i am familiar with WW barbs, but not berserk.
HC/P8/ladder runewords.

what would optimal end game gear look like and what kinda stats on the gear would he be looking for??
+skills or cb/ds?
therefore...
arreats or guillaumes?
gores or ??
enigma/fort/treachery/other?

grief+shield or 2hander?

what are some good items to farm for and use while walking through the game? particularly for trying to get strong enough to tackle hell mode.

let me know what you know or think, please and thankyou!

Honestly end game anything can work - with grinded out gear on a zerk barb you will be op anywhere.

Key leveling items will be more important to think about in an hc/p8/sp wt. butcher's pupil, headstriker, and rickbracker are all notable options as they are OP in NM and then can be upgraded to be OP in Hell. Runewords to look out for in Hell are Oath and then Grief. Arreat's / Gulliman's / Shako are all great, so are some other options. Fully finished and optimized would likely use Gulliman.

For a legit untwinked zerk WT I like to go 2H/War Cry (ribcracker from nm andy)... this makes sure you have enough dmg to deal with P8 and you get full radial defense vs all but bosses with War Cry. Vs bosses you just Battle Cry and go for it with healing pots and massive dmg/cb.

it's total different playstyle compared to ww.
on zerk, you need to snipe champions/boss as you're single target hitter.

basically you tele, howl the pack, kill the champion, go on.
sealpopper zerk is extremely efficient as you have drops from 80%+ of cs while killing only 4 enemies (you can check yt to see how to do it)

s&g has decent sticky for zerk, check there

oh ok, thanks. ribcracker sounds fun.



thank you, too. ill check out the stickies. chaosing sounds like a good plan. it would be a '99 or die' character, so thats prob the route to go.