Fenzy/CB Barb - What to put in my lashes...

[Devastatius]

As the title says, I'm making a Frenzy barb with maxed Crushing Blow, Now I'm wondering what I should put in my Stormlashes? Eth, Shael or Amn? I could use some extra % LL I guess, since I only have 7% with my gear. Concerning IAS, I get 50% from my equipment, 30% on the Stormlashes themselves, and another great boost from frenzy. Eth is optional if I don't need Amn or Sheal, but I don't think I will run into AR problems. Give your advice please!

-Bugatron

[Ce Olba]

As the title says, I'm making a Frenzy barb with maxed Crushing Blow, Now I'm wondering what I should put in my Stormlashes? Eth, Shael or Amn? I could use some extra % LL I guess, since I only have 7% with my gear. Concerning IAS, I get 50% from my equipment, 30% on the Stormlashes themselves, and another great boost from frenzy. Eth is optional if I don't need Amn or Sheal, but I don't think I will run into AR problems. Give your advice please!

-Bugatron

i suppose this is a PvM build, and so, you don't need angelic combo, and instead u can use 2x Carrion wind rings, giving you a decent amount of LL%, but u can also use cerecent moon for extra ML%. If this is not enough, grab Dracul's Grasps for the nice LL% or Soul Drainers for 5-7% dual leech. After that kind of gear i doubt that u'll need LL or ML from your weapons, since that gives you up to around 25% ML and 30% LL. And as for ias, i doubt u'll be needing any, unless it's a must for you to hit the last breakpoint. (which in PvM is NOT a much, my ww barb does all good with a shaeled Grandfather) So i suggest u should either use Amns (if you don't do much dmg u will need almost 50% LL to it to have a good return) or Eths (since u will have pretty low ar without angelics). But ten again, around 8k ar is just about fine in PvM. Personally i would suggest ED jewels, since extra dmg=More leech=More time with full life=less deaths=good.

[Herald of Doom]

You should list all your items, socketing for pvm has a very wide range of options depending on wealth, goal and current equipment :)

HoD

[Devastatius]

You should list all your items, socketing for pvm has a very wide range of options depending on wealth, goal and current equipment :)

HoD
Helm: Guillame's Face
Armor: 'Duress' Archon Plate
Belt: Nosferatu's Coil (7%)
Gloves: Laying of Hands
Boots: Gorerider
Amulet: Higlords Wrath
Rings: Manald Heal 7% / Nature's Peace (since I'm not going to max BO)

I'm not planning to change my equipment anymore, so there is no need to say that I should use -insert item- instead.

-Bugatron

[Herald of Doom]

Helm: Guillame's Face
Armor: 'Duress' Archon Plate
Belt: Nosferatu's Coil (7%)
Gloves: Laying of Hands
Boots: Gorerider
Amulet: Higlords Wrath
Rings: Manald Heal 7% / Nature's Peace (since I'm not going to max BO)

I'm not planning to change my equipment anymore, so there is no need to say that I should use -insert item- instead.

-Bugatron
Might I suggest Dracs anyway? Those alone eliminate any need for other lifeleech sources, so you'd be free to use a ravenfrost for the cbf :) You have 35+33+15+15 CB, a lovely 98%, so imo with such a huge offensive force you can easily ditch the LoH for some survivability. And trust me, with lifetap you won't ever die, I bet you don't even need a health pot :) As for the sockets, you get 5.5 fpa with highlords and lvl 20 frenzy, and adding shael won't help a thing, UNLESS you use LoH+Highlords and shael one of your lashes, but then will only bring you from 4.5 attacks/second to 5/s, and you'd lose lifetap. It's your choice :teeth:

EDIT: Poop, mistake, forgot to calculate the 10 ias from your belt. If you shael one lash you'd get 5fps even without LoH ! You can socket the other lash with whatever suits your need then, probably an amn or something


HoD

[Devastatius]

Might I suggest Dracs anyway? Those alone eliminate any need for other lifeleech sources, so you'd be free to use a ravenfrost for the cbf :) You have 35+33+15+15 CB, a lovely 98%, so imo with such a huge offensive force you can easily ditch the LoH for some survivability. And trust me, with lifetap you won't ever die, I bet you don't even need a health pot :) As for the sockets, you get 5.5 fpa with highlords and lvl 20 frenzy, and adding shael won't help a thing, UNLESS you use LoH+Highlords and shael one of your lashes, but then will only bring you from 4.5 attacks/second to 5/s, and you'd lose lifetap. It's your choice :teeth:

EDIT: Poop, mistake, forgot to calculate the 10 ias from your belt. If you shael one lash you'd get 5fps even without LoH ! You can socket the other lash with whatever suits your need then, probably an amn or something


HoD
Sounds nice! Now to get a good Dracul's :D. It won't help a thing if I socket Both Lashes with Shael, will it? Amn looks pretty useless with Dracul's and Nosferatu's, so I'll probably use an Eth (one is socketed with Eth already, got it that way in a trade).

-Bugatron

[Ash Housewares]

amn won't be needed if you use dracul's they cover it all

if you can't think of anything you could always try and ed/min dmg jewel, boosting your damage doesn't hurt you leech either, but I'm not good at picking sockets, I usually leave everything clean