Berserker Skill: Convert Physical Damage into Magic Damage.
Pro's: Easily kill Physical Immunes, Iron Maiden and Thorns do not cause you to get damaged.
Con's: Zero Defense.

Silence (Runeword) Berserker Axe
Pro's: +2Skills, All Resis 75%, %enhanced dmg to Undead, 30% mf

Items
Weapon 1 RuneMaster 5soc: (Peferably Eth with high %enhanced dmg: Zod, Ist, Ist, Ist, Ist) = 120%mf
Weapon 2 Silence Berserker Axe: (does not have to be berserker axe, but is handy) = 30%mf
Armor Enigma MP: (teleport, +skills, +str and mf) =+1%mf per lvl
Ammy Highlords: (+1skill, 20%ias)
Ring 1 30% Nagel =30%mf
Ring 2 30% Nagel =30%mf
Belt Goldwrap (10% ias & 30% mf. Upping this gives you 16slots for pots) = 30%mf (*Edited)
Boots War Travellers: (45+mf) = 45%-50%mf
Gloves Rare Gloves with 20ias & up to 25%mf = 25%mf (or Chance Guards 35%-40%mf)
Helm Arreats Face (shael'd for 50%fhr to reach 5frame bp)

Switch Wpns
2x Hoto's (+skills for Howl & Teleport, fcr for tele'ing and keeping up your resistences)

Inventory
Gheeds: 35-40%mf
Anni: x/x/x
Torch: x/x
Mf sc's: 6% to 7%mfers about 10-15 = 60%-90%mf

Merc: Act1 Rogue Fire (if cold, likely chance to shatter body)
Shako or Ral'd Andys Visage (when high enough lvl) Note: eth better
Ebugged Fort
Faith

Attributes (*Edited, srry forgot these)
Note: If you think you may revamped this build for another, save 50-100 points!
Str: NONE = Base 30
Dex: NONE = Base 20
Energy: NONE = Base ?? forgot
Vita: BASICALLY ALL

Skills
Note: You will have to decide on what one to max out first, or which is better in your opinion, I opted for B
A: Maxing Howl before shout will be good for scaring monsters away for a longer time and better radius
B: Maxing Shout before Howl will be good for you and your mercenaries defense

20 Battle Orders: (standard)
20 Berserk (standard)
20 Shout (synergy standard)
20 Axe Mastery (standard)
20 Howl Max this out as you are going up in lvls (synergy standard)
5 Find Item (5 +skills from items will give you a 49%chance to find items, more if you switch to hoto's)
1 Natural Resistences
1 Battle Command
1 All Pre Requisites

My Belt Setup
1 Super Healing
2 Super Mana
3 Full Juvs
4 Full Juvs

My Hotkeys Righthand setup, reverse for lefthand
Berserk This is hardset to the left mouse button, no hotkeys
F1 N/A
F2 Teleport
F3 Howl
F4 Concentration

F5 Battle Command
F6 Shout
F7 Battle Orders
F8 Town Portals

Mf% Lvls
Level 80-85 455% - 505%mf
Level 86-90 506% - 510%mf
Level 91-95 511% - 515%mf

Private Chaos Running
Switch to hotos, Battle Commands, Shout & Battle Orders (2x) tele and howl to the seals, switch and kill Casters that stand around, open, kill boss from seal and search bod, repeat until Diablo comes out and kill with Runemaster (about 1-2minutes to kill him)

Note: You can use the Private Chaos Running method to do: Eldritch, Shenk, Andy, Meph & Duriel (yes Duriel). Now when you are doing the pits &/or Ancient Tunnels you will not use Howl unless you are swarmed by too many and are in trouble. The main skills used in pit and Ancient tunnels is Berserk and Concentration.

This post was edited by izParagonzi on Oct 11 2006 03:33pm

Nice guide mate, but, If I've read it right, you can't clear sanc? Nice items drop there also.

You can clear sanctuary, it is just slower, I opted for the fast clearing and chose to only "Find Item" from the bosses of the Seals (since they drop 2 items and pots, when killed and if your %find items kicks in)

And thank you for the comments

Please also note people that the Runemaster axe also gives you the "Can Not Be Frozen" attribute

This post was edited by izParagonzi on Oct 11 2006 03:46pm

I see, and is it hard to stay alive or not?

I'd like to try it but it seems a little bit... weak to me.

Hmm, the higher lvl the better for you to live longer (goes with most builds), basically if you opt to do fast runs like in Chaos Sanctuary, you SHOULD not die, I am lvl82 and have not died, that is because I use Howl on switch, and he is quite capable at dealing the damage too.

I see. And Pit runs? do you have to hack into monsters sometimes or do they die in 1 hack

Actually you can kill these quite easily, slower than light sorc and javazon, but very effective. At most 3 hits, remember to use concentration when being mob'd, you get synergy for Battle Orders and Berserk, and your skill is quite effective in killing them also with this skill with only a base of 1 point. And if you are in Dire Trouble (Archers are a bitch) use Howl.

This post was edited by izParagonzi on Oct 11 2006 04:03pm

whats your char screen damage?

Well, I made it on single player

and it is surprisingly nice!

but what i dont get is:

When do you use conc and when do you use berserk?

But I never thought it was so surprising, I had full res, about 5.5k life and fast tele.

Only problem is mana, but few mana charms and pots will do the trick.

Very, very nice, I think I'm actually going to build it.

PS: I tried travi with it and howl a few times and kill the uniqs, howl and kil the rest, very easy. And, I got a nice sum of gold and could hork the corpses, and I found an eth reapers toll xD

Have not checked the character sheet on the screen dmg for awhile, but last time I did about 1.8-3k