Grief 30/399 in PB - "need" in axe for my frenzy barb - aka 7 questions about Grief

Hey guys,

I got super lucky for my first Grief in PB - 30/399. Today I did Breath of the Dying (351/14) for my

Frenzy barb in

Eth

Berserker Axe. When I played it. It was better than crapy

Lightsabre I had. But then I noticed one MAJOR problem - Mastery. So for my

Frenzy barb I wanna use Breath of the Dying paired with Grief. So this Grief has to be in

Axe.

I use my Grief with smiter and Fury druid to run ubers. But I also wanna play

Frenzy barb.

I am not rune rich person so I wanna have each RW once (and swapping it like madman between characters). But Grief is cheap.

Questions:
1) I heard that PB has already maximum attack speed so for PB doesnt matter if it has 30 or 40 IAS - is this true?
2)

Berserker Axe is slower than PB so I guess there IAS on Grief matters a lot - is this true?
3) Should I trade (sell and buy) my Grief for similar Grief in

Berserker Axe? - would there been some disadvantages? - keep in mind that this weapon is my uber hunter weapon so I dont wanna meke my runs significantly worse.
4) Should I sell my Grief and buy 2x low Grief one in PB and one in

Axe?
5) sell my BotD and use my

Frenzy barb with

Azurewrath + pb ? (my barb is lvl 80, so atm I cant use

Azurewrath)
6) I also noticed some guys selling for few ists Grief in

Crystal Sword - is there any major setback compare to PB? -20dmg on base weapon - seems irrelevant. 20durability - well that can be annying. What about attack speed - is it same?
7) is there any sword oriented RW similar to BotD in term of dmg and rune costs?

What do you think its best way to do?

I will try my best,
1) As far as I know this is true
2) I believe with the zerk you want 34 ias or better, not sure if this includes

Frenzy barb break points
3) most people want pb because of repair costs associated with zerk, pb never needs to be repaired
4-5) I would trade the good Grief to get a high roll botd, then roll another Grief in

Axe,

Lo runes are far easier to come by than

Zod and over time it will be easier to roll more griefs
6) I have no reason why someone would want this other than for pvp maybe, again pb is indestructible so it makes for a good choice as compared to other Grief bases
7) Death is an interesting compliment to botd, best in an

Eth zerk just like botd but can be put in

Eth swords as well

Willie did a good job answering your inquiries above - figured I could add some color commentary a well.

For

Frenzy barbs running Berserker Axes - I am a big fan of the BoTD and Death combination.

Eth

Death Cleaver is also a personal favorite in-addition to Doom for the

Holy Freeze aura which enables you to run a Might A2 Merc (without worrying about an A1 Rogue Faith Merc).

I would never run Grief Zerk on a

Frenzy barb given the repair costs which will drive you mad.

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If you wanted to run your dual swords -

Azurewrath as you called out can be effective in-addition to a Lawbringer Phase Blade.

@The Flash

I prefer to use phase blades or any rune word weapons with the “indestructible” mod for all of my melee characters. I really hate going to town to repair…

P.S.

Azurewrath is quite an underrated weapon that doesn’t get enough credit in my opinion

Crushnasty wrote: 3 years ago

P.S.

Azurewrath is quite an underrated weapon that doesn’t get enough credit in my opinion

Agreed. Situational AF but awesome at what it does.