Question, how are you supposed to clear travincal.. Anything? when you have NOTHING.. ?, lets say u start a new char on the ladder reset, you level your character, at level 80, you got nothing.. you should be in White gear probably.. what do you do with a gold find barb UNTIL you got gear to clear travincal with?.. please answer

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This Build requires you to be able to obtain at least the basic gold find gear. Until then You probably wont do much with a GF baba and should make another char to farm stuff for your barb or sell stuff for forum gold.



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Could you explain this please?
I dont understand the positioning exactly...do you just stay behind, and let the merc do the killing, and war cry them every once in a while?
maybe you could post a screen shot.

very nice guide tough, sounds better then the ones I have used smile.gif

regards,
jonny

Jonny- go to the archway, the very center of trav just before you go to durance 1. Stand just before it or underneath it. This will trap all of the travincal guys at that point and prevent them from running all over. This will also allow your merc to kill the stuff without taking too much dmg. Do as the guide suggests and stun them at that point.




If people have questions please PM me. I don't view this very often anymore.

thxs to everyone who posted
this is gonna work out well

thats why u use a eth tomb reaver gives 50 resist all

bump

very nice guide, only thing I changed is 1 point find item, 15 into leap.
this way I've got lower MF and high lvl warcry/leap, which seems to be working extremely well.

I would be curious to see if this gf barb would farm more fg than mf fb sorc doing hell andy/meph at 50+ runs an hour with rd blocker. with very inexpensive gear too.

how long does a single run take? I have also heard that nm and hell trav will drop the same amount of gold, do you know anything about this?

Since this comment is on the third page noone will probably see it but, just thought you should end every game in act 4 so you dont have to run all the way across the act 3 map.

Best gf guide ive seen though.

This post was edited by Cracker_Jack on Jan 5 2009 02:30am

Didn't read the replies, but noticed in the guide you said immune to physical ismail can be a problem.

Just keep a wand in your cube (in you inventory) with amp damage charges.
Replace one of your bo sticks with it so you can just switch to it real fast, cast, and switch back to your lem'd swords.
This will take away the immunity, along with making your merc really hurt the other ones.

EDIT: read some of the posts on here now.


War cry stuns everything.
When all the stuff is stunned, they can't attack you or your merc.

Max find item is a must for gold finders!
It increases the chance that you will find SOMETHING, not your mf!
This something can be gold, runes, items, gems, etc.
Council members have a VERY high rate to drop gold.
This means a lvl 1 find item would give you a 13% of a drop while lvl 20 will give you a 51% chance of a drop.
This is even better for the the times that they might drop 2x "things" when you use the skill.


EDIT 2: Noticed you said something about your resistances.
Fire resistances is pretty much not important versus hydras.
For some reason, with 2x dwarf stars on and any fire resistance, hydras from the council will not hurt you!
Other fire things can hurt you, though, like fire enchanted.
You can be more focused on your lr/cr for those hierophants that may be casting at you.

This post was edited by Morholt on Jan 5 2009 04:53am

considering +7 barb skills and +5 warcry skillers, my chances are as high as 45%, so 10% increase for 19 more skill points doesn't seem worthwhile.
Cheers

€:
amp charges can't spawn on anything but The Gavel of Pain

This post was edited by smackme on Jan 5 2009 06:59am

thats a lot more items vs few advantages that leap offers that wc doesnt

I like the layout, but problems.

I made this barb using Hero Editor and tested on open so i didn't waste fg making this barb.

I use the exact setup you say to use here, using gear options 1. (I.e Ik Helm, Bonehew...etc)

I tried hell first and, my mana is so low I can only cast about 1 WC, my merc has trouble killing normal, non unique council members, and he dies easily.

I tried in nightmare and although my merc could kill everything with ease, I got like 100k, I can get more then that on an mf sorc.


I followed this exact so please don't say I did something wrong. Fix the guide.