Hello everybody. Its been a while since i've played MedianXL but i wanted to look at it again after playing through regular Lord of Destruction with a friend who hadn't played Diablo 2 before. I loaded back my old character. He's currently a level 92 Fortress Barbarian who has up to the Arcane Sanctuary Waypoint of Terror. When i tried the first few low level skills of all the characters i enjoyed Fortress enough to think i could make a decent character with one. I think one of the reasons i quit for a while is because i was getting walled by some stuff in extra zones. He has level challenges 0/1/2 done as well as Ennead skill. I've also done the Countess and Witch minigames. I didn't do any research when making this build ( i like to see where i can get before needing optimizations), so I'm not really sure where to progress from here.
These are my stats. i put a lot into strength because based on the wording of fortress i think it scales with it due to my weapon damage increasing with strength.
These are my skills. I've been using lion stance for the massive increase in physical damage. The one point in guardian spirit was just so i could lure away Witches.
warning: My Mystic Orb usage must have had been kind of weird, I'm guessing i was capping resistances. I think i started putting Crushing Blow on my weapon thinking it worked with Fortress.
My Weapon, i leveled this one for the increased exp as well as skill points.
My Shield, probably picked this one up due to the increase in Lion Stance's power. Lum Runes for magic find, i guess.
Continued in next post.