(Trav) Horkers...what are you?

So I guess we can all agree that horkers and especially trav horkers have more than just one build to pick from.

Frenzy, WW, Zerk, they all work and they all work fairly well, each with its own specific benefits and downsides.

While I've been running a trav zerker for ages now, I was debating a shift and it had me curious as to what the spread across the more common builds is. And who knows, maybe someone's running something else entirely that beats all of them? Convince me!

War Cry/1point

Leap.
My merc does all the killing.

Mine is a fairly standard WW one.
The lack of leech on the Zerker is what I didn't like about that build, so I dropped it.

Double Throw with ethereal

Lacerator and ethereal upped

Deathbit. Act 5 merc for the tanking.
Base 100 vitality the rest in dex so i have 15k-18k attack rating.

Grief + botd as weapons, everything else is for MF or goldfind (I have gear for both)

I have been thinking lately to swap to

Berserk. But I am lazy to do it

mockingbirdreal wrote: 2 years ago

War Cry/1point

Leap.
My merc does all the killing.

I was genuinely hoping for sunders to work for mercs, solely for that.

But since they don't, there's just no decent way to deal with a Stone skinned Ismail in that which kinda kills it. :/

Dual Grief

Frenzy here with upped

Skullder's Ire to avoid frost explosion, I can often run faster to council as I can kill 1 or 2 mobs on the way. 4 isted babas on switch give me a lot of MF with fast enough killing speed. Emilio is not needed here.

As a bonus, with minor stuff change I can farm ubers very efficiently.

BOTD ax, COH armor, umed SS,

Goblin Toe

Boots, LOH gloves, T-Gods

Belt, 230 ar

Raven, Angelics ring and ammy, 3 soc

Avenger Guard +3 bo, umed, and 30 ias.
Base stats
STR: 126
Dex: 160
Vita: 224
Max Bezerk and senergies, ax mastery and BO. 1 point in ww.
8k damage zerk, and 21k attack rating.
Zerk them till you take a little dmg, do a WW or 2, to leach life, and back to zerk.
Also my Uber, D clone killer too.

Default Horker is Zerker (Grief,CoH,

Stormshield, Arreats, Double Dwarfstar, Highlords and Thundergods)

If i got some more time and want MF/GF i use Gavel/Full MF/GF with BotD, Fortitude and Andy Merc

Zerker here. Respeced to WW for an hour to test it out and didn't like it - probably due to the gear I use. I just swapped the 6ist PB for a perfect lightsaber I had. Speed was about the same for me though. Running heavy MF build so I have to do a pit run to refill juvs after about 30 Trav runs.
Grief PB, 6ist PB,

Shako(

Cham), MF rings, Chancies, Travs, Maras. Unfortunately running a Fortitude so I have to be careful not to kill if they get frosted which lasts about a second. Very close to that Enigma upgrade.

Made a quick vid of my WW build for anyone interested:



They were grouped up nice, so that def helps, and I think it took about 10 seconds to kill them all on P1.

Find Item on weapon swap with HotO's gets up to level 45, or 78% chance.

Merc is using

Eth Ariocs Needle + Guillams (Chammed) + Chains of Honor. Will switch his

Helm to

Steel Shade (Chammed) if Terrorized. +11 Fire Absorb makes a huge difference when you get a strong pack of them.

UPDATE:

And here's a demonstration of same build against P3 terrorized Trav (with a nice drop):

I prefer the gameplay and leech from

Whirlwind. I put 1 point in

Frenzy for run speed and 1 point in

Berserk is plenty for physical immunes.

20 in mastery, WW, BO, and

Find Potion. 1 in zerk, speed/stamina/skin/res, the rest is

Find Item. Not usin

Battle Command even.
Grief, CoH, SS, highlord, arreat, LoHs, trang

Belt, gores, bk5 + carrion. Swap is CtA + HotO - does the horkin. Sharps/

Gheed are optional.
Merc: also CoH, decent Insight, and

Ral'd andy.

Mf is low, but I don't give a damn - I'm after runes. No luck yet, but keepin at it.

This is my first horker, he's spec'd Berserker. I've only had him for about 2 weeks. Gear: Grief, PTopaz

Shako, Rhyme Shield, Wealth Armor, LoH Gloves, 2x's

Dwarf Star, TGod's

Belt, War Trav

Boots. On Swap Dual

Ist'd Ali Baba's. My mission for this guy was to get an Enigma for my Hammerdin. Mission accomplished today.

Durga (Act 2 Merc) sports a Perf

Eth Kira's,

Guardian Angel Armor,

Thresher Insight (Also have a reaper's toll on hand). Just started using Durga today as he was dieing without the Kira's. Durga is not really needed.

Each run takes me about 1min 30 sec. But I'm not rushing, that usually entails ID'n items from previous runs, vendoring items, and dropping gold/flawless gems at my stash.

Dropped a

Ber during a terrorized council kill. Horked a

Cham from a trash mob outside the temple. Dropped/Horked a bunch of other uniques that gave me enough runes to trade for a

Jah.

Also just traded for 3 Warcry+life GC's, will see how that makes a difference.

Future mods: Probably will

Cham a

Shako and use a Storm Shield. On swap will probably try dual HoTo's, or maybe HoTo + my

Ist'd Ali Baba.

Have gambled some cool

Coronet's, but no one seems to want them, did trade a few for some

Ist's.

Overall he's pretty fun, he accomplished my goal, now it's time to see what else he can do.

WW Horker here. Fun and tanky.
Dual Griefs, ptopaz

Eth upped skullders, ptopaz arreats, war travs, loh, Trang’s

Belt, highlords, nice 8% ll ring and a dual leech ring. (312% mf)
Dual isted alibaba and hoto on switch. (460+% mf)
Tried dual alibaba’s but just didn’t like how slow he horked without any Fcr.
Act 2 might merc with

Eth upped

Guardian Angel,

Eth Kira’s and

Eth Botd

Giant Thresher. Also very tanky especially with my Bo/shouts.

I have a multi-purpose horker... well not really a dedicated horker, but a pure

Frenzy barb who I switch to MF gear with 1 point in

Find Item. Grief + Ali + Enigma +

Shako. It's not the best returns because not every corpse will spawn an item, but it still works, and have never died.

I guess I'm too lazy to have two barbs. I usually stick to only one of each class.

I play as a WW horker simply because I find this build much more versatile for different situations and tankier overall. Using two PB Grief's 40/393 and 38/391/12ed,

Cham'ed Arreat's, Enigma, Highlord's, War Trav,

Laying of Hands, upped

Goldwrap, one Nagel and LL/ML ring with AR bonus; two HotO's on swap and some skillers to get 75%

Find Item, rest is res and mf SC. If all Trav members grouped up in one place I guess it takes around 10 seconds to kill them all even without merc. And if I getting bored of horking I can easily run any terrorize zone in game, one point in Zerk deals with phys immunes.

I made a Zerker per someones suggestion and to double as a pit/zerker. Honestly haven't done much in pits and mainly run travs. Been at it for a couple weeks (as well as running some other chars) and haven't had a lot of luck until yesterday but it's been alright, 2 ists,

Um, arachs and

Tal Armor during Tzone and a

Tal ammy,

Um and

Pul during normal runs. That is until today when I found my first ever

Jah during normal runs, it has finally payed off haha.

I run Arreats, Grief, SS,Highlords, Gores, Trang

Belt,

Dwarf Star x2 LOH, Enigma with HOTO and

Heart Carver on swap. When it's Tzone I put on a 28 Nagel, Baba instead of SS and Baba instead of Hoto on swap. Also running several 7 mf sc's Anni, Torch and Gheeds.

Not sure what to do with the

Jah yet though. Could use and make a Faith to put on an A1 Merc for my Tesladin but I'm not so sure about that. Not sure what else would be good, maybe a Phoenix since I want to make a Java zon, or trade it down and save for an Infinity.