30ias grief pb, edeath cs, slvl27 frenzy

we all know that the cap for fpa is 5 so other than that, let me know if you can see any mistakes

i know this is not the most efficient way to do the calculations, but it should be clear what i've done

compare to:

PM

Majin I was hoping you could give me some feedback on my current frenzy mf barb.

OK. I have a lvl 86 Frenzy Barb MFer who I am enjoying A TON this ladder season. Currently, I am running Eldritch, Sharptooth, Threshsocket, Pindle (when hes not might/fanat) and countess.

I would like to start incorporating the hell council into my runs in hopes of finding some HR's but I'm freaking scared! So I'm looking for some advice from people that are safely running them.

Here is my gear setup:

Arreats (ptopaz)
Skullders (ptopaz)
Highlords
Lightsabre (amn)
Azurewrath (amn) (with 2 low dmg swords I felt safer pumping the leech)
Laying of Hands
Goreriders
Ravenfrost
8 life leech resist ring (Prob would use dwarfstar for council).
String of ears

With this setup I have resists of:

fire 75
cold 64
light 64
psn 20

Life - 2900ish with BO.

The question on teh table is...is this enough to run the council safely? I have done them a couple times running friends thru but they were always helping. Does howl work consistently enough on the non - boss members to clear room for me? Should I wait until I can get my life up closer to 4k?

So far, I have noticed that when thresh is extra strong (hes always cursed) that I get popped for like 1/5th of my life bulb per schwack and have to rejuv. If the council are frenzy/extra strong etc I'm afraid I might just get pwned.

Do you have any tips or cheapish gear changes I could make to increase safety?

Thanks in advance!

PS:

Using might merc with:

Eth Bonehew
Tals face
Bonehew

This post was edited by jetman82 on Apr 29 2010 08:10am

why using skulders and lightsabre? only cause budged does not allow to buy better items or?
why using arreats when guides says use guillaumes?

Resistance are too low, cause if one of the councils will spawn with conviction aura you will be in trouble, so you could um the arreats and get resists charms.

if you have no money to buy an eth reapers toll then buy non-eth one and it will be much better than bonehew in offensive wise and defensive too.

you play on hardcore than so afrad of dying or what? if so, then pump all into vita and avoid puting into str, so you should get ~5000 life.
if you play on sc then just try it out and you will see you can do them or no.

Ya sorry I didnt mention that I play on HC. That makes a big difference.

Yes, I only use those swords b/c I am on a budget. I recently found a Guilliames and I have an Um rune for it so I could switch to that.

I also have a treachery I could prebuff fade with to take conviction out of the equasion. Thanks for that input.

I have maximized my life as far as I can with my current gear. The dex on the swords + my lack of anni/torch makes it hard for me atm.

I'll def look into picking up Reapers for the merc.

Any other comments anyone?

Thanks.

Just use treachery all the time instead of skullders, cause treachery is dream armor for hc=)cheap as hell, huge resists, 15%dr and you will get max speed for sure.

mf does not worth when you are slow and cannot kill fast and w/o dying.

This post was edited by Sladeinflame7 on Apr 29 2010 11:00am

This. Treachery is just awesome for low-gear frenzy barbs (and other melee chars also). The venom is pretty sweet add aswell!

Cool....Def will do...

for HC you guys suggest Arreats > Guilliames with UM, or does Guil really add enough dmg to get rid of all that other stuff.

Use guillaumes ofc, cause now with your both weapons being pretty weak you really need it.