Barbarian build

[YellowDyeNo5]

Barbarian build

Ok I'm finally thinking of making one of these godawful creatures, as I've come across an Arreats and several other fun barbie toys. The question being, what do you hardcore folks find to be the most durable PvM barbarian build? I'm looking to something that's a good all around character, not one that can be semi-effective against baal run monsters.

 

[tooie1]

Ok I'm finally thinking of making one of these godawful creatures, as I've come across an Arreats and several other fun barbie toys. The question being, what do you hardcore folks find to be the most durable PvM barbarian build? I'm looking to something that's a good all around character, not one that can be semi-effective against baal run monsters.

Concentrate/warcry is a safe (if somewhat slow) build. Barbs aren't the killers they once were, i.e. whirlwind.

 

[YellowDyeNo5]

Concentrate/warcry is a safe (if somewhat slow) build. Barbs aren't the killers they once were, i.e. whirlwind.

Ya safe is more what I'm looking for. Not something that can kill tons of monsters at once (.04 lance WW barb), but something that can hold his own against a few monsters, use howl for annoying mobs, and then be able to take out monsters with few hits while taking little damage hisself. I thought of berserk, as I know what the damage potential on those buggers are, but I'm also leary about having no defense (yes I know, countered by howl/warcry) and no leech. Conc/warcry would seem the way to go, but I don't wanna have to hack away forever at a single monster, and I'm not sure what the damage potential on a one handed conc barb is.

Gear lineup thus far that I have would be:
Oath
Arreats
Highlords
Goreriders
Verdungos
Stormy

Now with those goodies I should be able to do well with several builds I'd imagine, but I'm still curious as to what would be safer, and if the damage potential of zerk against monsters is worth the additional danger

 

[sahlakh]

Simple.

20 WW
20 Mastery
20 BO
20 Shout

Plus the one point wonders, the rest into iron skin. Whirling around is much more fun and effective than swinging with conc like using a standard attack.

I agree conc is safe, but it sucks way too much to be the main attack.

 

[Baranor]

ye, couple ww with crushing blow and you'll still be wiping out monsters fairly efficient. I'm going to make a whirler with dual sabres and duress//goreriders for lots of hits and lots of CB.

 

[Liessa Wyrmbane]

My Frenzy/Warcry barb is suprisingly durable. I can do hell Travincal runs with ease even when I'm amped (everytime) and they have Fana/Might (like 50% of the time).

Skills:
20 Frenzy
20 Mastery
20 BO
10 War Cry
10 Double Swing
6 Taunt (rest goes here)

I have ~4400 life, 45%DR, 8300 def, max res and 4 sec War Cry.

 

[sahlakh]

My Frenzy/Warcry barb is suprisingly durable. I can do hell Travincal runs with ease even when I'm amped (everytime) and they have Fana/Might (like 50% of the time).

Skills:
20 Frenzy
20 Mastery
20 BO
10 War Cry
10 Double Swing
6 Taunt (rest goes here)

I have ~4400 life, 45%DR, 8300 def, max res and 4 sec War Cry.

Gear? (10 chars)

 

[Liessa Wyrmbane]

Gear? (10 chars)

- Arreat (um)
- upgraded Shaftstop (um)
- Grief phase blade (low stats but still awesome)
- Azurewrath (ed jewel)
- Draculs
- Verdungo
- Gore's
- Highlord
- Raven
- mana leech ring
- anni and lots of life charms of all sizes (no skillers)

 

[Valar-Wrath]

Make a wolf barbie! Mine was so much fun. I used:

Wolfhowl(obviously) -UM
Azure-ED Jool
SS-Pdiamond
Up'd Shaft- UM
Verdungos
Gores
LOH
Raven
Highlords
Some rare ring

He was EXTREMELY safe. Just watch out for IM. At level 89 he had like 5-6 k life.

His damage was kinda low but the speed of the wolf attack made up for it.

Max BO
Max Shout
Max weapon mastery
Rest into iron skin and natural resist

Edit: Just saw you are making a baba because you found arreats. Well.. You should still try this build, it's loads of fun!

 

[Sip]

My barbarian uses:

Arreats face 39%ed jewel
Leviathan with 39%ed jewel
Verdungos
Steelrends
Gore riders
20 dex raven
5/6 dual leech ring
Two ethereal oath balrog blades

Skills are max sword mastery, max whirlwind, Max bo, skill points in frenzy, nat resist and now working on maxing shout.

 

[Still-Xey-Lover]

Liessa, your baba is extremly expensive though . Could a thrower handle hell trav? Using dual lacerators or gimmers? Eth lacerators and eth demons arch would be secks .