Long time has passed since the most popular barbarian build was focused around Frenzy. The double tornado is still popular but sometimes it can feel boring to play the same thing over and over again. Dread Bomb offers a very fun and effective barb build that seems to remind us of the old Necromancer and his signature ability called Corpse Explosion. Everything that dies caused damage to everything around and Weapon Throw becomes a skill that makes the barb toss corpses around dealing tons of damage.
The build itself seems like a lot of fun as the core setup focuses on getting dead bodies and using them as weapons against other packs of mobs which in return will become corpses as well. It seems like a vicious circle that never end but fun like hell. It fresh and we are happy to add it to our collection of barbarian builds.
Let’s start with the skill setup:
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Left Mouse Button – Cleave with the Rupture rune
Right Mouse Button – Weapon Throw with Dread Bomb rune
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Action Key 1 – Battle Rage with the Into the Fray rune
Action Key 2 – Sprint with the Marathon rune
Action Key 3 – Wrath of the Berserker with the Insanity rune
Action Key 4 – Rend with the Blood Lust rune
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Passive Skill 1: Ruthless
Passive Skill 2: Bloodthirst
Passive Skill 3: Weapons Master
The Mechanics of the Build:
There are a lot of things going on when using this barb build. Unlike other barbarian builds, the Dread Bomb seems to offer a lot of after-death damage dealing effects. Cleave for instance will cause an enemy killed to explode. While Weapon Throw will be used to throw and existing corpse and make it explode. Things would have been even more extreme if Rend used the Bloodbath rune to cause bleeding victims to inflict the same effect to nearby enemies.
Cast sequence is rather simple. Cleave should be used to bring down mobs while Weapon Throw should be saved for when Fury is at maximum. This means that Weapon Throw can deal 300% weapon damage if used at maximum Fury. It might now sound like much but it works great when being chased by large packs or when fighting elite packs with Jailer affix. However, there is one thing that this barbarian build needs to work efficiently. Just like any other build, Fury generation makes it possible to cast expensive abilities more often. This means that the Weapon Master passive needs to be combined with Maces and Axes for some extra crit chance that works very well with Into the Fray rune of the Battle Rage skill. Ruthless is also a mandatory choice for some extra critical hit chance and damage.
This entire skill setup points out one obvious fact. The damage of the weapon equipped will have a significant influence over the total damage output which calls for two handed weapons such as a Skorn. A decent one should cost around 10 million gold which is a rather reasonable price. It is also important to understand that the damage of the weapon and the skills will influence how much health regen the barb has. The Bloodthirst passive and the Rend Blood Lust rune should be enough to maintain decent survivability when a Skorn is used and makes this barbarian build even more efficient.
Let’s start with the skill setup:
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Left Mouse Button – Cleave with the Rupture rune
Right Mouse Button – Weapon Throw with Dread Bomb rune
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Action Key 1 – Battle Rage with the Into the Fray rune
Action Key 2 – Sprint with the Marathon rune
Action Key 3 – Wrath of the Berserker with the Insanity rune
Action Key 4 – Rend with the Blood Lust rune
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Passive Skill 1: Ruthless
Passive Skill 2: Bloodthirst
Passive Skill 3: Weapons Master
The Mechanics of the Build:
There are a lot of things going on when using this barb build. Unlike other barbarian builds, the Dread Bomb seems to offer a lot of after-death damage dealing effects. Cleave for instance will cause an enemy killed to explode. While Weapon Throw will be used to throw and existing corpse and make it explode. Things would have been even more extreme if Rend used the Bloodbath rune to cause bleeding victims to inflict the same effect to nearby enemies.
Cast sequence is rather simple. Cleave should be used to bring down mobs while Weapon Throw should be saved for when Fury is at maximum. This means that Weapon Throw can deal 300% weapon damage if used at maximum Fury. It might now sound like much but it works great when being chased by large packs or when fighting elite packs with Jailer affix. However, there is one thing that this barbarian build needs to work efficiently. Just like any other build, Fury generation makes it possible to cast expensive abilities more often. This means that the Weapon Master passive needs to be combined with Maces and Axes for some extra crit chance that works very well with Into the Fray rune of the Battle Rage skill. Ruthless is also a mandatory choice for some extra critical hit chance and damage.
This entire skill setup points out one obvious fact. The damage of the weapon equipped will have a significant influence over the total damage output which calls for two handed weapons such as a Skorn. A decent one should cost around 10 million gold which is a rather reasonable price. It is also important to understand that the damage of the weapon and the skills will influence how much health regen the barb has. The Bloodthirst passive and the Rend Blood Lust rune should be enough to maintain decent survivability when a Skorn is used and makes this barbarian build even more efficient.
