3:41 - as a long time Frenzy barb, one small correction: Find Item doesn't give you, say 55%, chance to find an item. It gives a chance to treat a monster as if you killed it again. So if there are 11 council members and you have 55% hork, it will count as you would have killed 17.05 council members. Because there is a chance, that your hork will work (i.e: monster will be treated as killed), but you will roll NoDrop in which case nothing will drop, but that doesn't mean Find Item didn't work. And watch out for having cold dmg on you (like Raven Frost or even Reaper's Toll), because you will shatter the corpses and thus reduce your horking efficiency. Ideally, don't forget about having some FCR (Heart of the Oaks on switch, if you can afford them). Also, farming Trav online won't be as efficient as on single player, because a proper council positioning is the key, if they are scattered all around, it will make your runs really long. And also the best farming setting is p3, which cannot be used online, so you will lose some value. Did a lot of calcs and completed 3500 Trav runs :) //edit: Actually as per the latest data that I found + as per my test - Find Item either works on p7 or ignores NoDrop at all, which doesn't make a difference in Trav, because the Council members reach NoDrop=0 at p7, so horking is actually even more efficient :)
Would love to see more budget starter build guides for D2R and then how to progress the same builds into endgame. Would love to hear your thoughts on starter MF and PvP builds. Thanks again brotha!
Start off with a druid, 5 to bird first, then add to wolves, then start adding to fire skills. Focus on fissure and the first fire skill. After you hit the mid 20s reset skillpoints, focusing 100% on fire, the first fire skill and fissure easy to farm early on.
@@HuggarnWoW as long as they keep getting views. I don’t want the content creators I enjoy to never make a video that may have some overlap. Coooley could literally release “starter, budget, D2R launch, ladder reset, etc etc build guides” and I watch every one multiple times and probably still learn new things and even if I’d don’t learn a thing I’d still love every minute of it.
When I saw this and realised I'm now 54 years old and have already sunk 10000 hours into D2 I was like "I'm too old for this shit'..... 5 minutes later I bought the Pre-Order :P
I hit 74 on my sorc... now I'm at a standstill because even when I get into game, I'm getting booted 100% of the time within 2 minutes. Wish they'd fix the server issues.
I've had total of 10 crashes to desktop, connection to servers can slow down to 20 years back but if I don't play on rush hours it's okay ish. 70+ on two chars and 30 ish on 3 chars
I'm making this barb and I'm still not even in act 3 Hell and I've already collected SO MUCH FUCKING GOLD just on the playthrough, not to mention legendaries; the champions that I "hork" usually drop 20-30k gold... It's so much fun and hilarious. Thank you so much for this idea hahaha. My girlfriend is playing as summon necro and basically carrying me, the shouts are great for the skeletons and the leap and war cry are great to manipulating the battlefield so her summons can hit the monsters more easily.
Back in the original D2 LOD I named my character General Sixist and named my two 6 socketed swords and filled them with 12 ist runes for my find item barb. My buddy would say it was such a waste every time I pulled them out but I liked them.
ive been saying this since day one. auto gold pickup + gamble button + when we discovered lack of realm down = craziness. It just goes to show you how one tweak can have a ripple effect and break the game. I am definitely planning on making a gold find barb asap to just gamble away
I tried the beta on ps5 and my god it does not play well on console. Not buggy or choppy but the controls especially for inventory are just horrible and tedious. Made me go hunt down a graphics card which I've been holding off on since over a year ago. 3080ti for D2R YOLO
@@SharkWithFreakinLaserBeam I feel you, diablo games are just not meant for console. Good Job grabbing that graphics card, I heard the market is going haywire again due to the shortages. I've been looking at prebuilts with gpus just so I can get some sort of gaming done.
@@cstarkey1989 it was horrible performance sadly. Even with below fcr BPs, teleing a little to quickly would completely dsync you. Which made it unplayable for me. I then switched over to pc and it was flawless and just beautiful.
The Runeword SMOKE is a great budget armor for a Merc (NefLum) rlvl 37 vs 41. Most notably it provides more resistance than Duriels Shell, and has some added defensive bonuses as well. Of course, you can Socket Duriels Shell.
this video is a good example of how very small changes can make a big effect on gameplay. People who want to "rebalance skills" or "personal loot" should take note!
Yea, you can create 1 game per minute, ootherwise if you're too quick it will say something with server issues. But this build should still be viable (especially in the beginning) since a run will probably take over a minute, even with bis.
This actually sounds like a fun build to play around with. Barb may be considered "weak" but personally, slapping things around with a giant two-handed axe feels as fucking GREAT in 2021 as it felt in 2001!
@@sabastianevans2656 That is the fault of the D2 1.10 patch creators. I can't believe it's been decades since they ruined the barb's 2hand weapon prowess, and still haven't fixed it. 2hand weapons need more life steal to work properly for a barb.
After many different tries and combinations my best working setup for merc is : Crown of thieves (best eth) with CHAM if possible (cannot be frozen) ETH Reapers Toll (more LL = better) with SHAEL rune (Attack speed) Fortitude in Archonplate Merc A2 - BLESSED AIM - now he hits almost every time - can clear Travi with this build on Lvl 86 in such speed (depending on affix rolls), that i got ~ 5-10s timeout left to next game
Personally I love using battle cry more. Lowers their defense and damage output. So my mercy clears trav by himself with ease. I gear my mercy up with Guardians Angel (Lem) for the lovely AR and Fire Res bonus, Crown of thieves with a cham, and ebotd war pike. He clears Trav in like 2 minutes and I just chill in the corner.
Obedience and Duress are great budget equips for Trav barb/merc, but they both come with added cold damage which shatters corpses, reducing hork payout. Same with Reaper's Toll. Something is better than nothing, still getting that juicy loot. Just something to keep in mind
I'm playing a frenzy with a might/concentrate merc using death/grief combo ias bug using amp damage (atma's) and it's very effective and fast. Once all clear I use my ali babas (LemLem) on switch to use find item. Very fun build. I did drop a SoJ in travincal this morning with this build.
Nice guide, helped me makeing my first gf barb a few weeks ago, now watching it again i noticed: Infernostride max gold is at 70%, not 80 like mentioned in the video at 7:10
I noticed one issue w/ goldfinding in trav; the whole "enter durance, and exit, to reposition merc" strat... actually effs you up, because of the loading screens. The council members still cast hydras while you're loading, and you end up with so many in the room. So I think you're onto something with that teleport amulet tech.
you can find teleport on a bunch of items, most of my chars have a naj's puzzler right now, as I still can't afford enigma yet, yes it is a little expensive repairing the charges but gold is not something a gold find barb will ever worry about
This build is weirdly fun to play. Relying on Emilio to kill is dicey and slow, yes (i've gotten so many physical immunes...) but there's just something about watching the entire council headbang in unison while Emilio literally 'kills it' :D You have my thanks for this build guide!
This looks fun. I've been wanting to build some kind of highly specialized farmer. What do you level up as and what level should you be before you spec to this build? I've never been that good at playing barb.
This ladder, I found an Ali Baba pretty early on my whirlwind barb, and later found Azurewrath off a terror zone Mephisto. I'm wielding them both at the same time, along with an IK helm I found, a Gheed's, 29% nagel ring, and a couple of mf charms. Goblin toe boots for crushing blow, raven frost ring, 29 res all amulet and Smoke runeword body armor for resists (until I get Chains of Honor), Dracul's grasp for life leech and open wounds, rare belt with faster hit recovery and dual resists (nothing special found for this slot yet). With this gear, I get a good balance of mf/gold find, without sacrificing killing power. The Azurewrath has magic and cold damage on it, so even physical immunes aren't a problem. Only limitations are it's not good for cows or wave 5 of Baal's throne.
I've been theorycrafting this build a bit and i think using a spellsteel unique bearded axe on your switch is an interesting option as it has both decrepify and teleport charges as well as 10 FCR. Sure youll lose some teleport speed and have a slightly lower level battle orders compared to using double hoto for example but in exchange you can use a weapon on your merc that does not have cold damage and it's easier to find a good amulet since it doesn't need teleport charges. Examples for your merc wep could be Eth Hone Sundan with shael and lem runes as the budget option and Breath of the dying as the expensive option.
I also thought about using the double swing skill with 2x rare phaseblades that has 5% chance to cast amp damage and swap back to your GF/MF weapons once it procs. Not sure if double swing and ctc works the way i imagine though. EDIT: Double lacerator and using double throw is interesting too due to having 33% chance to proc amp damage. EDIT2: Gavel of Pain with its amp charges are also worth considering, youre probably gonna need to refresh the charges every run though.
Yup, used to do this 20 years ago. Join a party, buff them up, let them and my merc do the heavy lifting and wait for them to move on to the next screen so I could mop up. Called it the 'Vulture Barb'. 👍
Nice guide. Just one thing to tell for the budget version : you shouldn t put duress to ur mercenary, it s a mistake : it give some cold damage, which mean monster killed have a 20% change to burst in shards... so you cannot longer use "item find" skill on it
for starters i will actually use a gold barb - typical farm "bone ash" (act 1) and "fire eye" (act 2) to get angelic set (with 2 rings) + chance guards + tarnhelm and then i do mephisto for 3 sigon (belt, boots and shield) - hope you can suggest this idea for beginners :) ... it will also serve as support char for my merc and other players in the party - max 1. find item, 2. shout, 3. batlle orders and 4. war cry (your idea, so thx !)
great content man, appreciate the effort you put in and very entertaining. can't see how you won't blow up when more players start playing D again. good shit
Crazy all my years in D2 I never thought of some of these builds! So I was already working on a item find bard when I discovered gf barb, so I did a different take on this. I took 2 Ali Baba's lem'ed them and upgraded them to higher lvl weapons so I can do some damage and I use WW and double swing, also I upgraded my goldwrap and chance guards to higher quality armor, more important for wrap as you can hold more pots but also more armor. Build is great on NM. I do love the idea of being my mercs merc! I think I had that idea at least once back in the day!
Got an amazing Flail last night before I went to bed!!! Don’t recall the name of it atm but I’ll update you when I get home…. I remember it’s Lv 67 and I’m only 35 I think atm…. Got a ways to go before I can equip! It’s got a TON OF traits!!
i think a real good budget setup would also be like. treachery (uses a Lem), obidience and gface on the merc, just for good kill speed duriel's shell is a great choice too or kiras or darksight on the helm. The merc benefits from all of your gold find. So you can just make him kill faster and worry less about putting additional gold find on him. Not sure if you discussed diminishing returns (gf vs mf) but there's a nice graph for that. I would add that if you're interested in finding good runeword bases you might not want MF at all.
I'm using Andariel with Real, Treachery and Obedience in eth. Thresher. Obedience needs to be at least 23all Res so Merc has 75% Res fire. If council cast spam hydra on him I just jump into it and soak it. Easy runs
Omg Coooley .. i just finished my hybrid gold & mf barb and found my first SoJ ever ... "The key to find the best items in game is to lower your expectations" Thank you for making me this Build !!!
I didn't know the items stayed in the gambling window after you buy them. That's amazing, someone is gonna actually gamble Tyrael's Might. I wanna see that stream.
Just wanna say I got an eth 235% 14% reaper. Using ik Helm and gloves. Everything is to the t of this video. Without Lem in babas and not a full inventory I'm at 550 MF and 1500 GF without my merc so like 650/ 1800 with. Finding about 700k at most and random sub 100k but average 500k. Thanks for this! I don't warcry like at all. Just leap and it's amazing. Have warcry for the ability to stun Phys immune and lose aggro.
Do you have any issues with your merc dieing? I have 1600 def prudence. White cryptic axe obedience and a ML LL RES coronet and my merc is still dying during my leaps. I'm only level 82, did you have any issues at this level?
@@jaredekle2562 learning some interaction with the council helped more than anything. He rarely dies. What I've learned is Tele in the building even if they are outside. You can push most to the outside wall reducing incoming dmg. I use wisp and dwarf bc I tend to take alot of dmg from light enchant even with Max light res. If I see conviction I usually leave unless I can Tele stomp it. But no. If he dies I treat it like me dying and save and exit. If he dies its bc I didn't notice a wicked combo on the mobs that slapped him in 1 shot. If he dies I go grab a quick stack of 50k from one he already killed and buy him back.
@@PerfektStrike thanks for the reply. Im to lvl 88 and put a kiras guardian 70 res and switched to an eth thresher obedience. Still seems to die a bit but I think it might be the stacked auras in some games like you described
Damn bro. I wish I knew about this way back in the day. I gotta thank you man. On my SECOND run, I found WAR TRAVS. I couldn't believe it lol! I'm using a different set up because I don't have all the gear that you have, but 1111% GF and 554% MF is good enough for me. I'm more of an MF barb so I decided to use war travs and shako.
Very nice, im a huge fan of GF baba, but i just rather go with a hybrid singer, enigma, 2xHOTO+ arach + fcr rare ammy for 105fcr BP to weaken council, for the finishing blows on swap BeastZ + Rune Master full of Lems for the CBF and just make Chalan a complete beast with the fanaticism aura boost.
@@nodamnclan im not sure the age makes it any less atypical. Its not really a play style you think of when thinking about a barbarian going out to slay droves of demons in an arpg.
Been playing this a day or 2, and found metalgrid is the perfect amulet for the build. you are dropping items left and right and you can make an iron golem for an extra body of protection, I use naj staff on switch for tele
Cool video. My first char always a sorc with orb and meteor or firewall. Meteor. Works very well for d key runs and with very little gear on your merc. Can rush hell as well. It's been the most legit efficient first hero I've ever made
This build is hella fun and i make about 700k in 2 to 3 runs in NM travs. I have also found 2 tal ammy in less than 10 runs. By far my favorite character so far!! Once I get my eth reapers toll, I will do hell travs for high runes and such.
Natural res should be set to where you get 63 all res with BC. You only gain 4 more all res for like 11 more skill points. Don’t remember the exact numbers. Been a while.
I hope you read this comment man. As you know d2r is coming out soon. Have videos lined up man, make sure to have a timeline. You are a really nice guy and your videos are amazing, take advantage of the opportunity, you have what it takes to be really famous. Good luck friend!!
Yep, I get all useful skills only to 19 - not because I'm out of skill points but because the last point doesnt give me anything at all or I dont want to be op Kappa Good video as always!
Good video. I'm imagining a group of players dumping gold on the ground for 1 person to spam rings. 2.5million per stash tab, 10million dump. Each Travincal run is roughly about 600k-800k. 60 seconds runs. It's just a matter of time finding something good.
Can't wait to spam gamble lol. It's like the only way in this game to reliably target specific items, and the auto gold pickup and not needing to refresh gamble inventory is enough to give it a slight QOL improvement to get me pumped!
Imagine just one person sitting in a game gambling while another person continually runs Travincal in other games. Once they fill their stashes they return to the first game to dump the gold. Rinse repeat. You can farm gold almost as fast as you can spend it with proper gold find builds. So between 2 people you could theoretically sit and gamble items infinitely. Definitely an interesting thought...
travincal frenzy barb is also hella fun for rune finding against the council. It takes 2nd place after LK farming, which unfortunately is not practical on B-Net because of random maps.
Young barbarian: - Wise grandpa! What made us so wealthy? Old barbarian: - Did you hear about the runeword? Young barbarian: - What runeword? Old barbarian: - LemLemLemLemLemLem...
nice build, however the cheap version has a lot of flaws, ive tried obedience myself, merc has been continuously shattering corpses thus being unable to use find item on them, significantly slowing down gold gains. In my opinion the best combo on merc is eth breath of the dying war pike, as it gives massive damage and has a weapon range of 5 also combined with fortitude, which gives merc survivability and boosts damage even further. Although fortitude sometimes freezes the enemies and you can still see shattering now and then, the rate if fairly insignificant to your gains.
I don't know if somebody have mentioned this already: Obedience and Duress are actually bad on any GF/MF Barb because of the Cold Damage (shatters corpses). At 9:41 you can clearly see that.
Yes. It has been mentioned. Cold damage is not ideal on a GF build, but many people over-estimate the effect that it has. It doesn't always shatter corpses and rarely ever ruins runs.
I made a similar Barbarian just for MF, Gold, and Act 1 and 2 key runs maybe 1-2 months ago Didn't go with Leap because I thought the stun from War Cry would be enough, so I poured a lot of my points into shout; Howl also helps to scare away minions on monster groups where I just want to kill the boss and hork their body He's got around 453 MF and max resist through Hell, and I usually just swap over 1 Wizardspike for an Ist'd/Lem'd Ali Baba on switch to keep max res at Trav 2x wizardspike topaz'd shako enigma 16 fcr amulet chance guards arachnid mesh sandstorm trek 2x soj SWAP 2x ali baba (2x lem, 2x ist) Merc: Eth Andariel's Visage Eth Fortitude Eth Insight
Love the Barb because of the tanky smash and go feel I walk through packs so quick its mind blowing def my favorite character to play as love the video thanks for the advice.
Why no "Cannot be frozen" on the merc? Is it because it does not matter against nm trav or hell trav? I loved my gf barb too a couple years ago, I intend to make one in D2R as welll.
3:41 - as a long time Frenzy barb, one small correction: Find Item doesn't give you, say 55%, chance to find an item. It gives a chance to treat a monster as if you killed it again. So if there are 11 council members and you have 55% hork, it will count as you would have killed 17.05 council members. Because there is a chance, that your hork will work (i.e: monster will be treated as killed), but you will roll NoDrop in which case nothing will drop, but that doesn't mean Find Item didn't work. And watch out for having cold dmg on you (like Raven Frost or even Reaper's Toll), because you will shatter the corpses and thus reduce your horking efficiency. Ideally, don't forget about having some FCR (Heart of the Oaks on switch, if you can afford them). Also, farming Trav online won't be as efficient as on single player, because a proper council positioning is the key, if they are scattered all around, it will make your runs really long. And also the best farming setting is p3, which cannot be used online, so you will lose some value. Did a lot of calcs and completed 3500 Trav runs :)
//edit: Actually as per the latest data that I found + as per my test - Find Item either works on p7 or ignores NoDrop at all, which doesn't make a difference in Trav, because the Council members reach NoDrop=0 at p7, so horking is actually even more efficient :)
> Find Item ... ignores NoDrop at all
Yep, at least in Legacy.
Immortal King: if corpse break, corpse break. *in terrible Russian accent* (the immortal king is russian now, deal with it)
Would love to see more budget starter build guides for D2R and then how to progress the same builds into endgame. Would love to hear your thoughts on starter MF and PvP builds. Thanks again brotha!
Tbh this barb build is can also be budget friendly, you just have to swap out some gear and farm NM Trav/Pindle till you have plenty of MF
Barb ends up paying for itself
Start off with a druid, 5 to bird first, then add to wolves, then start adding to fire skills. Focus on fissure and the first fire skill. After you hit the mid 20s reset skillpoints, focusing 100% on fire, the first fire skill and fissure easy to farm early on.
Cooley literally covered these couple videos back, how many times should things be repeated? wtf
@@HuggarnWoW as long as they keep getting views. I don’t want the content creators I enjoy to never make a video that may have some overlap. Coooley could literally release “starter, budget, D2R launch, ladder reset, etc etc build guides” and I watch every one multiple times and probably still learn new things and even if I’d don’t learn a thing I’d still love every minute of it.
When I saw this and realised I'm now 54 years old and have already sunk 10000 hours into D2 I was like "I'm too old for this shit'.....
5 minutes later I bought the Pre-Order :P
i just hit 50 GG
Yup closing on 50 and re-loving D2.
Hell yeah man. Never too old to game!
I hit 74 on my sorc... now I'm at a standstill because even when I get into game, I'm getting booted 100% of the time within 2 minutes. Wish they'd fix the server issues.
I've had total of 10 crashes to desktop, connection to servers can slow down to 20 years back but if I don't play on rush hours it's okay ish. 70+ on two chars and 30 ish on 3 chars
I'm making this barb and I'm still not even in act 3 Hell and I've already collected SO MUCH FUCKING GOLD just on the playthrough, not to mention legendaries; the champions that I "hork" usually drop 20-30k gold... It's so much fun and hilarious. Thank you so much for this idea hahaha. My girlfriend is playing as summon necro and basically carrying me, the shouts are great for the skeletons and the leap and war cry are great to manipulating the battlefield so her summons can hit the monsters more easily.
Less than 2 weeks to launch but my god it feels like torture. :D
hehehe
dude iv'e been waiting for this game ofr months, i know the feeling.. i dont even want to play anything else for until it comes out D:
@@dylanbrown92 man thats why tf im sitting here freakin waiting. watching random d2 shit. nothing appeals to me rn
@@dylanbrown92 not dude call me mom if no stfup
just over 3 days left now..!
PSA: they quietly added find potion as a synergy for find item- %1 per lvl. makes it more efficient than find item after ten hardpoints.
so put 10 into find item then pump find potion?
it is amazing how educated you're about this game! you explain it really really well lol
Thank you!!
This right here, this is how Treasure Goblins are born...
Wonder if they will add them.... i wouldnt complain lol
blizz too scared to fuck up the one thing they're doing right. would be cool but won't happen lol
I can't fucking wait to play. This is going to consume me like it did back in 2001. 🤘❤
D2 best game of all time. 🤩
sameee i took 2 weeks off for this
Siiick, i cant wait to create every single character and build depending on what i find early and for whom.
Fun times ahead!
ONE MORE WEEK BROTHERS
ave
Back in the original D2 LOD I named my character General Sixist and named my two 6 socketed swords and filled them with 12 ist runes for my find item barb. My buddy would say it was such a waste every time I pulled them out but I liked them.
Emilio here. Thanks for reversing the roles and making me the hero this time. Cheers
Lmao
Was so excited to wake up and see a nee video. Great work bro. Can’t wait for more D2R content!
ive been saying this since day one. auto gold pickup + gamble button + when we discovered lack of realm down = craziness. It just goes to show you how one tweak can have a ripple effect and break the game. I am definitely planning on making a gold find barb asap to just gamble away
Break is a big word, you will still need farm this for hundred hours lol.
Lmao this will not break the game. That’s quite a stretch
buying this for ps4 until I can rejoin the greats on pc. hope everyone has a fantastic launch on release.
I tried the beta on ps5 and my god it does not play well on console. Not buggy or choppy but the controls especially for inventory are just horrible and tedious. Made me go hunt down a graphics card which I've been holding off on since over a year ago. 3080ti for D2R YOLO
@@SharkWithFreakinLaserBeam I feel you, diablo games are just not meant for console. Good Job grabbing that graphics card, I heard the market is going haywire again due to the shortages. I've been looking at prebuilts with gpus just so I can get some sort of gaming done.
@@SharkWithFreakinLaserBeam you cannot play d2r on console, just try teleporting, at least on ps4.
@@bleezy2160 I have a ps4 pro, I didn't try to teleport on the beta but I hope they bring out patches to help with the frames
@@cstarkey1989 it was horrible performance sadly. Even with below fcr BPs, teleing a little to quickly would completely dsync you. Which made it unplayable for me. I then switched over to pc and it was flawless and just beautiful.
The Runeword SMOKE is a great budget armor for a Merc (NefLum) rlvl 37 vs 41. Most notably it provides more resistance than Duriels Shell, and has some added defensive bonuses as well. Of course, you can Socket Duriels Shell.
Still Relevant. Thanks Coooley, oh how you've grown.
''...quite possibly the best runeword for any gold find character right here: LemLemLemLemLemLem''
lol dont know why this had me laughing in tears.
hahaha! Glad you find my dumb sense of humor funny :P
Motörhead- lem lem lem lem lem lem 😂
@@Coooley not dumb at all! And that is quite a tongue twister, I can't even say that as fast as you can
thank you, i was looking at some other gold find guides and most of them seemed pretty bad. this is exactly what i was looking for, good job
this video is a good example of how very small changes can make a big effect on gameplay. People who want to "rebalance skills" or "personal loot" should take note!
Exactly! These changes will break a lot of the game honestly.
Might break or might improve.
Ok bro we get it but the majority of people playing are solo. So it's only gonna affect Chad.
@@Zombgetsu I agree bro. Just saying. Hope the controller will allow you to finally play D2. 🤙
Personal loot is shit, but they should make the skills viable, that were useless because of a bug. 🤷🏻♂️
That didnt age well... So much for instant farming. D2R still gives a realm down message when you exit a game to quickly. Great job blizzard!
Was just going to say hah!
Yea, you can create 1 game per minute, ootherwise if you're too quick it will say something with server issues.
But this build should still be viable (especially in the beginning) since a run will probably take over a minute, even with bis.
Also it’s not 95 for gambling to get all the rolls, it’s 93
Game finally works for ladder LOL.
Another QOL is just the ability to automatically pickup gold. You add that in w/ gambling - and this is a truly viable/high-value build
There used to be programs for autopick. Glad they just added it in
Consoles have auto gold pickup already.
This actually sounds like a fun build to play around with. Barb may be considered "weak" but personally, slapping things around with a giant two-handed axe feels as fucking GREAT in 2021 as it felt in 2001!
Meh 2 handed items are merc food 9 times out of ten.
@@sabastianevans2656 ebotd tho
@@sabastianevans2656 That is the fault of the D2 1.10 patch creators. I can't believe it's been decades since they ruined the barb's 2hand weapon prowess, and still haven't fixed it. 2hand weapons need more life steal to work properly for a barb.
@@greg2730 yeah that's why I quit D2 originally.... the massive nerf killed my WW barb.
I think the most interesting thing about this video is him pronouncing “Travincal” I always pronounced it differently lol. Good stuff!
After many different tries and combinations my best working setup for merc is :
Crown of thieves (best eth) with CHAM if possible (cannot be frozen)
ETH Reapers Toll (more LL = better) with SHAEL rune (Attack speed)
Fortitude in Archonplate
Merc A2 - BLESSED AIM - now he hits almost every time - can clear Travi with this build on Lvl 86 in such speed (depending on affix rolls), that i got ~ 5-10s timeout left to next game
i'm wondering this Reapers Toll - got cold dmg so possible there will be no body for hork which is important too
@@SebastianELech sure, Sometimes a corpse Pops, but kill Speed is Overall more important than a Body more or less,i guess😋
Personally I love using battle cry more. Lowers their defense and damage output. So my mercy clears trav by himself with ease. I gear my mercy up with Guardians Angel (Lem) for the lovely AR and Fire Res bonus, Crown of thieves with a cham, and ebotd war pike. He clears Trav in like 2 minutes and I just chill in the corner.
Quality content man keep it up. Your videos have given me much appreciation of the depth of D2 that I never got into when I was younger.
this is the best Gold Find Barb build iv seen around. dont miss the 'secret spice'. amazing content yo. i want more please
Thanks bro. Can't freaking wait for D2R.
Drooling about all the characters I'll make. :D
And everyone starts from ground zero too!! No hackers or dupers!
@@audieherron5474 as we can only hope.
throw barb ftw 🤨
I have my Merc setup with duress, COT, and Obedience. He gets completely f*&^*% by hell trav even with me jumping and shouting...
yeah 1500 def prudence, obedience and a nice 7 LL ML helm and my merc gets fucking destroyed while leaping/warcry....dunno what im missing here
same here...
Obedience and Duress are great budget equips for Trav barb/merc, but they both come with added cold damage which shatters corpses, reducing hork payout. Same with Reaper's Toll. Something is better than nothing, still getting that juicy loot. Just something to keep in mind
facts. give that merc a treachery !! super cheap, fade proc for resists + pdr, venom proc, 45ias 20fhr and 50% gold find!
I'm playing a frenzy with a might/concentrate merc using death/grief combo ias bug using amp damage (atma's) and it's very effective and fast. Once all clear I use my ali babas (LemLem) on switch to use find item. Very fun build. I did drop a SoJ in travincal this morning with this build.
No way!? I was hoping for a drop like that in Trav! Got that one good run though haha
A quick suggestion: I think the background music during the intro section is a bit too loud.
Good video thanks for sharing. Can’t wait for next week!
Thanks for the feedback! I'll keep an eye on this. Curious: What type of speakers were you listening on? Laptop? TV?
Thanks again!
@@Coooley TH-cam App on iOS, sitting on the toilet. Oops, sorry that’s too much information 😂
Dude that sorc, druid, barb intro is sick. Ggwp editing
Emilio: support mercenary
Razan: M A I N C H A R A C T E R
Everyone forgets about WAHEED
Nice guide, helped me makeing my first gf barb a few weeks ago, now watching it again i noticed:
Infernostride max gold is at 70%, not 80 like mentioned in the video at 7:10
I noticed one issue w/ goldfinding in trav; the whole "enter durance, and exit, to reposition merc" strat... actually effs you up, because of the loading screens. The council members still cast hydras while you're loading, and you end up with so many in the room. So I think you're onto something with that teleport amulet tech.
you can find teleport on a bunch of items, most of my chars have a naj's puzzler right now, as I still can't afford enigma yet, yes it is a little expensive repairing the charges but gold is not something a gold find barb will ever worry about
This build is weirdly fun to play.
Relying on Emilio to kill is dicey and slow, yes (i've gotten so many physical immunes...) but there's just something about watching the entire council headbang in unison while Emilio literally 'kills it' :D
You have my thanks for this build guide!
Ok, I lost it at the Goal Find Barbarian. Subbed
This looks fun. I've been wanting to build some kind of highly specialized farmer. What do you level up as and what level should you be before you spec to this build? I've never been that good at playing barb.
This ladder, I found an Ali Baba pretty early on my whirlwind barb, and later found Azurewrath off a terror zone Mephisto. I'm wielding them both at the same time, along with an IK helm I found, a Gheed's, 29% nagel ring, and a couple of mf charms. Goblin toe boots for crushing blow, raven frost ring, 29 res all amulet and Smoke runeword body armor for resists (until I get Chains of Honor), Dracul's grasp for life leech and open wounds, rare belt with faster hit recovery and dual resists (nothing special found for this slot yet). With this gear, I get a good balance of mf/gold find, without sacrificing killing power. The Azurewrath has magic and cold damage on it, so even physical immunes aren't a problem. Only limitations are it's not good for cows or wave 5 of Baal's throne.
I've been theorycrafting this build a bit and i think using a spellsteel unique bearded axe on your switch is an interesting option as it has both decrepify and teleport charges as well as 10 FCR.
Sure youll lose some teleport speed and have a slightly lower level battle orders compared to using double hoto for example but in exchange you can use a weapon on your merc that does not have cold damage and it's easier to find a good amulet since it doesn't need teleport charges. Examples for your merc wep could be Eth Hone Sundan with shael and lem runes as the budget option and Breath of the dying as the expensive option.
I also thought about using the double swing skill with 2x rare phaseblades that has 5% chance to cast amp damage and swap back to your GF/MF weapons once it procs. Not sure if double swing and ctc works the way i imagine though.
EDIT: Double lacerator and using double throw is interesting too due to having 33% chance to proc amp damage.
EDIT2: Gavel of Pain with its amp charges are also worth considering, youre probably gonna need to refresh the charges every run though.
Yup, used to do this 20 years ago. Join a party, buff them up, let them and my merc do the heavy lifting and wait for them to move on to the next screen so I could mop up. Called it the 'Vulture Barb'. 👍
Nice guide. Just one thing to tell for the budget version : you shouldn t put duress to ur mercenary, it s a mistake : it give some cold damage, which mean monster killed have a 20% change to burst in shards... so you cannot longer use "item find" skill on it
Also obedience
Obedince and reapers toll have cold as well. Bit unavoidable
for starters i will actually use a gold barb - typical farm "bone ash" (act 1) and "fire eye" (act 2) to get angelic set (with 2 rings) + chance guards + tarnhelm and then i do mephisto for 3 sigon (belt, boots and shield) - hope you can suggest this idea for beginners :) ... it will also serve as support char for my merc and other players in the party - max 1. find item, 2. shout, 3. batlle orders and 4. war cry (your idea, so thx !)
great content man, appreciate the effort you put in and very entertaining. can't see how you won't blow up when more players start playing D again. good shit
Crazy all my years in D2 I never thought of some of these builds! So I was already working on a item find bard when I discovered gf barb, so I did a different take on this. I took 2 Ali Baba's lem'ed them and upgraded them to higher lvl weapons so I can do some damage and I use WW and double swing, also I upgraded my goldwrap and chance guards to higher quality armor, more important for wrap as you can hold more pots but also more armor. Build is great on NM. I do love the idea of being my mercs merc! I think I had that idea at least once back in the day!
Ok so I didnt make it to the end about ali baba b4 I commented. But yeah, upgrade them and the armors
Got an amazing Flail last night before I went to bed!!! Don’t recall the name of it atm but I’ll update you when I get home…. I remember it’s Lv 67 and I’m only 35 I think atm…. Got a ways to go before I can equip! It’s got a TON OF traits!!
i think a real good budget setup would also be like. treachery (uses a Lem), obidience and gface on the merc, just for good kill speed duriel's shell is a great choice too or kiras or darksight on the helm. The merc benefits from all of your gold find. So you can just make him kill faster and worry less about putting additional gold find on him. Not sure if you discussed diminishing returns (gf vs mf) but there's a nice graph for that. I would add that if you're interested in finding good runeword bases you might not want MF at all.
I'm using Andariel with Real, Treachery and Obedience in eth. Thresher. Obedience needs to be at least 23all Res so Merc has 75% Res fire. If council cast spam hydra on him I just jump into it and soak it. Easy runs
Omg Coooley .. i just finished my hybrid gold & mf barb and found my first SoJ ever ... "The key to find the best items in game is to lower your expectations" Thank you for making me this Build !!!
lmfao the belt on the last barb is insane
I didn't know the items stayed in the gambling window after you buy them. That's amazing, someone is gonna actually gamble Tyrael's Might. I wanna see that stream.
Its a game changer.
The quality of the content is really great.
So many different and cool builds in D2 . Great video! I cant wait 2 more weeks!
Just wanna say I got an eth 235% 14% reaper. Using ik Helm and gloves. Everything is to the t of this video. Without Lem in babas and not a full inventory I'm at 550 MF and 1500 GF without my merc so like 650/ 1800 with. Finding about 700k at most and random sub 100k but average 500k. Thanks for this! I don't warcry like at all. Just leap and it's amazing. Have warcry for the ability to stun Phys immune and lose aggro.
Do you have any issues with your merc dieing? I have 1600 def prudence. White cryptic axe obedience and a ML LL RES coronet and my merc is still dying during my leaps. I'm only level 82, did you have any issues at this level?
@@jaredekle2562 learning some interaction with the council helped more than anything. He rarely dies. What I've learned is Tele in the building even if they are outside. You can push most to the outside wall reducing incoming dmg. I use wisp and dwarf bc I tend to take alot of dmg from light enchant even with Max light res. If I see conviction I usually leave unless I can Tele stomp it. But no. If he dies I treat it like me dying and save and exit. If he dies its bc I didn't notice a wicked combo on the mobs that slapped him in 1 shot. If he dies I go grab a quick stack of 50k from one he already killed and buy him back.
@@jaredekle2562 also I swapped to an eth CV obedience and it works great. Like 970 dmg. Decrep is missed but he still survives without extra LL
@@PerfektStrike thanks for the reply. Im to lvl 88 and put a kiras guardian 70 res and switched to an eth thresher obedience. Still seems to die a bit but I think it might be the stacked auras in some games like you described
Damn bro. I wish I knew about this way back in the day. I gotta thank you man. On my SECOND run, I found WAR TRAVS. I couldn't believe it lol! I'm using a different set up because I don't have all the gear that you have, but 1111% GF and 554% MF is good enough for me. I'm more of an MF barb so I decided to use war travs and shako.
GG ...once again the man pulls out a stunner (Pun intended - Dad joke 3 ) to clean up the Council. Bring on the release of D2R.. Cheers Coooley
"Emilio is now the hero"
Guess he's the chicken, he is nowhere to be found. Good thing Razan is around to save you.
build doesnt work on low budget...merc dies instantly with max fire resist
Maaan thank you! That Budget Barb will still be hella good! Excited to try him out
Very nice, im a huge fan of GF baba, but i just rather go with a hybrid singer, enigma, 2xHOTO+ arach + fcr rare ammy for 105fcr BP to weaken council, for the finishing blows on swap BeastZ + Rune Master full of Lems for the CBF and just make Chalan a complete beast with the fanaticism aura boost.
Sounds fun! I used to build my GF barbs to be singers, as well. The damage can help make the runs faster, if that's your thing :D
I actually changed the plus 3 to warcry weapons for the gavel of pain, and the runs can go much faster overall....
I really love your unorthodox builds, Cooley. Always excited to see what you put out.
unorthodox? build is over 15 years old lol
@@nodamnclan im not sure the age makes it any less atypical. Its not really a play style you think of when thinking about a barbarian going out to slay droves of demons in an arpg.
Been playing this a day or 2, and found metalgrid is the perfect amulet for the build. you are dropping items left and right and you can make an iron golem for an extra body of protection, I use naj staff on switch for tele
What does your merc look like for some reason I cannot clear at all
@@1drew4 Duriels shell, crown of theives and reapers toll. Using shouts fpr support, and naj staff to get him out of danger with tele charges
Cool video. My first char always a sorc with orb and meteor or firewall. Meteor. Works very well for d key runs and with very little gear on your merc. Can rush hell as well. It's been the most legit efficient first hero I've ever made
This build is hella fun and i make about 700k in 2 to 3 runs in NM travs. I have also found 2 tal ammy in less than 10 runs. By far my favorite character so far!! Once I get my eth reapers toll, I will do hell travs for high runes and such.
@Don Brasco Yes it does. It happens often but typically if i want to farm gold, I just do NM but everything else i farm in hell.
Given all the hysteria prior to release about gold finding and gambling breaking D2R, I think it has turned out pretty well in the end. :)
Natural res should be set to where you get 63 all res with BC. You only gain 4 more all res for like 11 more skill points.
Don’t remember the exact numbers. Been a while.
Yeah it's diminishing returns. Not many other "good" places to put em though :-/
@@Coooley, maybe beef up stun damage on WC or effect radius of Leap?
Idk. Barb is my fave char. I just like seeing him being used.
Love the vids, bro.
@@Coooley I feel like using a Grief on the main w/Berserk and massively increasing the kill speed is likely better
I hope you read this comment man.
As you know d2r is coming out soon. Have videos lined up man, make sure to have a timeline. You are a really nice guy and your videos are amazing, take advantage of the opportunity, you have what it takes to be really famous. Good luck friend!!
I imagine this will make 2/20 circlets a LOT cheaper than usual. Being able to spam buy them saves a lot of time. Theyre gonna be everywhere.
Who does your editing / thumbnails? Is it all you? Really loving the thumbnails you have been cranking out, mad props
I joked to my buddy about the alibaba's but I'm about halfway there to make this build myself
those life tap charges are sick on that knife. :D I should definitely use them for bigger survivability for the merc or myself
I build up a pindlezerker, but the crap servers pretty much crossed my plans on hardfarm pindle with it.
Thank you for keeping the passion alive for this exceptional game! Can't wait to try this build for myself
Yep, I get all useful skills only to 19 - not because I'm out of skill points but because the last point doesnt give me anything at all or I dont want to be op Kappa Good video as always!
Good video. I'm imagining a group of players dumping gold on the ground for 1 person to spam rings. 2.5million per stash tab, 10million dump. Each Travincal run is roughly about 600k-800k. 60 seconds runs. It's just a matter of time finding something good.
Can't wait to spam gamble lol. It's like the only way in this game to reliably target specific items, and the auto gold pickup and not needing to refresh gamble inventory is enough to give it a slight QOL improvement to get me pumped!
Imagine just one person sitting in a game gambling while another person continually runs Travincal in other games. Once they fill their stashes they return to the first game to dump the gold. Rinse repeat. You can farm gold almost as fast as you can spend it with proper gold find builds. So between 2 people you could theoretically sit and gamble items infinitely. Definitely an interesting thought...
@@Mike-om4tv how do you gamble in D2? i always used MF
@@num2007 Each act has a gambler, most famous being Gheed in Act 1
@@kevinmacdonald9269 i meant, how do you get good items from gamble? i never saw a unique item in gamble
Reaper's Toll doesn't seem to be a good merc weapon in this case, as the cold damage will shatter the corpse and you won't be able to hork it ??
This guy sounds like Louis C.K. I love it! great video mate!
I would love a video on gambling tips and items to look for?
Damn, you're making me want to play the only class i didn't have fun on, back in the day. Thank you!
travincal frenzy barb is also hella fun for rune finding against the council. It takes 2nd place after LK farming, which unfortunately is not practical on B-Net because of random maps.
Barb was my favorite char and I'm playing a sorc and snoozing. Can't wait to make a Barb after I have the gear for him. 😅
Coooley, you are the only D2 utuber that i subbed.
that 2/30/20 necromancer circlet SHEEH
Young barbarian: - Wise grandpa! What made us so wealthy?
Old barbarian: - Did you hear about the runeword?
Young barbarian: - What runeword?
Old barbarian: - LemLemLemLemLemLem...
Rly liked this video thx cooley for the great content!
Please update for a GF singer and an act 5 frenzy merc
I smell this could be even better with 2 Ali Baba's on the merc
use the merc with might aura if they are frozen they shatter and don't leave a corpse behind also might gives damage
nice build, however the cheap version has a lot of flaws, ive tried obedience myself, merc has been continuously shattering corpses thus being unable to use find item on them, significantly slowing down gold gains. In my opinion the best combo on merc is eth breath of the dying war pike, as it gives massive damage and has a weapon range of 5 also combined with fortitude, which gives merc survivability and boosts damage even further. Although fortitude sometimes freezes the enemies and you can still see shattering now and then, the rate if fairly insignificant to your gains.
I don't know if somebody have mentioned this already: Obedience and Duress are actually bad on any GF/MF Barb because of the Cold Damage (shatters corpses). At 9:41 you can clearly see that.
Yes. It has been mentioned. Cold damage is not ideal on a GF build, but many people over-estimate the effect that it has. It doesn't always shatter corpses and rarely ever ruins runs.
@@Coooley I see, thanks for answering!
14:02 - yes I do. Same with 7mf small charms and Ists runes instead of Lems
Would be cool to see a video on items to make sure you identify / don't leave on the ground (if you haven't done this already)
I made a similar Barbarian just for MF, Gold, and Act 1 and 2 key runs maybe 1-2 months ago
Didn't go with Leap because I thought the stun from War Cry would be enough, so I poured a lot of my points into shout; Howl also helps to scare away minions on monster groups where I just want to kill the boss and hork their body
He's got around 453 MF and max resist through Hell, and I usually just swap over 1 Wizardspike for an Ist'd/Lem'd Ali Baba on switch to keep max res at Trav
2x wizardspike
topaz'd shako
enigma
16 fcr amulet
chance guards
arachnid mesh
sandstorm trek
2x soj
SWAP 2x ali baba (2x lem, 2x ist)
Merc:
Eth Andariel's Visage
Eth Fortitude
Eth Insight
Coooley we need Smiter guide before launch!
I love this build I am at 400% mf and 1500 gf atm love it TY cooley You rock!
Love the Barb because of the tanky smash and go feel I walk through packs so quick its mind blowing def my favorite character to play as love the video thanks for the advice.
Why no "Cannot be frozen" on the merc? Is it because it does not matter against nm trav or hell trav? I loved my gf barb too a couple years ago, I intend to make one in D2R as welll.
Not a bad idea but not usually a big problem!
I seen this feature and got nice items, ty for optimizing it for end game pvp
insane knowledge to go public
that gambling update is important imo, would realllly like it for Diablo 1 HD as well.
make sure to up your goldwrap belt to get it 4 slots
May also require a lot more strength! But that's okay on the budget build
'lemlemlemlemlemlemlem' killed me :P