WW Barbs R They Still Out There?

[Mr Mellow]

I have been looking on D2 Sector and i have not found a reliable WW Barb there just to small and don't say much about them. Most just say weapons... Well if any one out there can help me i need the following, Gear/Stats/Skills and if i should go Weapon/Sheild or Weapon/Weapon? Well PLZ & TNX

[PantallicA]

I just made one, I'll give you a quick rundown of what I gave him.

Helm - Arreats (Cham or 15/15 ias/res it) , Kira's Guardian
Armor - Dusk Enigma
Weapon 1 - Beast Zerk
Weapon 2 - Grief Zerk
Amulet - Angelic, Metalgrid
Ring 1 - Angelic, Ravenfrost, Dwarf Star
Ring 2 - Angelic, Ravenfrost, Dwarf Star
Belt - Dungo's, Tgods
Boots - Gores, Treks
Gloves - Rends, Dracs
Shield - Stormshield

Stats - Enough for enigma
Dex - Enough for max block with SS
Vit - All of it
Eng - LAWL

Skills -
20bo
20ww
20axe mastey
1 natural res
1 increased speed
1 berserk
1 bc
and prerequisites

I do both weapon/weapon and weapon/shield. Different situations clal for different gear.

I also added all the resistance gear you're going to need for PVP.

[Mr Mellow]

Cool, so the best armour for a WW barb is enigma? I thought it would be Fort or somthing close to that.. What about a BOTD? Why beast or grief? Any way thank you for the guid. And if any one else has anything to add please post. Thank you.

[xInsanityx]

mellow id rather go with fort than nigma,juss an opinion

[L4E]

enigma = bvc
fort = bvm

also, max shout or iron skin (they both do the same thing ne way) its very helpful

also u could try (for bvc) beastz/lwz and for (bvm) ebotdz/ss

(look at that, 900 posts ></)

[FraterPerdurabo]

Depends on what this barb is for. PvM? BvC? BvA? BvB? All of these builds have a different skill/stat/gear distribution.

[Mr Mellow]

Well its for PvM and so fort would be the best plate. What about iron skin and shout? Isnt Shout going to give you more def bonus? And for weapon is ebotd Zerk with SS the best way to go?

[1337-Orange]

Here my BvB barb:

Stats:

Strength - i added only 5 i use an enigma to glitch

Dex - max block with SS

Vita - all rest

Mana - None

Stats:

WW

Bo

Shout

Mastery

1 BC

and rest into iron skin.

I may be missing some.


Gear:

Fort - AP or Dusk

34+ IAS griefz

Arreats

SS

15DR dungos - 35 from SS and 15 from this meets your 50%

Angelic Trio

Dracs

Streks or Gores


Im Bvb but i also duel all other classes and dont die alot.

[Lucifer]

perhaps your missing natural resistance orange?

[1337-Orange]

No not for BvB. You dont need resists for BvB. You can add like 1 into it though

[Lucifer]

that's what I ment

[FraterPerdurabo]

Here my BvB barb:

Stats:

Strength - i added only 5 i use an enigma to glitch

Dex - max block with SS

Vita - all rest

Mana - None

Stats:

WW

Bo

Shout

Mastery

1 BC

and rest into iron skin.

I may be missing some.


Gear:

Fort - AP or Dusk

34+ IAS griefz

Arreats

SS

15DR dungos - 35 from SS and 15 from this meets your 50%

Angelic Trio

Dracs

Streks or Gores


Im Bvb but i also duel all other classes and dont die alot.

If you do BvB mainly, you should have 200+ STR so that you can used Sacred Armor Forti. As a weapon, the runeword Fury is better for BvB than Grief.

[Loits]

For bvb grief+duress is also a good option. It's funny to see people write guides for others without knowing anything about barbs in the first place. For example faster run walk is a very important skill and on a bvc/bva it should always be at lvl 14 minimum to achieve 115% frw. Faster run walk is as important as charge is for a smiter and leap has been left out aswell.

Im Bvb but i also duel all other classes and dont die alot.

Ger?

[Mr Mellow]

So does N E 1 even play Barbs on PvM? anymore? Other then the PvP?

[FraterPerdurabo]

So does N E 1 even play Barbs on PvM? anymore? Other then the PvP?

People do, but they suck.

[Mr Mellow]

So would a fury druid be better for PvM then a WW barb on PvM -Not talking about PvP-

[Lucifer]

yes I would think so...Barbs are still alright PvM but mostly very bosses and if your conc. WW works too it just takes forever to kill a boss or something without deadly strike open wounds or crushing blow...which is what barbs would rely on in pvm. So yea anything that can inflict a lot of damage to a crowd or to a single target *mostly spell casters* is good for pvm....Like a smite pally isn't really that great for pvm since he only damages 1 target.

[Mr Mellow]

With the deadly strike and open wounds and stuff, if you wore gore riders then you would have it? and also with the draculs. It adds some with just thouse. But right now im working on my fury druid. I like to run 2 builds at a time.

[hellsing293]

i have a pvm concentrate barb(good for ubers) if your interested in other builds besides ww.

[eq72521lty]

Well here's my take on a ww/wc barb. I hardly ever die in duels and I tele baal for friends. Ubers are fine, but a smiter still does more damage. He's lvl 92 atm.

Helm: Eth Arreats 199/5 up'd
Amy: 35 MetalGrid
Armor: MP Nigma
Wep: Grief-z / HOTO
Wep: Grief-z / HOTO
Ring: 11 life and 3 Mana leach, etc - crafted
Ring: 20-243 Raven
Belt: 191 T-Gods
Gloves: 59 Rends
Boots: 199 Up'd Gores
20/18 Torch
20/10/9 Anni
9xWC GC's (3xfhr, 6xlife)
PK sc's

a5 Merc: eth LastWish CB, eth Fort, eth Steel Veil.

Stats: Str - none, dex - some (I forget exactly - about 50 points here), vita - all the rest, nrgy - none.

Skills: 20 bo, 20 shout, 20 ww, 20 axe, rest in wc. One in all the passive skills, conc, and berserk.

Use HOTO's to tele at duelers or get where you want to go for PVM. Give monsters or duelers a WC or two, switch to griefs and pown. Most duelers you can track down just by running because of the r/w from nigma, etc. Must sorc's usually require the HOTO/tele. You'll have over 5k life, and sorb for lite and cold. The attack rate and rating for grief while using ww is just nuts - powns super fast. Nigma is important not only for tele and the r/w but also for the life and str - this build wouldn't be possible without the str. Using a fort would cost you about 1k life and you couldn't use rends or up the arreats.

Good luck with your barb.