Best Barb build for end game level up - Solo offline

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Lyrix 3
RotW Europe PC
2 days ago
Hello,

I play Solo offline, and I have all the gear/runewords. I have tested a few builds, but would like your opinions on what's the best end-game level-up build.
I want to farm exp asap, currently level 85, I chose

Whirlwind and running Chaos in TZ3 or normal 5x players count.
Build:
- 2x Grief
- Enigma
- Arreat with Ancient physical jewel
-LoH gloves
- Gore

Boots
- Highlords amu
- 1x dual leech rings + 1x ravens
-

String of Ears
- Torch + Anni and Max dmg AR GC + 3 max dmg AR SC

Merc: I chose Act 2 with might aura
- Andy's
- Reaper's tolls
- Fortitude

Any recommendation?
User avatar
Tornado_OLO 910
Europe XLinux
2 days ago
If you want to run

Chaos Sanctuary or any other high density map, WW is best.

My timezone is CET/UTC+1.
User avatar
antistygian 2
2 days ago
looks solid, perhaps prebuff with

Demon Limb, if using axes perhaps u want to experiment with a Death in offhand for more cb on higher player counts or bosses, be sure u hit nice attack speed frames, and gl & hf.
OP
User avatar
Lyrix 3
RotW Europe PC
2 days ago

antistygian wrote: 2 days ago
looks solid, perhaps prebuff with

Demon Limb, if using axes perhaps u want to experiment with a Death in offhand for more cb on higher player counts or bosses, be sure u hit nice attack speed frames, and gl & hf.

You mean Grief + Death in PB?
Will try with

Demon Limb yes.
Indeed, I did not check the IAS BP, I thought with the gear, I should be hitting the right one, need to double check.
User avatar
Tornado_OLO 910
Europe XLinux
2 days ago
Death is best in ethereal

Berserker Axe not in

Phase Blade.

My timezone is CET/UTC+1.
OP
User avatar
Lyrix 3
RotW Europe PC
1 day ago

Tornado_OLO wrote: 2 days ago
Death is best in ethereal

Berserker Axe not in

Phase Blade.

I only have maxed out Sword mastery, for Death, I need to allocate points to

Axe Mastery too no? Still worth it?
User avatar
Tornado_OLO 910
Europe XLinux
1 day ago

Lyrix wrote: 1 day ago
I only have maxed out Sword mastery, for Death, I need to allocate points to

Axe Mastery too no? Still worth it?

Better have to make it in an ethereal

Colossus Blade or

Colossus Sword.
Take care, it's a slow runeword.

Death is effective against high hp ennemies.
For

Chaos Sanctuary, Grief may be better unless playing in high /player.

My timezone is CET/UTC+1.
OP
User avatar
Lyrix 3
RotW Europe PC
1 day ago
I am trying the throw barb build running Chaos, it's kind of fun, not sure it's faster than WW
User avatar
Rygar 1
RotW Barbarian Americas PC
1 day ago
I am running a

Double Swing barb and just doing TZ . Same

Helm setup, with Duress/Prudence, Verdungos, Grief/Destruction and off = Lawbringer/

Dreadfang,

Venom Grip/

Blood Gloves, same

Boots, same rings. Only ever had 1

Herald I couldn't kill, but that one had the worsts mods for a melee build.
OP
User avatar
Lyrix 3
RotW Europe PC
22 hours ago

Rygar wrote: 1 day ago
I am running a

Double Swing barb and just doing TZ . Same

Helm setup, with Duress/Prudence, Verdungos, Grief/Destruction and off = Lawbringer/

Dreadfang,

Venom Grip/

Blood Gloves, same

Boots, same rings. Only ever had 1

Herald I couldn't kill, but that one had the worsts mods for a melee build.

You do TZ one player count or more?

I tried with

Dreadfang, but it's a bit clunky with WW, since I have to use a different attack to proc Amp, then start WW.
Have

Dreadfang on Act 5 merc is kind of bad as the

Shout overrides Amp. With the downtime, I don't think it's better than Act 2 with Might + Reaper's toll

I need to test out more weapon combinations vs just 2x Griefs
User avatar
antistygian 2
18 hours ago
I would, realy think hard before commiting to spend runes for a Death in a pb, the damage is going to suffer! , Tornaldo said the most important, I would look at attack speed before commiting to roll the runewords, i would select the collosus sword it has the most damage,

Colossus Blade has a bit more attack speed, they both have the same range so should not cause any issue having one of each equiped. likely the pb dual Grief setup is going to be the most effective for most scenarios, the optimized p8 solo tz, boss killer xp farmer will require

Sacrifice and work. be sure to use a

Eth sword if making the Death, massive extra damage, good luck with your barb
User avatar
antistygian 2
18 hours ago
Rygar,

Shout should not be able to overwrite amp.

Shout is a buff for you and your party, amp is a curse aplied to enemies, perhaps you ment

Taunt?
User avatar
antistygian 2
18 hours ago
btw I would also make sure to have a pair of

Blood Gloves for crushing blow laying around for a quick switch if you want to do maps without many demons, ex tz cows, canyon of magi and

Tal rashas tombs
OP
User avatar
Lyrix 3
RotW Europe PC
11 hours ago

antistygian wrote: 18 hours ago
I would, realy think hard before commiting to spend runes for a Death in a pb, the damage is going to suffer! , Tornaldo said the most important, I would look at attack speed before commiting to roll the runewords, i would select the collosus sword it has the most damage,

Colossus Blade has a bit more attack speed, they both have the same range so should not cause any issue having one of each equiped. likely the pb dual Grief setup is going to be the most effective for most scenarios, the optimized p8 solo tz, boss killer xp farmer will require

Sacrifice and work. be sure to use a

Eth sword if making the Death, massive extra damage, good luck with your barb
Expand quote

Even with the current 2x Grief, I think P8 TZ Chaos would be too slow. I run P3 or P5 TZ Chaos, the speed is acceptable. The problem with Chaos is all the undead that won't give me a corpse to put the totem (I forgot the name) to add extra damage, only those pitlords' would allow me to do so, increasing the damage significantly (+

Decrepify from Reapers).
OP
User avatar
Lyrix 3
RotW Europe PC
11 hours ago

antistygian wrote: 18 hours ago
Rygar,

Shout should not be able to overwrite amp.

Shout is a buff for you and your party, amp is a curse aplied to enemies, perhaps you ment

Taunt?

Yes, I said

Shout for everything that comes out of the mouth

Taunt is the only skill from that Merc ^^
OP
User avatar
Lyrix 3
RotW Europe PC
11 hours ago

antistygian wrote: 18 hours ago
btw I would also make sure to have a pair of

Blood Gloves for crushing blow laying around for a quick switch if you want to do maps without many demons, ex tz cows, canyon of magi and

Tal rashas tombs

Yes I have a pair of 20/10. But for Chaos, I keep LoH of course.
User avatar
Tornado_OLO 910
Europe XLinux
3 hours ago
For

Chaos Sanctuary, Lawbringer or

Azurewrath with

Sanctuary Aura are dope.

With it, you deal hudge damage and you can leech from undeads.

That's cheap, you really should give a try.

My timezone is CET/UTC+1.
OP
User avatar
Lyrix 3
RotW Europe PC
1 hour ago

Tornado_OLO wrote: 3 hours ago
For

Chaos Sanctuary, Lawbringer or

Azurewrath with

Sanctuary Aura are dope.

With it, you deal hudge damage and you can leech from undeads.

That's cheap, you really should give a try.

I need to test it out, which is better Lawbringer or

Azurewrath? To be paired with a Grief right? You think it will be better than 2x griefs?

Tornado_OLO wrote: 1 hour ago

Icee913 wrote: 2 hours ago

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Best Barb build for end game level up - Solo offline
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2

User avatar
Lyrix 3
RotW Europe PC
2 days ago
Hello,

I play Solo offline, and I have all the gear/runewords. I have tested a few builds, but would like your opinions on what's the best end-game level-up build.
I want to farm exp asap, currently level 85, I chose

Whirlwind and running Chaos in TZ3 or normal 5x players count.
Build:
- 2x Grief
- Enigma
- Arreat with Ancient physical jewel
-LoH gloves
- Gore

Boots
- Highlords amu
- 1x dual leech rings + 1x ravens
-

String of Ears
- Torch + Anni and Max dmg AR GC + 3 max dmg AR SC

Merc: I chose Act 2 with might aura
- Andy's
- Reaper's tolls
- Fortitude

Any recommendation?
User avatar
Tornado_OLO 910
Europe XLinux
2 days ago
If you want to run

Chaos Sanctuary or any other high density map, WW is best.

My timezone is CET/UTC+1.
User avatar
antistygian 2
2 days ago
looks solid, perhaps prebuff with

Demon Limb, if using axes perhaps u want to experiment with a Death in offhand for more cb on higher player counts or bosses, be sure u hit nice attack speed frames, and gl & hf.
OP
User avatar
Lyrix 3
RotW Europe PC
2 days ago

antistygian wrote: 2 days ago
looks solid, perhaps prebuff with

Demon Limb, if using axes perhaps u want to experiment with a Death in offhand for more cb on higher player counts or bosses, be sure u hit nice attack speed frames, and gl & hf.

You mean Grief + Death in PB?
Will try with

Demon Limb yes.
Indeed, I did not check the IAS BP, I thought with the gear, I should be hitting the right one, need to double check.
User avatar
Tornado_OLO 910
Europe XLinux
2 days ago
Death is best in ethereal

Berserker Axe not in

Phase Blade.

My timezone is CET/UTC+1.
OP
User avatar
Lyrix 3
RotW Europe PC
1 day ago

Tornado_OLO wrote: 2 days ago
Death is best in ethereal

Berserker Axe not in

Phase Blade.

I only have maxed out Sword mastery, for Death, I need to allocate points to

Axe Mastery too no? Still worth it?
User avatar
Tornado_OLO 910
Europe XLinux
1 day ago

Lyrix wrote: 1 day ago
I only have maxed out Sword mastery, for Death, I need to allocate points to

Axe Mastery too no? Still worth it?

Better have to make it in an ethereal

Colossus Blade or

Colossus Sword.
Take care, it's a slow runeword.

Death is effective against high hp ennemies.
For

Chaos Sanctuary, Grief may be better unless playing in high /player.

My timezone is CET/UTC+1.
OP
User avatar
Lyrix 3
RotW Europe PC
1 day ago
I am trying the throw barb build running Chaos, it's kind of fun, not sure it's faster than WW
User avatar
Rygar 1
RotW Barbarian Americas PC
1 day ago
I am running a

Double Swing barb and just doing TZ . Same

Helm setup, with Duress/Prudence, Verdungos, Grief/Destruction and off = Lawbringer/

Dreadfang,

Venom Grip/

Blood Gloves, same

Boots, same rings. Only ever had 1

Herald I couldn't kill, but that one had the worsts mods for a melee build.
OP
User avatar
Lyrix 3
RotW Europe PC
22 hours ago

Rygar wrote: 1 day ago
I am running a

Double Swing barb and just doing TZ . Same

Helm setup, with Duress/Prudence, Verdungos, Grief/Destruction and off = Lawbringer/

Dreadfang,

Venom Grip/

Blood Gloves, same

Boots, same rings. Only ever had 1

Herald I couldn't kill, but that one had the worsts mods for a melee build.

You do TZ one player count or more?

I tried with

Dreadfang, but it's a bit clunky with WW, since I have to use a different attack to proc Amp, then start WW.
Have

Dreadfang on Act 5 merc is kind of bad as the

Shout overrides Amp. With the downtime, I don't think it's better than Act 2 with Might + Reaper's toll

I need to test out more weapon combinations vs just 2x Griefs
User avatar
antistygian 2
18 hours ago
I would, realy think hard before commiting to spend runes for a Death in a pb, the damage is going to suffer! , Tornaldo said the most important, I would look at attack speed before commiting to roll the runewords, i would select the collosus sword it has the most damage,

Colossus Blade has a bit more attack speed, they both have the same range so should not cause any issue having one of each equiped. likely the pb dual Grief setup is going to be the most effective for most scenarios, the optimized p8 solo tz, boss killer xp farmer will require

Sacrifice and work. be sure to use a

Eth sword if making the Death, massive extra damage, good luck with your barb
User avatar
antistygian 2
18 hours ago
Rygar,

Shout should not be able to overwrite amp.

Shout is a buff for you and your party, amp is a curse aplied to enemies, perhaps you ment

Taunt?
User avatar
antistygian 2
18 hours ago
btw I would also make sure to have a pair of

Blood Gloves for crushing blow laying around for a quick switch if you want to do maps without many demons, ex tz cows, canyon of magi and

Tal rashas tombs
OP
User avatar
Lyrix 3
RotW Europe PC
11 hours ago

antistygian wrote: 18 hours ago
I would, realy think hard before commiting to spend runes for a Death in a pb, the damage is going to suffer! , Tornaldo said the most important, I would look at attack speed before commiting to roll the runewords, i would select the collosus sword it has the most damage,

Colossus Blade has a bit more attack speed, they both have the same range so should not cause any issue having one of each equiped. likely the pb dual Grief setup is going to be the most effective for most scenarios, the optimized p8 solo tz, boss killer xp farmer will require

Sacrifice and work. be sure to use a

Eth sword if making the Death, massive extra damage, good luck with your barb
Expand quote

Even with the current 2x Grief, I think P8 TZ Chaos would be too slow. I run P3 or P5 TZ Chaos, the speed is acceptable. The problem with Chaos is all the undead that won't give me a corpse to put the totem (I forgot the name) to add extra damage, only those pitlords' would allow me to do so, increasing the damage significantly (+

Decrepify from Reapers).
OP
User avatar
Lyrix 3
RotW Europe PC
11 hours ago

antistygian wrote: 18 hours ago
Rygar,

Shout should not be able to overwrite amp.

Shout is a buff for you and your party, amp is a curse aplied to enemies, perhaps you ment

Taunt?

Yes, I said

Shout for everything that comes out of the mouth

Taunt is the only skill from that Merc ^^
OP
User avatar
Lyrix 3
RotW Europe PC
11 hours ago

antistygian wrote: 18 hours ago
btw I would also make sure to have a pair of

Blood Gloves for crushing blow laying around for a quick switch if you want to do maps without many demons, ex tz cows, canyon of magi and

Tal rashas tombs

Yes I have a pair of 20/10. But for Chaos, I keep LoH of course.
User avatar
Tornado_OLO 910
Europe XLinux
3 hours ago
For

Chaos Sanctuary, Lawbringer or

Azurewrath with

Sanctuary Aura are dope.

With it, you deal hudge damage and you can leech from undeads.

That's cheap, you really should give a try.

My timezone is CET/UTC+1.
OP
User avatar
Lyrix 3
RotW Europe PC
1 hour ago

Tornado_OLO wrote: 3 hours ago
For

Chaos Sanctuary, Lawbringer or

Azurewrath with

Sanctuary Aura are dope.

With it, you deal hudge damage and you can leech from undeads.

That's cheap, you really should give a try.

I need to test it out, which is better Lawbringer or

Azurewrath? To be paired with a Grief right? You think it will be better than 2x griefs?

Lawbringer if you want the higher

Sanctuary Aura.

A lvl 18

Sanctuary Aura provides you +660% ed and +950 AR against undeads.
It also pierces physical immunity.

That's just BIS for

Chaos Sanctuary and imho better than double Grief for that map.

So Grief + Lawbringer is the way i'd go.

https://www.theamazonbasin.com/wiki/ind ... ry_(skill)

Tornado_OLO wrote: 1 hour ago

Icee913 wrote: 2 hours ago

Forums Best Barb build for end game level up - Solo offline
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Best Barb build for end game level up - Solo offline
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2

User avatar
Lyrix 3
RotW Europe PC
2 days ago
Hello,

I play Solo offline, and I have all the gear/runewords. I have tested a few builds, but would like your opinions on what's the best end-game level-up build.
I want to farm exp asap, currently level 85, I chose

Whirlwind and running Chaos in TZ3 or normal 5x players count.
Build:
- 2x Grief
- Enigma
- Arreat with Ancient physical jewel
-LoH gloves
- Gore

Boots
- Highlords amu
- 1x dual leech rings + 1x ravens
-

String of Ears
- Torch + Anni and Max dmg AR GC + 3 max dmg AR SC

Merc: I chose Act 2 with might aura
- Andy's
- Reaper's tolls
- Fortitude

Any recommendation?
User avatar
Tornado_OLO 910
Europe XLinux
2 days ago
If you want to run

Chaos Sanctuary or any other high density map, WW is best.

My timezone is CET/UTC+1.
User avatar
antistygian 2
2 days ago
looks solid, perhaps prebuff with

Demon Limb, if using axes perhaps u want to experiment with a Death in offhand for more cb on higher player counts or bosses, be sure u hit nice attack speed frames, and gl & hf.
OP
User avatar
Lyrix 3
RotW Europe PC
2 days ago

antistygian wrote: 2 days ago
looks solid, perhaps prebuff with

Demon Limb, if using axes perhaps u want to experiment with a Death in offhand for more cb on higher player counts or bosses, be sure u hit nice attack speed frames, and gl & hf.

You mean Grief + Death in PB?
Will try with

Demon Limb yes.
Indeed, I did not check the IAS BP, I thought with the gear, I should be hitting the right one, need to double check.
User avatar
Tornado_OLO 910
Europe XLinux
2 days ago
Death is best in ethereal

Berserker Axe not in

Phase Blade.

My timezone is CET/UTC+1.
OP
User avatar
Lyrix 3
RotW Europe PC
1 day ago

Tornado_OLO wrote: 2 days ago
Death is best in ethereal

Berserker Axe not in

Phase Blade.

I only have maxed out Sword mastery, for Death, I need to allocate points to

Axe Mastery too no? Still worth it?
User avatar
Tornado_OLO 910
Europe XLinux
1 day ago

Lyrix wrote: 1 day ago
I only have maxed out Sword mastery, for Death, I need to allocate points to

Axe Mastery too no? Still worth it?

Better have to make it in an ethereal

Colossus Blade or

Colossus Sword.
Take care, it's a slow runeword.

Death is effective against high hp ennemies.
For

Chaos Sanctuary, Grief may be better unless playing in high /player.

My timezone is CET/UTC+1.
OP
User avatar
Lyrix 3
RotW Europe PC
1 day ago
I am trying the throw barb build running Chaos, it's kind of fun, not sure it's faster than WW
User avatar
Rygar 1
RotW Barbarian Americas PC
1 day ago
I am running a

Double Swing barb and just doing TZ . Same

Helm setup, with Duress/Prudence, Verdungos, Grief/Destruction and off = Lawbringer/

Dreadfang,

Venom Grip/

Blood Gloves, same

Boots, same rings. Only ever had 1

Herald I couldn't kill, but that one had the worsts mods for a melee build.
OP
User avatar
Lyrix 3
RotW Europe PC
22 hours ago

Rygar wrote: 1 day ago
I am running a

Double Swing barb and just doing TZ . Same

Helm setup, with Duress/Prudence, Verdungos, Grief/Destruction and off = Lawbringer/

Dreadfang,

Venom Grip/

Blood Gloves, same

Boots, same rings. Only ever had 1

Herald I couldn't kill, but that one had the worsts mods for a melee build.

You do TZ one player count or more?

I tried with

Dreadfang, but it's a bit clunky with WW, since I have to use a different attack to proc Amp, then start WW.
Have

Dreadfang on Act 5 merc is kind of bad as the

Shout overrides Amp. With the downtime, I don't think it's better than Act 2 with Might + Reaper's toll

I need to test out more weapon combinations vs just 2x Griefs
User avatar
antistygian 2
18 hours ago
I would, realy think hard before commiting to spend runes for a Death in a pb, the damage is going to suffer! , Tornaldo said the most important, I would look at attack speed before commiting to roll the runewords, i would select the collosus sword it has the most damage,

Colossus Blade has a bit more attack speed, they both have the same range so should not cause any issue having one of each equiped. likely the pb dual Grief setup is going to be the most effective for most scenarios, the optimized p8 solo tz, boss killer xp farmer will require

Sacrifice and work. be sure to use a

Eth sword if making the Death, massive extra damage, good luck with your barb
User avatar
antistygian 2
18 hours ago
Rygar,

Shout should not be able to overwrite amp.

Shout is a buff for you and your party, amp is a curse aplied to enemies, perhaps you ment

Taunt?
User avatar
antistygian 2
18 hours ago
btw I would also make sure to have a pair of

Blood Gloves for crushing blow laying around for a quick switch if you want to do maps without many demons, ex tz cows, canyon of magi and

Tal rashas tombs
OP
User avatar
Lyrix 3
RotW Europe PC
11 hours ago

antistygian wrote: 18 hours ago
I would, realy think hard before commiting to spend runes for a Death in a pb, the damage is going to suffer! , Tornaldo said the most important, I would look at attack speed before commiting to roll the runewords, i would select the collosus sword it has the most damage,

Colossus Blade has a bit more attack speed, they both have the same range so should not cause any issue having one of each equiped. likely the pb dual Grief setup is going to be the most effective for most scenarios, the optimized p8 solo tz, boss killer xp farmer will require

Sacrifice and work. be sure to use a

Eth sword if making the Death, massive extra damage, good luck with your barb
Expand quote

Even with the current 2x Grief, I think P8 TZ Chaos would be too slow. I run P3 or P5 TZ Chaos, the speed is acceptable. The problem with Chaos is all the undead that won't give me a corpse to put the totem (I forgot the name) to add extra damage, only those pitlords' would allow me to do so, increasing the damage significantly (+

Decrepify from Reapers).
OP
User avatar
Lyrix 3
RotW Europe PC
11 hours ago

antistygian wrote: 18 hours ago
Rygar,

Shout should not be able to overwrite amp.

Shout is a buff for you and your party, amp is a curse aplied to enemies, perhaps you ment

Taunt?

Yes, I said

Shout for everything that comes out of the mouth

Taunt is the only skill from that Merc ^^
OP
User avatar
Lyrix 3
RotW Europe PC
11 hours ago

antistygian wrote: 18 hours ago
btw I would also make sure to have a pair of

Blood Gloves for crushing blow laying around for a quick switch if you want to do maps without many demons, ex tz cows, canyon of magi and

Tal rashas tombs

Yes I have a pair of 20/10. But for Chaos, I keep LoH of course.
User avatar
Tornado_OLO 910
Europe XLinux
3 hours ago
For

Chaos Sanctuary, Lawbringer or

Azurewrath with

Sanctuary Aura are dope.

With it, you deal hudge damage and you can leech from undeads.

That's cheap, you really should give a try.

My timezone is CET/UTC+1.
OP
User avatar
Lyrix 3
RotW Europe PC
1 hour ago

Tornado_OLO wrote: 3 hours ago
For

Chaos Sanctuary, Lawbringer or

Azurewrath with

Sanctuary Aura are dope.

With it, you deal hudge damage and you can leech from undeads.

That's cheap, you really should give a try.

I need to test it out, which is better Lawbringer or

Azurewrath? To be paired with a Grief right? You think it will be better than 2x griefs?

Lawbringer if you want the higher

Sanctuary Aura.

A lvl 18

Sanctuary Aura provides you +660% ed and +950 AR against undeads.
It also pierces physical immunity.

That's just BIS for

Chaos Sanctuary and imho better than double Grief for that map.

So Grief + Lawbringer is the way i'd go.

https://www.theamazonbasin.com/wiki/ind ... ry_(skill)