reaper's toll for zerk weapon ?

[jox]

I know it doesn't have ias... but if you shael'ed it, combined with highlords & Laying of hands, you'll have enough for 12 fpa... is that too slow ? I'm thinking that the decrep curse will add 50% more damage done to the target. Lets not forget that it has 33% deadly strike as well... that + highlords and Gore riders would give you ~80% deadly strike... what do you think ? with a BOTD colosus blade, you'd get more damage when wielding 2 handed, the same attack speed, no deadly strike and no decrepify... and... a Reaper's Toll is a heck of a lot easier to get your hands on...

[jakotaco]

Cool idea...

BUT Decrepify lowers physical resists
AND Berserk deals magic damage

Maybe some other build could get this to work better?

[MalVeauX]

Heya,

Decrep is great for slowing your enemies and it triggers very often, but ultimately the 50% physical damage doesn't help since you're doing magical damage. So decrep just becomes a `slow' curse. You could just use "slows target" items to get the exact same effect basically. The Deadly Strike is nice. But you can replicate that too.

Suggestion: Death - Make that in a big ethereal sword. Go to work on zerking things with it. Insane damage. Crushing blow. And high deadly strike. Along with low req's (eth and 20% lower reqs makes easy to use any top elite), you'll have an 800+ damage sword. Easy and cheap to make too.

Cheers,

[jox]

uh... no... as I understand it, physical damage is CONVERTED to magic damage AFTER all damage enhancing mods like auras, deadly strikes, + damage and curses. So decrepify should absolutely rock shouldn't it ? It's half as strong as amp damage, reduce target's physical damage by half and it slows your target down ! I'm pretty sure this is how it works. Can we have some clarification from other barb gurus ?

[inanefedaykin]

a) Slow
b) Mediocre damage
c) No shield

IMO it doesn't really matter if decrep works for phys damage, I see no reason to zerk with it.

[Damric]

no jox. curses come after the conversion. the deadly strike is good though.

[Spankeh]

does your enemies receive physical damage ? no, they will receive magic damage, so decrep wont help
but, decrep also reduces the damage they do by 50%, so thats GG, plus slow 50%