LVL 55 Barbarian reporting in. Weeeeeeeee!

-Don't think exp is shared though. You can always try and check the exp bar manually with and without the follower.

-Sword and board is needed for later levels. I feel that in Hell I need to swap to sword and board. The damage is insane. Belial is kinda tough. Maybe you are underleveled or using the wrong skills. Maybe you can post what skills you are using?

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Added on May 21, 2012, 10:06 amJust googled this lol.

How to Kill Diablo 3 Belial with Barbarian

The Barbarian, even though is a very stout and tough character class, is still subject to Belial’s ferociousness. Make sure to have an extra emphasis on survival/ vitality.

Make good use of healing skills for extra survivability. Skills such as Revenge, Nerves of Steel, Ignore pain with emphasis on vitality will help keep you alive.
Frenzy is an excellent single target attack for killing Belial.
Threatening Shout and Battle Cry are useful to use as well along with Inspiring Presence for extra heals.

This post has been edited by fiqqyz: May 21 2012, 10:06 AM

Cleave is your best bet for mobs. With the explosion, you can clear it in no time. So far I find bash is not a really good option. Frenzy is way better than bash. Always have Revenge with you and maybe add Ground Stomp.

As far for passive skills. It really depends whether you're not dishing enough damage or having issues surviving.

No problem I'm just guessing on the underlevel thing but I think you shouldnt be. I died to belial on my first run but I was lucky cause I was on a 2-man party and my friend managed to revive me. Call of ancients is not really that good IMO. I feel thats its better than Earthquake but not as good as Wrath of Berserker. 3 hits and you're dead? Better get the armor pumping passives and also check your equipments. Put in more vit gems if possible. Nukes are annoying. But most of them are stationary, you have to move around to avoid it. And pots cooldown are very annoying. Make sure you use them wisely and dire situations only.

Same as what gaeria84 posted. Except I put pounds of flesh and superstition

Active Skills

Frenzy + Triumph
Rend + Bloodlust
Warcry + Invigorate
Ignore Pain + Ignorance is Bliss
Revenge + Revenge is Mine
Wrath of the Berserker + Insanity

Passive Skills
Inspiring Presence
Superstition
Pounds of Flesh

I replied to the wrong post previously. I'm already in hell. Try out my build above and let me know. I'm still testing and trying to find a Final Build for Nephalem Valor.

Just started Act 2. Level 55. Stats, I will post later. Now at office.

Yeah man the elites are a pain the arse. But you have to kite them. Cannot just charge in and hope can tank all the damage. Skills are half the battle. You need alot of resistance items if you want to hold it off.

Can try this build: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/barb...;UbV!cabccZ

What to do man? Have to kite abit. Unless you get GODLY items.

I choose Ignore Pain cause it gives me time to actually heal and gain back health. 6 seconds of 65% dmg ignorance and 6 seconds of 20% lifesteal plus your other lifesteal skills helps alot and couple this with frenzy. Its not all about having high hp anymore. You need to be able to maintain it. But feel free to experiment. I'm sure there's more than one way to hold off the fat yellow blue elites.

So far I can only say that stun builds work only for Normal and Nightmare. Hell onwards I feel that the monsters/bosses are immune to stun or have enough resistance to mitigate the stun.

Well sometimes you just need to play smart. If the poision aoe is around or the arcane laser is there. You have to kite abit to avoid dying. Its not like hit abit run hit abit run.

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Added on May 21, 2012, 3:32 pmI have always died to the tree poison. In all 3 difficulties. Normal, Nightmare and Hell.

This post has been edited by fiqqyz: May 21 2012, 03:32 PM

Yeah it seems tough right now. I don't disagree. But the game can be rebalanced. Its not the end of the world. The game has only been out for 1 week. There will be a way to beat it, we just don't know it yet. Until then, deal with it. Nobody said Hell/Inferno is gonna be easy, it isnt easy for the range either. Vortex the range and they're dead?

Agreed.

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Added on May 21, 2012, 3:57 pmIf thats the case. They should just make 1 character than can do it all. Would it be better then?

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Added on May 21, 2012, 4:07 pmAre you in Inferno difficutly? Yes of course its much easier. You don't have to think so much. You just kite and dps. Barbs need to find a balance between str and vit. Cant just have all hp and no dmg or vice versa. It seems harder because most barbs (including myself) cant find the right build. Each character has to be played differently.



This post has been edited by fiqqyz: May 21 2012, 04:07 PM

Blizzard already said you can solo the game. Don't let one death in the game stop you. You died and then don't just give up. Change up your skills. Get better items or get different items. Find another tactic. I literally changed my tactic so many times throughout Nightmare and Inferno. I will accept your statement once you have exhausted all the possible ways to adjust your character. Go Google or YouTube barbarians who are actually surviving inferno.