[L] GoldFind Barb...

[Louros]

I keep trying to find what gear, and what skills to do, but i cant :9 can someone help me please?

[Helx]

I'm sure there are better MF barbs out there, but as far as balancing survivability with decent MF I would suggest the full IK set along with rings and an amulet to bump it up higher. The helm has 25-40% MF, 25% MF from the boots with 2 or more items with the IK set. Also, the helm has 2 sockets you can put Ists or topaz in for increased MF, and the armor can be socketed for an additional Ist or topaz.

Just last night I added 2 perfect topaz to a new helm I found, and I added another one to the armor. Sticking on a Nagel ring and a MF amulet I found I now have a total of +191% with my barb which still could be improved with better rings/amulet and Ists instead of topaz in the sockets.

Also, adding skill points into the Find Item skill would increase your chances of finding more good stuff on the bodies of most dead monsters I think, but I haven't had any experience with this.

I'm sure there are better MF barbs (check out the sticky at the top of this forum), but this one is working fine for me and at Lvl 83 I'm seldom dying at all with the WW build, so I can recommend it though it might not have the MF% you're looking for.

[hhhrobi]

actualy i am looking for a guide for a goldfinder also but couldn't find one. Everyone trows mf barbs at you but i don't need mf. Only thing i need is GOLD find.

now.. i never had a barb. inlighten me people... need some pointers.

I was thinking go all out on gold find and make my merc do the killing. I would like to utilise a suport skill of some sort(something that will stun?.. a shout or something?).

any help is welcomed!

[DubVoyage]

I got a lot of mileage out of doing an advanced search in the Barbarian forum for 'gold find'. Currently I'm working on a Singer Barb who'll let a Wealth-armor mercenary handle most of the killing. Hell Travincal will be the ideal, but I may have to start in NM until I brush up my Council-slaying chops.

Some key equipment pieces would be:
Wealth runeword (Lem-Ko-Tir), 300% GF
Chance Guards, 200% GF
Crown of Thieves, up to 100% GF
2x Dwarf Star rings, 100% GF each
Gheed's Fortune, up to 160% GF
2x 6xLem Crystal Swords, 450% GF each
or
2x Ali Baba, (2.5 x Level) GF each

Weapons can be tricky, especially if you're counting on doing the killing yourself.

Any build you can get high enough to gamble at the level you want can be good. Great skills if you're having your mercenary do the killing are Battle Cry, Warcry, or Leap. Basically you want some kind of way to semi-neuter the Council Members and turn them into meat for the grinder. Find Item is a big money multiplier, as you can get a second heaping helping of cash if you're lucky.

[PlayWithHonor]

Eh... I'll give it a go although I've never made one of these.....

Your skill will be War Cry.

Your equipment would include:

Wealth (300%) or Goldskin for more resists (100%)
Goldwrap (50% - 80%)
Infernostrides (40% - 70%)
Chance Guards (200%)
Crown of Thieves (80% - 100%)
Dual 6os Swords with Lems (900%)

Give your Merc a Pride (2%-186%)
Wealth (300%) or Goldskin for more resists (100%)
Crown of Thieves (80% - 100%)


Socket anything else with Lems (50% each in armor)
Use charms to make up resists and add more goldfind if you like.

[Helx]

Doh, I misread "gold find" as "magic find". :prop: Please disregard as I can't edit it out now.

[tuxor]

how about the skill breakdown for these guys? I'm getting kind of bored just MFing with my hammerdin all the time, and these seem pretty inexpensive

[HCKull]

I know that you are interested in a gold finder, but I would consider dual wielding the swords that give +4 to find item for your guy. Scavage through the carcasses in cow games in hell and you should do pretty good.

[tuxor]

Heart Carvers = teh roxorz. i used two on my 1.08 conc barb....soooo dumb.
but yeah...+8 to find item only nets you 3% more chance to find with 20 base points. but 1 pt. might be enough to sustain, but still the lem'd swords are looking better.

[-Tempus-]

I know that you are interested in a gold finder, but I would consider dual wielding the swords that give +4 to find item for your guy. Scavage through the carcasses in cow games in hell and you should do pretty good.

using 1-2 heartcarvers works great on a barb that isnt going to be used much to mf/gf, and also dont have any points in pot find or FI. like all things you will have a trade off +8 FI skill or 900% goldfind (2 6lem weapons) or 2 ali's with lems.

for a full time MF or GF barb maxing the FI skill will get you so many more drops then a low lev FI skill. my GF/MF barbs often get more gold using a +51%FI skill then when the merc gets the killing blow (even with his +525% gf and my gf items out)

-Tempus-

[sirwhere]

There are dozens of equipment combos good for goldfinding. Here's mine, for a frenzy babo with max find item.

Helm: crown of thieves (gf, leech)
Armor: wealth (gf, mf)
Belt: trang (life, mana, no freeze)
Rings: leecher/dwarf star (gf, leech, fire absorb)
Amulet: atma's (amplify is good to kill council in 8 players games)
Weaps: grief zwei/oath balrog
Weaps 2: 6 lem swords for popping corpses
Gloves: laying (I prefer demon damage to 200 gf from chancies)
Boots: gores (again, prefer damage to gf from infernostride or a good rare)

My idea is not to overload on gf, so that I can still kill stuff quickly and pop it :)

[psych]

I use this:

barb:
max BO/Shout/Bcommand
~5 Find Item / Warcry
some leftover points, still to decide

enigma LP (teleport is useful)
CoT
Alibaba + spirit sword
Chanceguards
2*dwarfs
infernostrides
rare fhr + goldfind + resists belt
3warcry 26goldfind amu
goldfind charms

merc:
CoT
Ebotd Ghostspear (warpike is probably better but don't have one yet)
Goldskin (I want to test other armors)

This setup gives me good goldfind and at the same time a lot of magic find and also tele and max fire resist. I find it more fun to run Hell Travi, eventhough it takes some time.

[Gimmershred]

I use the following:

2x ali baba lem/lem
Arreats Lem
2x dwardstar
Chanceguards
Rare res goldfind belt
Rare res goldfind boots
Magic res goldfind amu
Wealth / Enigma

Merc:
Botd wp
fortitude /wealth
Guillaume's helm (if wealth equipped ummed, if forti equipped lemmed)

Skills:
Max find item
Max battlecry
Max warcry
Max battle orders
1-3 into natural res, stone skin, increased speed
Rest into shout

Since the realms are so laggy and i have problems creating games i put a enigma on my barb and next to travincel i clear also durance of hate level 3

I tele onto council, cast a warcry to stun, cast a battlecry so my merc hits every hit and takes less damage and i let my merc kill while keeping the council stunned, i have 0%fcr but have no need for it. The maxed battlecry is really nice i must say. Really only travincal and durance of hate lvl 3 are worth it though to run. Somtimes a physical immune spams but i just leave them alone. The tele of enigma helps with that. Before that i used 1 point leap to stop my merc from hitting the physical immune.