1.10 Leap Attack Barbarian

[Swarmalicious]

Nice responses everyone! I'll ammend guide and throw out some credits - gotta love dem lurkers.
Especially glad I could get a smirk out of some of you (coming up with the humor when addressing a broad audience is tough - I usually swear a lot more ;)).

I've never felt warmer, or fuzzier for that matter. :D

Ok, lets see if I can get to all this here :

I. About Physical Immunes:

How does a point in Berserk / 20 points in Leap work out?  Stun the baddies, hit with Berserk, rinse and repeat, drink blues like they are going out of style . . .

- I really wanted to get Berzerk in there, but sticking to a 68 skill point spending pool (what a character at lvl 60 should have available) was my first goal. I just couldn't get it to add up...
Also, though spent some time looking around in Hell, I really couldn't find that many Pi's to test on. I wonder if theres fewer of them now?

- Dealing with IM and Thorns: What's your suggestion? Is it a matter of using a socketed item with very low damage but mucho elemental damage?

- I think Casperi's right, here Leap Att "is" a ranged attack (unless it has been altered). The other thing is that in the beta, the obliv's IM doesn't work at all... so testing's out the window.

IV. Party Question: when kocking enemies about, how did that influence the targeting of monsters by your partying pals?

- Well, if you're worried that its annoying - having a strategy worked out beforehand helps. If the pack was really nuts, I would start the leaping until my team mate(s) could dispatch some of it (say, the aura enchanted boss) and then I'd help out on the fray. After a short while it was understood, and it wasn't awkward. They were using a cold sorc & a Fury/minion druid, so targeting enemies wasn't a huge problem.

V. Was your Barbarian painted Green?

- with envy? No way, he's a confident bastard. ;)

VI. Given Amp Damage apparently reducing Physical Resistance/ degrading Physical Immunity, it seems to me that "Casts Amp Damage" on a weapon, or the ever elusive Atma's Wail, would be a key bit of gear. Or charges of it for particularly bothersome monsters.

- have to check that out... I'm sure Amp would be a good thing. :)

4): I'm not sure about this, but I read somewhere that the minimum range of Leap Attack might be proportional to weapons range, so it could be useful to pick a shorter ranged "Maul" type weapon instead of the longer ranged "Great Maul" type weapon.

- I strongly urge the use of mauls - fits into the "storyline".

Okay, this will sound a little stupid, but you MIGHT consider investing in Battle Cry. Why? Cos it will work on Bosses, minimise hp losses, your shots will hit more often, and it'll put em in their coffin! Wyrd!

- Yeah BC is great... only reason it wasn't included was to save on skill points.