In this post, you will find a handy Diablo 2 Resurrected Berserk Barbarian Build cheat sheet. There are skills, attributes, important breakpoints, equipment, mercenary, and farming locations suitable for the Berserk Barbarian Build.
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Skills
Maxing Skill order (reaching skill level 20):
Berserk > Blade Mastery > Find Potion > Find Item > Battle Orders
Useful skills (put at least 1 point here):
Battle Command, Howl, Increased Speed, Natural Resistance and Iron Skin.
Attributes
- Strength: Allows you to wear heavy weapons and armor, and increases the damage you deal with equipped weapon.
- Around 50-100 points for equipping gear, max required STR is 95 (War Traveler) or 156 (Stormshield).
- Dexterity: Affects Attack Rating (your chance to hit) and Defense Rating (monster’s chance to hit player with physical attack). It also increases chance to block, allows to equip certain weapons (javelins, daggers, claws, and ranged) and their damage.
- Around 100-150 points (based on character level) for reaching max Block Chance (75%).
- Vitality: Increases the amount of Life and Stamina (yellow bar, energy for running) your character has.
- All other points (250+), for extra Life points.
- Energy: Determines the amount of Mana your character has.
- None, you’ll get enough mana from equipment.
Important Breakpoints
Breakpoints are the values at which spells, attacks and other animations become a frame faster or slower. Values must meet or exceed numbers to achieve that breakpoint or will cause no change until you meet or exceed the next breakpoint.
- Faster Cast Rate (FCR): 63% (9 Frames) or 105% (8 Frames) for Teleport from Enigma Runeword
- Increased Attack Speed (IAS): 42% (9 Frames) for Phase Blades setup
- Faster Hit Recovery (FHR): 27% (6 Frames) or 48% (5 Frames)
- Faster Block Rate (FBR): 20% (5 Frames) or 42% (4 Frames)
Equipment
Weapon
Phase Blade
Alternatives:
Oath Runeword
Unbending Will Runeword
Shield
Alternatives:
Phase Blade with x6 Ist Rune (MF)
Blade of Ali Baba (MF)
Gull Dagger (MF)
Helm
Alternatives:
Immortal King’s Will
Magic/Rare Circlet with +X to Barbarian Skill Levels and Increased Attack Speed/Faster Cast Rate
Guillaume’s Face
Lore Runeword (Starter)
Tarnhelm (MF)
Body Armor
Mage Plate / Archon Plate
Alternatives:
Immortal King’s Soul Cage
Smoke Runeword (Starter)
Skullder’s Ire (MF)
Belt
Alternatives:
Arachnid Mesh
Verdungo’s Hearty Cord
Immortal King’s Detail
Gloves
Alternatives:
Laying of Hands
Immortal King’s Forge
Boots
Alternatives:
Gore Rider
Goblin Toe
Immortal King’s Pillar
Amulet
Alternatives:
Rare/Crafted Amulet with +X to Barbarian Skill Levels and Increased Attack Speed/Faster Cast Rate
Metalgrid
Rings
Alternatives:
Rare Rings with Attack Rating, Resistances, Life or Faster Cast Rate
Dwarf Star (MF)
Sockets
Alternatives:
Cham Rune (Helm)
Um Rune (Shield)
Ist Rune (MF)
Charms
Additional:
Small Charms with Resistances or Better Chance of Getting Magic Items (extra stat as + to Attack Rating / Maximum Damage / Faster Hit Recovery / Life is a great bonus)
Gheed’s Fortune (MF)
For swap weapon setup use two Wizardspike or Suicide Branch (+100% Faster Cast Rate) for Teleport from Enigma Runeword. You can get extra +5% Faster Cast Rate (reaching 105% Breakpoint) from amulet/ring or Arachnid Mesh.
Mercenary
A player can hire NPCs as mercenaries to fight alongside them. Only one mercenary can be active at a time and hiring a new one results in the dismissal of the current one. Weapons (related to merc type), body armor, and headgear can be equipped on the mercenaries, and they become much more useful with proper gear.
Important note: Ethereal items (have better base stats, such as damage or defense and lower requirements) do not lose durability when equipped on a Mercenary, greatly boosting their stats.
Mercenary: Desert Mercenary (Act 2), Offense: Might Aura.
- Weapon
- Best: Insight Runeword (Ethereal Giant Thresher or any other Polearm for starter)
- Alternatives: Any weapon with high Damage and Life Stolen Per Hit/Life
- Body Armor
- Best: Fortitude Runeword (Ethereal Sacred Armor)
- Alternatives: Any armor with high Defense and Resistances/Life
- Helm
- Best: Andariel’s Visage (Ethereal, with Increased Attack Speed jewel)
- Alternatives: Any helm with high Defense, Life Stolen Per Hit and Resistances/Life
Farming Locations
Below are mentioned good farming zones for this build, with less (or none) monsters’ immunity to main skills damage.
- Act I
- The Countess
- The Pit
- Act II
- Stony Tomb
- Summoner
- Act III
- Arachnid Lair
- Travincal
- Act IV
- City of the Damned
- River of Flame
- Chaos Sanctuary
- Diablo
- Act V
- Eldritch the Rectifier
- Shenk the Overseer
- Pindleskin
- Drifter Cavern
- Nihlathak
- Worldstone Keep
- Throne of Destruction
We hope this post was useful to you and found the best ways to build your Berserk Barbarian.