06-03-2006, 06:38 PM
No prob.:)
However, for what it's worth, I do seem to recall that PI monsters are less common than elemental-immune monsters; the only ones I can think of offhand are the Wraith-type creatures (Ghosts in the Countess's Tower and Specters in the Arcane Sanctuary). PI bosses are reasonably common. A 6-PRuby weapon provides moderate elemental damage output (90-120 fire damage), which is enough to whittle down PI's. But bosses are frequently dual-immune; running into PI FI bosses is not uncommon, and then you'd need to have another weapon in your arsenal to deal with those.
Berserk, OTOH, converts all of your physical damage to magical damage (note that this is not elemental damage, but the same type of damage inflicted by a Necro's Bone Spear or Bone Spirit, or the Paladin's Blessed Hammer). If you have decent physical damage output, then even a level 1 Berserk will do considerably more damage than the 6-PRuby weapon. IIRC, there are only two types of monsters which can be Immune to Magic: Greater Mummies in Act II and Wailing Beasts in the Act III temples. The odds of running into a PI MI boss are pretty slim, so with Berserk you can handle pretty much any monster the game will throw at you. The disadvantage of Berserk, of course, is that your defense drops to zero while using it, leaving you open to taking hits unless you have a means of pacifying the monsters while you hack at them--War Cry does nicely for this.
One other piece of advice I would give is, if you haven't done so already, to check out The Amazon Basin. Their Barbarian Forum has lots of useful guides and information to help with exactly the sorts of questions you're asking (far better than I'm able to).
Hope this helps some.
-G.
Quote:As for the Physical Immune monsters, I was planning on finding a weapon with 4-6 sockets and adding perfect rubies. Although now looking at the hell monster life total, that might take a while. Since I've never been in Hell, do PI's come up quite a bit? Would the one point in beserk be much more effective than the perfect rubies?Before I answer, I will again say that I'm probably not the best person to be giving Barb advice since ( a ) I've also never played a Barb in Hell (I prefer ranged and caster characters), and ( b ) I traded in vanilla 1.10 for Nobbie's Mod a long time ago, and said goodbye to monster immunities.
However, for what it's worth, I do seem to recall that PI monsters are less common than elemental-immune monsters; the only ones I can think of offhand are the Wraith-type creatures (Ghosts in the Countess's Tower and Specters in the Arcane Sanctuary). PI bosses are reasonably common. A 6-PRuby weapon provides moderate elemental damage output (90-120 fire damage), which is enough to whittle down PI's. But bosses are frequently dual-immune; running into PI FI bosses is not uncommon, and then you'd need to have another weapon in your arsenal to deal with those.
Berserk, OTOH, converts all of your physical damage to magical damage (note that this is not elemental damage, but the same type of damage inflicted by a Necro's Bone Spear or Bone Spirit, or the Paladin's Blessed Hammer). If you have decent physical damage output, then even a level 1 Berserk will do considerably more damage than the 6-PRuby weapon. IIRC, there are only two types of monsters which can be Immune to Magic: Greater Mummies in Act II and Wailing Beasts in the Act III temples. The odds of running into a PI MI boss are pretty slim, so with Berserk you can handle pretty much any monster the game will throw at you. The disadvantage of Berserk, of course, is that your defense drops to zero while using it, leaving you open to taking hits unless you have a means of pacifying the monsters while you hack at them--War Cry does nicely for this.
One other piece of advice I would give is, if you haven't done so already, to check out The Amazon Basin. Their Barbarian Forum has lots of useful guides and information to help with exactly the sorts of questions you're asking (far better than I'm able to).
Hope this helps some.
-G.
Even the mountains
Last not forever:
Someday they, too, shall
Crumble to dust.
Last not forever:
Someday they, too, shall
Crumble to dust.