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LeegionOnEast
28-12-2005, 15:32
The Fireball Barb is an idea I have begun to work on (I'm also working on a Curse-mancer and a Bow-Sorc). Barb's can double weild: That means a high FCR can be acheived with Wizspike+Wizspike. With Trang Helm, Armor, Belt, and Gloves, you get lvl 18 Fireball lvl 13 Firewall and lvl 10 Meteor. You hit all breaking points; hence you can send out alot of fire, very fast. I think this will be efficient because you can tank like an animal. You can afford 20 into Iron Skin, 20 into Shout, 20 into Battle Orders, and 1 into Battle Command. The rest I would dump into Leap and possibly Increased Speed. Here is my theoretical setup:

Trang Helm
+3 War Cry/ Maras Ammy
2x Wizardspike
Trang Armor
Trang Belt
Trang Gloves
2x SOJs
Treks

20 Iron Skin
20 Shout
20 Battle Orders
1 Battle Command
20 Leap

I'm concerned I can't deal enough damage, which is probably true. Ideas?
Zyzomys
28-12-2005, 15:44
I once was considering this, but with a different gear set-up. Thought about using a lot of +skills items to get a lvl 32 fireball.

Perhaps with the lvl 10 meteor as a synergy (maybe?), the damage could be higher...

Also, maybe you could dual-wield HotO's?
Pucho
28-12-2005, 16:01
maybe a HotO and a +30/-30 weapon?
barttange
28-12-2005, 18:03
9 fire skillers :P
barttange
28-12-2005, 18:12
the meteor doesn't add damage to fireball since you didn't invest any points in it.

EDIT

A pimped version of this barb will only do around 700 dmg max so it's pretty worthless

If it was around 2k I would have made one :xmas15:
Omikron8
28-12-2005, 23:06
it won't make it past early nightmare
AnimeCraze
29-12-2005, 05:00
I would rather make a PvM singer instead. For kicks, you can use the belt and gloves for fireball against physical immunes.
JanusJones
30-12-2005, 18:46
We all regret the loss of charge synergies with the implementation of 1.11 - especially since it nerfed some interesting variant builds like this one. If you really wanted to try this, get your hands on the (very expensive!) Infinity runeword for the Conviction aura. Better yet, dual-wield two 6 fire facet weapons for up to +60%/-60% to fire damage and resists.