What is the best Barbarian Build?
The eternal question… there isn’t one. But the most popular is this – The cookie cutter build/template: 20 in Mastery of choice 20 Whirlwind 20 BO 1-20 Berserk 1-5-9 Natural resistance 1-5 Find Item 1 in all prerequisites Enough base Str to use your weapon Enough base Dex to use your weapon (or to keep blocking at 75%) Rest into Vitality Never any into Energy (mana leech does the job) Should be complete at level 80 or so, this is your typical PvM MF barb, it is extremely biased towards sword users due to it’s versatility for PvM, MF, dueling and the availability of good swords. For example you can hold a cruel high powered sword in one hand, and 2 alibaba’s for weapon switch for that MF last killing blow bonus. Or hold a heart carver or two to boost your FI, or a sword + shield combo for PvP, etc. But we state again, all barbs can be effective. A list of more specialised barb builds are: • Variants of the masteries (eg pole/mace/axe barbs), • Throwing barbs (yes, don’t laugh, they ar
