1.11 Berzerker recommendations?

[shag]

Looked around, couldn't really find a up-to-date guide or equipment choices. I am a hardcore player, so Player vs Monster is what I do. Can someone tell me from cheap to mediocre to rich for equipment? Would appreciate it, :)

[eA-Zaku]

I am very unsure of ideal pure PvM gear for any character, but I started Diablo and Diablo 2 playing single player only before graduating to battle.net, and I imagine that some PvP aspects can be incorporated into PvM (although I suck at PvP too :rolleyes: )

For my barb, I put in 1 point in Berserk because it is definitely useful, both PvP and PvM and I can also afford dumping one point in the skill. I imagine for a true Berserk barbarian with some/all synergies would do tremendous damage since my lvl 1 Berserk is already very strong in 8 player games.

I imagine that the godliest PvP gear would also make good PvM gear.

For equipment I guess choices could be these, but I don't know if they're the best or the right for the job:

From poor//medium//rich:

Helm: Rockstopper//Vampiregaze//Arreats, CoA or Delirium for fun
Weapon: 'Honor' runeword//decent or strong uniques or rares/magics such as E/CCB/Q (Ethereal/Cruel Colossus Blades/of Quickness) the Grandfather, Doombringer, etc.//best or expensive choices are probably 'BotD' ethereal weapons and 'Grief' weapons and other runewords like 'Doom' 'Beast' and 'Death'
Armor: Rockfleece, Crow Caw, Twitchthroe//Shaftstop, 'Duress' runeword, 'Stone' runeword//'Enigma' runeword, 'Fortitude' runeword
Jewelry: This is limited because I believe Berserk does not leech naturally, and Angelic's is useless because Berserk should give plenty of attack rating. Probably try resists and stat increasing jewelry.
Gloves: Bloodfist//Immortal King's gauntlets, Lava Gout, Laying of Hands//Dracul's Grasp, Steelrends
Boots: Tearhaunch, Goblin Toe//Gore Riders, Sandstorm Trek's, Waterwalks//Imp Shank type boots with Faster Hit Recovery, +stats, and massive resist. I would take these boots even without +Faster Run/Walk, but the duped versions have all those mods.
Shield: Whitstan's Guard//Moser's Blessed Circle//Stormshield, 'Phoenix' runeword, 'Sanctuary' Runeword, 'Dragon' runeword. A lot of nice runewords exist for shields, but the uniques/sets mentioned give a lot more % block.

Charms: Anything will do. Try to get resist and life. When you are super duper rich you will want the Annihilus small charm, Hellfire Torch large charm, and probably 3/20/20 small charm's (Fine Small Charm of Vita; +3 maximum damage, +20 attack rating, +20 life)

[KTang]

http://forums.diabloii.net/showthread.php?t=126634

That might not be uptodate but I think thats still pretty good, although it doesn't include any runewords. I plan to make a zerker myself...the link in the thread guide is wrong as that one is an rpgforum.net one :)

If you've already read this guide, apologies :)

KT

Edit: About the jewellery above, true that may be but angelic rings can give a lot of AR which is still needed even if you have a lot anyway :) You never know!

[shag]

http://forums.diabloii.net/showthread.php?t=126634 this guide is meant for untwinked, which I am not, and the gear he suggests seems pretty cheap or mediocre, not sure.

eA-Zaku - I plan on playing two-handed, so no swords for me.

Just want to know what I should be looking for in equipment. Resistance, damage reduction? Thanks for the replies.

[KTang]

[url]Just want to know what I should be looking for in equipment. Resistance, damage reduction? Thanks for the replies.

Modfiers we are looking for on our equipment are in order of priority: Resistances, Damage Reduction (percentile), Damage (on our weapon), Attack Rating (AR), % Damage goes to mana, Increased Attack Speed (IAS), Fast Hit Recovery (FHR). And with low priortiy: + skills, Cannot be frozen (nice, but not necessary).

I'm sure that applies even if you are twinked :)

KT

Edit: The last part of the guide says for twinked gear.

Weapon: Elite Steeldriver (Shael) <- Someone also said Ribcracker is real good.
Helm: Rockstopper (Res All Jewel / PRuby)
Armour: Shaftstop (Res All Jewel / PRuby)
Belt: Verdungo's Hearty Coil
Gloves: Laying of Hands
Boots: War Travellers
Ammy: Angelic Wings
Rings: 2 x Angelic Halo

[Omikron8]

For a hardcore (mode) berserker the only good high end choice for shield would be stormshield. You need that 35% DR.

[Dennis_KoreanGuy]

Why Berserk though? With couple LL stuff you can live just fine in hell if you WW or Frenzy... isn't it much safer that way? :rolleyes:

[shag]

Because magic damage rules my pants.

[shag]

And being "safe" is boring. No?

[newerest]

Correct. :)

I would use some type of zerker, from ebotdz to honor. Zerkers just own.
And, a stormshield.

From there, you can decide your other gear.

[XDoomasX]

IK moul, uped steeldriver, cheap and nice for twohanded non sword barb ;)

And yes Magic dmg rules my pants too :D

[JanusJones]

IK moul, uped steeldriver, cheap and nice for twohanded non sword barb ;)

And yes Magic dmg rules my pants too :D

Grief PB, Phoenix Shield, Fortitude armor . . . +550% damage (if it's the worst Phoenix out there . . . like mine - sob!) and very, very fast swing speed. Of course you could also do an ethereal BOTD Maul or Polearm.