*Enigma is an option for repositioning a merc but it is slightly less damage than Fort so it didn't really fit for max damage* Discord: discord.gg/xy3EynP Twitch: www.twitch.tv/dbrunski125 Twitter: twitter.com/dbrunski125 Check out maxroll.gg/ for Diablo 2 Resurrected and Diablo 3 guides!!! Time Stamps 00:00 Introduction 00:54 Build Pros 02:11 Build Cons 03:41 How to Execute the Weapon Swing Bug 06:46 Attributes 08:11 Combat Masteries 08:36 Combat Skills 09:21 Warcries 09:59 Barb Gear 12:57 Merc Gear 13:52 Chaos Sanctaury Run 19:07 Pit Run 21:22 Conclusion
Hey dbrunski, have you tried "Grief"-Phaseblade + "Death"-Ettin (20 Axe-Mastery + 1 Sword-Mastery) ? Should be the best Setup for the Frenzy-Barb considering raw damage and you don't need the AR-Boost from Sword-Mastery because "Grief" has ITD.
@@thefiddleronthegreen2343 Ettin axe has only 1.5average dmg more than colossus sword and u lose a lot more dmg from weapon mastery plus u lose ar and cs. Mixed weapons for barb is definitely not good idea.
HEY Dbrunski125 - I AM FROM NEW ZEALAND. IV BEEN PLAYING HARDCORE DIABLO 2 FOR 15 YEARS ON U.S WEST/U.S EAST SERVER'S. I WOULD REALY LOVE TO PLAY WITH YOU AND TEAM UP WHEN DIABLO 4 START'S . I PLAN TO RUSH THREW GAME QUICKLY WITH A NORMAL CHARACTER FOLLOW BY MY HARD CORE CHAR'S . I WILL RUN X3 P.C WITH X3 COPY'S OF DIABLO 4 . BRING THE BO'ER BARBS, OAK DRUID'S ETC AT THE SAME TIME . . I M.F RUN HARD .WOULD YOU BE KEEN TO GET IN CONTACT OUTSIDE OF YOTUBE TO TALK? ~~ THANKS JOSHIE
OMG, Dbrunski!!! I watched so many videos trying to explain that bug and never manage to get it working. I have a perfect 385 ED Death in eth CS and Grief and always the attack speed was way to slow. I did the bug now and I am blazing through the mobs
back in the day ran this with Beast and Last Wish, I'm going to start Resurrected with this one. Just don't want to Sorc Meta and need something to do Clone and Ubers
15:10 that's why you use an act 1 merc with Brand bow. She'll lower everyone's defense with insight and cast amp damage on a large scale even from far away. You can double your damage before Death and deadly strike even proc. Plus, you have critical chance from the mastery. Also, go into frenzy mode then whirlwind. Frenzy for bosses and single targets, WW for crowds. Or enigma. Enigma with a brand bow merc would make you run faster, do more damage, and position better. Though act 2 decrep does slow enemies, adds 50% damage and weakens enemies so it's a hard choice.
The problem with attacks like frenzy and Zeal is that they spread their damaged out between all the monsters around them instead of stacking all the hits on the one monster and moving to the next so it ends up feeling like it clears slower.
i like pride more on the hench. you can see once he switch he went from 2 shotting the mobs to 1 shotting them. this is a big time reduction. you can go with a switch of grief/last wish and grief/death. Use last wish till tap procs then switch over to death
Great vid as usual! As your Merc is too far away to get in the action, would it be worth having an act1 Merc with faith? Would the fanaticism dmg boost be greater than might?
if u wanna know dmg wise pride and might together owns fana... if u want more IAS u could use faith but u prolly wont cause u get breakpoints during frenzy pretty easily
awesome to see a frenzy barb video, just wanna add a couple things its cool that you got the c.blade instead of the c.sword for style points but if i understood the weapon bug switch correctly, bugging with the colossus sword will be a bit more effective cause the base atk speed of the blade is 5 vs 10 on the c.sword, and a phase blade is -30, and you want this atk speed difference to be higher for the bug, a very slow weapon combined with the phase blade would be ideal id also like to see more comparison between the weapon setups, dual grief, grief+last wish, grief+beast vs the grief+death and some uber/dclone farming of course, thats the place for a frenzy baba, no point in farming pits imo, that place belongs to the pit zerker 17:35 200hp "took a lil bit of damage there.." lool that would be soo scary on hardcore, i would go at least 3k hp before adding more str even for softcore, but i think you forgot b.o. there to be fair
Its very marginal the difference of collosus blade death / grief combo vs collosus sword death / grief combo. Slightly faster but your right the it would be faster.
I actually recently made a perfect 385% non sup Eth Death CB. I got it on my first roll too, I couldn't believe it. I was so hyped, I was like YES, YES, YESSSSSS lol. Great videos man, I really enjoy your content. I'm actually about to make a Frenzy Barb and put that CB to use!
do you have a video explaining mechanics? like why does grief work with smite and not kick assassin. if a sorceress fire enchant a javazon does the added dmg apply to each of the projectile on charged strike? Does enchant work with smite? kick? What is the formula for absorb. Im sure there a plenty out there that wants to know all the mechanics
Kick assassin damage is based on the boot modifiers. It explicitly ignores weapon damage and damage modifiers on the weapon. Not totally sure if IAS on weapon helps, I don't think it does. So for weapon you want to focus on +Skills (HOTO) or Crushing Blow (Stormlash). The only boots assassins should wear are Myrmidon Greaves, which is why the preference is for Shadow Dancers because of -Requirements save you a lot of STR points. But personally I think Gore Riders upgraded to Myrmidon is great too because of Crushing Blow, Deadly Strike, and Open Wounds.
frenzy barb was one of the most fun and destructive builds i ever made. i forget exactly my gear setup since it was like 10 years ago, maybe a beast zerk and ebotdz? idk, but i really want to make another for d2r!
My question is why not use 2 hand swords for your Grief and Last Wish vs the Phase Blades? The 2 H weapons would do more damage would they not? There are some that have fast attack speed too. Am I thinking wrong?
What is the benefit of using Death in the main hand as opposed to the Grief? Will the crushing blow and deadly strike from Death not apply if it's in the off-hand?
Dual azurewrath and azure / lightsaber is a slower cheaper version of this. I ran that for ladder so many times. Fun and effective, makes short work of chaos and pit runs
i dont know about cheaper.. i have like 1k hours playing solo self found(plugy) and i made 3 griefs and 2 deaths so far but never dropped a single azurewrath, only a bunch of lightsabers :/ rng can be a bitch
@Jim Bob's Arcade yeh right, some ppl actually like to play the game and farm everything by yourself, you will never drop anything close to that playing solo self found, prob more rare than a jmod, i wouldnt be surprised if you're a botter lol or one of those guys that plays bnet for a week, buy/trade you whole gear, same as pressing a "i win" button lmao
@Jim Bob's Arcade best case scenario you will get a 5% amp damage 200-300 dmg after upgrading, you will kill things before seeing amp proc, in what world is that better than a 430-440 dmg +20% deadly strike? please school me
@Jim Bob's Arcade you "prefer", there you go, so you agree that you just cant compete with grief, and if you love amp dmg so much just use atmas amy, problem solved
Hey Dbrunski, love your guides! I was about to make a frenzy barb and I'm trying to decide whether I should make a 2nd grief for dual frenzy or go for a colossus sword/blade death like you have here. Do you know if the fixes to main hand/off hand weapon speeds makes this a much worse option now? Or is it still totally viable?
A good roll death or BOTD is good if you use the weapon swing bug will do slightly better overall for you unless build specific. Dual grief is also good but a mix of +damage and +damage% is always very effective if used with other auras etc like pride, faith, might and infinity
One thing I learned instead of using 2 hangers for frenzy go with axes and attack speed found it does easy more and can attack fast enough to frame skip
hi dbrunski. I noticed that when you were doing your run in chaos sanctuary, you could probably use a little bit more your merc if you were targeting the furtherst ennemy in the groups. cause you were killing them in order and by the time that you were done slaying , your merc was catching up on you , but you were already moving to the next one so he was almost useless untill you were reaching a bigger density. anyway good video as always
idk if its better, but i use eth cruel base ias scourges with zod runes in them. the dmg with pride/might merc i can get like 500-15k/500-14k frenzy, i think that actually averages out to be a tad better the conventional builds -like 7.5k and 8k avg dmg, with ds/cb both up there from guiliems and gores, 40 ed 15 ias in guilliems for more base starting speed, because remember on each frenzy hit until the 6 secs runs out you go up ias each hit and im pretty sure having 15 ias on helm plus the jump in ias from the first frenzy swing will immediately put you into attacking as fast as you can. my 1st scourge has ctc amp just to be cute but 445% ed so 5 from perf, and my 2nd one has 410 ed, so 40 from perf, and even with them not being perfect i still feel my clear speed is faster than conventional dual grief. that or i just have lucky rng. also to add in: i would say put more than 1 pt in berserk because frenzy becomes an extra percent magic dmg, all together, per point in zerk, so ideally with 20 pts then 20% of your frenzy dmg is magic, which is fucking insane for clearing, i personally go more pts vita because barb gets so much life per vita point, and way less str, but im also at 4k life with barely any pts in battle orders and my dmg is still what it is, and the survivability looks much better on mine than urs and im not even using a full inv of charms. also also: you forgot to mention the crit for maxing what for you is sword mastery, and for me is mace mastery, u get crit chance% from that so that plus the like 50.50 cb and ds, you really dont need to get that lucky to always be either criting or deadly or cbing, one or all 3, pretty damn close to always. so the whole 100% thing doesnt mean so much in the big picture ya know?
I’m a Barb. I do keys. Like… accounts worth a day. I play similarly but over the years I’ve always used my same build. This ladder I was given a death sword and it’s been fun lvling with but… I had to make my baby. Ebotd collos blade. So I have always used botd and grief. But I’ve seen so many videos saying use death. Now I can see the difference they make. Obvi crushing blow is handy. My Barb with ebotd can be a slow killer at say duriel and Lilith. But Lilith…. How is that going? I’ve always found botd was needed as a stay alive stick. Just curious how hard are Lilith runs using death. And dose using death make soloing Ubers doable? As in meph Baal and diablo. But yeah I have the base to make it so maybe I’ll try.
@@broco1163yeah, the only thing with dual grief is that you pretty much need to run with gface on it to make up for the lost cb of not running with death. But it's very effective if you do.
curious why to not add 1 point in whirlwind? i always used freny left click, right click whirlwind or berserk for clearing packs while frenzied and taking out phys immunes.
Hey, have you ever done a video showing 2 players combinations that work really well? I want to start playing with my Mrs and have a partnership to go from normal to hell without help :)
@@Dbrunski125 I was thinking that buddy, but would be a really interesting video looking at how auras of chars support eachother. Like a paladin and a Amazon for example.
@@vinnyeagle3734 That might be really interesting. Id suggest u to use 2 diffrent spec (1melee 1 caster) in that way u can fully use items u find. Some setups i would use: zealer with conviction + sorc/trapsin; hammerdin + barb/bowazon/furydruid; zealer + summon necro.
I would not recommend melee/caster combo that much, because once the caster hits her Main Skill, the melee char is literally just running behind, being a better A2 merc. I would not worry too much about the items while playing caster/caster or melee/melee for two reasons: First, you are not in a rush (like on reset day), so you can always pass an item once you find an upgrade. Second, you probably wont use Highrune-Runewords nor super rare uniques anyway, unless you plan to do massive grinding with your Mrs., so youll easily find enough okay stuff on your way for both chars. Here are combos i enjoyed the most: Fury Druid/Zealer/Enchantress/Kicksin (any combination) Fire Sorce/ Cold Sorce Druid Summoner/ Nec Summoner Trapsin/ Necro (LR+CE) Bowazon/ Necro (Amp+CE) Singer Barb/ Bear Druid Hope that helps
If my memory serves me correctly, for some reason you will get +1 on your BO if you use 1 Hoto & 1 CTA that is at least +3 BO, any higher doesn't make a difference. IDK if it was some sort of weird bug/glitch, but I made a Max BO Barb once just for the Hell of it & that was how I achieved the highest level of BO. Try it out sometime & see if that is still how it works or not, if so you can thank me later.
Man I loved barbs when I played this game. Looking back, they were probably the worse class in the whole game. With the least creative skill trees. What happened to ethereal breath of the dying? Does no one use that any more? Maybe walk instead of run? Your mercenary may be able to keep up a little better
ebotd 60% ias is awesome, but grief outclasses it in basically every other way. last wish, while incredibly expensive, is amazing and better than botd. botd is still a powerful and great runeword but there are better setups now. getting poison nova when you kill something will always make me smile though
What's the benefit of weapon swing? I want to understand this as if I have the death in main hand(glove had) and grief in other than still it doesn't add the crushing blow of death in total as shown in my pluggy build. So what's the advantage?
I never got more high runes solo than melee clearing worldstone levels and just must melee clearing in general. I don't know if melee has a better drop rate but I feel like it does.
The frenzy baba is pretty interesting! I have also been messing around with this sword combo a lot and I found that maxing berserk was actually rly nice, depending on ur gear etc u can get up to like 30% of ur dmg as added magic, making u melt phys immunes/heavy phys resistant monsters without any problems! Questions! #1. You never showed ur armor? Im guessing its in a AP? Does it have any added ED on the base? If it dosent, whats the repair cost per dura if u know? :D My biggest regret on my baba was making forty in a 14 ED AP and the repairs are like 30k/dura.. sure i can rune repair it but rather save my runes for crafting.. #2. How big dmg increase was the pride? Dont think you showed ur stats before equipping the pride while u had might aura up etc? I been thinking about making a pride my self but not sure how much dmg it would give me ^^
@@Dbrunski125 Do u remember/know what the repair cost/dura of ur forty is? I dont wanna make a 2nd non-superior forty just to find out its almost same repair cost as my extra ED one xD at 17:22 i see the dmg with the pride but I think only other time u showed dmg numbers was in town? anyways im just gonna assume its pretty good!
add 1 point to whirlwind. frenzy left click whirl once frenzied for pack aoe damage then single target bosses or higher hp mobs with frenzy or last hitting mobs to keep frenzy going to allow speed to run to next group of monsters 👍
I played d2 so many years ago when it released and want to play remastered but all these late game OP items makes me wonder did they also bump the difficulty or just the items? Thanks for the video
The game got harder and easier in different ways. Obtaining the elite items is incredibly hard to pull off legitimately. The problem is that bots and dupes flood the market online. But you can play offline or not trade online.
@@dimeen i mean you could.. but its going to suck compared to a caster with tele. this build relies on crushing blow, deadly strike, ias, attack rating, etc. most gear items with those stats lack magic find% and also you probably wont have teleport. it would be ok for stuff like travincal or pits, but again you are trading MF for other damage boosting mods
I have one question, i have 2 phase blades, grief and death, if i equip death to main hand, i have 100% crushing blow and 92% deadly strike, offhand grief ofc, BUT, if i use the re-equpit main hand death, i have better attack speed animation, but % of crushing blow and deadly strike not return to 100% and 92%... My question is.... Its a bug? is there still 100% and 92% but not visible in atributes? or not...? Thanks alot...
Real men put the rest of the skill points into berserk for the frenzy synergy :) If you're going for max DPS build, 1 hard pt into BO should be sufficient. Also, have you tried gface 15 ias'd + treachery on your merc? It's pretty insane DPS, potentially comparable to fortitude and gives him a ton of survivability. EDIT: You didn't mention the best part about playing a frenzy barb. Assign frenzy on right click, hold down your right mouse button, grab a drink in your left hand and watch a movie. As long as you don't let go of the right mouse button, your barb will continue mowing down everything in his path.
Guys i just really messed up. im fairly new and did good making money making rune word items.. unfortunately i frickin used my last HR currency vex gul on a death.. AND I PUT IT IN A FRICKIN CRYSTAL SWORD.. at least it had 15% EHD.. the roll had perf dmg roll so thats nice... but wow i didnt know its better in axes and ment for eth items... SO QUESTION: now what do i do? create a frenzy barb or smiter or zeal pally or somethin to get some use maybe assassins?? i doub it wil sell.. kinda screwed myself.. any ideas what i could do to make it worth the 2 hrs i grinded hours to find would be much appreciated thanks E1.
@@MindlessTube End of the year most likely anyway they said before december lol so we'll just have to wait, can't play my old version of D2 anymore and that s annoying :)
@@MindlessTube "All we know is it will be out this year. " No you don't, they had the same disclaimer for wc3 reforged, and it came out after 12/31 for expected release.
I still have my old blizzard account with all my champs and gears and my Frenzy Barb was my fav Barb to play with. Even over my WW barb. The frenzy at first is weird to handle and master cuz he runs and hits so fkin fast but in the end hes a freakin killing machine. I used Fortitude armor in general and Enigma for duels but hes not the best for dueling. Prefered my light sorc or my melee light sorc! Awesome vid mate! Also why needing aoe? He can run and clear the maps pretty quickly lol 🤘😁
Hello, Thank you very much for your guides, you are the best! Im new here after 15 years I return to the Diablo 2 Res. Can i ask you, where you find your gears? Weapons with socket and others? I suppose Farming?But how and where ? Thank you
...i feel like you are not maximizing your movement speed the way the cursor is placed a bit too close to the character. I'm not sure tho, it seems the barb is stuttering.
*Enigma is an option for repositioning a merc but it is slightly less damage than Fort so it didn't really fit for max damage*
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Time Stamps
00:00 Introduction
00:54 Build Pros
02:11 Build Cons
03:41 How to Execute the Weapon Swing Bug
06:46 Attributes
08:11 Combat Masteries
08:36 Combat Skills
09:21 Warcries
09:59 Barb Gear
12:57 Merc Gear
13:52 Chaos Sanctaury Run
19:07 Pit Run
21:22 Conclusion
@Jim Bob's Arcade bruh
@Jim Bob's Arcade It looks like u never played this game. Try it its really fun.
Hey dbrunski,
have you tried "Grief"-Phaseblade + "Death"-Ettin (20 Axe-Mastery + 1 Sword-Mastery) ?
Should be the best Setup for the Frenzy-Barb considering raw damage and you don't need the AR-Boost from Sword-Mastery because "Grief" has ITD.
@@thefiddleronthegreen2343 Ettin axe has only 1.5average dmg more than colossus sword and u lose a lot more dmg from weapon mastery plus u lose ar and cs. Mixed weapons for barb is definitely not good idea.
HEY Dbrunski125 - I AM FROM NEW ZEALAND. IV BEEN PLAYING HARDCORE DIABLO 2 FOR 15 YEARS ON U.S WEST/U.S EAST SERVER'S. I WOULD REALY LOVE TO PLAY WITH YOU AND TEAM UP WHEN DIABLO 4 START'S . I PLAN TO RUSH THREW GAME QUICKLY WITH A NORMAL CHARACTER FOLLOW BY MY HARD CORE CHAR'S . I WILL RUN X3 P.C WITH X3 COPY'S OF DIABLO 4 . BRING THE BO'ER BARBS, OAK DRUID'S ETC AT THE SAME TIME . . I M.F RUN HARD .WOULD YOU BE KEEN TO GET IN CONTACT OUTSIDE OF YOTUBE TO TALK? ~~ THANKS JOSHIE
That locked chest killed the mood!
Soooo many builds, so little time ...
OMG, Dbrunski!!! I watched so many videos trying to explain that bug and never manage to get it working. I have a perfect 385 ED Death in eth CS and Grief and always the attack speed was way to slow. I did the bug now and I am blazing through the mobs
back in the day ran this with Beast and Last Wish, I'm going to start Resurrected with this one. Just don't want to Sorc Meta and need something to do Clone and Ubers
15:10 that's why you use an act 1 merc with Brand bow. She'll lower everyone's defense with insight and cast amp damage on a large scale even from far away. You can double your damage before Death and deadly strike even proc. Plus, you have critical chance from the mastery. Also, go into frenzy mode then whirlwind. Frenzy for bosses and single targets, WW for crowds.
Or enigma. Enigma with a brand bow merc would make you run faster, do more damage, and position better. Though act 2 decrep does slow enemies, adds 50% damage and weakens enemies so it's a hard choice.
One of my favorite build. Never managed to get really good weapons but always loved it. Great vid as usual
The first build I ever beat Hell with back in 2002 or something.
Sometimes, it's not the gear, but the players skill with he has lol
Take a shot everytime he says Weapon Swing Bug, im smashed!
Also important to note that weapon swap fcr set ups to teleport on high strength builds means you have to re equip everytime you teleport too :(
Glacial spike is so underrated for this build. Having no aoe, the ability to freeze the monsters around you is great
Is that build gonna be viable in PD2?
The problem with attacks like frenzy and Zeal is that they spread their damaged out between all the monsters around them instead of stacking all the hits on the one monster and moving to the next so it ends up feeling like it clears slower.
whe all miss you i hope your doing great i hope you will come back in streaming D2R take care
11:00 dang that crafted ring is trash
Lol yeah
i like pride more on the hench. you can see once he switch he went from 2 shotting the mobs to 1 shotting them. this is a big time reduction. you can go with a switch of grief/last wish and grief/death. Use last wish till tap procs then switch over to death
Colossus Blade is also slightly faster than Colossus Sword. Forgot to mention that part
Great vid as usual!
As your Merc is too far away to get in the action, would it be worth having an act1 Merc with faith?
Would the fanaticism dmg boost be greater than might?
I was gonna ask the same thing. Only way merc gets some usefulness besides the aura
if u wanna know dmg wise pride and might together owns fana... if u want more IAS u could use faith but u prolly wont cause u get breakpoints during frenzy pretty easily
Thank you very much !!!!!
I asked in the previous video ... thanks :)
leap can help seclude monsters so you're not spreading between two targets in groups
awesome to see a frenzy barb video, just wanna add a couple things
its cool that you got the c.blade instead of the c.sword for style points but if i understood the weapon bug switch correctly, bugging with the colossus sword will be a bit more effective cause the base atk speed of the blade is 5 vs 10 on the c.sword, and a phase blade is -30, and you want this atk speed difference to be higher for the bug, a very slow weapon combined with the phase blade would be ideal
id also like to see more comparison between the weapon setups, dual grief, grief+last wish, grief+beast vs the grief+death and some uber/dclone farming of course, thats the place for a frenzy baba, no point in farming pits imo, that place belongs to the pit zerker
17:35 200hp "took a lil bit of damage there.." lool that would be soo scary on hardcore, i would go at least 3k hp before adding more str even for softcore, but i think you forgot b.o. there to be fair
Its very marginal the difference of collosus blade death / grief combo vs collosus sword death / grief combo. Slightly faster but your right the it would be faster.
I actually recently made a perfect 385% non sup Eth Death CB. I got it on my first roll too, I couldn't believe it. I was so hyped, I was like YES, YES, YESSSSSS lol. Great videos man, I really enjoy your content. I'm actually about to make a Frenzy Barb and put that CB to use!
do you have a video explaining mechanics?
like why does grief work with smite and not kick assassin.
if a sorceress fire enchant a javazon does the added dmg apply to each of the projectile on charged strike?
Does enchant work with smite? kick?
What is the formula for absorb.
Im sure there a plenty out there that wants to know all the mechanics
Kick assassin damage is based on the boot modifiers. It explicitly ignores weapon damage and damage modifiers on the weapon. Not totally sure if IAS on weapon helps, I don't think it does. So for weapon you want to focus on +Skills (HOTO) or Crushing Blow (Stormlash). The only boots assassins should wear are Myrmidon Greaves, which is why the preference is for Shadow Dancers because of -Requirements save you a lot of STR points. But personally I think Gore Riders upgraded to Myrmidon is great too because of Crushing Blow, Deadly Strike, and Open Wounds.
frenzy barb was one of the most fun and destructive builds i ever made. i forget exactly my gear setup since it was like 10 years ago, maybe a beast zerk and ebotdz? idk, but i really want to make another for d2r!
My question is why not use 2 hand swords for your Grief and Last Wish vs the Phase Blades? The 2 H weapons would do more damage would they not? There are some that have fast attack speed too. Am I thinking wrong?
What is the benefit of using Death in the main hand as opposed to the Grief? Will the crushing blow and deadly strike from Death not apply if it's in the off-hand?
Is Breath of the Dying viable at all these days? Used to love rocking my Ethereal Breath of the Dying Colossus Blade
In ur opinion what Is best base ti make death? Colossus sword or other? And why? Thx
Merc AI is a first priority fix in D2R IMO, they need to reposition 2 secs after off screen, and they need to move faster
yeah. and give us act4 mercs. they should be a demon or an angel like tyrael or something. act 5 merc should be able to dual wield
does this bug also work in d2r?
Hey dbrunski are u hitting with frenzy everytime or use double swing
Dual azurewrath and azure / lightsaber is a slower cheaper version of this. I ran that for ladder so many times. Fun and effective, makes short work of chaos and pit runs
i dont know about cheaper.. i have like 1k hours playing solo self found(plugy) and i made 3 griefs and 2 deaths so far but never dropped a single azurewrath, only a bunch of lightsabers :/ rng can be a bitch
@Jim Bob's Arcade yeh right, some ppl actually like to play the game and farm everything by yourself, you will never drop anything close to that playing solo self found, prob more rare than a jmod, i wouldnt be surprised if you're a botter lol or one of those guys that plays bnet for a week, buy/trade you whole gear, same as pressing a "i win" button lmao
@Jim Bob's Arcade best case scenario you will get a 5% amp damage 200-300 dmg after upgrading, you will kill things before seeing amp proc, in what world is that better than a 430-440 dmg +20% deadly strike? please school me
@Jim Bob's Arcade you "prefer", there you go, so you agree that you just cant compete with grief, and if you love amp dmg so much just use atmas amy, problem solved
Hey Dbrunski, love your guides! I was about to make a frenzy barb and I'm trying to decide whether I should make a 2nd grief for dual frenzy or go for a colossus sword/blade death like you have here. Do you know if the fixes to main hand/off hand weapon speeds makes this a much worse option now? Or is it still totally viable?
A good roll death or BOTD is good if you use the weapon swing bug will do slightly better overall for you unless build specific. Dual grief is also good but a mix of +damage and +damage% is always very effective if used with other auras etc like pride, faith, might and infinity
(19:25)
Make Melee Great Again
Yes We Can
It takes many months to gather all this gear playing legit though, with D2R the seasons might not last that long
One thing I learned instead of using 2 hangers for frenzy go with axes and attack speed found it does easy more and can attack fast enough to frame skip
If you like repairing then by all means go axes. If you do accounts worth of keys in a day pass on the axes…
Can you make material about best runewords for non-ladder players? For mercenary and champions?
hi dbrunski. I noticed that when you were doing your run in chaos sanctuary, you could probably use a little bit more your merc if you were targeting the furtherst ennemy in the groups. cause you were killing them in order and by the time that you were done slaying , your merc was catching up on you , but you were already moving to the next one so he was almost useless untill you were reaching a bigger density. anyway good video as always
idk if its better, but i use eth cruel base ias scourges with zod runes in them. the dmg with pride/might merc i can get like 500-15k/500-14k frenzy, i think that actually averages out to be a tad better the conventional builds -like 7.5k and 8k avg dmg, with ds/cb both up there from guiliems and gores, 40 ed 15 ias in guilliems for more base starting speed, because remember on each frenzy hit until the 6 secs runs out you go up ias each hit and im pretty sure having 15 ias on helm plus the jump in ias from the first frenzy swing will immediately put you into attacking as fast as you can. my 1st scourge has ctc amp just to be cute but 445% ed so 5 from perf, and my 2nd one has 410 ed, so 40 from perf, and even with them not being perfect i still feel my clear speed is faster than conventional dual grief. that or i just have lucky rng.
also to add in: i would say put more than 1 pt in berserk because frenzy becomes an extra percent magic dmg, all together, per point in zerk, so ideally with 20 pts then 20% of your frenzy dmg is magic, which is fucking insane for clearing, i personally go more pts vita because barb gets so much life per vita point, and way less str, but im also at 4k life with barely any pts in battle orders and my dmg is still what it is, and the survivability looks much better on mine than urs and im not even using a full inv of charms.
also also: you forgot to mention the crit for maxing what for you is sword mastery, and for me is mace mastery, u get crit chance% from that so that plus the like 50.50 cb and ds, you really dont need to get that lucky to always be either criting or deadly or cbing, one or all 3, pretty damn close to always. so the whole 100% thing doesnt mean so much in the big picture ya know?
You still have this char and gear setup anywhere to show ?
There was a cap back in the day and had to do it over alot if time not being given
You need to take into account hybrid weapons and extremely rare eth BA's.
I’m a Barb. I do keys. Like… accounts worth a day. I play similarly but over the years I’ve always used my same build. This ladder I was given a death sword and it’s been fun lvling with but… I had to make my baby. Ebotd collos blade. So I have always used botd and grief. But I’ve seen so many videos saying use death. Now I can see the difference they make. Obvi crushing blow is handy. My Barb with ebotd can be a slow killer at say duriel and Lilith. But Lilith…. How is that going? I’ve always found botd was needed as a stay alive stick. Just curious how hard are Lilith runs using death. And dose using death make soloing Ubers doable? As in meph Baal and diablo. But yeah I have the base to make it so maybe I’ll try.
I've tested death cb + grief with weapon swing bug vs dual grief and dual grief killed faster on average so that's what I ended up sticking with.
Yeah 2x grief is definitely better, but I think people like to flex death to change it up
@@broco1163yeah, the only thing with dual grief is that you pretty much need to run with gface on it to make up for the lost cb of not running with death. But it's very effective if you do.
Dual grief is a little better but this is very very close and everyone runs grief on everything which is boring lol.
curious why to not add 1 point in whirlwind? i always used freny left click, right click whirlwind or berserk for clearing packs while frenzied and taking out phys immunes.
Pride is my way to go with my might merc. I use a Grief / Lawbringer combo. Works like a charm.
lawbringer is such a badass wep
I also use Grief / Lawbringer and honestly kill speed feel faster than dual grief and grief/death.
what if you go for two phase blades or two berserker's axe? You don't have to care anymore about the weapon swing bug right ?
Hey, have you ever done a video showing 2 players combinations that work really well? I want to start playing with my Mrs and have a partnership to go from normal to hell without help :)
Most of my game play is single player but that would be fun to try
@@Dbrunski125 I was thinking that buddy, but would be a really interesting video looking at how auras of chars support eachother. Like a paladin and a Amazon for example.
@@vinnyeagle3734 That might be really interesting. Id suggest u to use 2 diffrent spec (1melee 1 caster) in that way u can fully use items u find. Some setups i would use: zealer with conviction + sorc/trapsin; hammerdin + barb/bowazon/furydruid; zealer + summon necro.
I would not recommend melee/caster combo that much, because once the caster hits her Main Skill, the melee char is literally just running behind, being a better A2 merc.
I would not worry too much about the items while playing caster/caster or melee/melee for two reasons: First, you are not in a rush (like on reset day), so you can always pass an item once you find an upgrade. Second, you probably wont use Highrune-Runewords nor super rare uniques anyway, unless you plan to do massive grinding with your Mrs., so youll easily find enough okay stuff on your way for both chars. Here are combos i enjoyed the most:
Fury Druid/Zealer/Enchantress/Kicksin (any combination)
Fire Sorce/ Cold Sorce
Druid Summoner/ Nec Summoner
Trapsin/ Necro (LR+CE)
Bowazon/ Necro (Amp+CE)
Singer Barb/ Bear Druid
Hope that helps
great video idea
@Dbrunski125 is the weapon swing bug still a thing in D2R?
Do you have a guide on farming locations/routes and their pros/cons?
If my memory serves me correctly, for some reason you will get +1 on your BO if you use 1 Hoto & 1 CTA that is at least +3 BO, any higher doesn't make a difference. IDK if it was some sort of weird bug/glitch, but I made a Max BO Barb once just for the Hell of it & that was how I achieved the highest level of BO. Try it out sometime & see if that is still how it works or not, if so you can thank me later.
Cta and hoto would give you 1 extra bo level versus dual hoto. This is correct. But honestly its a tiny bit more life not game changing.
Man I loved barbs when I played this game.
Looking back, they were probably the worse class in the whole game. With the least creative skill trees.
What happened to ethereal breath of the dying?
Does no one use that any more?
Maybe walk instead of run?
Your mercenary may be able to keep up a little better
i used a combo of zerkers with frenzy barb, but my personal favorite was dual wielding 2 ebotd zerkers. crazy damage and speed 👍👍
ebotd 60% ias is awesome, but grief outclasses it in basically every other way. last wish, while incredibly expensive, is amazing and better than botd. botd is still a powerful and great runeword but there are better setups now. getting poison nova when you kill something will always make me smile though
Couldn't you get more ED with an ethereal colossus blade?
What's the benefit of weapon swing? I want to understand this as if I have the death in main hand(glove had) and grief in other than still it doesn't add the crushing blow of death in total as shown in my pluggy build. So what's the advantage?
does this work on d2r?
where do find such items? is it by Solo game or multiplayer? I'm a beginner
should not use Death in colossus BLADE, should use in a colossus SWORD
I never got more high runes solo than melee clearing worldstone levels and just must melee clearing in general. I don't know if melee has a better drop rate but I feel like it does.
what about dual storm lash for static field then switch to main death/grief and forgo the dual bo. too bad there isnt 3 tabs for weapon switching
The frenzy baba is pretty interesting! I have also been messing around with this sword combo a lot and I found that maxing berserk was actually rly nice, depending on ur gear etc u can get up to like 30% of ur dmg as added magic, making u melt phys immunes/heavy phys resistant monsters without any problems!
Questions!
#1. You never showed ur armor? Im guessing its in a AP? Does it have any added ED on the base? If it dosent, whats the repair cost per dura if u know? :D My biggest regret on my baba was making forty in a 14 ED AP and the repairs are like 30k/dura.. sure i can rune repair it but rather save my runes for crafting..
#2. How big dmg increase was the pride? Dont think you showed ur stats before equipping the pride while u had might aura up etc? I been thinking about making a pride my self but not sure how much dmg it would give me ^^
Armor was fort my bad. I did show the dmg buff with pride tho. Death swing was 4k to 11k before ds.
@@Dbrunski125 Do u remember/know what the repair cost/dura of ur forty is? I dont wanna make a 2nd non-superior forty just to find out its almost same repair cost as my extra ED one xD at 17:22 i see the dmg with the pride but I think only other time u showed dmg numbers was in town? anyways im just gonna assume its pretty good!
you havent shown ur body armor ur wearing sir?
Lack AOE? Look that speed, for me it is good aoe, it is not area effect like caster, but it is really good.
add 1 point to whirlwind. frenzy left click whirl once frenzied for pack aoe damage then single target bosses or higher hp mobs with frenzy or last hitting mobs to keep frenzy going to allow speed to run to next group of monsters 👍
Did they fix the weapon swing bug in D2 Ressurected?
Im trying to find a colossus blade/sword. I got a grief, i dont wanna make another one but i might have 2
are you procing treachery before?
does this work for d2r
Does weapon swing bug work in D2R?
I played d2 so many years ago when it released and want to play remastered but all these late game OP items makes me wonder did they also bump the difficulty or just the items? Thanks for the video
They buffed the difficulty to offset the synergies and the new items.
(Made things much harder for the multi-purpose sorceress).
The game got harder and easier in different ways. Obtaining the elite items is incredibly hard to pull off legitimately. The problem is that bots and dupes flood the market online. But you can play offline or not trade online.
This build
Do Ubers well?
Frenzy barb is my favorite build and I have gotten pretty good at getting the most dmg I can out of them
Same here, playing almost only Frenzy barb.
Can you magic find with that?
@@dimeen i mean you could.. but its going to suck compared to a caster with tele. this build relies on crushing blow, deadly strike, ias, attack rating, etc. most gear items with those stats lack magic find% and also you probably wont have teleport. it would be ok for stuff like travincal or pits, but again you are trading MF for other damage boosting mods
where or how did you get the ring?
So the weapon swing bug is fixed in D2R right?
I have one question, i have 2 phase blades, grief and death, if i equip death to main hand, i have 100% crushing blow and 92% deadly strike, offhand grief ofc, BUT, if i use the re-equpit main hand death, i have better attack speed animation, but % of crushing blow and deadly strike not return to 100% and 92%...
My question is....
Its a bug? is there still 100% and 92% but not visible in atributes? or not...?
Thanks alot...
does concentration buff physical damage for meteor?
Does this still work in D2R? Doesn't seem to be working when I do it for some reason.
Real men put the rest of the skill points into berserk for the frenzy synergy :) If you're going for max DPS build, 1 hard pt into BO should be sufficient.
Also, have you tried gface 15 ias'd + treachery on your merc? It's pretty insane DPS, potentially comparable to fortitude and gives him a ton of survivability.
EDIT: You didn't mention the best part about playing a frenzy barb. Assign frenzy on right click, hold down your right mouse button, grab a drink in your left hand and watch a movie. As long as you don't let go of the right mouse button, your barb will continue mowing down everything in his path.
Guys i just really messed up. im fairly new and did good making money making rune word items.. unfortunately i frickin used my last HR currency vex gul on a death.. AND I PUT IT IN A FRICKIN CRYSTAL SWORD.. at least it had 15% EHD.. the roll had perf dmg roll so thats nice... but wow i didnt know its better in axes and ment for eth items... SO QUESTION: now what do i do? create a frenzy barb or smiter or zeal pally or somethin to get some use maybe assassins?? i doub it wil sell.. kinda screwed myself.. any ideas what i could do to make it worth the 2 hrs i grinded hours to find would be much appreciated thanks E1.
Bro, do you have any idea when is d2 ressurected coming for normal public? Also does project diablo have better graphics than normal glide added d2?
All we know is it will be out this year. My guess would be August.
@@MindlessTube End of the year most likely anyway they said before december lol so we'll just have to wait, can't play my old version of D2 anymore and that s annoying :)
@@MindlessTube "All we know is it will be out this year. " No you don't, they had the same disclaimer for wc3 reforged, and it came out after 12/31 for expected release.
sept 23. close to a week from this day
Once you double swing bug it, and you dont remove any of the weapons, does it stays buged if i leave game and rejoin?
Hi not working trick the swap collossus blade
Is the weapon swing bug fixed in d2r?
Does the bug work with WW?
Man why you don't do Bva build ?
Did I miss where he showed what armor he is using?
Nope, probably forgot to show His fortitude.
Yes fortitude sorry
you know CTA give +4 BO instead of HOTO's +3 BO right?
Wish someone would do a max proc effects frenzie barb
Try a 100 ias phaseblade with wolf barb. It works amazing.
@Jim Bob's Arcade no for reach '3' u need 100 ias with phaseblade. On wolf barb.
wtf? Wolf Barb uses (eth) Tombreaver, nothing else ô_O
@Jim Bob's Arcade nope u need to take wolf barb and attack feral rage so its 3 and not 4.2
Have they fixed this bug yet?
I still have my old blizzard account with all my champs and gears and my Frenzy Barb was my fav Barb to play with. Even over my WW barb. The frenzy at first is weird to handle and master cuz he runs and hits so fkin fast but in the end hes a freakin killing machine. I used Fortitude armor in general and Enigma for duels but hes not the best for dueling. Prefered my light sorc or my melee light sorc! Awesome vid mate! Also why needing aoe? He can run and clear the maps pretty quickly lol 🤘😁
sounds like you're saying the past tense of equip whenever you say equip.. like equipped.. odd
does weapon swing bug still work in d2r?
Thank you, im having so much trouble going into hell with my Barb, I can use all the help I can get
I just made a Death in a ethereal Colossus Sword easier to get 5os
Continued watching you addressed this
Cheaper alternatives?
Hello, Thank you very much for your guides, you are the best!
Im new here after 15 years I return to the Diablo 2 Res.
Can i ask you, where you find your gears? Weapons with socket and others? I suppose Farming?But how and where ? Thank you
Farm Cows for socketed items.
Too bad that the bug is not working amymore. No more Deaths for Barbs T.T
...i feel like you are not maximizing your movement speed the way the cursor is placed a bit too close to the character. I'm not sure tho, it seems the barb is stuttering.
Anyone knows if this big has been fixed in D2R?
does the barb's debuf shouts stack on enemies? or can each enemy be affected by only one shout at a time?
looks like one only
you forgot to mention what armor youre using
Can anyone confirm if the weapon swing bug is in Diablo 2 Resurrected?
was this patched in diablo 2 remastered?