Sage Versus Demon (Balance Please.)

Let's get extreme for a moment here. Why play a sage barb anymore? Honestly? With interval classes dominating aggro no matter what your weapon refines are and how fast you can spam flesh ream, why bother? I have 505 Strength on my barb, and I have +5 Lunar Axes with a Garnet gem. Full buffed my physical attack range is 8121-12011. So why is it that +3 99 daggers on sins with vit statted can pull and hold aggro from me at 2.5 APS? Now I am not saying that Demon barbs intrinsically have more aggro holding abilities, so let's compare some sage and demon skills for a moment shall we? Sage Axe n' Hammer master gives 100% weapon damage, but 1% crit is approximately equal to 10% weapon damage in long term DPS. So Demon barbs get 75% and 2% crit, so basically equal. What about the strength buff? 50% vs. 40% and 5% crit for 1 minute, so aside from the longevity, demon wins again. What about shapeshifting intensity? 120% pdef versus 80% and 2% crit, well the pdef suffers for Demons, but they get more crit for giggles. Now what about Sage and Demon roar? Sage reduces target's magic attack by 30% for 10 seconds, while the Demon's reflects 100% of physical damage for 10 seconds, wow, seems very unbalanced, especially if a 5.0 sin is hitting you. What about sunder? This skill alone makes barbs that use axes look stupid and silly, if someone is attacking you with physical damage, use demon roar, then demon sunder, and they will crit themselves killing themselves death before the have realized what has happened, Where as if you are sage, like me, when a 5.0 pops up you invoke? Run away? Paralyzing them with alacrity or frighten won't help, and the 40% additional pdef will be negligible anyways. Back to Demon sunder, use it and switch to standing form with your claws, 5.0APS at 100% crit for 6secs-how long it takes you to switch. That holds aggro. Now that only works if you are 3.33 APS or higher and you use either a chi pot or cloud eruption, but Sage barbs have no DPS combo like that, nor a defensive combo that a demon barb does not have too, and can use just as fast. Even Demon poison fang gives 50% weapon damage as opposed to Sage's 40% wep DMG. What about beastial onslaught? One of our hardest hitting skills, Sage barbs might miss, unless they have 11 B.O. which bu they way, almost doubles the time it takes to use so effectively halving our DPS, whereas the Demon version gives you a 35% chance to crit, for 6 seconds, might as well triple spark, beastial onslaught and switch to your claws for giggles at 70+% crit. What about true form you ask? How Sage is faster and gives more HP? Only 10% more mind you, and that is for speed too, yet we get a 50% weapon damage reduction, which totally undoes our 50% strength buff that we paid 25 million for anyways. Lastly, a strength barbs hardest hitting skill, Ancestral Rage. 200% of base damage, only usable in tiger form, wait, what? OUR ONLY 100% accurate, 8 second freeze, that does 200% base damage, is only usable for Sage barbs when they have a 50% weapon damage reduction? People complain about Assassins being over powered, how about we get some Sage and Demon balance first, I mean since the advent of the Assassin, blood paint alone is reason enough to go -interval Demon barb, you do better DPS than the Sage barb ever hopes to, even if you go full vit, and you heal yourself more than a Sage barb's sunder does, plus you are not using 2 sparks to do it. So demon barb gets to have more HP, more DPS, more Crit, more Aggro, and better tankability? Seriously PWI, at least let Sage barbs use Ancestral Rage in standing form, the advent of 5.0APS has made axes virtually useless, at least let us use our skills when can do a little damage. Go ahead, give Demon barbs clean sweep in true form, just make sure that Sage barbs get to use Ancestral Rage regardless of form, as it should have been long ago.

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