Hey DHA, it was mentioned in the video you had made some guides but I looked around on the channel and couldn't find them. Enjoyed the duel videos and dropped a sub. Would love if you could point me to the guides.
Barbs are my least favorite and least played character in all of my diablo 2 time, but i gotta admit, they often kicked my butt in duels across the 20+ years i have been playing this is a redeemable video and makes them seem almost fun to play GG Coooley!
We are on the same page... Needed a LOT of guidance with this 'cause I rarely play barb. Now... He's one of my mains! Love this char. And thank you so much!
Back in 2006 HC ladder I had unlimited resources (clan had a mad botter) and so I built a max life barb. The life got so high that it caused a bug which reset life to half instead of max when healing, so had to reduce life. Max was around 35,000 but I think max allowed without the bug was only around 24,000. I used dedicated enchanter and BO Barb. (around lvl 60bo, lvl 60 enchant (~6500 fire damage). It had two Hand Of Justice scourges, and the rest was resist and fire damage items. Despite being all life and having zero stat points outside vitality, it mowed down anything. It was really funny when people tried to PK it....
@@brandonprice119 57 is around 60. But it doesn't matter. Due to the max life bug we have to reduce life to get more life. Otherwise you can't go about like half or 30%.
Great video, man. I've played off and on for 20 years and had little interest in pvp, let alone making a pvp character, but this now makes me want to make a barb eventually. After I achieve my main PvM build goals, I think I'm going to put some energy into this build in D2R. Thanks!
I had similar one in the past, all perfect, but never used 2 20 helmer, I had permed 08 Valk instead, and I must admit he looked so badass, and killed alot in PVP but was not invincible obviously. Fun character to play it will however be impossible to recreate in D2R, as we no longer have those ultra rare 08 Valks around. I played on US WEST for 6-7 years back in the 2000s.
amazing video! Maybe I'll finally build a barbarian, since he's the class I've played with the least. Please keep up the good work, your content is always great!
I think I still have my "BvA" on USEast. I say that cuz I built him to BvC, but liked wearing a shield instead. Near perf grief Zweihander for style points (same range as Z but cooler looking imo), and an Eld'd SS. People would get so triggered because I wore a shield and wasn't BvB 🤣.Was gonna suggest alt triangle, but you got it covered. Nice vid.
Should have covered left click chain locking tele-zerks, the most fun part about a BvC. Catching sorcs and necros then being accused of Gmod is one of the most satisfying things in pub duels.
i loved playing BVC, used to run a frenzy barb called too-fast with a pair of perfect ebotdz with a few other zerkers to swap for some matchups like beastz, griefz
So hyped for release My hope for Change/re-balance: - basic loot filter - see ilvl - remove basics keys - only one Low Quality item - not "Low Quality, Cracked, Crude and Damaged" - Last Wish Rune Word - remove "Hit Blinds Target" it overwrite Life Tap - Make so "Paladin Smite" does work with Life Steal and Mana Steal - Make so "Paladin Resist Fire, Cold and Lightning" display the hidden bonus to maximum resist - Make so "Assassin Venom" does not cap poisoning duration at 0.4 from other items - Make so "Assassin Fade" does not affects Shrines + display the hidden bonus to Physical Resistance - Make so "Druid Raven" gains 1 additional Raven for each 5 lvl after lvl 5 - Make so "Necromancer Poison Dagger" is Poison Attack - all weapons not only dagger
63 setup with good res setup. Swap one hoto to cta 333 (+1 skill) gives you the extra skill and you get the battle command from the cta (1 more for orders or 1 more for any skill instead)
Completely agree with the bit about being frozen. Can’t tell you how many duels I’ve won just by being frozen because I’ve been able to land way more hits
Love these build videos man! We ever gonna see any DFC season 3 content on this channel? I watched some of it on stream, but there was a lot that I missed out on and was hoping to catch on the YT uploads. :)
@@gettr5565 hahaha, yeah it’s more of an inside joke; Coooley thought he found a Zod rune in the blood moor but someone in his party dropped it to troll him 😂
I would really love to see some new d2r duel videos from you! You could do a whole series covering all classes to help promote the pvp scene in d2r. Some balance changes has been implemented and it would be really helpful to get a full update before building different characters.
Great video! But a suggestion would be to replace wisp and highlord with Angelics, and gloves with cleglaws. The reason you use cleglaws is because most casters build "up to" their breakpoint. Cleglaws generally counters this and drops their BP so they cast slower. 9k AR with grief is fine against sorceress and druid but when dueling with hammerdins or TV's (Foh with smite), the extra AR is extremely useful given they have holy shield and high defence. 👍 If you ever decide to build Auradins, pvp or pvm! Let me know! Been building them for 13 years straight 😉 Great videos
You probably already know Coooley, but the 451 poison charm is useless as soon as venom procs from your grief. Venom shortens all poison attack duration from items to 0.4 seconds; it doesn't frontload all the damage into the 0.4 second window, it only allows that source to inflict its normal damage for 0.4 seconds. So your 451 poison over 12 seconds becomes 15 poison damage over 0.4 seconds when venom is active. If you're just using it to eliminate player regen before your grief has procced, then that's fine. Otherwise you'd get more benefit out of another max/AR/life charm in its place.
Coooley, just a suggestion. As much as Trang ol's gear may be, I would highly suggest switching out those gloves for Dracul's Grasp; +90-120% Enhanced Defense +10-15 To Strength +5-10 Life After Each Kill 25% Chance of Open Wounds 7-10% Life Stolen Per Hit 5% Chance To Cast Level 10 Life Tap On Striking Need I say more. My legit level 96 Elder-lich Necromancer build, oddly enough, has one for special cases in reserve. And another for whenever I want to use on my other characters more melee oriented.
its been years since ive played and was serious about dueling in d2. i swair i rememeber my barb was bva and i had about 11 to 12k back in day. i could just be getting old and not remember correctly but i swair i had about 11 to 12k hp with sword and shield ww barb
When dueling smiter pallys when they stand in place you can actually we just outside of their range and you will be able To hit them but they can’t hit you. And if or when they chase you to hit you just ww away making them chase you that kills them very quickly.
Yo :) decent guide but quite a few flaws if you ask me! Might be something changed since i played some years back, but hoto + cta with atleast 3 bo is better on swap and gives you +1 more bo then Dual hoto :) Also str. bugging your barb should be a good idea :)
Years have passed and people still play d2 and now d2 remaster I wonder if they ever manage to create a game of this level. Maybe now that more people will be able to play d2r will acknowledge what good game means.People have forgotten what good game really means.Not even d4 will be better than d2r remember that
Weapon: Beast Runeword(ANY IAS %)(made in Zerker Axe) Weapon 2:Lawbringer(Phase Blade only)(Decrepy proc to reduc Physical resistance by 50%)...loose Fana ED however(186% ED lost) Weapon 3.1:Grief(ONLY IF GONNA USE BLADE FURY FOR FUN) Weapon 3.2Death:(Eth Zerk axe)..for Blade fury fun as well....rival grief in power due to 50% CB extra and 50% Deadly Strike Shield: Pheonix Shield Runeword Prebuff Weapon Set 1: 3 Shadow Discipline 3 Blade Shield 3 Shadow Warrior Prebuff Weapon Set 2: 3 Shadow Discipline 3 Venom 3 Fade(let Shadow Warrior cast those 2 b4 swap back to CTA) Prebuff Weapon 3: Call to Arm + Spirit Shield runeword Prebuff(Optionnal part)...9 Shadow Disc GC....3 Shadow Disc Amy,Helm..+2 skills armor...Arachnid, SojX2 if you want bonus of +20 SP to Venom, Bladed SHield, Shadow Warrior, BoS Helm: Guillaume Helm(add a 15 IAS 40 Enhanced dmg jewel in it) Armor: Fortitude Runeword Amulet: Rare Amulet(30 Strength 20 Dex 20 All resist 60 Life) Ring 1: Ravenfrost Ring 2: Rare Ring(20 Str 15 Dex 11 All resists 40 Life) Gloves: Steelrend Gloves Belt: Verdungo Boots: Shadow Dancers Charm List Torch Annilus 15X Large Charms(5 Str 8 All resists) 1X Large Charm(5 Str + 52-77 AR) 4X Small Charm(5 FHR 5 All resists) 1X Small Charm(20 Life 5 All resists) ACT 2 MERC(Purchase Offensive from NIGHTMATE DIFFICULTY) Merc Gear Weapon: Pride Armor: Fortitude Helm: Guillaume's Face(Ber Rune) Merc Might aura lvl.....Merc lvl 19-95(lvl 1 at lvl 19...lvl 20 at lvl 95)+1 lvl every 3.85 lvl (lvl 19 might aura at 91...lvl 20 at lvl 95) Assassin Skill Point Distribution(lvl 99 setting) Dragon Talon.....18 points(DO NOT add more)(lvl 23 with gear 4 kicks) ....you DONT WANT that fifth kick(it lock you in place too long) if rare amy has + skill reduce DT by 1-2 points Burst of Speed...1 point(Fade is better) Fade.............20 points(lvl 39 Fade with regular pre-buff)..39% DR & 71 All Resists Dragon Flight....20 points(lvl 25 with gear/charms) Venom............20 points(lvl 39 with regular pre-buff) Shadow Warrior*....20 points(lvl 39 with regular prebuff) Blade Shield.....3 point(lvl 20 with regular pre-buff) junk points......8(to unlock good skills) Total Stats Strenght: +194 points...+170 realisticly(adjust base on dex needed for Max Block) +Str(from gear//Charms) +245(gear+charms)(-40(205) if use Lawbringer) TOTAL STRENGHT: 375-439 Dexterity for Max Block 331(211 points to add IF PERFECT GEAR....235 approx realistic) Dexterity(from gear//Charms) +120(gear+charms)(+10(130) if use Lawbringer) Total Dex 331 +Life from Charms//gear 767-804(gear+charms+base)(Stats points not include) Vitality +100 for 300 life gain but no more(1858-1922 Life is plenty) TOTAL LIFE WITHOUT BO: 1067-1104 Enhanced dmg %(with Beast)...Aura 761%...Gear 760%...159%(Dragon talon)(TOTAL:1680% ED) Enhanced dmg %(with Lawbringer)....1494% total(but get a sexy Decripy proc +660% vs Undead) Enhanced AR % 870%(Beast)..790% with Lawbringer but reduce enemy def by 50% Fire Resist 325% ...cap 85% Lightning Resist 325% ....cap 85% Cold Resist 325%.....cap 75%.....absorb 20% Poison Resist 325%...cap 75% Crushing Blow 65%(45% IF using Lawbringer) FHR 90%(86% for the best breakpoint) DMG Reduction 50%(cap)(39% from Fade 15% dungo) Prevent Monster from healing ? YES(with Beast) NO(Lawbringer) Skill Point...+5 to ALL + 2 to shadow disc Active Aura: Might,Conc,Redemption,(Fana or Sanctuary depending on weap) Dragon talon attack Frame 3-3-3-3-9)Lawbringer in Phase Blade(15% IAS from helm Jewel) Dragon talon attack Frame 3-3-3-3-8)Beast Dragon talon attack Frame 4-4-4-4-10)(if IAS = 0%) Dragon talon attack Frame 3-3-3-3-7)(if IAS = best possible) reducing animation by 5 frames is enough...no need to bother with the last 2 Possible question to ask me: why not Lacerator to reduce mobs physical resistance by 100 instead of by 50% from Lawbringer ? "Slain Monster Stay in Peace" AND -50% def to enemy(since your AR will be sort of low without Angelic ring//Amy) EDIT: Guardian Angel as armor if you wanna bad manner casters(95-95-90-90 and 20 cold sorb in duel but thats your choice :P.....well resists are currently powerfull enough to make conviction do nothing to you :3...lvl 52 Cold Mastery is however not counter(125 lower than needed :S)....only Options i found to deal with it... Phase Blade with 5X + 30% cold resist jewels + either Ber or Um(Open wound 20% or upping CB from 45% to 65%)...i would suggest OW since sorc love running away(Um rune) so they bleed nicely if trigger
Note: Shadow Warrior at lvl 39 got 456 strenght....at lvl lvl 59 it has 708 strenght(if you super pre-buff her you will pretty much nearly double her dmg when she use Dragon talon :)....at lvl 42 her item level is maxed(99)..health difference between 39-59.....2519 - 3647....other stats dont matter so not listed :D......well almost...if she use Fade while you got prebuff gear rising Fade to 50-59 she get a full 50% dmg reduction...making her pretty hard to kill muahaha :D
Cleglaws Gloves gives slow and knockback. Really helps against smiters, especially if they have a phase blade. Zerker axes have a range 3, phase blade is range 2. If you're knocking them back, they constantly have to walk into your melee range before they can attack. You get the first hit. Some say slow is bm but that's usually the butthurt guy.
Last I heard it was only bm vs zons because of the dodge frames. VS anyone else it was fair game. Hell arach has slow on it and that's commonly used. Never once heard knockback was bm.
@@borisdimitrov6674 you don't have that much space in stash so berzerker axe takes up less space as well. Rolling a 39%ias on a colusus blade to hit the last ww breakpoint is expensive as well..
Have we heard of they are following through with the 2.4 runewords moving to non-ladder at the start of 2.5 ladder? If so, this is defiantly an opportunity for content. Personally, I have 6 sets of plague runes and superior claws with 3 os, 3light sentry and 10 enhanced damage. I also have a pair of claws for pvp with 3 os, 2 light sentry and 2 mind blast. Who want to stream making 5 LS claws?
Firstly the barb isnt over 9000 life, i personally had a barb with 8300 hp bvc without the spirit.When we played PvP ,absorb items, and active uses of items were prohibited .So my barb with the spirit would have been over 10k life .Anyway even that i was proffesional PvP player with BvC,Hybrid Assassin and orber i leearned something new -the throw skill lockup and the secret breakpoint otherwise i remember everything else like it was yesterday.Most of the guys which were playing vs these barbs was pretty bad to kill them that easily even without using leap-stun .
Back when I used to play it was BM to wear any absorb gear, I'm surprised to see (as mentioned in your previous videos) that it's GM to wear 1 piece absorb in PVP.
1.10+ it's always been gm to use 1 piece of sorb. it's when people stack multiple sorb items that it becomes bm. which realm did you play on? afaik it was never bm to use 1 piece on east.
@@nycmaxim689 gotcha no worries I believe everyone, I'm not saying anyone is incorrect. I just know I did ALOT of pvp back in the day, used to do 2v2s / 3v3s all the time. The rules were always no absorb / I think nightmare difficulty if I recall correctly I don't know why / one team started at cold plains other at normal entrance. Only rules I kinda remember, it's been 20 years so it's all abit blurry. I've been unlocking core memories all month watching CZcams a on D2 all month excited for 9/23 release. I was on USWest.
@@beau9207 hum, actually I think you are correct for west, I do recall players from west early on saying they do not use any sorb at all, but those same players also said 95% resist was allowed. whereas on east, 1 piece sorb or +10max was always allowed, and +max or sorb were viewed as much of the same kind of thing. and also yeah nm difficulty duels change quite a bunch of things, oak being physical immune on nm but not on hell. I know some communities liked to duel on nm, particularly vtpk on nm, but over time most duels moved to just hell difficulty as the standard. rules were always a bit different on west/east/euro, but over time they became more similar.
@@beau9207 played d2 for over a decade and mainly pvp on us west. 1 sorb was always allowed, difficultly I think nightmare because of the act 5 resist quest bug on death.
Guess it’s time to redo this Video… After the Barb Update everything is different, i even think that the old Spear WW Barb should be a thing again now?
I made a bvc in d2r, and he has a crappy bug that i hope gets fixed, i went pure vita using enigma, ect. my griefZ will not under any circumstance go to my main hand. i can drag and drop, add charms, w.e it just wont go to my main hand. Its only my grief. for example, if i run a ebotdz and edeathz and swap hands, the numbers in charater screen swap hands. grief+any of my weapons it will always put grief in my off hand..so frustrating. so for now im just stashing my griefz..which sucks cus it rolled 396...such a waste. I heard a temp fix is to strip 100% naked, no charms or anything on at all and hard point all your gear, It might work, dont care if it does because losing all that hp to hard points kind of defeats this whole purpose.
@@Coooley this great! I may have to build this. I loved your immortal sorc build. I cant wait to trol pub games with that. Also, what are you most excited for in D2R cooley? Im most excited for each item to have a unique appearance when equipped.
Let's gooooo. So hyped for release. I don't even care if launch goes badly, I'll just play singleplayer.
We playin' this game no matter what!
Fuckin eh! Great video as always man.
Facts
Yeahhh let's gooooooooooooooo
How you feeling now?
"A barbarian that is NOT ONLY viable in PVP... but has 9,000 life."
-Coooley, 2021
Oh man thats almost exactly as i geared my BvC back then ... I had such a good time playin BvC.. Great Video !
Awesome video mate. Finaly got time to watch it all ! Thanks for mentionning me. Keep it up bro 👍
Hey DHA, it was mentioned in the video you had made some guides but I looked around on the channel and couldn't find them. Enjoyed the duel videos and dropped a sub. Would love if you could point me to the guides.
I was waiting for a vegeta over 9000 clip tbh
I almost put one in... But I already make too many dad jokes :P
@@Coooley no such thing bro
Barbs are my least favorite and least played character in all of my diablo 2 time, but i gotta admit, they often kicked my butt in duels across the 20+ years i have been playing this is a redeemable video and makes them seem almost fun to play GG Coooley!
We are on the same page... Needed a LOT of guidance with this 'cause I rarely play barb. Now... He's one of my mains! Love this char. And thank you so much!
I remember back when soj was used as currency to trade. Ah, memories.
Now it's in ists
Back in 2006 HC ladder I had unlimited resources (clan had a mad botter) and so I built a max life barb. The life got so high that it caused a bug which reset life to half instead of max when healing, so had to reduce life. Max was around 35,000 but I think max allowed without the bug was only around 24,000. I used dedicated enchanter and BO Barb. (around lvl 60bo, lvl 60 enchant (~6500 fire damage). It had two Hand Of Justice scourges, and the rest was resist and fire damage items. Despite being all life and having zero stat points outside vitality, it mowed down anything. It was really funny when people tried to PK it....
back in 2006 my barb use ith sword 160-60 100 life armor and full 3/20/20s scs hahaha
So max bo period is 57 but cool story
@@brandonprice119 57 is around 60. But it doesn't matter. Due to the max life bug we have to reduce life to get more life. Otherwise you can't go about like half or 30%.
Great video, man. I've played off and on for 20 years and had little interest in pvp, let alone making a pvp character, but this now makes me want to make a barb eventually. After I achieve my main PvM build goals, I think I'm going to put some energy into this build in D2R. Thanks!
I had similar one in the past, all perfect, but never used 2 20 helmer, I had permed 08 Valk instead, and I must admit he looked so badass, and killed alot in PVP but was not invincible obviously. Fun character to play it will however be impossible to recreate in D2R, as we no longer have those ultra rare 08 Valks around. I played on US WEST for 6-7 years back in the 2000s.
11:14 "Hold Shift and Click on Vitality" lmfao!!! Incredible. Also, the shirt looks good.
The thing I love about your vids is that you explain things so well and have such a good knowledge of the game and the mechanics 👍👍👍
amazing video! Maybe I'll finally build a barbarian, since he's the class I've played with the least. Please keep up the good work, your content is always great!
I appreciate that, man! Barb is very fun! Hard to get it going early game, though
Cannot be frozen
Cooley: We dont do that here
Everytime you say 'BvC' a little too quickly, I chuckle just a little bit
I think I still have my "BvA" on USEast. I say that cuz I built him to BvC, but liked wearing a shield instead. Near perf grief Zweihander for style points (same range as Z but cooler looking imo), and an Eld'd SS. People would get so triggered because I wore a shield and wasn't BvB 🤣.Was gonna suggest alt triangle, but you got it covered. Nice vid.
Should have covered left click chain locking tele-zerks, the most fun part about a BvC. Catching sorcs and necros then being accused of Gmod is one of the most satisfying things in pub duels.
i loved playing BVC, used to run a frenzy barb called too-fast with a pair of perfect ebotdz with a few other zerkers to swap for some matchups like beastz, griefz
just saying when i was dueling, some of that gear was considered BM.. inferno strides, and wisp ring. all in all good coverage. #thumbsup
So hyped for release
My hope for Change/re-balance:
- basic loot filter
- see ilvl
- remove basics keys
- only one Low Quality item - not "Low Quality, Cracked, Crude and Damaged"
- Last Wish Rune Word - remove "Hit Blinds Target" it overwrite Life Tap
- Make so "Paladin Smite" does work with Life Steal and Mana Steal
- Make so "Paladin Resist Fire, Cold and Lightning" display the hidden bonus to maximum resist
- Make so "Assassin Venom" does not cap poisoning duration at 0.4 from other items
- Make so "Assassin Fade" does not affects Shrines + display the hidden bonus to Physical Resistance
- Make so "Druid Raven" gains 1 additional Raven for each 5 lvl after lvl 5
- Make so "Necromancer Poison Dagger" is Poison Attack - all weapons not only dagger
YAWwwllalwlwalla you thought the terminator was scared of the T1000!? NO! This is the T9000! BILLY!!! GET TO THE FUCKING CHOPPAAAHHHHH!!
63 setup with good res setup. Swap one hoto to cta 333 (+1 skill) gives you the extra skill and you get the battle command from the cta (1 more for orders or 1 more for any skill instead)
Can't wait to see more of your videos and PvP competitions when D2R is released.
for ur bo boost you should get 3+ wc daggers… saves a lot of space for more items in stash vs different characters
Awesome man, keep doing this amazing videos bro.
nice video!
you are suddenly often in my recommendations now, never really seen you before
keep doing your thing!
Hey just wanted to say thanks for helping me get back into D2. You’re great for guidance
It's insane! I just searched trough youtube for a video in this topic. You literally read my mind!
Awesome content man! Excellent work.
Completely agree with the bit about being frozen. Can’t tell you how many duels I’ve won just by being frozen because I’ve been able to land way more hits
11:18 is the greatest accidentally thing ever created, the str bug lol
Love these build videos man! We ever gonna see any DFC season 3 content on this channel? I watched some of it on stream, but there was a lot that I missed out on and was hoping to catch on the YT uploads. :)
A lot of the players uploaded it. But... You're right. Stay tuned for more Secret Videos ;)
Another advantage of the wisp projector ring: It helps you find Zod runes in the blood moor 😂😂😂
Magic find doesn’t increase chances of finding a rune 😭
@@gettr5565 hahaha, yeah it’s more of an inside joke; Coooley thought he found a Zod rune in the blood moor but someone in his party dropped it to troll him 😂
Been waiting for a new video damnit!!!!
Imagine my surprise to see my Amazon getting wrecked in the intro of this video! Lol! Great video my man!
I was about to mention unsummon lock but throw will accomplish the same thing. B)
I would really love to see some new d2r duel videos from you! You could do a whole series covering all classes to help promote the pvp scene in d2r. Some balance changes has been implemented and it would be really helpful to get a full update before building different characters.
The complete opposite of my favorite - concentrate titan barb 😂
But yes, a very VERY great build!
Great video! But a suggestion would be to replace wisp and highlord with Angelics, and gloves with cleglaws. The reason you use cleglaws is because most casters build "up to" their breakpoint. Cleglaws generally counters this and drops their BP so they cast slower. 9k AR with grief is fine against sorceress and druid but when dueling with hammerdins or TV's (Foh with smite), the extra AR is extremely useful given they have holy shield and high defence. 👍
If you ever decide to build Auradins, pvp or pvm! Let me know! Been building them for 13 years straight 😉 Great videos
Are we all going to keep playing classic d2 after d2r is out?
El Diablo Aqui. See you in the blood moor
I come for the intro music, stay for the awesome content!
You probably already know Coooley, but the 451 poison charm is useless as soon as venom procs from your grief. Venom shortens all poison attack duration from items to 0.4 seconds; it doesn't frontload all the damage into the 0.4 second window, it only allows that source to inflict its normal damage for 0.4 seconds. So your 451 poison over 12 seconds becomes 15 poison damage over 0.4 seconds when venom is active.
If you're just using it to eliminate player regen before your grief has procced, then that's fine. Otherwise you'd get more benefit out of another max/AR/life charm in its place.
Venom will not proc from WW!
@@Coooley Huh, I did not know that. Learn something new every day.
so to summarize the video, its over 9000!
Coooley, just a suggestion. As much as Trang ol's gear may be, I would highly suggest switching out those gloves for Dracul's Grasp; +90-120% Enhanced Defense
+10-15 To Strength
+5-10 Life After Each Kill
25% Chance of Open Wounds
7-10% Life Stolen Per Hit
5% Chance To Cast Level 10 Life Tap On Striking Need I say more. My legit level 96 Elder-lich Necromancer build, oddly enough, has one for special cases in reserve. And another for whenever I want to use on my other characters more melee oriented.
It's OVER 9000!!!
Great video. Coooley you look good man, always nice to see and hear your voice.
I miss my godly account back in 1.09 when it was the wild wild west, 1.14 is so much more fun with the epic ww barb/sin
its been years since ive played and was serious about dueling in d2. i swair i rememeber my barb was bva and i had about 11 to 12k back in day. i could just be getting old and not remember correctly but i swair i had about 11 to 12k hp with sword and shield ww barb
this being said i stop playing before the synergy patch so d2r is a whole new ball game
Subbed for your passion friend, keep it up!
I would love to see a Auradin build that is OP from Coooley!
I've been building only auradins both pvp and pvm for 13 years straight. 🙏
When dueling smiter pallys when they stand in place you can actually we just outside of their range and you will be able
To hit them but they can’t hit you. And if or when they chase you to hit you just ww away making them chase you that kills them very quickly.
Yo :) decent guide but quite a few flaws if you ask me! Might be something changed since i played some years back, but hoto + cta with atleast 3 bo is better on swap and gives you +1 more bo then Dual hoto :)
Also str. bugging your barb should be a good idea :)
yes doublehoto is fail. important point.
The days when stash size was 6 wide... these kids don't know the struggle today. There was no cheap rune words either.
Ok coooley. Imma make this in d2r. If it sucks.... I guess I'll just die to you in the moor lol
Open battle net pvp is fun too there's a whole art to what godly items to use etc.
WHAT A THUMBNAIL! Is that from D2 Resurrected? man alive it looks slick
Years have passed and people still play d2 and now d2 remaster I wonder if they ever manage to create a game of this level.
Maybe now that more people will be able to play d2r will acknowledge what good game means.People have forgotten what good game really means.Not even d4 will be better than d2r remember that
Yea barb video! You nailed it!
Thank you!!! Took a lot of help. Wanted to get it right
11:42 Using inch and cm at the same sentence; you must be a prophet.
PVP javazon video could be nice! I feel like the character is a little bit underrated. Rarely see one on a pub game.
Good content man
Its over 9000!!!!
heart of the wolverine is what ill usually use on the wisp ring when used on bvc. More dam and attack rate. Such an under used summon.
Weapon: Beast Runeword(ANY IAS %)(made in Zerker Axe)
Weapon 2:Lawbringer(Phase Blade only)(Decrepy proc to reduc Physical resistance by 50%)...loose Fana ED however(186% ED lost)
Weapon 3.1:Grief(ONLY IF GONNA USE BLADE FURY FOR FUN)
Weapon 3.2Death:(Eth Zerk axe)..for Blade fury fun as well....rival grief in power due to 50% CB extra and 50% Deadly Strike
Shield: Pheonix Shield Runeword
Prebuff Weapon Set 1: 3 Shadow Discipline 3 Blade Shield 3 Shadow Warrior
Prebuff Weapon Set 2: 3 Shadow Discipline 3 Venom 3 Fade(let Shadow Warrior cast those 2 b4 swap back to CTA)
Prebuff Weapon 3: Call to Arm + Spirit Shield runeword
Prebuff(Optionnal part)...9 Shadow Disc GC....3 Shadow Disc Amy,Helm..+2 skills armor...Arachnid, SojX2
if you want bonus of +20 SP to Venom, Bladed SHield, Shadow Warrior, BoS
Helm: Guillaume Helm(add a 15 IAS 40 Enhanced dmg jewel in it)
Armor: Fortitude Runeword
Amulet: Rare Amulet(30 Strength 20 Dex 20 All resist 60 Life)
Ring 1: Ravenfrost
Ring 2: Rare Ring(20 Str 15 Dex 11 All resists 40 Life)
Gloves: Steelrend Gloves
Belt: Verdungo
Boots: Shadow Dancers
Charm List
Torch
Annilus
15X Large Charms(5 Str 8 All resists)
1X Large Charm(5 Str + 52-77 AR)
4X Small Charm(5 FHR 5 All resists)
1X Small Charm(20 Life 5 All resists)
ACT 2 MERC(Purchase Offensive from NIGHTMATE DIFFICULTY)
Merc Gear
Weapon: Pride
Armor: Fortitude
Helm: Guillaume's Face(Ber Rune)
Merc Might aura lvl.....Merc lvl 19-95(lvl 1 at lvl 19...lvl 20 at lvl 95)+1 lvl every 3.85 lvl
(lvl 19 might aura at 91...lvl 20 at lvl 95)
Assassin Skill Point Distribution(lvl 99 setting)
Dragon Talon.....18 points(DO NOT add more)(lvl 23 with gear 4 kicks)
....you DONT WANT that fifth kick(it lock you in place too long)
if rare amy has + skill reduce DT by 1-2 points
Burst of Speed...1 point(Fade is better)
Fade.............20 points(lvl 39 Fade with regular pre-buff)..39% DR & 71 All Resists
Dragon Flight....20 points(lvl 25 with gear/charms)
Venom............20 points(lvl 39 with regular pre-buff)
Shadow Warrior*....20 points(lvl 39 with regular prebuff)
Blade Shield.....3 point(lvl 20 with regular pre-buff)
junk points......8(to unlock good skills)
Total Stats
Strenght: +194 points...+170 realisticly(adjust base on dex needed for Max Block)
+Str(from gear//Charms) +245(gear+charms)(-40(205) if use Lawbringer)
TOTAL STRENGHT: 375-439
Dexterity for Max Block 331(211 points to add IF PERFECT GEAR....235 approx realistic)
Dexterity(from gear//Charms) +120(gear+charms)(+10(130) if use Lawbringer)
Total Dex 331
+Life from Charms//gear 767-804(gear+charms+base)(Stats points not include)
Vitality +100 for 300 life gain but no more(1858-1922 Life is plenty)
TOTAL LIFE WITHOUT BO: 1067-1104
Enhanced dmg %(with Beast)...Aura 761%...Gear 760%...159%(Dragon talon)(TOTAL:1680% ED)
Enhanced dmg %(with Lawbringer)....1494% total(but get a sexy Decripy proc +660% vs Undead)
Enhanced AR % 870%(Beast)..790% with Lawbringer but reduce enemy def by 50%
Fire Resist 325% ...cap 85%
Lightning Resist 325% ....cap 85%
Cold Resist 325%.....cap 75%.....absorb 20%
Poison Resist 325%...cap 75%
Crushing Blow 65%(45% IF using Lawbringer)
FHR 90%(86% for the best breakpoint)
DMG Reduction 50%(cap)(39% from Fade 15% dungo)
Prevent Monster from healing ? YES(with Beast) NO(Lawbringer)
Skill Point...+5 to ALL + 2 to shadow disc
Active Aura: Might,Conc,Redemption,(Fana or Sanctuary depending on weap)
Dragon talon attack Frame 3-3-3-3-9)Lawbringer in Phase Blade(15% IAS from helm Jewel)
Dragon talon attack Frame 3-3-3-3-8)Beast
Dragon talon attack Frame 4-4-4-4-10)(if IAS = 0%)
Dragon talon attack Frame 3-3-3-3-7)(if IAS = best possible)
reducing animation by 5 frames is enough...no need to bother with the last 2
Possible question to ask me: why not Lacerator to reduce mobs physical resistance by 100
instead of by 50% from Lawbringer ? "Slain Monster Stay in Peace"
AND -50% def to enemy(since your AR will be sort of low without
Angelic ring//Amy)
EDIT: Guardian Angel as armor if you wanna bad manner casters(95-95-90-90 and 20 cold sorb in duel but thats your choice :P.....well resists are currently powerfull enough to make conviction do nothing to you :3...lvl 52 Cold Mastery is however not counter(125 lower than needed :S)....only Options i found to deal with it... Phase Blade with 5X + 30% cold resist jewels + either Ber or Um(Open wound 20% or upping CB from 45% to 65%)...i would suggest OW since sorc love running away(Um rune) so they bleed nicely if trigger
Note: Shadow Warrior at lvl 39 got 456 strenght....at lvl lvl 59 it has 708 strenght(if you super pre-buff her you will pretty much nearly double her dmg when she use Dragon talon :)....at lvl 42 her item level is maxed(99)..health difference between 39-59.....2519 - 3647....other stats dont matter so not listed :D......well almost...if she use Fade while you got prebuff gear rising Fade to 50-59 she get a full 50% dmg reduction...making her pretty hard to kill muahaha :D
Cleglaws Gloves gives slow and knockback. Really helps against smiters, especially if they have a phase blade.
Zerker axes have a range 3, phase blade is range 2. If you're knocking them back, they constantly have to walk into your melee range before they can attack. You get the first hit. Some say slow is bm but that's usually the butthurt guy.
Both BM stats
Slow and knockback are usually frowned on in duels. Or at least they were back when I still played.
Last I heard it was only bm vs zons because of the dodge frames. VS anyone else it was fair game. Hell arach has slow on it and that's commonly used.
Never once heard knockback was bm.
Full Geared Widow Maker BVA is tops IMO you have 6k life instead of 9k but have max block and are more versitle
Bva whit blade or axe?
@@borisdimitrov6674 Berzerker axe Grief, Beast, And Doom all can be made in a zerker and axe mastery skill
@@scdrifta bva it seems better whit sword or blade
@@borisdimitrov6674 you don't have that much space in stash so berzerker axe takes up less space as well. Rolling a 39%ias on a colusus blade to hit the last ww breakpoint is expensive as well..
@@scdrifta yes but axe is ugly
Why waste runes on double hoto instead of buy two +3 Warcry glaives from vendors?
*daggers
"It's over 9000!!!!"
Why Cham Zod a helm that’s only for prebuffing?
I prefer a BVA build. Makes dueling zons barbs and other melee chars much better.
Nice content! Are you willing to show us someday the GM Melee duels?
Nappa :"Vegeta what is his WHIRLWIND Attack Rating says?!?)"
Vegeta : "Is over 9000!!!" ❤️
man i laugh so hard on the part " hold shift click on vitality :D "
this barb is an absolute unit
I'm actually really impressed with the character as a whole
anyone know what the intro song is? stuck in my head for weeks now
Cooley saying BVC and not realizing it when its autoplaying as a video, that he's not saying BBC. :^)
IT'S OVER 9000!!!
Looks like the fuel scene is a lot healthy than it was when I was a kid. I was told grief was BM unless they were just mad and I was 12 lol
Some consider it BM in melee duels, but not in general HLD/pub games
Think the most important tip is the holding alt so you don't click them.
WTB 37x 3/20/20's
You deserve far more subs
Time for my daily dose of Coooley! The BBC baba
Frenzie is the goat if you dual wield lots of leach and wear all but the shield of siggons
Cool tips on the alt ww
Have we heard of they are following through with the 2.4 runewords moving to non-ladder at the start of 2.5 ladder? If so, this is defiantly an opportunity for content. Personally, I have 6 sets of plague runes and superior claws with 3 os, 3light sentry and 10 enhanced damage. I also have a pair of claws for pvp with 3 os, 2 light sentry and 2 mind blast. Who want to stream making 5 LS claws?
ITS OVER 9000!!!
Nappa: hey Vegeta what does the scouter say about his power?!
Vegeta: it’s only 1006, kick his ass Nappa
LOL!
Firstly the barb isnt over 9000 life, i personally had a barb with 8300 hp bvc without the spirit.When we played PvP ,absorb items, and active uses of items were prohibited .So my barb with the spirit would have been over 10k life .Anyway even that i was proffesional PvP player with BvC,Hybrid Assassin and orber i leearned something new -the throw skill lockup and the secret breakpoint otherwise i remember everything else like it was yesterday.Most of the guys which were playing vs these barbs was pretty bad to kill them that easily even without using leap-stun .
I thought he kept saying “BBC Barbarian” with a straight face. LMAO. 😂😅
WHAT, 9.000?! There's no way that can be right!
Getting me too excited for d2r
His power level must be OVER 9000.
U can put on 2 perfect CTAs and get even more battle orders lvls too
Back when I used to play it was BM to wear any absorb gear, I'm surprised to see (as mentioned in your previous videos) that it's GM to wear 1 piece absorb in PVP.
1.10+ it's always been gm to use 1 piece of sorb.
it's when people stack multiple sorb items that it becomes bm.
which realm did you play on? afaik it was never bm to use 1 piece on east.
@@nycmaxim689 gotcha no worries I believe everyone, I'm not saying anyone is incorrect. I just know I did ALOT of pvp back in the day, used to do 2v2s / 3v3s all the time. The rules were always no absorb / I think nightmare difficulty if I recall correctly I don't know why / one team started at cold plains other at normal entrance. Only rules I kinda remember, it's been 20 years so it's all abit blurry. I've been unlocking core memories all month watching CZcams a on D2 all month excited for 9/23 release. I was on USWest.
@@beau9207 hum, actually I think you are correct for west, I do recall players from west early on saying they do not use any sorb at all, but those same players also said 95% resist was allowed.
whereas on east, 1 piece sorb or +10max was always allowed, and +max or sorb were viewed as much of the same kind of thing.
and also yeah nm difficulty duels change quite a bunch of things, oak being physical immune on nm but not on hell.
I know some communities liked to duel on nm, particularly vtpk on nm, but over time most duels moved to just hell difficulty as the standard.
rules were always a bit different on west/east/euro, but over time they became more similar.
@@beau9207 played d2 for over a decade and mainly pvp on us west. 1 sorb was always allowed, difficultly I think nightmare because of the act 5 resist quest bug on death.
Cool video! Can you make a video about the Amazon. In pvp? Where you have Java and now on swicth? 👌🤩. Cant wait for d2r 👌
Guess it’s time to redo this Video… After the Barb Update everything is different, i even think that the old Spear WW Barb should be a thing again now?
I made a bvc in d2r, and he has a crappy bug that i hope gets fixed, i went pure vita using enigma, ect. my griefZ will not under any circumstance go to my main hand. i can drag and drop, add charms, w.e it just wont go to my main hand. Its only my grief. for example, if i run a ebotdz and edeathz and swap hands, the numbers in charater screen swap hands. grief+any of my weapons it will always put grief in my off hand..so frustrating. so for now im just stashing my griefz..which sucks cus it rolled 396...such a waste. I heard a temp fix is to strip 100% naked, no charms or anything on at all and hard point all your gear, It might work, dont care if it does because losing all that hp to hard points kind of defeats this whole purpose.
It's over 9000!!!! *Dies inside*
Yay, im first, cant wait to watch vid
Congrats on first!
@@Coooley this great! I may have to build this. I loved your immortal sorc build. I cant wait to trol pub games with that.
Also, what are you most excited for in D2R cooley?
Im most excited for each item to have a unique appearance when equipped.
@@propcustomz8731 That's gonna be awesome! I'm just excited to start from scratch and slowly gather gear like this again!