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Trav Barb help

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Stimm

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Trav Barb help

Im in the planning stages of making a hell Trav runner and need some advice.

Gear I have planned so far (dont have all of it but i think i can)

Helm: Arreates of course UM'd
Armor: Shaft or Lionheart or Duress or Levi if its shaft/levi itll be UM'd
Belt: T gods
Boots: Travs or Waters or Sandstorms or Gores
Shield: Storm UM'd
Jewelry: Highlords or Sacarans or Atmas for amulet. Ravenfrost and dwarf for rings or maybe a good rare in place of dwarf
Gloves no clue
Weapon: This is biggest hangup. I dont have any weapon at all, and im not sure what i can afford as i have yet to trade in this season

Skills: I dont need huge damage as these runs will be in solo games but i dont want to take forever either.

Max weapon mastery 20 pts
Max Bo/Shout 40 pts + pre reqs and 1 in BC
1 pt in Inc/stamina maybe
5 in Nat Res
Max Zerk i guess since im maxing Shout
1 in Find Potion-Item

Any suggestions here?

Merc Holy freeze or might?
CoT helm
armor w/e i dont use ( i have all that i listed)
reapers or bonehew * wont put reapers on freeze(seems like decrep and HF is redundant

Finally ill be starting him sometime Monday on USWest if anyone is planning on starting a new char. I would like to do most if not all quests as I dont want to do baal runs. Any suggestions are welcomed, thanks in advance

~Stimm
 
My mercs absolutly HATE hydras.... its kinda weird. I do mf runs with my metoerb sorc, and the merc tanks EVERYTHING (bosses, anderial's poison, convic tainteds, aura'd archers, etc) but CANNOT, for the life of him, deal with their hydras, either in travincal, or in durance lvl 3. I would say get the merc some max'd fire resist, and focus on having him tank rather than kill.

I'd say go for gore riders and a Crushing blow weapon, better to kill them quickly with a little less mf than endlessly sit there hitting em with 50% more magic find.

-Matt
 
Matt said:
My mercs absolutly HATE hydras.... its kinda weird. I do mf runs with my metoerb sorc, and the merc tanks EVERYTHING (bosses, anderial's poison, convic tainteds, aura'd archers, etc) but CANNOT, for the life of him, deal with their hydras, either in travincal, or in durance lvl 3. I would say get the merc some max'd fire resist, and focus on having him tank rather than kill.

I'd say go for gore riders and a Crushing blow weapon, better to kill them quickly with a little less mf than endlessly sit there hitting em with 50% more magic find.

-Matt
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Im definitely not one of the sacrifice life/dmg for mf.Also what is your mercs gear and do you have a BO slave to help him, not that i wouldnt using a Barb?
 
If you don't have a weapon then you shouldn't make a barbarian. It's the most gear dependant class by far.
 
mestre said:
If you don't have a weapon then you shouldn't make a barbarian. It's the most gear dependant class by far.
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I dont at the moment but i can get about anything i want i reckon. Ive got 2 Combat paladin gcs with 3x life as trade bait. I just need to know what i should shop for
 
Stimm said:
I dont at the moment but i can get about anything i want i reckon. Ive got 2 Combat paladin gcs with 3x life as trade bait. I just need to know what i should shop for
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I haven't even played 1.10, and I know that if your riches are endless then you want an eth BOTD Zerker axe.
 
As you got an ss, a zealot would do much better. It's not hard to reach 50%DR with them. Shaeffer's, horizon's or stormlashes should do well. There are many possible weapons for zealots.
 
My friend had a conc barb with a GF and he killed hell trav easily...but the key to the build which you might not suspect is upped GA...Trust me dont both with anythign else. YOu will have max DR between SS and your belt and with 90 resist all in hell, you wont even get hurt hardly....Get yourself a pair of draculs, goes, highlords and arreats and you are good to go...You might need to put an um in your helm and maybe armor, but you will be one hell of a tank and will have no problems with trav
 
what do you hope to gain with trav runs... are you looking for gold or runes?

I dont think that you should do trav runs without 1000+ gold find.

That way even if you are mostly looking for runes... you still get a buttload of gold for your trouble even if you dont get any good runes (the best rune i got from them was a shael and that was with 100+ runs)

You can get around 150 from gheeds charm, 200 from dwarf stars, a whole buttload from lem+lem ali babas (for find-item switch) and some (i forget how much) from infernostride. If your merc can take them out... you should stick with the lem+lem ali baba and WC them so they stand still for your merc. If not, then just kill them and use ali babas for warcry them.

My friend used to use his frenzy barb for taking out council..... well he had uber items though (doom + beast zerker axes)
 
I have a zerker barb that clears the council pretty well. He uses...

D. Cleaver 'Shael'
Arreat's 'Um'
Stormshield 'Um'
Highlord's Wrath
Dracul's Grasp
Verdungo's Mighty Cord
Ravenfrost
Dual leech res all rare ring
Marrowwalk
Upgraded Guardian Angel 'Um'

With maxed block, 90 res all, and 3.3K zerk (6.6K with the 96% DS) he kicked arse. I had a level 1 conc on left click to restore health if I needed to, with the Dracul-tap, but I rarely had to. My might merc used an ethereal Bonehew, Guillaume's Face, and Leviathan and never died. Ral in the helm and armor for the maxed fire resist and 2 Amns in the Bonehew means he didn't die too often.

Lucky
 
I think people are thinking too much about wpns here.....I mean, if you can afford any wpn and want to spend big, sure go get some fancy runeword...but GF works fine for it...mny friend has a real crappy one 181% and he clears them fine with no problems....No wpn is going to clear super fast cept maybe BOTD and this build wont break your bank and you will be insanely durable...90 resist all, 50 DR, 3500 life (low est) and nothing in the build costs anything other than SS....Just my two cents, but you simply dont have to in order to build ag ood Trav clearer and find those uber runes :thumbsup:
 
stevethatsmyname said:
@luckydwarf: why upgraded guardian angel on a zerk barb? :lol:
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Well, I had the strength anyway, so why not have better defense when I'm not attacking? I'd say it helps, atleast a little, versus things like archers and stuff that I have to chase down.

Lucky
 
Well after about 5 minutes of trading i accumulated all my gear except the weapon (cleaver or GF) and will probably try and make some good "blood" gloves. Im really liking the GA or up'd GA route, I had never thought of it honestly. 90-95 res all lower dex req for block. I might use highlords amulet over sacarans if my res are good enough. Ideally i would like 75 res all with conviction aura but Ill have to see what i have in charms
 
I would really use draculs....They are incredibly sweet...when that life tap goes off, you dont hardly even need life leach....also, I would go for highlords too without a doubt for the ias and DS as well as the big lightning resists.
 
Stimm said:
Well after about 5 minutes of trading i accumulated all my gear except the weapon (cleaver or GF) and will probably try and make some good "blood" gloves.
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Being council member demons they are begging that you just get the good old LoH. It will aloow you to get less fr, btw.
 
mestre said:
Being council member demons they are begging that you just get the good old LoH. It will aloow you to get less fr, btw.
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Yea that sounds like a good idea. With gores and highlords i should have decent cb/ds. Anyone tell me Zerk ias bps?. Im leaning towards GF. Ill have 20 ias from gloves , ias from highlords and prolly shaeld GF
 
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