y do u guy shave base dex? i have 63 dex and i cant hit those damn smiters with exile ><
any hlp here?

IK barb is quite nice build when youre makin PvM-only barbarian and dont want it cost much.
Sure you will get better barb with unique and rw equipment, but it will cost you much more
Nice to see that ppl still make IK barbs, although so many ppl seems to "know" that "IK set sucks".
Atm there is at least 2 IK barbs in top7 in Europe SC Ladder
IK RLZ!

IM a lvl 83 IK barb and do some decent dmg, (i think anyways) I'll tell u what i do

2.3-3.8k reg attack dmg(before MIGHT and Charms)

2.7-4.5 WW dmg /w ww at lvl 28(Before MIGHT and Charms)
AR is 5.5k

I recomend getting some 30-40ed jewels and putting them into the maul and armor or helm to up the dmg done, there cheap and easy to find. Also Get a ACT 2 NM Might merc for extra dmg, and some
poison/fire/cold/lightning dmg charms and such. Also getting some combat or mastery GCs can help and they seem to be the cheapest of the skill GCs.

PVP blows unless ur 10-20lvls above your opponate LOL PVM is ok, in hell baal takes forver and meph dosent last too long so you should have fun with this build. Its cheap greasy and a change from the EBOTD wielding barbs and uber-item chars that cost insane amounts of money to make.

PS the set cost less than MAL u can get the set for a UM and a bunch of Pgems Armor is the most costly piece of this set and can range from UM-IST or a bunch of decent items to get pending on the loser who has it

If you used your gray cells you'd realize that it could have something to do with them being busy wasting their life on countless baalruns, hence having no time getting "complex" low-level uniques/runewords... ik STINKS, period.

nice

Its a really good guide goodjob on making it. but i also think ou should go base dex and 167 strength...getting a troch is not that hard, dont trade for it just make a smiter and have a hammerdin who has salv in there u will own them in 3 mins. Also metalgrid is good but angelic ammy and raven and angelic ring is better. These chars are perf for running Travs which drops hrs. Thats the only reason i made my ik barb.

whats with all the quotes xD
dont be led into thinking ik babas are only any good for pvm...
you gotta take my word on this, but i once entered a game and an ik baba was absolutely wasting everyone, there was like a party of 2 fb sorcs, at least 2 bvb babas, and a javason.... it was hopeless... with strategy, and some nice charms/jewels, ik babas can absolutely own!!!
jus thought id say that... seing as its sort of on topic

--- and ik does not stink, it just takes an experienced d2 player (being nice there), who can build good barbs, and they can own with ik ---

This post was edited by Tb-FooFighter on Feb 27 2006 02:43pm

rofl we both know that ik = totally worthless. why lie? attention-whore or just dumb?