Troubles with Frenzy Barb

[profane god]

Troubles with Frenzy Barb

Starting off on normal untwinked, classic d2. There isn't much in the way of resistances on my char so far.

Level 17
57/55 str
base dex/energy
80 vitality


I have 5 skill points unused because I don't know what weapon I will end up using. I don't have anything with life leech yet, so that is some of the problem.

It's so bad for me that when I'm fighting Dung Beetles fresh out of Lut, using double swing my health just nose dives due to all the lightning hits. Should I be having this much trouble on them still? Should I start raising dex ASAP? Keep rerolling stores til I get two weapons with LL on them and armor with resistances?

 

[Slaytanist]

Re: Troubles with Frenzy Barb

Skulls in a decent damage weapon tend to get me through to Act 4 at least : )

Lightning Beetles are always a total nightmare though. I always have trouble with them in Normal untwinked because my resists are usually shambolic at this stage. If you can get the leech on your weapons with skulls you might want to go with resist jewelry, if you have it. In Normal I tend to just hit and run and let my rogue merc take them out. The poison in the tombs isn't so scary in Normal so I generally just go for lightning resist at the point you're at, and fire resist by Act 3 and 4. MDR is pretty vital by the time you get to Diablo although I can't remember if this is available in Classic (been a while since I played it...)