Frenzy barb budget weapons?

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I love my druid but immunes really annoy me. Frenzy barb looks like it could be similar to my Werewolf druid and handle immunes with Berzerk. I unfortunately cannot afford the 2 runeword weapons and Enigma at the moment as I started D2r not long ago and didn’t trade much.

Are there good cheaper alternatives for the weapons? I’m thinking of maybe running Immortal King for the armor. Would that make a Frenzy barb viable for Hell and farming although not optimal obviously?

Also, do you charge up Frenzy and use Double Swing to clear small trash mobs or do you have to click every single mob one after the other with that build (I find it a bit tedious and annoying if so)?

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Set frenzy to right click and left click.

Oath (balrog blade) + lawbringer are incredibly cheap and effective.

bramble mitts +350 to demons (very very common)
angelic ring and amu for massive attack boost (very very common)
Goreriders (drop in normal, unique heavy boots. Not as common though).
a low arreats can be gotten cheap. if not, there are lots of other options to make do.
Trerachery is cheap chest piece

belt you have yet more options. string of ears, verdungos, goldwrap, whatever you have.

Other ring would be ravenfrost best bet. dex, attack and slow immune. However a good magic with leech would do.

Very budget setup, and will be highly effective. Just make sure to keep resists high on the agenda and dump as mucha s you can into vitality.

Good luck :slight_smile:

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Frenzy Barb Budget Guide:
Attributes:
Strength: enough for gear
Dexterity: enough for gear
Vitality: Rest
Energy: None

Skills:
Frenzy: Max
Weapon Mastery: Max
Battle Orders: Max
Berserk: 1
Increase Speed: 1
Natural Resist: 1
Battle Cry: 1
Taunt: Enough so your character level plus taunt level equals 88
Find Item: up to 50%
Rest into Frenzy Synergies.

Gear:
Helmet: Arreat’s Face, Guillaume’s Face, Tal Rasha’s Helmet, Vampire Gaze, Crown of Theive’s
Armor: Treachery, Myth, Smoke, Duriel’s Shell, Atma’s
Gloves: Laying of Hands, Crafted Blood Gloves, Death’s Gloves(If paired with Sash)
Boots: Gore Riders, Goblin Toes, FRW Dual Res Rares
Belt: String of Ears, Verdungoe’s, Crafted Blood Belt, Death’s Sash(If paired with Death’s Gloves
Amulet: Highlord’s, Any +Res Rare, Angelic’s(With Angelic Ring)
Rings: Ravenfrost, Dual Leach Rares, Mana leach rares, Dual res rares, Angelic’s(With Angelic Ammy)

Weapons:
Main hand: Crescent Moon Phase Blade, Passion Phase Blade, Light Sabre, Aldur’s Rhythm, Any big damage stick.
Off Hand: Lawbringer(As long as it’s in an Elite base that matches your Mainhand), Black.
Switch: Dual Spirit, Dual +3 Warcries Spears.

Strategy:
Howl everything out of your way kill the boss packs and find item them.
Keep Frenzy on right hand and Berserk on left to handle physical immunes or high physical resist monsters.
Tip: You can hold right click as long as your not targeting a monster and the Barb will frenzy whatever he runs into.

Other Info:
You need some form of Can not be Frozen in hell mode

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Thanks for the replies, I’ve got everything covered except for the weapons until I can get Oath (I have Azurewrath and Bloodmoon). I might look into Black meanwhile

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Azurewrath is better than lawbringer, ran hell with both paired with oath, and Azurewrath + Oath has faster killing rate

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Yes, LB is slower for general trash clearing than most other off-hands, because if you have a high dmg mainhand, most mobs die before decrep procs. LB is best for act bosses and ubers only.

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It does remove all the awful advantages that undead get all the time, and decrepify will still proc lots because you kill monsters in packs. Im sure there are exceptions when talking area to area or monster to monster, but if you arent willing to swap weapons like that i maintain LB is king.

I Like Azurewrath, but not as much as LB.

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Yes, I was making a generalization. Against very large mob packs, decrepify may proc and will help, though it’s more with defense than dps since as I said, with a good mainhand, most mobs are one shot.

Sanctuary aura is a mixed bag. Increase dmg against undead but knocks them back and spreads them around. In CS, causes spectrals to go outside moveable area which is a real pita.

Also rest in peace interferes with FI though as I said in the other thread, my grief kills 90% of the mobs so it doesn’t interfere too much.

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Azurewrath is also going to help achieve 5fpa frenzy easier with 50ias if you shael it. Using lawbringer is lost dmg outside of ubers.

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Another interesting budget combo is 2 x Shaeled Grandfathers

Big dmg, huuuge bonus to attack rating and life, just a little slower + the novelty factor of wielding dual gf’s :wink: Had this setup for a while and for P1-P3 Hell it’s pretty good. Can be had both for a gul I think, pricewise. I sold an almost perfect one for ist.
When using it offhand + a fast pb like azure, the combo becomes a lot faster
Also imo, it’s the perfect look for a barb. Dual colossus swords look the bomb

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A damaging combo? Schaefers Hammer + Stone Crusher, you’re going to do real damage. The other ones are 2x upped headstrikers with gulli and goblin toes.

In general:
2 x Grief
Grief + something else
2 x edeath ettin axe with act 1 faith merc
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Schaefers + zoded eth Stonecrusher with act 1 Faith merc
2 x Schaefers with act1 Faith merc
Stormlash + Schaefers
2 x Oath small crescent

the rest

No mention of botd because the investment isn’t worth it. You might as well make a grief PB. Botd BA also loses hard vs edeath ettin and static from Schaefer’s.

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on point CrazyMage,

I tried my wolf’s GPA Botd last night after respeccing my barb to polearm just for the lolz, and sadly it’s way worse than dual griefs pb’s, fun in melee pvp against some builds because of the big big range of the gpa but bad against other melee builds (ww barbs with shield) because of the lack of shield

BTW If any of u barbs got a good wolfhowl I can pay handsomely for it (x-6-6-6 or close) <3

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Just throwing this into the mix = Second weapon IAS does not count toward Frenzy beakpoints, only its base speed does. Primary basespeed including any IAS, plus offhand base speed but without factoring any IAS. Therefore an Azurewrath would be the same speed as a Lawbringer in offhand as long as it is phaseblade, and the second Grandfather would not benefit from the Shael.

I would so so so so love for 2x Grandfathers to be viable. But i cant think where you would get all that IAS from without making heavy sacrafices elsewhere.

I would lvoe to see a day where Grandfathers could be eth, or could be socketed with 3 holes. That would make me super happy :slight_smile:

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yeah I know what u mean, I would love to see the old boy bumped to it’s former glory, this and bul kathos set which is actually getting a bump, but not enough imo

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I threw a 3-6-6 one away because no one wanted to buy and my stash was full. I also have a demonhorn’s with 3-3-3 lying around somewhere.

On Topic:
Grandfather is still a good frenzy offhand weapon. Indestructible is always welcome, just socket it in offhand with an eth or a 40ed jewel (cheap). A hel rune or a -15 req/ something else jewel would also be nice.

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I have a 3 WC, 5 feral rage, 6 werewolf, 4 shapeshift, 13 dex, 14 vit, 15 str 133% ed wolfhowl if you’re interested. Not sure if that’s good enough for you but figure I ask.

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hey man thanks for the offer, managed to get a 3-5-6-6
cheers

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Headstriker Lawbringer pb about as budget as you can get and it will clear anything in the game with ease. Upgrade headstriker in cube to conquest sword. Once you get a Lo rune make grief and use lawbringer pb offhand best setup in the game.

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