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Mar 16 2026 07:55am
Leveling as a portal barb seens insane. Never thought you could clear hell chaos sanctuary as level 9 barb.


Of course, but that's dumb because you can't teleport yet and no ability to hork. Plus, once you've setup bportal and have spammed enough portals, the range you cast and kill stuff literally is farther than the max range you can be from monsters and still get exp. So imo, trying to level as a portal barb in somewhere large and outdoors like chaos sanctuary is a bad idea. Yeah, you still get lots of drops and when you level up eventually you can hork... But it's better to focus on tz'd baal and other enclosed areas.

This post was edited by Emiliaaa on Mar 16 2026 07:56am
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Mar 16 2026 10:29am
damn, how does this have 37 pages
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Mar 16 2026 11:27am
I'm convinced. ALL IN PORTAL BARB.
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Mar 16 2026 11:52am
Guys, what about swap casting tp with leap?
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Mar 16 2026 05:15pm
I recently level'd a barb up just because of this post. I thought it was a troll post but I figured "Ah well, gonna lose to trolls, who cares". Couldn't get it to work on my first two attempts, went back to this thread and got it working on my 3rd attempt. I can't yet get it to work consistently, which is a bit unfortunate, but I'm guessing I'm doing it wrong occasionally, it's a bit more complex than the other classes, but oh my GOD it plays different from any other class in the game. Guessing I'll get bored of it soon, but I'm enjoying the challenge of figuring this stuff out :) thanks to OP for letting me know, I had no clue portal barb was a thing


+ rep dude another voucher. grats on the easy wealth through portal barb.
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Mar 16 2026 05:24pm
ya i got you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZirpP7qyH4M



this is how i stumbled on it too. first a joke then i realized it was viable.


is the video lagging or my PC started to lag ?
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Mar 16 2026 05:43pm
is the video lagging or my PC started to lag ?


Yes
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Mar 16 2026 06:32pm
Guys, what about swap casting tp with leap?


well thats actually a big component of how the bportal glitch works :huh:
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Mar 16 2026 07:50pm
Well it depends...
echo is quite good on low budget
it scales well also when you invest more into the build
but if we're talking about ultra high end BiS setups... no.
Portal Barb > 100% perf warlock (any build)

The current podium would be:
Portal Barb > Walking Tal Armor Warlock > Mosaic/Blood Boil > Echo/Nova > Java/Light sorc/Fire lock > Hdin etc...

Some would debate the order I listed above, but no one in their right mind could debate about the first 2 listed there.


this podium is legit
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i found this works better if you use 2 sling rings and have the chronical for runewords done so you get the gold portal for extra damage. goes crazy....
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