This is true. My barb is MAXXXXXXED out and I do NO damage to enemies in Infernal Hordes T8. I have Shako, Starless with GA crit chance and 3/3 masterwork crits on the GA crit chance (gices 33.8% crit). I also have Tyrael’s Might and The Grandfather. Using Rob’s WW DD build generally, altho I changed up one Paragon Glyph and am using a different aspect on my boots than he is (using Grasping Whirlwind because I have GA move speed on boots, so I don’t need to run Ghostwalker – I sit at the 200% move speed cap at all times even while holding down WW channel).
And guess what? With my maxxxxxxxxxed out Barbarian with all my ubers and full 12/12 masterworking, I can barely do T8 solo, although T7 isn’t too bad. Bosses take FOREVER to kill. My tornadoes are capping out about 30-32mil on crit with Elements up, but otherwise crit for like 18-20mil or so.
Compare that to my friend, a Rogue playing Andariel Barrage I think is his build… his poison ticks for 250 MILLION PER TICK. And DoTs tick for either 2 or 4 times a second. So he’s doing a half a billion to a BILLION damage per second, meanwhile my cute little MAXXXXXED OUT BARBARIAN WHO IS WAY BETTER GEARED THAN MY FRIEND’S ROGUE is doing like… 50 mil dps? Maybe 75 mil dps at the most?
I mean Barbs are something like 10x too weak in terms of damage output. It’s just kinda… pathetic how bad we are. We needed Gushing Wounds to be as strong as it was last patch, because without it we could not keep up.
The re-work to Gushing Wounds was fine, because a 50x multiplier doesn’t belong in the game. But the new version of it, and the neutered other key passives, are pathetic.
Add on top of that all the other “small nerfs here and there” thrown at the Barbarian and we are getting COOKED by all other classes this season, it’s laughable.
This is the first season I’ve seen Rob prefer to main a non-Barb class (he is a Sorc main this season, as of like 2 days ago lol). He totally gave up on his Barb, because there’s just no juice to squeeze on the class.
Devs are idiots. I hate 'em. They way over-nerfed Barbs. The whole problem was Gushing Wounds. They just needed to tone it down, by making most of the +Crit Dmg additive instead of multiplicative, which is actually what they did. It’s just undertuned.
They need to revert all the key passive changes with the mid-season patch in a few weeks, and they need to buff a lot of our ways of multiplying damage.