MF Barb ideas/miniguide?

[Nirlem]

i want to make a support/full magicfind barb using find item skill.
20 BO
Find Item 10+
Howl (clearing in CS)
Warcry (Stunning in CS)
Shout 1-20?

Any ideas on equipp and skill distribution?
2 Gull daggers
3 topaz helm/tarnhelm
Chance guards
Nagel rings
Goldwrap
3 topaz armor
mf boots

[purplelocust]

i want to make a support/full magicfind barb using find item skill.
20 BO
Find Item 10+
Howl (clearing in CS)
Warcry (Stunning in CS)
Shout 1-20?

Any ideas on equipp and skill distribution?
2 Gull daggers
3 topaz helm/tarnhelm
Chance guards
Nagel rings
Goldwrap
3 topaz armor
mf boots

For a pure BO barb, which this is not (but is kind of close to) the point is to get BO, Shout and Battle Command all lasting for a long time. If you switch to +skills gear, do your Warcries, then switch to horking gear, that can work well. As long as there are no other barbs around with weak BO, Shout, and Battle Command who override your higher-level ones. For +skills, you may want to think about:

+1 from Tarnhelm
+2 blue barb ammy is fine
+2 barb weapon both left and right (a crummy blue +2 Barb short sword will do fine)
+1 from Beserker's Hauberk (or Silks, which is overkill in this case)
of course the +1 from your own BC
if you are lucky enough to have SoJ or run into a skill shrine, of course
those are nice

With gear like this and BO/Shout/BC maxed, the duration is more than 6 minutes for all three cries, so after you do the cries you can switch to your horking gear and follow everyone around to MF. Sharing what you hork is a good way of compensating the CE Necros and Hammerdins using Redemption whom you'll have to convince not to use up corpses.

[fredsta54]

support/mf fi barbs are rele boring

Not to hijack the thread, but i suggest you make an mf barb who kills and just go into big games and do trav + river of flame + flayer runs for exp and mf... much more fun than standing around in cs, where you are not even gauranteed the drop when u pop

And yes, it would be cheap

Try this-

2X angelic rings + angelic ammy + angelic armour
Sig gloves, belt, and boots
Ptarn or 3X ptopaz helm
Any high damage 2h weapon w/ mana steal


EDIT: @purplelocast: On a pure bo barb, sigons shield is superior to 2 an 2nd +2 wepon imo. Its almost maxed block... and its only missing out 1 +Skill






Fred

[Nirlem]

ok thx for the comments.

the angelic/sigon combo looks interesting. untill i find some good items.

as for not getting drops, was planning to just follow my girlfriend around in private CS runs, trying to work up a little bit of wealth. :)

Nightmare CS runs with her sorc.
20 FO
20 Mastery
20 bolt
20 warmth
1 static
1 teleport
1 telekinesis
with BO from me, this should be quite nice.

[purplelocust]

support/mf fi barbs are rele boring



EDIT: @purplelocast: On a pure bo barb, sigons shield is superior to 2 an 2nd +2 wepon imo. Its almost maxed block... and its only missing out 1 +Skill

Agreed- the second +2 skill weapon is just for the war cries, then you switch to some survival gear and Sigon's Shield is great for that. The only time to be pure +skill is at the WP, and the nice thing is that with high level warcries, they last long enough not to need to renew them for the whole run, pretty much.

[Zodijackyl]

If you plan on staying alive in CS for long, you'll need better resists. On a barb without much in the way of gear, use Bveritt Keep for 75FR, and add some to natural resistance. Boots should be high in FR also.