Need advice on barb genie.

Chronobarok - Raging Tide

What genie should I use for barbarian? I have all four and cant decide what would be best. Can someone help me.

DeathBeastDL - Lost City

its not the genie that really matters, its the skills that you give it and the way you use it, my personal fav, is the second wind, which is str based, so placeing it on a genie that has a lot of str is nice to do, second wind heals you, so that will help you as a barb stay alive when a healer is low on mana, or when your soloing, and trying to take on a few mobs at once, another good one, is fire sword, or something like that, takes fire and metal, its a good lure one to use,

Cybetron - Raging Tide

During low levels, the second wind skill is definitely handy. Most of our skills are STR based (solid shield, TE etc) so choosing a genie with more STR is good (I think it's infliction). Zeal has a skill that helps luring (Earthflame), other than that the extra MAG doesn't benefit us as much as STR and dex.

The DEX genie is great for Tree Of Protection which becomes staple to every high level barb, but the STR genie isn't too bad for ToP either. It's the best healing skill we've. Also one of the highly damaging genie skills - Bramble Rage - needs high dex.

So throughout the game, having an STR based genie would help you alot (in both tanking and deal quite alot of damage (using True Emptiness) to arcanes in mid air. Zeal is kept as a standby if you don't have a veno lure in your squad.

Also, get the earthquake skill - it'll save your life alot many times once you level higher.

Blood_Panda - Raging Tide

Prefered Genie will be Zeal due to earth flame. I have a few instances cursing why i am without a lure of some sort.

Skill wise

I am currently on

Impact, Tree of protection , Tanging Mire

Impact
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is nice Armor debuff with damage up close.. its water attack with 2x upclose so.. it will always send someone flying except arcane armor which we barb will send flying anyway...

Tanging Mire...
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Wanted to use this with Armaggeddon.. hee hee AoE armor debuff b:chuckle


Tree of protection
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I prefer this on str genie, With the massive HP increase,the 6 SEc interval healing almost always heal all my HP to almost Max. Save my panda hide plenty of time already.

this are for your references . ^.^

Fuzzy_Wuzzy - Raging Tide

Lots of good suggestions, but me also wanted to throw Alpha Male into the mix. This skill is not to be neglected. It be a staple for Fuzzy when running Delta.

b:victory

Blood_Panda - Raging Tide

ya i want to work towards having Absolute domain, True Emptiness and Alpha male..

but my silly genie doesnt want to give me more slots for genie skill.

Huang_Chun - Heavens Tear

I only use discipline genie with maxed VIT/MAG

Wind force, holy path for faster traveling (it takes long to travel)

I do use alpha male sometimes for emergency on barb because of such a severe cool down on roar.

Ellantria - Heavens Tear

Blood_Panda - Raging Tide wrote: »

ya i want to work towards having Absolute domain, True Emptiness and Alpha male..

but my silly genie doesnt want to give me more slots for genie skill.

I assume you know this already but, Lucky Points will determine that.

0-50 is 4 skills, 51-70 is 5, 71-80 is 6 and 81-90 is 7. Anything more than 90 will give you the max of 8 slots.

So, just keep leveling your genie and hope it gets more lucky points.

Unless yours is like, 12/60. Then you should trash it and just get a new one.

But anyway...

Alpha Male is always a good choice for a barb. It helps make tanking easier.

Get Holy Path too. Extra Movespeed could be the difference between getting to the squishy and reaming whatever is trying to kill them, or having them die.

Blood_Panda - Raging Tide

mine is @ 40/50

I have a slot booked for Alpha Male for my skills..

Absolute domain and True Emptiness is a Plus if they come.
going for another roll @ lvl 60 hope i get 50/60.

I been feeding her good stones.. not that it matter. b:chuckleb:chuckleb:chuckle

Vorgen - Sanctuary

Fuzzy_Wuzzy - Raging Tide wrote: »

Lots of good suggestions, but me also wanted to throw Alpha Male into the mix. This skill is not to be neglected. It be a staple for Fuzzy when running Delta.

b:victory

Also i noticed in another thread awhile back about the reflective damage that can be done using Alpha Male in a PvP. It actually works its practically suicide for a fist BM or a Sin. They do soo much damage to themselves in one second its insane. So yeah keep that skill in mind when doing pvp..... just remember that the skill needs to be maxed in order to have its true effectiveness. That is Vorg's Two cents of the day X3b:victory

SaintToadElf - Archosaur

I like Zeal because their Earthflame skill let's you lure mobs out of groups. That can be very handy. Solid Shield is a great barb genie skill. It's 1earth/1wood. So, when first starting the genie out, I usually add 1earth and get that Sandsomething skill that reduces mobs accuracy. Second Wind is a great healing skill, very helpful.

Chronobarok - Raging Tide

Thanks a lot for the help guys. I have decided to stick with my Zeal and I've been using Earthflame from time to time it really helps. So far I just got second wind. But I think I am going to work on a PvE genie then when I get higher work on a PvP genie or something.

Definetly going to get the alpha male skill as well. I also saw a level 74 barb using adrenaline surge. Are those skills useful in pvp?

And would getting nullify poison be good for a PvE genie?

Bartack - Heavens Tear

I cant believe no one has mentioned cloud eruption. I have become addicted to it.

Cybetron - Raging Tide

Cloud Eruption is great. I used it alot in TWs on my sage barb. Many a time would my chi pots and Master Li's be in cooldown and some demon veno would use their chi draining skill or some other demon use Mo Zun's taunt to deplete my chi. That's when cloud eruption proved quite useful, instant Invoke FTW b:victory

And Alpha Male's reflect doesn't work in open PvP I think. All attack reflects (except psys - damn you psys b:angry) work only in duels and instances (including TWs).

Loltank - Harshlands

Tree, Alpha Male, Tangling Mire, True Emptiness

Solid Shield is a mini - invoke and pretty useful, but if you're limited by skill slots you can skip it.

Holy Path is great, especially combined with invoke or solid shield, essentially making an invincible blitz-barb for the duration.

Bramble Rage is good for damage and the affinities dovetail nicely with cloud eruption, which is also amazing.

There's a LOT of good choices for a barb, most of them STR based with the exception of bramble.

My advice would be to make a pure str genie for everyday use, and then when you have spirit to make another one to test other skills out.


Can anyone confirm/deny alpha male's reflect in open PVP? Cause if it works I'm omw to west gate as soon as this class is over.

Vorgen - Sanctuary

Lol Cyb yeah i have only been doing duels and such for right now.....so i only have a limited scope thank you for clarifying that upb:victory