Ok so I have a pretty well known barbarian on USEast for PvM and BvB. For those of you who don't know what that means, thats Player vs Monster and Barbarian vs Barbarian.

Yes, it is YellowWind if you've seen him around.

1: Introduction
2: Stats
3: Skillz
4: Gear
5: Intermission
6: PvM Guide
7: PvP Guide
8: Thanks for Visiting

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Ok so the point of this build is to hit as HARD as physically possible, as FAST as possible. No real reason to keep a fight going on longer than one swing right? Anyway... One whirlwind should be like a roundhouse kick to the face from Chuck Norris. There will only be one guy standing afterwards. So the goals of this build are:

1: over 15k ww damage (yeah its easily possible)
2: hit the IAS breakpoint (also, relatively easy)
3: over 10k AR (almost there for my barb)
4: over 15k defense (yeah... same as 2.)
5: make god bless the damage on the character screen

And that's pretty much the goals of the barbarian.

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Stats are pretty much self-determined:

Strength: 232 after all items put on (NO ENIGMA)
Dexterity: no max block, as there will be no shield... So as much as you see fit for the attack rating (or get charms)
Vitality: Everything else
Energy: Jesus... Why does a barbarian even have this on his character screen?

That's that.

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20 Whirlwind
20 MACE Mastery
20 Battle Orders
20 Shout
1-20 Iron Skin
1-10 Berserk
1 All prereqs
1 Battle Command
1 Natural Resistance

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Weapon:

3 main choices here:

Breath of the Dying Ethereal Thunder Maul
- +life/mana steal
- +up to 415% enhanced damage
- Ethereal Indestructible

Death Ethereal Thunder Maul
- +crushing blow/deadly strike
- still a lot of damage
- 20% bonus to AR

Foolz Ethereal Thunder Maul
- Foolz mod for major AR
- Huge damage if 220% enhanced damage
- Can be 2os (Zod/40ed/15ias jewel)
- Hard to find... I'm not even sure if I've seen one that exists!

Armor:

Fortitude Sacred Armor
- Huge Damage Boost
- Lots of defense and chilling armor to make it even better
- Personal Favorite

Prudence Ethereal Sacred Armor
- HUGE defense
- FHR and resists aren't too bad
- Cheap

Helm:

Arreats Face Slayer Guard (UPPED IS BETTER)
- 2 skill 2 bcomb skill
- Life leech
- Overall, looks gg

Halaberd's Reign
- Mastery bonus gives a good bonus
- People sometimes think it is a Arreat

Visionary Rare Slayer Guard
- Still gg look
- The bonus to AR is worth WAY more than a few skills would ever be, even to battle orders
- Hardest to acquire

Amulet:

Highlords Wrath
Metalgrid
Angelic Wings (ONLY IF USED WITH HALO)

Rings:

BK/Frost
Angelic Halo/Frost
Frost/Frost

Gloves:

Steelrends
Dracul's Grasp
20IAS/10CB/Life leech gloves for the CB lovers

Boots:

Gore Riders (UPPED IS BETTER)

Belt:

Verdungo's Hearty Cord
Nosferatu's Coil
Steelwrap (ONLY if double upped)
24FHR/10OW/Life belt

Switch

3/3/x CTA / 3/3/x CTA
3bo Sticks

Charms:

Lots of 3/20/20s OR 3/20/20s with Mastery Life GCs
Annihilus
Barbarian Torch

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I've ever eaten
Yum Yum Yum

This is the best burrito
I'ver ever eaten
Yum Yum Yum

With plenty of beans
and plenty of cheese
and plenty of rice
oh isn't it nice?

yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum

This is the best burrito I've ever eaten

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMn%5FbFn4UX4

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Whirlwind everything
Use Concentration if it's immune to physical.
Preffered Playstyle (For ME) - Left always Concentration :: F1 WW :: F2 Leap :: F5 B-Command :: F6 B-Orders :: F7 Shout :: F8 Town Portal

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Leap to test FHR
if their FHR fails, WW to them and they should die

Otherwise, just ww in circles around them.

should NOT BvC

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Thank you for getting to this point. If you look at my sig, thats my barbarian and his insane damage.

This guide was written by xxAusi2004xx. If you would like to reuse this guide elsewhere, outside of d2jsp.org, please pm me for permission.
Questions/Comments/YOU-FAIL-AT-LIFE-RAGE-MAIL me here.
Current V1.01

Change in V1.01 - Forgot Berserk as synergy to Concentration (magic damage) for physical immunes

Thank you again.

This post was edited by Ausi2004 on Apr 23 2011 07:27pm

the pvp and pvm guides are the best i've seen in this forum yet.

10/10

Thank you sir

i mean, concentration to remove immunes? genius!
and who knew grief isn't even in top 3 barb weapons? mind blowing.

again 10/10.

If anyone is interested, I will make s/cs of this build and try and get this sticky'd

yes meng, you should do that asap! this guild bestest barbaguild EVAR!

11/10

You've been trolled my friend. Sorry.

cant make death in maces

Thanks for the feedback, and using hero editor I'm making a perfect barb with this guild. Shouldn't take me longer than a half hour or so and ill start collecting pics and post em here. Then when I get a final thing done I'll put it up for sticky or whatever.



Didn't know that. I sorta looked at runeword before requirements. Thanks for help

This post was edited by Ausi2004 on Apr 23 2011 07:58pm

pretty nice, for i guess a further guiding i would put the stats of diff builds such as the fools high def setup and so on but as it is its great