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Best Barb spec for sniping Elites and Heralds

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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!
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TeleTabitha `129`

2 weeks ago (pre-Resurrected)

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Schnorki `4916`Moderator

2 weeks ago (pre-Resurrected)

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.

Tornado_OLO `886`

2 weeks ago (pre-Resurrected)

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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TeleTabitha `129`

2 weeks ago (pre-Resurrected)

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 `4916`Moderator

2 weeks ago (pre-Resurrected)

TeleTabitha wrote: 2 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.

Blubbalutsch `791`

2 weeks ago (pre-Resurrected)

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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