pesot said:
i think lunatic has a frenzy barb with dual fleshripper. he'll be able to help you out in the experience-with-char category :lol: .
I'm thinking of remaking him. he's a temp mule these days. I did have alot of fun with him , and people constantly asked what I was using. If this is good or bad is up to you.
Anyway , back to the topic.
Fleshrippers are quite viable to use as end weapons for a frenzy barb. The mods on fleshripper make up for the loss of no mastery.
-50% Target Defense (this makes up for the loss of %ar from mastery)
25% Chance of Crushing Blow (always nice)
33% Deadly Strike (makes up for the loss of %crit strike from mastery)
50% Chance of Open Wounds (same as the CB)
Prevent Monster Heal (this mod works like a charm)
Slows Target By 20% (nothing special about this really)
The good part about daggers is that dex also boosts your dmg. I made my dagger frenzy barb more or less a titan. Str until I could wear everything , around 100 in vita (with +vita coming from equipment and so) and the rest into dex. I still got an AR of around 10k. In conjunction with the -50% defense you have quite a good chance to hit in hell.
Dmgwise it's ok aswell. If you have some nice life / max dmg charms your life and dmg will be quite good actually. If you don't have such good charms I would suggest getting some +life sc's and boost dex all the way.
Another good part about fleshripper is it's speed. With a lvl 24 frenzy (+4 coming from arreat
) you need 54% IAS in order to hit a 5 frame frenzy. This usually means highlord's + shael in fleshripper's + 15% IAS jewel in helmet or so.
The equipment I used was the following.
Highlord's
Arreat (15% IAS / something jewel)
dual fleshrippers (shael)
Chains of honor wire fleece (gogo sexy looks)
dracul's grasp.
dual leech ring.
Ravenfrost.
Tgods.
gore's.
There are plenty other good items aswell , that are prolly cheaper and easier to get , but I don't know what budget you have. If you're not so rich I would suggest something like the following.
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arreat (this is almost a musthave for every pvm barb)
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crescent moon ,
eye of etlich (very underrated amulet) ,
rare amulet with +skills and other decent mods.
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dual fleshrippers (go figure)
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Lionheart runeword armor (also a very underrated runeword) ,
duriel's shell.
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Laying of hands (you do need some IAS) ,
magnus skin ,
lavagouts (the lvl 10 enchant boosts your AR aswell).
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ravenfrost (same thing as arreat , a musthave for every pvm barb). The other ring depends on if you get some mana leech from another source or not. If not , then I would suggest using a plain
manald heal for some mana leech. If you do get some ML some somewhere else ,
cathan's seal is a cheap leech ring aswell.
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Strings of ears,
Thundergods vigor (this one shouldn't be expensive at all) ,
nosferatu's coil are all decent choices.
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waterwalks ,
sandstorm treks ,
gorerider's (not sure how [non]expensive these are) , natalya's boots (good resist boost).
1 last thing I want to add is something about skills. I would suggest going the warcry route. I tried both the defense and the warcry route , and I liked the last alot more. Everything within the warcry range stops attacking you , while with defense elemental attackers still can attack you.
