Hi
Have a noob barb question. Thinking of testing magic find barb. Is it worth spending time on this char is does it give better loot spending time on killing in TZ?
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Depends on equip and play style. Barb is tough char for start if you mostly play solo.
If you have good equip he is one of the best chars for mf or rune finding.
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Thinking of doing a frenzy barb for killing monsters and then swap to Ali baba with Ist using mf skill on dead monsters.
Is it the way to play?
You can do any of the builds, it’s your gear that allows you hell access.
Play the abilities you enjoy, since those are what you are going to be using all the time.
You need to be able to shrug off hits, and replenish life, since you are a melee character and are going to be struck a lot.
You are also going to need to deal some damage.
If you have an mf character, use them to get the runes, elite bases, and gear that you need.
If you are starting with a barb than take advantage of low level runewords to slowly crawl your way up in terms of power.
STRENGTH, HONOUR, and UNBENDING WILL are good cheap weapon runewords to help get you doing hell pits, where can farm eventually for everything you need.
It may be a good idea to remake these runewords as you get better weapon bases. They are cheap so it’s fine.
TREACHERY, and LIONHEART are good cheap armours as well.
LAWBRINGER is a good cheap sword for your merc. It casts decrepify on striking which breaks physical immunes.
Eventually you will want weapons for yourself such as BREATH OF THE DYING, BEAST (If you use axes) GRIEF, and when wealthy LAST WISH for your merc.
Armor for yourself can be ENIGMA for teleport, or CHAINS OF HONOUR/FORTIUDE.
Raven frost is a very helpful ring. Highlords for an ammy.
Find Item is excellent, but there is two catches. 1. If your merc is using lawbringer a couple of the corpses won’t be usable since his sword has “All slain monsters rest in peace”
- Using find item is time consuming as you have to use it on all the bodies. Also you want to use find item as you go since the bodies disappear after awhile. So you can’t clean a whole level then go back and search, it’s a stop and go play style
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In truth, i find zerk to be awful. No life leech etc, i just dont like it. You do however get a bajillion skill points to put into find item and its 1% synergy.
Frenzy on the other hand is badass. But you wont have a lot of skills for horking. Thats the tradeoff.
Zerk for pits and travincal. Frenzy if you actually want to play the game everywhere. Frenzy can pwn ubers with reasonable gear also.
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Of course it is, but you will hork slow with alibabas, Maybe one alibaba+ists with something like wizzy would be enough. Check the FCR breakpoints for barb.
An alternative is also to use I believe it’s called Rondel carver? It can have +4 to find item/potion. So you can increase your base chances of successful items which is good if you want to keep your mf low for bases and runes.
Also good if you run a WW or put a lot of points into BO synergies and you don’t have more than a point or two to find item.
Its garbage honestly, holding two spirit is 1000x better.
What’s the benefit? vs + 8 to find item from 2 carvers?
Carvers dont havy any fcr so not only you teleport/cast bo/find item very slowly, but you also have no skills to BO vs spirit providing both. Also +a lot of mana you need for teleporting or horking, skill use.
Does it make a difference if it’s just a swap for after battle? Or are you talking about builds where you are not maxing bo and synergies and you rely on your swap to cast?
I can understand having a slower hork, or less mana.
My personal preference to have increased chances of success and I carry mana pots anyway.
He’s thinking Enigma armour and FC+energy weapon swap for increased mobility and speed.
no don’t waste your time you are at a big disadvantage
I had a couple friends invest into barb they all quit pretty early
things changed with patch and a lot of the items the barb would be good at farming like hrs in travincal are now worth less compared to other stuff like keys and torches
because people dont need hrs with sander charms
make a cold sorc instead like everyone else
#1 End game MFer. Gives better loot in TZ than other players, gives better loot in regular games than other chars in TZ, is not reliant on P8 farming.
But the build is costly to make and requires quite a bit to get used to. Still though best potential on use of time other than perhaps a top tier Hdin/Java/Light sorc in a P8 game solo farming.
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