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R.I.P Barbarian: Act I, Normal -- Act I, Inferno
A melee class that can't survive melee.


So after being frustrated by being forced to play like a ranged class on my barb and giving up all hope of actually killing stuff (without going the 2min barb spec) I've decided to retire him until Blizzard look at the melee situation in Inferno.

On that note I started up an OP Wizard and he is just ploughing through stuff it's awesome. Did the best I could to do a speed run through normal and I managed it in 11hrs 39mins, compared to around 18hrs for the Barb. Combined with a +19% monster XP gem I finished off on level 33 which was identical to the barb, so that worked out.

*If you playing Inferno (especially monk/barb) let me know how you are finding it.
Ok well if you actually wanna kill the mobs and not skip 90 % of the Elite packs, you'll unfortunately have to follow the following to survive. I am in Inferno and I am in ActII at the moment.

Sword and Board.

You'll need a 1H weapon with minimum 700 dps and with some strength and vitality.
You'll need a shield with minimum 1000 armor and 20% chance to block 2750-4200 Dmg.
All you're gear need + All Resistance. (All and all a minimum of around 800 Resistance)
You need minimum 7-8k armor.
You need around 40K HP.

Skills need to be setup defensively.

Can't remember all mine now but will check later.

That build got me to solo 100+ Minions, 10-15 Elite's and 2 big ass creeps at the same time on hell act 4.
Its good enough to survive Act1 Inferno..ActII things start getting hard again..so you'll need to up + all Resistance to around 1200 and around 10k armor. You'll also need a weapon that does 800+ Dps ect.