Singer Barb!

[EEX_ca_aok]

Well; I got bored

So i made one in single play to see how it would do @ lvl 99....

Anyways: Gear

Shako
COH
2x HOTO Flails
Mara's
SOJ
Carrion Wind
Arachnid's
Waterwalks
Frosties

Skills

20 War Cry (dmging skill)
20 in all synergies
3 in B/O,
3 in BC
3 in Shout
1 in natural res
1 in all prereqs
Rest in either iron skin, or B/O, BC, Shout.

Act2 NM Defensive Merc
Crescent moon Weapon (for static field and decent dmg)
Andariel's Visage
COH

Your resists will be 75/75/75/80 in hell, and your merc's will be 75/75/75/85.

WC will do roughly 1800 max dmg, and stun for 8 seconds.

You will have +14 to all skills.

Comments?

 

[Ntrik_]

wow... why not 20 to Bo and 20 to Shout? and rest into Natural ressitance?

 

[Khull]

cause tht does no dmg. . .

It looks fun, exept the gear part, thats waaaaay to expensive

1800dmg wont get you far in hell, good luck with it

Singers pwn all!!

 

[djnat]

Unless you have your inventory full of WC Grand Charms, you will never hit a 1800 max dmg with War Cry.

In fact, a fully-synergized War Cry, @sklvl 44, makes 1748-1794 dmg, with 9.6 stun length.

This can be quite good, but you will need a plenty of Mana, cuz @sklvl 44, War Cry costs 53 mana per Cry.

Hence, you will need to max Battle orders and put only a point into Inc stamina, speed, Iron skin and Nat resist (with your "caster" equip, 1 point is just fine and 1 point in Shout is good).

This barb can be quite good in PvP, but I don't think it's so good in PvM (you have no chance with P.I. monsters and you have a very low damage against all "stone skin" monsters).

However, I like your idea, it can be interesting to experiment.

 

[irdamage]

mayb if u have a fast cast rate it would b fun, owuldnt exactly do a heckof a lot, but it would still b fun to c

 

[Kao]

Go with Wizardspikes if you need the mana. I actually will be re-doing my warcry barb so he can use a SS with max blocking for PvP (a little- hehe).

Why SoJ + Carrion? You might try a mana ring (rings with over 100 mana + energy).

I'll help more when I come back from breakfast.

FYI: Barb and Sorc FCR BP's are the same. You should try for 105%, but if not, try for 75%. (I think thats the next BP).

Also: You might try Magefists instead of frosties for some more FCR + Mana.

Max out BO. It is needed even more than a synergy of War Cry for you. It will double your mana, which is EXTREMLY essential in warcry barb builds.

(I've made 4 of these in 09)

 

[EEX_ca_aok]

Hmm, well I chose carrion for the poison creeper mainly, just cause it helps against PI/light immunes. Ive tried it in hell, and it seems that the faster mana regen on some of the items acctually makes you GAIN mana faster than you're losing it It takes a good number of hits to kill guys, but since they become stunned, it doesnt matter anyways Havent dared try it against a prime evil yet; i dont think stun affects them like it does other monsters