Will my Zerker Work

[Imortaldead]

If I find a but wepon (do not know what i want yet)
I was thinking Skills
20 Berserk:whistling:
20 Battle Orders
20 Howl
1 Shout
1 Battle Command
xx Leap (what ever it is you need to get over the holes):scratchchin:
1 mastery for what ever the big wepon is
and of course
1 in Iron Skin
1+ in Natural resistances
and if you want
1 in Increased stamina and Increased Speed
Puts you in your 80

Am I Thinking on the right trake

[FireMarshal]

I have had a little experience with a Berserker. And I remember an old thread where Corn, and I talked about the build he used.

Skills were similar. Check it out, down about half way in the thread:

http://diablo.incgamers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=536582

[HegemonKhan]

read fredsta? (i think it's fredsta's) knout berzerker guide in the faqs and build guides sticky or find it on the classic barbarian thread. both have links to the knout berserker guide by fredsta (i think).
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as to myself:

i'm wondering if howl by itself will work or if u really need war cry's stun ??

[Akse]

Unless you one shot everything.. it will be painful.

[Imortaldead]

Thank you FireMarshal That is what my lod Zerker does was not sure if i was going to build it right for classic, Trying. And it is in hc and i would use a sheild^^, just have to find the big hitting wepon now, do not know what i will use but i do like how the swords look on a barb

[HegemonKhan]

well the heaviest hitter for 1 handers is the bh=battle hammer (mace type) and it gets 50% EDmg against undead and 1.1 str bonus and only requires 100 stat pts (100 str), but it's slow and only range 1.

the naga (1 hand. axe type) is a bit faster and has range 3 and only takes a bit more than the bh at 121 stat pts (121 str), but it's weaker than the bh.

the swords (1 handed used executioner sword, 1 hand ancient sword, 1 hand rune sword) all have much higher stat reqs of around 200 and require about half of it of dex
(~100 str and ~80 dex = ~200 stat req), but only have 1-3 range and do about the same damage as naga, though they are faster than the naga and way faster than bh.

u could go with fredsta's recommendation of the knout (mace type) and if u haven't read his post/guide, it's definately worth a look at. he explains why knout is soo good.

[WarlockCC]

Naga has 21 base durability, if you cannot find a tri-dura one, it'll get old, really fast.
BH has 55 base durability and I think exec has the same.
Other swords would be gothic (only requires str, since the barb already has the required dex for it) and tusk sword. Both of which could do ok damage 1 handed.
Really good ones of those two types are hard to find, since people only seem to want an exec due to the higher damage possible and it's range 3.

[Akse]

Yeah Tusk, gothic and zwei has quite nice 1h damage. I remember back in the old days before LOD, many HC duelerrs wanted some of those because the requirements were a lot lower so they could pump a lot more HP.. and the swords were a lot cheaper too.

[EagleEntek]

Bezerk is the attack that drops your defense to 0 right? If you use that in the flayer jungle aint you gonna get walloped to bits?

How are you going to tackle groups of monsters?

Just curious...

[Lorg]

u could go with fredsta's recommendation of the knout (mace type) and if u haven't read his post/guide, it's definately worth a look at. he explains why knout is soo good.

Well i tested this with a 174 ed 40 ias knout (could have been better but not many ias knouts around) + gg other gear and did not like the build atleast for pvp. Just my opinion :whistling:

[Damric]

Another interesting weapon for classic zerking is cleg's sword with at least 1 other set piece. Descent speed, and scalable damage, and deadly strike works nicely with zerking. I had a baba using this a few seasons ago until I found a 196% tusk sword.

Hey I'm pondering another classic run (lod ladder so stale again). Is there still bad cheats like act5 classic with douche-bags running around with socketed sets and uniques? I won't bother if there is.

[FireMarshal]

Another interesting weapon for classic zerking is cleg's sword with at least 1 other set piece. Descent speed, and scalable damage, and deadly strike works nicely with zerking. I had a baba using this a few seasons ago until I found a 196% tusk sword.

Hey I'm pondering another classic run (lod ladder so stale again). Is there still bad cheats like act5 classic with douche-bags running around with socketed sets and uniques? I won't bother if there is.

I have not seen anything. To my knowledge, there are still the usual hacks though. Nothing too serious.

[HegemonKhan]

the 1.12 patch got rid of the act5 hacks. act5 hack as far as i know is gone, YAY!!!!

warden has cleaned out the chanter and map hacks, but now they back again, grrr.

[fredsta54]

for pvm you will want a big hurty 2 hander, you will need 20 points to warcry, scroll down a few pages in the barbarian zerker guide by nightfish, 1 handed beserking with a shield and shout is too slow killing and when you beserk you have 0 defense.

steeldriver is an excellent weapon just above 200 damage low reqs and 40 ias on top

beserk is viable but pales in compariosn to ww





fred