Death's Breath Farming Guide - Optimised Skills for Barbarian

Only at the start of the game you will have a high demand for Death's Breath. Later you find enough by playing the game and killing more elites at higher difficulty. So this guides will help you at the start of the game if you want farm explicit Deaht's Breath. Later after you have better gear there will be not such a high demand until Blizzard change anything. :)

Information about drop rate and other crafting materials you can find here.


Death's Breath can be obtained by killing elites.
Therefore we need a spot with a fast and easy killable elite at the highest difficulty level.

Preparation
1. Start Campaign Mode Act 1 - Quest 6.2 Speak with Alaric - at normal difficult
2. Go into Festering Woods
3. Search for "Warriors Rest"
4. Teleport to town and leave game

Now start game again at higher difficulty.
I suggest a minimum of Torment I, also with bad starting gear.
You can optimize your skills only for this one elite pack.

Run
1. Take TP to Warriors Rest
2. Kill elite pack with optimized skills.
3. Pick up all items.
4. Teleport to town.
5. Leave game and repeat.


Optimized Skillset for Barbarian with starting gear

http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/barbarian#WlXPTk!hYXe!cYcZYb

L - Frenzy - Maniac
If you have surviving problems you can use smite for stun.
R - Avalanche - Tetonic Rift
If you have surviving problems you can use Glacier for freeze.
1 - Leap - Death from Above
To Jump into the elite pack.
2 - Wrath of the Berserker - Insanity
damage and immun to imparing effects
3 - Earthquake - Molten Fury
aoe damage
4 - Warcry - Invigorate
for better survival

P1 - Unforgiving
P2 - Weapons Master
P3 - Berserker Rage
P4 - Superstition

There are many useful skills. You can experiment by yourself what fits you best.

My gameplay:

Warcry and run until I see elite pack.
Jump into elite pack.
Activate Wrath of the Berserker.
Frenzy to full fury.
Use Jump again.
Use Avalanche and Earthquake.
Then use Jump if I must escape or need a stun to survive.
Finish elite pack with frenzy.

New Words created! Loot 2.0, Paragon 2.0

With the new expansion Reaper of Souls there many interesting changes, which we know so far.


Loot 2.0

•Less items will drop in comparison to D3 Vanilla.

•Vanilla farming run would give 256 normal, 399 magic, 275 rares and 1 legendary item, in Reaper of Souls the same run would give 73 normal, 266 magic, 83 rare and 6 legendary items!

•White items will be useful as a new crafting reagent.

•Smart Drop is a system which gives each item a chance that its affix rolls will be focused on the class currently being played.

•From some of the items seen (3k DPS and 300+ mainstat weapons), the new Level 70 items will have more potential and (eventually) overpower all current Level 63 Affix Items.

•All Legendaries can roll at all levels (with power/affixes and level requirement that match that level).

•Legendary will be build-changers, by drastically changing particular skills.


Paragon 2.0

•The Paragon system has had a huge overhaul. It is no longer per-character, but account wide

•Instead of the current bonuses your account gains 1 Paragon Point per level to spend on different stats

•No longer has a cap

•Stats are separated into Core (Str, Dex, Int, Vit), Attack (Crit Chance, Crit Damage, Attack Speed, Cooldown Reduction), Defense (Health %, Resist All, Armor, Dodge %, Block Chance %) and Utility (Run Speed, Magic Find, Gold Pickup Radius)

•Paragon Points can be respecced

•Each Paragon Level adds one paragon point to all your characters. You can distribute them differently for each character

•Retroactively Paragon Points will be determined by your overall experience gained so far, not the sum of your Paragon level number for your characters

•Paragon levels are separate for Normal and Hardcore modes

•Dying in Hardcore does not take away from your earned Paragon Points