Playing and Abilities: Barbarian

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Originally Posted by backe

i'm not too sure about this build...
you've got a good setup, as far as skillbooks are concerned, but i would invest individual skillpoints in other areas.

-jawbreaker, simply put, rawks. not increasing it seems like a sin to me.

-and you've got mind squasher, so why not swap some of the points out of unstoppable madness (also make it a bit more economical from a mana standpoint) and be able to take on knights w/ AoO or conju's w/ steelskin.

-also, no points in spring?

i can appreciate that you are going for max dps, but in general, this build seems too light on support and crowd control skills for me.

You are right. Its just an option (nobody was doing a barb discussion thread so I made one!) focused on dmg dealing and nuke dropping (I love the hammer area animation). I like this setup but I even like more a "finesse barbarian" approach (in the words of a barb friend), with more points on tactics and maxed spear.

But concerning your remarks:

Hunters may be a problem if you are caught alone and in open field, but they are greedy by nature so they'll leave camu and ambush close enough for deafening roar, you have time to buff berserk and cut them in 2 and if he isn't quick enough balestra (just switch weapons during sc animation and pre-cast balestra)... 3000 dmg kill them if they don't evade. If they run leave them... they always return.

Good marks are barbs killers, and it may be good to increase speed to face 1.

Other classes... why run when u can kill them?!

Dizzy spells are circumstantial when u max dmg... they can't cast nothing if they die fast.

I personally wouldn't exchange any power for unstoppable 5, it is what allows you to kill and, many times, survive after it. Mind squash would be a nice investment to face those 2 examples but in the first case I just stun/knock, run a bit, stun/knock again, run a bit more and then... I kill (well, sometimes it doesn't work...). In the second example i just try knock, dizzy and stun while I run to his back and do normals, until the damn thing ends... then he dies.

For crowd control you have several options, my favorite is hammer area... my second favorite is deafening roar, last but not least howl, it's enough. Anyway with the setup proposed you won't live long if you aren't correctly supported or if you are badly outnumbered (3 lvl 50s, if archers even worst), your evasion drops to 0 and half of your armor just disappears.