You gave up so much from Barb3 to pick up Peltasta in that build, that’s probably why people are going to disagree with you. Barb has been buffed so much it doesn’t really make much sense to not go it anymore… It killed other options.
[quote=“Plasmagica, post:20, topic:353521”]HL does not give 50% damage it just boosts your crit attack stat by 50% but you do need at least barb c1 for the cleave debuff.
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I know that, my mistake I worded it wrong by saying crit damage (because I forgot what the stat was even called, critical attack) I did explain why yellow gems are so powerful. My first character was a HL1/Barb3/Doppel back when HL3 was superior oh how that’s changed.
Now the only options really are Rank 2’s choice between HL1 and Sw2. I think HL1 is better if you’re geared because restrain doesn’t do too much for you when you kill things so quickly or take little damage or does anything against bosses but as I said both are viable options that have their strengths.
Also who knows what stat changes in the future are going to bring too, +50% crit attack could be massive in the future when they buff strength or change stats.
