Yes, this is about right.
Now, here's the thing: I did some math, and I found out that the amount of health you can get funneling is WAY< more impacted by your crit rate than your attack speed. I want badly to be able to carry both weapon master and ruthless. Maybe that just makes me ridiculous. By using a shield rather than dual wielding, I can actually theoretically get more health funnel from WW. And because I've got the shield that makes me think I can get away with ONE defense passive. I waffle between tough as nails, steel nerves, and superstition (superstition really helps against those "impossible" champ affixes like jail/mortar etc)
A shield with high block can give you 10% crit, as well as up to ~50% DR overall (if looked at as a separate source of DR) - in certain situations. Because of the way Block can completely negate small damage components, and because shields have an insanely high base armor value. 2nd weapon gets you faster attack and LOTS of crit dmg (these things are good) but I was trying to think through the way to get the most from funnel and still maintain good enough defense.
Here's how it works with 1H/shield ww crit:
Looking at a tier 3 geared max barb:
http://diablonut.incgamers.com/planner/72338
With berserker rage and a killing spree rolling, with the 10% crit from axe mastery and the 5% from ruthless you now have: 82% crit (holy ****)
I chose all haste affixes assuming a 30% nerf is incoming to attack speed across the board. This could be off by a mile, we will see. But this barb has 2.31 attack speed with those assumptions.
If you can get 3 mobs in your whirlwind:
13.9 hits/sec with whirlwind
11.5% health/sec with funnel
100k health pool? 11.5k health/sec. 827 health per hit. ww has a 13.3% coefficient - equivalent to 6.2k life on hit (o.o)
^^^ Very little RNG even, with this. At high crit you won't get a "bad streak", almost never.
If you dual wield and get rid of ruthless, okay let's have a look at that:
2.66 attack speed (again assuming the 30% nerf across the board for haste)
character screen: 44.5% crit. Axe mastery/berserker rage/killing spree: 67.5% crit.
If you get 3 mobs in your whirlwind:
15.96 hits/sec with whirlwind
10.8% health/sec with funnel
100k health pool? 10.8k health/sec. 677 health per hit. equivalent to 5.1k life on hit.
So as you see, it's pretty equivalent on the health return front, although it can be easier to manage fury with slower attack speed.
Dual wielding is undoubtedly much higher DPS. 200% crit dmg + 15% AS vs 10% crit? The dual wielding wins by a mile.
But from the standpoint of having to give up something offensive to gain some defense, I like putting on a shield in off-hand over dropping ruthless for steel nerves. For me, steel nerves is about a 10% EH gain, whereas a shield is worth much more than that in most situations.
Sorry, this isn't really what you asked, but hopefully sharing my thought process and where I wound up will help you with yours. The LoH comparisons have no impact on your choice at all, it just shows exactly how OP a channeled %-based heal is, tied to a fury spender that does damage too.
As a side note I would be a lot more concerned with life per second than life on hit with this build, health funnel heals for a LOT and the only time you won't be funneling is when you're out of fury. If you go with a rapid fury generator (I use cleave/reaping) you can just save your active defense CD for the moment when you're out of fury. I stomp and cleave twice -> back to fully fury, time to ww again! The time you're REALLY worried about healing is when you can't group up your enemies and that doesn't work anymore. Now you have to resort to running, and life per second is more meaningful. Not that LPS and LoH are exclusive, at all - you can get both.
(ffs: my ww barb died at 57. HC. starting over again, not giving up on this idea!)
Originally Posted by zakaluka
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I only do ~14k with battle rage using a 590 dps axe with a perfect square emerald in it.
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