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kenji51590
02-25-2008, 01:09 AM
Ok this build is not considered as a MF build, only for gold finding and that purpose would be to gain around 500,000 gold per run in nm Trav and go gamble to the nearby gamble vender ( ie Gheed in act 1).

With this build you can raise millions of gold within 2-6 runs of nm Trav. We do nm Trav because the council drops the most amount of gold for quick runs. Hell Trav is much to hard for the gold find barb unless you can manage to have a good setup on your switch to help kill them along with your merc. The merc will be doing all of your killing since your gear will only enhance your gold finding and not your ability to do sufficient amounts of damage.

I hope you find this guide to be of some use, and please correct me on any mistakes that I make in this guide and or tips on improvements thankyou.




Stats- Strength: enough for enigma
Dexterity: enough for gear (don't need max block since you will be wielding two swords)
Vitality: the rest. Atleast more than 300
Energy: no thankyou


Skills- 20- BO
20- Shout
20- Find Item
20- Natural Resistence
1- Howl
1- Find Potion
1- Increase Speed
1- Increase Stamina
rest- Iron Skin



Equipment- Helm: Crown of Thieves
This helm can have from 80-100% gold find and if you do the larzuk quest in act, you could socket and put a lem into the helm giving this a grand total of 150% gold find.


Armour: Enigma
This armour is simply a must since you want to tele on top of the council members with your merc ready to attack. This is also useful if you are hit to many times and you can tele away to to the wp and go to town for a quick heal from ormus. This armour also has a good percentage of magic finding depending on your level, a little bit of magic finding is never bad for a gold find barb since you can sell the items they drop for gold.

Weapon: 2x 6 os swords with Lems (total of 12 lems socketed)
This dual weapon is a must since lems in a socketed weapon gives you 75% gold find per Lem. This bring us a grand total of 900% gold find gg :D
An alternative dual weapon could be Ali Babas socketed with Lems, but the first choice above gives you much more gold finding.

Belt- Goldwrap
Another must for gold finding barbs since they give you around 50-80% in gold finding.

Gloves- Chance Guards
These are as well a must for gold finding barbs giving you 200% gold find and some mf as well :]

Boots- Inferno Stride
These give up to 70% gold finding and is a must. An alternative would be any gf boots that can go up to 80% gold finding.

Amulet- Any nice + to barb skills with up to 80% gold finding.

Rings- 2x Dwarf Star Rings
these give 100% gold finding each :]



Inventory- here are two setups, I'd personally use the one with the Btorch and anni since they give you plus to resistence and to stats.

setup 1- Btorch, Anni, 8x Gold Finding Gcs with atleast 40%, and Gheeds 100%
setup 2- 10x Gold Finding Gcs with atleast 40%, and Gheeds 100%

Then the last 10 spaces you have in your inventory you can use 10x 10% gold finding sc's or if you want, 20lifers with resistence or other mods that you would need.





Mercenary- Ok so this would be your main killing guy so you would need some good damage along with some gold finding can never hurt.


Helm- Crown of Thieves
The exact same helm as yours with the socketed Lem inside to make that 150% gold finding.

Armour- Wealth
This armour will add 300% gold finding :]

Weapon- Bonehew
This weapon works well since it has a strong range of attack (103-609 dmg) and some good enhanced damage, 30 ias, 50% to cast lvl 16 bonespear. This also has 2 sockets, which is perfect for you to put 2x Lems in for some 150% gold finding :]


Strats- Ok so once you get the the Trav wp in nm, I would go tele right on top of the council members and just kill them one at a time with your merc. You act as a ele druid would and just tele bomb those members and you should get some very good gold popping here and there. If you don't have alot of mana, be prepared with mana pots and or Juv's. These members deal out some harmful fire dmg so be prepared with good fire resistence and the fire sorb from the dwarf stars (30% fire sorb).

Alright so your grand total of Gold Finding should all add up to this below:

Weapon- 900%
Helm- 150%
Belt- 80%
Gloves- 200%
Boots- 70%
Amulet- 80%
Rings- 200%
setup 1 inventory- 420% minimum
setup 2 inventory- 460% minimum

From Merc:

Helm- 150%
Armour- 300%
Weapon- 150%

Grand Total Gold Find: 2,700 Gold Finding with setup 1
2,740 Gold Finding with setup 2

I hope this guide will bring you the riches of a king and gamble it away to get those rare and possibly unique items from the gamble vendors.

Again please inform me for any corrections and or tips that could help to enhance this guide or better the understanding for others thank you.

N V
02-25-2008, 06:06 AM
Ok guide, but i dont agree on armor choice. I would use wealth armor instead of enigma. Cheaper and you get a lot more gold find. To get the merc where you want him, just go down the stairs to Durance of Hate and back up, your merc is ready to attack.

Also I would say Alibaba is better than 6x lem'd swords because you get 90ish mf (depending on lvl) from each, coupled with wealth on you and your merc, you get about 3xx mf which is about the point dimishing returns really kicks in. The council can drop some really sweet rares and someties unique stuff.
I think that IK helm should be mentioned. Just a little bit less mf than CoT, but you get some +skills to help you out ;)

As for inventory you don't need anni, but a torch would be worth it (even 10/10/ since res shouldnt be a problem in nm, but the 3 skills help bo/shout/find item etc. You say get GC's with at least 40% gf, but it cant get any higher so I would say something like "Try to get as close to 40% gf GC's" (minor nitpick, but you did ask for tips ;)). On Gheed's i would look for as high gf as possible (160%) and best reduce vendor prices (15%). The mf is just a bonus imo.

All in all, nice work on that guide :)

kenji51590
02-25-2008, 07:25 AM
thank you on the feedback N_V :]

Also this guide is a gf guide so I would have to disagree on the dueli alibabas for the mf boost. Wealth is also a great source of fg, but in my preference I like to tele around although your method of getting the merc in the right place with Wealth will get better gold finding. Thx of the input ;]

N V
02-25-2008, 08:36 AM
No problem.

My gf barb runs duel alibaba and wealth. My best gold pile hork in hell (friend killed the councils) is 84k gold or so. On nm when my merc kills I have gotten 500k+ on one run doing both councils and those guys down at meph. The reason i chose alibaba is because it's a lot cheaper.

I agree with the merc choice of equipment, though a hel in the bonehew might help people reach the stat req for equiping it. And if it has trouble surviving an amn will help with life leach. Oh and you didn't mention what kind of merc. Some people might choose a defensive merc for the slowing effect, but that will also give a chance at shattering corpses which in return will result in no gold dropping. An nm offensive merc (might aura) will greatly help with damage, and in return will let him leach more.

Just read all of the strats (didnt do that last time :o), and do you use leap or warcry to knockback/stun the councils? i used to use warcry for stunning, but changed to leap since it requires less mana and it knockback the unique ones as well as normal council.

®@þþ3¬
02-25-2008, 03:46 PM
7/10

You get the essential, but whats the dealio with 20 points in Nat res?????????

Something is wrong with you strategies.... Take wp, cast BC/BO/Shout, tele to Council (since you use Enigma which is dumb imo, but thats your call), Cast Battle Cry (reduce Enemy def/attack), cast War Cry to keep council stunned. Your merc will have an easy job to do.

Lvl 20 Find Item is overkill! Diminishing returns kick in at lvl 14. Not worth it to invest more points.

You should maybe suggest dual WC spears on switch for better BC/BO/Shout?

"setup 2- 10x Gold Finding Gcs with atleast 40%, and Gheeds 100%" Now thats a big inventory! :D

tl613
02-26-2008, 12:47 AM
Do you pump War Cry at all? If so isn't it going to be rather difficult to keep them stun-locked because of the mana cost? Or add some points into leap if you need breathing room?

kenji51590
02-26-2008, 01:00 AM
yes sry I didn't clear that up... I would use warcry if you have enigma or leap if you use leap. Also the 20 nats is a lil weird lol I guess i messed up on that part too... 5+ to nats to get that max res and item find would be at 15-16? Then you wouldn't have to waste all of those points and can place them into warcry or leap depending on your gear.

lol the first leap is supposed to be wealth my bad..

tl613
03-03-2008, 10:47 PM
I actually built one and find that putting points into Leap is very effective. If you constantly Leap in place it will pretty much put the Council into a stun-lock of sorts with an occasional Hydra popping up. Since there are so many walls in the area the knockback won't be a problem at all. I also tried going to Warcry instead but the unique Council members (more importantly the stronger ones) are unaffected by it plus the mana cost to keep up stun-lock is ridiculous.

Haxorz
03-03-2008, 10:54 PM
Sounds like a gg gf barb

Skullcaptain
03-03-2008, 11:39 PM
I'm going to bookmark this build. It's a good gold making build :)

kenji51590
03-04-2008, 01:18 AM
ty skullcaptaion :] althought it does need some tweeking as you can see from the previous posts

Skullcaptain
03-04-2008, 01:21 AM
Ya it need, but the initiative to make a guide like this makes this guide a wrothy one to read and try out ;)

tl613
03-04-2008, 01:52 AM
I would definitely replace the Barb's Enigma with Wealth. With the Barb I made, if I really had a problem with the merc finding his way to a Council member I just kept Leaping and let the knockback push the Council member TO my merc. It's kind of a pain sometimes but it's fun to know you can literally push these guys around wherever you want to.

Nosferatu
03-04-2008, 04:41 AM
Since aurastacking is possible, would GF % stacking be possible? :p

Skullcaptain
03-04-2008, 05:07 AM
Duh, GF% can be stack like MF%..

>.<

Nosferatu
03-04-2008, 07:13 AM
Duh, GF% can be stack like MF%..

>.<

Sarcasm or truth?

tl613
03-04-2008, 05:37 PM
Truth.

Skullcaptain
03-04-2008, 11:30 PM
Sarcasm or truth?

I do sarcasm only in OT :)

kenji51590
03-05-2008, 05:17 AM
how do you stack gf?

saracen85
03-05-2008, 05:45 AM
by wearing as many items that has "x% extra gold from monsters".. it stacks like mf..

kenji51590
03-12-2008, 04:45 PM
oh i knew that lol i just didnt understand the correct term for this.

kenji51590
03-15-2008, 03:55 AM
Ok so here's the update on my barb with my guide now.

Lvl 79 name: GambleGold US-East NonLadder

Stats: Str- 75
Dex- 136
VIt- 340
Ene- 30

Life: 3592 w/BO
Mana: 255

Gear: Same as guide

Gold Find: 2227% (still need 5x 40% GF GC's and 10x 7% GF SC's)

Magic Find (optional): 238%



Merc: Lvl: 79

Life:3808

Stats: Str- 206
Dex- 196

Gear: CoT, Fort, EBOTD Warpike

Defense: 2,657

Res- maxed

Dmg- 14,811-14,850

Fastest Trav Run: 63 seconds in Hell

GF: Lowest- 312,092
Highest- 1,102,649