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That would not sound that way if you would mention that necro wont stand still waiting for you to kill the golem while he is spamming bonespirits, which he does no need to aim with, unlike you.
We both know thats not how bone spirits work. For duels against competent people, they are almost always flying in a straight line unless they're namelocked
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And even after you manage to kill the golem, he will recast it and have a new "shield" pet. Its way easier for necro to be defensive spamming spirits than you being defensive and trying to hit with lacerators - lets forget the fact that he can decrepify you - and that wont be that easy to counter for you, at least not with 15 ias jool in arreats

Yes decrep can be a bitch, depending on what rules you consider GM or not. But even with golem recast, you're looking at an AMP damage'd necro against a BvC. If you penetrate his bone armor with even a single hit, hes a dead undead man.
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Once more thing - you have 2 masteries maxed on your barb. That leaves you with either weak ww, low leap lvl or low berzerk, no?
1 pt zerk is enough for anything, dumping points into it was always silly. But yes, the sacrifice with my build is 1 ww instead of 20, but the damage is sufficient enough, and when the target is amped, its clearly dealing more damage than a normal BvC. Yeah thats the trade off, so the WW is slightly weaker than a pure WW bvc, but thats a matter of the build itself. After all, once a necro is amped, if I whirlwind him, hes dead. It doesn't matter if my ww is level 1 or 20 at that point.
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p.s.: I really dont want to sound cocky, but doublethrow barb would not stand more than 1% chance to win vs every of the barbs I know.
Again, that probably is a nice build for you - since you are defending it - and probably can be a cheap solution to have some fun in pvp. I prefer to stay itemlame^^
And theres not a single barb I know that could go 99 to 1. You are completely exaggerating. Sure, there are barbs that with my current gear, I might go 1 to 9 against, maybe even 1 to 19. And thats pretty bad, but hey, thats better than a BvC would do, and thats with a budget build. Against an average BvB, I would go between 25:75 & 50:50. Against a BvB with equivalent gear, I would go 90:10, easy.
I think the main thing here is that you're really really underestimating the damage output of lacerators. Its easier for me to hit at a range with my lacerators than it is for a bvb to whirlwind me, thats purely a matter of mobility, and a BvC should easily win a mobility race. It doesn't make it
easy by any stretch, but no BvB is going to win 100% of his duels against it.