Throw Barb

[mythos]

So has anyone made a throw barb lately? I was thinking of making one for horking/gold finding.

The gear I was looking at is:

Arreat - ed/ias
Fort
Highlords
Lacerator/warshrike
Lacerator/warshrike
Rends (maybe not the best option, but i have some 58ed ones lying around not doing anything)
Travs
Razortail
Raven
Rare ring with mana leech
Charms - 6 x warcry, gheeds, 7mf sc's
Anni
Torch
Switch - dual ali baba's, isted or lemed depending on if i am mf'ing of gf'ing.

Merc
A1 - fire with faith/andy's/fort

Skills
Max - Bo, Double swing, Double throw, Throw mastery
Nat res - 5
One pointers - Inc Speed, Find item, BC, Leap attack, pre-req's

I'm trying to concentrate more on kill speed than going overboard with mf/gf.

Any comments or suggestions would be appreciated.

[Austere]

As a throw barb, you're going to need to invest a few points into grimward, howl, or leap for crowd control. I'm not sure that you need 5 points into nat resist

[Eilo Rytyj]

Gogo dual Lacerators. Amp dmg rocks. I've duelled a high level Throw Barb that used dual eth Lacerators, he was very strong, did quite well in the pubby we were in.

Get rid of those WC charms, unless you're using them to boost Grim Ward duration/radius. Max/AR/lifers, or AR/lifers. War Cry GCs are useless man...

[inanefedaykin]

Keep the war cry gcs untill you can replace them.

[SSoG]

Gogo dual Lacerators. Amp dmg rocks. I've duelled a high level Throw Barb that used dual eth Lacerators, he was very strong, did quite well in the pubby we were in.

Get rid of those WC charms, unless you're using them to boost Grim Ward duration/radius. Max/AR/lifers, or AR/lifers. War Cry GCs are useless man...

BO/Howl/Taunt/Battle Cry/War Cry/Battle Commands/Shout/Grim Ward down?

I've never made a Throw Barb that didn't have at least 1 point into each of those, and that didn't use them ALL at one point or another. And this isn't even taking into account Find Pot and Find Item, which are also very useful in their own right.

[mythos]

From the top.

5pts in Nat res gives me max resists in hell (with anya quest).

I'm going to experiment with lacerators/warshrikes for the best combo of amp/ds/pierce.

The WC charms are to boost Find Item. Any extra BO, howl, etc is just gravy. This will be strictly a pvm character for gold finding/mf/ general messing around. I've dueled throw barbs too and they died pretty fast to charge/smite.
On the other hand if I find my ar is too low and kill speed to slow, I may switch in some max/ar/lifers. Hopefully this won't be the case since I'd like to do this guy on a budget.

Btw I got the name ThrowBarb for him =]

[batuchka]

Hmm i just saw someone on wscl a few days ago advertising to buy a +3BO/3 Find Item/3 throwing mastery delerium or white barb helm - maybe he wanted to make this barb hehe Maybe that ctc confuse lets monsters fight amongst themselves while u chuck sticks at them ? Then hork to heart's content :P If cost is no issue them maybe a blessed aim merc with eth elite pride polearm to tag along?

[AncientsQuest]

might i suggest
replacing 1 alibaba with a heart carver
+4 find potion
+4 find item
+4 grim ward
and saves skill points for more important skills
and u wont need the wc gcs to boost their skills cuz its 4 already
i do this with my singer barb and it functions (only i have no inv space :p)