Rob goes in depth about why he thinks so, and I honestly agree. The barb buffs will not change anything for end game. Now sorcs are probably usable while Necro, Rogue, Druid are still clearing the screen with multiple viable builds that are all different and unique.
Barbs on the other hand will probably just have the same triple shout with WW or HOTA for end game as their best builds for the next 3 months until season 2.
Adam Jackson, the lead class designer, seems like a cool and reasonable guy from the campfire, but he needs to drop the philosophy of conservatives buffing especially for barbs. It is causing barbs to be UNFUN at the cost of “balance” when they will be the weakest class in 1.1.1
Why are our uniques still SO bad? Who is literally using azurewrath to change up their build / gameplay? Who is using hellhammer, gohrs, battle trance end game? Blizzard needs to go back to the drawing board before 1.1.1 and actually give barb an actual lookover.
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Some brainless barb users think barbs are OK… I am speechless how dumb these people are. Just Disgrace.
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Call the devil by his name and say NineMike.
But yeah people who say barb is OK know little about the other classes performance. Sure, you can do content but it will take 5 or 10 times longer and it is completely unfun and thats where the issue lies: being fun.
Other classes have their power fantasy and for Barb that fantasy is: run around, avoid everything and tickle stuff with one of your four wet towels.
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This video resumes very well the Barb’s current status…
Who cares what Rob says, guy rolled rogue as soon as barb wasnt OP anymore. Just another fotm streamer.
Myself and thousands of other barb mains are already done S1, it’s way too easy. Blizz needs to revert the nm dung nerfs.
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Most of them are not barb mains, they want barbs to nerf into oblivion and stay that way.
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Guys, try not to use any Shout skills. I have 3 Barbs but none of them using Shouts. It is much interesting but weak.
So, I think devs should allow us to have 1 to 2 more skill slots when playing Barb.
I think for barbarian, they should just change hellhammer to not apply fire for upheaval only… if they want this “use any build” is viable rule. Make hellhammer apply fire to any of the core skills, add a similar easy fire animation to each. Have the fire damage scale with fury used or each enemy hit explodes with fire stacking to each other enemy or something… So many ways they could have went… they chose something easy and lame imo
I’ll throw my opinion in. Just hit 100 a week ago or so, barely logged in. I don’t feel any better at a 100 than I did at 85. Meanwhile my buddy a sorc’s clearing rooms. Yeah, he’s squishy and a misplay on him leads to a red smear on the dungeon floor but man, I’m just not feeling it. I felt good pre-patch, now, despite grinding to a hundred it just feels bad. Its hilarious that necros can blast away for millions of damage and my HOTA was busted to do that kind of damage. And to be clear, I don’t think it should change, the games enough of a roulette chance of getting the perfect piece, before we threw hearts in, but now I don’t even feel powerful when I do smash. Inb4 I don’t want to play other builds, if I wanted to play other builds, I’d play those.
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