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Patriarch - Renji - [Double Thrower] (Dual Demon's Arch)

[HIGHLIGHT]INTRODUCTION[/HIGHLIGHT]
This covers the authors finnishing of a char of the mid era of his D2 playing. Since the number of double throw barbarians was suprisingly low in the mat/pat thread the author did this writeup kind of happy that he had done something unqiue


[HIGHLIGHT]BACKGROUND[/HIGHLIGHT]
This char was created back in the good old time when I created one char a week and rushed it to forge. Yes it was before I found this lovely place and knew that it's kind of better to rush some 7 chars while your at it. :) Anyway I thought that this is one of the mules from that age that deserved some playing since the plan for it back then was kind of unique. I have stashed up plenty of Death Bit throwing knifes through the years which kind of also made me take on this char.


[HIGHLIGHT]CHARACTER[/HIGHLIGHT]

Name Choice
I made some searches in a dictionary and found this cool name for "range". Now when the char is finnished I found this red haired "samurai" which doesn't seems so ranged? Maybe said dictionary mean "range" in some other way.

Core Info
Stats / Resists / Defence / Misc

Skills (Gear+CtA)
Combat Skills
Combat Masteries
Warcries


Gear
Arreat's Face
Highlord's Wrath
Demon's Arch
Demon's Arch
Fortitue
Cruel Claw
Razortail
Rare Ring (8% Life Leech, +90 Attack Rating , +30 Lightning Res, +23% Cold Res)
Raven Frost
Natalya's Soul


Inventory
9 x Fanatic Skillers
1 Tome of TP

Switch
Demon's Arch
Demon's Arch


Merc
Nightmare Offensive (Might)
Infinity
Threachery
Vamp Gaze

Finds
Pul Drop



[HIGHLIGHT]THE PROGRESS[/HIGHLIGHT]
When he was rushed to forge he landed some 1-3 levels from being able to use Death Bit. It was kind real grind before I could equip the Death Bits and after that it was kind of lot of repairs before I could start using Fortitude which was a great lift in damage. A disapiontment was that the Combat Skills Skillers didn't boost Double Throw damage :rant:. In the other hand all the Masteries Skillers made resistance and run/walk speed kind of nice :thumbup:. I don't remeber much of Nighmare and resumed him from start of Nightmare and re-runned areas already rushed past. When Demon's Arch was equiped I kind of thought the damage was enought for my stressed out style of gaming. It have been some 20~ mats/pats through the years but I have never seen this (where is the portal?).
In hell I got a bit more serious and tried to line up monsters to have the pierce hit multiple badies. Merc died a lot and I didn't tank him so well although I was very safe at some 2 k life and almost maxed out resists. One S&E cheese in the Chaos Sanctuary but before that , a nice one and the only find worth mentioning.
The ancient that throws was the hardest but they where no problem, some 4 health potions used. I was surprised how easy "run and gun" could take down listner and co. Baal messed around big time: making clone, making clone, making clone. Merc messed around big time: fighting clone , fighting clone, fighting clone! When he was done making clones we boxed him tight and took him down kind of fast. The Baal drop is as good as the battle with him, I guess.

NOTE : I was planing to use Warshrike but thought the symetry of dual Demon's looked nice! (same link as above!)




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Thanx 4 reading!
 
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Re: Patriarch - Renji - [Double Thrower] (Dual Demon's Arch)

Great Character, Always thought Double Throw was cool. I didn't expect to see such big damage numbers either. Was the repairing a real downside, or not that bad? I didn't notice much mention of it so I am Curious how long it took you to burn through a stack.
 
Re: Patriarch - Renji - [Double Thrower] (Dual Demon's Arch)

Grats on the pat :) very nice numbers for a relatively cheap character to make imo. I've wanted to make a Double-Throw Barb ever since I picked up an eth stack of Demon Arch, but now am holding out for another eth stack for style points :D

Was the elemental damage good enough on PIs? If not how did you compensate? That's the only thing that worries me about making this build.

@kestegs: replenish quantity ftw
 
Re: Patriarch - Renji - [Double Thrower] (Dual Demon's Arch)

Renji, the red haired character from ‘Bleach’ has a sword (Zabimaru . . . here's not the best vid but it's short and you'd get the idea) that in pseudo magical (perhaps even D2-esque) fashion extends to amazing range and can transform into the bamboo-snake (as seen at the end of the vid). Furthermore when his sword is in bamboo-snake form it can shoot lightning, fire, . . mana . . . whatever . . . making Renji even more ranged . . . it’s all rather complex (and a bit odd) but does make good sense if you watch/read Bleach :nod: .

Ha ha ha . . . and there were those that thought that knowledge would never be useful . . .

. . . right . . .

. . .


@kestegs: replenish quantity ftw

My experience with dual Demon Arches is that the replenishes quantity isn’t nearly sufficient for sustained throwing. My experience was that I would deplete one set of Demon Arches in short order, switch to the other set, deplete the second set in short order, and then get a few more throws out of the first set before needing to tp out to repair. I found it a bit annoying but it would be interesting to see if Megalomania had the same experience :nod: . Anyhow, . .

Congrats on the Patriarch Megalomania! :thumbup:


 
Re: Patriarch - Renji - [Double Thrower] (Dual Demon's Arch)

I didn't notice much mention of it so I am Curious how long it took you to burn through a stack.

@kestegs: replenish quantity ftw

Also notice that he had 4 stacks of them. While two stacks are recharging, he can use the other two.

Though, Han seems to mean that even that isn't enough.


 
Re: Patriarch - Renji - [Double Thrower] (Dual Demon's Arch)

Great Character, Always thought Double Throw was cool. I didn't expect to see such big damage numbers either. Was the repairing a real downside, or not that bad?
I have 1 set of Spears on switch and "guns" with one set!

I didn't notice much mention of it so I am Curious how long it took you to burn through a stack.
When to stacks are depleted I have some extra spears wihich has replenished. But repairs still goes of every 1-3 mins I'd say!




Grats on the pat :) very nice numbers for a relatively cheap character to make imo. I've wanted to make a Double-Throw Barb ever since I picked up an eth stack of Demon Arch, but now am holding out for another eth stack for style points :D
Sounds nice, Hope you find it some day!

Was the elemental damage good enough on PIs? If not how did you compensate? That's the only thing that worries me about making this build.
Yes it was with infinity cutting of some elemtal resist I took them out pretty quick!

@kestegs: replenish quantity ftw
I'd say it goes to slow, but I hit energy drinks and spams spears for kicks!







Renji, the red haired character from ‘Bleach’ has a sword (Zabimaru . . . here's not the best vid but it's short and you'd get the idea) that in pseudo magical (perhaps even D2-esque) fashion extends to amazing range and can transform into the bamboo-snake (as seen at the end of the vid). Furthermore when his sword is in bamboo-snake form it can shoot lightning, fire, . . mana . . . whatever . . . making Renji even more ranged . . . it’s all rather complex (and a bit odd) but does make good sense if you watch/read Bleach :nod: .
Thats some nice info about him. Also confirms my nameing wasn't that bad after all.

Ha ha ha . . . and there were those that thought that knowledge would never be useful . . .

. . . right . . .

. . .
:thumbup:

My experience with dual Demon Arches is that the replenishes quantity isn’t nearly sufficient for sustained throwing. My experience was that I would deplete one set of Demon Arches in short order, switch to the other set, deplete the second set in short order, and then get a few more throws out of the first set before needing to tp out to repair. I found it a bit annoying but it would be interesting to see if Megalomania had the same experience :nod: . Anyhow, . .
I totaly agree, but if you play more "safe" and let merc take out most mobs you might be able to cut down on this... Certainly not for me but I guess it can be done, not bootsing attack speed and throw very moderate!

Congrats on the Patriarch Megalomania! :thumbup:
Thanx alot








Also notice that he had 4 stacks of them. While two stacks are recharging, he can use the other two.

Though, Han seems to mean that even that isn't enough.

As said me and Han demands much spaming so I guess it's not enought, but I love the blue portal :crazyeyes:


[HIGHLIGHT]Thanx for the attention! Kind of makes me wanna do some "wacky" build again instead of resuming the cookie cutters![/HIGHLIGHT]


 
Re: Patriarch - Renji - [Double Thrower] (Dual Demon's Arch)

Nicely done. Congrats!

I have one of those in the works, but I'm thinking of making him titan. Or dexabarb? Hmmm... I have to check how the Str/Dex bonus applies to these weapons...

Now why did you choose 'Infinity' on the moron? I mean, I get it, hitting stuff. Wouldn't Reaper's be better overall? It'd increase the damage and help moron live.

Also, you linked twice to the same sshot. The first and last link in "THE PROGRESS" paragraph. May not be intentional, don't know.

Grats!
--Greebo
 
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