Survivability skills like Natural Resistances and Iron Skin will only get 1 point instead of the regular Barbarian treatment. Since your IK Barb will be using a Maul, 2nd maxing Mace Mastery is a great idea! These are your only DPS skills other than a few points in Concentrate (7-10) and unlocking Berserk/Bash/Leap Attack. Tactically it’s not very creative, but it’s brutally effective. Spinning to win and using Berserk on anything that won’t die is a great strategy.

IK Barbs rely on their namesake item set for survivability but play like a Whirlwind Barbarian. The IK Maul also does all 5 types of damage so you’ll never need to switch weapons either.

Resistance wise your IK Barb will be sitting pretty: 90% Cold Resist, 100% Poison Resist, 118% Fire Resist, and 121% Lightning Resist. This build set has a high minimum Strength needed, which also makes this a late-game build. It uses the WW skill for his main attack but relies on the bonuses from the entire IK set. I'm curious to try it out but I had just used a token to respec my barb from ebotd gpa to ebotd cb and using two more tokens seems a bit wasteful (so useful for trading).A popular sub-build of the WW Barb is the Immortal King Barbarian. There's also more str needed (although no dex needed as with the cb). Physical damage also goes down a lot which will further lower life and mana leech, although elemental damage goes up a huge amount, but not sure if that means you can deal with PI mobs in WSK by ww'ing (can't deal with them with my current setup). Going with IK set (with shael x2 in the maul), DR goes down to 20%, life leech goes down to 17% (almost 6% in hell), 17% mana leech (almost 6% in hell), cb goes up to 55%, ow goes down to 10%, and ds stays at 15%. With that setup, I have 45% DR, 38% life leech (almost 13% in hell), 14% mana leech (almost 5% in hell), 75% f/c/l resist and 63% poison resist, 15% cb, 35% ow, 15% ds. Ring #2 - rare ring with 7% life leech and some resists

I know IK set is not gg by any means and wondering if it's worth potentially two tokens to give it a try and possibly go back.Īmulet - rare +2 barb skills, 19 resist all (more for poison), 7% manga leech, 21% mf, 40 life Found an IK armor in chaos sanctuary today (dropped I think from a regular monster) which now gives me a complete set.

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