I have a second acc with a deck out enchant sorc. I was wondering if I should still use griefs and pride on my merc or should I switch to infinity on merc for the fire damage from the enchant? I’m trying to make it easier to handle thorns heralds and of course need the extra dmg for p8

you could test some -fire res runewords as well

Dual hand of justice -40% fire res + stacked holy fire
infinity merc for extra -fire res

I wouldnt bother with facets unless you go on pally with points into synergies (no points into holy fire, just its synergies)
(although if you go pally, dual dream does way more damage)

The combo of fire damage + holy fire should be interesting to test on frenzy barb.

If you want to go whirlwind, you can get a phoenix shield for -48% fire res. 8% more and the infinity should allow you to hit more by lowering the defense of mobs.
infact after theorycrafting a bit, whirlwind might as well use dual phoenix for -56% into phase blade so max ias should still be obtainable. With whirlwind a zerker axe would make more sense for more damage, but might not be able to hit the ias breakpoint since its a lot slower and phoenix gives no ias.


Could put them in Phase blade for max ias. I personally dont care for zerker axe since it needs to be repaired every 5 minutes of fighting.

If you build any of these builds lmk how they do.

This post was edited by Josiah on May 1 2026 06:20pm

the usual 2x grief ww barb setup but infinity merc

throw barb

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Yes do that, add a bo barb and upgrade to hardcore.

Zerk barb with mang song

Can confirm, I chanted my Barb to get to 99. It was hella fun and wrekt P8. Honestly was the most fun I had in ages



Shoutout to SinsOfTheSun for helping me theory craft this build!

On swap I used spirit mon - Since I pumped a lot of dex for more dmg, I had max block with it when teleporting w/ 105fcr

Eth Warshrike + Eth Lacerator

MP Enigma

LoH + Highlords

War Travs (The 15-25 damage is better than Gores since I don't farm bosses, just dense mobs)

8% Life Leech 15% Damage Reduction String of Ears.

Ring 1 - 10 FCR/9 Min Dmg/118 AR/7% LL/8 Mana/8 Res all

Ring 2 - 10 FCR/108 AR/6% ML/18% CR/25% FR/MDR 1

20 FCR 30 IAS 30 Max Damage Cham'd Hat

100% Pierce 100% IAS 86% Crit 33% AMP

14 LaeK 15% LL 6% ML 37% FCR BP + 105% on switch.

Inventory - Sunder + 3/15+/17+ Scs

Merc - Eth Cure + CoH (Life leech and res) 15/2 Faith

This post was edited by Homosexual419 on May 1 2026 11:46pm

Was this pre rotw? And if so, would you swap out travs for whoresons boots and then use a physical Uber jewel in the now open socket? Seems like it would be better. This looks pretty fun. I'll build it in maxroll and test it when I'm back home.