Is throw barb no good?

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cheloo
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I've not seen any throw barbs, was wondering why? In the past there were those Snake Stance throw barbs, but I was wondering if the phys variant is not viable? What items and skill setup would you recommend? I was thinking to use
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Griefbringer
Balanced Axe (Sacred)

Throw Damage: (227 - 250) to (306 - 332)
One-Hand Damage: (128 - 139) to (212 - 226)
Required Level: 100
Required Strength: 600
Item Level: 105
Strength Damage Bonus: (0.14 per Strength)%
+5 Axes to Overkill
1% Chance to cast level 6 Rebound on Striking
Adds 40-100 Damage
(101 to 150)% Bonus to Attack Rating
+120% Damage to Undead
+(140 to 170)% Enhanced Damage
(5 to 10)% Chance of Crushing Blow
Weapon Physical Damage +60%
-25 to Energy
Socketed (6)
and
Madawc Val Narian
Madawc Val Narian
Gothic Shield (Sacred)

Defense: (5434 - 5994) to (6734 - 7428)
Chance to Block: 1% + Class%
Required Level: 100
Required Strength: 600
Required Dexterity: 619
Item Level: 120
4% Chance to cast level 20 Rebound on Kill
+2 to All Skills
1% Base Block Chance
40% Block Speed
(75 to 200)% Bonus to Attack Rating
+(15 to 30) to Overkill
+(172 to 200)% Enhanced Defense
Fire Resist -30%
Poison Length Reduced by 50%
5% Reanimate as: Random Monster
Socketed (4)
(because I already have them).
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Why don't you try it out? Snake Bite was the top boss-killer but it got nerfed badly, still nice. I had great success with physical thrower, the fact that you don't see them around is the lack of guide.

I'm interested on that shield though, I'm 99% sure that proc wont work.
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From what I tested it wasn't great. But I only tried with good items in scosglen.
Seems that powerlevel of skills such as overkill doesn't match power creep of some other abilities such as earthquake. It used to be quite good (although always fairly limited aoe so not popular for clear other than duncraig). But now, even damage isn't that crazy, and aoe certainly is small.
I can't imagine rebound will do much better as on average it multihits even less per target.
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Tried it, it procs.
I have equiped some gear used on my WW barb, that gives +dmg and dex (this should be a dex build, right?) and went Fauzt. It works decent, but dunno if Overkill should be the chosen skill. But the others seem to deal less dmg....dunno what to say. I'm not that experienced to test it properly, what skillplan should I use, and some gear recommandations? Should I stack "add dmg" stuff?
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aerial wrote:From what I tested it wasn't great. But I only tried with good items in scosglen.
Seems that powerlevel of skills such as overkill doesn't match power creep of some other abilities such as earthquake. It used to be quite good (although always fairly limited aoe so not popular for clear other than duncraig). But now, even damage isn't that crazy, and aoe certainly is small.
I can't imagine rebound will do much better as on average it multihits even less per target.

Yeah, my thoughts exactly. I think the build suffers from poor main skill choices.