Barbarian - What would you change in skills?

Maahes-11948 · August 15, 2022, 6:39am

My thoughts;

Bash

Increases knock back distance with each level
Provides momentary ( In the range of 1/2-1 second ) burst of speed after each hit
( the concept being that you can quickly charge your opponent for another hit after having knocked them back with bash )
- Similar to frenzy, each level provides a greater faster run/walk and attack speed.
Receives synergy bonus from stun, providing
- knock backed opponent causes area damage (base percent + percent per level ) to enemies in a short radius of the original knocked back opponent.

Stun

Ignores opponents faster hit recovery rate OR reduces opponents faster hit recovery rate by 24% + 4 per level%

Concentrate

Synergy changed from bash to shout (considering concentrate is a defense-based skill)

Shout

Receive synergy from Taunt, providing an additional 3% bonus to defense per level
( To provide greater survivability to the synergy-intensive Frenzy build, which when full-damage synergies utilized, does not have availability for life/defense bonus skills and cannot utilize a shield)

Iron Skin

5% to maximum physical damage reduction
Receive synergy bonus from shout, providing a physical damage reduced bonus of 3% every 4 levels up to 15%

Combine Increased Stamina and increased speed

Increase faster run / walk speed bonus, equalling
- levels 1 - 15%
- levels 2 to 4 - 5% increase per level ( 20 - 30% )
- levels 5 to 8 - 3% increase per level ( 33 - 42% )
- levels 9 to 14 - 2 % increase per level ( 44 - 54% )
- levels 15 to 20 - 1% increase per level ( 55 - 60% )
- levels 21 and up - 1% increase per every 2 levels
Reduce frenzy faster run / walk speed bonus by 20 to account for the above
Provides synergy bonus to Battle Orders, providing additional maximum life
(See Below ) (also with the synergy-intensive Frenzy build in mind)
Provides synergy bonus to double throw, see below

Natural Resistance

Leap attack

Receive synergy bonus from Increased stamina / speed, increasing the speed of leap attack by 12% per level ( 240% overall leap-speed increase)

Berserk

Receive synergy bonus from Whirlwind, providing 20% attack rating bonus per level (Large bonus to compromise the lack of defense)

Battle Orders

Receive synergy bonus from Berserk, providing an additional percent bonus to max life (Considering Berserk eliminates defense leaving the character very vulnerable)
Receive synergy bonus from Increased Stamina / Speed, providing an additional percent bonus to max life ( Primarily to help damage synergy intensive Frenzy Build )
- level 1 - 5%
- levels 2 to 5 - 2% increase per level ( 7 - 15% )
- levels 6 - 10 - 1% increase per level ( 16 - 20% )
- levels 11 - 20 - 1% per every two levels ( 16 - 25% )

Whirlwind

Can proc casts on “strike” ( based on a percentage of the cast on strike percent chance due to hit frequency of whirlwind )

Combine Find Potion and Find Item ( Find Item already produces potions )

Grim Ward

Double Throw

Enhanced damage functions to Increase the damage of throwing potions
Receives synergy from increased stamina / increased speed, providing
- 3% faster run / walk per every 2 levels up to 30%

Throwing mastery

Combine Axe, Blade, Mace, Polearm, and Spear, masteries into one single “Melee Mastery”, providing:

The existing mastery bonus
Up to a 15% (overall) Defense Bonus when dual wielding, and 15% chance of deadly strike, or utilizing a single two-hand melee weapon
Up to 23% chance of open wounds when using axe, or blade, or javelin along with a shield
Up to 23% chance of crushing blow when using mace / hammer along with a shield

Addition of new mastery “Weapon Block”

Increases block rate by 10% + 2% every 3 levels
Passive chance to block when you are duel wielding or using two-hand weapons (including dual wield for double throw )
- Level 1 - 14% chance to block
- Levels 2 to 6 - 3% increase per level ( 17 to 29% )
- Levels 7 to 12 - 2% increase per level ( 31 to 41% )
- Levels 13 - 20 - 1% increase per level ( 42 to 49% ) ( Max )

Addition of new mastery “Weapon Dexterity” that provides

Additional range ( up to +1 for blades, +2 for axes, maces, + 3 for polearms and spears (extending up to 3 points beyond the normal max of 5 )) ( 1 additional range every 6 levels up to the maximum for each weapon type )
9 to 32% Increased Attack Speed
48% + 2% per every level bonus to attack rating

Addition of new mastery “Armament Care” that provides

Reduces equiptment durability Loss by 50% + 2% per level up to 75%
9 to 18 % Chance of critical strike ( well sharpened weapons ) ( 9% + 1 % per every two levels up to 18% )
50% + 3 percent chance every 2 levels ( up to 100% chance ) to REPAIR DURABILITY ON CRITICAL STRIKE ( allows for a whole new range of end-game item choices - utilizing ethereal options that do not have self-repair or indestructible stat )
( a class known for scavenging corpses for used-items should also have potential skill to repair items)

Addition of new mastery “Warcries Mastery” ( taking the place of the consolidated Find Potion / Find Item )

Increases the damage of War Cry by 2.5% per level up to 100% (overall damage bonus)
Increases the duration of Shout, Battle Orders, and Battle Command by 10 seconds per level

War Cry

Ignores opponents faster hit recovery rate OR reduces opponents faster hit recovery rate by 24% + 4 per level%
Reduce Taunt synergy damage bonus from 6 to 2 percent per level ( See above - to balance the defense synergy bonus provided by taunt )
Is unblockable / always hits ( PVP )
OR
Can Proc casts on “strike” ( based on a percentage of the cast on strike percent chance due to hit frequency of war cry ) (this would provide a wide range of diversity in the Singer Build )

( Considering level 51 war cry, these changes would allow an 80 point skill investment into warcries synergies and new mastery to provide a;

Rougly 18% increase in overall war cry damage if using max taunt to gain defense synergy bonus for shout ( above ) ( option suited to pvp )
Roughly 50% increase in overall war cry damage if using either max battle cry or howl rather than taunt

Battle command