The TLDR 2H Barb

They have physical resist or absorb (not sure), but they are more resistant to phys damage, similar to necromobs in duncraig.
One item that could have helped against these guys would be

Klaatu Barada Nikto

Klaatu Barada Nikto
Amulet
Required Level: 110
Item Level: 105
30% Enhanced Damage vs. Necrobots
10% Chance to cast level 40 Nova Bomb on Melee Attack
+2 to All Skills
25% Attack Speed
Adds 1-188 Lightning Damage
+650 Poison Damage over 2 seconds
Stun Attack
+(11 to 16) to Hive
Lightning Resist +(40 to 50)%
Poison Resist +(40 to 50)%

. As far as i know this orange text is straight 30% more damage to necrobots (not weak +30ewd on top of our total ewd).

SoR could melt them, I use on packs of Necrobots but really cannot clear entirely. making this gloves

Mercy

Mercy
Gloves
'LewElq'
Runeword Level: 110
10% Chance to cast level 18 Punishers on Melee Attack
10% Combat Speeds
+(59 to 69) to Maximum Damage
+26 Defense
+(151 to 200) to Strength
(15 to 20)% to Vitality

atm to test.

Heart of stone doesn't prevent poison damage, which is worth noting. But I doubt you gonna get good results out of it without investment (into spelldmg/pierce), also 10% on attack is very low for us.
These gloves are interesting endgame option though, lot of avg damage and 200 str, it could beat the craft.
Hard to find interesting gloves.

Savage

Savage
Gloves
'YstFelKa'
Runeword Level: 110
+1% Weapon Physical Damage per 50 Strength or Dexterity
(Whichever is Higher)
75% Attack Speed
+10 Damage
+200% Enhanced Defense
+(10 to 40) to all Attributes
10% to Strength
10% to Dexterity
Maximum Cold Resist +1%
Cold Resist +25%
10% Magic Find

only grants 100ewd with 5000 strength, pretty low, but maybe worth it?
Sacred uniques all suck and there is not good set combo with gloves as far as i can see.

Hi, newbie here trying to play this build. Is this good for bossing? I farm to lvl133 but some boss seem impossible to do like belial, archbishop or spirit world. Do i need to respect to do these boss??

aerial wrote:
Anonymous: wrote:Or you could experiment without that 1 point into skill that nulifies elemental dmg. You will lose a lot of CB, but does it really matter ? Bosses are immune and trash mobs die fast anyways.

It also costs us bunch of attack rating, thats main problem.
That and fact that vs hard bosses that move/teleport you don't really get to spam your attacks anyway, and SOR has cooldown. So value of attack procs is greatly diminished.

To tak. Barb is decent farmer for me, i am not investing into him directly, not even eating sigs. But he is tanky enough, kill speed good enough for duncraig or below and he has good mf. But single target skill is crap. SoR is amazing when it's not on cooldown, but it's on cooldown most of the time and even JD bosses are horrible experience. Don't want to think how QT fight would look like.

On oskills - i tried whirlpool from crafted chest - seems ok. Close to 1shoting stuff in duncraig.
Gorefest - it's crap, worse aoe than earthquake and small delay between initial hit and guts on ground, plus aoe feels weird. So still waiting for this skill to be updated. I don't believe it ever worked and was used. Shame since it has one of coolest names.

Current stats:

Belial is killable, you need to target small rat that runs around.
Other purify bosses such as laz are unrelated to the spec at all, you need different build/gear to approach this.

Thing with sor is, it is kind of balanced for the cooldown, if it was spammable, damage would be insane. It is just that damage is delayed and target teleports out of area before taking most damage. Damage really isn't bad vs stationary target, if you have endgame gear and high tooltip with good deadly strike. It shows well in void uber for example vs gluttony, who is good dps benchmark.

How To convert this build as MF build without losing damages.

How are people gearing the necrolyte merc?

The Hireling Handbook guide says it's out of date for 2.0 - and tbh the gear it recommended didn't really look good (not much +skills).

I thought about honorifics but that means no +skills.

sujan2016 wrote:How To convert this build as MF build without losing damages.

you need great procs to clear faster , crafted labrys + SoR is a dream

Captcha wrote:How are people gearing the necrolyte merc?

The Hireling Handbook guide says it's out of date for 2.0 - and tbh the gear it recommended didn't really look good (not much +skills).

I thought about honorifics but that means no +skills.

Some parts are probably outdated. However, the Necrolyte guide includes new runewords so he should be up to date.