Hi all. I've just reached NM A1 on my untwinked (almost) single pass Frenzy sword barb (lvl 49).

1. I feel my kill speed is a little lacking, and am on a lookout for better weapons. Currently, I'm using a malice war sword and civerb cudgel. What weapons (or bases) should I be on a lookout for or dreaming of at this stage? Should I be shopping/gambling/crafting? So far I'm only thinking of making a strength or honor rune word in a better base. I ignored a 2 soc gladius in norm A5 and I'm a little regretting it.

2. As for end game items, I was thinking of working towards oath + crescent moon. Then I came across lawbringer, and despite the weaker stats, its aura and decrep looks helpful. Any thoughts? I'm not even sure if I will be able to luck pul um and mal in single pass though..

3. Also for those with single pass experience, what's the chances that I will have enough runes to make multiple of these mid rune words? The problem with me now is that I'm unwilling to spend runes on 'weaker bases' as I have this fear of not having the said runes ready when I find an ideal base (or that I will be able to find a better base soon...). For example, making an oath in a non ethereal weapon. Or what's the point of my single pass play when I finally find my dream 15ed ethereal 4s CS in a5 hell..

4. What's a good base for treachery? Or does it not matter and I should just make it in any 3 soc exceptional/elite armour that I can wear/find first, and then upgrade later?

5. Insight looks like a pretty good merc weapon. At this NM A1 stage, what are some good bases which I should look out for? Then what base to upgrade later? Or are there other unique/runeword weapons I can dream of that will blow insight away?

6. What are some realistic options for CBF for untwinked single pass?

Thanks all!

1) butcher's pupil; black rw
2) lawbringer is nice
3) without grind it's a bit hard
4) any elite light/medium armor
5) insight has no use on barb. later on you want to have reaper
6) rhyme is the easiest by far but clearly it's not a thing on frenzy. your best bet if you don't want to totally waste an item slot is duriel shield, raven would be the best thing, here a list of all sources of cbf
https://theamazonbasin.com/wiki/index.php/Cannot_be_Frozen

It's single pass though and I have all the runes, seems like it outclasses most random merc weaps? Of course if a Reaper drops, I'm throwing it on the Merc!

I've just looked through the runeword list. Looks like king's grace and Black are pretty neat options. How's the knockback with Frenzy though? Black can't be made in swords though :\

Honor Zweihander looks to be my top priority though. I think I'll use my socket quest for this.

Hopefully I can find good uniques as well!

This post was edited by Ducko on Feb 12 2020 08:58am