The cold damage is going to be very low because you don't have Holy Freeze synergies or Cold Mastery, so I would stick to physical damage gear
Maxroll says the pulse damage is going to be ~100 (~50 x 2 items equipped), and the cold damage added to each attack is ~250. That's <5% of your overall damage for Frenzy. If you get good rolls on the -enemy cold res, and you only farm areas without cold immunes, then you double that damage, but that's still not a lot
Perfect nightwings gets your damage to ~680. At best, adding Infinity on top can get your cold damage vs. non-immunes up to...680, because enemy cold resistance can't go lower than -100. On the other hand, most cold immunes can't be broken by Infinity, so it also doesn't help you there
But if you run gface and reaper's toll merc instead, you are boosting your much stronger physical damage
I guess Frenzy makes more sense, because you can proc Volcano. Again not much damage, but fun
That's my guess, but hope you try it and hope it's a blast
If you, despite all sanity, want to go down the cold path, you can can consider replacing one of your Doom weapons with Rift and cast lvl 21 frozen orbs. Then, go with Nightwing and maybe a 20/20 cold armor.
You can further stack lots of cold damage charms. Nobody else uses them so they will be cheap - you just need to find people who pick them up and sell them to you. Infinity on Merc obviously.
Will it be good? No. Will it be fun? Yes! At least for a short time. Fireball barb was the most fun I had with d2r. For about 5 minutes.
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I did this little comparison some time ago, don't know if it will help you but there you go
I would say go for it and write us your impressions (as it is something that interests me as well to try one day!)
Note: all of those dmgs are vs Dummy on maxroll which I usually don't do (I almost always try to 'test' dmg vs Hell Diablo/Baal)
P.S. Resistances are without any res SCs and with the min. Torch and Anni (I also always do the minimum rolls on everything because that's more accurate/meaningful/relevant then -- you'll always have at least those values).
P.P.S. They are all done with FULL Fire/Cold/Lightning gear as in all Holy runewords for that element if possible and all other stuff to maximize dmg. Some changes would probably make them even more powerful or at least more balanced (for example Chains of Honor instead of Dragon in some Fire cases, or using Enigma for tele, etc.) but I oriented mainly on pushing that elemental dmg and even with that, as you can see, many of them still do Physical more than anything else...
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I'd say there is no point in using 2xdoomBA for pvm. If you really need the HF aura; 2xgriefPB still does way more dmg with a HF merc than 2xdoomBA with a might merc. On top of that: No constant repairs, max speed Berserk, much more ias stack vs decrep curse, lower costs.
I'd say there is no point in using 2xdoomBA for pvm. If you really need the HF aura; 2xgriefPB still does way more dmg with a HF merc than 2xdoomBA with a might merc. On top of that: No constant repairs, max speed Berserk, much more ias stack vs decrep curse, lower costs.
Not sure his intention is to compete with dual Grief...
I'd say there is no point in using 2xdoomBA for pvm. If you really need the HF aura; 2xgriefPB still does way more dmg with a HF merc than 2xdoomBA with a might merc. On top of that: No constant repairs, max speed Berserk, much more ias stack vs decrep curse, lower costs.
But doesn't that beats the purpose? I think OP was looking to make a Cold Barb not a boring 99% double Grief one (that everyone use) I might be wrong here because I get way too excited whenever I see someone having an idea about some niche off-meta build (not even plain off-meta but also something completely different).
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Someone much smarter than me already said once: "The real value of something doesn't reflect in a number of how much a seller can ask for it, but on how much a buyer is willing to pay."
I'd say there is no point in using 2xdoomBA for pvm. If you really need the HF aura; 2xgriefPB still does way more dmg with a HF merc than 2xdoomBA with a might merc. On top of that: No constant repairs, max speed Berserk, much more ias stack vs decrep curse, lower costs.
But doesn't that beats the purpose? I think OP was looking to make a Cold Barb not a boring 99% double Grief one (that everyone use) I might be wrong here because I get way too excited whenever I see someone having an idea about some niche off-meta build (not even plain off-meta but also something completely different).
The reason why "Cold barb" as a purpose doesn't work was already explained by @marl71, so I just told him a more effective way to have HF
IMO off meta is not sg. that could be built much more effectively, just something that we rarely see because other variants off the class are more popular (like a fire trapper or any kind of bear...)
I'd say there is no point in using 2xdoomBA for pvm. If you really need the HF aura; 2xgriefPB still does way more dmg with a HF merc than 2xdoomBA with a might merc. On top of that: No constant repairs, max speed Berserk, much more ias stack vs decrep curse, lower costs.
But doesn't that beats the purpose? I think OP was looking to make a Cold Barb not a boring 99% double Grief one (that everyone use) I might be wrong here because I get way too excited whenever I see someone having an idea about some niche off-meta build (not even plain off-meta but also something completely different).
The reason why "Cold barb" as a purpose doesn't work was already explained by @marl71, so I just told him a more effective way to have HF
IMO off meta is not sg. that could be built much more effectively, just something that we rarely see because other variants off the class are more popular (like a fire trapper or any kind of bear...)
Weeeeell, from my own experience it wouldn't be THAT bad. Yes you don't get the synergies thus lowering everything drastically, but I just put in my Ice Pala ranger on maxroll and it turns out he had about 7.4k dps (of which 6k was Cold) vs Dummy (even if I was using [which I really don't think I was but it was a long time ago] self Holy Freeze + Infinity + Ice which is a way stronger option, it would still do about 17k dps of which 15.2k would be Cold) and my table says that dual DoomFrenzy Cold Barb should have around 28k (of which 3.8k should be Cold) just to put things in a perspective. And I went thru whole game without much issues with my ranger Pali, ofc it was on players 1 because I mostly play solo on online nl. I even did DClone twice which did took a lot of time and a stash full of rejuvs to do, but it wasn't impossible...
But yeah, I can see your point to some extent.
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