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Windform Trinity Beam Barb

Essentially, you abuse the fpas from Windform to proc the high level Trinity Beam in
Vizjerei Fury
Vizjerei Fury
Short Spear (Sacred)

Throw Damage: 69 to 80
One-Hand Damage: 45 to 50
Required Level: 100
Required Dexterity:
1386
Item Level: 120
Dexterity Damage Bonus: (0.11 per Dexterity)%
You may Only use Melee, Summon and Support Skills
25% Chance to cast level 60 Trinity Beam on Melee Attack
Ignore Target's Defense
-33% to Enemy Fire Resistance
-33% to Enemy Lightning Resistance
-33% to Enemy Cold Resistance
(20 to 25)% to Dexterity
(20 to 25)% to Vitality
Maximum Elemental Resists +2%
Physical Resist 10%
+(60 to 100) Life after each Kill
Requirements +200%
Socketed (3)
. You have huge defense (over 2 million) thanks to Bear Stance, Windform bonus and Runemaster, huge LoA and free pierce from Blood Hatred, and huge spell damage thanks to guardian spirit bloodlust.

Skills:
Max: Blood Hatred, Guardian Spirit, Windform
10-15 points: Mountain King, Bear Stance, Runemaster
1 pointers: Shamanic Trance, Daedalus, Immortal, Thunder God

Stats:
Str: none
Dex: enough to wear vizjerey's
Energy: 2~2.5k is enough
Vit: the rest

Gear:
Weapons:
Vizjerei Fury
Vizjerei Fury
Short Spear (Sacred)

Throw Damage: 69 to 80
One-Hand Damage: 45 to 50
Required Level: 100
Required Dexterity:
1386
Item Level: 120
Dexterity Damage Bonus: (0.11 per Dexterity)%
You may Only use Melee, Summon and Support Skills
25% Chance to cast level 60 Trinity Beam on Melee Attack
Ignore Target's Defense
-33% to Enemy Fire Resistance
-33% to Enemy Lightning Resistance
-33% to Enemy Cold Resistance
(20 to 25)% to Dexterity
(20 to 25)% to Vitality
Maximum Elemental Resists +2%
Physical Resist 10%
+(60 to 100) Life after each Kill
Requirements +200%
Socketed (3)
+
Aeterna
Aeterna
Broad Sword (Sacred)

One-Hand Damage: (101 - 118) to (105 - 124)
Required Level: 100
Required Strength: 488
Item Level: 105
Strength Damage Bonus: (0.11 per Strength)%
Amazing Grace
4% Chance to cast level 50 Blizzard on Death Blow
+(3 to 5) to All Skills
+100 Spell Focus
(20 to 50)% Cast Speed
+(20 to 40)% to Spell Damage
+(130 to 170)% Enhanced Damage
(10 to 20)% to Strength
Socketed (6)
. Vizjerey provides pierce and proc. Aeterna spell dmg and spell focus.
Armor:
Natasha's Legacy (Xis)
. Self explanatory
Boots:
Spirit Walker
Spirit Walker
Heavy Boots (Sacred)

Defense: 696 to 737
Required Level: 100
Required Strength: 550
Item Level: 120
+1% Physical Resist per 18% Mana Regeneration
+2 to All Skills
+(50 to 100) Spell Focus
(10 to 40)% Movement Speed
Jitan's Gate Cooldown Reduced by 1 seconds
+35% to Physical/Magic Spell Damage
-15% to Enemy Elemental Resistances
Socketed (4)
if you need pierce and spell focus. If already capped pierce,
Binding Treads
Binding Treads
Light Plated Boots (Sacred)

Defense: (2224 - 2538) to (3909 - 4256)
Required Level: 100
Required Strength: 625
Item Level: 105
+100% Duration to Solar Flare
+(1 to 2) to Paladin Skill Levels
(20 to 50)% Movement Speed
25% Hit Recovery
5% Life stolen per Hit
+(8 to 20)% to Spell Damage
+(120 to 160)% Enhanced Defense
+(500 to 2000) Defense
+(75 to 150) to Mana
Socketed (4)
would be biggest dmg if well rolled, same for
Clockwork Slippers
Clockwork Slippers
Boots (Sacred)

Defense: 651 to 671
Required Level: 80
Required Strength: 500
Item Level: 105
Incineration Trap Radius Reduced by 50%
Catalyst Trap Cooldown Reduced by 10 seconds
+1 to Assassin Skill Levels
20% Cast Speed
(20 to 50)% Movement Speed
+(5 to 30)% to Spell Damage
Socketed (4)

Gloves:
Lamha Na Draoithe
Lamha Na Draoithe
Gauntlets (Sacred)

Defense: (1339 - 1506) to (1567 - 1763)
Required Level: 100
Required Strength: 625
Item Level: 120
+2 to All Skills
+150 Spell Focus
30% Cast Speed
+(16 to 20)% to Spell Damage
+(140 to 170)% Enhanced Defense
+75 to Strength
-100 to Life
Elemental Resists +15%
Socketed (4)
. Spell dmg + spell focus
Belt:
Ashaera's Armor
Ashaera's Armor
Belt (Sacred)

Defense: 1687 to 1760
Required Level: 100
Required Strength: 575
Item Level: 105
+(21 to 25) Spell Focus
+(11 to 15)% to Spell Damage
+500 Defense
(11 to 15)% to Energy
Elemental Resists +(10 to 15)%
Physical Resist 10%
Socketed (2)
or
Lunar Eclipse
Lunar Eclipse
Light Belt (Sacred)

Defense: (2091 - 2422) to (2171 - 2514)
Required Level: 100
Required Strength: 550
Item Level: 120
+2 to All Skills
+(51 to 60) Spell Focus
25% Cast Speed
30% Hit Recovery
+(10 to 15)% to Spell Damage
+(90 to 120)% Enhanced Defense
+(40 to 50) to Energy
+100 to Life
Elemental Resists +15%
+5 to Light Radius
Socketed (2)
.
Dementia
Dementia
Belt (Sacred)

Defense: (3111 - 3348) to (3272 - 3524)
Required Level: 100
Required Strength:
690
Item Level: 120
-(15 to 20)% to Enemy Elemental Resistances
+(15 to 25) to Fowl Fight
Slow Target 5%
+(120 to 140)% Enhanced Defense
+500 Defense
Maximum Life +2%
Maximum Elemental Resists +1%
Physical Resist 5%
Requirements +20%
Socketed (2)
if you are lacking pierce
Helm:
Wintermute
for spell dmg, or
Indigo
Indigo
Circlets

'UnTaha'
Runeword Level: 110
+2 to All Skills
+100 Spell Focus
50% Cast Speed
-(15 to 20)% to Enemy Elemental Resistances
-500 Defense
Maximum Elemental Resists +2%
Elemental Resists +(13 to 15)%
Requirements -100%
if you need pierce
Rings: ideally you want two
Empyrean Glory
Empyrean Glory
Ring

Required Level: 50
Item Level: 120
1% Chance to cast level 40 Singularity on Kill
(6 to 10)% to All Attributes
Maximum Life +5%
Maximum Mana +15%
15% Gold Find
with
The Endless Light
The Endless Light
Mystic Orb

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-2% to Enemy Elemental Resistances
+100 Defense
3% Bonus to Defense
+10 Required Level
.
Amulet:
Idol of Fortune
Idol of Fortune
Amulet

Required Level: 120
Item Level: 130
+(1 to 2) to All Skills
-1% Base Block Chance
25% Combat Speeds
+(11 to 30)% to Spell Damage
Weapon Physical Damage +(25 to 48)%
Maximum Life +3%
Maximum Mana +10%

Trophy Hunter
(Trophy Set)
,
Witchmoon
Witchmoon
Amulet

Required Level: 100
Item Level: 100
1% Chance to cast level 17 Mana Sweep on Death Blow
+(1 to 3) to All Skills
+(10 to 20) Spell Focus
+(10 to 20)% to Spell Damage
Maximum Mana +(30 to 40)%
, or an amazingly rolled
The Tesseract
The Tesseract
Amulet

Required Level: 100
Item Level: 105
+2 to All Skills
25% Cast Speed
+(1 to 30)% to Fire Spell Damage
-(1 to 20)% to Enemy Fire Resistance
+(1 to 30)% to Lightning Spell Damage
-(1 to 20)% to Enemy Lightning Resistance
+(1 to 30)% to Cold Spell Damage
-(1 to 20)% to Enemy Cold Resistance
+(1 to 30)% to Poison Spell Damage
-(1 to 20)% to Enemy Poison Resistance
.
On Switch: Magical crafted barb sword + shield with as much minion life as possible.

Sockets:
Ghal in weapons. Ghal in armors if you still need spell focus, otherwise feel free to patch specific weaknesses
(pierce, life, etc) with the necessary runes.

MOs:
You need 40 IAS in Vizjerey and 25 in Aeterna to reach max Windform fpa on both, so do that with MOs. You might want a Sha rune instead of one Ghal in Vizjerey to do this. Rest spell focus and/or any non-poison spell dmg. Obviously Lodestones are BiS for everything.

All in all the build performs amazingly for farming. Haven't tested bossing yet. It can probably be improved upon, and I can imagine it might be viable in labs if you forego runemaster for zann esu stones and manage to pump hp high enough with jewels. You probably don't even need zann esu stones if you go with dementia and indigo, since that nets you +9 max res between them and natasha's and Vizjerey.
Edited by Diaco 3 years.
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Sry to break it to u but Whirlwind requires ias in wep like Wolf/bear. Javelins are very slow so u would have like 8-9 frame hits even dual wielding.
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smartasss wrote:Sry to break it to u but Whirlwind requires ias in wep like Wolf/bear. Javelins are very slow so u would have like 8-9 frame hits even dual wielding.


As far as I understand, fpas are calculated differently for Windform. You need to subtract the weapon's WSM with WIAS to calculate the frames, and all one handed weapons (including two handed swords) are treated equally. In practice, I'm definitely not seeing a 9 fpa attack speed.
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U are very wrong and 9 fpa is generous, its probably much lower. U need 3 Ias jewels at least in every wep. Also every 2nd hit will be useless as u will be hitting with Aeterna.
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smartasss wrote:U are very wrong and 9 fpa is generous, its probably much lower.


I must be amazingly lucky then, with the amount of procs I'm seeing with only 45% IAS on Vizjerey and 24% on Aeterna, with no other source of IAS.
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smartasss wrote:U are very wrong and 9 fpa is generous, its probably much lower. U need 3 Ias jewels at least in every wep. Also every 2nd hit will be useless as u will be hitting with Aeterna.

You have any experience on that?
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smartasss wrote:Sry to break it to u but Whirlwind requires ias in wep like Wolf/bear. Javelins are very slow so u would have like 8-9 frame hits even dual wielding.

You're saying that attack speed MO'd on the weapon doesn't count?
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It does but at best u have 8fpa effective. Since u alternate wep's and ww max fpa is 4 dual wielding.
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smartasss wrote:It does but at best u have 8fpa effective. Since u alternate wep's and ww max fpa is 4 dual wielding.


I'd suggest you test it yourself. If that's indeed how it's supposed to work then I'm pretty sure it's not working as intended.
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I think having Median installed would be required to test this which i doubt u have.