Items of Interest: Barbarian
Unavoidable Items
Armor:
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You want to get an armor with 2 open sockets.
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If you don't get one as drop you can shop one of these at Charsie:
Quilted Armor
Leather Armor
Hard Leather Armor
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Make sure it is not a magical item!
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In this armor you put the runes Tal and Eth in this order to build the runeword 'Stealth':
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With +25% Faster Run/Walk | Faster Cast Rate | Faster Hit Recovery it is absolutly nessessary on any character you want to speedrun!
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Weapons:
Level 1 - 5:
Javalins
Scepter
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You can buy the javalins from 'Charsie'.
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You can buy scepters from 'Akara'.
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Possible additional stats for the 'Scepter' (Don't shop for that):
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1-2 open Sockets - Place chipped Emeralds or Topazes in those.
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Level 6 - 15:
Scepter
Strangling Gas Potion
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Buy a second scepter from 'Akara'.
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You can only get strangling gas potions as drop. You can refill the quantity by selling and rebuying them.
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Possible additional stats for the 'Scepter' (Don't shop for that):
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1-2 open Sockets - Place chipped Emeralds or Topazes in those.
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Level 15:
Flail
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You can buy the Flail from Fara. Refresh her shop-tab untill you get it!
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Put in the runes Ith, El and Eth in this order to build the runeword 'Malice':
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The Malice goes into the right weapon slot!
Level 17:
Flail
Morning Star
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You need to get a second mace class weapon for your left weapon slot.
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Put in 3 Tal runes to get maximum damage. This will kill almost everything with one hit.
Helmet:
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Helmets are not a must have. They are a "just in case"-item to put runes in.
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You want to get one helmet with 2 open sockets for 2 Ral-Runes.
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If you don't get one as drop you can shop one of these at Charsie:
Cap
Skull Cap
Jawbone Cap
Fanged Helm
Possible additional stats (Don't shop for that, skip over items when you are at vendors):
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+10% / 17% Faster Hit Recovery. (extremly rare)
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+1 to 3 Mace Mastery (barb helmets only)
Belt:
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The belt slot defines how many potions you can take with you.
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Buy potions with spamming left-click while having no belt or a sash. Its faster.
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Secondary a 3 row belt is speeding up the potion-shopping. (Fill belt, unequipp, reequip)
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If you don't get one as a drop you can buy a 'Sash' or 'Belt' from 'Charsie' or 'Fara'.
No Belt
Belt
Sash
Possible additional stats (Don't shop for that, skip over items when you are at vendors):
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+10% / 17% Faster Hit Recovery.
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+5-20% Lightning-, Cold- or Fire-Resistances.
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5% Chance to cast level 3 'Frost-Nova' when struck.
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Cannot be Frozen (only Death's Diguise belt)
Optional Items
Boots:
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Boots are completly optional.
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They can speed up a run by a lot with the right attribute.
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Only take Chain Boots if they have Faster Run / Walk.
Boots
Heavy Boots
Chain Boots
Possible additional stats (Don't shop for that, skip over items when you are at vendors):
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+10-20% Faster Run / Walk. (up to +40% are possible on unique- / set-boots.)
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+10% / 17% Faster Hit Recovery.
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+5-20% Lightning-, Cold- or Fire-Resistances.
Gloves:
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Gloves are completly optional.
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You can skip over Charsie's items while you shop for the important items.
Leather Gloves
Heavy Gloves
Chain Gloves
Possible additional stats (Don't shop for that, skip over items when you are at vendors):
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+10% Increased Attack Speed
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+5-20% Lightning-, Cold- or Fire-Resistances.
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5% Chance to cast level 3 'Frost-Nova' when struck.
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Half Freezing Duration.
Jewlery:
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Except for gold Rings and Amuletts are not really that important
Ring
Amulet
Possible additional stats (Don't shop for that, skip over items when you are at vendors):
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+x to Life or Mana
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+5 to 30 Lightning-, Cold- or Fire-Resistance.
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+10 to 120 Attack Rating
