If you are the type that wants to use the Act 2 Merc and wait 5 minutes to clear the Council this is not your build! This build is costly but is fun and clears Trav in a minute with out Teleport, Leap, Amplify DMG from Gavel of Pain or a Merc!

Skill Points

Warcries:

Howl - 1
Shout - 1
Battle Orders - 20
Battle Command - 1
Find Potion - 1
Find Item - 10 (Not Necessary to Max!)

Combat Masteries:

Axe Mastery - 20
Increased Speed - 1
Increased Stamina - 1
Iron Skin - 1
Natural Resistance - 10

Combat Skills:

Bash - 1
Leap - 1
Leap Attack - 1
Stun - 1
Concentrate - 1
Whirlwind - 20
Berzerk - 1 (For Physical Immunes)

Any extra skill points I added to Iron Skin and Natural Resistance for survivability.


Stat Points are simple. Strength and Dex to use equipment then dump the rest into Vitality!


Now the fun and expensive part. This build took me about 3 months to complete but don't hesitate to pick up temp GF charms cheap! Normally run between 2-10 FG each. You will not have a hard time with the Council!

Inventory:

Max DMG / Attack Rating / Gold Find GCs - I have 8 in my inventory.
Max DMG / Attack Rating / Gold Find GCs - I have 8 in my inventory.
High GF Gheeds - Mine is a 153/13/40
Barbarian Hellfire Torch - Mine is a 20/17
Annihilus SC - Mine is a 20/19

You may ask why not Warcry Skillers with 40% GF? Why increase your life when you don't have to and they cost around the same amount! I did not pay over 250 fg for any single charm that I have!

Gear:

Helm - 12% LL / 100% GF Crown of Thiefs socketed with Lem. (If you are having issues with being frozen and it's to difficult replace the Lem with Cham! Thank you rawwwrr for insight!)
Amulet - Any Ammy that gives you +Barb and GF ( Mine has FRW LL and Strength.
Armor - High Defense Wealth Runeword
Main Hand Weapons - EbotdZ and GriefZ ( You may be wondering why not 2 Griefs? LL and ML for survivability!)
Swapped Weapons - 2x Lem'd Ali Babas ( You may be asking why not 6 Lem'd crystal Swords or phaze blades? I run Ali Babas for the increased MF. Trust me you will be averaging 450k gold per drop with out them!
Gloves - Double Upped 40% MF Chancies
Belt - Double Upped 80% GF Goldwrap
Boots - Infernostrides 70% GF
Rings - 2x 15/15 Dwarfstars

Character Stats with the Final Build with BO:

4307 Life
5105 Defense
7085 Attack Rating (81% Chance to Hit Council)
1092-3813 Damage
Fire Res - 54%
Cold Res - 33%
Light and Poison Res - 10%
30% LL
7% LL
1570% GF
232% MF

On Swap:

2315% GF
410% MF



This build allows you to run into Travincal, WW the shit out of the Council and maximize your gold drops when you switch of to the Ali Babas when using Item Find ( Horking ). A Normal run takes about a minute. The longest part of the run is picking up items to identify! You will never die and within 30-45 minutes your stashes will be full of gold!

So many items and runes have dropped for me over the last couple months. I have gamble 2 Kiras (65 All Res 70 All Res), Griffons Eye (-16/14), and several visionary and 2/20 Circlets! This build paid for itself quickly!


Any questions or any further insight let me know and if you want to meet up in a game to see my GF/Horker gear I am on Xbox D2R Non Ladder!

This post was edited by SomethingVague on Nov 11 2022 09:00pm

Wow thanks for posting! Just leveling my barb now and was looking for a confirmation on a few things!
What all items do you recommend gambling with all this new gold?

This post was edited by Adm1n on Nov 11 2022 08:41pm

no cbf?

All I gamble are Coronets on my 94 Sorceress - make sure you get a 15% Vendor Gheeds and Edge Runeword Bow.



Cbf?

cannot be frozen

Have none on mine and have had no issues. Definitely could replace the Lem in the Crown and Cham it! I'll add to the guide thank you!

i mean there are hierophants in trav that can cast blizzard plus cold enchant mobs that go nova like toorc icefist.

This post was edited by rawwwrr on Nov 11 2022 09:02pm

Yeah I have been frozen but no real issues come of it but a little slowing. Every once in a while you get the aura too but with the decent damage out put still knock them down in no time!

I can see why you would want CBF though!

Why isn't find potion maxed, why isn't find item maxed? I don't understand this build. Why aren't you shooting for like 80% item find???

What would be the payoff in soaking 40 skill points into Find Potion and Find Item? Where would you spend the extra points to help kill Council?

This build was made to maximize Gold Finding while also making it faster to clear the Council. 11 points into Find Potion will give you 45% chance then add the extra 12 skills you have from the +2 Ammy and BO and you are at 56%.

If you want to run a Merc and wait around for them to kill the Council go ahead! This build allows you to average 400k gold per run and find good items while horking.