is my barb doomed?

[missmollygrue]

My beloved OttoVanSquasher is finally in Hell. And he's getting is patootie whalloped. Badly. BADLY. I started this character a long time ago (measured in years, not months) and he's the first char i've brought this far. Therefore, he never had a "build" per se, I was just playing around, learning the game.

This is what he looks like now:

Barbarian lvl 68
Str 155
Dex 128
Vit 113/ Life 592
Eng 29

Bash 6
Frenzy 15
Mace Mastery 5
Sword Mastery 2
Nat. Res. 6
Find Item 5
Battle Cry 3

The rest of my points are scattered around in onesies and twosies. I have one point in everything, two in a few. So far, I've used up 76 skill points and...well...425 stat points.

Is there hope? Is Otto just too weak to advance much further? I'm going to go look at the build guides, but I thought someone might have some helpful advice...or at least a trustworthy diagnosis.

[silospen]

Well, for a start - Whats he doing in hell at that level?! Go run Nm worldstone keep till you're at least level 75.

And some gear setup would be good.

[farting bob]

Id say he's in trouble, but not dead and buried. Lvl a bit in nm (you want to be low-mid 70's at least before really stabbing at hell) From your stats, i think you clearly need to make a frenzy barb from him. Max out frenzy, add some points into a war cry of your choice (BO is good) and if you got points left, add a few to a frenzy synergy.
What sort of gear does he have?

[TenYearsGone]

Well, for a start - Whats he doing in hell at that level?! Go run Nm worldstone keep till you're at least level 75.

And some gear setup would be good.

What he said!

[silospen]

Remember we have a forum member trying to get through hell in Hardcore with a nekkid necro, so no, he isn't even close to being screwed.

[slappy sam]

Now a naked HC barb on the other hand... Might be in trouble

Actually a singer barb might... be able to make it to hell

[missmollygrue]

::blush::

Well...I guess I'll have to go level up for a while first, eh?

[tweety]

Looks like you should make a frenzier of him. You will not get the highest damages possible anymore, so focus on crowd control for now. Put a few points in warcry to stun your enemies untill you are satisfied with the stun length, then put some points in BO to increase your life.

Most points are in mace mastery, so look for maces, one fast and one slow with higher damage.

I have a similar problem with a werebear I started a few years ago with some friends. We MP maybe 4 times a year and are in act 2 hell atm, with totally screwed up skills and very bad items, but I can still stay alive pretty well because of shockwave. Only some bosses hurt me a lot.

[Mordalles]

are u even sure he should be in nightmare?

[missmollygrue]

are u even sure he should be in nightmare?

Someone's getting a might snarky, hm?

I do just fine in Nightmare. Aside from some stuggles with the Ancients, I play p8 in any NM act but 5, and mow 'em down.

And if the point of playing in NM is to level up to make Hell more doable, then playing Normal is just a waste of everyone's time.