MF titan

[Clansman]

MF titan

I want to build a softcore ladder MFer that can run hell andy meph baal pit and pindle extremely fast. It will be a titan ww barb (almost pure strenght- maybe some vit within the bounds of reasonable survivability). I want to kill even hell baal fast, with high mf and still be able to survive. However, I have no experience with titans, so I need lots of help.

I would like to know what are your experiences with titan MFing. With mf gear a titan will have huge difficulties staying alive, so I was thinking that instead of going pure strenght a 100 or so vit might help. Wearing chancies, skullders, wartravs, goldwrap takes away life and leech, and I don't want to rely heavily on life charms, I want at least half of my inventory to be mf scs.
Also this build would use Tomb reaver (preferably eth). this needs 103 str or 93 if eth. So dex would need investment unless the crafted (blood) dual leech mf rings and +skills mf ammy (also blood) I want to eventually get also had +dex.

A titan also dies a lot to elemental attacks without resists, and this build doesn't have much. 30 from quests, about 40 from N res (1 point + to skills items and battle command), variable 30 to 50 from tomb reaver makes a total of zero to 20 res all in hell. pathetic. 3 or 4 15 res GCs with life might help, but they waste space for mf charms.

Assuming an average 10-20 stats from anni, 2 stats from shako, that's 32-42 dex. Far off the 93 or 103 for TR. I dont want to hel the TR (needs ists and zod if eth). the crafted rings and ammy need to total +61-71 dex. Is this even possible? If the 2 rings were hit power instead of blood, that is another +2-10 dex, but I dont want to sacrifice leech and life from blood.

Can someone please suggest what uniques/crafted rings and ammy and what charms I should use. Is crafting mf belt/boots/gloves an option just to get some more leech and life? Also, if you tried this, is base vitality enough for MFing? baal runs seem impossible to me with base vit.

 

[[exile]]

incidentally, i have a barb along the same lines as yours, named oOmf-titanOo.

use stealskull helm, it has dual leech and up to 50% mf; i ptopaz'ed mine for 74%.

need more leech? throw on either soul drainers or a dual leech ring -- ring is preferable since you're sacrificing less mf (30nagel instead of 40chancies).

if you run in the pit, which is what i advise most of the time, resists shouldn't be too much of a problem. pump nat res if you need. switch out stealskull for arreats if necessary.

i advise against being a complete titan. low resists means you need more health. i realized this about halfway through so i decided to pour some into vit and i've been happy ever since.

 

[Shanksie1337]

i mf with my titan whirler - tho i don't really have a high mf total:

arreats "ptopaz" = 24
IK Gloves/Boots/Belt = 25
CoH = 25
Gheeds = 40
5*7mfsc's = 35
= a whopping 149 mf

tho as i am running RoF and the Pit a sorc-like mf total isn't really needed as the white/grey items can be just as valuable as the unique/set items that i find.

 

[Synkindu]

I just recently got my mf titan finished. Here is his gear.

Enigma Kraken Shell 80 ish mf
Ptopazed Shako 74 mf
Wartravs 45 mf
2 duel leech mf rings 64 mf
+2 skills mf ammy 38 mf
Tombreaver with an ias jewel will eventually be dual isted 50 mf
Chancies 38 mf
and 2 babas on switch

So I have about 389 mf before babas and and almost 500 once I switch.
:thumbsup:
I haven't done any pindle runs but pit is pretty easy and meph runs is a bit harder with those damn fire spells everywhere.

 

[Clansman]

I was thinking. Dual wielding 2 Runemasters with 5 ists each or 2 eth ones with 4 ists each would yield some great mf without hurting the damage (it would hurt the damage but I wouldn't mind, it would still be sick with 500-600str). 240 to 300 mf only from the pair of axes if you can afford them (I sure can't).
But taking axe mastery over polearms reduces range and cuts the resistance from tomb reaver that is desperately needed.
Whirling with 2 axes at least makes you different than the crowd. I like those kinds of special builds that aren't as powerful, but are rarerly seen and still viable. I might actually start an axe mf titan when I have time. Has anyone had success with this build?

 

[Clansman]

Sorry about the double post, I can't edit my last post, so...

What I wanted to add was:

Maybe a frenzy build would work with double rune masters or even Cranebeaks.
It would most certainly require even more life than a ww mfer. Perhaps raising str to 350 maybe up to 400 and rest into vit. A great thing about this build would be versatility. Not many frenziers can equip enigma sacred armor or do such sick damage without much in synergies. Also frenzy doesn't really need mastery, so you could have famine axes (or one famine plus maybe a fury axe or something better) on switch for PIs or for weakening bosses to the point where your rune masters can finish em quickly. Damn now I want to build something like this too lol

would this be ok?
20 BO, shout, frenzy, DS (I don't want taunt to attract stuff cos I will be easy to kill anyway, so i dont want too many enemies near me)
1 in Natural resistance, warcry, battle command, find item
thats 91 points, and since 85 is my aim I guess the left over 5 could go to warcry and maybe one in incresed speed. Is it true that warcry duration is not affected by difficulty?

my ideal gear: ptopazed shako, ptopazed upped eth skullders (and enigma in cube for tougher fights), goldwrap, wartravs, chancies, dual leech mf rings, skills mf ammy, 2 rune masters, famine zerker.
Please give me suggestions on how to build this right. The reason I am asking all this simple and basic stuff is cos I don't have much time to play so I don't want to have to rebuild my barb after getting to 80.

And since I don't really have that much time to play, I guess I would have to get the runemasters and enigma off ebay. The rest I will have to trade for with whatever I get from runs in Ptopazed armor and helm.

 

[Shanksie1337]

Don't upgrade ethereal armours - there is a bug and you lose the +50% def from the ethereal part

And welcome to the forums btw :xmad: