barbarian

The Barbarian is still an epic force of destruction, but you can no longer mash leap, whirlwind, and your other favorite skills and rely on mana leeching to give you inifinte skill use. 


Now a Barbarian has to manage their Fury, which is generated just like most warrior classes in MMORPGs – via taking and dishing out damage.  There are fury generators, fury spenders, and utility abilities.  


You can kill strictly with the generators, but if you want to smash people in half and cleave entire hordes down instantly, you’ll be needing some fury dumps as well!

Fury Generators

Bash  - The Barbarian smashes the hell out of his target, dealing bonus damage and having a chance to knock the target back.  This will be your default go-to for going toe to toe with most enemies.   It scales with attack speed, so the faster your weapon, the faster you’ll pummel people and knock back hordes.

Cleave – A wide swing decimates a group.  Deals full damage to the first target hit and less to others, but builds fury based on the number of targets hit.  It’s extremely effective and efficient when it comes to generation in the middle of a mob, but naturally it lacks compared to Bash both in damage and in fury generation

Leap Attack – Flying to your cursor, you deal damage, build a good amount of fury, 

and apply any on-hit effects all in one badass sequence.  

You only generate fury if the leap hits a target, 

but these targets can even be barrels or other destructible objects.

Ground Stomp - Nothing like a good ol’ fashioned quake to get some breathing room.  

This does some negligible damage, but a 3 second stun.  

Of course, you can’t mash this, as they gave it a pretty high cooldown.

Fury Spenders

Threatening Shout – A loud cry lowers 

the damage of all nearby enemies greatly.    

A great skill when getting mobbed, 

but do you really want to spend your fury 

on defense?

Hammer of the Ancients – Barbarian SMASH!   

Does fantastic damage and hits a decent 

number of enemies, 

and has a fairly quick animation to boot.   

A good way to dump a lot of fury in a hurry on a boss.

Battle Rage – Boosts your damage and critical hit chance upon activation.  Can’t really complain about this one, but with the limited skill slots early, you’ll probably focus on the flashier things.

Weapon Throw – Does the obvious.  But less obvious is the fact that it does even more damage than Hammer of the Ancients and a slow.  However, all of this is only to one target.

Rend – Mutilates nearby enemies dealing great damage over 3 seconds.   It’s a fantastic damage over time skill, but if you want to get a lot out of it on tough enemies you have to be careful not to overwrite it and keep it up at all times.

Situational Abilities

Ignore Pain – Much like the WoW tank abilities, this greatly reduces incoming damage for 5 seconds.  If you find yourself stuck and have no movement abilities up, you might want to hit this!

Revenge - …yet another WoW-ish ability, it has a chance to become available upon receiving damage and dishes out a powerful blow to nearby enemies while restoring life.    Very effective while being mobbed!

Overpower – Another situational big hit, rather than proccing from taking damage, this procs from critting with it.    tentonhammer

It does a considerable amount of AoE damage.

Skills

Fury Orb

Added by Ultimatex

The D3 Barbarian's skills are very similar to the Barbarian from Diablo II, only much more primal, savage and in a way spiritual. Some of the crowd-control skills like Grim Ward are still missing but it can be seen that the skill trees are divided into three distinct play-styles (read builds) with theJuggernaut being especially liked by the fanbase because of the overall coolness of the name as well as the great variety of all-purpose skills in the tree.

Unlike their previous incarnations, the Barbarian now uses Fury and Stamina (the Barbarian equivalent of Mana) for their skills. These new mechanics are detailed below.

Tier 1 Skills
Frenzy Bad Temper Power of the Berserker Heightened Senses	Bash Inspiration Power of the Juggernaut	Battle Rage Perseverance Power of the Battlemaster Iron Skin
Tier 2 Skills
Terrifying Shout Onslaught Double Strike Strong Constitution Berserker State	Cleave Ground Stomp Focused Strength Stubborn Recovery	Hammer of the Ancients Battlecry Scavenge Critical Attacks Shield Specialization
Tier 3 Skills
Leap Enrage Dual Wield Specialization Savage Increase Speed	Taunt Stunning Blows Two-Handed Weapon Specialization Invigorated Furious Charge	Ignore Pain Deliberate Defense Improved Battle Rage Death Proof

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