The TLDR 2H Barb

You can just check in stats or d2stats if keeping colonel as offhand adds 500% ewd to your EWD stat.
If this only works as main hand, I'm not convinced if in this case it would beat very high damage main weapon. Yes you lose 500ewd, but you are basing your whole damage off fairly low base flat phys. Your total ewd is still high, you get bunch from wolf stance/spirit guide, over 500 there, and then from strength (160% per 1000str, so 800 with 5k str for example). Colonel only adds 500 to that pool so thats not that much, if your total ewd is 1500, adding 500 from colonel is only 1/3 of your total ewd. And you can replace it with weapon thats gonna have double colonel's base damage.

200ed +300 max damage 2h sword, this will be what, 190-500 damage as one hander. Snowstorm makes it 240-600 (420 avg) and thats what you should compare to alternative 2h. In comparison colonel base damage avg is only 144 (220 with snowstorm shield). For instance Gotterdammerung with 6 jahs would be 570-760 damage (665 avg), so still better average than that by over 50% (and 3x more than colonel with shield) and that with mega impact and aoe which are pretty significant.

Which Merc would support this build the most?

How can this build farm Fauz? I currently have the items for this build but it doens't stand a chance. I want to be able to farm the good runes.

Duncraig and Triune at a moderate pace is the best it can do right now.

Any suggestions? Have 2.8k str

You must be doing something terribly wrong, because this build is almost immortal with full unique setup in fauzt. Did you forget to get life leech? What is your physical resistance? erawan runeword helps, mastery with resistance etc.
Tell us what is your: total life, defense (with spirit guide active), physical resistance, tooltip earthquake damage and total life leech.

As for merc, it really depends what you want, help with clear, survivability? Easiest one to gear is necrolyte, since you can just ignore its damage you use him only for debuff, so he is fine with pretty much random grear. Otherwise offensive option would be abjurer, or A1 mercs, but these ones are harder to keep alive. It is fairly trivial to make A3 merc invicible in fauztinville. Do not expect them survive in scosglen though.

Hello from me as well. @Aerial, is there anything we can do to improve on terms of farming Scolsgen with this build?

https://prnt.sc/1r1j9hn
Erawan, Lilith's Legion helm. and a creepy crafted axe at 720max dps atm..
Having trouble surviving at Scolsgen, at some moments iam getting one shoted at 10k hp

Your resists are pretty bad. I don't know about the AR, seems low for farming an area of that level. Try to cap your PR, with giants knuckles or der nebels.

kjakola wrote:
aerial wrote:You must be doing something terribly wrong, because this build is almost immortal with full unique setup in fauzt. Did you forget to get life leech? What is your physical resistance? erawan runeword helps, mastery with resistance etc.
Tell us what is your: total life, defense (with spirit guide active), physical resistance, tooltip earthquake damage and total life leech.

As for merc, it really depends what you want, help with clear, survivability? Easiest one to gear is necrolyte, since you can just ignore its damage you use him only for debuff, so he is fine with pretty much random grear. Otherwise offensive option would be abjurer, or A1 mercs, but these ones are harder to keep alive. It is fairly trivial to make A3 merc invicible in fauztinville. Do not expect them survive in scosglen though.

I am doing everthing SSF
I have 9% life leech
750k Armor, 34 phys resists
20k AR
Life 7,7k
earthquake 7.5-12k
3,83k str
all gear is socketed with Ko runes and str MOs
I also have a nice +2 ammy with 5% doom I found

For charms, Ive done all up to Fauz/Vizjun/Astro level stuff

Try get more leech, seems like you have almost none, because 5% comes from charm.
Normally I'd put full 5 Mo on weapon to get 20% leech.
I have 125 barb with worse stats than this, except higher leech and can run fauzt with zero problems.

As for scosglen, this may requite better items, area is pretty hard.
We can make a list of truly endgame bis items for that.