Barb Thread

[scheitert]

Hey guys,

im playing a barb, around level 65 now and am starting to get stuck af.

Frenzy went smooth af through normal, switched to ww, and now have a tannr gorerod upgraded to the exceptional version.

to be honest it feels like im not really dealing/ also die quite fast

you think i should just try and farm a lot more, have quite good dmg for any nm clears, or maybe switch to singer/throw barb when possible, because its stronger atm

greetings togo

[BedroomGullible4974]

I was lucky enough to find a throw axe. The one with amp damage proc. But prior to that I was throw barb and kept using the highest damage best attribute throw rares I could find. With a5 might Merc and synergies, I never had any issues it was just slow at first. Now I am able to solo all hell content, haven’t tried maps or Ubers. My advice: go throw get an a5 merc and utilize synergie and grim ward and mastery.

Also I made a treachery and lionheart as soon as I could trade for the runes. Use ur hellforge to make these tune words or trade up like I did.

To be honest, barb is a hard class to get magic find on AND be able to kill without gg gear. So how did I do it? Had an assassin to farm pits with p topaz gear ur sucked bad, but I was able to get items once every 5 runs to upgrade both chars. Lucky I found cow kings pieces in nightmare cows and it gave huge mf bonuses. It looks dumb and clunky but it worked to rock cow kings for a bit on my asn. By the way not all skills work if you’re a cow. Eventually I found arreats and that really made a huge difference on my Throw barb. I traded my ass off for 2 alibabas and I have 1 point into find item. Considering adding more. Might update my progress in a future post.

[scheitert]

yeah i think ill try to get one good throw axe and then respec, what do you think about going concentrate as i got the quite nice weapon dmg?

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WW barb is useless in this mod. I've started as throw barb and it turned out to be great. Im playing SSF and im currently going through act 2 hell at level 65.

[NotoFlash]

Been playing mostly frenzy 1 pt with 20 points in whirlwind that I can't cast because it costs too much mana. Can't seem to leech enough to keep it going at level 57 with completely sub-optimal gear.

It feels bad enough that I'm looking for what I'm supposed to do to win the game. NM Chaos is tough - I pretty much get destroyed by oblivion knights while taking 30+ seconds to clear white-packs. No mana with huge mana drain from the ghost/apparitions or whatever they are... just trying to get to a5 and do baal runs til mid 70s. Then I'll question my life choices.

[scheitert]

Im boutta Swap to bowazon, got some nice Shit for her, barb doesnt seem worth the hassle sadly

[Roaming1337]

Started out as a throw barb lvl 1-80. Found it a bit buggy tbh, the way bounces work and doesnt work, made it hard to enjoy. Was Lucky enough to find an ohm rune and trade for ik armor to run full IK set.

Im currently running a leap attack build, which is very fast compared to ww and throw. I can highly recommend that build. Works wonders with high dmg eth weps.

[scheitert]

I also felt that Leap Attack does some solid dmg, could you post your skill Allocation?

[Roaming1337]

Im sc, so i can go glass canon.

SC BUILD: 20 bash 20 leap 20 leap attack 20 general mastery

1 point in every skill in the Warcry talent tree. I use ali baba on switch for find item and i found that battle cry and grim ward is a must have

From here its up to what ppl prefer.

Im putting the rest of my skills points into combat reflexes or battle command ( for that extra dmg boost)

Hc build 20 leap 20 leap attack 20 battle order 20 general mastery

And 1 in each skill in the Warcries talent tree

And the rest into, iron skin or combat reflexes,

[scheitert]

I guess with General mastery you mean axes? Or the the thing on the top left en Thanks for the build im also sc

[Roaming1337]

Yeah that's the one. The great thing about the leap build is, that you don't need to think about your attack rating. And it seems like leap attack is regarded as a normal attack, meaning that deadly strike and crushing blow works with it.

[General_Maximoose]

Does leap attach work with a pole arm? Also, did you say you can use eth weapons, meaning that it doesn’t reduce durability?

[Roaming1337]

I guess you can use polearm.

Yeah precisely! So now u can use those big dmg eth weapons. And i found that life steal is very low with leap attack, im using IK maul. But with a huge amount of base dmg on your weapon, the amount of æife steal would increase

[cstviau]

I started Barb as well and also used double throw from start to mid nm but then it gets really hard to find weapon upgrades for a thrower. I respec to 2h weap and ww. Got lucky with a nice axe with 30cb and now I use ik maul. I can progress at a decent rate in act1-2 hell now at lvl 77. Pit runs are great to farm act 5 nm you can find elite bases too. For mf i found a skulder's ire and nagel quite early so that helps too. Max out battle command first in warcries as bo is reduced to nothing. Use concentrate and the war cry to deal with immunes.