Grief Colossus Sword "Change my Mind"

I don't care about

Phase Blade having faster attack speed or being indestructible.

Phase Blade looks fine on a paladin or anyone else, but it looks horrible in the hands of a barbarian.
I found my 2nd

Lo(smitter got the first Grief pb first), just need 1 more to make 2 Grief

Colossus Blade for the

Frenzy baba.
try to change my mind to not use

Colossus Blade, but you won't be able to.
looks>>>>dps

my baba is currently running around with dual

Eth Oath

Highland Blade/

Balrog Blade.

I have seen plenty of dual Grief

Phase Blade barbarians, and even if they rape everything on the screen, they look hilarious running around with tiny swords in each hand.
I mean just fucking look at this shit lol.

My vote for

Colossus Blade.
I mean, it is obvious what

Fara is thinking right now.

Forgot swords and go for

Berserker Axe

best looking base is the

Zweihander, also fast base speed

Tornado_OLO wrote: 1 day ago

Forgot swords and go for

Berserker Axe

sorry axes look like shit, also I will always favor the swords.
sword&shield>2handed sword>dual swords>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>everything else.

Looks are secondary to performance. Well, at least that was the mantra 25 years back. I have no reason to think or believe otherwise today.

bigbikefan wrote: 21 hours ago

Looks are secondary to performance. Well, at least that was the mantra 25 years back. I have no reason to think or believe otherwise today.

no, the reason my druid is not using hoto, is because flails looks like shit, the day you can make hoto in a sword I will use it.
I made Enigma in full plate armor just for the looks, I don't give a fuck if the armor requires 80 str, necro can still wear it having 0 points in str.

MintBlancmanche wrote: 21 hours ago

bigbikefan wrote: 21 hours ago

Looks are secondary to performance. Well, at least that was the mantra 25 years back. I have no reason to think or believe otherwise today.

no, the reason my druid is not using hoto, is because flails looks like shit, the day you can make hoto in a sword I will use it.
I made Enigma in full plate armor just for the looks, I don't give a fuck if the armor requires 80 str, necro can still wear it having 0 points in str.
FPM NIGMA.jpg

I have good news, you can make HOTO in a staff.

Stofsk wrote: 14 hours ago

MintBlancmanche wrote: 21 hours ago

bigbikefan wrote: 21 hours ago

Looks are secondary to performance. Well, at least that was the mantra 25 years back. I have no reason to think or believe otherwise today.

no, the reason my druid is not using hoto, is because flails looks like shit, the day you can make hoto in a sword I will use it.
I made Enigma in full plate armor just for the looks, I don't give a fuck if the armor requires 80 str, necro can still wear it having 0 points in str.
FPM NIGMA.jpg

I have good news, you can make HOTO in a staff.

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MintBlancmanche wrote: 1 day ago

I have seen plenty of dual Grief

Phase Blade barbarians, and even if they rape everything on the screen, they look hilarious running around with tiny swords in each hand.

Is the longer reach of a

Colossus Blade (compared to a

Phase Blade) a meaningful advantage, or is it just cosmetic?

bigbikefan wrote: 21 hours ago

Looks are secondary to performance. Well, at least that was the mantra 25 years back. I have no reason to think or believe otherwise today.

This. It's an action game, not a fashion show.
Maybe if we had a (limited!) transmog option...

Subjective. I personally think dual PBs looks badass. But I can understand why some people hate the look of certain items.

Same reason why I HATE that my Enigma is in a

Dusk Shroud. At times I have debated putting some runewords in

Ancient Armor just to get the look without the horrendous strength requirement.

It's worth noting that if you would ever switch to

Whirlwind, you would need 37% IAS if using Grief in a

Colossus Blade to reach max hits. With

Colossus Sword you cannot reach them.

I think with the exceptional version of CS, the

Zweihander you need only 30% more ias on your Grief roll, which is more realistic.

MintBlancmanche wrote: 1 day ago

I don't care about

Phase Blade having faster attack speed or being indestructible.
....and even if they rape everything on the screen, they look hilarious running around with tiny swords in each hand.
I mean just fucking look at this shit lol.

I'm with you. Grief is so good that even if you could make it in a "broken

Long Sword" it would still stomp the game. I vote fashion in this case. The min-maxers can chase 12 more DPS, but you'll look more badass.

BigD wrote: 12 hours ago

Subjective. I personally think dual PBs looks badass. But I can understand why some people hate the look of certain items.

Same reason why I HATE that my Enigma is in a

Dusk Shroud. At times I have debated putting some runewords in

Ancient Armor just to get the look without the horrendous strength requirement.

I've been making end game rune words in

Chaos Armor and

Sharktooth Armor for this reason.

mohnstrudellove wrote: 6 hours ago

It's worth noting that if you would ever switch to

Whirlwind, you would need 37% IAS if using Grief in a

Colossus Blade to reach max hits. With

Colossus Sword you cannot reach them.

I think with the exceptional version of CS, the

Zweihander you need only 30% more ias on your Grief roll, which is more realistic.

It is not true anymore, since they reworked WW. Now it needs more IAS and off weapon IAS works for it (for example 2xgriefCB needs 75ias, which can be covered like 20LoH, 20HL, 35ias on Grief rolls).

PB is still the best base, since now WW is affected by slowing effects of

Decrepify and

Holy Freeze. With dual PBs it is easy to reach 5fpa hitchecks even when cursed.

Oh I have always loved how the barbarian looks so dang cool with one 2 handed sword in each hand ever since the launch of the original D2 in 2000 Back then it was dual

Doombringer. Right now it's dual Grandfather.
I just think my barb would look better in a

Shadow Plate, but I can't neglect that his

Sacred Armor has better stats

Nicconille wrote: 4 hours ago

Oh I have always loved how the barbarian looks so dang cool with one 2 handed sword in each hand ever since the launch of the original D2 in 2000 Back then it was dual

Doombringer. Right now it's dual Grandfather.
I just think my barb would look better in a

Shadow Plate, but I can't neglect that his

Sacred Armor has better stats

found 2 grandfather but they are too slow and as weapon they only have damage, the rest of the skills are crap, even when

Shael'd, currently running 2

Eth Oath and shadowplate Treachery xD

my ww barb has Enigma in a

Kraken Shell because it's my favorite looking armor on barbs. and I use berserker axes and i also have a ebotd

Colossus Blade with a Death

Colossus Sword i use from time to time that look incredible

uuee wrote: 4 hours ago

mohnstrudellove wrote: 6 hours ago

It's worth noting that if you would ever switch to

Whirlwind, you would need 37% IAS if using Grief in a

Colossus Blade to reach max hits. With

Colossus Sword you cannot reach them.

I think with the exceptional version of CS, the

Zweihander you need only 30% more ias on your Grief roll, which is more realistic.

It is not true anymore, since they reworked WW. Now it needs more IAS and off weapon IAS works for it (for example 2xgriefCB needs 75ias, which can be covered like 20LoH, 20HL, 35ias on Grief rolls).

PB is still the best base, since now WW is affected by slowing effects of

Decrepify and

Holy Freeze. With dual PBs it is easy to reach 5fpa hitchecks even when cursed.

I heard that too, that they reworked it, but either maxroll.gg does not reflect those changes yet, or it doesn't work for this skill. If you try to stack off weapon IAS, it simply won't cut it for the WW hit breakpoints. Even if you consider dimishing return, which is huge and put all your gear towards IAS and add a Faith bow A1 merc, you won't reach the last breakpoint (4).

mohnstrudellove wrote: 1 hour ago

I heard that too, that they reworked it, but either maxroll.gg does not reflect those changes yet, or it doesn't work for this skill. If you try to stack off weapon IAS, it simply won't cut it for the WW hit breakpoints. Even if you consider dimishing return, which is huge and put all your gear towards IAS and add a Faith bow A1 merc, you won't reach the last breakpoint (4).

yep, maxroll is wrong about that:)