Thanks for the info! Yeah, I purposely did not enable ladder runewords to avoid farming for Grief

Finally a String of Ears. Feels safer than Thundergod's but reduces damage a bit. 8/8 life leach, 11/15 dmg reduciton.

Second IST rune

Continuing Travnical runs. Got a perfect Mara's (likely not used on a barb) and an upgrade Raven Frost. Would like to find some high runes like Ber.

Upgrade! Highlord's Wrath amulet. Seems to be slightly better than Metalgrid-- definitely clears Travnical faster.

Um rune and a nice gambled ring.

Wow, fun drop from Mephisto:

Wolfhowl
3/3 Warcries
6/6 Feral Rage
6/6 Lycanthropy
5/6 Werewolf
11/15 Str
8/15 Dex
15/15 Vit
135/150 ED

Actually does a great job at clearing /players3 Hell without any other modifications. Not better than whirlwind but super fun from time to time :rofl:.

Another Gul rune!



Buriza from Hell Andy. Another cool werewolf weapon



BotD is more effective though



This post was edited by JohnnyDazzle on Jun 17 2020 10:23am

Leviathan from Diablo! That is a really cool armor, I love it! Could definitely make it work. However, unfortunately it seems a bit weaker than Lionheart:

Lionheart
475 Def
20% ED
25 Str
15 Dex
20 Vit
50 Life
30% All Res

Leviathan
1623 Def
48 Str
23% Dr

Lionheart is effectively ~100 Str (25 (str) + 20 (ED) + 15 (dex) + 20 (vit) + 12.5 (50 life)), so that definitely beats +50 from Leviathan.
30% All Res is also slightly better than 23% Dr, since I already have 11% Dr from String of Ears and low resistances.
The only advantage is 1600 Defense, but that's not a big deal. Even socketing with 40%ED jewel wouldn't change the picture.

That's exactly the reason why runewords suck.. Even a simple Lionheart is so overpowered that it beats the rarest unique armors

It will be useful for Merc though, since they can't get Dr very easily. However, Shaft is probably better since it has higher Dr and +Life. Who balanced this game??

Little bit of blood ring crafting. Nothing that beats my 100AR / 20 Str / 5ll rare





This post was edited by JohnnyDazzle on Jun 18 2020 02:46pm