Quick Q about conc barb

[shadowphoenix]

Ive read numerous guides and so far ive seen 2 varients

the basis for both are the same
max conc
max bo
max mastery
1 bc
1 in prereqs

now this is where the guides differ
some say max shout, put 1 pnt in berzerk, and rest split in iron skin and natural res
others say max bash and like 10pnts in berzerk for synergy magic damage

I guess its a personal preference as more deff vs more damage but im not sure....

Any ideas? would more defense be overkill or is the higher damage needed more than defense?

[Silver Ice]

i dont see any reason for using more then 1 point into natural resist.... shout is more party friendly.. but if u want to be better pvp max iron skin first then shout then maybe dmg... conc barbs need a lot of defense

[Crown]

Yeah for my conc barb I put 1 pt onto natural res and maxed both shout and iron skin. Even without putting anything into bash or berserk I do roughly 7.5k dmg, which I don't think is too bad.

[Keitaro]

In my opinion, you shoud reach a lvl.15 Natural Resistance with skill+ items and battle command.
Maybe 1 point in berserk incase you get iron maiden on you.

Shoud if you are a party man or Iron Skin if you are a selfish.
I dont think the bash will be so usefull, so i maybe rater spend those points shout for more party defence.
Barbars would prefere to have 10 warcry skillers over passive or combat skillers.
So if that is the case i would do the skills this way: (There are other ways too)

First get 1 point in all the total skills you gonna use.

Then you max
Consentrate
Battle Command
Shout

Get Natural Resistance to the corect lvl. (you know when you take your final eqipment and do like this: 15t.lvl - skill items -1BC = base skill

Some people max a weapon mastery, but the dmg wont increase so much after the first lvl, but if you are after the ATR bonus, then you max it.

At last you spend the rest of your points in Iron Skin.


Once again i must say: This is my opinion, and there are other ways to do it.

[Silver Ice]

In my opinion, you shoud reach a lvl.15 Natural Resistance with skill+ items and battle command.
Maybe 1 point in berserk incase you get iron maiden on you.

Shoud if you are a party man or Iron Skin if you are a selfish.
I dont think the bash will be so usefull, so i maybe rater spend those points shout for more party defence.
Barbars would prefere to have 10 warcry skillers over passive or combat skillers.
So if that is the case i would do the skills this way: (There are other ways too)

First get 1 point in all the total skills you gonna use.

Then you max
Consentrate
Battle Command
Shout

Get Natural Resistance to the corect lvl. (you know when you take your final eqipment and do like this: 15t.lvl - skill items -1BC = base skill

Some people max a weapon mastery, but the dmg wont increase so much after the first lvl, but if you are after the ATR bonus, then you max it.

At last you spend the rest of your points in Iron Skin.


Once again i must say: This is my opinion, and there are other ways to do it.

i just dont see any remote possibility for maxing nr aside from the fact that it will help with baal runs...... but for pvp its completely pointless except against avengers....

[Keitaro]

I diddent say max it, i sayd get it to lvl.15 with BC.

[ig0tfish]

u should put a few in increased speed unless u got enigma or some gear that increases ur speed