Is it a low-damage tank?
- Bulwark druid does this immensily better, 100% unstopable and barrier uptime while stacking the infinitely better DR’s sinergys obtained trough their paragons and aspects. Unlike barbarian that was nerfed and gutted until they made sure you couldnt had 100% shout uptime and Harrogath continues to be bugged not procing from aspect bleeds.
- Heck , even ROGUE , supposed to be the “nimble but squishy class” its arguably tankier than barbarians with their “tank poison” build while still doing 5x more damage than any barb build.
Is it support only class?
- Druid bois agane have a BETTER support build ( look it up, i know its not that popular because who wants to play support on an ARPG anyway when most people play solo )
The only thing support barb brings to the table its resource gen. Debilitating roar its a WHOLE 30% more DR than challenging shout and on a way shorter CD trough Symbiotic Aspect ! (also base line btw) - “But barbs are a support class and suck since D2” Then why do they EVEN EXIST?
Is it a jack of all trades but master of none with build diversity?
- WW barb , many say is a speed farm build. Yet slower and with lower damage than Rogues and Druids ( necros can wipe the screen with one button but run slow i guess? ) So its not even good that, while also being not capable on the endgame.
- Upheaval maybe? Hellhammer was actually nerfed not buffed, the 0.2 damage increase over 4 seconds instead of 3: ITS A DPS LOSE. And in how many scenarios a monster stands still for 4 seconds anyway?
(Fields of Crimson was also nerfed btw with the CDR lost, besides that skill its so bad it would require an entire rework to be used ) - Just compare druids or rogues ENDGAME CAPABLE BUILD diversity versus a barbarian, its on a complete different universe. Even necros while still missing their core fantasy minion focused builds. Still have multiple viable builds on another dimension of DPS compared to barbs.
Is it a DPS?
- Laughs in necro, rogue and werenado (and hopefullly post buffs sorc, they deserve it)
TLDR: Barbs are good for absolutely nothing and their class design its a “middle finger” to anyone that plays them.