Well I thought with the WoW beta finally happening I will once again be consigning D2 to the murky depths once more , so I went and socketed the phase blade for my barb , he now dual wields Death and Lawbringer , for the next day or two at least :), (This post was last modified: 01-08-2005, 12:48 AM by, (This post was last modified: 01-08-2005, 12:51 AM by. Slaps pretty hard. I'm just tired of Grief, so I'm trying any interesting build that's not.. grief.. Death is used on chargers in a 2h weapon. Thanks . 100% Chance To Cast Level 44 Chain Lightning When You Die Im using it on zealot with fanat. You must log in or register to reply here. I used a eth colossus sword death in my off hand in combo with grief in my main untill I got my second grief on my ww barb. Also consider your weapon mastery . I'm disappointed in general with ww and phase blades but I don't get enough higher dmg eth one handers to go a different way, yet. Without such you may reach 13 FPA at best without sacrificing too much. One of my favourite weapons and use it on my smiter. Still it's not BIS anymore for frenzy barb, maybe never was as grief exists, but that is another story. But when 2.4 drops I will be utilizing many swords like grief, death, Lawbringer, headstriker. Highly recommend. It's only Vex and Gul tho, pretty easy to find. Press J to jump to the feed. So if you roll +400 damage your grief pb will do 430-435 damage. Do it in an eth berzerker axe if possible. My thought was two eth Berserker Axes. I'm working on my single player level 90 barb thru hell right now, and I am using an eth Oath highland blade. It was not bad at all. Botd uses ed% which enhances the base damage by whatever % you roll. On my barb Id like to do something different. I've always been confused how proc'd spells work in that regard. JavaScript is disabled. I have it paired with a botd PB on my ww barb and find it underwhelming. Yeah, its good. Because if I deal a lot of damage too then we kill things faster. Completely underrated. Requirements -20%, We are doing some maintenance july 6th in our database so any orders recieved will be delivered july 7 evening. If swords then pb better than zerk. Yeah, botd is pretty sweet. Pb is only good for grief. I truly think this setup will still slap some demons as well as my toons not all wearing a phase blade(I dont like colossus blades(sorry guys)). Do you know if sorc hard points into glacial spike and synergies/mastery apply to the proc? Your guide is based on a faith mercenary which makes it an entirely different story in terms of attackspeed. eth collossal sword death is the most damaging berserk weapon. So its good to add to the arsenal. Death main use is for Ubers due to the high crushing blow. I just rolled my second grief so have been rocking those. Col sword/Blade for me. Hit the pits and run until you find a beefy sword, cube for sockets, make death, dominate. Deliverable on Playstation, PC and Nintendo Switch. I was holding the PB for Grief originally. Pretty much depends on what you want to use it for. 25% Chance To Cast Level 18 Glacial Spike On Attack So if you have a pb base with 30-35 damage and roll +400% ed, your botd pb will do 150-175 damage. Now there is no bug anymore, so it's not for build's that need attack speed breakpoints. Although mine is in eth ettin axe and works fine. If you want to use a pb on a ww barb you make a grief which adds +damage directly to the base. +1 To Light Radius Death is good for Fanatic Zealots, Offhand Frenzy, and 2h pally Charger. Huge difference in how +damage and ed% work. It seems strong but idk what weapon is best now. I can see casting glacial spike every 4 hits as being extremely viable for frenzy/smiter or even an act 5 merc. However can be good for fury druid in 2.4 because werewolf gives a ton of IAS. I will probably continue hunting for the Colossus now. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. I'd your goal is just to finish hell then make.it in whatever you have. My goal in lifeI have a 39/397 Grief on my Zealer. It even killed bosses much faster than the double grief i guess because of the crushing blow. Swap that botd out for a grief and your ww barb will face roll. 20% Bonus To Attack Rating +50 To Attack Rating Botd is no good on a pb because a pb has low base damage. It's still good and with frenzy buff you could hit at least some breakpoints especially if the base is fast. 50% Chance of Crushing Blow Have you messed with new blade fury? No IAS. Death is quite a powerful runeword, but it suits some builds better than others. I'm still not sure if I'll make it, but it's always piqued my interest. Thanks for the info, Im glad to hear it can do ubers!! Diablo 2 Resurrected (Diablo 2 Remastered) is the remastered version of Diablo II and its expansion, Diablo II: Lord of Destruction. Good to know. Hey all. In a phase blade, that would be a waste, indeed. Still havent been able to afford grief but I can clear all content and have done Ubers twice, so not sure if I even need the grief after all. Depends on your goals. Yes but def make in cs/cb, it'll be worth the runes. The main subreddit for everything related to Diablo II: Resurrected. Adds 1-50 Lightning Damage When I had a frenzy Barb for Ubers he had a grief PB in his main hand and Death CS in the off-hand. What are some good cases for it? This post was edited by 312 on Jul 8 2016 07:59am, This post was edited by Dorislol on Jul 8 2016 08:21am. Well , cannot fault you on the response time :) , Cheers , your advice is valuable as always , on with the search for that Eth weapon , any particular types , remembering I want to use this in one hand . Barbs have better options (grief+lawbringer, double grief, grief and broken offhand, etc). Grief and death is a good combo for a frenzy barb. My friend I feel you should stick with an Ethereal weapon. Thanks. It used to be very good because of a bug where you could "average" your attack speed. One being Death and the other Breath of the Dying. +300-349% Enhanced Damage It seem super good to me and not super expensive, but I never really hear people talking about it. Level 22 Blood Golem (15 Charges) +(0.5 per Character Level) 0.5-49.5% Deadly Strike (Based on Character Level) I think you should make death in a eth base. Yeah, Im in the process of trying to buy an eth berserker. Dorisol knows something about searching base:D:D gl man. Faith is quite an expensive runeword and so is not very viable at the moment. I'm kind of curious to make it on an eth berserker axe for a smiter and then stack up deadly strike from highlords and gorerider. 7% Mana Stolen Per Hit Remeber to keep you clean eth ones too for cube attempts. i would suggest using ethereal berserker axes, because of the low dex requirement and good damage (better than swords). Pb is a waste, but eth bases are hard to find. Indestructible The Items We Sell Are At D2R, this is a D2R Item Store. Lol. Ethereal Berserker Axes sound good, but won't my attack speed suffer? ettin axes have high dmg, but 10 less attack speed than zerker axe. I use atma ammy to fast amp dmg and it usually breaks any physical immune monster. Im no min maxer if you cant tell. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. Does that sound like it might be effective? if your goldfind why not let your merc do the killing?