Throwing barb possible?

[Max-Violence]

I'm planning on starting a Throwing barbarian in SiC, and I was wondering if those of you who've been through nightmare/hell difficulties think it's feasible for a throwing barb to make it all the way.

I had one in normal LoD who made it to Nightmare/act2, but by then, I got bored of normal LoD

Ideas, comments, tips?

[jbouley]

I cannot personally comment on this, and I'm not sure if the various "throwing wands" work with the throwing mastery or not.

But...I can say that I will have at least one, probably two or three throwing-oriented sets for barbarians in version 2.20

[Will]

With the new socketing and special throwing weapons, you can bet that throwing Barbarians are now very feasible; especially since most 'magical' throwing weapons (ie. arctic wand, thunder javelin) actually deal normal damage.

[Max-Violence]

Innnnnnnnnnnteresssssssssting...

I think I'll wait for v2.20 to try it out, though. Same deal with my current sword-barb -- I read that there's a bunch of phys-immunes in hell diff, so I think I'll hang around in nm/act5 and level up a bunch (I entered nm/act5 on level 47... is that bad?).

BTW, JB, is/are there going to be socketed throwing weapons? I don't think I've seen any so far.

[jbouley]

Most throwing weapons should be socketable already. I think there's an issue where the game doesn't like to drop socketed throwing weapons, but you should (I think) be able to install sockets on them manually with the socketing items.