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Hi there, I'm currently in progress of leveling 'Taxman' who is supposed to collect outstanding tax debt in all of Sanctuary with the purpose to hunt heralds and enforcing double-entry bookkeeping. Did anyone accumulate experience on how to spec / gear a Barb so it can handle the higher level heralds? Should I go for an uber-like spec?

Any tips are highly appreciated!
Kind regards
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Hi there, I'm currently in progress of leveling 'Taxman' who is supposed to collect outstanding tax debt in all of Sanctuary with the purpose to hunt heralds and enforcing double-entry bookkeeping. Did anyone accumulate experience on how to spec / gear a Barb so it can handle the higher level heralds? Should I go for an uber-like spec?

Any tips are highly appreciated!
Kind regards

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Schnorki 5081Moderator

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People keep recommending zerkers for that sort of thing though personally, I've always found
Frenzy
more convenient.
Teleport
in, fear all the little stuff,
Frenzy
down the elite, move on.

The dmg is still perfectly sufficient. And unlike zerkers, you actually leech -> heal yourself so no need to ever bother with pots or the like.

The only thing posing a bit of a possible challenge to a proper
Frenzy
barb is heralds with
Thorns
(which a zerker doesn't need to worry about) but if you run with dracul's,
Life Tap
easily outheals the
Thorns
dmg so once that procs, you're good.
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I never did heralds but
Frenzy
is the best 1v1 build for barb and you can easily handle ubers with it.
So simply
Howl
the enemies then annihilate your target with
Frenzy
.

If you do not have enough life leech, take a
Life Tap
Wand
on your weapons switch.

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Alright, Taxman reached Lvl75 and I got an impression for the first time of how many Elites are actually Physical Immune. Before I find an appropriate Sunder Charm, any options with
Frenzy
are pretty much ruled out.
I will check out
Frenzy
once I can deal with those immunities. Berzerk is a pretty stressful gameplay loop, imho, especially if the motoric automatisms are not there yet...

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Schnorki 5081Moderator

RotW PC
TeleTabitha wrote: 4 weeks ago
Alright, Taxman reached Lvl75 and I got an impression for the first time of how many Elites are actually Physical Immune. Before I find an appropriate Sunder Charm, any options with
Frenzy
are pretty much ruled out.
I will check out
Frenzy
once I can deal with those immunities. Berzerk is a pretty stressful gameplay loop, imho, especially if the motoric automatisms are not there yet...
Frenzy
does have a synergy with
Berserk
that converts up to 20% into magic dmg. Should be plenty to deal with most phys immunes until you get a sunder.
Or get yourself a merc with amp/decrep to break most of those immunities.
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My dual Grief Travhorker does OK against Heralds using
Whirlwind
, but HP of Stone Skin Heralds should be reduced before switching to barb, as they just take too long otherwise, even with sunder. That said, i would add my voice to
Frenzy
as a general recommendation.

But farming TZ with barb is a pain imo, independent of build. I tend to look at today's barb as a very specialized char with
Find Item
as the outstanding feature. I use WW Horker only for
Travincal
/Heralds and Warcry horker only for cows, for example.

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It seems having Taxman run behind a
Nova
sorc to do have his way with the corpses is most efficient for all involved.

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My berserker Pelle could be considered a tax collector of sorts. Farming heralds I have been swapping items around some. I have used him mostly for farming the pit and keys but recently I have been using him for terrorized act 1 where so many of those shards drop. My current set up keep in mind Pelle has made me some of that hard money not that weak fiat currency. Main weapon : Grief -Off hand Last Wish or 6 socket
Phase Blade
with
Ist
runes
Helm
Harlequins crest with
Cham
depending on how tough the farming is you may want to consider using storm shield until you get to some levels things get alot easier around level 90+ .
Belt
String of Ears
amulet high lords
Boots
War Traveler
10 fcr rings with min max dmg and life/mana leech the gloves can be swapped around but mostly i find my self using
Laying of Hands
and of course Enigma Armor on my weapon swap I use
Ist
'ed suicide branches and us that to TP around fast and hork filled inventory sharp grand charms and MF small charms he has 297% mf on Kill and 310% on hork. If i am just doing keys or pit i swap to more mf
Gold
wrap
Belt
chancies for glove and what not. Pelle says "I like the splats and pops." On another note I got tired of swapping for farming the Trav so i leveled up a separate barb for that who is a
Gold
find barb who also finds lots of nice runes he also uses
Berserk
I just find
Berserk
to be more consistent on killing elites in 1 or 2 hits VS
Frenzy
which is lots of fun to play also just not as efficient for me.

LF:HRs,
Perfect Gems
,
Perfect Amethyst
,
Hel
,
Ral
,
Key of Hate
Key of Terror
Key of Destruction
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