Throw is probably the fastest until you get to hell, and you hit a brick wall with your shitty ass damage, unless you have a decent set of weapons. I got super lucky on my single player and found a non eth lacerator, and I think a warshrike or maybe a deathbit.

Elaborate
Whats the built and stratergy

Usual classic strategy: run up a sorc barb and pally. Once you get enchant rush up a barb to 30 and equip bonesnap and don’t look back!

This is neither the fastest way nor most efficient, but certainly the most fun and favorite way to level a barb.

Double swing/frenzy i would say
Before double swing, regular attack

This post was edited by FeeDee on Jul 3 2026 02:05pm

1-26 is what takes a while. Double swing and its mana cost is a big help here. After you hit 27, roll an insight for merc and an honor naga or equivalent and you can start throwing out the more dps heavy skills, at first conc, and then berserk and whirlwind. Some mana leech helps a lot here, as does maek. Manalds are useful as is angelic set as it returns mana fairly fast on a barb fighting up close and personal. I always used charsi tier javelins for a1-a2/3, and switch to melee from a3-5.

dual throw to singer after mid nm

works well

chaos sanctuary 1-60

just keep good low lvl jewels and make a mule like this

and rares like this if u dont got enough jewels

1-29 is a painful grind in single player. My favorite method is to type
-act5 in command line for lod, then copy and paste my lvl33 character into d2r. It’s less painful. You still have to grind through all the quests you want but it’s better.

ahh you mean kind of like this



really nice of blizz to let me xfer my 1.09 ITH zerk over from LoD. It feels a bit weaker than i remember though.

This post was edited by Gilgameshed on Jul 3 2026 06:49pm