Playing and Abilities: Barbarian

[Znurre]

That's a good setup Matt, even though I would miss Trip...
I might consider dropping mine to lvl 3 however.

I am currently using only lvl 2 madness, which sucks!

My current setup:

Blunt Weapons (19) :

Forcefull Blow (5)
Ribs Breaker (1)
Crushing (1)
Lethal Atonomy (5)
Steel Temper (5)
Mind Squasher (5)
Thunder Strike (5)

There are really too many good skills in blunt...

Piercing Weapons (7) :

Balestra (1)
Versatility (1)

Slashing Weapons (7) :

Athletic (1)

Tactics (15) :

Spring (1)
Caution (4)
Trip (4)

Two handed mastery (15) :

Thirst For Blood (4)
Defeaning Roar (1)
Spirtual Blow (1)
Expansive Wave (4)

Warcries (19) :

Frenzy (5)
Challenging Roar (1)
Berserk (1)
Howl (1)
Overwhelming Strength (5)
Onslaught (5)
Unstoppable Madness (2)

[DkySven]

Not that I know anything about barbarians, but since you've level 7 slashing I think buying a fast one handed axe to cast disabling limb is a good idea. It's a really useful spell.

[Mattdoesrock]

Originally Posted by Znurre

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Holy moly?!

Level 1 Spring? Level 2 Madness?

If I were you I'd take the points out of the strength passive.. 30 - 40 More damage isn't worth 4 powerpoints, in my opinion at least.

[Kittypretty]

i used my initiation dagger for that...everyone would giggle at it till i cut their ankles with it

but on topic i imagine disabling is a decent spell for barbs but not as critical (but even more painful when they use it) since they rarely have trouble (as much) as in keeping up with or surpassing the speed of other classes with the spear range, balestra/trips n feints, and i imagine followed with a jawbreaker so they dont sotw/mob/spring etc. with knight i definately use it though lol.

[Znurre]

Originally Posted by asdfghs

Not that I know anything about barbarians, but since you've level 7 slashing I think buying a fast one handed axe to cast disabling limb is a good idea. It's a really useful spell.

Well, the thing is:
I'd love to use both Feint and Disabling Limb, but my philosophy is to only use 2 skillbars with critical buffs/skills.

[UmarilsStillHere]

lvl 1 Spiritual? Isn't that like less than 200 dmg in most cases? :/

Didn't you have spring [4] at one point? And what did you move the points too, or would that be telling ?

And ofc I <3 blunt ^^ I dont see why people dont like it much, maybe because it has no SC/Rip equivalent and the Area is shitty compared to LS, I still prefer it to typhoon though.

MindSquaher is sent by the gods as a weapon against Warjus, Knight Auras, and uber buffs.

Forceful is cheap, 0 cast time, good dmg, not as high as SC, but the slash tree is my least fave, and its annoying to keep having to CC before using Ripost.

A stun area is better than one without any CC effect,

Best Stat passive

Best dmg res passive

Yet i still fail trying to convince people its stronger than Slash, Many fast low dmg hits are less effective than a few strong decisive ones MS on a conju using GH+MC or knight with auras can change the balance of a fight. Fast/low is only good for landing a few hits on everyone to leech RP in my eyes

Also Fast/low dmg is god awful in PVP, I beat a certain lvl 50 several times when they were trying it A few weeks ago, they went back to their old set up and kicked my ass :P

[Znurre]

Originally Posted by 210paul

lvl 1 Spiritual? Isn't that like less than 200 dmg in most cases? :/

Didn't you have spring [4] at one point? And what did you move the points too, or would that be telling ?

Yes, new spirtual blow sucks!
But it can still be useful in some situation.

Yes, half a year ago I had Spring lvl 4...
That setup was however way more "hunting" oriented, less areas and spells to help allies.

[UmarilsStillHere]

Dont ya just hate having to lvl it now :P

Eventually I plan on having Spirit on 3/4 so it still has nice damage, I also plan to drop Riposte at 50.

Im using spring 4 at the moment because everyone on Horus is speed addicts (looks at DB :P) So I need it if I want any chance of catching someone/getting away

[Mattdoesrock]

I wouldn't waste points in Spirtual.

I've had it level 1 since 1.0 and I've not missed it.

For a spell for that's only worth using in a very few and select situations, IMO it's not worth any points.

[UmarilsStillHere]

I found it useful quite often when I had it on 4 a while back.

In PVP people quite often back away from each other (warriors included) and its a good way to get an extra hit in that could make all the difference.

Also nice for taking down people running to their lines, and can be used on people who are on fort walls even if your outside if you angle it up right, so nice for getting in a killer blow when they dont expect it.

But ofc ill know better once I start using it again