you need a total overhaul on your equipments.

use scoundrel.

Use Animosity.

lifesteal breakseven with LOH around 80k dps. In which, after 80k DPS mark, lifesteal will be more efficient than LOH in terms of life per hit.

holy shit guys, seismic slam with rumble is f***ing OP.

your DPS too low to be sustained by lifesteal. in terms of HP, around 40k will do if you got around 700-800 AR though the more the better. and I notice your crit rate of 35% still too low. I'm on 49% and I still feel that I can go higher. If your crit rate low your crit dmg how high also useless. so i suggest you ditch some crit rate/dmg combo item for 2 reasons: 1) too expensive , 2) you wont survive to use that in a fight that last more than 2 minute. hence go more for crit chance/AR combo items first. like me, i also have to lower my items to accomodate for survivability. currently doing around 59k dps with 800 average AR and I still die to crowd controls. so no need shame in dropping dps one.

btw, paragon 15 now. chau hai hard to up like fark. full seige run till azmodan only like 1/3 bar.

the problem is crit rate/dmg combo affix is damn expensive. so what a budget fella like me and u can do is, push crit dmg on weapon only mandatorily. if other parts can find crit rate/dmg with other affix you need then it'll be bonus. once you get your base AR around 500/600+ then you can start to play a little more flexible. like put str more if you still dont have money, or if you got money, straight whack for crit rate/dmg and even more life on hit.

I would intepret it as 9% of the damage done by rend which is 700% over 5 seconds. that means it should be (0.09/700)x(damage) / 5 for damage per second life stolen. cmiiw.

eh, not 80% meh?

wah not easy build oh those items.

find a monk and barbarian with resist buffs. then life will be easier.

Alot of things wrong with your itemisation and your skills and passives.

Items you generally came up from Hell to Inferno, the difficulty curve increases exponentially and it happens when you go from Act 1 to Act 2 in Inferno as well. So you lack core stats to begin with and you still have a piece of blue with you. It shows that you're not properly geared for Inferno yet. Then moving on to your skills, you got Rend / Provocation / Ignore Pain as your defensive skills, and you got WoTB / Earthquake as your offensive skills. You got two of the longest cooldown skills for a Barbarian as your offensive skills and you got three self-healing mechanism. You took too much skill slots for too much unnecessary stuffs. I recommend if you're going for slice and dice build, just concentrate on one escape mechanism and one self healing mechanism ie; Provocation & Sprint. That should increase your survivability for starters. Then for your offensive skills, take Bash / Warcry / Battle Rage / Hammer of the Ancients(for a dependable fury burner). Your rend will not be able to offset the insane amount of damage that you receive due to your low DPS and your HP is too low for even for Act 1 I'd say. If you cannot progress through Act 2, then stay at Act 1 till you feel comfortable with your equipment to progress through it. No one finishes from Hell Act 4 till Inferno Act 4 in a day.

Build up your core stats then aim for life on hit. No point going for critical damage if you don't have that critical rate to go with it. If you want to go down the critical rate road, it's going to be quite expensive and not recommended for beginners. Also, the rule of thumb is to get more All Resists. It's quite cheap these days with the market going haywire for high end equipments. Grab a few equipments with more than 50 All Resist each with slightly lower core stats. Also, try get 3 slot chest armor preferably. Weapons try put slow weapon as main hand, and fast weapons as off-hand.

As for your passives, I recommend more survivability via Weapons Master / Nerves of Steel / Brawler or Ruthless interchangably depending on what situation you encounter. Since you're going for a slice and dice build, I recommend Brawler as they'll always be more than 3 hitting you where you need that extra boost of DPS and if there's less than 3, I don't think you need any extra help to finish them. Mobs, elites and champion packs always come in a gang of 3 or more unless it's a range douchebag mob that kites till the world ends.

gems if no money don't upgrade first. go for strength gems.

http://imgur.com/zXEvU

i got a similar belt ;3

Only main hand counts.

are you tank or a dps? and what's up with all the int items?

10 int = 1 AR. I think that's too inefficient to stack some AR. You would be better to with buying low core stat and medium high AR equipment. Your passives tells me you are a tank lol

Your Sprint-Run like the wind rune procs the damage of your MH using your OH attack speed. So basically, you'd want a slow MH(preferably a mace or axe) for the added 10% Critical Chance passive. On the other hand, the speed of weapons does not count in during your Whirlwind uptime. Hence, to optimize a dual Whirlwind build, it's recommended for a mace/axe MH and a dagger/sword OH to maximize your damage output for the Sprint-cyclone. CMIIW someone.

If you played WoW Warrior class before then you'll get a quick idea how the MH/OH damage works.


@ Laine, the only defensive passive you need is Nerves of Steel. If you're playing as a damage dealer go for Ruthless and Weapon Specialisation.

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Added on August 31, 2012, 5:43 pmoh ya laine, i got some entry level gears to sell. if you interested PM me la.

This post has been edited by Balaclava: Aug 31 2012, 05:45 PM

quoted off the link above. a much simpler explanation.

^ what he said. Your dagger is high end-game material. Unless you got extra cash to splash on the base critical damage along with other improvement in stat in another dagger you plan to buy(highly unlikely since your dagger should be quite rare to start with), invest more on your MH damage.