Furious Charge Barbarian

[Outrageful 0]

Okay, for everyone who wants to push 70+ with this build , pay some attention !

I started playing D3 since season 3 only on seasonal Hardcore (due to friends threatening me with names like "Filthy Casual " ), I noticed for those 3 seasons so far, that good survival stats  > Tons of Damage. The main idea to play Raekkor+ IK on 70+ GR (specially Hardcore ) is some sort of % mitigation , which doesn't come from one source and for one purpose only. Therefor both ring slots are replaced with something else.
We have Band of Might (50-60% dmg reduction during leap/charge /etc ) and Unity (for solo GR pushing ) which gives 50% reduction 24/7 and also some good bonuses like Elite % dmg increase. Paired with Ancient parthan defenders (mainly for large groups of monsters where you stun 20-30-40-50 + units ) the % dmg reduction is quite the deal. On top of the fact that YOU MUST have life per fury spent out of your belt, suddenly you are not a paper anymore. If you decide to go a Defensive necklace and not Hellfire (like Etlich, Mara. Kameo or etc ) you won't be 1-2 shotted by any means. 
Focus and Restraint are nice and dandy but only with your  Call of the Ancients and Parthan Defenders in GR solo pushing is just aids.

Edited May 11, 2016 by Outrageful

[romilly 0]

Hi Deadset!

 

Question - is F&R far superior to EW?

 

I've only found a Restraint (no Focus) so far, but I've found that my averagely rolled Endless Walk set combined with a SOJ seem to work just fine -- the DPS multiplier loss isn't much worse (2x vs 2.25 damage) - d3planner sims actually suggests it might be better without immaculate timing of the fury gen/dump every 5 secs. Also the 50% mitigation while moving is awesome -- you don't have to use up valuable charge CDs to avoid splash damage as you run). I've made it to grift 62 without any effort so far.

 

The only draw back is having to be stationery to get the full 100%, I haven't quite worked out the interplay between charge and movement/stationery. Any thoughts? Should I see better outcomes with F&R in place? 

 

Cheers,

  W

 

Here's the simulator: http://www.d3planner.com/243016431

Edited May 18, 2016 by romilly

[Guest Jamial]

I'm a bit puzzled why the top barbs are running lightning damage on neck and wrists? I thought boulder toss + FC are both physical? 

What am I missing?

[romilly 0]

Perhaps its a holdover from their speed run set ups? 

[Deadset 108]

On 5/18/2016 at 9:30 PM, romilly said:

The only draw back is having to be stationery to get the full 100%, I haven't quite worked out the interplay between charge and movement/stationery. Any thoughts? Should I see better outcomes with F&R in place? 

Hello! You will doubtlessly get the defensive benefits of the Endless Walk set, but I don't see a feasible way to get the offensive bonus, the build just doesn't play like that. It moves around to deal its damage.

On 5/19/2016 at 0:03 AM, Guest Jamial said:

I'm a bit puzzled why the top barbs are running lightning damage on neck and wrists? I thought boulder toss + FC are both physical? 

What am I missing?

Some of the top barbs are indeed using the old setup: 6 IK 4 Raekor with the cubed Standoff + Vile Ward, and focus on Furious Charge damage (only using Boulder Toss for cooldown resets). In a setup that uses Furious Charge for its main damage, you can use any FC rune and element you like (fire, lightning, physical...)

[Guest Oneknight1984]

I don't have all pieces recommended either primary or secondary pick but I have the full Raekor set with the Focus ring. This build should still be ok to start using right?

[Damien 1,514]

5 minutes ago, Guest Oneknight1984 said:

I don't have all pieces recommended either primary or secondary pick but I have the full Raekor set with the Focus ring. This build should still be ok to start using right?

If you have the full Raekor set, you can start using this build to get the remaining pieces you need. Immortal Kings and most of the other pieces are just DPS boosts.

[Guest Oneknight1984]

Ok cool, thnx. And right now I'm dw, that should be ok until i get something better like a 2h weapon or something i would think. but thnx for the info

[Guest Ace]

Hi, I'm old new to Diablo III (last played when expansion came out) and this is my first season. I'm also relatively new to builds havin' not gone into depth as much as I have before so my question may be noobish. Anyways, I don't understand why you need to burn out your Fury with Ancient Spears' Boulder Toss. Perhaps someone could enlighten me. Thank you.

[Warden 8]

9 hours ago, Guest Ace said:

Hi, I'm old new to Diablo III (last played when expansion came out) and this is my first season. I'm also relatively new to builds havin' not gone into depth as much as I have before so my question may be noobish. Anyways, I don't understand why you need to burn out your Fury with Ancient Spears' Boulder Toss. Perhaps someone could enlighten me. Thank you.

No, that's a common question if you aren't used to the Immortal Kings set.  Look at the 4-piece set bonus on it.  It reduces your cooldowns as you spend fury.  By constantly dumping all your fury via boulder toss, you will reset the cooldown on Wrath of the Berserker so you can have it up 100% of the time.  Plus it is a good single-target nuke for use against elites and rift guardians.  Last of all--but this is very important--look at the bonus you get from the ring set, Focus and Restraint.  You need to cast both a fury generating attack (furious charge, in this case) and a fury-spending attack (boulder toss) to get the full damage bonus.  Granted, it could be any spending attack, including ones that don't cost all your fury.  But the first two things I listed depend on burning maximum fury to be effective (cooldown reduction and damage both increase with every point of fury spent), so the fact that boulder toss also procs Focus and Restraint is icing on the cake.

[Guest Ace]

18 hours ago, Warden said:

No, that's a common question if you aren't used to the Immortal Kings set.  Look at the 4-piece set bonus on it.  It reduces your cooldowns as you spend fury.  By constantly dumping all your fury via boulder toss, you will reset the cooldown on Wrath of the Berserker so you can have it up 100% of the time.  Plus it is a good single-target nuke for use against elites and rift guardians.  Last of all--but this is very important--look at the bonus you get from the ring set, Focus and Restraint.  You need to cast both a fury generating attack (furious charge, in this case) and a fury-spending attack (boulder toss) to get the full damage bonus.  Granted, it could be any spending attack, including ones that don't cost all your fury.  But the first two things I listed depend on burning maximum fury to be effective (cooldown reduction and damage both increase with every point of fury spent), so the fact that boulder toss also procs Focus and Restraint is icing on the cake.

WOW! I didn't expect an in-depth reply but it's definitely an insightful one. I appreciate you took the time to do it. I understand better how the build works now. Thank you very much.

[Guest TheEnd]

Come 2.4.2 this build will no longer be usable at all since the raekor barb depends solely on APDs to survive, which will be broken with the likely crowd control changes. So tragic...

[Deadset 108]

On 7/10/2016 at 11:40 PM, Guest TheEnd said:

Come 2.4.2 this build will no longer be usable at all since the raekor barb depends solely on APDs to survive, which will be broken with the likely crowd control changes. So tragic...

If that is any consolation, Raekor Barbs still hover at the top in the 2.4.2 PTR :)

[Reapert 1]

Hey

First off, thanks for a great guide, i do have one question though. While running Ring of grandeur in cube, what is the benefit from running 2 IK + 6 RK and not 3 IK + 5 RK so u get the extra set bonus from IK? you still keep the 6 piece bonus on RK?

Thanks :) 

[Guest motherbrain]

Hi Deadset, thank you for this immensely helpful guide. Just a quick question: I did some Googling and it seems to be that the general consensus on the D3 forums is that RCR affects Boulder Toss damage positively, albeit almost insignificantly since it calculates from the initial/minimum 25 fury that BT costs. I wonder if you have different information because you advise that we skip the stat in our Paragon Utility points. Does adding RCR somehow make this build worse? Thanks in advance.

[Deadset 108]

On 7/27/2016 at 10:08 PM, Reapert said:

First off, thanks for a great guide, i do have one question though. While running Ring of grandeur in cube, what is the benefit from running 2 IK + 6 RK and not 3 IK + 5 RK so u get the extra set bonus from IK? you still keep the 6 piece bonus on RK?

Heya - I was confused a little about your comment, because I definitely recommend running 3 IK and 5 Raekor + RoRG, so you get the 4p IK bonus and 6p Raekor bonus! :) If there was any confusion about that - apologies!

On 8/2/2016 at 10:22 PM, Guest motherbrain said:

Hi Deadset, thank you for this immensely helpful guide. Just a quick question: I did some Googling and it seems to be that the general consensus on the D3 forums is that RCR affects Boulder Toss damage positively, albeit almost insignificantly since it calculates from the initial/minimum 25 fury that BT costs. I wonder if you have different information because you advise that we skip the stat in our Paragon Utility points. Does adding RCR somehow make this build worse? Thanks in advance.

Heya, it's been a while since I revisited the build, but I reckon it had to do with getting more Life per Fury spent by skipping RCR. I will look into the damage aspect that you bring up however, and make fixes accordingly! :)

[Guest Computersaysno]

I've been trying this build with ~600k dps and ~21m toughness. 16% CDR through paragon and some random stats, and I consistently find myself standing around (running like a chicken) to wait for the cooldown of Furious Charge, both in rifts as well as bounties, up to T12 / Grift 60. 

This is particularly unnerving as finding a blue elite pretty much means I'm screwed unless I can separate them and tackle them solo. 
I don't know what I'm doing wrong, I followed the build to the letter, but unless I have ~40% CDR I don't see how this is feasible...I can't always gather mobs around. 

Overall I find this build very situational and dependent on mob density - something I can't fully control. 

[Guest Purple Cherub]

I just noticed that pants for both Immortal Kings and Raekor's can't have all resistance.

[Deadset 108]

On 9/1/2016 at 2:24 AM, Guest Purple Cherub said:

I just noticed that pants for both Immortal Kings and Raekor's can't have all resistance.

Hello, the pants for both sets can have All Resistance. Likely you have singular resistance in your secondary stats (i.e. Fire, Lightning...), which prevents you from rolling All Resistance on that piece.

[Guest ChoLee]

On 13.08.2016 at 3:11 PM, Guest Computersaysno said:

I've been trying this build with ~600k dps and ~21m toughness. 16% CDR through paragon and some random stats, and I consistently find myself standing around (running like a chicken) to wait for the cooldown of Furious Charge, both in rifts as well as bounties, up to T12 / Grift 60. 

This is particularly unnerving as finding a blue elite pretty much means I'm screwed unless I can separate them and tackle them solo. 
I don't know what I'm doing wrong, I followed the build to the letter, but unless I have ~40% CDR I don't see how this is feasible...I can't always gather mobs around. 

Overall I find this build very situational and dependent on mob density - something I can't fully control. 

same here, but i have max paragons on cooldown and still very often I just stand there i pray not to be killed. I tryed also this build in 5 ik variation (like top players) and still I am struggling to survive and kill in a XIII normal rift. I have everything acient and like 90% of the stats on gear correct. Also gems on 60-70 level.

[Valks 2,375]

On 13.8.2016 at 3:11 PM, Guest Computersaysno said:

Overall I find this build very situational and dependent on mob density - something I can't fully control. 

It's entirely possible that this is a build that centres on density. There have always been builds that do it, but it requires constantly fishing for good rifts. A bad rift is an unbeatable one, most of the time. You need to kite, a LOT, while using Spear to keep re-positioning the packs.

[Deadset 108]

I can add little more, unfortunately. The build hits like a truck, but its defenses come and go in the blink of an eye, and are hugely dependent on the Furious Charge freeze + Ancient Parthan Defenders interaction. If builds with intense, spastic movement and moment to moment decision making don't attract you, steer clear of this one. Capable as it is.

[SangFroidy 3]

Eariler in the forum replies, Deadset mentioned stacking up too much usually doesn't work well in D3.  I see the Focus & Restraint rings doing that, and suggest following Outrageful at the top of page 3 (this is mentioned by Deadset in the guide).  I also don't see the APD as doing much against the Guardian (just check the death stories posted), there is probably something else in the cube that would work better.

I'm glad there is a pretty good set of posts, I need to solve the Journey T13 speed rift requirements, and think that this build can do that - since they both involve fishing around ;-)

[Valks 2,375]

On 9/25/2016 at 11:57 AM, SangFroidy said:

Eariler in the forum replies, Deadset mentioned stacking up too much usually doesn't work well in D3.  I see the Focus & Restraint rings doing that, and suggest following Outrageful at the top of page 3 (this is mentioned by Deadset in the guide).  I also don't see the APD as doing much against the Guardian (just check the death stories posted), there is probably something else in the cube that would work better.

I'm glad there is a pretty good set of posts, I need to solve the Journey T13 speed rift requirements, and think that this build can do that - since they both involve fishing around ;-)

Where did he say about stacking doesn't work? I can't find the comment. Your Ancient Spear does exactly that, it's why Barb is so loved at high GRifts, because they keep pulling mobs into the stack.

As for the cube, there is no armour piece that works better. The only other possibility for barb is String of Ears, but a 30% reduction on melee attacks is definitely worth swapping out APD for.

Also, remember that you don't just fight a Guardian. You have to get through a rift first. By removing APD, you won't get to the guardian to use the alternative piece anyway.

[Deadset 108]

To expand on Blainie's comment, the leaderboard climbing Raekor Barbs don't fight the Guardian in the usual manner; in fact, there are many Guardians an experienced Raekor user will outright give up on. Common strategies to actually clear the RG are:

- Using an immunity amulet to a certain element, and then fishing for a Guardian that dominantly uses that element. Most commonly done with Poison due to Mara's Kaleidoscope rolling crit stats naturally, as well as the good number of Poison bosses (more than any other elemental type).

- Fishing for an add-heavy Guardian, where Ancient Parthan Defenders still apply heavily, i.e. Saxtris.

For non-competitive clears, Band of Might setups are more than fine and, at least to me, immensely more fun to play. :)