kungapa

Soulbound weapons use whatever weapon proficiency you have - so for example, Unlabored Blade would work with WF:Ruffian, for a Sabre/Dagger dual wield.

Would Glittering Gloves work with this? That might be a nice bonus on top of the other status modifiers.

So Binding Rope + Barbaric Retaliation + Sura's Supper Plate would stack, but throw Coat of Ill Payment in there, and it would conflict with the Rope?

Didn't test wreath + rope. The aura issue you describe sounds like a nice bug though. Theoretically, the auras could have come to "pulse" things like the stunning effect and the disorienting from the weapons (due to Carnage, as I assume the bug didn't impact auto-attack status effects).

Starcaller is nice - but there is a nice synergy between a stunning and a disorienting weapons that I wanted to exploit. Lower their defenses, and then stun them. The Forgotten Tears of the Beloved has a 10% on-hit daze effect, but we are already dazing with the Glittering Gloves. I tested it a bit yesterday (killing civilians in Stalwart village...), and from what I remember both raw damage from Barbaric Retaliation and Binding Rope effect triggered, and both sickened and frightened showed up as a status effect on the enemies. I'll go back and double check - and maybe throw on the Coat of Ill Payment to test the regular retaliation too.

I posted this in another thread, but I would like to bring it up for discussion separately. One barbarian that I have had a lot of fun with for PotD is the stun-lock or excessive status effect barbarian. The idea is to have the barbarian use carnage to pile as many on-hit/crit status effects as possible on the enemy - stun and disorienting being the main ones, but also dazed - as well as using passive auras and effects from being hit, such as sickened, terrified and stuck. Attributes: - 10/8/16/18/18/8, or something thereabouts. We want accurate and fast carnage, over as large of an area as possible to proc those crits to shut the enemy down. Race: - Hearth Orlan, to get more crits. Could also bump perception further. Key abilities: - Threatening presence - Brute force (more crits if you target the lower defense) - Barbaric retaliation (does this proc dazed, stun and disorienting?) - Frenzy Talents: - Accurate carnage - Weapon focus (peasant or soldier, depending on weapon choice) - Two weapon style - Interruption (potentially) - Apprentice's sneak attack (what with stun allowing it) Weapons: - Here there is a choice. There are two combinations of weapons that will give you disorienting (-5 to all defenses), and stunning. Either spears (Cladhalíath and Vile Loners Lance), or warhammers (Godansthunyr and Strike Hard). - Each has its benefits - speed and two different damage types for the warhammers, and more accuracy from the spears - Of note is that both Godansthunyr and Vile Loners Lance have bonuses to their interrupt values - which is a nice bonus - Possible to mix and match, but then taking two weapons focus might be good - or take the weapon focus for the stunning weapon Other equipment: - Gauntlets: Glittering Gloves to apply dazed (maybe overkill with stun already - but why not?) - Head: Executioner's Hood to apply a passive frightened effect in AoE - Waist: Binding rope, so foes hitting you get stuck - Potentially Sanguine plate and Shod-in-faith, but that is a great combo for most frontliners. Swaddling sheet could also work, for more synergy when being hit by a crit. - Potentially additional retaliation items - assuming dazed, stun and disorienting triggers from retaliation strikes Total status effects applied: Applied as attacks: - Disorienting - Vile Loners Lance / Strike Hard - Stunning - Cladhialath / Godansthunyr - Dazed - Glittering Gloves (including from Barbaric Retaliation, I believe) Applied as passive AoE: - Sickening - Threatening Presence - Frightened - Executioner's Hood Applied on being hit: - Stuck - Binding Rope Of course, durganize everything to get the speed up there, pile on a Dire Blessing, Devotions of the Faithful, and Frenzy. Crowns of the Faithful or other intellect buffs also work great - get the AoE larger. Edit questions: Are there any more status effect items that could be piled on to this? Would more retaliation be beneficial - or does retaliation not proc the status effects?

One barbarian that I have had a lot of fun with - and that works well - for PotD is the stun-lock or excessive status effect barbarian. The idea is to have the barbarian use carnage to pile as many status effects as possible on the enemy - stun and disorienting being the key ones, but also dazed, sickened and terrified. Attributes: - 10/8/16/18/18/8, or something thereabouts. We want accurate and fast carnage, over as large of an area as possible to proc those crits to shut the enemy down. Abilities: - Threatening presence - Brute force (more crits if you target the lower defense) - Barbaric retaliation Talents: - Accurate carnage - Weapon focus (peasant or soldier, depending on weapon choice) - Two weapon style - Interruption (potentially) - Apprentice's sneak attack (what with stun allowing it) Weapons: - Here there is a choice. There are two combinations of weapons that will give you disorienting (-5 to all defenses), and stunning. Either spears (Cladhalíath and Vile Loners Lance), or warhammers (Godansthunyr and Strike Hard). - Each has its benefits - speed and two different damage types for the warhammers, and more accuracy from the spears - Of note is that both Godansthunyr and Vile Loners Lance have bonuses to their interrupt values - which is a nice bonus - Possible to mix and match, but then taking two weapons focus might be good - or take the weapon focus for the stunning weapon Other equipment: - Gauntlets: Glittering Gloves to apply dazed (maybe overkill with stun already - but they are separate procs) - Head: Executioner's Hood to apply a passive frightened effect in an AoE - Waist: Binding rope, so foes hitting you get stuck - Potentially Sanguine plate and Shod-in-faith, but that is a great combo for most frontliners So total status effects applied: Applied as attacks: - Disorienting - Vile Loners Lance / Strike Hard - Stunning - Cladhialath / Godansthunyr - Dazed - Glittering Gloves (including from Barbaric Retaliation, I believe) Applied as passive AoE: - Sickening - Threatening Presence - Frightened - Executioner's Hood Applied on being hit: - Stuck - Binding Rope Of course, durganize everything to get the speed up there, pile on a Dire Blessing and Devotions of the Faithful, and Frenzy. Crowns of the Faithful or other intellect buffs also work great - get the AoE larger.