It's ridiculous that d2 is still that much better than d4 lol. This game will probably always be fun with mods and so on. Timeless.

D2/D2R is so incredibly well made that it's still passively producing new content in 2024.

yo! glad our sparring made it in the clip! most unique barb i've seen, only viable throw barb (in pvp*) i've seen as well. keep it goin!

Just as I was looking back into Throw Barb myself. What a legend, love this variant

Coooley is so under appreciated. His content videos and editing are top tier.

This build is awesome, thanks for doing the legwork for us and showing it.

Great video. I reset my barb to this throw build and never looked back.

Love it, love it!!! Next ladder can't come soon enough!

Coooley I love your vids, top notch content as always, since Im too lazy to figure builds like this on my own, I love to once in a while watch your build guide and make the same character :) I was thinking of eventually making some pvp barb. you came with my inspiration! I made a toxic paladin last ladder, its so much fun to play it!

Surely_Serious? I know that guy! Glad you're enjoying the barb as much as I did!

Super fun looking build, cant wait to try it. As far as the Act 1 Merc, its so good with a Dream Paladin. Some guy hostiled me and my merc 1 shot on him while he was on the way point. Also this build gives me a permanent home for the Eth Death i just built. Love the content.

Very Nice throw barb setup ! Ive always been a fan of this build

This is the best video I have ever seen in my life and I'm ashamed to say I never once thought about this

I used to do mid-level pvp with a throw barb back in the day. People would get confused because it would require getting a few melee hits on them or hitting enemies to get some speedup then they get ranged by throwing. But at higher levels they couldn't compete.

Always make great videos Cooley!

Just when I was craving a dip back into this amazing game... Cooley reels me in

Love your work brother!

I have finished every season on diablo 4 so far, also excited for the next coming. But i also got d2 ress about a minth ago for my first time playing. And i can not put this game down. Its truely amazing. My first was diablo 3. But diablo 2 is absolutely incredible. Still have not done a full playthrough yet, i keeo changing toons and finding one i enjoy , but im having a blast

Maaaan your content is elite. Always a pleasure. Build looks like a lot of fun!

damn cooley, ive been silent lurker since you had like 20 viewers in twitch. I have seen your struggle with your lod paladin but you have improved so much in duels. I won you in lod with 500 ping but today no chance. gj man and hope to see you in the blood moor

The sheer amount of videos and time played. D4 will never compare.

Throwbarb is insanely strong, I have a pretty nicely geared one in SP (eth lacerator does a lot of work) faith on the merc is nutty, throw barb gets sooo much AR compared to other barb builds (especially if you go for like a 70/30 split on dex to vit) clears players 8 and everything. Wish more people would give it a shot

Excellent video man.

the fire I once had for d2 has embered. I used to play this game 12-20 hours a day for months/years. I tried it again for D2R and it was fun. I got a 95 hammerdin and a few 80+'s then just got bored. I enjoy your videos. It reminds me of the good ol days even though I am not longer there.

Great video dude!

That builds badass. Last Epoch kicks ass too.

Gotta love the innovation...keep em comin papa cools

Grats on 100k views bro. That's extremely impressive.

you make some of the most entertaining D2 vids.... just had to say that lol

D2 would never be fun. Had so much fun when D2R came out before my kid was born. Watch all these videos to stay in tune with the meta. Love the content!

Appreciate the Octopath Traveller song there = ) Keep 'em coming dude!

Very cool !!! Thanks

I see you, Dr Hook and the Medicine Show. Was not expecting that in a D2 build video.

Your vids are soooo quality my guy, damn! Both made me roll barb as a main, and get into pvp. I don't know if I should thank you, or if you owe me money...

It's also worth mentioning that Inner Sight and Slow Missles don't overwrite and stack with curses

I’m making one of these… looks fun!

Man, I think I WAS playin with you in TZ. Hades here. :) thanks for the red portals. 👌

I miss playing this game. My main was Barbarian before but I have never heard about this build!

GOAT barb, blizzard should add it to the Arreat Summit.

now i know what i will play in the new season in few weeks thanks, greetings from germany :D

Keeping this game for the next 20 years gg

When using dual Lacerator you got a higher chance of Amplify Damage and you can combine this with Axe Mastery + Throwing Mastery because Lacerator profits from Axe Mastery as well. Which counts to Whirlwind. Is one of my favourite builds in D2R.

The best d2r youtuber strikes again

Thank you for another amazing diablo video

the eth lacerators open door to any weapon in game in switch . even crossbows . this is by far the most fun and strongest barb i ever did .

Thank you for the be great build

My old frenzy barb rocking lastwishz and griefz was insaneee epsecially when u got the right amount of ll

fan of ur videos !! best diablo tv in world!

I've mained a double throw barbarian since the original D2 released. In those days there were several glitches that made this build so broken. 1 of them, I'm happy to see that you noticed. The short ranged weapon matches the range of the longer range weapon. This was 10x more powerful when you consider that attack speed use to have a similar glitch. Double throw would use the attack speed of the most recently equipped weapon, meaning your sluggish offhand would throw at the speed of your main hand. In those days, wraith flight was far superior to lacerator. When D2R first released, this bug was still present, but they they soon after patched it, which broke my heart. There also use to be a glitch that would cause an equipped item to be invisible to other players if it was being held on by the bonus stats of another equipped item. This meant that your throwing weapons could be invisible, and this includes the the projectiles when thrown. This also caused your character to go invisible the moment you throw it, so with enough ias, you were essentially and invisible machine gun throwing firing invisible projectiles off the screen in pvp. What a time to be alive! I have to ask, what belt were you using. You didn't show it. Razortail use to be the go-to before they added piercing to barb throwing via the mastery tree. I imagine dungos might be the best now, but who knows. Also, where the heck is your fortitude? Enigma might be better if your just doing certain runs, but overall, fortitude is critical for double throw barbs. LoH are good but I always preferred steelrends. This was when big hitting offhands were supreme and crushing blow was less accessible though, so I'm certain this has changed. Great video. I wouldn't say no one has cracked this build before though. I cracked it long ago.

Delirium is nice option for merc helm, gives u great crowd control, but cure kinda universal now for sure, also dropping 75-100 points into str for dmg boost is great too

i did an eboted and death frenzy buff, ww barb. and atma's scarab for the procs. it was insanely good. i used fort, and a teleport amulet for getting around on swap for atmas. probably the same on the rest of the gear. absolutely loved it, was lvl 90, hc, could do ubers and everything, yeah, its expensive but the concept and functionality of it, is not. lvl 7 frenzy can give u 119% increase movement speed and 27%? attack speed, and when u pair that with ww, monsters can't even hit u because u move so fast. had lvl 17 stamina, so got a long buff from frenzy. and u just frenzy, proc and ww. insanely good. amp damage is the absolute savior of physical damage builds in d2r.

Nice one bro

Think I'll try it when we get new ladder.

When I was watching the stream I knew it was going to get turned into a video. This barb is insanely strong.

Immediately new this was gonna be an left wielded eth warshrike+right wielded eth lacerator build. Be careful with the quantity though. Perhaps even keep spare ones in the stash. Once you run out of quantity, they will break and as an eth item say goodbye. One of my all time fav builds. Surprised that most people doesn't even understand the importance of crushing blow and attack speed combination makes the best in this 2 and a half decade old cult of a game.

The problem for me was only the better ammunition for harder difficulities. Since you could only buy the regular throwing weapons.

2:30 Dr. Hook, sharing the night together

I love my current throw barb. I don't think he's been optimized like this, but he's super fun. And yes, surprisingly strong. I never thought about arachnid+circlet or switching with death and lacerator before! I maxed out dexterity instead of vitality for more damage. I still prefer ww barb personally, but it's great to going throw from time to time. I'd love to see if anybody can make a singer really good too.

frenzy ww and double throw. some crazy shit

there should be a movie about this 2:31

Great as usual. Would be nice tho if u added p8 gameplay (with onscreen player count) - im curious of the killspeed compared to mainstream builds

great music :D

oh god... i feel it... the desire to return to d2

Amazing build! Doesn't look very HC friendly though. Love that we still haven't explored all of D2.

Hahaha I love the part about the act 1 merc and the lonely girl song 😂

I been wanting to make a throw barb, but like you said I aint know what i was doing. I have the eth laci, but prob need to go look for eth WS now!

thx man

Nice. Do you have a Melee Sorc video?

D2R is a game where creativity will never end.

30 seconds in and I thought this was a octopath travelers video lol

Dare I say 2023 Back to Back Two time champ!

Tip: For all who are playing this build in S6. In Areas (TZs) with many distributed little minions like Flayer Jungle, you should play with controller. Autoaim is nice!

Put some respecccccc on my man cooooley

Thanks for the guide. This is exactly the build I am looking for! One question I have is on ias, in the video you said we need 86 ias to reach max speed, but your gear doesn’t seem to match up. 20 glove, 20 amulet, 30 circlet that adds up to 70. I wonder which ias is the correct one?

PvP in addition to great PvE mechanics is what makes D2 superior to all others Would be cool to add PvP rankings in D2R

damn cooley nice to see your content doing well. I was the one lurking in your early streams when you had like 10 viewers. I quit d2 long time ago but your dfc stuff inspired me to come back to lod pvp. Thank you for that. You kinda sucked ass tbh when I made necro in na and I had 300 ping but gg good duels anyways. Funny to see how much you have improved.. you are pretty gg dueler these days! Regards, I absolutelty destroyed DHA in start of d2r even when im kinda nubler

Ive been telling people throw barbs are godlike for like 15 years, i used to demolish everyone in pvp with this shit. You literally set this up how ive been playing it forever. Epic, I also never shared any information with my opponents. Had lots of questions about why my barb was disgusting.

Time to look over my inventory of circlet type headgear, I suppose... I have the other stuff, and would be delighted to finally use one or more of the eth Lacerators.

My boi cooley about to be put in Mount Rushmore 💪🏾💪🏾

I just built one rite b4 u posted this im on the hunt for better wth weaps tho

Can confirm this build slaps 🤣 Instead of a 2/20/2os circlet I’m running Giant Skull (Cham/IAS jool) with 20/10 blood gloves and a couple of FCR rings. Still hit 40 cast and 7 frames with 20% added CB

oh its Shurikenz from d2pk. yeah we did every build possible on that server.

Crazy that this build is viable now. They did a good thing. It used to be "viable" in the old days with the extremely hard-to-find rares you show in the video, and even then I believe the problem was you run out of ammo so quickly.

great cooley! i was thinking to make this pvp barb with 2 throw i have almost perfect eth Lacerator and Eth Warshrike bet than sell them , change my mine because of so low online

I didn't know what I was saving some p e shrikes for but now I know. You probably just doubled the value

Hi Coooley, great video! I have a question: has anyone noticed that whirlwind at level 4/5 is almost the same as whirlwind at lvl 20? Or maybe it is just me though, at least with medium/low gear.

I have one of this with rare Stygian pilums. But Might aura merc have Pride with lvl 20 aura

Cool build. I’ll never be able to afford that lol

0:35 Hacks! ;) and i lagged... GG Video Baud!

after the last barb build you did ill pass this time. I dont feel like wasting runes for dissapointment

I always make whirlwind barbs, I need to try a throw barb

Hi guys. Trying the throwing weapon barb, seems fun so far. Few questions: 1. Does CB works on throwing weapons (Warshrike and Lacerator) and how. Asking to know if CB gloves makes sense on that build. 2. Whats the difference between deadly strike (from weapon, Highlord and Gore) and Crit strike from Throwing mastery? Do they stack? Warshrike piece depends on deadly strike and need to reach 100% Throwing mastery gives now abt 32 % Crit Any thoughts are welcome

Thx Coooley! Really nice guide! I will play brawler next ladder coming next week. I am testing offline at the moment. I recognized, that in the tab of the buff-overview it shows only 50% pierce. It seems that the game doesn't count the 50% of the synergy?! It is only an issue of visibility and 100% pierce is calculated in the background?

Hell yeah!

I gave it a try, despite being tons of fun, i can't do P8 as effective as a dual grief ww barb...

You should see ,my throw barb lol which i ran to 98 last season second fastest killing barb I've made. now the winged harpoon's i have are nearly impossible to find.

I have a fun throw barb I’m runnin but I bet he’s gonna get better

I am actually wanna create such barb :D

FINE COOOLEY! i'LL PLAY D2R AGAIN! xD

Use grief/death and swap to lacerator for amp, imho