So, trying barb after ditching my necro. Doing the ww barb build. All I can say is it feels weak. I take way too much damage and have to use my pots more than I should. Does it get any better after level 20? Did a dungeon for the tree, and fought the spider boss for nearly five minutes. Died once. And that’s with all the altars and decent gear saved in stash.
It is very weak, also is very slow compares to other classes
Barb it’s very bad right now.
I would not recommend leveling as WW tbh. Its a spec that is heavily gear dependent.
I leveled up as a hota barb to 50 then switched.
Now at 89 i tear through anything below 102 lvl easily. Rarely do i ever die. Even bosses are pretty easy once you get ghors gloves unique.
Well… I took your advice and tried a HotA build (the one from Icy Veins for leveling). Died to three normal outdoor mobs (quill beasts just outside the city). I’m terrible at “rotations” and knowing when and where to cast something. Aside from that, I went down quick, too. So, I don’t know…
Are you using the codex that changes hota into a circle aoe around you? It helps alot. Honestly early game for barb has always been deadly. I played on t1 also.
That character is only level 18. Codex isn’t available yet. She’s in fully upgraded yellows right now. And yes. tier 1.
Ahh well thats your problem. However hota is far less rage intensive than ww at low lvls. Once you get that codex from the dungeon you should be fine.
Do me a favor. I just replied to the other thread about how weak they feel. Read my last post there and give me your input. Thanks!
Barbarian sucks to level, im still leveling mine and its so much worse than my sorc experience. But apparently endgame, after level 50 and with some half decent gear Barb feel much better.
I swapped to barb after my sorc started feeling weak and slow, because all the sorc players were complaining about how they would go into a nm dungeon with a barb mate of the same level with comparable gear and they barb just destroyed everything and the sorc struggled to keep up, let alone survive and do damage.
I got a god rolled near perfect Gohr’s ilvl 800-something last night. I’ve been playing rend since day one though and I’m not sure if I want to make the switch. Honestly I’d be more inclined to try HotA than WW.
If we dont know what skills and equip you have, its hard to say where is problem. WW Barb is rly very good for leveling if you do things right. Im lvling WW bard as second char on WT2 without any problem.
Barb is in bad shape. Only few dedicated streamers still playing barbs but most have moved on to Rogue, Druid, Sorc ect. WW is only good for speed farming it has horrible damage scaling against uber Lilith or high NM pushes. Only HoTA is viable but due to being melee class and spec even shouts wont help you there against poison ect.
Level 100 barb here so i know what i’m talkin about.
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i have codex at level 17 on my necro you just gotta complete a dungeon that rewards an aspect. Notice is says “level 25 or until you find an aspect”. my level 17 necro has 4 legendaries lol
It gets better after level 75 … 
Give or take. It takes a while for barb to take off. Meanwhile, I would not recommend WW. I’m on lvl 71 and I still didn’t switch away from Rend, which I run since level 1. I tried WW in the betas and it already felt bit weak on low levels and that was pre-nerf. WW build is more sensitive to level of gear, particular items and paragons you have imho. You can do Rend until you get Gohr’s gauntlents maybe? Spoiler alert though, I still didn’t drop them once on 71 .
A few days ago, HC Barb (hota) killed Uber Lilith.
Just got my thorns alt to level 51. Was smooth sailing for the most part. 45-50 was rough but as soon as I unlocked paragon and got a cohesive ensemble of basic equipment and aspects it turned around. Did the capstone right at 50. No problems there at all. Trash died on my thorns and elites died to a single deathblow combo.
Knowledge, gear, build, and perseverance.