My feedback on the Barbarian

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I enjoy playing the Barbarian more than any class. Though you can never start off with a Barb and there is so many reasons not playing the Barbarian since this game is all about farming. Sorc or paladin is almost always a better choice.

A few suggestions

2-handers
Make these viable. 2-handers are almost only used for mercs with the exception of full IK-set.
For the Barbarian, when using wirlwind, increase to AOE area it hits enemies when using a 2-hander.

Find item
This is the main reason one play a Barbarian. I don’t roll any build without putting at least 20-30 points into find items and find potions.
Though, the way it works makes it so slow to use. Killing of a big pack of monsters and then trying to find item on them takes forever.
A suggestion would be to have something like “Chance to loot a nearby corpse by xx %” which increases by putting points into find items.

Frenzy
Remove the synergy for Taunt and increase the % damage for the double swing synergy. Since almost all Barbs specc for Find items, there is not enough points to specc a good frenzy build with find items.

Leap
I like that something was change for leap for 2.4. Though the skill is just used for movement. I think something like changing the animation and the barbarian do a cleave-attack when it lands. Using a 2-hander and it would cleave in a bigger area. Of course I don’t know how to solve it for spear class items. Maybe the cleave is just not triggered when using spears.

Wirlwind
I like the changes that was implemented for 2.4. easier to manage the wirlwind now. And great that the mana burn bug is fixed.

Thank you.

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Excuse me, barb is best farmer in game.

He is just more tough to level up solo, thats all.

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Quite solid points you got.

2-handers suck. Simply more than double dmg than one-handers could be good start.

Find item is good as is. Making it automatically hork for you is not a healthy change. We must hear the “huaaaa” voice.

Frenzy really has too many synergies. 1-2 is enough. I think it should have been Doubleswing and Increased speed. And like 12% dmg synergy on Doubleswing. And 0,5sec duration increase and 1% increased attack speed on Increased speed synergy. Frenzy barb playstyle should feel like being on cocaiine exstasy and redbull. Fast.

Leap speed is great for movement. I personally started Ladder as Leap attack barb and it is great for Normal-Nightmare difficulty. AoE Flat is great for that part of game. But it doesn’t scale. I think it should scale either with weapon damage OR with boots kick damage, like kicksin does.

… And overall yes barb playthrough is slow as hell. I guess there are not many players that tried beat hell with barb selffound. Most players play sorc/pala anyways.

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