viable 1h-weaps

[Borje]

Hello!

I'm playing EUScL and is not that rich. I'm thinking about a build that uses a 1h-weapon and I wonder what 1h-weaps you think is viable for a WWbarb in hell. I own 0 high runes so Runewords like BotD will not be possible.

plz help!

thx in adv.

[TyMForTheStuff]

Azzure gives you Magic Damage, so that's help with Phisical Imm's trouble. Then you have doom (Champion Sword), that's gives you good ar, ll% and a sweet damage. Unique Zerk axe would be a good choice too, i guess. I dunno, lastly runewords are the king's for WW barbs weapons. You know it.
Hope that's useful to you.

[Borje]

Yes, very much so. What runewords are there to aim for if I really should be trying to get one? eBotDz?

[TyMForTheStuff]

I dunno really what to tell you, actually i never used ebotdz. Dun like it. But you have tons of good rwords more cheap than that, Oath has nice damage and 50% ias. That's good to, i really love Azzure for the Magic Dmg and IAS. But not range 5, so... you have to check out the rwords and then see what you can pay for it.

[PhatTrumpet]

Did someone say runewords?

'Oath' is the king of non-high-rune weapon runewords.

'Kingslayer' is pretty nice too, but requires a Gul (not really a high rune since it can drop from Hellforge).

Next down the line comes 'Crescent Moon', but the Static unfortunately won't trigger with WW and it needs to be made in a Legend Sword in order to hit the last WW breakpoint.

'Passion' comes next... gogo gadget Zeal.

Besides that you'd have to go oldschool... 'Honor' and 'King's Grace' were okay but lacking any IAS whatsoever.

[Master Zap]

Just to add a few more choice that work

Baranars star mace fast , ele damage, an oldschool classic
Stormlash probably the best pick on the uniques
Eth lacerator breaks the PI's and can be throw where IM is around..
stonecrusher huge cb , decent damage, kinda slow, high str
light sabre nice and fast, not as good as azurwrath, rocks in early hell/nm


Cruel something of quickeness with decent damage on it

[inanefedaykin]

If you have access to shael runes you can hit the last WW bp on a one hander with right about anything.

[FrankWest]

Just wanna point out that as a WW'er, you're relying solely on weapon speed for your IAS. So anything without nice IAS on it is going to give a lot of grief if you're trying to hit a meaningful BP.

I'd suggest the Lightsabre for starters, then moving on to Azurewrath.

And as Master Zap suggested, Baranar's is good too, if you want to use a mace. A nice Runemaster would be my suggestion, if you're going with axes. Put some ED/IAS jewels in it and the damage and speed on it can get quite respectable as an end-game weapon. Unless you're going PvP with this guy, Runemaster is probably your best overall. It doesn't have the range of a honkin' GS or CB in one hand, but that's only really crucial if you're doing PvP. Which, without access to fancy runewords, I wouldn't suggest.

[TheBassman]

Put some ED/IAS jewels

I believe he's on a budget. :cool:

[FrankWest]

Hey, nobody said they had to be high rolls, or even on the same jewel. ~30/10s and below go for pgems. And there are truckloads of 30% ED jewels out there that go for next to nothing. Two shaels and three 28-32% ED jewels would cost less than the Runemaster itself. :grin:

I wasn't suggesing he go sell his mule full of hrs for a bunch of 40/15s. They don't have to be perfect, or even close. :wink3:

But I understand what I think you thought I was saying. I think. :cool:

[Borje]

Thx for all the great input!

I think I've decided to go for the Oath runeword (have ben starting to trade for the rune, only need a Mal and a Pul, and that isn't impossible to achive. The weapon of choise is an eth Small Cresent which I will probbably getting from a trade tonight. the Oath RW has indest. as a mod therefore the eth will be sweet =) will this be less cool than a runemaster? The runemaster needs 44 IAS to reach the last WW bp so with three ias jewels it would hit the BP.

thx

[FrankWest]

Oh, if you can afford Oath, by all means go for it. It edges out the Runemaster, IMO. Both have their charms, though, you have to admit. The Runemaster just leaves so much room for adaptation - and if you can afford an Oath, you can probably afford some really shiny jewels to shove into the Runemaster.

Honestly, this comes down to picking your flavor. They're both solid options. I'd go with the Oath, though.

[SSoG]

Frostwind is a very often overlooked sword, too, but I absolutely love it. If you're building a WW-Barb, it'll hit the 4-frame breakpoint straight out of the box. The damage is viable (although it's no Oath), and the chill/freeze are awesome. Plus, if you get a good Cold Absorb roll and are wearing Ravenfrost, you can completely ignore your cold resists. I mean that quite literally- if you have 35% cold absorb (from Frostwind and Ravenfrost) and -70% Cold Resist (nothing but the three Anya quests), you'll take as much damage as you would if you had 49% Cold Resist. Not too shabby.

Oh, and Barbs look awesome when using Arctic Blast. It's pretty much a useless skill, but it looks soooooo cool.

[PhatTrumpet]

A couple things:

'Oath' in a Small Crescent is more of a mid-lvl PvP weapon. Its damage is ridiculous, but it's only a range 2 weapon. If you don't mind the decreased range, it'll do just fine.

Balrog Blades are the most popular choice for 'Oath' because they're range 3, have good damage (not as much as a Small Crescent, though), and eth ones automatically get 4 sockets from Larzuk.

My favorite is the Colossus Sword because it's range 3 and has the highest damage of any sword. Problem is it's tough to get an eth 4os one to make it in.

Keep in mind that the %ed range on 'Oath' is extremely wide (210-340). I've had to reroll a single sword 4 times before just to get a decent damage roll.

[Borje]

I've already placed points in Axe mastery and have reached lvl 30ish, so I guess I'm stuck with axes. Another problem is that I really won't have the budget to oreroll the Oath, would you then recomend to dump it? perhaps redo and get swords? This is going to be a PDR barb and therefore I might just want the frostwind because of the cold sorb, I acctually looked at it and really thought about getting it...