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How
Barbarians will play after the patch?
New update will introduce some
important updates for our class.
The most important is the change on Vitality points:
every Vitality point (obtained by leveling) give the
same physical attack as Strength (Vitality obtained from
gears or engraves do not give physical attack).
This is an huge upgrade for all who plays a Strength
build, gaining HP and defense without losing in damage.
The bad news is that they are forcing us to play the
same build, because will be impossible to make anything
different from a build with 300 Strength / 60
Dexterity (for weapon) and all the rest on Vitality.
The only way to be different consists on gems, engraves
and glyphs.
I think that Demon will be a possible choice again,
defense is fixed by Vitality and the +10% critical hit
over Sage can be a factor for who want to focus on
damage.
We are not going to get any broken debuff/combo, just
some better physical attack with Strength of the Titans
and an additional cc skill, so the best way to
play PvP will be to work on defense level with a Purify
Spell weapon as first. Then, for who want to
play damage, start a second set with attack gems.
Another important update is on
Devour. We get a 2nd paralyze skill, but
it share the cooldown with Mighty Swing except if we use
Sanguine or Argent glyph. I think that Devour +
Sanguine/Argent Mighty Swing will be a must have for any
build, both damage or tank build to gain more stunlock
to add debuff and kill or help to kill the target. Last
but not last, will be possible to remove Occult Ice and
play a full survival genie.
Last important update is the
possibility to use tiger form also when stunned.
The first reason of our deaths is to get stunned in
human form and not have the chance to go in tiger form
for better HP/Defense and to cast Invoke or other
defensive skills.
The update doesn't change the fact
that Barbarian still a support class. The
main job of a Barbarian is to protect the squad with
taunt skills (Raging Slap and Roar), assist attack our
DD class with debuff/paralyze and help on damage with
out AoE skills (Armageddon, Ultimate).
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