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Mar 26 2024 12:51pm
Quote (L8knightResurrected @ Mar 26 2024 03:44pm)
my set up has arreats and a dual leach ring that is why i went with dungo over string of ears. if you go with gface or coa, yeah soe would be better.


Gotcha. I go arach anyways for the faster tele when chasing elites since I don’t find dr to be needed with shield setup.

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because berserk is the main attack, and it can't leach life. also dungo give up to 40 vit and life reg.


Is there some reason that you are using Arreat instead of Guilli, it doesn’t make any sense at your build.
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Mar 26 2024 04:06pm
Well dont underestimate the mdr from strings… way more worth in pvm than 40vita/10fhr

And arach for speed is best thought. Wc, howl is survival.

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Is there some reason that you are using Arreat instead of Guilli, it doesn’t make any sense at your build.


because guili don't help any with survivability. arreats gives lots of res stats and skills.
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because guili don't help any with survivability. arreats gives lots of res stats and skills.


Isn’t killing speed = survivability ?
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Isn’t killing speed = survivability ?


i guess it can. will it do that much more damage though? we are talking berserk not ww. i don't think it will make that much difference. i could definitely be wrong though.
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i guess it can. will it do that much more damage though? we are talking berserk not ww. i don't think it will make that much difference. i could definitely be wrong though.


Well what i think is that killing that unique / boss as fast as possible is best for survivability and thats why getting a way of block animation and getting as high damage as possible with close to 100% change to double your damage and as high change as possible to reduce a target's life by a fraction before the damage of that attack is applied. Anyway life or resintances haven’t ever been problems of barbarian.
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Mar 27 2024 12:14am
Quote (MultipleUser1 @ Mar 17 2024 07:11am)
- Guilli ” 15 Ias / 40% ED ”

- Death Eth Decapitator

- Enigma

- LoH

- Arach

- WT’s

- HL

- Raven

- Fcr ring

- 2 x Hoto switch for teleport and howl

Act 1 Merc with Faith + Forty + Andy

As side notes :

” Berserk completely converts damage to magic damage so you cannot steal life/mana with Berserk, even with life tap. ”

” For the stated duration afterwards your defense is zero. You also do not receive the Iron Skin or Dexterity bonus. You can still block as if you are using a shield, however. A defense of 0 will let you block all the time, thus quite often hinder you from doing anything else. Consider not wearing a shield. ”

How to play : Cast Battle Command + Battle Orders and Shout with Hoto, Teleport with hotos to place where ever you like, cast Howl with Hotos and switch to Decapitator ( yes, that big one :drool: ), swing your axe with Berserker skill till all uniques / bosses are dead, switch back to Hotos and Teleport forward, repeat till run is done.

GL & HF !

e: Don’t forgot to HORK corpses !!!!


why are we arguing about hats? have you used this build? my is a theory craft. i used a similar build to it but it was a ww/berserk hybrid. i never ran into the block stun thing you guys are talking about. i probably ww away and didn't noticed. that is part of the reason i said to put 1 point to ww. i like your build. 2handers make good berserkers. i don't see how they are safer than a sword and shield barbs though. i also wonder if 55ias is enough speed for that big slow axe.
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why are we arguing about hats? have you used this build? my is a theory craft. i used a similar build to it but it was a ww/berserk hybrid. i never ran into the block stun thing you guys are talking about. i probably ww away and didn't noticed. that is part of the reason i said to put 1 point to ww. i like your build. 2handers make good berserkers. i don't see how they are safer than a sword and shield barbs though. i also wonder if 55ias is enough speed for that big slow axe.


I only told my opinion, you can have yours. And this is a discussion forum. I didn’t intentionally argue, i asked questions and gave my opinion.

e: Personally i used to use setup what i posted back in days. And to your question iirc you need lvl 13-15 aura on your Merc’s Faith so 54-52 Ias is enough to reach a break point. Other opinions are Champion Axe which can reach one more break point to Berserking with lower average dmg ( havent run or calculated results between these two ) and Grolious Axe which have similar average damge and +1 more range but dear god that ugly skin…

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And Colossus Sword or Blade doesn’t make any difference iirc, so it will be matter of taste do you like to wear sword or axe.
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