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| Author: | Fafnir [ Mon Dec 28, 2009 10:52 am ] |
| Post subject: | Dual-Wield Weapon Mastery |
I think I've taken my two-weapon barbarian about as far as he's going to get without cranking up some masteries, if only for the attack rating, but it's come to my attention that I no longer know base weapon requirements or high-level available options (for instance: it has only recently come to my attention that swords don't require gigantic dexterity to use and I just found out that Tancred's set no longer uses a one-handed axe - surprise!) and I don't want to stupidly waste skill points. Does anyone have advice on a weapon type decent-to-good for a player without access to extremely high-level items? |
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| Author: | Utter [ Mon Dec 28, 2009 11:52 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Dual-Wield Weapon Mastery |
I'd say that maces is your best bet, heavy hitting. Usually packs cb and you can get them pretty fast with runewords/crafts. Oath+Obediance, Oath+Death, deathcraft+obediance, deathcrafts etc. Otherwise swords gets good later on. Deathcrafted two-handed swords dualwielded usually gets good dmg. |
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| Author: | Brevan [ Mon Dec 28, 2009 1:16 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Dual-Wield Weapon Mastery |
Consider an Eth rune (-50% TargetDefence) if ARating is giving you a hard time. You'd need 1 for each weapon. At almost any character level or situation, an Eth rune is more powerful than anything (any 1 thing) else you could do to improve ARating. |
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| Author: | Utter [ Mon Dec 28, 2009 3:30 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Dual-Wield Weapon Mastery |
Does that work on bosses and bossflagged monsters Brevan? |
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| Author: | Brevan [ Mon Dec 28, 2009 6:34 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Dual-Wield Weapon Mastery |
As far as I know, yes. Only "Ignore Target Defence" is well known for not working. I think the -%Def on Eth is the same as that on Conviction, which definitely works on bosses. |
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| Author: | Fafnir [ Tue Dec 29, 2009 6:37 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Dual-Wield Weapon Mastery |
I'm rather against swords because they're very close to the only barbarian weapon around in vanilla D2. I don't think I've actually ever seen someone Frenzying with two hammers, though. One more question - I've seen Crushing Blow crop up on two rare weapons, but they were both maces. Is that a mace-specific mod, or have I just been spectacularly lucky? |
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| Author: | tonykantos [ Tue Dec 29, 2009 6:49 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Dual-Wield Weapon Mastery |
Fafnir wrote: One more question - I've seen Crushing Blow crop up on two rare weapons, but they were both maces. Is that a mace-specific mod, or have I just been spectacularly lucky? Utter wrote: I'd say that maces is your best bet, heavy hitting. Usually packs cb 
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| Author: | Fafnir [ Tue Dec 29, 2009 9:16 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Dual-Wield Weapon Mastery |
You know, he very easily could have been talking about unique and/or runeworded maces. Those seem to have the lion's share of crushing blow. But, yes, thanks for the clarification. |
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| Author: | tonykantos [ Tue Dec 29, 2009 10:05 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Dual-Wield Weapon Mastery |
No prob, bro. Maces & mauls usually have cb mod rares , uniques, and rw ones. Or at least, more often than other type of Wpnry ♥ ( Sorry for the previous slight-unfriendly post if it bothered you ) |
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| Author: | PureRage-DoD [ Tue Dec 29, 2009 10:52 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Dual-Wield Weapon Mastery |
I found my old mace frenzy barb to be great against bosses, but not so much on the journey to them. Stick a lawbringer on switch with a very fast weapon on your main hand and lawbringer as the offhand. I used that combination to charge up frenzy. By the time I was fully charged I had CtC level 16 decrep from lawbringer on the boss (if there was no amp around). Axes are ok on a frenzy barb IMO. You dont see so many axe barbs around these days and the base speed is great. *heads off to make an axe barb 
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| Author: | Bfghornet [ Thu Jan 07, 2010 11:53 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Dual-Wield Weapon Mastery |
Brevan wrote: As far as I know, yes. Only "Ignore Target Defence" is well known for not working. I think the -%Def on Eth is the same as that on Conviction, which definitely works on bosses. Is there a cap on the -%Defense? Or is one Eth rune all that you can use per weapon? |
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| Author: | blue_myriddn [ Thu Jan 07, 2010 12:26 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Dual-Wield Weapon Mastery |
dunno if there is a cap. my conviction gives -80% defense though, so you should be able to use more than one eth. |
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