02-18-2004, 09:28 PM
If you have very nice gear WW barbs can be extremely powerful. My most recent barbarian soloed the entire game on /players 8 and didn't have any real troubles. The main problem is finding good weapons to whirl with. I'm currently dual-wielding BoTD berserker axes and am doing well over 5k max damage with each weapon.
For some reason everybody thinks the IK set is the end-all barbarian setup. It is nice, yes, but is nowhere near as effective as a setup with uniques and a more powerful weapon. Having only 200% ED and range 2, the IK maul is far outstripped by high-end rares, cruels, and some of the uniques. An upgraded ethereal hone sundan is much much better, for instance.
To give some advice on weapons, whatever you do, make sure you get your weapon(s) at the last WW breakpoint. That means no hellslayer. If you unsocket your CCB and put in 2 shaels then that could work pretty well, either 2-handed or with another sword at the last breakpoint. It's a tossup whether going 2-handed or dual wielding is better. Dual wielding attacks twice as fast (as long as there are two or more monsters in range, i.e. most of the time) but does half the damage as going 2-handed.
For some reason everybody thinks the IK set is the end-all barbarian setup. It is nice, yes, but is nowhere near as effective as a setup with uniques and a more powerful weapon. Having only 200% ED and range 2, the IK maul is far outstripped by high-end rares, cruels, and some of the uniques. An upgraded ethereal hone sundan is much much better, for instance.
To give some advice on weapons, whatever you do, make sure you get your weapon(s) at the last WW breakpoint. That means no hellslayer. If you unsocket your CCB and put in 2 shaels then that could work pretty well, either 2-handed or with another sword at the last breakpoint. It's a tossup whether going 2-handed or dual wielding is better. Dual wielding attacks twice as fast (as long as there are two or more monsters in range, i.e. most of the time) but does half the damage as going 2-handed.