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00:00:00 – 00:27:56
The video provides an in-depth guide for building and optimizing a Thorns Barbarian character in a game, aiming to help players, particularly those in hardcore mode, level up from 1 to 100 efficiently. Key skills highlighted include Frenzy, Challenging Shout, Rallying Cry, War Cry, and Steel Grasp, with additional important skills like Unstoppable and fortify being critical for survival.
The strategy emphasizes maximizing damage reduction and fortification, using skills such as Thick Skin and Defensive Stance, and leveraging items that enhance bleeding damage and thorns, such as Might Aspect and Iron Blood. The guide covers detailed Paragon board optimization, focusing on dexterity, strength, and glyphs like Iron and Marshall for increased DPS and maintaining uptime on shouts.
The video also advises efficient gear prioritization, targeting strength in early items and identifying valuable legendary items around level 25. Various gameplay tactics for maximizing experience and item gains are discussed, including farming specific events, quests, and dungeons. The speaker concludes with excitement for upcoming content and thanks the community for their support.
00:00:00
In this part of the video, the creator introduces a leveling guide for the Thorns Barbarian from level 1 to 100, highlighting how to level up quickly, which skills to select, and what Paragon points to choose after level 50. They emphasize the importance of gearing up efficiently and thank the community for their support. The video also shows the creator starting a hardcore character, demonstrating successful strategies, including getting a legendary item at level 5. The guide is designed to help players, especially those in hardcore mode, to reach level 100 and push leaderboards safely. Key skills for the build are Frenzy, Challenging Shout, Rallying Cry, War Cry, and Steel Grasp, with a focus on using Flay for damage reduction from the start.
00:03:00
In this part of the video, the speaker discusses a build guide tailored for hardcore players. Key points include the essential skills to select starting from level one, highlighting the importance of ‘Unstoppable’ to avoid being stunned and potentially killed before using a potion. Additionally, players are advised to acquire ‘fortify’ early to enhance survival by gaining fortification through both dealing and taking damage. The guide recommends specific skill points allocations for ‘frenzy,’ ‘rallying cry,’ and ‘challenging shout’ to maximize damage reduction, especially against elites and bosses. Moreover, the guide suggests picking up ‘tough as nails’ for added bleeding damage, benefiting from gear with damage-to-bleeding effects. For a balance between hardcore and softcore play styles, the guide varies slightly but ultimately leads to acquiring ‘war cry’ for berserking and ‘steel grasp’ for additional combat benefits.
00:06:00
In this part of the video, the speaker discusses a strategy for building a character in a game. They recommend allocating points into specific abilities to optimize the character’s performance. Key points include putting a point into “hamstring” to slow enemies, prioritizing damage reduction while berserking due to constant uptime from skills like steel grasp and war cry, and managing shouts effectively. They suggest starting with “booming voice” and maxing out “raid leader” to enhance healing, followed by “guttural yell” to reduce enemy damage. Health and damage reduction are further improved with “imposing presence.” Finally, the focus shifts to ultimate skills and boosting Thorns damage as health increases.
00:09:00
In this part of the video, the focus is on enhancing the durations of shouts for maximum effect and fortifying war cry in dungeon farming. The speaker discusses using thick skin for fortification due to increased mob density, which results in more incoming damage as well as increased damage output due to more enemies. Defensive stance is mentioned to enhance damage reduction when fortified. Thorns damage is maximized, and pit fighter is used for extra damage and damage reduction against ranged attackers. Movement speed is also improved, and steel grasp’s cooldown is reduced to 10 seconds. The speaker emphasizes focusing on fortification and damage reduction abilities, especially for hardcore players. Once level 50 skills are completed, the focus shifts to farming dungeons and prioritizing the Paragon board, noting the importance of completing the main board before side quests and emphasizing armor and life enhancements through glyphs.
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In this part of the video, the speaker explains a detailed process for optimizing the Paragon board in a game. The strategy includes focusing on maximizing dexterity and strength, specifically targeting nodes that enhance vulnerability and provide strength bonuses. The speaker highlights the importance of glyphs like Iron and Marshall for increasing DPS and maintaining uptime on shouts. They also emphasize collecting rare nodes for additional strength and vulnerable damage and acquiring armor bonuses for damage reduction. The discussion covers transitioning through various boards like Decimator, Blood Rage, and Carnage, and prioritizing fortify damage reduction to combat higher-level dungeons, ensuring sufficient damage resistance while farming in nightmare dungeons.
00:15:00
In this part of the video, the speaker focuses on optimizing damage reduction and health in a game, emphasizing the aim to exceed 50 percent in all damage reduction categories. They outline a strategy involving the Paragon board, prioritizing glyphs like Territorial for dexterity and making choices to enhance life and fire resistance. The speaker aims for a health pool of around 27,000 to 28,000, not including new aspects from malignant hearts.
They provide guidelines for gear prioritization while leveling, advising on the importance of strength in early items, especially blue and yellow items, and how to identify good gear. The video also touches on aspects to hunt for and the timing of finding legendary items, recommending level 25 as a key point to start effectively using Opals for gambling.
00:18:00
In this part of the video, the speaker discusses various strategies and key elements for character optimization in a game. They focus on maximizing damage reduction, particularly through the ‘might aspect’ and ‘iron blood’ for bleeding damage reduction, a common early find. The speaker emphasizes the importance of leveraging ‘berserking’ for bleeding effects, seeking ‘fortify’ through exceeding maximum fury, and the benefits of ‘ghost walker’ for improved movement speed. They mention the ‘Death Wish’ and ‘needle flare’ for Thorns and AOE damage, recommending these be applied to two-handed weapons. Additionally, ‘berserking wall’, ‘burning rage’, ‘bear clan’, ‘bull Chieftain’, and ‘Disobedience’ on the neck piece are highlighted. For gems, prioritizing basic skill damage and armor for jewelry is advised, with Sapphires exchangeable for Rubies for maximum life once fortification damage reduction exceeds 40%. Key gameplay tactics include picking up quests, moving north of town to farm mobs during an event without completing it, and returning to town to repeat the process for leveling up.
00:21:00
In this part of the video, the speaker discusses an efficient strategy for quickly gaining experience and valuable items in a game by utilizing specific events and quests. They advise running a loop where you finish an event for a resplendent chest, then move through a narrow pass to turn in a quest in a nearby town. This sets up for another event directly north. Completing these steps provides good gear and sets up grinding in dungeons to reach level 10. Emphasis is placed on returning to town to craft useful items, continuing to grind, and considering server conditions. They recommend alternating between different areas to manage server lag and maximize efficiency.
00:24:00
In this part of the video, the speaker discusses their strategy for efficient leveling and farming in a game. They describe alternating between dungeons and specific events to gain experience points and collect ovals, which can be used to buy keys or gamble for gear. The speaker highlights a rinse-and-repeat method of farming elites in a stronghold area, noting it’s one of the fastest ways to level up. They mention saving resources like silver ore and Hell Tide crystals for later stages. The speaker plans to grind from level 50 to 100 in Iron Hold, complete the Capstone dungeon, and then start nightmare farming. They emphasize that the outlined method helps even those who haven’t completed their Renown, and it accommodates storyline progression and new season content.
00:27:00
In this part of the video, the speaker expresses enthusiasm for the upcoming season and looks forward to playing alongside the viewers, specifically mentioning hardcore players. They reflect on the past week’s events and announce plans to release more content covering new features, such as malignant hearts and new aspects, once the new season starts. The speaker thanks the audience for their support and encourages them to subscribe to the channel.