Should I make a Frenzy Barb for MF?

I have most of the items to make a

Frenzy barb. I don’t have a Grief but if i traded just about all of my runes I could get one but that would leave me pretty barren in the Rune department. I could also use some secondary weapons to test if I like the build. Does Grief make a huge difference? I mainly play solo Battle.net. Can I still have fast clear speed if I run around 250-300mf?

Should I just go max damage and rune hunt and hork MF on switch?

Never played a Barb before. Thanks for any advise.

Hi Hagawa,

Check out this great thread that addresses

Frenzy Barb weapons for end-game play:
forums/frenzy-barb-weapons-t550496.html

Regarding Magic Find I've watched streamers who claim that you will find more (high) runes with absolutely no MF. Some optimize gear to lower MF purposely. So if you are rune farming MF either does not matter or may possibly even be working against you.

This means you can just run with whatever MF you get with the best clearing speed gear you have available and not worry. Also 250-300 MF may likely be the best of both worlds for combination farming of items/runes.

Have fun!

Higher or lower MF has no effect on rune drops, with

The Countess being the only exception due to how her and only her loottable works.

Apart from that, Grief is a very good weapon, but not mandatory for a

Frenzy barb to start playing the build.

A viable MH would be

Doombringer or

Lightsabre. Lawbringer in a

Phase Blade for the OH.

I was able to make a successful

Frenzy barb with just double Oath ethereal Barlog

Blade. Hits like a truck, and if you pair it with a Duress body armor, you will be able to clear

Travincal in decent time.

Later on, you could update to Death, and ultimately, once you find

Lo, a Grief. Dont forget a double leech ring.

Thank y’all. I’m not solely looking for runes so I’d like to have a mix of clear effiency for rune drops and 250-300mf for drops and

Find Item

Death concerns me a little with the chance to shatter corpses

I have a

Lightsabre and can make a Lawbringer pretty easily maybe that’s what I’ll start with.

I also wish there was a good

Double Axe weapon selection! I just like the look more… so tired of looking at phase blades!

Oath and Death maybe?

Oath Ethereal Bezerker

Axe would hit very hard, but rolling 4 sockets on ethereal may bee too expensive

Would I be handicapping myself if I went axes and not swords with Lawbringer ?

Unfortunately, Lawbringer will make the corpses rest in Peace, which means you won't be able to hork any monsters you kill.. a bit counter-productive here imo

Ya I saw that… what is deterring me from Death as well but will I really be killing that many monsters with my offhand? If it’s that detrimental that’s a good argument for me to go axes anyway!

Off hand or not, it works like

Nature's Peace or

Tyrael's Might, it'll still make corpses disappear

the mod only work on those monsters you final hit by the Lawbringer sword. the rest you can hork. so if you got Oath or better you will still hork nearly all of the monsters.

I do a lot of

Frenzy barb

Travincal runs, with huge success. Owing the majority of my D2 Wealth to Zarbarian. Anyway, dual Grief is nice, see posts above. Just have to add, make sure you get rid of all cold damage to

Find Item (hork) the bodies. 20% of cold damage deaths shatter, and that is no good. I

Cham my arreat face to avoid ravenfrost.

Well I'm doing this thing... Now I need an Ethereal

Colossus Blade 6os and a

Zod so I can make BOTD. Anyone have those? If so hit me up!

ebotd zerker

Axe and a etheral

Lacerator is my go to

Frenzy weapons.

Lacerator for amp damge and you will wreck everything in your path, including phys immunes.

axes are def > than swords

for horking i use 2 isted warcry swords on switch.

gives +6 to

Find Item also and boosts your mf.

my favourite build.

We’ll shit I’d much rather run axes. You have breathed new light into that option! Thanks… maybe I do that until I think about a Grief.

I was super smart last night and sold my

Lightsabre to Larkzuk! Hah… I was buying different weapons to see what they looked like on my Barb and poof! Now that slimy bastard has it and didnt want to give it back. Maybe that was destiny and it’s time to replace it with a

Lacerator and move to axes.

I guess I need 2

Zod runes then? Daaaamn

Chickenhawk wrote: 2 years ago

ebotd zerker

Axe and a etheral

Lacerator is my go to

Frenzy weapons.

Lacerator for amp damge and you will wreck everything in your path, including phys immunes.

axes are def > than swords

for horking i use 2 isted warcry swords on switch.

gives +6 to

Find Item also and boosts your mf.

my favourite build.

Sounds like a solid build! I haven't tried axes (only PB's so far) but am tempted.. If I ever get

Eth

Lacerator I will have to try converting! That amp damage sounds tasty..

One suggestion I've got for ya is to switch one of your 2 isted warcry swords to a HOTO for the 40% faster cast rate. Makes such a big difference for horking (as well as buffing)! I had been running the 2 isted warcry swords for a longgg time, but just recently swapped one of them for HOTO and runs feel SO much quicker. Lose a little MF, but gain like 2-3 times the horking speed.