Some observations, results and questions from Travincal via WW barb

[fuzzy wuzzy1]

Some observations, results and questions from Travincal via WW barb

Well, in my spare time, I made some comparisons for my WW barb and here are my results:

1) Dual Grief seems better than Grief+Eth based Oath.
2) There isn't that much difference between using War Travelers and Gore riders,considering that MF sometimes gives beautiful results like Facets, occy, and thunderstroke etc. However, Gore Rider increases your killing speed and you concentrate on Runes in Travincal, actually.
3) I compared the most used /p settings(3,5,7). I used the stopwatch for the most similar spawns( same place, non PI Ismail,non-auras(especially Convinction) There wasn't a huge gap between settings but some of the situations listed above made my run times a bit longer.Besides, there was almost no difference between /p3 and /p5.
Next projects:
1)I guess I'll give up using Oath. Once I get a Lo, I'll try to roll a better IAS'd one.
2)Run,run,run. I want runes :jig::jig::jig:
3)Lvlup my barb. He is lvl 88 atm, I think that find item's percentage is kinda low(I maxed shout after BO, that's why Find Item's skill points are kinda low.)I'm saving arreat summit quest for levels +90.
Questions:

Has someone ever compared a BotD+Grief to dual Grief? BotD seems a good option, but I've never had one because of being Zodless and I lacked Chams for cubing.

I'm currently using Dual Spirit Swords and I broke %63 FCR brakepoint(9 Frames) with them. My question: Is Dual HotO better than dual Spirit? I can get 9 Frame teleport again but the extra 2 skill points made me think that.

 

[scollin]

Re: Some observations, results and questions from Travincal via WW barb

I fail to see how dual spirit could possibly top dual hoto

 

[Fabian]

Re: Some observations, results and questions from Travincal via WW barb

I fail to see how Spirit can compare to Hoto on a travbarb's switch in any sort of way.

I've never tried Botd, but I know some people have. It's kinda like Oath and Death and Beast in that it's obviously a very good weapon, but it can't compete with Grief.

Had to look up what Shout does. I'm going to suggest there might be better ways of spending your skill points than on Shout A WW Travbarb has a hard time using up his skill points anyway after maxing everything you want, so shouldn't be much of an issue, I'd expect. Axe Mastery Find Item Whirlwind Battle Orders and 1 point in Increased Speed and Natural Resistance and you're done at clvl 80 or something. You might not need to max BO and FI, too, though you might want more (or indeed fewer) points in Increased Speed depending on preference.

I would submit that there's probably a pretty big difference between Gore Riders and War Traveler if you're comparing Facets found/time unit or something, and that lowering your run time is pretty valuable

If you want to compare different player settings to see which player setting is best for you, I would suggest using silo's advanced run counter, found in the stickies. You'll probably want a fairly large sample size for each player setting before deciding what your "true" average run time is for each.

 

[fuzzy wuzzy1]

I found the 4os flails 1 or 2 days ago, so I can cube my guls to vex runes. I didn't try to top spirit swords for hotos, but it was only a question,
I maxed shout because of its synergy with BO and Battle Command duration and Berserk damage, I give the other points to find item as usual.

Edit: I got a bit misunderstood, I wasn't boasting about spirit, I'm not that rich and I need to make some decisions(like cubing high runes) which aren't that easy. I found lots of flails but they had every number of sockets except 4.
I'll check the run time differences with WT and Gore again with silo's run counter this time. If there is a huge time gap, then it's my fault that I didn't check it correctly.

 

[sevenOfDiamonds]

Re: Some observations, results and questions from Travincal via WW barb

Without beeing the expert I would guess that 2xSuicide Branch + a 10FCR ring will be the most effiecent. Saving a frame on each teleport and on each hork adds up very quickly.

 

[Ralguleld]

Re: Some observations, results and questions from Travincal via WW barb

If you are not too rich, make one HotO and use it with Spirit.

Two HotO's are overkill for people with low rune wealth, one HotO could be used on dozens of other characters after you get bored with Travincal Barb