Now you always see barbs on Diablo 2 and for good reason
They serve as awsome tanks and supporters
They can release decent amounts of damage.
I made a barb a while back but my account expired (boo hoo).
It kinda sucked. full IK that i somehow got out of pure luck and alot of GIMME GIMME PLOX!
This time i decided to remake my barb and give it a new touch.
So what i plan on making is a tank n smack barb.
My plan is to invest in:
Mace combat mastery (large damage but low attack speed, I chose Maces, but you can choose what you want)
Iron skin (to give large defence bonus)
Natural Res (to defend myself from those pesky element attacks)
Bash (push-back, a quick stun and damage improvement to give a nice First-Hit)
Frenzy (hit after hit after hit and its beginning to HURT LIKE HELL)
Whirlwind (to plow through multiple bosses)
Now How would stats work?
you would want to put alot into strength (around 70 or more)
ALOT into Vitality to give that mountain of health (100)
The rest spread into dex and a little into mana so you have enough for constant usage of spells and dont have to spam mana pots
Now what does that give you?
A nice barb for One on One PVPs, and boss slayer.
Its in ways flexible with equipment. Your going to want decent defence and such. you are probably going to want runeword weapons.
Now, from the diablo community, how can I improve this barb?
max mastery, wc,bc, shout,ww, natural resist, iron skin (is what i did on mine)
armor- enigma
gloves- trang
rings- 10fcr dual leech w/ resist and atack rating
helm- arreats
ammy- 2 barb fcr resist
boots- treks
shield- stormshield (w/ ber for dmg reduction)
weapon- Ebotdz
weapon switch- 2x wizspikes for GG fcr and mana. (i tele baals a lot)
MERC- fort (non eth so i can use it for BVB)
BOTD bow
gaze (leech/ dr)
and use what ever gc's u want ar/md/life gcs or WC gc's
this is what i did, you dont have to use it..
OHH and i put all vitality. NOTHING else where, specially energy.
(only put in dex if your mb)
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It's time for us as a people to start makin' some changes.
Let's change the way we eat, let's change the way we live
and let's change the way we treat each other.
You see the old way wasn't working so it's on us to do
what we gotta do, to survive. Tupac Shakur
100% Legit baal runners SICK_Bambi 93 Barb (46th barb)
SICK_Paladin 95 Necromancer (12th necro)
SICK_ferret 95 Assassin (10th sin) ~~us West Ladder~~
If you are going to max all those skills you are looking at 120+ skills (perquisites).
Mace Mastery: Id choose another Mastery. There are alot better options. Unless you are going for full IK again?
Iron Skin: As it is mentioned above Shout gives better defence @lvl 20 AND is party friendly
Natural Res: Diminishing returns kicks in at lvl 16 so it would be kinda dumb to max it (you get +3 all res from lvl 16 compared to lvl 20). Id dump 1 pt into it and let +skill take care of the rest. If you havnt get many +skills you can put 5 or so pts into Nat Res.
Bash: No more than 1 pt here. It doesnt do enough damage. It can only be used on single targets and Frenzy/WW is far better.
Frenzy: If you are going for IK set (as I would think since you are going with Mace Mas) you cant use Frenzy. Frenzy is a dual wield attack.
WW: You got it spot on! Max it out and use it as you main attack.
Ideas:
You are missing out in the Warcry tree it seems.
Battle Orders: Raises life/mana. Why wouldnt you want that? AND it is party friendly.
Battle Command: Life skill lvl +1. Thats nice. Not only for you but for you party aswell.
Shout: As mentioned it gives more defence than Iron Skin and is more party friendly.
Skill points wise a cookie cutter WW IK barb looks like this:
20 WW
20 BO
20 Shout
20 Mace Mastery
Rest into Iron Skin
1 BC (no need to put more than one pt since the only thing that goes up with more points is duration)
1 Nat res (as said + skills should do the trick)
1 Increased speed (why wouldnt anyone want to go faster?)
1 Berzerk (to take care of those physical immunes)
7 into perquisites
Statwise it looks like almost any other build:
Str: Enough for gear
Dex: Enough for gear
Vita: Everythiing else:
NRGY: None, nada, nil, zip, zero, zilch
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They serve as awsome tanks and supporters
They can release decent amounts of damage.
I made a barb a while back but my account expired (boo hoo).
It kinda sucked. full IK that i somehow got out of pure luck and alot of GIMME GIMME PLOX!
This time i decided to remake my barb and give it a new touch.
So what i plan on making is a tank n smack barb.
My plan is to invest in:
Mace combat mastery (large damage but low attack speed, I chose Maces, but you can choose what you want)
Iron skin (to give large defence bonus)
Natural Res (to defend myself from those pesky element attacks)
Bash (push-back, a quick stun and damage improvement to give a nice First-Hit)
Frenzy (hit after hit after hit and its beginning to HURT LIKE HELL)
Whirlwind (to plow through multiple bosses)
Now How would stats work?
you would want to put alot into strength (around 70 or more)
ALOT into Vitality to give that mountain of health (100)
The rest spread into dex and a little into mana so you have enough for constant usage of spells and dont have to spam mana pots
Now what does that give you?
A nice barb for One on One PVPs, and boss slayer.
Its in ways flexible with equipment. Your going to want decent defence and such. you are probably going to want runeword weapons.
Now, from the diablo community, how can I improve this barb?
Should i add points into warcries n such?
ok. um... wAr cries... i always max, (habbit)
maces... wtf weapon are you going to use?
use a ebotdcb or ebotdZ
max mastery, wc,bc, shout,ww, natural resist, iron skin (is what i did on mine)
armor- enigma
gloves- trang
rings- 10fcr dual leech w/ resist and atack rating
helm- arreats
ammy- 2 barb fcr resist
boots- treks
shield- stormshield (w/ ber for dmg reduction)
weapon- Ebotdz
weapon switch- 2x wizspikes for GG fcr and mana. (i tele baals a lot)
MERC- fort (non eth so i can use it for BVB)
BOTD bow
gaze (leech/ dr)
and use what ever gc's u want ar/md/life gcs or WC gc's
this is what i did, you dont have to use it..
OHH and i put all vitality. NOTHING else where, specially energy.
(only put in dex if your mb)
It's time for us as a people to start makin' some changes.
Let's change the way we eat, let's change the way we live
and let's change the way we treat each other.
You see the old way wasn't working so it's on us to do
what we gotta do, to survive.
Tupac Shakur
100% Legit baal runners
SICK_Bambi 93 Barb (46th barb)
SICK_Paladin 95 Necromancer (12th necro)
SICK_ferret 95 Assassin (10th sin)
~~us West Ladder~~
For bambi, perhaps the OP don't have enough stuff to get those weapons or maybe he don't wanna use items made from duped runes.
RIP: Demon Hunter: lvl 50 | Barb: lvl 60 (plvl 5) | Monk: lvl12 & lvl70 (plvl 200)
Mace Mastery: Id choose another Mastery. There are alot better options. Unless you are going for full IK again?
Iron Skin: As it is mentioned above Shout gives better defence @lvl 20 AND is party friendly
Natural Res: Diminishing returns kicks in at lvl 16 so it would be kinda dumb to max it (you get +3 all res from lvl 16 compared to lvl 20). Id dump 1 pt into it and let +skill take care of the rest. If you havnt get many +skills you can put 5 or so pts into Nat Res.
Bash: No more than 1 pt here. It doesnt do enough damage. It can only be used on single targets and Frenzy/WW is far better.
Frenzy: If you are going for IK set (as I would think since you are going with Mace Mas) you cant use Frenzy. Frenzy is a dual wield attack.
WW: You got it spot on! Max it out and use it as you main attack.
Ideas:
You are missing out in the Warcry tree it seems.
Battle Orders: Raises life/mana. Why wouldnt you want that? AND it is party friendly.
Battle Command: Life skill lvl +1. Thats nice. Not only for you but for you party aswell.
Shout: As mentioned it gives more defence than Iron Skin and is more party friendly.
Skill points wise a cookie cutter WW IK barb looks like this:
20 WW
20 BO
20 Shout
20 Mace Mastery
Rest into Iron Skin
1 BC (no need to put more than one pt since the only thing that goes up with more points is duration)
1 Nat res (as said + skills should do the trick)
1 Increased speed (why wouldnt anyone want to go faster?)
1 Berzerk (to take care of those physical immunes)
7 into perquisites
Statwise it looks like almost any other build:
Str: Enough for gear
Dex: Enough for gear
Vita: Everythiing else:
NRGY: None, nada, nil, zip, zero, zilch
"Ahh, fresh meat!"
- The Butcher