Fire Godlike Barbarian CHEEZE build

[Spielraum]

I vaguely recall something like happened in the Icewind Dale series as well - I could be wrong.

1) Fire Godlike fire retal scales with level - I think an increase of 2-3 per level.
2) Retaliation synergizes with Carnage (aka cleave) ie carnage procs with retal.
3) Min constiution, max might, max deflection (in order to get grazes and to tank longer) by using shield talents which also boosts reflex. Better still carnage also works with a shield (Sura's Supper Plate) which has >12 pierce damage retal found in the ruins of Act 2.
4) Run in solo, have spellcasters cast regen spell once you hit <50% endurance (preferably not heals as you still want the fire retal). Better still equip the conscecrated ground boots or Second chance items that rez u automatically once per rest if you go down.
5) Profit. If you want even more cheese, have high reflex as well and have mages spam fireball etc on you. Path of the Damned is so easy now.

Might 18, Con 3, Percept 15, Dex 20 (+1 from Godlike, +1 from background), Intel 4 (+1 comes from Godlike stats), Resolve 18.

P.S Barbarian talent Blooded (+25% damage) also synergizes with Fire Godlike fire retal.

I was looking for a solution to poor AoE damage and tried mages but found they were subpar with limited amounts of AOE casts per rest.

I have 2 semi cheeze builds that run alongside it - tank shield Moon Godlike chanter and a 2nd Long Grass pike barbarian.

Balance team anybody? Thank goodness Obsidian (or EA) doesnt have the ambition to make an MMO.

[Cam]

hi this isnt news tho thats how people build the tcs solo barbarian before they found out that moon godlike is so much better
and whats cheesy about a reach barbarian?

[Spielraum]

Whats tcs btw? How is moon godlike barbarian better at going in solo to basically nuke hordes of mobs?

Reach barbarians are kind of cheesy in the sense its the most optimum 2nd line build imo. Would you have a min max party without 1 in it? Moreover, with a weapon that has a %proc on crit that inflicts prone.

Chanters get insanely good at lvl 8 onwards. You can either build tank or ranged/melee DPS since they have 2 crappy talents anyway in their class line.

[Revolucas]

Triple Crown Solo (Path of the Damned, Expert Mode, Trial of Iron, no party). Moon Godlike is better because it heals endurance.

[Climhazzard]

Publicado originalmente por Gamification:

Balance team anybody? Thank goodness Obsidian (or EA) doesnt have the ambition to make an MMO.

I've yet to play a remotely balanced mmo so I guess if they did one it wouldn't be much different from anything else out there, lol.

Personally I hope they remove these cheesy retaliation builds, but i guess they don't have to since it's a single player game.

[Spielraum]

If you want to achieve MAXIMUM cheeze, build a party of 5 of these and 1 priest for healing sustain with consecrated ground.

Why did I buy this game? Part of me is glad I switched over to MMOs recently.

Only thing this build is not good at would be the big boss / dragon fights etc. which would few and far between,

[Cam]

tcs = tripple crown solo achievment

i am doing a potd expert play right now with min max party which consists of rogue (dualwield noble weapons, also mc) fighter (tank) paladin (tank) wizard (3rd line) druid (3rd line) and priest (buffer + guns), so no i dont have a barbarian in my party. i am at the end of act2 now, lvl 9 party so far no problems but it is getin tough now with all the charms i encounter.

why would you use the priest for healign? when a druid is so much better at it?

[Bishop]

It's One Stands Alone ability that will make barbarian an extreme cheese. It's like a +20 flat damage bonus from ANY damage source (carnage, retaliation, fire god aura ticks, you name it). Probably will be fixed at some point.

[Spielraum]

Publicado originalmente por Bishop:

It's One Stands Alone ability that will make barbarian an extreme cheese. It's like a +20 flat damage bonus from ANY damage source (carnage, retaliation, fire god aura ticks, you name it). Probably will be fixed at some point.

Its cheese on top of cheese. I didnt even realize this. First off retal procs carnage which in turn activates One Stands Alone +20.

Get your cheese in before they fix it.

[Spielraum]

Just got through Od Nua lvl 14 PotD. I tried hard not to cheese the Master of Od Nua with my 2 fire godlike barbarians and tried to fight semi-legit but just get stunlocked and killed even with consecrated ground.

Then I just gave in and sent one into retal nuke and it was over in a minute. I had my priest on rez standby and 2nd as reserve hanging back.

[vinzi]

Don't like it? Don't play it.
If you use it don't complain.
This aint rocket science.

[Spielraum]

Any refunds available for this game? After I cheese speedrun the rest of the game of course. I dont even need legendary weapons etc.

I can forgive crappy extremely unbalanced RPG systems if the story is good or the lore is interesting, which is not the case here.

Even if they release new dungeons etc for DLCs, won't be coming back.

You know something - I used to think those guys complaining about balance in MMOs esp for PVP and the devs changing mechanics to prevent trivialisation of PvE combat to be excessive. After playing this "homage", think I will stick to MMOs now and have a greater appreciation of the balance team in MMOs.

[ministrog]

Brought a 4 man team to raedric's throne, and decided to test this talent. The PoE client build I'm using is 1.06.0617 and One Stands Alone is now 20% melee weapon not a flat 20 anymore.

I don't see why they didn't make it 100% of melee weapon. Back then, if you armed yourself with a fast weapon like a dagger, adding 20 flat damage via talent is broken. But right now... 20% is absolute garbage.

However, I'm fine with how retaliation works, even that fact that it stacks.