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Spin2Win (or S2W) is the nickname for a [[cookie cutter]] Barbarian [[build]]. It's was the most powerful and popular build in during [[Diablo 3 through patch v1.07, made famous vanilla]] and was popularized by [[Alkaizer]], the first ever Paragon 100 character.
These changes mean that while players can still enable all the skills in this build, it's much less effective than it was in the old days, and is no longer a popular play style.
==Example Spin2WinBuild Details==
The following refers to the build when it worked very well, during 2012 and 2013 in Diablo 3 vanilla. The particulars of the build varied from player to player, but the essential core was the use of [[Sprint]]: [[Run Like the Wind]] at the same time as [[Whirlwind]]. Sprint provided a movement speed buff to Whirlwind, and emitted tornadoes along with those created by Whirlwind. These tornadoes [[proc]]'ed with [[Battle Rage]]: [[Into the Fray]] buff to generate huge amounts of Fury. These enabled the Barbarian to use Sprint and WW non-stop, and with good enough gear and very rapid movement between groups of monsters, a Barb could remain in the Wrath of the Berserker form full time, granting huge damage bonuses, as well as additional movement speed and immunity to [[CC]]] effects. ==Example Spin2Win Build== A fairly typical example of the build can be seen below:
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The LMB skill varies by personal preference, as do the passives, mostly depending on the quality of gear. Players without top quality gear (or who are were playing on higher MP [[difficulty]] levels) need needed to use the passives to improve their Fury generation, [[Life Steal]], resistances, defense, etc. Characters in better gear tend tended to focus more on increasing their DPS. ==An Overpowered Build?==
Most players felt this build was [[overpowered]], as it had no real weaknesses and was not very expensive to equip or complicated to operate. With it Barbarians could move very quickly, kill rapidly, generate almost infinite resource, and ignore almost all enemy attacks. It was a powerful build for farming, but could also be used for high [[MP]] grinding, such as [[key runs]], with high end equipment.
Blizzard clearly agreed with the player consensus, as this build was nerfed to non-functionality by the numerous skill changes implemented in [[Diablo 3 version 2]].