barb help

[lousytourist]

Hi, I need help deciding where to put skill points in my barb.

Here is my combatskills: http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q319/lousytourist/combatskills.jpg

and combat mastery:
http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q319/lousytourist/combatmastery.jpg

and warcries:
http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q319/lousytourist/warcry.jpg

any advice would be greatly appreciated.... quite new here.

[LorveN]

Hello and welcome to the forums!

To me it looks like you've done a typical one-point-here-one-point-there-build. :azn: (Mainly referring to the combat skills now)
For your barb to become as effective as possible, you should focus on one or two primary attack skills, a warcry (battle orders being the most popular), a weapon mastery and synergies to your attack skills.

I'd suggest you check out the barbarian forum and especially the guide thread. There are many guides there, and I'm sure you'll find one that suits you well.
There are so many possible ways of making your character, and I don't know what build tickles your mind the most, so I'd just recommend that guide thread.
Link to guide thread: http://forums.diabloii.net/showthread.php?t=231548
Barbarian forum here: http://forums.diabloii.net/forumdisplay.php?f=16

All guides in that thread have been read many many times, critiqued and updated, so they are really helpful.
Everything you will ever need for your build (yeah, almost) can be found in the guides, and for further in-depth questions your best bet would be making a thread in the barbarian forum and ask them.

Good luck with your barb. :thumbsup:

[krischan]

The skill point investments depend a lot on the end gear your barb is going to wear. There are skills which are useful with just a single skill point, even if you will get low bonuses (like jump/jump attack). There are also skills which are good with just one skill point when assuming you will get a certain +skills bonus (e.g. because they have diminishing returns), like natural resist. Furtherly there are skills which should be maxed. In your case that's ww, BO and the BO prereq.

If you want to enter hell mode, invest the point into berserk.

IMO you wasted a lot of points in natural resist and iron skin (unless you get a huge bonus on that for some reason :scratch:). One point in there is enough. It's so many wasted points that I would restart the barb if I was you.

A WW barb maxes (surprise !) WW, the weapon mastery of his choice, BO and shout. One-point wonders are jump, jump attack, iron skin, increased speed, berserk, battle commands, find item, howl and taunt. A few of them are prereqs of each other anyway.