Demonlord wrote:Man i sure am glad you guys are having fun with Melee Barb this ladder because they completely destroyed Poison Barb this patch somehow...
I do more damage with Basic Attack in 1 point Lion Stance than fully investing in Snake Stance and Snake Bite does litteraly no damage at all now.
Leveling with it is pretty much impossible now. On the bright side though i guess it gives me the excuse i needed to finally really put the time into a Melee Bar this Ladder and maybe even try out a Cast Barb as well.
Melee poison is quite viable, you distribute poison via WW+aoe passive, and targets you hit directly via ww, ale poisoned wioth 150% WDM snake stance * spell damage you have, which depending on gear, results in much more damage than your aoe clear poison.
Another thing is manipulating duration, by using item with poison over x seconds (best one is tu small shield with poison over 2s, which adds 2s to your snake stance).
I leveled such barb fully untwinked to 140 in beta, was having a blast. For clear you add procs such as devastation (huge aoe nova) that basically chain clears fauztinville.
Note this is quite different than snake bite, because snake bite is a short duration spell, that damage has little to do with your snake stance, it has its own damage. Melee poison barb uses snake stance and amps it with spell damage for single target. All you need to remember is not to use more than 1 item with psn over x seconds, because that will start cutting you duration, while 1 item extends it (there is division in formula depending on amount of sources of extra poisons you have, so 1 is /1 but more starts to drastically reduce duration).
As for other posts:
Rebel ofc is good, this is very powerful item, can be used obviouisly. Erawan is good because we get that 15% phys res, good defense, and 25% strength, so all is on it, and it is fairly cheap. While runes for rebel, especially enhanced rune can not drop for us for very long time.
When it comes to belt, yes wormtongue is good, leech is good. I just upgraded my axe with 20% leech and it worked fine, so there is that, and attack rating wasn't a problem. But ye wormtongue means cheap leech that you can technically access even sooner before you have gold for weapon MO or MO space.
