Do barbs really level that much slower?

Not really. Of course, my highest level barb is L20 because I got sick of him after powering him to that level in two days with a friend. My main is my veno at 96 and most everyone I know has been in their 90s for a while. Your 70-90 will be based of your grind style (solo, aoe, zhen, etc.) and perhaps quests + dailies. I only really started leisurely playing my cleric alt again and over the past month and a half or so I've gotten her to L65 along with a friend. Mind you, that's with spending half the day or more on my main and getting sick of running TTs or dungeons to escape to my cleric and do it again from a different perspective. Anywho, you should have no lacking of squads for anything if you're a "good barb" because people love barbs.

*Still depends on your build. There are DD/PvP barbs, hybrid barbs, and pure Vit tanking barbs.

forks89 wrote: »

Yet even DD builds will deal the lowest damage per hit (compared to other classes), They are by nature a tanking class.

Barbs = least damage per hit
least damage per hit = slowest kill rate
slowest kill rate = slowest leveling

Simple logic :P

True. BMs kill faster than barbs. This however is not just due to pure damage but more due to skills.

The physical attack gain is the same for a barb and a BM. If we consider a case of a barb and BM with same DD build and with only self buffs (soloing not in party) then the humanoid barb will typically have a higher HP and higher physical attack (due to titan's buff) and the BM will have greater defense (due to sutras). This is assuming the barb is a DD build barb. A vit build tanker barb ofc will do significantly less damage.

The BM additionally comes equipped with skills which will inflict greater damage (dragons debuff anyone?) and to multiple mobs. Basically BM is better at aoeing. So by the time barb has killed 2 or 4 mobs the BM might have killed 10+.

That being said, with the introduction of the new BH daily, leveling has become a lot easier. And a good barb is always in demand for FB/TT/BH/FF/RB runs.
As with so much in life, it also depends on who you know....b:chuckle

And as to OP's other question, yes, barb's are late bloomers. It gets fun after you're 70+ and you really start to shine when you're 90+. Imho the 60-70 bit was the hardest for me (no BH back then).

Comparing to other classes, barbarians level slower but the difference is not really big, from lvls1-70 barbarians are really hard to level up but once you start getting close to 80 and you start doing GV, aoe grind(if you are rich) and cube of fate which also requires a bit of money u will start lvling at basically the same paces as other classes since barbarians are one of the few classes that can be used to successfully win cube of fate at lvls 7x, when you get to lvl85 you can start doing FC runs that will give alot of exp per run (at lvls90 it can gives 7% per run) nd once you get to lvls90 you can start doing the GV85+ easily nd you will get to lvl95 pretty easily if also grind nd if are always searching for fish(80+ mobs that give alot of exp if u grind in group, your role there is to pick the drops), zhen or aoe parties. This game is all about patience and it can take you about 4 months to get to lvl95 if you really play like 6 to 8 hours per day nd if focus your game time in leveling. But still, normal grinding at lvls92 starts getting completely useless
If you like Blademasters you will also b hard to take down but barbarians are a tanking class, Blademasters are a melee DD class.

DestroyTokyo - Lost City wrote: »

from 70-100 you do nothing but GV, GV when you awake till GV when you log off. I did 89-95 in about 5 weeks.

I'm assuming GV = God's Valley? = RB?

I wish I could do rebirths, but I need a few mins afk every now and then and most squads just cant tolerate any afking in there.

Tho I manage well enough between Bh/CS and the occasional cube.
Forgotten frostlands is for now my only hope of leveling a bit faster b:chuckle.

I lvl'd form 86 to 99 in 2 months doing 1 RB delta a day and my daily's (i consider cube also as one)

IDK, I leveled pretty quickly up until I hit 80. After that it's taken a lot longer. I only play 2hrs/night and if I'm on a TT run, there's no real exp there for the night.

Cleon - Harshlands wrote: »

3rd map zhen gives you about 5-6% at 90 per hour, so thats 15-18% for 3 hours, which is the same a GV delta run takes. If you can't get a squad for zhen, just find a BM and aoe grind with him.

Although this is fairly true, IDK about your server but here 3rd map is pvp 90% of the time if you zhen you're going to get crashed several times. Which people tend to qq about.

So GV is the gimme xp that can't be crashed. (now if you take baddies into gv and fail that your own problemb:surrender)

barb is slow but it is just a little slower..
yes they have lesser dmg but compensated with def and speed..
while training, use life powder in maximise everything in terms of money gain/time and exp,spirit too... and fight 1 at a time if soloing, you should do good. b:victory

forks89 wrote: »

Barbs level the slowest because they deal the least damage per attack.

But, They make up for it with massive HP so its a trade off you have to think over yourself.

Yup low dmg is a bum when questing. But the good part is barbs are often asked for parties b:victory especially big lack in rbs. Once my puppy hit 71 lvled very fast (beta was a bish =_=). & I never have problems finding bh squads b:cute