'Fury' runeword for frenzy barb?
After sucessfully making an IK whirlwind barb (tremendously powerful he is) I'm starting to think about making one with frenzy.
Allocating skills is obvious: 20 Frenzy, 20 Double Swing, 20 Sword mastery and the usual warcries and passives.
Frenzy gives a huge AR bonus, so base dex, base energy, enough str for whatever I wear, the rest in vit.
For weapons I see two attractive choices. First is 'Crescent Moon', which I have used before on a zealot paladin. I really like the static field and the runes for it are readily available.
Second is 'Fury'. This has lots of nice mods, most interestingly +5 frenzy. This will add an extra 25% damage and even more AR, which on top of the mods on the weapon should mean I will hit everything almost every time. Also, the 40% IAS will allow me to swing at 5fps with no extra IAS (I will be going with phase blades), whereas I need an extra 15% for the same speed with 'Crescent Moon'. The down side is that the runes needed are very expensive (Jah+Gul+Eth)
So that gives three possible combinations of weapons:
2 * Fury
Fury + Crescent Moon
2 * Crescent Moon
What do you think?
After sucessfully making an IK whirlwind barb (tremendously powerful he is) I'm starting to think about making one with frenzy.
Allocating skills is obvious: 20 Frenzy, 20 Double Swing, 20 Sword mastery and the usual warcries and passives.
Frenzy gives a huge AR bonus, so base dex, base energy, enough str for whatever I wear, the rest in vit.
For weapons I see two attractive choices. First is 'Crescent Moon', which I have used before on a zealot paladin. I really like the static field and the runes for it are readily available.
Second is 'Fury'. This has lots of nice mods, most interestingly +5 frenzy. This will add an extra 25% damage and even more AR, which on top of the mods on the weapon should mean I will hit everything almost every time. Also, the 40% IAS will allow me to swing at 5fps with no extra IAS (I will be going with phase blades), whereas I need an extra 15% for the same speed with 'Crescent Moon'. The down side is that the runes needed are very expensive (Jah+Gul+Eth)
So that gives three possible combinations of weapons:
2 * Fury
Fury + Crescent Moon
2 * Crescent Moon
What do you think?