maybe .1% of population PVPs in D4. The true PVP diablo players went to Diablo Immortal.
I did achieve something in PVP this season that I found incredibly satisfying. I managed to kill a player while dead on the ground because axial chain lightnings still circle your dead corpse and attack and player stopped to gloat. I had a good laugh on that one!
I was not actively PVPing. Just doing whisper quests.
On live I’ve done pit 125 and T8 hordes with my bash barb. It’s been feeling good. Just don’t get into the “that kid got a higher slice of cake” mindset and you’ll be fine.
On the PTR my bash barb is feeling even stronger.
Im not surprised. Ive played both a flay and WW barb this season and had no issues. I didnt try bash because I ran that last season as well as a HOTA the season before that. While the nerfs certainly weakened the class, its still very powerful . Its just no longer brain dead easy and some people just cant hang unless they are playing an OP build.
Bash still pretty good it just lacks AOE
I do. I am the mascot in T8
I played a HotA build in season 2 and man do i miss it.
What is this barb you speak of?
Pit 40 was just a benchmark I used to farm in. Regardless, why am I bothering playing a character nearly x200 hours, when she’s just going to get nerfed to oblivion, anyways? From a GA for that Bash cleave, down to a 50 something % absolutely gutted my item, might as well have bricked and ruined it, as well as my character entirely. Yet another GA item had a Bash cleave slot on it, so that’s worthless now, as well. So two of my character’s items made worthless, in one patch. Now we’re getting even MORE nerfs?!? Why even bother playing this game???
NERF BARBS
i mean you guys get like 4 extra sockets now ontop of the 2 3 extra weapon aspects that is going to make barb leagues above others with this STAT stacking season with the new 100 glyphs adding to base stats perks
back to 4000s STR barbs again, NERF EM ! no runes in weapons !!!
PS i had fun typing this out… lol
The most fun I’ve had with this game to date was that broken Ball Lightning Sorcerer.
They need to make stuff like that every season for every class…
Dearhblow Barb is top right now. Don’t believe these guys
Oh… I have to do this lol…
Is this what you call “Post Nerf Clarity”?
Pretty much all classes have a pit 100 capable build in the PTR, though the Barb is quite a bit slower than what I have seen from Sorc and Rogue, not sure what the times are for Necro and Druid, but I have seen Drui boi doing quintillions of damage as per usual during the PTRs.
Blizzard is most likely going to nerf Barb the hardest as is true to their form, so prepare for another meh experience in season 6.
You do know they changed scaling on main stat for other classes to compensate?
barb had his throne for a number of seasons till now, so its logical that he will be nerfed. Its like it is expected for the new expac class to be op next season. So just wait for the rotation and in 4-5 seasons barb will be op again. That is how the devs have decided to prolong the game.
Made a barb to see what all the negative hype was about. No guides, picked frenzy as my damage dealer of choice, slotted all the shouts and WoTB.
The build is carried by Tyraels, Shako and Starless skies. It’s also got the shard of veithiel, near perma beserk, huge fury generation and tons of AOE through dust devils each time I use a shout or generate 100 fury.
It’s a silly build with 3 mythics that nobody would ever take seriously, but it works. Without full paragon and only 3 glyphs activated and no legendary glyphs like the berserking multiplier and it still hits between 1-2 million per hit. Yes I realize that isn’t the billions we are used to, but the billions were only needed to farm high levels of pit or hordes.
Conclusion, it the worst of my 5 characters, but probably the most fun to play. It’s also just fine. Maybe use other characters to farm stuff for it though because those mythics make any build into a walking god for 98% of content.
So, they design us with 4 weapons slots for 16 affixes, the rogue can get 12 while everybody else can gets 8.
No wonder they have trouble balancing the game!
Maybe instead of nerfing us they ought to equalize the weapon slots in some future DLC/Expansion and add in a weapon swap instead, might be easier to balance out. No more than 8 slots for all classes at any given time.
In the meantime, us Barb’s are taking a beating.
I made a WW barb with 10k crit damage and tried combining it with twisters…effectively useless in pits above 75.
Then i tried using all the generic multipliers like edgemasters, dark dance, limitless rage…still a very sad experience…
I have now given up on the PTR and just uninstalled it, I’ll just stick to my S5 meta of getting a rogue or sorc to carry me through content.
Seems like Season 6 is going to be godly for WW barb players who roll a Rogue with Dancing Knives to truly feel the Spin2Win.
Yeah, I’m going to name her Barbie.