I would kill for this on HCNL.

My best one so far on HCNL is this one:

It definitely out-DPS's the typical setups - whether it's worth the price/effort hunting it down depends on the person of course, but I enjoy playing GF barb quite a bit so I went for it.

He never dies with my above setup even against the worst council spawns, and I don't use gavel.

GG guide

Bump

You know i had the original idea ... i presented it in various threads many many years ago .. yet i got ridiculed for it .. now it's one of the most readed threads on site. I just know i was the first to use it before everyone else. I knew it was a winner. Merc just sucks up life when they're amp'd. Yet, one cannot use war cry or cause any sort of stun, then the amp goes away. Yet that's okay. When you play correctly, you can minimize the damage intake the merc takes through strategic gameplay and when he gets the routine down, and amp on the members, he just shreds through them with 3-5 hits on each.

Please rewrite the guide. It's out of date. You could make it better.

Now i couldn't do that. It's good that the build gets popularized.

i read it, not all the comments im still on like page 60
but the first page, and i knew passive gf was the char for me..
but then i read amp dmg and since i dont like horking, im basically in the process of making it into a necro. he will suffer some gf % wearing enigma and 4os lem’d monarch instead of 6os. but the runs should be fast ^_ thank you. u did a really good job. todays my birthay and this is probably my favorite d2jsp thread ive ever read

sorry for double post, but what i shpuld have added was that
the necro will have higher amp damage and also not have to
use gavel. not to mention a meat shield that is
clay golem could help just a bit with the occasional
survivability even tho we’re solid. i may have to switch to
coh. at the steps of trav because i consider not having nat res that barb has. havent considered my lack of def. from no iron skin but maybe i could up my str to ise a high def enigma like sa

it wouldnt let me edit previous post

This post was edited by themime on May 21 2025 01:20am

Oh you're a gemini ^^ Close to taurus though. Thank you for the compliment.



Uhm, just to clarify a thing or two. Necro higher level curse does not include higher damage ... just higher area of spell cast. But, at least one has not to worry about running out of spells. The idea of using a necro intrigues me. You get more summons, more meat shield, the clay golem slow the members hitting him. The big level amp helps. You can also use decryptify if you want to slow them all quickly and make it easier on your summons. It's a fun idea. Teleporrt must come from amulet or enigma, enigma is very expensive, not for the everyday regular joe. But can also run out there, one does not have to use 15 seconds every run, that's also not for the regular joe. I personally just take my time, i have no rush or stress, that's not what a game is for. If i can go fast, i, can do that if i feel like it, but also playing hardcore, it's about taking it a bit slow and analyzing every step. Otherwise .... it's ko real fast.