Shout is also a synergy to Berserk in case you wish to go with that in your pre-furry days. High Level Shout + Werebear = HUGE defense! This along with huge life makes the Bearbarian an awesome tank to behold. Enough said! On another note, BO synergises Concentrate in your pre-furry days and let’s face it: what barbarian build does not feature maxed BO? High level BO + Lycanthropy+Werebear = HUGE life. A ‘Lore’ in a +3bo/+3 warcry barb helm would be an awesome pre-furry item! This would also encourage the healthy habit of hoarding +all/barb skills items early in the Bearbarian life. The higher the level you ramp this up the better! Furthermore in your pre-furry days, this together with your loyal blessed aim ally whom you had hired from act 2 normal mode shall see you through! With BO and Shout being synergies to Concentrate and Berserk respectively, attack rating is the only problem as you will not put more than a point more in any combat skills. Weapon mastery is compulsory for the purposes of getting good damage, attack rating and critical strike.
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How to tank and keep your mercenary alive will be explored in the next few sections.įor some of you, these are all too obvious but for the purpose of completeness let us determine which skills require investment to aid our furry one! In principle this build could be completed about the time when you hit the required level to equip the beast rune word: D As you may guess only 2 branches are of interest here: the masteries and warcries branches of course! So with a slvl 35 weapon mastery and slvl 18 blessed aim aura attaining 10k+ attack rating is more than possible. The mercenary’s blessed aim aura is maxed at slvl 18 but this could be increased via +skills items such as COH, Andy’s helm, etc. After a lot of thought, I realized that damage is not a problem and having a glance at what runewords are available this patch, I will now introduce your employee of the year: The Blessed Aim mercenary! With my weapon mastery, blessed aim aura and some tweaks from ravenfrost and charms I obtained 11-12k attack rating and critters in 8 player hell games found it difficult to hit me (17k defense), with max block/dr and 10k life! This is derived from your weapon mastery, enchant, uniques like baranar’s star, runewords like Fury, the Visionary prefix and auras. There are many ways of obtaining decent attack rating if you look at both components (bracketed expressions) of equation 2.įor my approach I shall focus more on the second component i.e. AR refers to +attack rating which can be had from items such as raven frost ring, angelic combo, weapons with the Fool’s prefix or charms. Because of the weapon selection and deciding to have maximum block, this is conveniently true. What you must remember is that although you turn into a bear, the class bonus for you is still for a barbarian, and with this let us explore ways of getting enough attack rating to hit and hit HARD any monster that we encounter in hell mode shall we?įirstly, it may appear that a huge dexterity investment is obvious. This build can tank, do awesome damage but as we know if you can’t hit stuff, monsters stay alive! In the next few lines, those of you whose skins start crawling at the mention of Math, I beseech you to indulge me!īase AR = (Dex * 5) - 35 + ClassBonus (equation 1)ĪR = (Base + AR + AR/Clvl) * (1 + AR%/100) (equation 2) The biggest problem as pointed out in the earlier section is attaining sufficient attack rating. Now that we have an idea what the pros and cons of this build are, we could shore up the weaknesses and let me share with you how to get this Bearbarian to be a really fun character to play! For some this may be novelty character build but I assure you that it is built on sound concepts of survivability, damage, chance to hit and style points This guide is written solely for the purely for Player Versus Monster (PvM) and I did not intend it for PvP play.ġ.You have huge life possibly hitting the 8-10k+ region!Ģ.You have huge defense possibly hitting 15k+!ģ.You will, be using standard attack at speeds ranging from 6fpa to 4fpa! Barbarian swing attacks such as berserk and concentrate can get down to 9fpa at bestġ.Your attack rating would be poor (biggest problem!)Ģ.With not enough +skills, the duration and life bonuses would be somewhat lessenedģ.There *may* seem to be no way of crowd control as you cannot cast War Cry, Grim Ward, etc when in bear form. The Bearbarian is a barbarian using the Beast rune word to transform himself into a bear.
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