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Aug 7 2025 03:44am


I think you inserted your comment in quoting my item selection for my build, so I have just quoted what I did not post. Note: view your original post.

Try switch your build to gores/blood craft belt.
You are only using t-gods for souls in worldstone really... which are manageable with a high end build anyway.
The blood belt will give you the 24fhr plus more life and leech and will spawn similar stats to t-gods anyway but with ow and fhr too. Using a blood belt means your treks can be swapped out with gores giving way more damage.
Gores will give you 10% more frw too which speeds things up.


Nice points and correct.

TGods & Treks are more for the Str/Vita, FHR is a bonus, the Light absorb comes in handy outside of Worldstone. Using Gores or Crafted belt is up to the player, damn, Crafted Belt with the mods you want... how much material do you need to craft one of that caliber? Tgods... quick, cheap and viable. Not many boots can give you that much Str/Vita with FHR... OW / CB is better with other items that add to those mods in my opinion ... does OW work with Berserk? Not to my recollection since it is Magical Damage, I do know Poison Damage does not add either.

But hey, been years. I have tried Gores before, I did not like them that much, if you want to change boots... try War Travs, the Added Damage compliments Berserk Skill since it is multiplied just like the added damage on Grief Runeword.

EDIT: OH damn... I had mentioned Gores in my Guide as well:

Arreats (Clean) = 30% + 4x 5%fhr sc's =5fps (Added Option for using Gore Riders instead of Treks)
Arreats (Shael'd) = 50% + 8x 5%fhr sc's =4fps (Added Option for using Gore Riders instead of Treks)

This is the original Guide: https://forums.d2jsp.org/topic.php?t=20964321&f=87#entry119984393



This post was edited by izParagonzi on Aug 7 2025 03:49am
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Aug 7 2025 04:29am
Ignorance comes from those that are too arrogant OR closed minded.

Skill & stat allocation makes the Build... end of story... you fuck up the skill allocation, it is fucked, and what did Blizzard do... they introduced Respec and respec items to fix human error on their build(s) Skill and Stat allocations... wow, talk about Softcore even as a Hardcore player.

Equipment ENHANCES the Build based on the Skill & Stat allocation.

Strategies playing the game comes from the Build, their Skill allocation & Gear, Stat allocation is for the gear to Wield.

Strategies change based on patches, updates and all the other BS.

Well my Demonbasher Guide is true to its' Skill allocation, it is also true to the items it uses including stat placement, HOWEVER, changing equipment alone for 105% FCR changes the Strategy to play the game just by equipping different gear.

You and your mediocre banter is childish, because you follow the same structure and try to prove another person wrong, thinking you are baiting, well you are the biggest fish I have caught every time during a Decade or responses. Now let us look at the OP's Build.

This MDR / PDR build is different based on the Skills and Equipment, and the Stat allocation is subjected by the Equipment to be used.

20 Weapon Mastery (sword at this point for Grief phase blade increases dmg to WW & Berserk)
20 Whirlwind for crowd control and Leech keeping some defense
20 Berserk for Magical damage vs a Single monster or Boss & 0 Defense No Leech.
20 Howl for Synergy to Berserk to increase that skill damage by 200%
01 Battle Orders (more life & mana)
01 to all pre-requisites.
01 to Find Item ??? & 01 pre req

Hmm, Natural Res maybe???

Gear:

Vamp Gaze
Gladiators Bane
Grief Phase Blade
Stormshield
Gore Riders (mention of crafted 30frw with ?)
String of Ears (got some Life Leech)
LoH (i put this here just for the IAS/350% ed vs Demons & the Fire Res) ... other, crafted etc.

Highlords (only if you need the 20% ias, however it is worthwhile skill, DS) ... Cats Eye... the FRW to counter Movement penalty or Crescent moon which is stipulated by OP with other choices.
2x Dwarf Stars is OPs recommendation. Guessing CbF is added to a Socket from either Helm, Armor or Shield. (sorry, missed the 2x ber mentioned in OP post).

What BPs does this build meet?
IAS?
FRW so it is not running around slowly because of the Walk/Run Penalty of Heavy Armor types? Light, Medium, Heavy ... Helm, Armor & Shield?
Leech... with the damage output, 5-7% in each should be sufficient.

Now with the skill layout and the equipment added, the stats have been assigned, your movement speed is based on equipment as well, your damage output is set (excluding external add ons from Merc), and now you have to create a great strategy around this build.

Hey, the build does work, no denying it, but add up the numbers, find out what BPs you have covered, your hit points, mana pool and all that guff right Void??? then it is a great build right Void??? ... well, my Demonbasher covered all of it, and, even with gear changes, you can make the build fit the player based on their strategy, hence why a ton of players after 17 years went with a Berserk barb, it can be molded to the player... just like the OPs Build... so calling mine shit, is calling every other Berserker barb created after mine is shit.

Oh, if they don't have Movement penalties in D2;r ... yay, you maybe able to build a 150 FRW Berserker Barb to Kite or tele stomp run.
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^me4444 Hey sorry for all the bs in your guide, can you give the readers a breakdown of your Breakpoints, Leech total and your % Enhanced Damage from your skills including items, weapon mastery and also your resistance total in Hell Difficulty fully equipped... I am guessing you are doing solo P1 mostly, but if not great... what is your Battle Orders % after Synergies and items, even if you switch to CtA / Spirit. FRW speed?

Thanks, it is just for your build, I do find it interesting, just trying to capitalize on the benefits..


All that yapping and you still horribly fucked up the build again. 1 point bo on zerker :rofl:

Notice how everyone is correcting you? It’s because your build sucks and all of your builds are filled with mistakes like this one. Just give up

This post was edited by Void511 on Aug 7 2025 04:36am
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All that yapping and you still horribly fucked up the build again. 1 point bo on zerker :rofl:

Notice how everyone is correcting you? It’s because your build sucks and all of your builds are filled with mistakes like this one. Just give up


Thanks, I listed the OPs Skill points out incorrectly, and it does make a difference in damage:

Skillpoints:

Combat Skills: 20 points into Berserk and 20 points into Whirlwind

Masteries: 1 point into all non weapon passives. 1+ into weapon mastery of main hand weapon.

Warcries: 20 into Howl and 20 into Battle Orders and 1 into Battle Command, 1+ to Find Item


20 Berserk
20 WW
20 Howl
20 Battle Orders
01 Weapon Mastery
01 Battle Command
01 Find Item
01 Pre Requisites
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You think you are taking the piss out of me for a mistake posting skill setup of another, but you are just pissing on yourself.

This is my Builds Skill layout:

Skills: (You will Max All Synergies when you reach level 95)
20 Battle Orders
20 Berserk
20 Wpn Mastery (axe or sword)
20 Shout (defence and Battle ? synergy)
20 Howl (Max out ASAP: Induces Fear & Berserk synergy)
1 Battle Command
1 Natural Resistences
1 Pre Requisites
Optional Skill for Walk Speed: (if you add these in, you will max synergies at level 97)
1 Increase Stamina (Pre requisite)
1 Increased Speed
Optional Skill for Find Item: (if you add these in and replace Pheonix with SS or Beast, you will max synergies at lvl97 �if no Increased Speed� or lvl99 �with Increased Speed")
1 Find Potion (Pre requisite)
1 Find Item = 42-43% chance (main items), 45-46% chance (switch items)


Dang... have to look at this further... 111 skill points by level 99? been ages. +2 per Act 4 quest per difficulty = +6 = 105, +1 Den per difficulty = 3 108 skill points. If correctly worked out, excluding +X skill items like anni, torch etc.

This post was edited by izParagonzi on Aug 7 2025 05:02am
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Aug 7 2025 05:04am
Thanks, I listed the OPs Skill points out incorrectly, and it does make a difference in damage:



20 Berserk
20 WW
20 Howl
20 Battle Orders
01 Weapon Mastery
01 Battle Command
01 Find Item
01 Pre Requisites
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^Void511 You think you are taking the piss out of me for a mistake posting skill setup of another, but you are just pissing on yourself.

This is my Builds Skill layout:

Skills: (You will Max All Synergies when you reach level 95)
20 Battle Orders
20 Berserk
20 Wpn Mastery (axe or sword)
20 Shout (defence and Battle ? synergy)
20 Howl (Max out ASAP: Induces Fear & Berserk synergy)
1 Battle Command
1 Natural Resistences
1 Pre Requisites
Optional Skill for Walk Speed: (if you add these in, you will max synergies at level 97)
1 Increase Stamina (Pre requisite)
1 Increased Speed
Optional Skill for Find Item: (if you add these in and replace Pheonix with SS or Beast, you will max synergies at lvl97 �if no Increased Speed� or lvl99 �with Increased Speed")
1 Find Potion (Pre requisite)
1 Find Item = 42-43% chance (main items), 45-46% chance (switch items)


Dang... have to look at this further... 111 skill points by level 99? been ages. +2 per Act 4 quest per difficulty = +6 = 105, +1 Den per difficulty = 3 108 skill points.


You’re still putting points into shout lmfao. How are you this clueless? Op already corrected you on that.

All these corrections we give you and you still can’t get simple skill allocation down, let alone gear and stats. Better make the next wall of brainless text now
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Aug 7 2025 05:38am
You’re still putting points into shout lmfao. How are you this clueless? Op already corrected you on that.

All these corrections we give you and you still can’t get simple skill allocation down, let alone gear and stats. Better make the next wall of brainless text now


Shout, Shout, what is it all about, oh hey hey... (encore)
... More Duration for Battle Orders and Battle Command ... Meaning I don't have to BO/BC as frequently or have my Life / Mana drop during combat because I did not RE-Cast... that is the simple fact other than more defense stipulated below, but you are a noob that would not take that into consideration anyway. 3 benefits for maxing Shout.

Play style bud, that is all it is ... more defense when you tele into a pack and howl, then you berserk to 0 def, or when confronting Magic Immunes using Conc (more defense from this skill) while Leeching back any HP/MP you lost.

It is like a person creating a Berserk barb wielding a Phaseblade (136 dex) which increases Block rate with a Stormshield with FBR and using Berserk that has 0 defense and these items increases your chances of getting in to BLOCKLOCK without using FHR or using W to get out of the Blocklock animation.

Things people don't understand about building a Berserk Barb... hey yes, 2 handed weapon is great to use as well, I think Colossus Blade would be ideal, more Weapon damage overall as a Grief runeword, however, substituting IAS? It all comes down to play style, and still placements I mentioned means you can totally change Equipment without Respec to 105% FCR etc.
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Shout, Shout, what is it all about, oh hey hey... (encore)
... More Duration for Battle Orders and Battle Command ... Meaning I don't have to BO/BC as frequently or have my Life / Mana drop during combat because I did not RE-Cast... that is the simple fact other than more defense stipulated below, but you are a noob that would not take that into consideration anyway. 3 benefits for maxing Shout.

Play style bud, that is all it is ... more defense when you tele into a pack and howl, then you berserk to 0 def, or when confronting Magic Immunes using Conc (more defense from this skill) while Leeching back any HP/MP you lost.

It is like a person creating a Berserk barb wielding a Phaseblade (136 dex) which increases Block rate with a Stormshield with FBR and using Berserk that has 0 defense and these items increases your chances of getting in to BLOCKLOCK without using FHR or using W to get out of the Blocklock animation.

Things people don't understand about building a Berserk Barb... hey yes, 2 handed weapon is great to use as well, I think Colossus Blade would be ideal, more Weapon damage overall as a Grief runeword, however, substituting IAS? It all comes down to play style, and still placements I mentioned means you can totally change Equipment without Respec to 105% FCR etc.


oh yea my bad i didn't account for the fact that it probably takes you over 4.5 mins to clear an area due to using a really shitty setup and you have impaired memory due to old age so you won't remember to recast so you'll need the extra bo duration.

And conc sounds like a great alternative to ww to ensure that you leech slower and deal less dmg to magic immunes.

Excellent playstyle choices!
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^me4444 Hey sorry for all the bs in your guide, can you give the readers a breakdown of your Breakpoints, Leech total and your % Enhanced Damage from your skills including items, weapon mastery and also your resistance total in Hell Difficulty fully equipped... I am guessing you are doing solo P1 mostly, but if not great... what is your Battle Orders % after Synergies and items, even if you switch to CtA / Spirit. FRW speed?

Thanks, it is just for your build, I do find it interesting, just trying to capitalize on the benefits..


Why on earth would you want to know the lifeleech total for a Berserk build?

Try not to overthink things too much, a build guide is for people to use as a guide to make a similar build, items will have different stats its not a showcase of what I built, its a general guide.

Berserk deals magic damage not physical damage, life leech is exclusively for physical damage.

The build does not need any life leech, but one option seeing as Vampire Gaze is already the best in slot for damage reduction is to put points into Whirlwind so if you get swarmed by mobs and therefore have massive penalty to attack rating you can quickly use Whirlwind to escape the swarm and start hitting things with Berserk again. Whirlwind can also be used to generate life and mana instead of using potions. Whirlwind is far better for leeching back life and mana than something like Concentrate.

You are right about the extra posts spamming up my build guide, clearly you have inspiration to make your own guide, you can do that in a separate post, ironic as you were giving me advice and suggestions of how to clean up my original post and make it more presentable but in doing so youve made the following replies and posts a bit of a mess.

I dont mind but it makes it quite difficult for anyone who clicked on the guide and wanted to scroll down to see any developments, its just you and someone else arguing about completely different builds.

The flat damage reduction means that enemies will only take a tiny bit of life away with their hits, Super Healing potions are actually reasonably useful and only need to be infrequently used even if you dont use Whirlwind.


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Aug 7 2025 03:26pm
me4444 curious what other ring do you use on switch if you aren't using 2x dwarfs?
Only time I've ever used 2x dwarfs is on my goldfind barb.
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me4444 curious what other ring do you use on switch if you aren't using 2x dwarfs?
Only time I've ever used 2x dwarfs is on my goldfind barb.


hi, thanks for the question. rings dont have a switch, switch is for weapon/shield from pressing W key

2x Dwarf star is in my opinion the best setup for the build, the flat magic damaged reduction is really good

you could craft with flat dr and mdr but it would be much less than the 15mdr from dwarf and the extra flat dr wouldnt be enough to compensate unless the crafted ring is gozu (amazingly good)

additionally Dwarf is great because of the fire absorb which helps the builds primary farming area - Travincal during a terror zone.

Natures Peace unique ring would be an alternative, it can roll up to 11 flat physical damage reduction, however it prevents the use of the find item skill and is therefore counter productive
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Aug 9 2025 10:45pm
Why on earth would you want to know the lifeleech total for a Berserk build?

Try not to overthink things too much, a build guide is for people to use as a guide to make a similar build, items will have different stats its not a showcase of what I built, its a general guide.

Berserk deals magic damage not physical damage, life leech is exclusively for physical damage.

The build does not need any life leech, but one option seeing as Vampire Gaze is already the best in slot for damage reduction is to put points into Whirlwind so if you get swarmed by mobs and therefore have massive penalty to attack rating you can quickly use Whirlwind to escape the swarm and start hitting things with Berserk again. Whirlwind can also be used to generate life and mana instead of using potions. Whirlwind is far better for leeching back life and mana than something like Concentrate.

You are right about the extra posts spamming up my build guide, clearly you have inspiration to make your own guide, you can do that in a separate post, ironic as you were giving me advice and suggestions of how to clean up my original post and make it more presentable but in doing so youve made the following replies and posts a bit of a mess.

I dont mind but it makes it quite difficult for anyone who clicked on the guide and wanted to scroll down to see any developments, its just you and someone else arguing about completely different builds.

The flat damage reduction means that enemies will only take a tiny bit of life away with their hits, Super Healing potions are actually reasonably useful and only need to be infrequently used even if you dont use Whirlwind.


My posts directed at you initially were pertinent for more information of your reasons, my posts to void I apologized to you, as it had nothing to do with your build at all, and if you can not define that from the posts, then that is your issue, and if you look back, I also mentioned to you that I liked your idea, my comments are to see reasons.

WW = Crowd control, Leech and navigation in certain areas. Reduced Physical/Magical damage is nice, and your precedent for your build and Berserk Skill as the main Boss skill... thus you call it a Berserk Barb. (This removes Enigma & Teleport, yet can still get Teleport from Amulet charges).

As for the layout, that was in your other thread right?
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oh yea my bad i didn't account for the fact that it probably takes you over 4.5 mins to clear an area due to using a really shitty setup and you have impaired memory due to old age so you won't remember to recast so you'll need the extra bo duration.

And conc sounds like a great alternative to ww to ensure that you leech slower and deal less dmg to magic immunes.

Excellent playstyle choices!


Assumptions are the mother of all fuckups. Same Hell Run: All Act Bosses, All Keys, 85 Areas (Pit/River/Chaos/Worldstone (1,2 & 3), Throne, Archon and Lost.), runes from Tower & Kurast. Or Public/Private Rush / Level runs as rusher & leveler or support rush BO & Shout.

Best game ever, public Rush game, level 94 Bone Nec PK'er joins, hostiles me, teleports into chaos and dies... fucking hilarious and I was only level 89.

You are good at PK Void ... why did the Nec die so easily?
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