anyone use dual weild barbs?

[ktulu]

for pvm how is dual weilding? and what 2 weapons do you suggest?

[rikstaker]

botd & doom zerk axe combo or botd beast or botd famine or botd deathcleaver,if you are ww use botd doom,slap on reapers toll on ur might merc & get ready for sum fun.holy freeze combined with dcpfy from toll will turn everything from minions to bosses into sitting ducks for you to mow them down at 12 aps or 2 fpa ww. :thumbsup:

[mstrnicegui]

botd deathcleaver? :scratch: heh, I think you mean eth deathcleaver?

But for ww pvm dual wielding can hit as much as 2 times as often as weapon/shield combo, aka 2 fpa. The only thing you need to worry about your weapons is making sure they have -60 base speed after ias on the weapon, they have at least range 3, and a decent base dmg (at least 250).

[rikstaker]

botd deathcleaver? :scratch: heh, I think you mean eth deathcleaver?

But for ww pvm dual wielding can hit as much as 2 times as often as weapon/shield combo, aka 2 fpa. The only thing you need to worry about your weapons is making sure they have -60 base speed after ias on the weapon, they have at least range 3, and a decent base dmg (at least 250).

I mean botd zerk & deathcleaver combo

[cracked sash]

i was using botd and doom and things were working quite well. Right now i am using doom and beast as then I am faster and everything else is slower.

question, 2x beast, do you get twice the aura? and 2x botd, does that make 100% chance of poison nova (when not WWing) on kill?

-Sash

[musafat]

what about weapons that don't require runes. botd and their kin are so expensive to make. anyone have suggestions on unique weapons?

[mstrnicegui]

There's something called oskills, which are +skills that any character class can use. For example, Call to Arms with +1-6 battle orders. If you dual wield them, you can have up to +12 battle orders on every class character except barbarian, since it's a barb skill. Call to arms was a bad example seeing as a barb is the only class that can dual wield weapons. But anything that has +to a skill and has no class distinction works like that.

This is not how the auras work, since they have a specific skill lvl listed. It's not +9 to fanaticism it is just lvl 9 fanaticism.

[chinokix06]

stacking ctas does not work!!!

[mstrnicegui]

if you read my post, I said exactly that...

[rikstaker]

i was using botd and doom and things were working quite well. Right now i am using doom and beast as then I am faster and everything else is slower.

question, 2x beast, do you get twice the aura? and 2x botd, does that make 100% chance of poison nova (when not WWing) on kill?

-Sash

The speed boost from fana does'nt apply to ww(wep speed only remember).RE 2 beasts,no the auras don't stack,just like having 2 fana palys in party makes no difference,RE poison nova,the chance doesn't stack either. When u kill a monster with either botd u have a 50% chance to cast.the nova damage sucks by the way.

[rikstaker]

what about weapons that don't require runes. botd and their kin are so expensive to make. anyone have suggestions on unique weapons?

crafted blood axes or uniques like rune master axe or death cleaver there are many choices, go here www.d2data.net

[Taz]

what about weapons that don't require runes. botd and their kin are so expensive to make. anyone have suggestions on unique weapons?
Stormlash is the best uniqe i can think of.

[Herald of Doom]

Stormlash is the best uniqe i can think of.
Stormlashes best stat is the static on striking, that doesnt work with ww. The rest of its stats is nice though, but it's a bit of a waste not using it to it's maximum capacity.
Uniques that do work: 190% or higher upped butchers pupil, deathcleaver, runemaster might work, Lightsabre or azurewrath might be decent (but a lot better for frenzy). GF has nice stats, but it only hits -15, but if you arent rich it suffices.

Herald

[Taz]

Stormlashes best stat is the static on striking, that doesnt work with ww. The rest of its stats is nice though, but it's a bit of a waste not using it to it's maximum capacity.
Uniques that do work: 190% or higher upped butchers pupil, deathcleaver, runemaster might work, Lightsabre or azurewrath might be decent (but a lot better for frenzy). GF has nice stats, but it only hits -15, but if you arent rich it suffices.

Herald
And 33%CB is the second best stat :uhhuh:
Imo the ideal (by ideal i mean the best killing power not safety) pvm ww barb setup would require:
- 2 weapons range 3 (though i`m thinking about a stormlash/beast caduceus combo) hitting last BP and with some CB (kingslayer highland blade, beast zerker axe, stormlash)
- 15k+AR (charmory, enchant etc)
- 100% CB (guillaume`s face, duress, blood gloves, steelrend,goreriders etc)
- DS as much as possible (guillaume`s face, gorerider`s, highlords).

For pvm i`d rate guillame`s face higher than arreat due to 35%CB and 15%DS. Indeed arreat has a lot of usefull mods in one item but none that kinky.
About stats: i think a barb is more than capable of playing without a shield and even loose the general ideea i`ve seen arround for a while like:STR enough to equip, DEX....the rest in VIT. Is basicaly STR vs VIT or 1%ED vs 8 HP so everyone should find a balance betwen those 2.

[mcm]

Weapon speed in ww doesn't matter as long as you keep your WW's at 8 frames, however if you would rather whirl all the way through a mob of bad dudes, then it matters a lot.