barb build

Whats the best way to build barb, pref 2 handed weps?

I would also like to know some good barb build

Check the guides section, im pretty sure there is a 2h barb guide

max miasma

I haven't had much time to play yet this ladder (due to some technical difficulties), but I pretty much made a solid 2h melee build for an untwinked start. I'll summarise:

1) Levelling - double TU kriegs, 100% psn pierce, max snake + eagle stance & windform. 10 pts in doges, rest in spirit guide. Just spin around casting thunder slam on cooldown, windform gives you great tcd and overpowered phys + psn dmg per hit for single target and tslam + psn clears aoe. Fast and easy way to level up.

2) 2h melee spec at 120
- melee tree 1pt all
- dw tree: max daedalus, 1pt rest
- stances: max bear, 1pt rest
- special: 15 pts doges, 1pt rest, leftovers in fortress (about 10-15 pts)
- reward: 1pt immortal, max runemaster & max thundergod

You want one source of TCD from the skills, doges + SG are super unreliable and you also have to wear shitty runewords to cap DR so max bear stance for big TCD and great EWD to start with when you still don't have sigs & charms. Fortress is a necessary utility skill since in many ubers you simply have to have a way to deal ranged damage (unless you want to respec which is boring) - for example Malic in IOTSS, Akarat, Yshari etc.

Stats: dex 100pts, str enough for gear, rest vit

3) Gear: 2h sword (fastest fpa) you want high dmg + proc - something like this , jitans (eventually replace with vit craft), deadfall, nephilim rw greaves, rare ring & amu with + skills & lightning pierce, gloves honorific with max light pierce, tcd & allres (socket eld runes to not lose mo space), helm - no good options but you can use TU assault or TU tiara and then replace with the first SU barb helm you find or something like royal circlet etc. Socket with ohm runes. Aim for 150% lightning pierce.

Gameplay: Get a barb merc and gear him out with a decent weapon and then as much %str scaling as you can - this will basically double your dmg and provide much needed aoe. Keep bear stance on & keep titan strike active, stormblast till you get a nasty case of RSI, thunderslam big packs. To use fortress switch to wolf, cast & then back to bear. On switch dual weps to use windform with & hit heroic bosses with Blood Hatred.

With this setup you have good dmg & 1 mil defence & capped dr - which is enough to get you started on early + mid charms & also farm TA with eyes closed and lum runes.

I am a huge fan of barbarian builds,
what i love to play is:

1) Caster Barbarian (right now Brimstone is extremely cool)
2) Summoner Barb (Once you get access to frost claw totem + path of flames oskill = gg)
3) Melee Barb

When i play melee Barb i usually use stormblast at the beginning and later ancients hand (due to higher wdm)
If you combine those skills with tu chain mail, you get instantly leech from the millions of arrows that proc around you

A possible (and one that works) endgame itemset might look like this:

Weapon: Double Mo Tu glaive, orbed with life after kill and vizjuns ball bearing (deadly strike is really powerful)
Shield: 4 psn runes, for life after kill and 2% block
Belt: Tu heavy Belt is fine
Armor: Tu chain mail
Gloves: low lvl dex craft with stormblast (preferably orbed with essence of itherael)
boots: low lvl dex craft (preferably orbed with essence of itherael)
helm: 2 barb skill + ancients hand

socket rain bow stones into your weapon + io runes everywhere else

Max bear stance + deadalus + runemaster + ancient blood

Stats: Go full dex

You will end up with ~14k life; >1kk defense (if prebuffed with runemaster thats np); max dr% (also your barb merc is really cool with bear stance) amd you can even have max block (even though this is sometimes a little bit annoying due to the low blockrate)

You wont have any immunes to face because your on striking procs kill them very quickly.

Even though the Tu glaive only has like 500 dmg, your gear + stats/stance allow you to get more than 2000% ewd and a very high chance for deadly strike enhance it even further (goal is to have fortress sustain itself all the time)

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Once you started as this build you can think of swapping to a strength based build if you find the right items. I feel that currently there i a huge gap in weapon choice for a barbarian. This dex based build should be able to clear dFauzt without much trouble (even without the exepnsive UMOs)

Strength based:
There are 2 cool options
1) Build around that sexy

Nimmenjuushin

Nimmenjuushin
War Axe (Sacred)
One-Hand Damage: (98 - 110) to (221 - 284)
Required Level: 100
Required Strength: 464
Item Level: 105
Strength Damage Bonus: (0.11 per Strength)%
8% Chance to cast level 10 Claw Tornado on Striking
+(4 to 5) to Druid Skill Levels
+12% Bonus Damage to Mark of the Wild
(151 to 175)% Duration Bonus to Mark of the Wild
30% Attack Speed
50% Hit Recovery
+(101 to 150) to Maximum Damage
(8 to 15)% Life stolen per Hit
+(115 to 140)% Enhanced Damage
(21 to 30)% to Strength
Requirements -20%
Socketed (6)

2) Build around

Yaggai's Sagaris

Yaggai's Sagaris
Labrys (Sacred)
Two-Hand Damage: (441 - 471) to (496 - 527)
(Barbarian Only)
Required Level: 100
Required Strength: 796
Item Level: 105
Strength Damage Bonus: (0.16 per Strength)%
Thunderfury
50% Chance to cast level 16 Stormblast on Melee Attack
50% Attack Speed
Adds 150-200 Damage
-35% to Enemy Lightning Resistance
+(172 to 200)% Enhanced Damage
+100 to Strength
+100 to Vitality
Elemental Resists +(10 to 20)%
+250 Life on Melee Attack
Socketed (6)

The advantage for using a labrys is a huge boost in attacking speed (i think 9 frames down to 5) and it is probably the strongest weapon for this build

Barb with 2h sword can hit 5 frames
Axe falls under "other 2h weapon" which caps at 7

ChuckNoRis wrote:max miasma

iso miasma oskill on barb helms

using Vizjun Ball Bearing UMO on TU glaive is a bad idea since deadly strike only doubles weapon damage and that weapon has low damage

I'd go for CB, or Warbringer UMO if you have 100% cb already

what else would you suggest to orb?

to me the chance to reach 20k dmg instead of 10k dmg is really appealing