Siosilvar wrote:Windform + Snake Stance works just fine for single target, and a crafted Crystal Sword with AoE Attack gives it reasonable crowd clearing later. The issue with running throwing axe + sword and using Stampede is that Stampede does nothing unless the axe is glove side, and then your sword is reduced to a stat stick, when what you really want is the other way around both for weapon range adder and for just general better stats. Works alright for leveling though.
IIRC Gladiator's Dominance works for windform/snake stance, 1pt is all you need, and it's the best choice late game anyway because block.
Also worth noting that your single-target Windform + Snake Stance (but not any WDM procs) will benefit from % poison spell damage because of the direct melee attack bug.
Awesome!
To clarify, Gladiator's Dominance will give me increasing returns on poison damage per base level of the primary skills, whilst also increasing it's duration?
The melee bug means that Windform will not only scale with pierce and base damage from skill/snakestance/amatoxin, but also with spell damage, and be applied at 150% due to the Wdm mod of Windform.
It's possible to play windform barb as AoE since you can apply AoE with base crystal sword attack through windform. Are poisons applied like this also subject to the melee bug or not?
EDIT: This is not the case, AoE is a mod that casts a 100% wdm nova on attack with 100% chance. This means that poison will be applied to all enemies in the aoe only considering pierce, not spell damage etc, since the nova is not an attack.
I'm like 95% of the way through Nightmare, so I'll probably finish and respec in hell to give it a try. Thanks a lot!
