Even #1 Barb Rob is hesitant to play s5 because of the nerfs. This is really fu**ed up.
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Don’t be a sheep. Wait for the full information, not even Rob knows everything that is going live in S5. He himself mentions this in every video he makes. He is also waiting on the full unique rework to be announced. But… he’s good at getting clicks! the more “negative” the more clicks. human nature, easily countered if you know how the human psyche work.
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Rob is actually pretty positive in most of the vidoes I’ve seen, so if hes doom and gloom now, thats pretty significant. I specifically didnt watch his recent one because I dont want to hear anything positive regarding these nerfs.
But yeah, Im in the same boat. Not particularly interested in playing if this is what theyre going to do.
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I just find it strange blizzard allow content creators to share the news instead of posting actual official patch notes. Blizzard is taking lots of notes for this one. People’s reaction and people’s expectation are two different thing.
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Based on the PTR, I was already meh on S5 and contemplated just playing eternal until expansion.
Now, with the massacring of Barb, I am not even interested in playing at all. I am coping that the unique item reworks is where that power has shifted to.
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Where he get his streamer income if he doesn’t play S5? He just sour as he longer can do all those Barbillion build to attract views. Calling those overtuned build barbillion is the main recent Barb got nerf hard, Rob2628 has it coming. 
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You know it’s bad when Rob isn’t excited about the next season.
Yes. Gushing wounds, Flay and Bash needed some nerfs. But why nerf everything and kill the fun. Why make nerfs that nerf core skills when core skills are unplayable.
Whirlwind gets 99.99% of it’s damage from dust devils, Tyraels might, beserker ripping and gushing wounds. The skill whirlwind is doing almost no damage at all.
And why does beserker ripping exist? Barb has so many ways to apply bleed.
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People’d call, say, “Beware doll, you’re bound to fall”
You thought they were all kiddin’ you
You used to laugh about
Everybody that was hangin’ out
Now you don’t talk so loud
Now you don’t seem so proud
About having to be scrounging for your next meal
How does it feel?
~Bob Dylan~
Hopefully there are more balance changes and some positive ones not just flushing barb down the toilet.
Riding a turd log down yelling BBBLLAASRRGGHH!!”
The Keystone Nerfs would require every build to have an obscene level of buffs to it in order to compensate. Go test out any build without a Keystone Passive and then test it with it. Split the difference and that is the most you could possibly hope to achieve with buffs given Keystone passives are more than 50% nerfed.
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Berserk Ripping is odd as it is the only conversion method from DD to Bleed. You can effectively double-dip which makes it absurdly powerful (and 2H Sword Technique isn’t even working properly in the calculations).
The entire premise around Gushing Wounds is bad and it is designed poorly. They need to take out the Crit Chance and Crit Damage, give it multiplicative damage to all Damage Over Time Effects and have Overpowering enemies suffering from DoT effects to deal 15% reduced damage for 5 seconds.
Walking Arsenal should be less micro-management, especially considering the lame upside. It should just more interesting and provide you different bonuses based on Arsenal Weapons or Weapon Types equipped. It is oddly the only Keystone with Aspects and a Unique locked behind having all 3 WA buffs. Like, what? The Aspects and Unique aren’t very good even and hard to fit into builds to begin with. I doubt people would take it even if it didn’t require WA buff, but whatever.
Unconstrained is stupid because you are always Berserking effectively so it might as well just be a damage bump. Would be more interesting if it had more Utility behind it somehow.
Unbridled is…uh…yeah. It was the obvious Meta until HoTA got taken out behind the woodshed. Now it is completely gutted. It needs A LOT more utility especially to justify the 100% Fury cost increase to Core Skills. Sure would be nice if this was designed to not just work with Core Skills.
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S5 is a short season anyways - only 2 months until the expansion.
Lmao if you think Blizzard will ever buff/fix Barb again after these nerfs.
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i know that feelings.
i am sorc player and i am drop by to give you guys a hug.
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Well that makes you a better person than a ton of other people on these forums. I can’t believe how petty and rude some people are because we are upset about these nerfs.
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Search for Rob Bash Barb Season 5.
It’s not as bad as it’s being made out to be. Looks like it might take a little more gear, but barbs will be fine.
Meta Builds are still Meta (for Barb) but got nerfed quite a bit. Non-Meta Builds got taken behind the woodshed and shot. Nothing was done to offset the enormous nerfs to Keystone Passives for 90% of the Builds (that are not Bash, Flay, Deathblow and Rupture with Third Blade).
I’ll be honest, I already stop making builds to push Pit tier. Anything that can kill Blood Maiden before the third summon is good enough for me.
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You have a point. Maybe there’s a little nugget of reality buried in this situation. Maybe Blizzard supports Meta builds pushed by streamers who have millions of followers and provide free advertising for Blizzard. Just a thought.
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Millions of followers? No 