Ok so I have a pretty well known barbarian on USEast for PvM and BvB. For those of you who don't know what that means, thats Player vs Monster and Barbarian vs Barbarian.

Yes, it is YellowWind if you've seen him around.

1: Introduction
2: Stats
3: Skillz
4: Gear
5: Intermission
6: PvM Guide
7: PvP Guide
8: Thanks for Visiting

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Ok so the point of this build is to hit as HARD as physically possible, as FAST as possible. No real reason to keep a fight going on longer than one swing right? Anyway... One whirlwind should be like a roundhouse kick to the face from Chuck Norris. There will only be one guy standing afterwards. So the goals of this build are:

1: over 15k ww damage (yeah its easily possible)
2: hit the IAS breakpoint (also, relatively easy)
3: over 10k AR (almost there for my barb)
4: over 15k defense (yeah... same as 2.)
5: make god bless the damage on the character screen

And that's pretty much the goals of the barbarian.

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Stats are pretty much self-determined:

Stats SHOULD look something like this:

http://i55.tinypic.com/qnjrmc.jpg

Strength: 232 after all items put on (NO ENIGMA)
Dexterity: no max block, as there will be no shield... So as much as you see fit for the attack rating (or get charms)
Vitality: Everything else
Energy: Jesus... Why does a barbarian even have this on his character screen?

That's that.

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20 Whirlwind
20 MACE Mastery
20 Battle Orders
20 Shout
1-20 Iron Skin
1-10 Berserk
1 All prereqs
1 Battle Command
1 Natural Resistance

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Weapon:

3 main choices here:

Breath of the Dying Ethereal Thunder Maul
- +life/mana steal
- +up to 415% enhanced damage
- Ethereal Indestructible

Foolz Ethereal Thunder Maul
- Foolz mod for major AR
- Huge damage if 220% enhanced damage
- Can be 2os (Zod/40ed/15ias jewel)
- Hard to find... I'm not even sure if I've seen one that exists!

http://i52.tinypic.com/vy7b6w.jpg

Armor:

Fortitude Sacred Armor
- Huge Damage Boost
- Lots of defense and chilling armor to make it even better
- Personal Favorite

Prudence Ethereal Sacred Armor
- HUGE defense
- FHR and resists aren't too bad
- Cheap

Helm:

Arreats Face Slayer Guard (UPPED IS BETTER)
- 2 skill 2 bcomb skill
- Life leech
- Overall, looks gg

Halaberd's Reign
- Mastery bonus gives a good bonus
- People sometimes think it is a Arreat

Visionary Rare Slayer Guard
- Still gg look
- The bonus to AR is worth WAY more than a few skills would ever be, even to battle orders
- Hardest to acquire

http://i56.tinypic.com/n49ysl.jpg

Amulet:

Highlords Wrath
Metalgrid
Angelic Wings (ONLY IF USED WITH HALO)

Rings:

BK/Frost
Angelic Halo/Frost
Frost/Frost

Gloves:

Steelrends
Dracul's Grasp
20IAS/10CB/Life leech gloves for the CB lovers

Boots:

Gore Riders (UPPED IS BETTER)

Belt:

Verdungo's Hearty Cord
Nosferatu's Coil
Steelwrap (ONLY if double upped)
24FHR/10OW/Life/15+str belt

Switch

3/3/x CTA / 3/3/x CTA
3bo Sticks

Charms:

Lots of 3/20/20s OR 3/20/20s with Mastery Life GCs
Annihilus
Barbarian Torch

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This is the best burrito
I've ever eaten
Yum Yum Yum

This is the best burrito
I'ver ever eaten
Yum Yum Yum

With plenty of beans
and plenty of cheese
and plenty of rice
oh isn't it nice?

yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum

This is the best burrito I've ever eaten

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMnbFn4UX4

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Whirlwind everything
Use Concentration if it's immune to physical.
Preffered Playstyle (For ME) - Left always Concentration :: F1 WW :: F2 Leap :: F5 B-Command :: F6 B-Orders :: F7 Shout :: F8 Town Portal

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Leap to test FHR
if their FHR fails, WW to them and they should die

Otherwise, just ww in circles around them.

should NOT BvC

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Thank you for getting to this point. If you look at my sig, thats my barbarian and his insane damage.

This guide was written by xxAusi2004xx. If you would like to reuse this guide elsewhere, outside of d2jsp.org, please pm me for permission.
Questions/Comments/YOU-FAIL-AT-LIFE-RAGE-MAIL me here.
Current V1.03

Change in V1.01 - Forgot Berserk as synergy to Concentration (magic damage) for physical immunes
Change in V1.02 - Removed Death as Weapon as it can't be made in a thunder maul.
Change in V1.03 - Added Pictures

Thank you again.

fix your link to the burrito
didn't read the rest of it

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e: What's the deal with posting the same trash twice? http://forums.d2jsp.org/topic.php?t=54109945&f=87

ee:

oh look, more content that doesn't have Credits

eee: honestly, I don't know which has less to do with what you're doing here, the chuck norris?, the naruto? it's just poor trolling.

This post was edited by MajinKaisa on Apr 24 2011 12:59am

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/------------------------------ ONLY COVERS MELEE VS MELEE ---------------------------------\

/---Paladins-------------------------
Smiter - WW in triangles around them (Difficulty - 6-10)
Zealot - Imagine they're smiters (Difficulty - 1-10)
Charger - Don't let them FHR-Lock you. If they do, Leap then WW (Difficulty - 1-8)
Vengence-din - Just WW them... (Difficulty - 1-2)

/---Barbarians----------------------
Berserk - WW when they swing (Difficulty - 1-4)
WW - Whoever has more FHR (leap) and AR will win (Difficulty 1-10)
Frenzy - You're gonna feel like Michael Jackson after that 'fight' (Difficulty 1)

/---Druids---------------------------
Wolf - Zealot without Defense (Difficulty 1-3)
Bear - Just WW HIM!!! (Difficulty 1-4)

/---Assassins-----------------------
Kicksin - Shouldn't be hard... Guess when they'll use DF and WW then (Difficulty 1-5)
Hybrid - Traps don't count as melee silly
WWSin - Same as WW barb. Careful of Venom though. (Difficulty 1-5)

/---Amazons------------------------
Javazon - Be weary of the lightning damage. Charge them with WW IMMEDIATELY (Difficulty 8-10)
Bowazon - Try to avoid the arrows as much as possible... You'll probably lose because of range problems (Difficulty 10)

/---Necromancers-----------------
Poison Dagger Necro - If he hits you, and has a golem out, IT'S OVER. But only if he has perf gear. Also IRON MAIDEN KILLS. (Difficulty - 1-10)

/---Sorceresses--------------------
Melee Sorc - Any idiot that pulls a melee sorc against a maul barb deserves a longer death than they'll get (Difficulty - 1)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMn_bFn4UX4

Theres URL to burrito song.

For some reason, I don't think Barbarian Norris is a good name for the Sticky Thread.

for some reason, i dont think you'd be able to kill dick without enigma in pubs, or a shield in bvb.

btw, i love that you use conc to break phys immunes. you must explain this process to me, i have not yet achieved this level of zen.

Cuz its for melee duels. And the shield thing, I kill the shield barbs before they know what hit them. My damage > Their Gay Stormshield

As for concentration, it has a synergy with Berserk @ 1% magic damage per level. SO 5 points in Berserk makes Concentration do 5% magic damage and you actually GAIN defense.

This post was edited by Ausi2004 on Apr 24 2011 12:57am

so you made a no block, low defense char for melee duels? and no, you wont kill the shield barbs. because you wont hit them with that shitty AR. you just get flawlessed. oh, and when you do get your 1 hit in every 5 duels, its not going to 1 shot them, ever. so its still a loss, the just have to go to akara instead of waiting for you to run your fat ass out of town and get your shit just to lose again.

so...im still failing to see how zerking something where all of your damage is converted to magic damage is worse than conc'ing something where only 5% of your damage is magic damage. to me it seems like 1-2 shotting a unique mob is > 10-15 hitting a unique mob, regardless of how much defense you have while doing said action.

OK OK OK. So you're saying 25k defense on a NO SHIELD CHARACTER WITH NO AURA is low defense. And I win a lot more than 1 in 5... More like 9 in 10. And yes I do kill shield barbs. My friend uses his shield barb against mine for practice and we are pretty evenly matched... I win 50% and he wins 50%. Also, yeah I do end up 1 hitting Zons, Sorcs, and Necros. Then Pally/Druid/Barb/Sins take no more than 4 hits. And yes. I get 30k defense while using Concentrate on mobs while being piled upon, and never have to use a potion, unlike people who use the idiot attack berserk.