Not only should the weapons master barbarian have all of their weapons masteries combined into one single mastery (and throwing be changed to range and apply to bows also), with new masteries added for those lost in the combining, but the barbarian should also have skills / mastery apply with bows, as bows are weapons.
Double throw should be changed to simply Ranged Attack, where it;
- Double throws if utilizing 2 throwing weapons ( more damage )
- Strafe throws if utilizing only 1 throwing weapon ( less damage )
- Strafe shoots if utilizing a bow or cross bow ( less damage )
I agree with you, that Weapon masteries should be reduced to few.
I think best would be One-handed, Two-handed, Throw.
On playthrough It would be massive difference. Just pick up any one-handed or two-handed weapon. Rather than filter out 2/3 of one-handed weapons because I have sword mastery.
I might be remembering wrong. But if you condense it to one mastery you need to make a new slot for every weapon mastery that is removed. And to be honest i think it is pretty generic and boring to sum it all into one category.
Better would be to rebalance so each weapon type so it has it perks. Now it is pretty much grief swords for pve and axes for pvp (if people still use beast ba in pvp?) haven’t kept up with pvp for the last… 10-15 years?
I disagree with the title.
Barbarian with Bows & Crossbows?
The Barbarian doesnt have any speciallized skills for Bows/Crossbows, the Amazon has.
If the Barbarian gets Bow/Crossbow mastery, it still needs special skills to become more powerful.
Bows & Crossbows belongs to the Amazon only.