El Communisto
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An unusual Patriarch...
Allow me to introduce Patriarch Pavarotti, the singer barb! :winner:
First, a quick run down of the vital stats:
Level: 80
Str: 115 (125)
Dex: 190 (208)
Vit: 180
Ene:10
Life: 2338 (with BO)
Mana: 1249 (with BO) - yes - one thousand, two hundred and fourty nine mana. On a barbarian. I have screenshots if you really need proof.
Melee Damage: 24-77 :lol:
Warcry Damage: 768-804
Skills: (with items)
Warcry: 20 (27)
Battle Cry: 20 (27)
Taunt: 20 (27)
Battle Orders: 20 (27)
Howl: 4 (11)
Shout, Battle Command & Find Potion: 1 each (8)
Iron Skin & Natural Resist: 1 each (4)
Leap & Leap Attack: 1 each
Gear:
Bahamut's Yew Wand of the Magus (+119 mana, +20% FCR)
Immortal King's Will socketed with 2 perfect sapphires
Immortal King's Pillar
Skin of the Vipermagi socketed with a perfect sapphire
The Ward, upgraded to ancient shield and socketed with a perfect diamond.
Ravenfrost
Dwarf Star
Echoing Amulet (+3 to warcries)
Frostburn
Serpent's Demonhide Sash of the Colossus (+55 life, +19 mana)
A few +X to mana, +X to life charms
A Fanatic Grand Charm of Inertia (+1 to masteries, 7% faster r/w)
Merc:
Holy Freeze, level 79
Gear:
Husoldal Evo
Holy Dusk Shrould of Ease (best armor I could find the entire game!)
A rare circlet with +55 to life, +15% resist all, 6% life leech and other useless mods)
Now the boring part where I drone on and on about the build...
This build was great fun. Normal was...well...normal, and I almost quit before I got started because I find normal barbarian characters to be hideously boring. I finally got Warcry and turned the players setting down from 8 to 3 at that point, so I could use warcry more effectively. NM was a breeze, and I didn't die once through there. I'm sure I could've done the whole mess on /players 8, but kept it at 3 for speed. A1 Hell was pretty easy, and I made it all the way to A2 before dying, which was a huge surprise. Hell was also quite difficult in spots - He was pretty much useless in A2 after the palace cellar. Acts 3 and 4 weren't too bad, and A5 only had problems with PI Moon Lords that appeared in various spots. Baal's minions were a piece of cake, and I blew through all 5 sets in about 8 minutes. Baal, on the other hand, took almost an hour of shouting, opening town portals and buying mana potions. I think I spent close to 400,000 gold on mana potions during that epic struggle!
I'm not sure what i'm going to do with him now. It takes waaaay too long to kill act bosses, and I don't think I could give him much in terms of MF gear before he gets too weak. I've got spare IK's Will and Skin of the Vipermagi, so I might try socketing them with some PTopaz's for some MF and see what happens.
Hope you all enjoyed reading this, and I encourange everyone to try one of these if you can! They're great fun!
EC
Allow me to introduce Patriarch Pavarotti, the singer barb! :winner:
First, a quick run down of the vital stats:
Level: 80
Str: 115 (125)
Dex: 190 (208)
Vit: 180
Ene:10
Life: 2338 (with BO)
Mana: 1249 (with BO) - yes - one thousand, two hundred and fourty nine mana. On a barbarian. I have screenshots if you really need proof.

Melee Damage: 24-77 :lol:
Warcry Damage: 768-804
Skills: (with items)
Warcry: 20 (27)
Battle Cry: 20 (27)
Taunt: 20 (27)
Battle Orders: 20 (27)
Howl: 4 (11)
Shout, Battle Command & Find Potion: 1 each (8)
Iron Skin & Natural Resist: 1 each (4)
Leap & Leap Attack: 1 each
Gear:
Bahamut's Yew Wand of the Magus (+119 mana, +20% FCR)
Immortal King's Will socketed with 2 perfect sapphires
Immortal King's Pillar
Skin of the Vipermagi socketed with a perfect sapphire
The Ward, upgraded to ancient shield and socketed with a perfect diamond.
Ravenfrost
Dwarf Star
Echoing Amulet (+3 to warcries)
Frostburn
Serpent's Demonhide Sash of the Colossus (+55 life, +19 mana)
A few +X to mana, +X to life charms
A Fanatic Grand Charm of Inertia (+1 to masteries, 7% faster r/w)
Merc:
Holy Freeze, level 79
Gear:
Husoldal Evo
Holy Dusk Shrould of Ease (best armor I could find the entire game!)
A rare circlet with +55 to life, +15% resist all, 6% life leech and other useless mods)
Now the boring part where I drone on and on about the build...
This build was great fun. Normal was...well...normal, and I almost quit before I got started because I find normal barbarian characters to be hideously boring. I finally got Warcry and turned the players setting down from 8 to 3 at that point, so I could use warcry more effectively. NM was a breeze, and I didn't die once through there. I'm sure I could've done the whole mess on /players 8, but kept it at 3 for speed. A1 Hell was pretty easy, and I made it all the way to A2 before dying, which was a huge surprise. Hell was also quite difficult in spots - He was pretty much useless in A2 after the palace cellar. Acts 3 and 4 weren't too bad, and A5 only had problems with PI Moon Lords that appeared in various spots. Baal's minions were a piece of cake, and I blew through all 5 sets in about 8 minutes. Baal, on the other hand, took almost an hour of shouting, opening town portals and buying mana potions. I think I spent close to 400,000 gold on mana potions during that epic struggle!
I'm not sure what i'm going to do with him now. It takes waaaay too long to kill act bosses, and I don't think I could give him much in terms of MF gear before he gets too weak. I've got spare IK's Will and Skin of the Vipermagi, so I might try socketing them with some PTopaz's for some MF and see what happens.
Hope you all enjoyed reading this, and I encourange everyone to try one of these if you can! They're great fun!
EC