barbarian advice

[mike]

i started a barb not to long ago and i was wondering what would be good skills to give him. so far i plan on using leap attack and whirlwind, but i have some concens about whirlwind. the overall damage on it is not that great but if i have a good wepon equiped like a pike will that make it better. i know the answer is yes but is whirlwind worth putting points into? leap attack maxed at 20 does like 680% dam so i'm going to put some points into that. pike is spear not pole arm right? i plan on using a pike someday and i was going to put 6 pskulls into it for some good life and mana steal, but i need to find a good 6 socket pike first. i'm also thinking iron skin and natural resistance since the armor i'll be using for a while is olny 293 def. the reason being i have my armor equiped with 4 perfect topaz and my helm has 3 ptopaz in it so i get the mf%. i was wondering if it gets harder to find majic items on the hell dif. because i used my armor and helm on a differnt char. and i really didnt find to much rares or uniques. sorry this is allover the place but any tips or advice would be great.

[Homer]

WW has really been nerfed hard. The only way you can survive Hell diff is if you have +40% dmg jewels on ur armor and helm, +skills, and an extremely high dmg weapon. Pikes do about 20-110 i think (with no added dmg mods). You'll need a war pike that does atleast 400 dmg in order to scratch baddies in hell/a5. :(

One bad thing about pikes is that they have slow attack speed. Now that WW is weapon speed dependent, you'll also need to socket ur weapon with either shae runes or IAS jewels. :(

Ugh... sorry, i'm making WW sound really bad, but... it does really suck now. my 84 Barb is useless. Literally. (And it really peeves me off cause he was a lot of fun).

I have no clue how to build a barb now, but, i did experiment with beserk. with 3 points into, my barb kills a lot faster than he does with maxed WW. With Maxed beserk, i think you'll be able to pull off 1 hit kills, but then your defense rating also goes to 0 (ahwell, with 253 armor.... ;) ) Beserk is a pretty useless skill for PvP tho :(. Blah, so many flaws, i can't think. :confused:

Anyway, I don't know if I was of any use to you :o . Sorry. Leap attack is good, but then there's the pesky Physical Immunes to think about. Beserk is magic dmg, so PI's are worthless against that skill.

Hope I helped :p

Homer

[Homer]

Ah wait! if your playing single player, v1.00 then ignore everything i said :) WW all the way!! :p

Homer.

[Outlaw]

I guess I could tell you how to make a barb, but for some weird reason my barbs allways get their ass kicked in nightmare/hell. I must be doing it wrong or something :confused:

[Chako]

Ah!, since the expansion and their last patch...I can't survive for very long in nightmare. Nothing ticks me off more then getting killed 5 times in a row....bah...I think they ruined it for solo play.

[Zendu]

fury is kewl....

[mike]

thanx for the advice homer. i play on the realms and not single. i think i'll go with berserk and leap because on hell bloody hills the guys have physical imunity and berzerk works good on them. i started a sorceress and im using her right now, i'll go back to my barb later on. thanx for the help though i'll be shure to take what i need:)