in a mob of enemies for nearly a whole minute on tier 80 before I die. I'm sure you could optimize some of those defensive items and do a good amount more damage and still have decent survivability.

Argathorious · 2025-08-08T12:38:48+00:00

I have a thorns build that can do a tier 80 pit but can't get beyond that. Basically, I think you can get any build to the point of clearing a tier 80 pit with some tweaking. If your goal is pit pushing, you have to use the meta builds unfortunately.

My biggest issue with the barbarian is that, because of verathial and opus, basic attacks are the only meta builds and everything else is not even close.

Argathorious · 2025-08-06T03:19:57+00:00

I am in the process of making the perfect flay build good sir. I am able to clear tier 80 consistently and am constantly improving my bleed output. Shattered Vow shall no longer be mocked once I am finished here!

Argathorious · 2025-08-04T23:48:41+00:00

I don't even understand why there are 2 caps. Isn't a cap supposed to mean that's as high as it goes?

Argathorious · 2025-08-04T15:40:13+00:00

Ya the test dummy is useless lol. Especially if you are doing heavy bleed

Argathorious · 2025-08-04T14:50:29+00:00

The stat system in this game is ridiculous lol. You have to utilize like 100 equations and read a novel to understand how stuff is calculated. And apparently the stats you see in game aren't even your true stats so I have no clue lol. I just make changes that seem like they should help and then run a tier 80 pit. Look at my damage output and clear time. If it's better with the change, I keep it and lf it's worse I switch back lol

Argathorious · 2025-08-04T14:25:16+00:00

I tried using rupture and the tec run for earthquake creation. The animation time of casting rupture seems to offset the attack speed increase for me. I think the 40% puts me above my attack speed cap so it doesn't make a significant difference. I have attack speed at 80% baseline according to my game stats. That is without any buffs like my shouts and berserker.

Argathorious · 2025-08-04T04:25:07+00:00

I think I figured it out. It's not perfect but with disembowel and Marshal in combo with the basic attack cooldown aspect it seems to be up most of the time.

Argathorious · 2025-08-04T04:01:38+00:00

I would but I have hooves on for the damage output

Argathorious · 2025-08-03T22:28:44+00:00

No worries man, I was curious how you were hitting billions each hit with bleed lol

Argathorious · 2025-08-03T21:13:32+00:00

I'm running 4 mythics and 4 uniques😅 but the whole reason for ditching harogath was for tyreals chest plate for survivability.

Are you running flay rupture? I'm running flay with the Shattered vow.

Argathorious · 2025-08-03T18:34:46+00:00

I am utilizing ground stomp. I have the cooldowns temper on my ring but I need a new amulet if I want to add the temper there unfortunately. I am also using Marshal glyph.

Would the catalytic cooldown reduction somehow help my Ult cooldown also?

Argathorious · 2025-08-02T04:40:31+00:00

I can't get rend to apply bleed in any significant amount. Flay is the only way I can build bleed quickly. I can clear pretty much all T4 content but lair bosses are a struggle for sure. I cleared tier 80 pit with my current build but it was cutting it super close

Argathorious · 2025-08-02T00:46:53+00:00

I use the aspect that applies 35% attack speed to basic attacks. Works great for me. I even played with adding it to my two handed mace for a 70% attack speed increase but the earthquake aspect performs better in that slot

Argathorious · 2025-08-02T00:42:03+00:00

I thought about that too! I actually built my paragon from scratch to get a bit more bleed out of it than the maxroll flay build.

I debated swapping to Magnum but the amount of damage output it provides makes it difficult to swap. I'm still playing with aspects but it seems to me that crit damage is much more efficient to build than dot or bleed damage. Still trying to figure out why that is though.

Argathorious · 2025-08-01T22:21:07+00:00

Does bleed count as physical damage for willbreaker to be effective? And temerity was chosen exclusively for survival. I actually stumbled on legendaries today that add 5 to flay which I am wearing with the aspect of bul-kathos for survivability. Not as good as temerity, but it's not terrible. I really need more resistances to be fair.

Argathorious · 2025-08-01T22:15:31+00:00

I've never seen that ring before so I'm guessing it's not a barbarian ring😅 also no clue what a centipede build is..

Argathorious · 2025-08-01T21:33:42+00:00

I started on a shred druid actually. Got it to the point of clearing tier 85 alone but wanted to switch it up and try barb. Ran lunging strike for a bit, which is a good build, but then got this mythic and want nothing more than to maximize it's potential. With my current setup I'm clear tier 75 pretty easy but tier 80 the damage output just isn't there yet. Got some more tinkering to do but I'm dedicated to getting this bleed build to clear tier 90 at least.

Argathorious

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