I'm making a bonesnapper barb on HC and want to be able to solo hell cs.

Should I be using full iratha's for res? trying to figure what gear combo to use just for straight killing (no mf)

Solo cs is pretty easy now that there is no iron maiden -> full angelic, 3 sock mf helm, sigs gloves, boots, belt 1 manaleech ring -> uppgrade to mana leech mart and change ml ring into another angelic ring -> 200+ mf and horking seal bosses = profit

imo high str build works best in solo and even 230 mart is better than snap in solo runs as monsters got relatively low hp

but what about resistance? that wouldn't max em out

No need -> fire res is most important this is covered by angelics-> few points into natural res is sufficient -> 10 ll from sigs is enough. even hp is not as important for cs barb as for trav barb -> 2600 hp is good enough rest str to boost dmg

Ah i noticed now that this is for HC -> i would keep str little lower then and hp closer to 3k -> otherwise its still good enough -> got 88 lv cs barb on softcore and have yet to die once -> so it will work on hc too . Still little more hp for hc is certainly better. So str around 200 rest vita.

If it's for D2R, don't neglect resistances too much, since oblivion knights are able to cast lower resist like in the past (which potentially stacks with conviction auras from some unique monsters).

Just keeping fire res high is enough-> seems like its worse on paper than in reality -> in fact i got -3 light res in hell cs with only 2600 hp (10 ll from sig) and like i said i could just have played HC as i have not died yet

-> for HC aim 3000 hp with 10 ll

P.s. getting into hell act 4 needs res more than actual CS running > e.g. hell magot lair and around 55 lvl char certainly needs better light res than my -3, But if we speaking about CS its not necessary.

Still, for HC you could swap MF helm and/or angelic ring for extra resistances.

My own personal rule is each time you get 5 attributes points, you do 3|2 if SC and 2|3 if HC (str|vit).

This post was edited by xhul on Oct 8 2021 02:54am

at hc i would be too afraid of some lightning enchanted bosses with low lr

Very, though it's the lowest damage of all 3 when the boss is ench-bugged.

This post was edited by xhul on Oct 8 2021 02:56am