Sounds like IK would be perfect if your leaning towards a ww barb.
make a pdr oath build with Gerkes. Great tank, good kill speed and hc safe!
the bonus here is the best stuff you can simply shop with a little patience.
No high runes required here.
You get some style points for the neat build, and can impress all with your seemingly endless tanking.
pdr zerker, you can afk sammich time and live until the durability of your stuff breaks and then you start taking damage. If your actively playing, your immortal. A drunken monkey could play this.
Arreats/gface /
Artisans hat of life everlasting ' sol
Ammy of life everlasting ~25 pdr (second mods are icing)
Gerkes shield Sol
Grief pb (oath small crescent/highland if poor, oath has magic sorb which is n1)
Iron Pelt sol ' ,
Jewelers Armor of Amicea Sol' is the best. Up to 43 reduction here. Gbane Sol'.
Gore Rider boots
Laying of hands gloves
Tgods Belt (or Soe)
1 Nature's Peace + 1 dwarf if Gbane. 1 ravenfrost+nature peace on the other armors.
swap of preference. Tele staff/Ali's for mf-gf/ bo sticks
A5 barb with Lawbringer Legend sword, gbane and arreats sol'
A2 reapers might merc.
If your going to run a bunch of d keys the barb merc is best unless you have a tyreals might to use on the merc so it obtains the rest after peace mod. (that comes on lawbringer)
Sanctuary aura has a knockback aura that keeps you really safe around undead. (on a really safe build)
you can run by monsters willy nilly. You dont take damage with that mercs decrep active that isnt in piddly amounts.
Because your a zerk barb, you still have acceptable damage for pvm. You come with max howl, and leap.
Life doesnt matter, block doesnt matter, dr% doesnt matter, Fhr is irrelevant. . All that matters is pdr/mdr on gear, get your res from inventory. Once max, increase your AR and damage.
you'll end up around ~120 pdr / 60-70 mdr. (gogo spillover) and monsters dealing half their damage due to Decrep (or battle cry)
Since the majority of damage done in small games in pvm is less then 200 even with global crit, it'll be rare you get hurt. What does exceed your reduction threshold is so minor you can laugh it off.
This is the ultimate hc safety barb, who does awesome at running your d keys and popping chaos seals since he can just run right by and through stuff.
rawr!
you wouldnt think so, but a titan whirler is very safe for hc.
25K average damage per hit means you leach ridiculous life, and usually 1 shot monsters.
Frenzy has lots of options at a variety of budgets.
Rancorn's Barb is a great option if you can swing it, oath is the defacto premium beat stick if your not using hr's.
Just be sure to google "d2 ias calc" Take the 2nd link. once you've decided on your weps.