By far the easiest barb leveling through normal I've ever done playing along with this. Goes to show the difference when someone knows what they're doing vs super casual me at 12 years old lol thank you MrLlama!
Wow this brings back so much memories, I never realized barbarian was a hard character to play. I really enjoyed playing it and just jumping into battle was so fun.
I'd always heard they were terribad, but I just made one on singleplayer a few days ago and it's now my favorite character. Playing on Nintendo switch frenzy is just so much fun.
Awesome Barbarian-Guide!!! Great way to explain things and it also shows whats possible in terms of how efficient an experienced player can play through the game. Keep up the great content. ♥
1:11:34 Eth rune won't make merc "lower defense even more". It's not a debuff that is applied to the monster, it's just a multiplier in HIS chance to hit formula. Just like the resist pierce on items like griffons not lowers the actual monster resist.
Llama said "so he can lower defence even more" meaning from the perspective of the merc. He never says that the monsters defense is reduced from the perspective of the barbarian. It isn't as clear of a statement as llama usually makes, but it's not necessarily incorrect.
Good job brother. It's always a pleasure to watch your vids. I just started a BardBarian, going to emulate your WarCry Barb. I was going to reset my lvl 30 Barb but I decided to start one fresh from Level 1,. Lol
maybe you could spend a few minutes to talk about your current gears/skill points at each stage of the game, it would be nice to show your realistic progression throughout the game
@Oodles of Noodles see what you mean but if you watched part and need to find a moment to watch again some timestamps at the beginning of acts or when he makes a significant change or reskill would be great to use this as a resource - cheers
@Oodles of Noodles having Sigon set or Lore runeword is hugely different from getting Shako or Spirit, but yeah just skip it and instead grind all your stuff from blizzard sorceress lol
I wonder how your gearing would turn out if you focused on using find item during your playthrough. You'd sacrifice some damage to put points into find item, but maybe the loot would be worth it.
It might add a bit of fun but it would be much slower getting any reasonably good drops due to the low MF and skill levels, plus killing speed much slower. Also it'd be much slower getting to the later difficulties where the actual good gear is, so ultimately the gear would be worse, and for longer!
Act 1 merc really helps with hitting things because of inner sight. Prefer it to blessed aim merc any day. When you already have 300% AR from your mastery and frenzy and dexterity, the extra 150% from is not as big of an increase as flat -300 armor from Inner sight. She literally reduces the defense of everything to 0 on normal, you don't even need to battle cry them. I am doing a barb right now in normal, I had 58% chance to hit nihlathak on the character sheet. But I hit him every time (despite him being level 68 and me 40)
Lvl 30 barb 50str 50dex, 10 sword mastery, 5 frenzy, 2x malice broadswords hitting nithlatak: 47% chance to hit with blessed aim merc. 50% with inner sight merc. 53% blessed aim + lvl1 battle cry. So it seems comparable, but blessed + battle cry wins in boss fights. But I would say Inner sight wins in regular map clearing.
@@Ubeogesh I was just curious how it performs on paper, and to share numbers. I haven't tried act1 merc like that. I may give act1 merc a try at Ladder with Throwbarb. So thanks for idea.
Nachos? Carbs, Salt, and Fat. What could go wrong? All foods we have no “off switch” for because in our evolution as a species these things never were superabundant until modern times. These things led me to become a type 2 diabetic at age 53. Diagnosed at 58. Because I’d ignored the general advice given because it never applied to me. Until one day it did. And I couldn’t tell. Because I was inside the problem now. So. Do yourself a favour: once a month maximum nachos. Or. Special occasion nachos. And goodbye chips otherwise. Because diabetes 2 will catch up to you as you age.
Man when i played this as a kid it was my fantasy to be a powerhouse barb, swinging axes but i could never play him decently. I learned a lot watching your stream and its pretty unfortunate that for the 'unrivalled master in hand to hand combat' you are down to throwing flasks and chugging health potions all the time. He should be cleaving through the enemies and drinking their bodily fluids instead of health potions.
If you keep up with levels (don't have too horrible chance to hit), once you get a couple points in frenzy it's more DPS to get 2 war hammers with some ED% from Hratli. They are slower but deal 2 times more damage than Malice Flail.
Awesome guide and super helpful. It's nice to see a video since it has more detail than a written guide. One question though: After getting frenzy do we build charges then double swing or only use frenzy? It seems like I attack much faster with double swing after getting frenzy charges
That new leap feels so good. Looking forward to seeing if you run A1 with insight or stick with A2. The P8 Duriel fight was great, and I am looking forward to these upgraded playthroughs. I want to see your updated run on Sorc before I have to do it solo come 2.4. Very much on the fence about FO/Hydra into Nova, or just Nova/FW straight through. Also A3 mercs need to be able to use staves.
I guess with the changes to mercs in 2.4 there's no reason to get your might merc early on. but I think holy freeze is better CC than A1 imo. I'd still go a2 for everything, Insight in an eth exceptional base just wrecks at 27.
I was already a singer when killed baal with a wand with 20fcr and 74mana and a throwing axe with +1 to barb skill levels and holy hell the fight was super easy but it did take super long and couple of inventorys worth of mana pots 😂 did not have any crushing blow weaps and still don't have, currently shout farming nm countess and I'm really liking this singing barb..
When playing a Barbarian shields high defense armor and Shout alot occasionally putting into putting skill points into one point wonders and pre-requisites and remember the pattern 2 1 2 each lvl
I haven’t but tons of people use EBOTD GPA for hell council farming I’ve heard using WW, like most barb builds I’d imagine you’d need some gear for it to be decent. Singer is the best through normal and nightmare and honestly WW with gear is great you can p8 the game relatively easy with some gear
You've probably already rocked one like me, but once you find warshrikes it's infinite ammo time. Can't remember the name of the throwing axe but with the two of them I was helping people kill clone Diablo no problems
Watched a lot of ur vids & others. I’m interested in commentary regarding what items are junk and why (better rune words, can be bought from vendor easily, just not useful at all stat wise, etc). There are numerous vids on what items are good/decent/amazing but that’s not the same as a baseline of “this is just trash”. Especially rings & amulets. I bring this up because my inventory is constantly cluttered.
Tried farming a telestaff for my necro yesterday for thirty minutes in NM from Akara… before finally remembering my sorc had something with port stashed away in personal…..
Please please do a guided play through of the martial arts assassin pure tiger strike and dragon tail. Players 8 just by getting good damage boots and using them normal and Nm again players 8 sooooo much damage!
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0:34 "I'm going to be pounding dudes straight up..." - MrLlamaSC 2022
MrLlamaSC, pounding dudes since 2000
i am here for the pounding.
Laughed so hard when he said it then scrolled for this comment xD
"and doing some double swing" -poor choice of words
53:10 😂 I know it is
Pounding dudes left and right for 20+ years. My mans endurance knows no bounds.
Playing through the game was the first thing my dad taught me back in the days
By far the easiest barb leveling through normal I've ever done playing along with this. Goes to show the difference when someone knows what they're doing vs super casual me at 12 years old lol thank you MrLlama!
It used to take me a week to get through Act 2, now I can walk it in like two hours if I’m messing around
Wow this brings back so much memories, I never realized barbarian was a hard character to play. I really enjoyed playing it and just jumping into battle was so fun.
I really love these playthroughs, I don't get to watch much on twitch so these formats on yt is really great, thx man
Barb is under appreciated. Guided Play Throughs are always a blast.
I'd always heard they were terribad, but I just made one on singleplayer a few days ago and it's now my favorite character. Playing on Nintendo switch frenzy is just so much fun.
@@Frostbytedigital idk make one today and its very bad imo. nice with gear but from scracth.... eew
@@shad0w2393
Skill issue
Glad to hear even more guided playthroughs are coming!!
3:00:28 The same thing echoed by all of my untwinked Dragon Talon builds. The added 50% fire res is also often overlooked.
" go smoke"
- MrLlamaSC, 2022
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these playthroughs are my favorite content. they never get old. thank you!
“We’re gonna play the singer.”
Does use a single war cry the entire video.
duh he will start singing after lvl 30 (war cry skill)
I can't wait for the part where he's like" huh ho who huh huh ho huh wah huh huh huh "
I've been waiting for these guides
this is my favorite type of content for you. Ive watched so many of these guided play throughs recently from you. Thanks MrLlama :)
Love these playthroughs. Might actually play along, I've always wanted to sing my way through D2.
Barbarian: I"m gonna yell at the corpse to find gold, or potions, and other items.
Thank you for all of your content. I love playing along with the singer!
Awesome Barbarian-Guide!!! Great way to explain things and it also shows whats possible in terms of how efficient an experienced player can play through the game. Keep up the great content. ♥
1:11:34 Eth rune won't make merc "lower defense even more". It's not a debuff that is applied to the monster, it's just a multiplier in HIS chance to hit formula. Just like the resist pierce on items like griffons not lowers the actual monster resist.
Llama said "so he can lower defence even more" meaning from the perspective of the merc. He never says that the monsters defense is reduced from the perspective of the barbarian. It isn't as clear of a statement as llama usually makes, but it's not necessarily incorrect.
The comment about “watching her bounce for hours” has me dyyyyyying!!! Ohhhhh my gawd!
Good job brother. It's always a pleasure to watch your vids. I just started a BardBarian, going to emulate your WarCry Barb. I was going to reset my lvl 30 Barb but I decided to start one fresh from Level 1,. Lol
maybe you could spend a few minutes to talk about your current gears/skill points at each stage of the game, it would be nice to show your realistic progression throughout the game
@Oodles of Noodles see what you mean but if you watched part and need to find a moment to watch again some timestamps at the beginning of acts or when he makes a significant change or reskill would be great to use this as a resource - cheers
@Oodles of Noodles having Sigon set or Lore runeword is hugely different from getting Shako or Spirit, but yeah just skip it and instead grind all your stuff from blizzard sorceress lol
@Oodles of Noodles also not everyone would spend 3 hours to watch the whole walkthrough though
I wonder how your gearing would turn out if you focused on using find item during your playthrough. You'd sacrifice some damage to put points into find item, but maybe the loot would be worth it.
It might add a bit of fun but it would be much slower getting any reasonably good drops due to the low MF and skill levels, plus killing speed much slower. Also it'd be much slower getting to the later difficulties where the actual good gear is, so ultimately the gear would be worse, and for longer!
This is the best build, everyone should try this just to see how fun it is
".25 patches per decade" had me in stitches. Thanks sgtdimples
We love you MRLLAMA!!
Act 1 merc really helps with hitting things because of inner sight. Prefer it to blessed aim merc any day. When you already have 300% AR from your mastery and frenzy and dexterity, the extra 150% from is not as big of an increase as flat -300 armor from Inner sight. She literally reduces the defense of everything to 0 on normal, you don't even need to battle cry them.
I am doing a barb right now in normal, I had 58% chance to hit nihlathak on the character sheet. But I hit him every time (despite him being level 68 and me 40)
Lvl 30 barb 50str 50dex, 10 sword mastery, 5 frenzy, 2x malice broadswords hitting nithlatak:
47% chance to hit with blessed aim merc.
50% with inner sight merc.
53% blessed aim + lvl1 battle cry.
So it seems comparable, but blessed + battle cry wins in boss fights. But I would say Inner sight wins in regular map clearing.
@@entarork1 not sure why do you say that? Even baals defense can be reduced to 0 with inner sight. Also rogue has much better chance of staying alive
@@Ubeogesh I was just curious how it performs on paper, and to share numbers. I haven't tried act1 merc like that. I may give act1 merc a try at Ladder with Throwbarb. So thanks for idea.
Exactly now apply that logic of yours to eschutas and anyone will quickly know why it's terrible for a light sorc being she has light mastery
@@thomaszinecker1785 wrong thread?
Petition to rename this build to "Bardbarian".
I laughed so hard at the $100 donation for P8 duriel xD
The Bard Collage of Solitude has prepared me for this.
Nachos? Carbs, Salt, and Fat. What could go wrong? All foods we have no “off switch” for because in our evolution as a species these things never were superabundant until modern times.
These things led me to become a type 2 diabetic at age 53. Diagnosed at 58. Because I’d ignored the general advice given because it never applied to me. Until one day it did. And I couldn’t tell. Because I was inside the problem now.
So. Do yourself a favour: once a month maximum nachos. Or. Special occasion nachos. And goodbye chips otherwise. Because diabetes 2 will catch up to you as you age.
“Pounding dudes left and right” lol😂
Hope you enjoyed "pounding dudes straight up...."
my favorite playthrough too! and now on a d2r platform! MrLlamaSC lets play over and over again! Is this one first d2r playthrough? huh?
mr llama made me do this
i watched mr llamas stream today and he asked people to like this video 37 times in total. Please guys help the man out!
“Poundin dudes, straight up”
TFW you finish the sewers and decide to look for your teleport staff....first shot, 16k. Long live the Llama.
The Pete Davidson part had me rolling. You do look like him XD
Man when i played this as a kid it was my fantasy to be a powerhouse barb, swinging axes but i could never play him decently. I learned a lot watching your stream and its pretty unfortunate that for the 'unrivalled master in hand to hand combat' you are down to throwing flasks and chugging health potions all the time. He should be cleaving through the enemies and drinking their bodily fluids instead of health potions.
true, "Find Sustenance" instead of Find Potion lol
Elden ring in 24 hours boys!!
“Pounding dudes straight up” -Llama
You can tell he's a flaming gay, no wonder he'd say something like that
Yo I have been looking forward to your guided play throughs thanks man!
Just another llama video where he “pounds dudes straight up”
If you keep up with levels (don't have too horrible chance to hit), once you get a couple points in frenzy it's more DPS to get 2 war hammers with some ED% from Hratli. They are slower but deal 2 times more damage than Malice Flail.
I'm leaving this comment of my own free will. Singer barb best barb!
When that el dropped I cackled
Love this kind of playthough content🥰
I just beat hell using this as I wanted to get a pitzerker going. Time for Grief and repecc. Thank you MrLlama
Poison Necromancer with poison dagger as primary attack!!!
Awesome guide and super helpful. It's nice to see a video since it has more detail than a written guide. One question though: After getting frenzy do we build charges then double swing or only use frenzy? It seems like I attack much faster with double swing after getting frenzy charges
I wanna know as well
That new leap feels so good. Looking forward to seeing if you run A1 with insight or stick with A2. The P8 Duriel fight was great, and I am looking forward to these upgraded playthroughs. I want to see your updated run on Sorc before I have to do it solo come 2.4. Very much on the fence about FO/Hydra into Nova, or just Nova/FW straight through. Also A3 mercs need to be able to use staves.
I guess with the changes to mercs in 2.4 there's no reason to get your might merc early on. but I think holy freeze is better CC than A1 imo. I'd still go a2 for everything, Insight in an eth exceptional base just wrecks at 27.
"We're just pounding dudes left and right here."
I giggled at Cain had a TP in his pocket the whole time...
Increasing drop rates in this game would suck I'm happy you have to grind for gear it makes it so much better when you get a good item especially ssf.
Me: Excited to watch a speedrun
MrLlamaSC: Let's get this Arrows from the ground to sell it for big money.
Me: Leaves
I built a singer barb hit a hard wall of no Baal nightmare, so I just turned him into a gold find barb and spend my time doing trav runs lol
I was already a singer when killed baal with a wand with 20fcr and 74mana and a throwing axe with +1 to barb skill levels and holy hell the fight was super easy but it did take super long and couple of inventorys worth of mana pots 😂 did not have any crushing blow weaps and still don't have, currently shout farming nm countess and I'm really liking this singing barb..
A little love.
I played a whirlwind barb really badly when the LoD first came out. I never even learnt from D1 that the warrior/barb was actually a harder character!
Thank you so much, there are very few mechanics i dont know about. . . I did not know potions could crit.
00:34
your welcome.
bash needs 25%splash
Like these play through looking fwd to assassin's nightmare and hell playthrough
When playing a Barbarian shields high defense armor and Shout alot occasionally putting into putting skill points into one point wonders and pre-requisites and remember the pattern 2 1 2 each lvl
I learned a lot from you I watch a lot just have a different playing style
Anyone ever tried polearm barb? What main attack skill would you focus on? Concentrate or berserk?
I haven’t but tons of people use EBOTD GPA for hell council farming I’ve heard using WW, like most barb builds I’d imagine you’d need some gear for it to be decent. Singer is the best through normal and nightmare and honestly WW with gear is great you can p8 the game relatively easy with some gear
Both, berserk for physical immune.
Good old shopping music
Love the elevator music
I think going through normal with a throw barb will be super fun with the piercing changes
You've probably already rocked one like me, but once you find warshrikes it's infinite ammo time. Can't remember the name of the throwing axe but with the two of them I was helping people kill clone Diablo no problems
Nice play through this is one character I haven’t done is singer barb
Love the content!
Double swing just seems like an inferior version of zeal. The only advantage is the potentially 0 mana cost.
Been saving gear for this specific build. Got 2 heart Carver rondels and a barb helm with find item which should make things interesting.
I like when you are just pounding dudes 😂
i see this was more of a frenzy playthru
The Good thing with Barbs u can just leap over the river once u get Leap.
Watched a lot of ur vids & others. I’m interested in commentary regarding what items are junk and why (better rune words, can be bought from vendor easily, just not useful at all stat wise, etc). There are numerous vids on what items are good/decent/amazing but that’s not the same as a baseline of “this is just trash”. Especially rings & amulets. I bring this up because my inventory is constantly cluttered.
Pounding dudes….straight up
Dang! Amazing job!
We'll go save cain cause we're a nice guy, excellent!
Pounding dudes left and right
Gotta love that Shopping music man. Laughed until tears rolled down my cheeks.
Nadir: (In Turkish it means) Rare. #themoreyouknow
1:44:57 FeelsOkayMan 👉⏩⏩ VOD FROGS
Awesome 👏 please make more and try doing the old ones again in Resurrected
Tried farming a telestaff for my necro yesterday for thirty minutes in NM from Akara… before finally remembering my sorc had something with port stashed away in personal…..
Would like to see how you play a Barb in Hell. Seems every monster has 100% mana steel per hit.
Would appreciate a link to the written guide on the description
Great vid!
watching this now after just starting d2r again, our mercs have the same name haha
Please link leveling guides. Thanks for the playthroughs, they are awesome
Me to I really like the barb
Title fooled me, it's actually a frenzy double strike barb
It was nice to watch you straight-up pound dude after dude, keep it up
Because of Mr.llamas nagging about youtube algorithms on his stream (featuring a play through of barb crossbow only) iam here leaving a comment.
Please please do a guided play through of the martial arts assassin pure tiger strike and dragon tail. Players 8 just by getting good damage boots and using them normal and Nm again players 8 sooooo much damage!
ah yes the fiercest "looking" warrior. chug those pots, bleed them to death and slug thru the game
Exactly. Bad build, and handler.
In th original 2 I found the barbs raw power made the gam aier than others like assassin or amazon.
Those playthroughts are the best. Make javazon from scratch if you feel like too
Singer barb PogU