Whats the best gear for me being a Gold Finding Barbarian doing traverly only for both an A5 Hell Frenzy Merc and a A2 Nightmare or A2 Hell Might Merc?

So far I have a Eth Fortitude AP , a non eth phase blade grief , non eth Andy helm with Ral in it and an up'd headstriker non eth.

I've also tried the Arioc's Needle for the A2 merc and gladiator's bane with 15% IAS jewel and andy helm with Ral in it.

I want to get the most damage or protection to kill hell traverly with 8 players total in game.

What am I missing on this if anything?

Any advice is greatly appreciated! thanks!

Anyone know ?

I have read this, but I find that he doesn't say much about fortitude and more about gladiator's bane with 15% IAS in it. he doesn't speak about a full 8 player game on what to use much either.

Thats why I came here to ask. It's a good guide but I'm hoping theres a better setup so I can do 8 player killing trav games easily with still getting 5m - 1.5m per game.

That's because you never use fort in this build, it shatters corpses -- you use eth COH.

The merc-centric build is not intended to be viable past p3 -- most use it for quick p1 games since hork drops are equivalent to p8 anyways, it's less efficient to farm p8 with this build when you factor in time:gold.

Exokek recently updated his build guides here: https://maxroll.gg/d2/d2planner/b1010674

All of those builds are very viable for the intended use-case.

Oh wow! thanks much Man!

Are you saying that I shouldn't use any of his builds in this new link you gave me for p8 as well? Just use with me in a game, right?

Correct, his builds are merc-centric, they struggle a lot past p3.

Gotcha!👍

So I have a lvl 90 barb, what build would you recommend me try among his up to date builds you've linked me? I'm also on non-ladder so I can't use the void runeword I don't think.

I also am wearing a tiara for gf and resists and +2 to barb skills. I also don't have any artisan's tiara since I'm not rich.

What would I use instead of void and the unique belt gheed's wage troll belt and the renewed black cleft grand charm? I have non-eth arioc's needle and I can get an eth COH archon plate. Not sure if this is enough or not with my current build?

This post was edited by ikickyour on Feb 24 2026 12:45pm

Cheapest efficient build is eth COH + cham'ed upped gilly + ebotd wp/gt

You can use goldwrap/enchant merc with demon limb for now and be fine.