AoE combo's for Barbarians?

_WillFire_ - Sanctuary
_WillFire_ - Sanctuary Posts: 563 Arc User
edited April 2009 in Barbarian
I've looked at the skills and I'm trying to put together a few combo's for AoE. The skill descriptions don't lend themselves to easy choices. Any Barb AoE grinders here?
Mark 12:29-37
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  • Bookman - Heavens Tear
    Bookman - Heavens Tear Posts: 165 Arc User
    edited April 2009
    _WillFire_ - Sanctuary wrote: »
    I've looked at the skills and I'm trying to put together a few combo's for AoE. The skill descriptions don't lend themselves to easy choices. Any Barb AoE grinders here?
    derrrrrrr if you wanna aoe grind roll BM, barbs suck at it.

    you have three aoes in human, one of which deals absolute **** frontal only damage(swell), the second deals mediocre damage and scatters the mobs so you'll miss half of them with swell the second time around, and the third deals decent damage but has a 2 sec cast time, takes up a spark, and does fire DoT(lol) so you'll find yourself with no vigor and stuck with two ****ty aoes most of the time.... unless you count perdition, in which case you're an absolute moron for using it to level.

    in any case its a completely inefficient way of leveling compared to BMs with superior aoes and a 6 second stun. instead of wasting money, just solo grind in tiger form or lure zhen/leech fish.
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  • _WillFire_ - Sanctuary
    _WillFire_ - Sanctuary Posts: 563 Arc User
    edited April 2009
    Bookman - Heavens Tear wrote: »
    derrrrrrr if you wanna aoe grind roll BM, barbs suck at it.

    you have three aoes in human, one of which deals absolute **** frontal only damage(swell), the second deals mediocre damage and scatters the mobs so you'll miss half of them with swell the second time around, and the third deals decent damage but has a 2 sec cast time, takes up a spark, and does fire DoT(lol) so you'll find yourself with no vigor and stuck with two ****ty aoes most of the time.... unless you count perdition, in which case you're an absolute moron for using it to level.

    in any case its a completely inefficient way of leveling compared to BMs with superior aoes and a 6 second stun. instead of wasting money, just solo grind in tiger form or lure zhen/leech fish.

    I realize BM's are the masters of this however I'm asking for those who have done this successfully and how. Both humanoid and tiger form have AoE skills and I've seen high level Barbs AoE grinding solo...thus the question.
    Mark 12:29-37
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  • Minouft - Lost City
    Minouft - Lost City Posts: 28 Arc User
    edited April 2009
    i'll tell you the only way you can do decent in aoe .... its called spark eruption in combo with Beastial rage... then you spam slam and swell thats it.

    Everytime you start fighting use beastial rage then sparkeruption then kill, you should have enough spark for next lure... prepare to pay $$ or a slave cleric out of party^^(if in party you kill so slow that exp gonna be ****)

    hope it helped ;)
  • Hazardus - Heavens Tear
    Hazardus - Heavens Tear Posts: 937 Arc User
    edited April 2009
    Yep, slam is about the only really useful aoe we got. Spam it to prevent repair costs getting too high (you're gonna be spending that on pots grinding in humanoid).

    One tip in humanoid is gather the mobs on one side of you as you run around, now stun, swell followed by slam followed with beastial onslaught....then as you like. Firestorm does nice damage, but it uses a spark and its a straight line aoe, so not even as useful as swell imho.

    I prefer grinding in tiger form though, build up two sparks (fury ftw) and then sunder (12m aoe, decent damage, nice bleed and heal) . Can't top that really.
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  • Devarsi - Sanctuary
    Devarsi - Sanctuary Posts: 542 Arc User
    edited April 2009
    for stun you need the 79 untamed wrath skill.. and personally i find that a waste of coin .. violent triumph is more useful ... 1 second stun for a 60 second cool down aggro skill that can't be used in tiger form
  • _WillFire_ - Sanctuary
    _WillFire_ - Sanctuary Posts: 563 Arc User
    edited April 2009
    Awesome...thanks all.
    Mark 12:29-37
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  • Stonedsmurf - Heavens Tear
    Stonedsmurf - Heavens Tear Posts: 11 Arc User
    edited April 2009
    ok this is the one I use in Tiger form, it's not as good as BM(obviously) but i can take on 6-8 lvl 73 seaweed thiefs without a cleric hovering over me and without needing a hp charm:

    pull your mobs, start out with Invoke the spirit(2 sparks) followed straight away with beastial rage to start building your chi up. Alternate your attacks between surf impact, alacrity of the beast and frighten helps lower the damage but isn't important.

    With all the attacks your taking chi will fly up, and alacrity and surf impact boost it aswell. When you have about 2 and a half sparks use Sunder then back to the 3 chi building attacks and beastial rage as soon as its available.

    You should only need Invoke for the first part, but my skills are levelled quite high so test it on smaller groups and build up. If you think this method sucks i apologise but i've used it for 3 lvls now and it sure as hell beats 1 on 1 grinding.

    Hope this helpsb:victory
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