The frenzy barb is one of the better physical damage dealing characters when it comes to questing, and you can even augment your play with warcry (if you have it) or things like howl/taunt (not so effective on monsters too far above your level), or just mixing in plain bash/concentrate/berserk for the desired effect once frenzy charges up your attack speed. I’m not sure how your barb was built - Bloodletter and Butcher’s Pupil are 2 different types of weapons, so… which mastery did you dump points into? o.O By the time you hit Hell, you’ll want items with crushing blow and deadly strike to augment your own critical strike chance from masteries. Nightmare starts to get dangerous especially for many physical damage characters from Ancients onwards. I’d wish some of that Hell difficulty goodness would trickle down and appear sooner on those difficulties. Throw those physical classes a bone and bring down casters a bit.Īlso while we are at it, I think Normal and Nightmare difficulties are way too easy, to the point they are kinda boring. I wish, if this game ever gets some balance patches, to have a more leveled playing field. It’s night and day.Ĭasters are pretty much playing a different game, where AR doesn’t exist, gear doesn’t matter much, and boss fights are more interesting 'cause you at least get to try and dodge projectiles instead of face tanking them while you wack them with your stick. I knew caster builds where better than physical oriented ones but I didn’t expect the chasm to be so massive.
#D2 lod 1.11 skin#
Although I had some nice pieces of gear (SoJ, Skin of the Vipermagi, The Occulus), I didn’t even had any runewords, nor Shakos, Tal’s, or anything of that BiS stuff, I didn’t even respec once, yet I had very little, if any, trouble with the game. I then made a new char, a lightning/firewall sorceress, and proceeded to faceroll the entire game. Even with double Angelics I’m having issues keeping up with AR at acceptable levels and I can’t find any weapons to replace my crappy nightmare-tier weapons (Bloodletter and The Butcher’s pupil). So I wanted to try and beat the game on Hell with a Frenzy barb which I’ve never done, but I’m currently stuck on Hell Act II, unable to proceed.