Preferred offhand sword for WW Barb (Trav horker exclusive)

Ok so I'm almost done building my Trav horker for single player. Grief main hand. I will NOT be making Breath of the Dying (which is my offhand for online barb) since I'd rather use my

Zod elsewhere.

There seems to be a plethora of options, but I want to see what y'all use. The caveat is I don't want any cold damage on the weapon (shattered corpses bad). My merc will be using

The Reaper's Toll (cold damage, I know, but this is a minimal issue),

Kira's Guardian, and

Guardian Angel.

I pondered

Dreadfang, but the

Amplify Damage proc is useless if merc is using

Decrepify. Mana leech is somewhat a concern, but not necessarily needed, as I will likely use a dual leech ring.

Oath, Unbending Will, or an upped

Headstriker are what I am seeing as decent options. Anyone have any other ideas that I might like better? Note that high rune access is slim right now, but I can always hold off to find more.

The rest of my gear is pretty standard. Grief,

Arreat's Face (or

Guillaume's Face),

Highlord's Wrath,

Verdungo's Hearty Cord,

Gore Rider,

Laying of Hands, Enigma (or Duress, Treachery, Hustle), Dual Leech ring, SoJ (or something else not yet decided). No

Raven Frost (might

Cham the helmet or get CBF elsewhere if I want it).

Again, this barb will be used for horking

Travincal about 99% of the time. Also, I'd prefer not using dual Grief, as I'd like to use my next

Lo elsewhere. Thanks!

Death in an ethereal

Colossus Sword ?
Will grant you mana leech.

justinman114 wrote: 22 hours ago

Ok so I'm almost done building my Trav horker for single player. Grief main hand. I will NOT be making Breath of the Dying (which is my offhand for online barb) since I'd rather use my

Zod elsewhere.

There seems to be a plethora of options, but I want to see what y'all use. The caveat is I don't want any cold damage on the weapon (shattered corpses bad). My merc will be using

The Reaper's Toll (cold damage, I know, but this is a minimal issue),

Kira's Guardian, and

Guardian Angel.

I pondered

Dreadfang, but the

Amplify Damage proc is useless if merc is using

Decrepify. Mana leech is somewhat a concern, but not necessarily needed, as I will likely use a dual leech ring.

Oath, Unbending Will, or an upped

Headstriker are what I am seeing as decent options. Anyone have any other ideas that I might like better? Note that high rune access is slim right now, but I can always hold off to find more.

The rest of my gear is pretty standard. Grief,

Arreat's Face (or

Guillaume's Face),

Highlord's Wrath,

Verdungo's Hearty Cord,

Gore Rider,

Laying of Hands, Enigma (or Duress, Treachery, Hustle), Dual Leech ring, SoJ (or something else not yet decided). No

Raven Frost (might

Cham the helmet or get CBF elsewhere if I want it).

Again, this barb will be used for horking

Travincal about 99% of the time. Also, I'd prefer not using dual Grief, as I'd like to use my next

Lo elsewhere. Thanks!

Offline I'd probably go with Unbending Will, for the simple reason that it's so cheap.

Would you go for an ethereal base for Oath or do you want to use those charges?

Are you using any guide? I wanted to build a horker, but found the builds a bit weird. Like, there are builds for

Gold finding, horking, Trav farming, I got kinda lost (I never play with barb). Any recommendations?

Lawbringer would be an option maby, it has 7% Life leech lvl 1

Decrepify, only 3 mid tier runes.

You can make it in

Phase Blade or

Cryptic Sword

It's indecently expensive, but my WW Barb likes his Grief + Last Wish combo. LW just offers so many useful offensive and defensive stats

DrunkAkuma wrote: 21 hours ago

Lawbringer would be an option maby

Not really for two reasons :
1/ There are demons so Sanctuary wont proc
2/ You don't want them to rest in Peace because you can't hork them

Tornado_OLO wrote: 22 hours ago

Death in an ethereal

Colossus Sword ?
Will grant you mana leech.

You know, I thought Death had cold damage on it, but it looks like it's just the

Glacial Spike proc chance, which WW won't affect, so maybe this is the way. I assume it won't proc if I smash things with

Berserk, but idk if that alternates weapons. I don't have a spare

Vex right now, however.

vued wrote: 22 hours ago

Would you go for an ethereal base for Oath or do you want to use those charges?

Don't care about the charges, not sure if I have a suitable ethereal base yet though.

mikelessar wrote: 21 hours ago

It's indecently expensive, but my WW Barb likes his Grief + Last Wish combo. LW just offers so many useful offensive and defensive stats

I would love this, but hell will freeze over before I get all those runes on single player. 1

Jah so far!

Baudolino wrote: 21 hours ago

Are you using any guide? I wanted to build a horker, but found the builds a bit weird. Like, there are builds for

Gold finding, horking, Trav farming, I got kinda lost (I never play with barb). Any recommendations?

I basically use all the gear I listed on my online horker, but eBotD for my offhand, and for swap, two double-

Ist-ed Ali-Babas for hork MF. I don't care about

Gold too much, but he gets a lot anyways. For skills, just WW, BO, BC, Sword Mastery, the 4 one point mastery wonders, max

Find Potion, and the rest in

Find Item.

I find that Lawbringer does so ridicilously little damage by itself, so that its Slain monsters rest in Peace stat very seldom obstructs horking (when used as offhand to Grief). But of course occasionally it gets the killing blow, making that particular monster unhorkable. This is from my experience with a low-level (10ish soft points) WW, I doubt it will be different if WW was higher level.

Anyway Lawbringer's main selling points are
1)

Decrepify
2)

Sanctuary Aura removing the physical immunity of ghosts in hell

...none of which matters for OP who already has Reaper's toll in the mix, and there are no phys immune undeads in

Travincal. But, if you would consider replacing

The Reaper's Toll for any reason in the future, the Lawbringer could take its niche without actually disrupting horking much.

Tornado_OLO wrote: 21 hours ago

DrunkAkuma wrote: 21 hours ago

Lawbringer would be an option maby

Not really for two reasons :
1/ There are demons so Sanctuary wont proc
2/ You don't want them to rest in Peace because you can't hork them

WHAT, I did not Know that, I had a Lawbringer on my Act 5 Mercenarys Off hand when playing a WW Barbarina, toguh I did most of the killings, so horked alot, but I never noticed that

DrunkAkuma wrote: 19 hours ago

Tornado_OLO wrote: 21 hours ago

DrunkAkuma wrote: 21 hours ago

Lawbringer would be an option maby

Not really for two reasons :
1/ There are demons so Sanctuary wont proc
2/ You don't want them to rest in Peace because you can't hork them

WHAT, I did not Know that, I had a Lawbringer on my Act 5 Mercenarys Off hand when playing a WW Barbarina, toguh I did most of the killings, so horked alot, but I never noticed that

See my post right above yours. SMRIP applies only if the weapon carrying the stat gets the killing blow, which won't happen often given Lawbringer's low damage. Likely even less so if it is carried by an A5 merc. So it probably obstructed your horking for the occasional monster, but without being noticed (and IMO the Sanctuary and

Decrepify is usually worth that risk).

Reaper's Toll cold damage will make you a sad horker. I use

Dreadfang off-hand (Grief MH) and highly recommend that setup, then find an alternative merc weapon

Baltar wrote: 16 hours ago

Reaper's Toll cold damage will make you a sad horker. I use

Dreadfang off-hand (Grief MH) and highly recommend that setup, then find an alternative merc weapon

It's not a problem, I've been using Reaper's on my online hork merc for ages and I lose maybe 1 corpse every 2 runs on average. Well worth the mass

Decrepify proc! The problem I have with

Dreadfang is that WW does not proc things, so I have to switch to something else to proc instead of just spinning to win.

Lawbringer makes sense if you're planning to fight against undeads like in

Chaos Sanctuary.
Orherwise it's not that relevant.

Your merc will proc amplify with

Dreadfang.

Tornado_OLO wrote: 10 hours ago

Lawbringer makes sense if you're planning to fight against undeads like in

Chaos Sanctuary.
Orherwise it's not that relevant.

Your merc will proc amplify with

Dreadfang.

Hmm, I hadn't considered an a5 merc, I never mess with them and they are still foreign to me! Does he survive hydras? I basically have to use

Guardian Angel and

Kira's Guardian to keep a2 merc alive.

justinman114 wrote: 2 hours ago

Hmm, I hadn't considered an a5 merc

Sorry, I tied a knot in my brain.

Yes, A5 merc is way more tankier than A2. Anyway, don't expect him to stay alive while standing in hydras without hitting.