Rend Wastes Barbarian Speed Farming Variation
Wastes Rend Barbarian Speed Farming Variation
The Wastes Rend Barbarian deals with Normal Rift farming excellently, its relaxing and smooth playstyle makes it very suitable for the purpose. We have solo speed GR rankings and solo speed T16 rankings if you want to know more about which builds are best for speed farming.
Within the limited scope of regular difficulties, the necessary damage and toughness to triumph over the enemy is significantly smaller. Thus, your best course of action is to improve utility and speed.
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Adapting Rotation
When you are speed farming regular rifts, parts of your playstyle will adapt to the lowered challenge and focus more on speed and utility.
A large part of your rotation will remain the same during speed farming; you
will still spend the majority of your time Whirlwinding left and right,
which applies
Rends through the
Ambo's Pride legendary power.
On the buff side, you apply
Wrath of the Berserker on cooldown and still
keep
Battle Rage active at all times, but you will add a mobility layer
on top by chaining
Sprint activations as well. You will be using
Furious Charge
Merciless Assault as an instant charge from one enemy pack
to the next, as well as a trigger for
Band of Might (if you choose to
maintain it during speed farming).
Adapting Skills and Passives
Parts of the skill and passive selection will overlap with the base Greater Rift progression build, but others will have to change according to the task at hand. Ability to cross over great distances faster and more efficiently take precedence.
Whirlwind
Wind Shear is maintained from the progression build, as it will still be responsible for the application of
Rend
Bloodbath (also retained) through the
Ambo's Pride legendary power.
Wrath of the Berserker
Insanity is an omnipresent self-buff in both versions of the build.
Battle Rage stays in the build from the GR progression spec, but swaps runes from the healing-oriented
Swords to Ploughshares to the extra movement speed of
Ferocity.
- The duo of enemy displacement skills from the progression build —
Ancient Spear
Rage Flip and
Ground Stomp
Wrenching Smash — will give way to two mobility skills,
Sprint
Marathon and
Furious Charge
Merciless Assault. Note that if you choose to drop
Band of Might from your setup, you can slot
Ignore Pain
Bravado in the place of
Furious Charge with similar success.
Rampage,
Berserker Rage and
Boon of Bul-Kathos will be a solid, damage-oriented foundation of your passive selection.
- You can change the flexible fourth passive slot from progression staples like
Ruthless to the globe-consuming movement buff of
Pound of Flesh to further speed up your clears.
Adapting Gear
Most of the gear from the Greater Rift progression build will still make sense for speed farming, but a few variations will be necessary in order to maximize your productivity and momentum during regular Rift clears.
The speed farming variant of the Wastes Rend Barbarian still utilizes the
6-piece powers of the Wastes set,
but a useful alteration you can make is to drop Tasset of the Wastes in
favor of
Hexing Pants of Mr. Yan, of course cubing
Ring of Royal Grandeur
in the process. These legendary pants make resource management in this
constantly moving build a breeze, as well as adding a smattering of damage to
your overall
Rend burst.
Lamentation is kept in the speed farming variant, as it contributes
too much to the Rend playstyle to be dropped.
In your jewelry, the recommended setup shifts away from the steady trickle of
cooldown reduction of Obsidian Ring of the Zodiac and the timing-based damage
bonuses of
Convention of Elements. Early on in character progression, or
if you prefer a simpler setup to play with in general, you can play with a setup
of
Avarice Band and a
Band of Might.
Avarice Band is an Act
3 cache legendary ring that increases your gold and health globe pickup radius
as you pick up gold, stacking to the massive, half-screen circle of 30 yards
— all for a generous 10 second duration. Its legendary power will greatly
assist you in maintaining the movespeed bonuses of
Boon of the Hoarder, as
well as
Pound of Flesh. The
Band of Might is there to provide you with
its incomparable damage reduction bonuses, triggered via
Furious Charge in
a speed farming setup.
If you want to hyper-optimize your speed farming performance, you can alter
the second ring slot to Rechel's Ring of Larceny for its Fear-based speed
proc, which takes advantage of the guaranteed Fear-on-hit roll of a worn
Echoing Fury.
During speedfarming, where the multiple runes of Wrath of the Berserker
that come from
Mortick's Brace are overkill in many regards, the preferred
bracers become
Warzechian Armguards, for the environment destruction
speed buffs that are easily provided by the AoE of this build. The former
favorites, the elite spawning
Nemesis Bracers, are still very valuable,
but they can now be equipped on the follower while still getting their bonus via
the Emanate mechanics. You should still equip them in groups, where you cannot
have a follower with you. The
Nemesis Bracers value comes from the
additional loot — not to mention progression — coming from the extra
elite spawns. They let you finish standard rifts that much faster, and acquire
the coveted GR keys in greater amounts.
Finally, the Istvan's Paired Blades set will be too defensive for the limited
challenges of standard Rifts. You have two solid options for the weapons during
speed farming. In a simpler, more straightforward setup, you can use the
Bul-Kathos's Oath set — Bul-Kathos's Warrior Blood and
Bul-Kathos's Solemn Vow — for their combination of convenient Fury
generation and Movement Speed bonuses. If you want to hyper-optimize your speed
farming however (at the cost of a slightly more demanding gearing), your weapon
slots will be best taken by
Ambo's Pride (leaving space in the Cube for
speedrun-oriented powers) and
Echoing Fury (mostly for its Movement Speed
bonuses from the Frenzy buff).
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Waist |
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Legs |
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Feet |
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Amulet |
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Ring #1 |
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To help you with farming the gear you need for your builds, we have two very useful guides that you can access by clicking the links below: a Salvage Guide to help you quickly check whether or not you can safely salvage a piece of gear and a Legendary Farming Guide to help you efficiently farm legendaries and set items.
Adapting Gems
Taeguk remains a universally desired damage and defense amplification
gem for channeling-based builds.
You will be using Wreath of Lightning as a replacement of
Bane of the Trapped strictly for its level 25 property — a sizable
movement speed bonus (in fact, you can stop leveling the gem right then and
there). Note that you can (and should) utilize
Bane of the Trapped for as
long as you feel the need for its damage multiplier, and only transition to
Wreath of Lightning when you comfortably overpower the content.
Boon of the Hoarder is a great speed farming inclusion, as it increases
both your gold income (necessary for empowering GRs) as well as your movement
speed.
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For more information about gems, please refer to our guide on gems.
Adapting Kanai's Cube
Kanai's Cube
In the easier, initial setup you will match the weapon Cube slot to the
progression build, using Ambo's Pride for its crucial
Rend bonuses
while wielding the Bul-Kathos set. In an optimized setup where you wield Ambo's
and Echoing Fury, you will be using
Messerschmidt's Reaver in this slot
for its CDR-per-kill powers, which offer a speedfarm-appropriate counterpart to
the more GR-oriented
Obsidian Ring of the Zodiac. You can also alternate to
In-geom in this slot, and see which one fits your playstyle better. The
goal of both is to provide you with a
Wrath of the Berserker reset as soon
as possible, ideally overlapping.
Goldwrap is a speedfarming staple which renders you near-invulnerable
as you pick up gold; it offers tremendous synergy with the triumvirate of
Avarice Band and
Boon of the Hoarder.
In the more traditional setup, this slot should be taken by your weakest roll
of the three jewelry recommendations — Avarice Band,
Band of Might of
Obsidian Ring of the Zodiac (if you go according to
the table above for example, you would cube ORotZ). If you go for the
hyper-optimization route with worn
Hexing Pants of Mr. Yan, you will need to
complete the Wastes 6-piece bonuses with a
Ring of Royal Grandeur in the
Cube.
The Kanai's Cube can be used for much more than simply extracting Legendary powers from items. Please refer to our Kanai's Cube guide for more information.
Follower
The recommended follower for this build during standard rift farming for keys is the Enchantress due to her numerous utility bonuses, allowing you to smooth out your speed runs even further.
For more information regarding followers, we advise you to read our Follower Guide, which contains detailed advice for choosing the skills and the gear of your follower.
Legendary Potion
Waller affixes are problematic for Rend Barb builds, since they greatly limit
your opportunities to weave and DoT from one pack to the next, back and forth,
which is the general playstyle of the build. As such, our general recommendation
for your legendary potion — especially for standard Rifts, where threats
are significantly lower — is the Bottomless Potion of Kulle-Aid, which
allows you to break through Waller affixes.
Changelog
- 13 Apr. 2022: Guide reviewed for Season 26.
- 09 Dec. 2021: Added Season 25 Soul Shard recommendations.
- 22 Jul. 2021: Added S24 Ethereal recommendation.
- 31 Mar. 2021: Revised gearing recommendations and added follower recommendation.
- 18 Nov. 2020: Revised base Cube armor slot choice. Added S22 Cube recommendation.
- 30 Jun. 2020: No changes required for Season 21.
- 12 Mar. 2020: Revised the guide to include a beginner-friendly Bul-Kathos setup.
- 19 Nov. 2019: Guide revised and updated for Season 19.
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