So I've started looking at berserker barb builds to respec my barbarian into. This is because he is currently a pre 1.13 Whirlwind build, and with the removal of iron maiden he doesn't need berserker, but I don't really like WW as the core game mechanic of him, so I'm switching him to berserker. I'm on non-ladder so I can't 'up' via cube any of my gear etc. so he'll probably never be 'perfect' in my eyes. But, that said, I'd still like him to kick-ass!
My gear is:
Arreats (suggestions for what to socket it with?)
Verdungos hearty cord.
2 x Ravenfrosts (17 dex, 232 ar. 17 dex 242 ar.)
Cats eye ammy (Looking for HighLords)
Laying of hands. (I have a spare steelrends but I plan to keep these ones)
Infernostride demon hide boots (really want gore riders)
The gladiators bane wire fleece (want an enigma or fortitude in a sacred plate with above 557 base defence)
At the moment I am using a bonehew with a shael and pul rune in it. I want to know what the best 2H weapon for a Berserker barb is? I would like everyone's suggestions and preferably I will be using an Ebotd item :).
And on switch I need 2 x CTA so that my BO makes him awesome.
Skills:
20 Battle Orders
20 Berserk
20 Wpn Mastery (a 2H mastery spear or polearm)
20 Shout (defence and Berserk synergy)
20 Howl (Maxing out last)
1 Battle Command
1 Natural Resistences
5 Pre Requisites
1 Increased Speed
If you've ever wondered that shout is a completely retarded synergy for berserk, it is. However I max it before howl as howl is a panic button that I press if surrounded and definitely dying. While shout gives me synergies to BO and BC.
My stats go something like EVERYTHING INTO STRENGTH. That's right, he's a strength pure and thus no armour is too heavy for him. Some of you will be crying HEALTH! But never fear, with enough life charms he can raise his base hp to just above 1k, and then with BO he gets a little over 2k. Atm I gave all my life charms to my smiter so his base hp with everything into str is 661 and 1.1k with bo, and that is without the +6 to BO via call to arms. But look, I'm respecing and then going for the perfect weapon as an order of importance, therefore I will put enough into dex to make sure I can wield it.
Look, the reason I wrote this all up for you, is because I'm not sure what I should do:
Should I go enigma? OR
Should I go and spend a lot of money (game money not real money) on a fortitude in a sacred plate for the extra damage? OR
Should I go Chains of honour instead?
What would be the best thing to put in my arreats face (and then what is an affordable option to put in it :P)?
Should I instead ditch the whole pure strength thing (he does alright with WW and stuff in this gear so I figure with berserk but much better gear he'll do even better) and go for max vit with minimum str?
And the biggest question of all, what weapon should I use? I want to use a 2H weapon for no reason other than it looks cool and everyone uses 1H'ers. Even though 1h'ers are better...
What would be the best items to put in my merc to complement me? I am currently thinking might A2 merc with a Pride for concentration aura, but does his might aura and concentration aura stack?
Really, I just want to know what to do for a godly weapon, but I would value your opinions for everything else too.
Thanks guys
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Well, if you're not going to place stats into vitality and you plan on going the whole level 99 road (current skill set up requires level 97 plus all skill point quests.), then take the last two points that are available and put one into Iron Skin for extra defense and 1 into natural resistances.
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Extra defense is useless if using Berserk so Iron Skin is useless. If he was playing Eastern Sun mod then the skill can be useful since with investment Berserk can get Defense.
I am just trying to remember one of my Old Berserker Barbs when I played before playing mods in 2003.
I suggest placing at least 1 point into Warcry. That skill will help keep you alive by stunning opponents.
If you are going with all strength I would go with a Thunder Maul. As far as I remember it gets the best enhanced damage from strength.
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theres no point in doing a titan build here because even if you could equip epic sacred plate enigmas or forts, your def will be 0 when you zerk. go vit.
the best 2-handers would probably be either etomb 3os, or a botd, mancatcher would be the best for ias, death would be okay too.
ed jewels or res jewels are the best for a socket in arreats because you wont need more ias with a mancatcher than 40.
the best armour would be enigma in most cases, but for pvm fort will probably be just as good. coh if you really need the res.
might and conc do stack. although you could go with a2 hf to slow down some of the monsters
cta only adds +3 to wc on barbs. so even if u use 6bo ctas youll get capped at 3bo each. better to use 2 hotos, or 1 hoto 1 cta. 2 wc weps with str work too.
conc the magic immunes or add 1 to ww
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Titan Berserker can still work nicely. I did it in 1.09 berserker barb. Most of the time you do not need defense if using Warcry to stun nearby monsters you can also use Howl to send monsters away and then use Taunt to bring in one at a time. I also used other warcries such as Battle Cry and Taunt. Battle Cry is great to make things easier to hit and the monsters do less damage.
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Enigma is nice but I do not think it is needed or the best.
Fortitude is a nice armor.
I would be looking in gear to get Crushing Blow to 100% or as close as possible since that will make killing faster.
If you are playing Hardcore then you want to invest more points into Vitality.
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I'm not planning on lvling to 99, I might get him to low 90's, he's lvl 89 atm. I would invest his skill points into everything but Howl and then put whatevers remaining into howl last.
I'm thinking of going fortitude for the extra damage. And apples makes a good point about my strength and how it's unnecessary for me to get godly defensive gear.
I know about CTA but if I dual wield hotos or cta its 6+ in total.
What is a Tomb? I can't find it on the wiki anywhere.
"ed jewels or res jewels are the best for a socket in arreats because you wont need more ias with a mancatcher than 40."
Having had a look it really is amazing how much difference that extra 10 ias the mancatcher has makes. I hit the final breakpoint so easily.
One friend suggested that I go for an enigma in a breastplate as my defence doesn't matter and dump all points into vit unless I need the dex for weapon.
He will not be doing pvp. I never got into that and am not interested in it.
I just want this guy to be a monster basher, and be able to solo hell baal with pretty much my current build, then I will truthfully be happy with him and can put him to rest. I've always been in love with the whole titan idea because it's so different from max vit build and it makes him a bit of glass cannon and he takes more skill to play with juggling howl and taunt.
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I know about CTA but if I dual wield hotos or cta its 6+ in total.
No matter what you use on your weapon swap, you won't be able to get more than +6 to your warcries, so there's really no reason to get expensive weapons like CTA or HotO when you can just pick up a couple shout sticks from a vendor.
just remember that there are more magic immunes now. especially wave 2 in baals throne. either add 1 to ww to quickly get rid of them or u can conc them individually.
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Well, depends on your other gear and I don't really feel like going through the calculations atm, but...using Berserk with a Tomb Reaver you'd be attacking at 14 frames (the breakpoint is 54 IAS and the weapon has 60 on it). Above that, your breakpoints are 75, 109, 163, and 280 IAS (fastest = 10 frames per attack). Based on the IAS on your other gear, you should be able to determine whether or not you'll be able to reach the next breakpoint. If so, socket Shaels or 40ED/15IAS jewels (jewels are obviously better, but if you're more than 45 IAS from the next breakpoint they won't do). If not, something like Ber runes would be good for Crushing Blow, ED/Max jewels, etc. If it's ethereal, you'll of course need a Zod.
My gear is:
Arreats (suggestions for what to socket it with?)
Verdungos hearty cord.
2 x Ravenfrosts (17 dex, 232 ar. 17 dex 242 ar.)
Cats eye ammy (Looking for HighLords)
Laying of hands. (I have a spare steelrends but I plan to keep these ones)
Infernostride demon hide boots (really want gore riders)
The gladiators bane wire fleece (want an enigma or fortitude in a sacred plate with above 557 base defence)
At the moment I am using a bonehew with a shael and pul rune in it. I want to know what the best 2H weapon for a Berserker barb is? I would like everyone's suggestions and preferably I will be using an Ebotd item :).
And on switch I need 2 x CTA so that my BO makes him awesome.
Skills:
20 Battle Orders
20 Berserk
20 Wpn Mastery (a 2H mastery spear or polearm)
20 Shout (defence and Berserk synergy)
20 Howl (Maxing out last)
1 Battle Command
1 Natural Resistences
5 Pre Requisites
1 Increased Speed
If you've ever wondered that shout is a completely retarded synergy for berserk, it is. However I max it before howl as howl is a panic button that I press if surrounded and definitely dying. While shout gives me synergies to BO and BC.
My stats go something like EVERYTHING INTO STRENGTH. That's right, he's a strength pure and thus no armour is too heavy for him. Some of you will be crying HEALTH! But never fear, with enough life charms he can raise his base hp to just above 1k, and then with BO he gets a little over 2k. Atm I gave all my life charms to my smiter so his base hp with everything into str is 661 and 1.1k with bo, and that is without the +6 to BO via call to arms. But look, I'm respecing and then going for the perfect weapon as an order of importance, therefore I will put enough into dex to make sure I can wield it.
Look, the reason I wrote this all up for you, is because I'm not sure what I should do:
Should I go enigma? OR
Should I go and spend a lot of money (game money not real money) on a fortitude in a sacred plate for the extra damage? OR
Should I go Chains of honour instead?
What would be the best thing to put in my arreats face (and then what is an affordable option to put in it :P)?
Should I instead ditch the whole pure strength thing (he does alright with WW and stuff in this gear so I figure with berserk but much better gear he'll do even better) and go for max vit with minimum str?
And the biggest question of all, what weapon should I use? I want to use a 2H weapon for no reason other than it looks cool and everyone uses 1H'ers. Even though 1h'ers are better...
What would be the best items to put in my merc to complement me? I am currently thinking might A2 merc with a Pride for concentration aura, but does his might aura and concentration aura stack?
Really, I just want to know what to do for a godly weapon, but I would value your opinions for everything else too.
Thanks guys
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I am just trying to remember one of my Old Berserker Barbs when I played before playing mods in 2003.
I suggest placing at least 1 point into Warcry. That skill will help keep you alive by stunning opponents.
If you are going with all strength I would go with a Thunder Maul. As far as I remember it gets the best enhanced damage from strength.
the best 2-handers would probably be either etomb 3os, or a botd, mancatcher would be the best for ias, death would be okay too.
ed jewels or res jewels are the best for a socket in arreats because you wont need more ias with a mancatcher than 40.
the best armour would be enigma in most cases, but for pvm fort will probably be just as good. coh if you really need the res.
might and conc do stack. although you could go with a2 hf to slow down some of the monsters
cta only adds +3 to wc on barbs. so even if u use 6bo ctas youll get capped at 3bo each. better to use 2 hotos, or 1 hoto 1 cta. 2 wc weps with str work too.
conc the magic immunes or add 1 to ww
"to the worm in horseradish, the world is horseradish."
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Enigma is nice but I do not think it is needed or the best.
Fortitude is a nice armor.
I would be looking in gear to get Crushing Blow to 100% or as close as possible since that will make killing faster.
If you are playing Hardcore then you want to invest more points into Vitality.
I'm thinking of going fortitude for the extra damage. And apples makes a good point about my strength and how it's unnecessary for me to get godly defensive gear.
I know about CTA but if I dual wield hotos or cta its 6+ in total.
What is a Tomb? I can't find it on the wiki anywhere.
"ed jewels or res jewels are the best for a socket in arreats because you wont need more ias with a mancatcher than 40."
Having had a look it really is amazing how much difference that extra 10 ias the mancatcher has makes. I hit the final breakpoint so easily.
One friend suggested that I go for an enigma in a breastplate as my defence doesn't matter and dump all points into vit unless I need the dex for weapon.
He will not be doing pvp. I never got into that and am not interested in it.
I just want this guy to be a monster basher, and be able to solo hell baal with pretty much my current build, then I will truthfully be happy with him and can put him to rest. I've always been in love with the whole titan idea because it's so different from max vit build and it makes him a bit of glass cannon and he takes more skill to play with juggling howl and taunt.
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No matter what you use on your weapon swap, you won't be able to get more than +6 to your warcries, so there's really no reason to get expensive weapons like CTA or HotO when you can just pick up a couple shout sticks from a vendor.
Tomb Reaver
"to the worm in horseradish, the world is horseradish."
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Anyways, I'll respec soon, thanks for all your advice guys.
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