silly epic battle

[mstrnicegui]

So I had just brought my newest frenzy barb to hell difficulty for the second time at lvl 65 for a test run. I must say I am impressed by how valiantly, yet recklessly he fought. Also, I have to say I must have the craziest luck.

By the fates of the d2 gods, as I ran through the blood moor, I ran into a series of 6 boss packs very near each other. There was a total of 3 zombie boss packs, 2 quill rat boss packs and 1 fallen boss pack. All 6 of them had at least 5 mods. All of them were stone skin. 3 of them were lightning enchanted. 2 of them were mana burn. 2 were physical immune. 1 with holy fire aura, 1 with might aura. I'm missing some, but isn't that enough?

One quill rat boss was lightning enchanted, mana burn, stone skin, physical immune... thank god I didn't have to deal with fanaticism at all or I would have just given up. Amazingly I only had to make one town trip.

This has got to be the most unlikely scenario I've ever fallen into, except maybe for the time when I first brought this frenzy barb to hell and ran into a pack of nine champion zombies all together. Right next to a pack of mana burn quill rats... sheesh.

[rikstaker]

Lvl 65.....whats your gear.

Rik
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eagerly waiting for your new tar.

[mstrnicegui]

I'm using a lotta rares at the moment, cause I'm playing mostly untwinked.

helm: lore runeword in 71 def lion helm with +1 grim ward, +3 bo, +3 bcry
ammy: rare +15 dex +15 life 25% light res
weap1: headstriker
weap2: rare legend sword 40%ias 159%ed 7%ll
armor: 351 def smoke in a curaiss
gloves: rare heavy gloves +2 dex 20%poison 27% cold
belt: 13% soe
boots: sander's riprap
ring1: rare +110 ar 25% fire +27 mana
ring2: 6% ml manald

With charms, I've got exactly enough str/dex to use my rare legend sword (175/100). I've got no leeway in my gear selection until I have a weapon to replace the rare sword because I've already put in enough str/dex.

He's got resists ranging from 40-60 thanks to a 15 res all grand charm and a 7 res all large charm both found off of nm council.

His dmg is roughly 300-1k for each of the swords with might merc. His ar really sucks, but until I find angelic ammy/raven ring/more ar charms there's not much I can do about it. I don't wanna go through the hassle of killing off my might merc and raising a baim merc.

obvious problems:
- ar blows
- dmg is a bit low
- def blows

Overall I'm impressed with his ability to survive in hell, despite his lvl and ar/dmg. It takes a while to kill things, but war cry really does make it possible to do anything. I've been doing nm countess/council/baal runs for runes/money/items. It costs 1k per dur on my rare sword, so I often have to replenish my money supply.
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hehe, new tar = whenever I feel like getting off my lazy butt.

[Ash Housewares]

war cry really does make it possible to do anything

preach brutha, preach

[donvitotm]

At lvl 65 it may have been to eary for hell. I waited untill lvl 75 for my frenzy barb. The frenzy build I have found to be very gear dependant. Things I find important are life leech, some manna leech. Having the hightest lvl war cries you can get Max Bo and shout. Also using some of the others such as Battle cry, Taunt and howl. All of those are one point wonders cept for Taunt. Taunt is a frenzy synergy along with double swing. But I put only a few points there and more into double swing . Also try to find echoing weps for the switch. They give 3 to war cries each and can help out alot. Getting better gear can be done by talking to hight lvl players. Every one collects tons of stuff they will never use. Last night a lvl 93 Zon tossed me a pair of Dracs. Also find a friend with good magic find and kill meph in hell a bunch of times.

[mstrnicegui]

thanks donvito, I neglected to mention that I knew exactly what I was doing. I normally don't go to hell until 75 too... I had solo quested my way through nm baal with problems only with the stupid MoD pack getting mana burn. What's with me and mana burn appearing with the crappiest combination of mods? I knew I would blow goats in hell, but I wanted to see how badly. The fact that he was able to survive was impressive despite his def/ar/dmg.

Last ladder I had a lvl 93 conc barb, a lvl 89 meteorb sorc, a lvl 85 hammerdin, a lvl 83 ik ww barb among others... I am trying now to lvl up to the point where I can mf without having to use a stupid mf sorc which I hate to no end. I want to do it with my frenzy barb, but I might just lvl my conc barb up and make him mf for my frenzy barb.

I just wanted to tell a story about a guy named ManicGUI, who had hair of gold like his mother... *stops flashing back to the brady bunch*... I just wanted to tell a story about the craziest combination of boss groups/mods I've come across yet.

[Ash Housewares]

I've always done alot of MFing with frenzy barb, shouldn't be any trouble, I just use dracul's on bosses and hit them with battlecry right away so they're softened up a bit until lifetap goes off and then it's over for them

[jordy666]

or you could run travincal/kurast/A3 sewers/flayer jungle.

love those flayers :love: they drop runes like a mofo

-jordy :king:

[Ash Housewares]

council is jerks, they never drop anything good, last couple times I ran them I got a total of 2 magic items

if I need gold and greater healing pots, I guess I can go there, wooo!

oh yea, and keys

[jordy666]

u cant have enough key's, can you?
and u can always mule those pots to a lower char :uhhuh:

-jordy :king:

[rikstaker]

@ gui: Your gloves are really crappy >.< Find some with ias atleast.Warcry is keeping you from getting creamed.Whats the level btw?

Rik

[mstrnicegui]

yeah, the gloves do suck, but thus is the problem of untwinked. Anyways, until just recently when I found the two res all charms, I needed all the help I could get with resists. I just haven't found the +2 dex charm I need so I can put on another pair of gloves... once I find them.

btw, he's lvl 67 right now. I'm about to start throwing a few points into taunt, so I can improve my dmg a bit and delay choosing a mastery until I can start doing pit runs.

[Xiamet]

I keep hearing about how great flayer runs are for runes/items...settle the argument here...Hell or NM Flayers...and are the runs reeeeally all that good, or are you just saying this...

-X

[jordy666]

hell flayer jungle pwns. :yep:
plain and simple.

-jordy :king: