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Gold Find Barbarian Guide

Last Updated: March 1st 2024

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The Gold Find Barbarian, also known as the GF Barb, sole purpose is to generate Gold for gambling cool items or bases for crafting. The main farming of this build is Travincal for the Council Members that drop an abundance of Gold. His kill speed by itself is not the biggest asset.

In fact, we want the Mercenary to get as many kills as possible! Together between you and your Mercenary we are stacking as much x% Extra Gold From Monsters (Gold Find) as possible. If your Mercenary gets the final blow, his and your Gold Find stacks together, granting a higher potential Gold drop outcome per kill.

The Primary Skills we utilize for this build are Berserk for damage, Leap for survivability of both you and your Mercenary, and Find Item for additional drops.



Ideal Standard Setup
Ideal Standard Setup

Berserk

Find Item

Leap

Battle Orders

This build guide assumes you have a Character at Level 75 before transitioning to it. Check out our Barbarian Leveling Guide and our General Leveling Strategies to reach Level 75.

Beginner Friendly ✔
Fairly Chill Gameplay ✔
Best Way To Get Gold ✔
Large Potential For Drops ✔

❌ Somewhat Squishy
❌ Repetitive Gameplay
❌ Can Feel A Bit Clunky

❌ No Variety in Farming Locations


Sunder Charm Setup

This build does not use the new Sunder Charm to maintain survivability.

The Gold Find Barbarian focuses on killing the Council Members in Travincal with Physical Damage and Magic Damage from Berserk. None of his targets are Immune to both, which nullifies the positive effect of bone break.

Terror Zones

This build does not successfully farm the Terror Zones. It excels at farming Gold in Travincal. You don't want to jump into any other zones, as it is not setup to farm large areas of enemies.

Skills

Put 1 Point into each of the following Skills:
1. finditem
2. Battle Command
3. Natural Resistance
3. increasedspeed
4. leap

Max out the following Skills in this order:
1. Battle Orders
2. Berserk
3. Find Potion
4. Howl
5. blade Mastery

Use the Scroll Bar to see Skill Point Progression
Use the Scroll Bar to see Skill Point Progression

Damage

Utility

Attributes

Note: This section provides you with the standard Stat Point allocation. Build Variants can require a different allocation!

Strength

Allocate enough Stat Points into Strength to equip all of your gear. Take into account how much Strength your gear provides when equipped.

Dexterity

Allocate enough Stat Points into Dexterity to equip all of your gear. Take into account how much Dexterity your gear provides when equipped.

Vitality

Allocate any remaining Stat Points into Vitality after meeting Strength, Dexterity and Energy requirements.

Energy

Don't allocate any Stat Points into Energy. This build gets enough Mana from gear, buffs, Charms, and Mana Potions.

Essentials

Gear Options

Farming Spots

Mercenary

Playstyle

Breakpoints

Hardcore

Build Variants

Budget
Standard
Leap Only
War Cry
Whirlwind

Setup

The Gold Find Barbarian requires a decent amount of gear prior to being able to effectively farm. Getting things like Resistances, Life, Skills, Damage, overall survivability, and a good Mercenary setup are all pivotal to the build's ability to farm. Use Warcry's Stun with Leap, enabling your Mercenary to kill stuff for maximum gold.

Mercenary

To keep your Mercenary alive, equip him with Treachery and Tal Rasha's Horadric Crest for Life and Resistances. Insight is a pretty easy Runeword to find and farm that gives a great amount of damage and Quality of Life with Meditation. Hire the Might Aura Mercenary, to gain extra Physical Damage.

Skills

Put 1 Point into each of the following Skills:
1. Battle Command
2. increasedspeed
3. leapattack
4. Warcry

Max out the following Skills in order of priority:
1. Leap
2. Battle Orders
3. Natural Resistance
4. FindItem
5. Shout

Attributes

Allocate enough Stat Points into Strength and Dexterity to equip your gear. Put remaining Stat Points into Vitality.

Setup

The Gold Find Barbarian's main focus is to stack x% Extra Gold From Monsters (Gold Find) while maintaining some sort of survivability and damage.

Survivability comes from Resistances, Life, Damage Reduction. Your main Damage comes from Grief Phase Blade or Oath.
Note: If you need to get back to town, we use the Scroll of Town Portal on the Belt.

Mercenary

Might Aura works great for the Mercenary to deal massive Physical Damage in combination with Breath of the Dying War Pike. The goal is to stack Gold Find so Crown of Thieves and Wealth Sacred Armor are the main choice.

Skills

Put 1 Point into each of the following Skills:
1. finditem
2. Battle Command
3. Natural Resistance
3. increasedspeed
4. leap

Max out the following Skills in this order:
1. Battle Orders
2. Berserk
3. Find Potion
4. Howl
5. blade Mastery

Use the Scroll Bar to see Skill Point Progression
Use the Scroll Bar to see Skill Point Progression

Attributes

Allocate enough Stat Points into Strength and Dexterity to equip your gear. Put remaining Stat Points into Vitality.

Setup

The Leap variant's main focus is to stack as much x% Extra Gold From Monsters (Gold Find) as you can while maintaining some survivability. Survivability options include Resistances, Life, and Damage Reduction.
Leap activity is important for the success of this setup, we are relying on our Mercenary to be alive and do all our damage.
Note: If you need to get back to town, we use the Scroll of Town Portal on the Belt.

Mercenary

Might Aura works great for the Mercenary to deal massive Physical Damage in combination with Breath of the Dying War Pike. The goal is to stack Gold Find so Crown of Thieves and Wealth Sacred Armor are the main choice.

Skills

Leap is very important for massive amounts of Crowd Control Natural Resistance for extra Resist and Increased Speed for more speed while maintaining buffs from your Warcries.

Put 1 Point into each of the following Skills:
1. Battle Command
2. leapattack
3. Warcry

Max out the following Skills in this order:
1. Battle Orders
2. Leap
3. Natural Resistance
4. Find Item (Only to Skill Level 22)
5. Find Potion
6. Increased Speed

Use the Scroll Bar to see Skill Point Progression
Use the Scroll Bar to see Skill Point Progression

Attributes

Allocate enough Stat Points into Strength and Dexterity to equip your gear. Put remaining Stat Points into Vitality.

Setup

The War Cry variant of the Gold Find Barbarian uses Faster Cast Rate and lots of yelling. Get 105% FCR while maintaining a good amount of +x to All Skills through Heart of the Oak Flail and Suicide Branch Burnt Wand. Everything else is just for stacking more x% Extra Gold From Monsters (Gold Find) and survivability.
Note: If you need to get back to town we use the Scroll of Town Portal on the Belt.

Mercenary

Might Aura works great for the Mercenary to deal massive Physical Damage in combination with Breath of the Dying War Pike. The goal is to stack Gold Find so Crown of Thieves and Wealth Sacred Armor are the main choice.

Skills

Put 1 Point into each of the following Skills:
1. Find Item
2. Battle Command
3. increasedspeed
4. natural resistance
5. leap
6. leapattack

Max out the following Skills in this order:
1. warcry
2. Battle cry
3. Taunt
4. Howl
5. Find Potion

Use the Scroll Bar to see Skill Point Progression
Use the Scroll Bar to see Skill Point Progression

Attributes

Allocate enough Stat Points into Strength and Dexterity to equip your gear. Put remaining Stat Points into Vitality.

Setup

There are plenty of gear options for the Gold Find whirlwind Barbarian. The main focus is to stack as much x% Extra Gold From Monsters (Gold Find) as you can while maintaining some sort of survivability and damage. Survivability can come from Resistances, Life, Damage Reduction or the use of leap. Damage comes from Grief Phase Blade or Oath. Options for the Off-Hand slot could be another Grief Phase Blade for damage or Gemmed Crystal Sword for more Gold Find. On Swap, we can have either Gemmed Crystal Sword or something like Heart of the Oak Flail for additional Faster Cast Rate and + to All Skills.
Note: If you need to get back to town we use the Scroll of Town Portal on the Belt.

Mercenary

Might Aura works great for the Mercenary to deal massive Physical Damage in combination with Breath of the Dying War Pike. The goal is to stack Gold Find so Crown of Thieves and Wealth Sacred Armor are the main choice.

Skills

Put 1 Point into each of the following Skills:
1. Battle Command
2. Berserk
3. increasedspeed
4. leapattack
5. Warcry
6. Find Item

Max out the following Skills in this order:
1. Whirlwind
2. blade Mastery
3. Battle Orders
4. Find Potion
5. Natural Resistance (Only to Skill Level 13)
6. Battle Cry

Use the Scroll Bar to see Skill Point Progression
Use the Scroll Bar to see Skill Point Progression

Attributes

Allocate enough Stat Points into Strength and Dexterity to equip your gear. Put remaining Stat Points into Vitality.

Mechanics

Teleport

Battle Orders

Leap

Warcry

Berserk

Summary

  • Put enough Stat Points into Strength and Dexterity to wear gear and remaining Stat Points into Vitality.
  • Keep your Battle Command, Battle Orders, and Shout buffs up at all times.
  • Use Teleport and Leap Attack to move around obstacles and reposition your Mercenary.
  • Use Durance of Hate Level 1 entrance to reposition your Mercenary.
  • Leap, Leap, and Leap
  • Use your Mercenary as much as possible to get the final killing blow for maximum Gold.
  • Have fun!

We hope you enjoy this build! It can be a nice change of pace once you get a feel for it. Enjoy screaming, leaping, and bashing your enemies to death for Gold!

Good luck!

Credits

Updated and Reviewed by Teo1904
Original Author BTNeandertha1

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