Guardian #7, Auerus the GF Frenzy Barb
Normal & Nightmare
He changed many weapons through the game, at first Envy setup, followed by dual wielding Bladebones, switched to Bonesnap at lvl 24 and put Skystrike for CS (250 max light damage ftw!), after CS he frenzied with dual bloodletters. Lvl 39 meant dual Butcher’s, followed by an upped Butcher’s and a rare Naga (30 IAS, 230 ED, Fools) which he wore during all Nightmare and early Hell. There weren’t really any problems, except CS where I didn’t want to risk frenzying.
Act 1 & 2
This screenshot says it all.
Act 3
First act where I had some serious trouble dealing with PIs. Reaper’s broke all of them, but I was barely hurting those ghostlike creatures. And when they spawned with nasty mods it wasn’t a pretty site, had to S&E once to prevent a death (lvl 2 flayer dungeon, around the first corner extra fast boss pack of ghosts (didn’t catch the other mods) with some flayers boss pack, they killed my merc very fast and came after me, I tried to fall back but there was no place to go, tried to tp out but it was too late and they got me surrounded and I was out of juves).
Act 4
Put on Gimmershreds for Chaos Sanctuary. Didn’t want to take any chances and double throwed my way through all those OKs. Merc got fried more times than I can remember but I can afford it now. It took about an hour, big D was a piece of cake. Spoke to Tyrael, he opened the portal, I entered and... there’s no and, I got an error for putting the -ns command. It didn’t save big D so I said screw that and asked Toni to rush me through CS.
Act 5
Ghosts spawned in two areas but Reaper’s took care of that. Oks spawned only in Throne in a very small number. Waves ez. Baal ez. Pew pew, I own.
Aureus – LCS
Stats:
Strength: 116
Dexterity: 24
Vitality: 345
Energy: Base
Skills:
Max Frenzy, BO,
17 in Mastery (rest in this), 12 Nat res, 10 Find Item
1 BC, 1 Battle Cry, 1 Increased speed
Equipment:
Helm: Arreat’s
Amulet: The Cat’s Eye
Weapon: Death Cleaver (Shael)
Weapon2: Rune Master (Amn, Eth, Eth, 2x ED jewels)
Armor: Duriel’s
Gloves: LoH/Drac’s
Belt: M’avina’s (for the ml)
Boots: Gores
Ring1: Rare (Dex, str, ll, res)
Ring2: Raven Frost
Switch: Echoing glaive + Demon Limb
Merc – Hazade – Might merc
Helm: Vampire Gaze
Armor: EDuriel’s
Weapon: EBonehew/Reaper’s
Finds:
NM HF – Sol
Hell HF – Ist (only one more Ist til the CtA!!!)
NM Lister – Arreat’s
Hell Flayer Jungle – Carrion Crest coronet (+1 druid skills, 20 frw, 39 life, 5 ll, 2 sockets)
Plans:
Travincal. He’s due for a serious change of equipment (only the weapons remain) and I believe he’ll be just fine. Haven’t tried him yet but I will do it soon.
Impressions:
Since it isn’t a fully synergized Frenzy barb and I had stretched stat points I didn’t have the full experience. Nevertheless it proved to be quite fast but not so safe, if Drac’s didn’t proc the life tap he’d be dead in some situations.
Normal & Nightmare
He changed many weapons through the game, at first Envy setup, followed by dual wielding Bladebones, switched to Bonesnap at lvl 24 and put Skystrike for CS (250 max light damage ftw!), after CS he frenzied with dual bloodletters. Lvl 39 meant dual Butcher’s, followed by an upped Butcher’s and a rare Naga (30 IAS, 230 ED, Fools) which he wore during all Nightmare and early Hell. There weren’t really any problems, except CS where I didn’t want to risk frenzying.
Act 1 & 2
This screenshot says it all.
Act 3
First act where I had some serious trouble dealing with PIs. Reaper’s broke all of them, but I was barely hurting those ghostlike creatures. And when they spawned with nasty mods it wasn’t a pretty site, had to S&E once to prevent a death (lvl 2 flayer dungeon, around the first corner extra fast boss pack of ghosts (didn’t catch the other mods) with some flayers boss pack, they killed my merc very fast and came after me, I tried to fall back but there was no place to go, tried to tp out but it was too late and they got me surrounded and I was out of juves).
Act 4
Put on Gimmershreds for Chaos Sanctuary. Didn’t want to take any chances and double throwed my way through all those OKs. Merc got fried more times than I can remember but I can afford it now. It took about an hour, big D was a piece of cake. Spoke to Tyrael, he opened the portal, I entered and... there’s no and, I got an error for putting the -ns command. It didn’t save big D so I said screw that and asked Toni to rush me through CS.
Act 5
Ghosts spawned in two areas but Reaper’s took care of that. Oks spawned only in Throne in a very small number. Waves ez. Baal ez. Pew pew, I own.
Aureus – LCS
Stats:
Strength: 116
Dexterity: 24
Vitality: 345
Energy: Base
Skills:
Max Frenzy, BO,
17 in Mastery (rest in this), 12 Nat res, 10 Find Item
1 BC, 1 Battle Cry, 1 Increased speed
Equipment:
Helm: Arreat’s
Amulet: The Cat’s Eye
Weapon: Death Cleaver (Shael)
Weapon2: Rune Master (Amn, Eth, Eth, 2x ED jewels)
Armor: Duriel’s
Gloves: LoH/Drac’s
Belt: M’avina’s (for the ml)
Boots: Gores
Ring1: Rare (Dex, str, ll, res)
Ring2: Raven Frost
Switch: Echoing glaive + Demon Limb
Merc – Hazade – Might merc
Helm: Vampire Gaze
Armor: EDuriel’s
Weapon: EBonehew/Reaper’s
Finds:
NM HF – Sol
Hell HF – Ist (only one more Ist til the CtA!!!)
NM Lister – Arreat’s
Hell Flayer Jungle – Carrion Crest coronet (+1 druid skills, 20 frw, 39 life, 5 ll, 2 sockets)
Plans:
Travincal. He’s due for a serious change of equipment (only the weapons remain) and I believe he’ll be just fine. Haven’t tried him yet but I will do it soon.
Impressions:
Since it isn’t a fully synergized Frenzy barb and I had stretched stat points I didn’t have the full experience. Nevertheless it proved to be quite fast but not so safe, if Drac’s didn’t proc the life tap he’d be dead in some situations.
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