Goldfind barb-WW or Frenzy

[Uriah_Heep]

Goldfind barb-WW or Frenzy

Hi,

I will be using a dual Ali Baba(maybe shaeled) in Travincal nightmare for gold and was wondering if WW or Frenzy will suit this weapons better.Thanks.

 

[kakarot]

Hi,

I will be using a dual Ali Baba(maybe shaeled) in Travincal nightmare for gold and was wondering if WW or Frenzy will suit this weapons better.Thanks.

if only(or mostly) nm travi than frenzy, ww otherwise!

kakaroto

 

[longwood]

Hi,

I will be using a dual Ali Baba(maybe shaeled) in Travincal nightmare for gold and was wondering if WW or Frenzy will suit this weapons better.Thanks.

Definitely go Frenzy and on top of that, use a eth botd zerker for your weapon and a beast zerker for your other. Have 2x duel'd lem'd ali baba's on the switch and use horking after you kill all the council members. You will get tons of gold quick, I promise.


Longwood

 

[-Tempus-]

Hi,

I will be using a dual Ali Baba(maybe shaeled) in Travincal nightmare for gold and was wondering if WW or Frenzy will suit this weapons better.Thanks.

ww or conc or zerk would be best.

but since you are only doing nm runs just use a might merc and let him kill while you have your ali's out. that way his goldfind adds to yours for the most gold. a might merc can kill nm high council with just about any weapon even a eth 6 lem pole. if you want to run hell highcouncil then he will need a killing weapon but sill they can take them out.

frenzy doesnt work very well with a goldfind build is because it take too many points to get nice dmg with that attack. but if you use ww it only takes 20 points. conc or zerk also work very well since your barb would have max bo that gives conc more dmg. frenzy also needs a ton of ias and most goldfind items have no ias. were a ww or conc/zerk build can get all the needed ias off of the weapon.

a normal ww goldfind build would be something like this
max mastery
max ww
max FI
max BO
1 command
1-7 NR (depends on charms)
rest of your points can go into shout or zerk
but if you use a merc for the last hit going with 1 point into warcry is great. your recast should be faster then your stun time that way you just keep casting it to hold the monsters there. your 1 point in taunt is used to pull monsters into the range of warcry/battlecry. your merc should be able to take them out but you'll have to finsh off the phy imms. also the nice thing about the might merc the added dmg he will give you. going with most goldfind builds arent going to be made for killing speed.

going with conc works well because you can save a few more points by not using the ww line. you can also save points by not going with anything in staima/run-walk. those 5 points can be used in shout or zerk.

using IK maul or the uniq axe eth edge are also a great weapon for a goldfind barb that is going run the high council. you'll still use the ali's for last hit, FI skill and when your merc kills but you dont need to put anything into sword mastery (maybe 1 if you like)

-Tempus-

 

[JohnofTesh]

I built one that was Berserk/War Cry (did not max War Cry, just put in enough points so that with items my stun was of sufficient duration). I used a might merc in gold find gear to kill the council members and I kept dual Ali Baba's out to get max gold yield. I had a shael in one of the ali baba's for when I had to use it for the kill. I would only switch over to sword/shield if there was a physical immune or a combo of particularily bad aura's going. I would stand behind the merc and throw in War Cry and the barbs best friend - Battle Cry to make his life easier. I had enough points in find item (also not maxxed) to have my chance of success at 50% with Battle Command cast.

My helm of choice is a 49/50% mf tarnhelm with a lem. I am willing to trade the 25% of extra gold find that I could get from a perfect Crown of Thieves for the mf that I get from Tarnhelm. Since so much of the best gold find gear is also the best mf gear this seemed like an easy pick.
Of course in those days, people would give you lems for little or nothing, so it's a lot more expensive to make an uber gold finder now.