mcm, is this still valid?

[sunami]

Someone was refering to your guide and build (tele-ww barb) as being slightly beter than blobs (?), the only post I could find by you that seemed somewhat of a guide is below, am I missing something? Did you post any other guide? Thanks.

New baba recipe:

Level 94

64 Base Strength
57 Base Dexterity
434 Base Vitality
10 Base Energy

20 WW
20 Axe Mastery
20 Battle Orders
16 Shout (duration synergy, trade off with leap/NR as you see fit)
10 Leap (full screen stun w/ most setups)
9 Natural Res (64% res all w/ most setups)
1 Battle Command (Cheap +1 all)
1 Zerk (For bonewalling/ironmaiden/summon using necros, if in doubt, carry a life tap wand.)
1 Howl (Summon scattering tool)
1 Inc Speed (Decrep + Inc Speed = Still faster than Bone Spirit)
1 Bash (Prereq, useless)
1 Leap Attack (Prereq, useless)
1 Conc (Prereq, useless)
1 Stun (Prereq, useless)
1 Inc Stamina (Prereq, useless)

35x 3/20/20
2x 5res/5fhr
2x 11lres/5fhr
1x 20/xx/x Anni

So if the need arises it can do this:

vs T/V w/ Grief

Use: BER/BER COA, 30% res Fort archon, 19+str/45+lres boots, TGods, Grief Zerk, 36+str Beast Zerk, Highlords, 2x Perf Ravens, Dracs, widowmaker on swap, prebuff with limb, bo, last wish fade.

Result: 6.9k life, 13k AR, 48% FHR bp, 42% PDR, >150% light res stacked over 90% in Hell, life tap lasts for 1 second, 5k-5.6k/1k-4k ww dmg (65/49.3% Double Dmg, 25/50% OW), 400-1.6k guided dmg (68% Double Dmg, 25% OW)

Beat it like a mage (hammer/foh). 90% stacked light res makes foh = mush, guided makes smiter move to you, ww away makes smite = mush.

And still do this:

vs Necro

Use: 2/20/2 Barb Circlet w/ 79ed/16str from jewels, Enigma, Gore Riders, 9% OW +29str 10%fhr belt, Grief Zerk, Beast Zerk, Highlords, 10fcr/99ar/19str/81mana/10resall ring, 10fcr/100ar/20str/32life/27%fres ring, Dracs, prebuff with limb, bo.

Result: 7k life, 9.8k AR, 500 mana, 30% FHR bp, 4.8-5.4k/940-3.7k ww dmg (77/61% Double Dmg, 44/69% OW), 10 frame cast, full screen leap.

And still do the "usual things" for other "usual opponents".

Now go! make me some cookies.

[mcm]

I have this build to level 92 right now, with some tweaks to skills:

20 WW
20 Axe Mastery
20 Battle Orders
15 Leap (full screen stun w/ most setups)
9 Natural Res (64% res all w/ most setups)
6 Inc Speed (Decrep + Inc Speed = Still faster than Bone Spirit)
6 Shout (duration synergy, trade off with leap/NR as you see fit)
1 Battle Command (Cheap +1 all)
1 Zerk (For bonewalling/ironmaiden/summon using necros, if in doubt, carry a life tap wand.)
1 Howl (Summon scattering tool)
1 Bash (Prereq, useless)
1 Leap Attack (Prereq, useless)
1 Conc (Prereq, useless)
1 Stun (Prereq, useless)
1 Inc Stamina (Prereq, useless)

With 64/57 base str/dex this is really flexible, and has just over 6300 life w/o any special items for BO prebuff.

This lets you do things like: BER/BER COA, Highlords, Ravens, Str/Fhr/Res boots *cough*WB*cough*, Dracs, EBOTD Z/Beast Z, HEL Widowmaker, Enigma (Wyrmhide for looks), Arach.

This is nice when dealing with 2-3 level 97 botted hammerdins, a cold sorc, a fire sorc, and a town hopping glass cannon spammer bowazon all in one team in a pub game.

Other useful things include 2x Doom zerks on weapon swap instead of warcry items -- you only lose 2 skills, but the ~12 dmg aura is useful for getting last hit on something, makes AA bowazon spammers useless, and makes runner trappers or charge desyncing paladins much quicker to deal with.

[Davie.]

What if I dont play ladder...then I follow blobs guide?

[mcm]

Then replace grief w/ ebotd and fortitude w/ duress... CMON MAN. THINK!

[Davie.]

...No >_<. Ebotd saves me 30 stats n more damnit -_-. YOU THINK FOR ME!

[mcm]

Plan for grief, use the alternatives for now.

[dkay]

put all your points into dex and slap on a wf. trust me itll be the best build in the world.

[sunami]

I am glad I inspired such an intelectual discourse and thanks for the answer mcm. Now I just have to practice tele-ww and all the other fine points of this so I suck slightly less than I do now.