The TLDR 2H Barb

Thing to know about timestrike, is it has next delay iirc, so it will not his as often, you can't just stack tons of them on top of each other, they will not all hit. It is better to spread poison in aoe scenario for example, rather than for bosses.
You will get lot of strength and some ewd from it, but I wouldn't value timestrike vs bosses here.

Also when it comes to corrupted wormhole should i just put in the life/mana large charms or anything else specific?
I'm not too sure which charms are in or not in Sigma.

Thanks for the guide aeriel. Also followed your how to get all charms with t6 gear in the previous version.

I want to try something new though (have been a deathgaze labrys barb since the start) this is a bit out of topic but what characters could you suggest? You said in an earlier post pounce characters may have the fastest clear time? What are pounce characters? Could you give me a class example?

Wolf druid, but it isn't great for progressing, you wanna start as treewarden, trap rat or caster.

If you want similar experience to melee barb you can do either melee necro or holy melee paladin, will be weaker at certain things, better at others.
There is really many viable builds, just usually they aren't as flexible without respecing.

aerial wrote:
afxwinter wrote:I could use some help figuring out what to prioritize next. I've tried to follow the build but am dying VERY easily in the cow level.
When I attack I start with Thunder Slam, use the AHK for Fortress and start spamming Shower of Rocks or Death Gaze depending on number of cows.
I can only survive a couple of hits from these guys. Makes it pretty tough to level.

My stats:
Level 111
235 Base Str, 582 w gear
0 dex
361 Base Vit, 588 w gear
0 Energy
75% Resists
271k Defense

Gear:
TU3 Labrys w 5x Jah, 5x ed MO
TU4 Horned Helm w 4x Mal
TU4 BP w 6x Jah
TU4 Light Gauntlets w 4x Gul
TU4 Heavy Belt w Lo Lah
TU4 Chain Boots w 4x Pul
Ring 1 - 10 all res
Ring 2 - +1 skills, psn res
Ammy - Random crap

I have all the challenge charms as well.
I'd really appreciate any advice you can give me. Thank you!

At this point id swap breast plate to higher defense, even field plate, it is always eth will have way over 10k.
What is also dangerous there is poison, you must pop potions to cancel it, ppl don't realize this, but especially early poison is one of the reasons why you die, combined with melee hits. You wanna get enough defense to have 5% chance of being hit by cows.
Fortress in such dense place will not be as effective.
You can also swap horned helm if you are not running out of mana at this point, only use it vs certain bosses if needed, tu helm will give you a lot of extra life.

Thanks for taking the time to reply. I appreciate it! I'll start hunting down a field plate and a new helmet. Speaking of the helm, are you able to elaborate on "TU4 Helm (basically vit craft in form of TU)"?
Regarding making a Dragonheart armor, what base would you suggest using? I'll keep my eyes open for the right sacred as well.

Tu helm means literally what it says, item type helm (lavadome), +2 skills 20% vitality, 60 flat vitality 240 life 90 fire resist
Base for armor: ancient armor, but all the top armors are best, just whatever has highest armor, full plate mail, gothic, there is list in docs in "base items".

Meanwhile crafted this:

As you can see missing 33% ed to 200 (290 after jah). Currently 555 average dps

Old axe is.. 540 and still fits more utiility mo.

This shows how deceptive max roll is, if you only focus on maximum damage.
Applying 2x Larzuk UMO on that 1st axe will brind it to 197 ed, probably worth doing it. Difference will be 50 average damage more for 1st axe then.

how to properly calculate %ias?

i know about wdm, etc.; but in d2stats i have 0% ias from skill (ancient blood)

all works as skill ias in sigma, this was changed, you only care about one mod: regular ias

all's clear - ty 4 reply

about fhr now - still some fauzt mobs curses -speeds? 215 fhr is enough?

only 117lvl now... but this melee is strong and tanky

I hate how my barb is super slow and I cant really find a way of fixing it at the moment. Most of my deaths during charm farm is due to how slow I am and on top of that can be frozen... which literally makes me a living deadman. Had movement speed during Jday, Juris Khan (when he freezes me) and during Kab ( when he draws in the middle after a jump). On top of that the servers desync exactly at the wrong moment... Almost makes me wanna re-roll some other character that has the speed advantage. I even took into consideration rolling Light plate or lower just cause of the speed walking penalty of Ancient Armor.