Quote (Exokek @ Mar 7 2026 08:42pm)

You don't lose much if you're using a primary set just to apply Amp. The goal of Frenzy isn't to kill stuff, it's to trigger Amp Damage. You can Frenzy all day with dual-wield Dreadfang or Dreadfang/Beast since your goal isn't to kill shit, just to debuff then swap to Goldfind set when Merc starts shitting on things.
Wealth is worse than a Teleport Amulet and/or Enigma if your goal is to cap gold/hour quickly. Wealth is fine, Enigma's high FRW and +2 Skills for Find Item breakpoints seems to work out better overall, moreso since we now have an extra contested GC slot with the Renewed Sunders (55% Goldfind on a GC + benefits).

We already discussed FCR and how 37% is the goal. Anything above that is unnecessary. If you're playing Singer Barb that's a different story but idk why you're farming Trav with that.
War Cry isn't for damage, just for crowd control and to help Merc kill shit so Council doesn't run away all the time, and unlike Leap it doesn't push Council into walls across the entire area.

COT was never optimal for Goldfind, it was just the easiest to find. Again: Goldfind on Merc is almost entirely irrelevant because most of your drops come from Find Item (p7 drops on p1 due to how Find Item interacts with nodrop).

I will repeat this until I'm blue in the face: it's not about gold per run, it's about gold per hour, or time to gold cap.

Mercs can die when they get stuck on a Phys Immune target even with high leech, if you don't take it out fast enough and there are bad aura combinations. It happens rarely with eBOTD, but it does happen.

Quote (Insein @ 7 Mar 2026 06:56)

Yea but my point with frenzy vs zerk is if you are going to use any skill might aswell use the one that can take down the phys immune.
The phys immune is the biggest issue of all of them. Unless you have a magic dmg weapon for the immune but still zerk > frenzy.

Wealth with FRW maxed > enigma. For me anyway.
I farmed singer with wealth because I had the amy for it and my merc didn't die cos my barb was high level. Only needed 1 point shout and 1 point into natural resists. So more skill points to play with. And full WC gcs. My guess is that's not so attainable in your scenario. Plus singer has other perks.
I also see your build is based solely around gambling. My build was a gambler, and guild duel repairer/aider, leveling aider and I'd play with other people with it too or could go into higher ilvl areas.

Your build seems just for solo play for gold and avg trav drops. Not as good all round.

Seems like D2R guys are going for max gold per minute like OG barbs went for max gold per hork. My highest hork was $1420010 so I get that you want to set a kind of 'record' with your charactor too but just a little differently with D2R.

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Your build seems just for solo play for gold and avg trav drops.

Quote (m12wh1t3 @ Mar 8 2026 06:19am)

dreadfang frenzy is a life changer, sped up my gold cap by quite some time. being a good run, travelling for work next week so time to temp quit the ladder for now sadly. only found 1 ohm and gambled nth decent lol but well, fk it lol

Quote (ropa @ Mar 8 2026 03:52pm)

this is why WW trav barb > goldbarb if youre looking for early ladder profits

wealth, griefs and attack rating. 300ish mf on mainhands, 500 with alibabas, and of course enough leech so you can farm while watching game of thrones on second monitor or whatever. Enough gold to gamble 3.5 millions every 5-10 games which will land a few skill 20fcrs circs for sure.

nothing even comes close unless you're playing with other people in TZ

one week of P1 horking on the travincial like a casual (that 1.1k sent was for 2nd grief):

https://i.imgur.com/f1AaYgg.png

Quote (ropa @ 8 Mar 2026 03:52)

this is why WW trav barb > goldbarb if youre looking for early ladder profits

wealth, griefs and attack rating. 300ish mf on mainhands, 500 with alibabas, and of course enough leech so you can farm while watching game of thrones on second monitor or whatever. Enough gold to gamble 3.5 millions every 5-10 games which will land a few skill 20fcrs circs for sure.

nothing even comes close unless you're playing with other people in TZ

one week of P1 horking on the travincial like a casual (that 1.1k sent was for 2nd grief):

https://i.imgur.com/f1AaYgg.png

Quote (Exokek @ Mar 8 2026 11:31am)

I feel like Zerk does better than WW without dual DPS weaps, no?
I've fucked around so much with WW trying to make it work with just a main-hand DPS + off-hand 6os I just kinda gave up.

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Or do you mean just go full DPS primary set + off-set Ali Babas?

Quote (ropa @ 8 Mar 2026 07:53)

yes zerk is better but needs micromanaging, potions etc which makes semi-afk farming very bad, but this is all personal taste ofc, i cannot farm with zerk for a long period like an hour or something because i dont even have potions show on filter XD

if you want to maximize your mf per run then zerk is far superior, just not as braindead as WW



its a mix, dual grief, wealth, shako, trang belt, loh, infernos.

then u have a choice of amulets/rings/charms depending on what u want more of. this build is 100% safe with 1 mid level dual leech ring assuming u have enough AR (around 10k but more is even better). cheapest is just go angelic combo and then mf charms. and x2 alibaba swap

i would have moved to cham shako and goldwarp (or soe, dwarf, wartravs... theres many combos) but of course, with new protector stone the helm socket is taken and the damage increase u get with just a random stone is very high.

some ppl will die on the hill of 2 hotos on swap and WC gcs, enigma etc... i have done these past seasons and really havent found a difference in horks, more mf prolly better than higher level hork in early ladder since some uniques have high value

Quote (SkyQ8 @ 8 Mar 2026 20:28)

with the dual dreadfang are you putting points into frenzy over shout?