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slappyslapnuts
03-09-2005, 04:59
As the post says im lookin to make a mf barb for hell and such, and i dont know what class to go bh, naga, martel and such, and what type of skills should i go for and equip how much mf and such? thanks in advance (im finding martels hard to get especially 2xx in europe ladder :| any tips)
stanzaman
03-09-2005, 06:35
As the post says im lookin to make a mf barb for hell and such, and i dont know what class to go bh, naga, martel and such, and what type of skills should i go for and equip how much mf and such? thanks in advance (im finding martels hard to get especially 2xx in europe ladder :| any tips)
I would go with a Martel. Highest damage, and if you don't end up finding one, you can get by with bonesnap. Plus the undead bonus will help if you like to MF chaos sanctuary/mephisto. A nice battlehammer + sheild backup combo is nice, but not nessecary.
Skills are pretty simple, I basically max mastery, BO, and WW. Be sure to get find item up to a decent level, and you can also put some points into natural resist, increase speed or whatever else you feel like. I also recommend atleast 1 point into beserk.
For gear, I like to have 3 topaz helm, atleast one ~30% MF ring. This will give you 100% MF with basically no impact on your killing ability. It shouldn't be too hard to get an ammy with 20%+ MF, boots with 20%+ MF, and/or gloves with 20%+ MF on them that have decent mods too. My philosophy is to not sacrafice killing speed too much for MF. It's better to have 125% MF and kill just about as fast as normal gear than to have 250%+ MF and kill slowly. I would try to stay away from some of the more traditional MF gear like chances, goldwrap, and tancreds because those items don't really offer any useful mods besides MF.
Ideally, you should have 2 gulls to wear when doing find item. This will increase your MF to 300% or more. If you have only one gull you can also use a +2 one handed weapon to increase your chances with find item.
If done right, this barb should easily be able to run the hell council, and do find item on the corpses to get even more goodies. That's what I usually do with my MF barb (I use a hammerdin to MF diablo).
slappyslapnuts
03-09-2005, 15:32
what armour and stats do i need to put any into dex?
slappyslapnuts
03-09-2005, 17:48
Do i have to use Angelic armour,amu,armour for the 100mf + AR cos i cant figure out how to get any decent Ar if im not putting any into dex.
stanzaman
03-09-2005, 18:06
I never put any into dex on my barbs, unless they need the dex to hold a weapon. Get enough strengh for your armor (probably 170) then dump the rest into vit. Usually your skills will provide enough AR to hit things, though I guess you can use angelics at the lower levels. Running the council/meph/super uniques is good experience - so it's not hard to get into the 80's, where your level will help you hit things more than anything else.
i dont know what class to go bh, naga, martel and such...
Since a barb's weapon is so important, I usually wait until I find a good weapon of any type and plan my char around it.
on dex:
i make my goldfind barbs [more or less an mf barb] to use martels, and set their base dex around 130-140, and as little str as i can get away with. your life will take a huge hit as a result of this, but getting some life leech [12% minimum--20%+ = ideal] makes this a non issue. you simply cannot kill hell travincal in a full game without decent AR, and you cant wear a full gf/mf suit and depend on getting that AR from your gear. it's gotta come dex.
slappyslapnuts
05-09-2005, 19:39
i havent put any points in dex and hes lvl 70, what should i do about ar, i cant keep using the anglic set to get mf + Attack rating, i was thinkin anglic amu + ring, then like a 30 mf ring+attackrating (nagel), then some gloves with with mf and some boots giving me like 140 mf, but at the moment i have like 200 mf cos i use anglic set +23 mf boots and 24 mf gloves, so i have a high mf And i found a gull for my Item find, what level should i raise it to??? i was thinking natural resistance would be abit more important since i have no way to get resistance with all this mf gear :|
I had an IK barb with Ptopaz socketed and an IK maul with 2x Ist, several MF charms and I believe had around 400+ (400-500) mf or something.
Ik worked quite well, owning everything on Hell including all imunities, all bosses, etc...
For rings/amu I had crescent moon (the ml/ll amu) and 2 perf nagles. Switching to an mf amu when I was at a boss.
It's a cheap way except maybe the IK maul with 2x Ist... But the rest is not that expensive :D
But the rest is not that expensive :D
On Classic it sure is! ;)
Wrong forum man
MapleBarb
06-09-2005, 17:27
I had an IK barb with Ptopaz socketed and an IK maul with 2x Ist, several MF charms and I believe had around 400+ (400-500) mf or something.
Ik worked quite well, owning everything on Hell including all imunities, all bosses, etc...
For rings/amu I had crescent moon (the ml/ll amu) and 2 perf nagles. Switching to an mf amu when I was at a boss.
It's a cheap way except maybe the IK maul with 2x Ist... But the rest is not that expensive :DI havent played classic in a while, but if I recall it correctly, I don't think they have ik set there.
That's because Renne was referring to Xpac.... :confused:
slappyslapnuts
06-09-2005, 23:23
That's because Renne was referring to Xpac.... :confused:
It says looking to make mf barb And its in the classic forum, doesnt get much more obvious than that
It says looking to make mf barb And its in the classic forum, doesnt get much more obvious than that
Tell that to Renne :lol:
Come on guys. Let's be nice. I will close this thread and revert post counts back to before this thread existed if this continues. Let's get back on topic.
Dacar
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