​"I’ve tried many different Barbarian builds, so now I’m looking into a Magic Frenzy Barb. With the -Res mechanics in RotW, is it possible to make a viable clearing build? I can’t test this in the Hero Editor, so has anyone tried this yet?

​The setup would be: Upgraded Ginter's and Azurewrath, the new Warlock Helm (-8 to -10\% Magic Res) with a Magic Facet, and a Magic Sunder Charm. Does this sound like a solid plan?"

Lmk

Why not build the character in Maxroll and export it to try it yourself? What isn't working about it?

I'll get right on that and report back boss

I honestly doubt it. Neither have enough magic damage to reliably kill one thing quickly, let alone everything near you at once.

The sanctuary aura itself it really good though against undead. Ignores their resistance and immunity plus something like 510% enchanted damage.

Oath/grief plus Dreadfang works well for frenzy, plus no cold damage so you can still hork bodies.

sounds nice lmk

This post was edited by Mgmg on Apr 17 2026 08:19am

play the most time on ps 5 only for trade on the pc

Frenzy is phys dmg.
Sure you could spend up to 20 hard points in berserk to convert it to 80ohys/20magic, but this is not increasing your dmg, it’s only partially converting it and in the end if you are trying to use -magic res instead of -dr, you only get 20% of the effectiveness rather than applying -dr to 100% of your dmg.

So, that’s bad.
23 skill points wasted to make the build only weaker.

Not only it’s bad, but your idea of weapons is worse.
eth up’d Ginther = very low dmg.
Azure = very low dmg.
Sanctuary aura is ignoring the dr% of undeads, it has nothing to do with magic dmg.

Frenzy is a bad build overall. No need to make it worse.
2x grief PB
Or
Grief + a weapon with ctc% (dreadfang, LW, LB, Cmoon, stormlash, etc)

Another downside of frenzy is that they often rely on FRW and no tele. This means your merc will always lag behind you.
Barbs are already slow at pvm, so slow that a well built merc is normally responsible for a good portion of your total dps.
Not on frenzy tho.
You have half the dps of other barb builds, but it’s effectively less than that without your merc around.
There is a way to ’fix’ it tho.
While trying to figure out how to optimize a pure frenzy build, the best setup I tried so far is:
Grief + dreadfang (reliable ctc amp)
Then using an a5 frenzy merc (the only one able to keep up the pace) with 2x Cmoon.
This merc normally struggles with sustain cuz cmoon is kinda low phys dmg, but since you self-proc amp he’s now fine.
This way, he runs just as fast as you and he deals quite a lot of dmg from static field.

I’m not saying you wouldn’t be able to complete the game on p1 with your original idea… You could slowly go through it.
But you asked for advices. So I’m not here to validate you bad idea, I’m here to help.

Thanks for the time and effort you put into this detailed response! I really appreciate it.

​This was honestly just a train of thought I was having while trying to see if it was possible to build a Barbarian that clears maps using Frenzy with a focus on magic damage. In practice, I’ve always enjoyed playing Frenzy the most with Fortitude, Grief, and Lawbringer, which obviously works great. (Is not a meta build but i like it )

Atp a clever way to fix the issue of the merc lagging behind is only Enigma I'll definitely stick to the more proven setups for serious farming, but I appreciate the reality check!