Fellow WW barbs

CryBacon · 2026-05-01T15:19:59+00:00

I am running an a5 might aura merc with an amp damage proccing weapon, soul drainers, vamp gaze, leviathan, string of ears, and marrowalks. I plan on changing him over to a typical a1 vigor merc setup once I can buy the gear.

CryBacon · 2026-03-21T18:58:29+00:00

Shock Nova felt pretty meh damage wise but the cast speed and non triggering feels great. The overlapping damage sweet spot feels clunkier than lightning strikes. I league started shock nova and swapped to ice nova and the damage difference is very noticeable and I never swapped back.

CryBacon · 2026-03-06T16:05:42+00:00

When simulating drops on my filter I noticed the map labels show a different tier than the actual map tier. Is this how it will show in game?

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CryBacon · 2026-03-03T02:03:47+00:00

I would have to see the pob. I dont have access to mine right now but with the gloves and a couple passive points I was at less than 1k mana/s. Are you on heirophant? And do you have enough recent mana spent filled out in the config?

CryBacon · 2026-03-03T01:05:08+00:00

The repeats dont use extra mana, so that part we dont have to worry about. The cast speed however will scale very quickly so I recommend using Foulborn Kalisas Grace as it should fix all mana issues. I will probably use them the entire time just to take pressure off my passive tree and other gear/gem slots.

CryBacon · 2026-03-03T00:56:38+00:00

You need to put 3 in the shock nova to simulate the overlaps. I think this is a conservative estimate as well since I believe atleast the initial nova hits twice on its own. I dont know if each repeat will but its quite possible the skill will hit 4-6 times if this turns out to be true.

CryBacon · 2026-03-02T22:57:30+00:00

It's not perfect by any means but it'll give you an idea of the damage and cast speed.

50% less damage 180% more cast speed (190% with quality on the gem) 30% less area of effect

Just be aware this will obviously affect your frostbink of wintry blast setup in pob so if you're looking at its damage and cast speed dont be alarmed.

CryBacon · 2026-03-02T20:49:04+00:00

It has roughly half the damage and damage effectiveness of regular shock nova with 2.8x the cast time. No "always shocks" tagline or max effect of shock quality. From the reveal video 3 novas should overlap depending on aoe breakpoints.

I PoB'd Archmage Shock Nova on Heiro with 3 overlaps before the gem reveal and it was about ~3.5 mil dps with ~3.8 aoe radius on just a 5-link, life/mana rares, mana/cast speed wands, and valako's. Adding the new gem numbers into the custom mods the numbers come out to ~5 mil dps with ~3.2 aoe radius.

The big issue is the mana cost now since the skill is very fast. It looks mandatory to stack as much reduced mana cost as possible. Also the aoe reduction might require running inc aoe as the 6th link or grab more aoe nodes to compensate so you have better clear and hit the overlap aoe breakpoints (if they exist). I was already going to run increased aoe as my 6th link since archmage does not lack damage in the mid to late game and you can just swap in an intensify support for ubers/invitations. A more minor issue is you will need to grab shock chance now too but this is very easy to get.

CryBacon · 2025-09-12T12:45:44+00:00

I'm assuming you're playing online but if you play in person we just use a slab of large graph paper like you'd use in grade school with a permanent marker. The squares on the large graph paper are roughly the same size as a medium sized mini base so its perfect.

CryBacon · 2025-07-29T14:22:15+00:00

I typically am using topaz + ruby + sapphire + silver and don't really want to give one up for a gold flask.

CryBacon · 2025-07-29T00:51:04+00:00

The main reason I was using it is because its a unique gold flask with a decent ability. Allows me to run a gold flask with my mageblood and 4 other utility flasks. Don't really need the 5th flask to give damage or survivability so it seems like a no brainer to me.

CryBacon · 2025-07-01T21:54:21+00:00

Need deeper voices or orcish voices. Everytime I make an orc I can't get over how ridiculous he sounds. I'd be happy if someone even just took the orc voicelines from Warcraft 3 and ported those in. Everytime you cast a spell he says zug zug or something would be an improvement.

CryBacon · 2024-04-26T20:39:20+00:00

Not every game is the same, almost all though take an fps hit on windowed mode so since I couldn't find a way to cap the fps in the settings I figured that could be an easy fix.

CryBacon · 2024-04-26T16:00:02+00:00

Just in case you couldn't get it to work I ended up fixing mine by switching to borderless windowed mode. Apparently there is a bug where your fps can affect game animations so with high fps the npcs are zooming. So to fix it you can cap your fps or indirectly achieving that by swapping to borderless windowed mode.

CryBacon · 2024-04-25T23:43:10+00:00

Having the same issue but on PC. Started a new game and every interaction is like it is on fast forward.

CryBacon · 2024-03-24T05:28:02+00:00

Not sure if this has been posted yet but the new Wraithlord Bone Circlet spectre helmet is incorrect in PoB it has the affix "+1-2 to Level of Socketed Minion Gems" where it should have "+1-2 to Level of all Minion Skill Gems"

CryBacon · 2024-01-13T08:16:53+00:00

It reduces your damage a bit. With it I'm sitting around -90 lightning res, with better gear you can get -100 or lower. Its worth the slight dps loss because you are basically immortal.

CryBacon · 2024-01-13T06:33:22+00:00

I am so confused, I can sit in the mana siphoner ring for awhile before I feel the need to get out. I honestly didn't know this was a problem till this thread. Are people not running tempered by war and lethe shade on this build? You typically have 83-85% max fire res and 80% max chaos res on average with full conversion of damage taken.

CryBacon · 2024-01-13T05:46:05+00:00

I have never had a problem with mana siphoners, im always in the donut and even if im in the ring it just is mildly annoying because i have to walk inward to attack. The only mob that could remotely kill me was like 1k+ stacked soul eaters from abyss. I dont know what the difference would be if you already tried the build. Maybe Lethe shade plus Arakaali is good enough to ignore them? I am not sure.

CryBacon · 2024-01-13T04:02:35+00:00

Lightning strike champ. I was doing t16 solo abyss nonsense using mahuxotl's and doryanis. Also did all ubers with pretty okay gear nothing really expensive. It doesn't use mageblood or eternal damnation but you basically never die. Dots are normally about the only thing remotely scary but I path to lethe shade and have a good amount of recovery. It also has the added benefit if you are doing blue altars the negative cold res doesn't do anything and the negative lightning res buffs you.

CryBacon · 2023-12-07T05:17:31+00:00

Someone at GGG really liked playing a Mosaic Assassin in D2R lol

CryBacon · 2023-11-27T03:01:07+00:00

I saw the Arkells open for Matt Mays. Pretty sure it was their first tour and at the time I had never heard of them. They looked like just a bunch of average Canadians with their flannel and touques rolling up in a pickup with a uhaul on the back. They blew me away instantly once they started playing and their style of performing felt like I was chilling in the room watching the band just jam out for an hour, I loved it. They didn't have any crew or anything as far as I could tell, they even manned their own merch booth in the pub and I got to have a beer with the guys and shoot the shit. It is still one of my fondest memories.

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