Soloing Barb

In my honest opinion, the tank-type barbarian is the best character all around (Barbarian build that is). This is because it's build is often a careful play between Vitality and Strength, with some dexterity tossed in.

Word of advice, and this goes for any BladeMaster you might play in the future. NEVER WASTE STAT POINTS ON MANA!!! It's essentially the most pointless thing to do. Notice that most of the barbarian's skills use a mediocre amount of Mana, and are more Chi heavy. Mana is pointless because a Tank Barbarian doesn't tend to need to defend magic attacks, that's where a well built Wizard of a Venomancer's pet might come in.

There's a good guide at this link:

http://pwi-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=63271

I find to be one of the best builds for a barbarian the one which follows the basic mantra: "Enough Str and Dex for armor and weapons and everything else into Vit." This way, you can generally, immediately have access to the new Armor when you reach the next level, and are almost always prepared for the next weapon.

Soloing and Tanking can be one in the same if you do it right. I generally play in Tiger form because of the Defense and HP boost as well as the speed increase you get. The damage dealt is reduced, but there are still other upsides.

1) The Skill Alacrity of the Beast is one of the most entertaining ones. Many enemies with some magic ability have a tell-tale glow around them when they are casting. Using this skill, correctly timed, will cancel the cast and revert to them using physical attacks until they've cooled down; by which time they are either dead or Alacrity has recharged.

2) Spamming the hell out of Flesh Ream, like a tank would, while Beastial Rage activated can allow for more uses of this skill in the fight. Flesh Ream has a fairly useful bleed effect which will just add to the damage you're doing.

3)The lower Phys Atk. in Tiger Form (True Form) is balanced by the Higher defense and HP. Last longer in battle or obliterate the enemy quicker at the expense of your HP.

4)Tiger Form just looks sexy as all hell. Though it does get overdone when it is the only barbarian form. This is where another argument comes in.


So yeah, I hope this helped. And remember. NEVER PUT POINTS INTO MANA!!!! ... Ever... Leave the Magic spam to the Squishies. (Wizards, Clerics, Archers[Yea, I lumped them together with the magic users :-P] and the Venomancer, which has a high power potential.)

Life powder

I dunno why the barbarian guide doesn't mention it, but this stuff is absolutely essential at lower levels if you want to solo. It's a tier I alchemy product so it's super-easy to make. It grants you 50 hp/sec regeneration for 10 minutes. You can mow through the mobs one after the other, instead of having to sit on your butt after every fight.

Kelovar - Heavens Tear wrote: »

I agree with XCloudStrife. Look at DAI's guide first. But the things you want to know at first:
- Humanoid is faster to kill mobs, but uses more pots; tiger is slower because of lowered damage, but uses much less pots. The choice is yours, just expect to pay much gold if you stick to humanoid.
- If you choose tiger form to solo, you may wish to keep it at level 1. (lvl1: -20%ATK; lvl2: -35%ATK; lvl3: -50%ATK) Sure levelling it up makes you a better tank, but you'll kill mobs slower.
- Always get enough STR and DEX to equip current level's weapons.
- Keep your MAG at 5!!! Never waste points to increase mp; for most battles, you don't need much skills, and they have a low hp cost. Keep those extra points for VIT.

As for skills, the previous posts describes well common tiger skills, and humanoid ones are explained in DAI's guide.

Well...it may be true that your hp BAR doesn't go as low, but you certainly don't use less pots. In fact, you use more pots/charm, because while your hp bar goes down slower, you have more hp in the bar, meaning you have to use more pots and or charm. But I do agree, only get enough Str and Dex to use your weapons and armor. b:victory

You can also invite people. To keep me from writing too much of a "well, duh" type of a post: If you are solo and they are in a squad, they can accept your invite and you join their squad.

But I have tried to invite solo tigers when I was soloing and were running out of our kind of monsters and I and been turned down by them, so apparently some barbarians really like soloing?

(Also, I wish that I would not be giving up most of my crafting and dragon quest drops when I party with a support class. Or that if their inventory was full and they can not pick up that strong glue that they do not like that I would not have to wait 30 seconds to try again, five or six times in a row. Or... something... Anyways, I hope you can understand and not be too mad with me if I sometimes am reluctant to join a squad with you. I mean, I will, if you need me, but I often will not send an invite if we seem to be doing ok.)

i assum by soloing u mean a barb who can lvl alone, get for skills who atack 1 mob, dont give vit just str and dex, full hp recovery so u dont get brocke, get crit rings, and go crazy.