First of all, I know balance is hard. I’ve been trying hard to play other classes with various success, since alpha, and with plenty of enjoyment.
But, let’s call a spade a spade. Barbarians just own D4, don’t even use Holy bolts potion. It’s just hit, and kill Soooo fast. I highly recommend it to anyone joining this very broken alpha/beta game still :).
So, here we are in Barbarian world. What next, other than obviously the very frustrating lack of gold and gem chips (if you play more than one character). Tempering / master working oh my…
But wait, a solution I hear you say?. I have one, as someone who actually built a small but successful online game a couple of decades ago. Balance the massive stat stick advantages of Barbs to other classes. For example, a trinket that barbs can’t use that allows equivalent stats rolls based on missing stat sticks. Just a quick thought I had. @Blizzard??
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Good grief, quit your whining already.
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so necros push pit further than barbs. sorcs push pit further than barbs. rogues push pit further than barbs. but barbs are problem. i guess barb hate will only stop when druids can push past them and barbs are dead last?
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To be clear, I far from hate barbs. I love them. All classes should be equally fun. That’s my point. It really has the lowest threshold of play entry :).
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yes but barbs are in 4th place and you are acting like they are way op and are on top
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Per my reply , barbs are best entry advantage. I’m not looking at pits as the gold standard seriously.
who cares about entry advantage. they end up in 4th place in the end. also barbs arent best entry advantage this season. necros are best in beginning and end
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Let me try again :). My wife for example like a lot of more casual style players prefers, in her words, hulk smash. Barb just does it. I know I have a Barb again as well this season. I speak from experience. Only class I haven’t had time for this season is Druid, but, I’ll get there :).
i have leveled 8 chars to 100 this season. every class, 2 barbs and 3 necros. so again barb isnt on top and yet you are claiming it is
No, I’m not, I’m saying that it’s the most entry friendly char, in my opinion. All the others are squishy during level experience in our experience. The game is very different for a lot of different play style approaches. We always start in level 2 and go from there. It’s possibly more even in level 1, not played that way ever.
Anyway, bottom line, love barbs I think some of the base level advantages should be spread out more.
you need to try a summoner necro if you think anything is more entry friendly. this season necro is way ahead in every aspect especially entry level.
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As I said above, I’ve done all this season other than Druid. Multiple builds costing me hundreds of millions of gold and 10-12 hrs a day. I’m retired :).
im retired also. i play plenty as well, hence the 8 level 100’s. necro has the easiest path to max resist and armor. also every minion now has 100% of your stats. so with 12-13 minions running around killing everything for you, ya i can basically afk in helltide and the minions do everything for me and i level. much easier and lower entry level than barb
100% agree necro is auto, sit back, but I personally find that boring as does my wife, and it’s not as fast as a bash barb for example up close and personal. We’ll agree on a lot I’m sure across a lot. But there are stat levels on a barb that no other class will currently equal.
Oh and remove holy bolts lol. And my wife guessed you’re retired too ;).
The solution is to play a Barbarian.
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I’ll second this. I would be more inclined to agree with OP if there was an actual issue. Like Barbarians doing 100 levels of Pit above anyone else. But alas, that is not the case.
Rogue is crazy fun. You can get to pit 120 before you struggle too hard. It doesn’t have a high ceiling like a barb, but the bottom to mid play feels 200x more fun. Try heartseeker! It’s my fave build I’ve played on D4 and I’m usually barb cheerleader #1.
Kids, it’s bedtime. Please refrain from posting on the forum for your reputation. If you want to sht on bard at least bring some argument on the table.
Thank you
make other classes skills suck less? ???
To be fair I wasted like 20-30 hours playing whirlwind before I realized I was wasting my time, time that blizzard wont ever give back to me unfortunately.
Barbs having 4 weapons and getting all the perks from all of them was always going to be and is a problem. Tempering and Masterworking all those weapons has escalated the gap between the Barb class and all other classes that now cannot compete head to head because they do not get anywhere near the same amount of benefits from the new crafting system.
The Devs know this. We will have to see if they have future systems coming that will elevate the other classes while the Barb marks time with all their current power.
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