A Tigerbuild & Skillguide?

I might not be the best person to advice you, since I'm not of a all that high lvl. However I'm also going in tigerform all the time, and since nobody answered, I will give it a try.
Pure tiger means basicly, pure tank build. You must know that going a tankbuild doesn't mean you're not going to need a party all the time. When soloing, it will take a lot of time since you only do little damage. However, you can party with allmost every class efficiently. When I have long quests, I usually try to find a mage of archer for a simple 2 man squad.
For the stats go 6 str, 1 dex and 3 vit, or said in an other form, stick to the latest duall axes requirements and put all the rest into vit. (I guess you know all this, but it's just in case)

To get to the topic, I would say the use of different skills depend on the players. So I will put down a list of skills that allmost every barb would qualify as essential. For the other skills, just get at least lvl 1 of all tigerform skills to determine wether it fits you or not.
Here's the list of essential skills:
- Beast kings inspiration and strengt of titans: Even if they're activated in humanoide, they are really wanted by parties. On top of that, you can activate them for yourself before starting to quest. The effect stays in tigerform.
- Flesh realm and altracity of the beast: They're used for tanking, but are also usefull when soloing. Some say not to lvl altracity of the beast higher than lvl 7, so you can use it as a time indication. I'm not a high enough lvl to confirm though.
- Shapeshifting intensity: no comment needed.
- Roar: lvl 1 is a must, lvling depends on player.
- Bestial onslaught: Chi will become more and more important.
- Sunder: AoE with hp recovery. I'm nowhere near it's lvl requirement though.

Now some skills that are subject of interplayer discussions:
- Poison fang: Some say its useless, some say it's great. It's not really usefull for tanking, but can speed up soloing quite a bit. It stays in effect for 15 min, so you can use it to solo without spending mana pots. Personnaly I stick with lvl 1, but use it a lot. Since it adds a % of damage, it will never really become obsolete, even just lvl 1.
- Devour: It's a good skill for soloing, or when with a BM/Archer, but useless when with mages/clerics. Main default is its high chi cost.
- True form: Some players don't like to lvl it, since it lowers you damage even more. If you're going to tank in squad, there's no doubt: lvl it.
- Axe Hammer mastery: Always usefull, but quite expensive to lvl.
- Bloodbath: You hear a lot about this skill, but when in tigerform, you won't use it very often. I only use it when there is a better tank then myself, just not to be completely useless in the squad (you must go humanoide in this case, so you won't steal aggro from the main tank).

Glad I it was of some use. It's hard to make a real guide, because everybody has it's own gameplay.
I thought this would be most usefull, since it can help you choose at the lvl's you're overwhelmed with new skills and upgrades of old ones (like at between lvl29 and lvl34).

I guess you never look at the beginners guide or general discusion then. I've answered the "how do I learn new skills?" question an awfull lot of times. If I'm really not in the mood to answer, I just look later on if someone else did. If not, I'll always answer.
I prefer having the questions here, rather than ingame. That's really anoying.

On the other hand, who can blame you for your first reaction? When I get to lvl 55, I might do the same. :P

Tyraro - Sanctuary wrote: »

Those of us who are reading can now get more of a sense of the range of possibilities rather than just one definitive list of the "good" and "bad" skills.

You're ablsolutely right about that. There are only a few "good" skills, but most depend on your personnal gameplay. There are a lot of barb saying that poison fang is useless, however I tried it and actually found it really usefull (it drasticly reduced the number of manapots I use).

The forum is really usefull. It's a great place to get some advice and to find tactics/builds you would never have came up with. I'm currently trying to create pure foxform build veno from lvl1. Without the help of the veno's from the forum, I would have had to start over at least 3 times b:chuckle

its not too hard to build a barb so that you only use tigerform, as a matter of fact i hardly used any humanoid skills until lvl 70 or so.

Humanoid form is way more expensive in grinding, in terms of pots or charms. it does deal much better damage though.

And a note on sunder: its indeed a very good skill, it can be used to keep healing yourself when soloing, if you dont use too much skills that cost vigor that is.

oh tigerform will last you all the way, dont worry b:laugh

i merely didnt have enough spirit to lvl the human skills too until after lvl 70 or so, and now i have the spirit, but no cash b:surrender

Hey when you are talking about stats what do you mean by put the rest in con? I don't see any skills or anything like that.