I’m looking to get more dmg out of my singer barb and I am wondering if max dmg or Ed jewels/ small charms help the damage in anyway?

I don’t believe so, I think you need to rely on +skills or synergies.
Amp/dec would help increase impact of damage though I think.
If using him in Pits then I’d focus on making sure your merc is dealing good damage and hitting high ias bp to help with stone skins

Nope
Dmg is only from +skills and synergies
Then you can increase your dps output by reducing the target’s DR% and/or reaching the next fcr breakpoint (although 105 is better than 200 else you sacrifice +skills)

So… using ereaper on merc helps a lot your dmg.
But it also means no insight, so big mana problems.

A way to fix your mana sustain without insight?
Get more base mana = also more regen
1x hoto + 1x spirit 112 mana is a solid approach
Losing 1 skill isn’t much dmg loss anyway compared to 2x hoto.
This is setting you at 75fcr already
Add arach and 20fcr amy you’re at 105 (best breakpoint)
This is freeing up your other gear slots to get more mana and +skills.
Frostburns
2x soj
+6 warcry helm with 2x pSaphires

Yeah mana would be massive problem without insight merc.
Spirit swords help since they have huge mana.

105 fcr is the way to go.
I use pit singer on single player and wanted to maximize mf so I use Shako, hoto, suicide branch, 3wc/mf gambled amulet, 2x nagel, chance guard, Arach, travs, enigma and then merc is using eth insight thresher, eth treachery, guillaumes. Player 1 this runs pretty fast. You slow down some on the stone skin but merc takes care of them well.

I switched my spirit sword out with hoto so I could grab the extra skill for increased item find percent chance and increase warcry damage but I took a massive hit to mana and so I drink mana potions quite frequently even with insight merc so I couldn’t imagine a non-insight merc

This post was edited by cky24 on Jan 7 2026 01:37pm

Caster ammu is also nice regen%
Caster crafted boots is also nice regen%, but there are those mana per kill boots(unicue) but i think they offer less than regen on such a build.

2/20/1xx/2 x pskulls mana works wonders as well.

Unless you are playing HC and want to be as safe as possible, you also don't need 7k hp and you will have a massive level of BO, so put points in energy, it sucks but it's not hard to reach over 2.5k mana and 3k-4k HP even with double HotO and cheap boots/amu (like 3/10 magic amu and waterwalk just for the HP or WT for mf).

Are there any viable Singer builds that do alright in P8? What's the damage output like? Or is that just insane wishful thinking?

This post was edited by Homosexual419 on Jan 10 2026 02:13am

No, P3 is optimal, P5 at most for some TZ with weak enemies.

You can farm P8 no problem because everything is stunned 90% of the time, but it's too slow to be optimal.

Only 1 into bo no need more unless you hardcore
20 into find potions
1 into find items
1 into grim ward
Grim ward increase your dps by about 30%
Then with huge mana pool you can let your Merc carry reaper toll for an even greater dps increase

Then classic gear
2 perf sapphire helm (ideally 5/6 war cry)
2barb 10fcr 90+mana amu
Enigma
Hoto + spirit
Arach + dual soj
My best favorite gloves are 20ias 10cb 40mana 25mf
Mana boots 30frw 50+mana

Swap: grief ba + beast ba offhand and you zerk immunes ennemies (1 point into axe mastery) or dual lacerator + 1 point into double throw to proc amplify

Invent full of 1warcries sk
+ 17mana sc
I even usually use 59mana gc for big ass mana pool