Monkeycid's Guide To The Barbarian

[Cartimandua]

Fine guide - it gives information that one can work into one's own ideas, rather than just being a prescription, as many guides are.

Being a staff fan, I wonder if it would be worth mentioning in the section on Mace Mastery that there are some pros/cons to using a staff:

IMO:

pros:

• Low strength reqs allow you to really pump VIT (low STR implies weak armour, so would make sense with a WarCry-for-defence build)
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• Good range (better than two-handed maces)
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• Ribcracker is a lovely weapon (but see below)
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• you look like a transvestite sorceress ;)<>
  [st]cons:
  • Can be hard to find a weapon that will do much damage in Hell. Ribcracker only takes you so far. There's Naj's staff, or perhaps the Fury and Silence runewords, but none of those are easy to acquire. I believe that +damage mods are not available on staves, so there is no such thing :( as a Ferocious Walking Stick of Evisceration (which is a hell of a pity - I mean I would carry a weapon like that for the name alone).<>
    [st]But maybe this is all getting into the equipment area, which looks like it is still work-in-progress in your guide.
    
    Thanks again. B)