Need advice for my frenzy barb

[:1]Hey,

I'm currently leveling/planing/equipping my frenzy barb and there are certain points I'm unsure and need advice from more experienced barb players (I didn't play for about 6 years and my knowledge results from guides/google/etc).

Purpose: Pure PvM Frenzy

1. Spec

Combat skills:

1 Bash

20 Double Swing

1 Double Throw

20 Frenzy

Combat masteries:

20 Sword mastery

1 Iron Skin

1 Natural Resistance

Warcries:

1 Howl

1 Shout

20 Battle Orders

20 Taunt

1 Battle Command

It will take a while to get up to level 96, so where should I put my LAST 10 points into?

2. Equip

Helm: Arreats

Neck: Highlords

Ring: Raven Frost & BK

Gloves: Draculs (or Laying on Hands?)

Boots: Gore Riders

Belt: String of ears (or Verdungos?)

Armor: Fortitude (or CoH?)

MH: Grief

OH: Lawbringer

On Switch: Double + skills like HotO for BO

Anni + Torch + Resi Charms (up to max) in inventory, rest combat skillers.

Alright, that is my currently planned character. In addition to the bold uncertainties above I have these questions:

1. What equip should my Might Merc have? Fortitude Armor, Andariels Head, but which weapon: Insight or Infinity? Not sure about mana problems of a frenzy, maybe I have to switch BK ring with a dual leech rare ring? Insight would solve this problem I guess, but wont it cripple my merc dmg alot?

2. Are there any obviously better weapon combos? From what I see it should be marginal. Does it make sense to have some other serious weapons on switch instead of BO weapons?

Well, that's it for now, I guess

Thanks in advance.

Greetings|||For your merc i would go with act 2 merc. Mine has Vampire Gaze helm, stone armor, and BotD ghost spear. so far thats the best gear i have for him now but he does pretty well until minions of destruction in hell.

For my weapons i chose not to do runewords and see how i would do. I have Bul-Kathos swords and the do pretty well they dont do the best damage out of all the swords but they do good enough with the life leech i have on my gear so i took down baal with only 3 health potions on hell|||I'd max Taunt last.

As for gear questions:

*I'd swap the BK for a rare ring, preferably with dual leach and some other adds like AR, stats, life, res, (...)

*If you go with draculs, I'd go with verdungo instead of SoE. However, based on what I'm about to suggest to your merc I would choose LoH as gloves instead.

*For general PvM I usually prefer String of ears because of the extra LL. For PvP it's a different thing though.

*I'd take Fortitude over CoH. More dmg, higher defense and some other good adds for a barb. Reaching max res isn't that hard on Barbs anyways. Enigma is another option which can help if you want even more mobility.

As for mercs:

Personally I prefer using Vampire's Gaze and Treachery armor as default for my chars (relatively cheap, good survivability and attack speed). If it's a melee char I like using Reaper's Toll. The chance to cast Decrepify if really high and pretty much eliminates all problems with physical immunes, and also makes you kill faster. If you go with Reaper's I'd recommend not using draculs, since Life tap will overwrite Decrepify.