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I've been playing several characters in Diablo 3, but my first and furthest along is my barbarian. Recently, a friend (monk) and I have started making key-runs in order to craft the Hellfire Ring. Although I don't die as often as he does (barely) playing at elevated monster power, he does a ton more damage than I do. I'm doing around 27k damage. After some googling around, it appears that I could get more damage out of this fella, but I can't find anything that actually shows a good average damage for a 60+ barbarian, just lots of "look at my barbarian he did 6-bajillion DPS against Azmodan" type posts. Does anyone have any knowledge or resources for this?

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You need more crit damage. That's where the synergy with crit chance starts rocketing your DPS into the six digits. – fbueckert Jan 29 at 17:16
27k is fairly low for an end game barbarian. To be able to solo or handle mp5 reasonably well, you should have at least 50k dps (not including battle fury or wotb). This highly depends on how much available gold you have though. I can't open your link at work so I can't make any gear suggestions for now. As an example, my barb had ~200k fully buffed dps (~140k unbuffed) and was able to solo mp7. – spartacus Jan 29 at 17:26
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some very specific gearing tips based on your stuff: Ditch sky splitter, find a high dps axe with a socket so you can put an emerald into it for crit hit damage. Drop your gladiator gauntlets and get yourself a pair of cheap crit + attack speed gloves, preferably with res and/or stats. Your DPS is a bit low currently for life steal to be that effective, so you need to bump it up to the 70k range at the minimum. This is the usual build end game barbs run for a ww/tornado build: us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/barbarian#ahPRUk!VYZ!YZcYZc – spartacus Jan 30 at 3:49
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your life is also very low, i'd consider putting amethysts into the sockets instead of rubies. I don't know how much gold you have to work with though. – spartacus Jan 30 at 3:51
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general gearing tricks to save money: 1 vit = ~0.7 resist all = ~7 armor = ~7str when determining EHP, but 100 vit costs 1/3rd as much as 70 res all. 4.5 stats = 1% crit damage (saves a LOT of money for weapons). My axe with 60% crit dam and a socket would easily cost 50+m where the same axe with 270 str (~60% crit dam) cost me 12m. On top of that STR boosts armor, which is even nicer. – spartacus Feb 5 at 13:35
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Check DiabloProgress. You're asking for an end game barb, so compare to the world number 1.

The stats you should get: Minimum 1000dps weapon with a socket. Minimum of 2.3 attacks per second. At least 45% critical hit chance. Critical hit damage. Around 2k strength. 8-10k armour. 600 AR

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oh. and vitality too. – He Hui Jan 30 at 9:42
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most of the top end players on diablo progress has spent billions of gold (and possibly hundreds of $$$) on their gear, I wouldn't use them as a measuring stick :P – spartacus Jan 30 at 13:02
he's asking end game gear, in case you didnt notice. keyword: end-game – He Hui Jan 30 at 14:34
hellfire costs at least 2 million for the recipe only. If he can afford hellfire, and can win uber bosses, he can afford to be at least 150k dps – He Hui Jan 30 at 14:36
2m isn't a lot of gold, most of the gear on the top end of diablo-progress costs 500m+ for a single piece. Hitting 100k dps should be fine and would cost maybe 30m-50m or so, which is fairly reasonable. – spartacus Jan 30 at 14:43
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Stack crit chance and crit damage on most of your items. You want a 1:10 ratio for crit chance to damage. For example, 45% crit chance =/= 450% crit damage.

Also, you should get a lot of vitality on your items. Do not worry too much about strength, but try to get a 1:3 ratio for strength to vitality, as in 50 strength and 150 vitality. My barb at level 60 with no paragon is around 250k dps unbuffed. Fully buffed with wob and br and punish rune in bash, I hover around 470-480k.

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