Barbs V Ego

Irdis - Sanctuary

ISLEOFPEN - Heavens Tear wrote: »

herc > barb. end of story.

I m a Hybrid built archer, not a pure dmg, and the herc simply can t keep the aggro from me b:shocked. If tanking veno is about 10 higher than me - then I m confident that I ll be alive. If same lvl - I m not using skills and still have a possibility to steal aggro, if lower... I ll never go again with a lower lvl tanking veno again XD - waste of charms and angels (My opinion Herc is waaay worse than a barb -_-;)...
So basically if I have a choice I would deffinetly go for the Barb as a tank (obviously except the bosses where you need a mage tank). Barbs temper? Has nothing to do with class and I can understand the barb, who ll get angry if the squad isn t listening to him. I ve done a lot of runs with different pple and from my experience if the person knows what to do you should just put your ego faaar away and do what you was told to do (except when tank starts acting simply rude or whining that "My armour is almost dead it ll cost me about 100K to fix it - I m not moving further if I m not getting paid"). If Tank wants the payment for tanking, the Clerics can ask money for their heals and DDs for their dmg XD. People, who don t understand that all classes are needed and there is no better or worse, just don t understand the purpose of dividing into classes with different abiliies. And to someone who was wondering earlier about where to put venoes in the normal situation with a barb tank - veno is the only class who can pull 1 mob at the time, so I would say pullers, who saves the barb from being group killed by mobs^ ^.
BMs, well some of them can t keep the aggro from archer, but that s prolly because of undeveloped skills or built or smth between the chair and the keyboardb:chuckle. I know only 1 BM of my lvl so far whom I can trust with keeping the aggro form the squad with 1 cleric and DDs, but I love their ability to collect and aoe kill the lower lvl mobs at FB runs b:pleased

PS. Sorry if I got grammar or spelling wrong somewhere.

Stickygreen - Heavens Tear

herc > barb end of story. ISLE is right. i enjoy partying up with hercs because it gives me a chance to go afk and troll on forums. herc is much easier tank than barb, simply because in late 80/90's in HH people just go afk on bosses, and dont spark and spam skills (except 3-1's 4 minute boss) so there is no real need to have a barb tank if youve got a competent veno.

Maiya - Lost City

While Herc is a good tank... he suffers from the debuffs that clerics can purify on a barb. Herc can tank a lot of bosses, but not every single one.

Gonzu - Heavens Tear

Stickygreen - Heavens Tear wrote: »

herc > barb end of story. ISLE is right. i enjoy partying up with hercs because it gives me a chance to go afk and troll on forums. herc is much easier tank than barb, simply because in late 80/90's in HH people just go afk on bosses, and dont spark and spam skills (except 3-1's 4 minute boss) so there is no real need to have a barb tank if youve got a competent veno.

So what you are saying here is that there is no point in having you as a tank since a Venomancer can do a better job? b:chuckle

Stickygreen - Heavens Tear

thats exactly what i am saying. 9/10 bosses herc is a more convienent tank that a barb

Zoe - Heavens Tear

Maiya - Lost City wrote: »

While Herc is a good tank... he suffers from the debuffs that clerics can purify on a barb. Herc can tank a lot of bosses, but not every single one.

The only debuffs I've ever seen a pet be able to get are manaleak, poison, burn, stun, slow and chaotic. Manaleak isn't an issue as pets don't have mana. Poison has never been an issue with my pets before. Stun doesn't really matter much. Slow is pointless when you are tanking it anyway, same with chaotic.

A barb thats the same level as a herc can tank much higher level bosses than a herc can, and hold agro better.

Kiyoshi - Heavens Tear

I can easily steal aggro from a chi less barb on bosses. But so far i have yet stolen aggro from a herc on bosses. So yea, herc is more convinent then barbs in a lot of cases (except that one boss in tt).

Zoe - Heavens Tear

Kiyoshi - Heavens Tear wrote: »

I can easily steal aggro from a chi less barb on bosses. But so far i have yet stolen aggro from a herc on bosses. So yea, herc is more convinent then barbs in a lot of cases (except that one boss in tt).

My experience is just the opposite and I have a level 79 herc.

Gwendolynne - Heavens Tear

I'm married to a Barb in-game, and his Ego is fine =/ I mean.. it's not like they aren't allowed to have a LITTLE Ego. Besides... I always steal Aggro from BMs up to 10 levels higher than I am, because I have really high attack. Plus without a Barb, I have to turn off my pet skills making him kind of a loser dd.