08-23-2007, 11:32 AM
I just recently created another concentrate barb, and maxed the synergies to conc (Bash, BO, Berserk). Put ten to Iron Skin, and the rest to my weapon mastery (at 99 it would only be 17 points to base, I'm thinking now to forget Iron Skin. My friend keeps telling me how vastly superior Shout is and I know statistically it's so, but I'm just lazy and always die from forgetting to renew BO and don't want the same problem with Shout ;-) ).
Without a fortitude, like I have on my other conc barb, I do a thousand more max damage than him. I am also using a two handed weapon (an ever so slightly better attack rating from the masteries of two handed specialized weapons) for the extra damage, an ebotd great poleaxe, best range which is nice when you're surrounded you can hit the enemies in the second row around you; this helps when a lot of normal enemies are near you but unique or champion enemies are in the second row giving you all the trouble, its speed is fair and the minimum to maximum damage ratio is the most pragmatic. Though on my former barb I used my ebotdcb two handed so that isn't where the extra damage comes from.
As long as I remember Battle Orders I can be swarmed on all sides by hell difficulty Hell Bovine for and survive, picking them off one by one with no skill switching or relying on berzerk anymore.
Without a fortitude, like I have on my other conc barb, I do a thousand more max damage than him. I am also using a two handed weapon (an ever so slightly better attack rating from the masteries of two handed specialized weapons) for the extra damage, an ebotd great poleaxe, best range which is nice when you're surrounded you can hit the enemies in the second row around you; this helps when a lot of normal enemies are near you but unique or champion enemies are in the second row giving you all the trouble, its speed is fair and the minimum to maximum damage ratio is the most pragmatic. Though on my former barb I used my ebotdcb two handed so that isn't where the extra damage comes from.
As long as I remember Battle Orders I can be swarmed on all sides by hell difficulty Hell Bovine for and survive, picking them off one by one with no skill switching or relying on berzerk anymore.