Today I was inspired to try to create a barbarian that used the Burning Axe of Sankis. This build was inspired in part by viewing @ClericID and his gear. Anyway, lets get to the build, I'll try to keep it brief.

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Skills // Options

Primary attack- Anything you want (or none with WOTB variant)
Secondary - Whirlwind : Volcanic Eruption
1 - Earthquake: The Mountain's Call
2 - Battle Rage: Into the Fray
3 - Threatening Shout: Demoralize
4 - Sprint: Run like the wind

Passives
1. Ruthless
2. Unforgiving
3. Weapons Master
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How to play it// How it works

To run this build effectively you should be using a Burning Axe of Sankis, as this build revolves almost entirely around its use. By using this axe as your offhand (or mainhand) you gain random casts of Ignore Pain and an excellent buff to all fire damage. To make the maximum use of this axe, have your other weapon be either fire damage, or no elemental damage.

Threatening shout is used because you will be WWing more slowly than you would be with Hurricane. To remedy this you must draw enemies to you. It also reduces mobs damage output and has a short cooldown, which makes it great for fury generation and for survival.

Earthquake is used over WOTB in the main setup for this build because of its fire damage, and excellent AOE. In combination with threatening shout, you can draw enemies into your fiery inferno and melt their faces rather effectively.

There's no more explaining to be done, its basically just a WW build variant.
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Variations.....
WOTB Variant: Use WW as your primary attack, Put threatening shout as your secondary and then use Wrath Of the Berserker in your skill bar, When you do this, replace Ruthless or Weapons master with the Boon of Bul-Katho's Passive. By doing this it makes Thrive on Chaos not the only rune to use for WOTB, and you can try any of the others. This can get interesting, and make your burst damage pretty incredible.

Weapon Throw Variant: Use Weapon throw as your main attack and get a belt with 5 weapon throw reduction. The range can be fun to play with, and you can use a Three Hundreth Spear as your offhand, for even more damage.

Interesting build. Always wanted to know an effective use for that legendary.

@khan give it a try, I got my axe for 130k.

Posted by Buzzell at 12/23/2012 11:09 AM

Today I was inspired to try to create a barbarian that used the Burning Axe of Sankis. This build was inspired in part by viewing @ClericID and his gear. Anyway, lets get to the build, I'll try to keep it brief.

Yep i'm a muse. I just inspire people to great heights.

;P