CCCenturion
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Trang Oul's Bard... take a break from cookie cutter builds
I was just muling some stuff around and had a pretty crazy idea for a singer Barb build. It definitely wouldn't be the strongest character you've ever seen, but it could be fun if you want to try something different.
Basically, what we're doing here is taking advantage of the Fire skills you get from the Trang Oul set, and using Warcry to hold monsters in place while you roast them with Fire Walls and rain Meteors down on their heads.
With 4 pieces from the Trang Oul set (since you can't use the shield), you get +18 To Fire Ball, +13 To Fire Wall, and +10 To Meteor. Not skills that you typically see a Barbarian using. The synergies don't work, though, and you can't complete the set (which doubles all of these bonuses and gives +3 to Fire Mastery), so your damage isn't going to be huge, and you'll need something to compensate. Hence Warcry. You don't need to do a ton of damage per second if nothing can even move.
By the way, I've never built a Singer before, so I'm not sure about this, but does Warcry stun Champions, SuperUniques, and Bosses? If not, then does Stun? If that's the case, you might want to max Stun as well.
If I do get around to trying this out, and cost weren't an issue, I'd probably go with:
Trang's set (4 pieces)
2x Hoto (Wizardspike could also work, but you would need all the +skills you can get to hope to do damage with your fire skills)
2x SOJ
Metalgrid (so I could make an Insight Iron Golem, and put an Infinity on my merc)
Aldur's boots (for frw and fire resist)
Torch
Anni
assorted charms to cover your other needs
So there you go. Don't expect to be able to do Ubers with this build, or even get terribly far into Hell difficulty. (Or even finish Nightmare, for that matter.) But it could be kind of funny to run around with a skull-faced Barbarian, singing lullabies and then slow roasting your enemies as they sleep.
I was just muling some stuff around and had a pretty crazy idea for a singer Barb build. It definitely wouldn't be the strongest character you've ever seen, but it could be fun if you want to try something different.
Basically, what we're doing here is taking advantage of the Fire skills you get from the Trang Oul set, and using Warcry to hold monsters in place while you roast them with Fire Walls and rain Meteors down on their heads.
With 4 pieces from the Trang Oul set (since you can't use the shield), you get +18 To Fire Ball, +13 To Fire Wall, and +10 To Meteor. Not skills that you typically see a Barbarian using. The synergies don't work, though, and you can't complete the set (which doubles all of these bonuses and gives +3 to Fire Mastery), so your damage isn't going to be huge, and you'll need something to compensate. Hence Warcry. You don't need to do a ton of damage per second if nothing can even move.
By the way, I've never built a Singer before, so I'm not sure about this, but does Warcry stun Champions, SuperUniques, and Bosses? If not, then does Stun? If that's the case, you might want to max Stun as well.
If I do get around to trying this out, and cost weren't an issue, I'd probably go with:
Trang's set (4 pieces)
2x Hoto (Wizardspike could also work, but you would need all the +skills you can get to hope to do damage with your fire skills)
2x SOJ
Metalgrid (so I could make an Insight Iron Golem, and put an Infinity on my merc)
Aldur's boots (for frw and fire resist)
Torch
Anni
assorted charms to cover your other needs
So there you go. Don't expect to be able to do Ubers with this build, or even get terribly far into Hell difficulty. (Or even finish Nightmare, for that matter.) But it could be kind of funny to run around with a skull-faced Barbarian, singing lullabies and then slow roasting your enemies as they sleep.
. I love crazy builds. One thing i would say is i'm not sure an iron golem from metalgrid follows u from game to game. Meaning u would need a new insight everygame (not 100% on this but something in my head seems to remember this fact)
