Does this mean that you have decided that he will be one or the other?
A dancer or a zerker? I can't tell.

Shout (i believe) synergizes zerk. But plan to get hit a lot with zerk
on so you have solve that problem ahead of time.

But you need at least one point in zerk to handle PIs

BO - always. Without a doubt. Absolutely. And it synergizes Concentrate
which is a good ckill for s handed swinger.

Make sure 1 point in Leap Escape, er... I mean Leap Attack

Definitely.
Soloing or partying?
What kind of party?
What kind of weapons you plan on using.

A Foul Crow?

I might have some barb gear stashed. If you are axeing I have a spare
Ethereal Edge. Got a few helms with + barb skills. But you will prolly
find an IK helm. They are everywhere. Go look under your bed. There
might be one there. :)

Orion Ryder

I liked Berserk, because thats magic damage, which comes in very handy
fighting agaisnt physical immunes you'll see later.

I have a single point in double swing that has been my

depends. everybody likes Leap Attack, its fun and powerful, altho, my
guy often missed, but when he hit, KABLAAAM!

for slugging it out, i liked Concentrate a lot.

BattleOrders is probably a must.

Watch out for the Iron Maiden curse from the Oblivion Mages. They
return your own damage, sometimes exponentially. The Barb can, with
certain weapons like a Maul, deliver enough damage to kill himself
with one hit. Happened to me too many times before I figgered out wtf
was going on.

Learn to recognize that particular curse and when you get it, best to
stand back and chuck axes or spears.

If you like Berserk, then
20 Berserk
10 Weapon Mastery (at least)
20 Battle Orders
1-5 or 5-10 WarCry (esp if not using a shield, since Berserk steals your
Defense)
1 Battle Command
1 Leap Attack
1 Increased Speed
1 Find Item
You can stick a point or 3 into Grim Ward, but I never use it much
However many needed in Natural Resist
With the new and improved monsters of 1.10, Howl and Taunt are your friends.
I suggest at LEAST 1 point in each of those.

Even with 5 pts in Warcry, I think that is only 70 or so points.  That
leaves lots of room to play with.  You could max another attack skill, but
Concentrate will work against the Magic Immunes, it gets a damage synergy
from BO.
If you have to spend the points, I suggest more into Weapon Mastery if your
to-hit is low, or you can put some points into the Warcries to make them
more effective.

Stats just enough for gear, all the rest into Vit

Yup, but most quetions like this usually are.

Stuck in Dumbo's hat?

short

The most common build in 1.10 is Max Concentrate, Max Battle Orders,
Max a weapon mastery,  at least 1 pt in Berserk, Shout, Iron Skin,
Natural Resistance, Battle Command Leap Attack (for pseudo teleport),
Taunt (neutralizes archers), and pre-reqs.   My recommendation
would be to put remaining points from this build into War Cry
for crowd control.  

In 1.09 the comparative damage from Berserk was twice as high
as it looked because of the global 50% physical resistance of
monsters on hell level.   That gave some compensation for
the facts that Berserk puts your defense and leeching at 0.
In 1.10 where that is no longer true, and monster attacks (particularly
from groups of archers) are more powerful, Berserk went from
being a variant build to a hardly used build.   The 1.10
changes to WW were also unkind, partly because the skill itself
continued its trend of getting more nerfed with every release
and partly because groups of mana burning monsters are very
common in 1.10 and WW lets a char get stuck in the middle of
a group with no mana.

Double Swing synergizes with Frenzy, so if you go that route
you will probably want high points in both those skills).

got

SC or HC?  SP or realm?  What are your goals for this char?

Or Frenzy, Double Throw, or Concentrate?

Definitely BO and probably weapon mastery, depending on build and
strategy.  But wait until late NM to boost your mastery.

Your big strategic decisions as a barb are skill type (will you double
wield, double throw, two-hand wield, or use a shield?) and weapon
type, for your mastery.  The latter choice can be postponed until well
into NM.  In fact, you can even postpone choosing your skill type
while you max BO and fill in prerequisites.

You just haven't provided enough information about your goals.

Airborne.

-- Roy L

Neither. If you really want to have fun with a barb, make a 2 axe
frenzy barb. You can start out with a pair of Butcher's Pupils and
progress from there.

BO, frenzy and axe mastery, and pump up the synergies. A few points in
IS and NR and maybe shout.

See above.

what questions? :o)

A bat or a flying mouse.

You've had too much already,

Mickey

Hi,

"RegNitto" <RegNitto@hotmail.com> wrote in news:1109263940.856841.69430
@l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com:

at level 51 you or your merc can get a DELIRIUM helmet (LEM, IST, IO).
This is all the crowd control you'll ever need. So you only need to put
skill points in Shout, Battle Orders and Battle command.
Also, as BC/BO/Shout are the basic warcries of each barb, I always try to
time them so at least Shout/Battle Command last about the same time. So I
always know that after about 3-4 minutes I have to yell them again..
One other Warcry (one point is enough mostly) is Find Item which gives a
second chance for loot from a body.

Five hard points in Iron Skin/Natural Resists together with +skills give
a nice basic pool of additional defense and resists.

I don't like Frenzy too much. Wait and see if you like it, before you put
too many points in. It receives synergies from Taunt and Double Swing and
I wouldn't put skills points there..

OTOH, Concentrate gets 10% damage per BO level, which you are going to
max anyhow. Level 15 Conc with maxed BO has 200% AR, 340% damage and 240%
def.
Level 15 Frenzy with 20 Taunt has 320% damage and 200% AR. You still need
lots of BO, so that costs you 55 skill points against 35 with Conc/BO.

Frenzy can still be a one-point wonder. First attack with Frenzy for the
speed bonusses, then switch to Conc using the speed-up attack..

The most versatile weapons are axes. There's a bunch of runewords for
them, they are quite fast and crafting Blood axes can get amazing
results. I especially like the Kingslayer runeword. It has +1 Vengeance
as your skill of choice against physical immune/stone skin guys.

If you can get a LO rune, look at the Fortitude (armor) runeword. It has
a built-in might merc (300% Enhanced damage), a somewhat weaker Defiance
merc (20% ctc level 15 Chilling armor), some resists and other good
stuff. Now just hire a Holy Freeze merc and you are set..

Hmm, I've got the sudden urge to go and build this guy..

Regards,

Oliver

Why not a furnzy barb?
I don't know anything about other barb's, :o) good luck my lil' necro is now
level 30 about to face ancients and he never (knock on wood dies).