End Game Sage Barbs

EVANISHER - Archosaur
EVANISHER - Archosaur Posts: 17 Arc User
edited December 2010 in Etherblade (West)
I ask direclty all gms ,devs and players wtf end game sage barb is able to do as this game has progressed? really do you wanna disband us all? ppl dont tt with sage barbs 5 aps are better ,ppl dont delta with sage berbs cause delta is boting and dc imminent,ppl dont nirvana with sage barbs they need fast runs , ppl fc with sage barbs but this is useless at 101 ,ppl dont zhen cause packs are easy to Open, ppl dont bh with sage barb cause dd outcome sucks.....PPL DONT SQUAD SAGE BARBS CAUSE THEY CANT HOLD AGGRO (TANK CLASS CANT HOLD AGGRO THIS A NEW ONE... XD)

Will you make any patch to our skills and weapons to make us at least the same important as everybody else in this game or if not plz answer this post so to go elsewhere with our heads up and dignity high...

ps1 i wont sell my car to become 4 aps sage barb or 5 aps demon barb!!!!
PS2 I hate to beg ppl in order to play!!!!
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  • Knownase - Heavens Tear
    Knownase - Heavens Tear Posts: 6,959 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    Yes, I agree, the concept of Sage Barbs is pretty much dead, their main uses now are buffing slaves and cata-pullers in TW.

    APS killed the Barb's tanking abilities. b:chuckle
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  • EVANISHER - Archosaur
    EVANISHER - Archosaur Posts: 17 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    YA but the problem is that this is so unfair and shows lack of respect to our effort and money... CAN I HAVE AN ANSWER PLZ FROM GMS OR DEVS REALLY THIS IS THE LEAST WE DESERVE ....
  • BigFIuffy - Archosaur
    BigFIuffy - Archosaur Posts: 193 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    i dnt have much trouble finding a squad. Just get your sage strength of titans buff. Just by having that most squads will take u for the 50% added phy damage or wateva. Plus most large factions are aware that they need rich cata barbs and will take you on TTs/Nirvana runs my experience anyway.
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  • Lutirica - Harshlands
    Lutirica - Harshlands Posts: 1,437 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    well i must agree that is unfair. What would pwi be without barbs?
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  • Rawrgh - Raging Tide
    Rawrgh - Raging Tide Posts: 6,790 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    You can pull catas.


    That's about it.
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  • EVANISHER - Archosaur
    EVANISHER - Archosaur Posts: 17 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    i could pull catas if i could farm one portion of my tt99 armors lol, if i could go to tt and make some money out of that so tu wit stand the charms needed and one more...
    i dont want ppl to get me in squads due to my baffs (which are overestimated ) but due to my contribution to the final outcome which now is obviously very little..i have friends which i maybe oblige to get their ex fc buddy at tt but i feel as a bargain...


    patch needed to equilify things in pwi gaming...
  • SyGrrr - Archosaur
    SyGrrr - Archosaur Posts: 62 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    I agree. SyGrrr only comes out to play when someone wants hour buffs and on the weekend to pull a cata.

    Fluffy is right. I can FIND squads no problem. But I can't contribute jack. I feel like dead weight.



    Edit: why is this in the Archosaur forum?
  • GolgothX - Heavens Tear
    GolgothX - Heavens Tear Posts: 10 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    If nothing change, Sage Barbs will be only a buff class....

    When u ask to be added in BH or in run, sq wants to know if u use Deicide or not...

    I can fin team, because i have old friends and because i m a veteran, but im more and more useless...

    People says to me to change all my build to make a "claw barb", but not my own way.


    With all Hercules, overstuffed bm and archer, hard for us to find our use. Most part of my freinds have stopped barb to make bm or ssin.

    I duno if there is a way to change that but i have big doubts about it.


    (I have a 100+ Psychic and seems same problem with that class)
  • vristion
    vristion Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    The game with its OP gear and easy access to all skills, has turned into nothing but a zurg. There is no such thing as group roles anymore. Ths has not only ruined it for the barbs, but the clerics as well, all weve become worth is a tote around blue bubble. b:sad
  • Kinjeto - Raging Tide
    Kinjeto - Raging Tide Posts: 564 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    If nothing change, Sage Barbs will be only a buff class....

    When u ask to be added in BH or in run, sq wants to know if u use Deicide or not...

    I can fin team, because i have old friends and because i m a veteran, but im more and more useless...

    People says to me to change all my build to make a "claw barb", but not my own way.


    With all Hercules, overstuffed bm and archer, hard for us to find our use. Most part of my freinds have stopped barb to make bm or ssin.

    I duno if there is a way to change that but i have big doubts about it.


    (I have a 100+ Psychic and seems same problem with that class)

    All your skills use axe and poleaxe. Claw barb, are you on pot?
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  • BLOODMYSTIC - Archosaur
    BLOODMYSTIC - Archosaur Posts: 1,842 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    I ask direclty all gms ,devs and players wtf end game sage barb is able to do as this game has progressed? really do you wanna disband us all? ppl dont tt with sage barbs 5 aps are better ,ppl dont delta with sage berbs cause delta is boting and dc imminent,ppl dont nirvana with sage barbs they need fast runs , ppl fc with sage barbs but this is useless at 101 ,ppl dont zhen cause packs are easy to Open, ppl dont bh with sage barb cause dd outcome sucks.....PPL DONT SQUAD SAGE BARBS CAUSE THEY CANT HOLD AGGRO (TANK CLASS CANT HOLD AGGRO THIS A NEW ONE... XD)

    Will you make any patch to our skills and weapons to make us at least the same important as everybody else in this game or if not plz answer this post so to go elsewhere with our heads up and dignity high...

    ps1 i wont sell my car to become 4 aps sage barb or 5 aps demon barb!!!!
    PS2 I hate to beg ppl in order to play!!!!

    Replace "sage barb" with "wizzie" (cept for delta) and you could have copied this from the wizzie forums.

    And I think anyone would delta with a sage barb. If you don't have alpha male on your genie though, gtfo.
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  • SyGrrr - Archosaur
    SyGrrr - Archosaur Posts: 62 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    All your skills use axe and poleaxe. Claw barb, are you on pot?

    Triple spark + APS = no skills necessary.
  • Knownase - Heavens Tear
    Knownase - Heavens Tear Posts: 6,959 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    Triple spark + APS = no skills necessary.

    No skill, yet it gets the job done...............way faster. rofl
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  • ThanosQRt - Dreamweaver
    ThanosQRt - Dreamweaver Posts: 2,457 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    Replace "sage barb" with "wizzie" (cept for delta) and you could have copied this from the wizzie forums.

    And I think anyone would delta with a sage barb. If you don't have alpha male on your genie though, gtfo.

    replace "wizzie" with "psy" and it would be my post :b
  • TigerLily - Lost City
    TigerLily - Lost City Posts: 1,209 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    I ask direclty all gms ,devs and players wtf end game sage barb is able to do as this game has progressed? really do you wanna disband us all? ppl dont tt with sage barbs 5 aps are better ,ppl dont delta with sage berbs cause delta is boting and dc imminent,ppl dont nirvana with sage barbs they need fast runs , ppl fc with sage barbs but this is useless at 101 ,ppl dont zhen cause packs are easy to Open, ppl dont bh with sage barb cause dd outcome sucks.....PPL DONT SQUAD SAGE BARBS CAUSE THEY CANT HOLD AGGRO (TANK CLASS CANT HOLD AGGRO THIS A NEW ONE... XD)

    Will you make any patch to our skills and weapons to make us at least the same important as everybody else in this game or if not plz answer this post so to go elsewhere with our heads up and dignity high...

    ps1 i wont sell my car to become 4 aps sage barb or 5 aps demon barb!!!!
    PS2 I hate to beg ppl in order to play!!!!


    You can say the same for all the people playing casters - you think they ever get invited to TT or Nirvana lol... They invested money and time to and their only purpose now would be TW or PvP. They cant even get 95+ Frost parties anymore since people only want sin + bm as DD.

    Tank build sage barbs arent unique in any way at all, pretty much everyone that isn't interval build DD/tank will have problems endgame. At least archers + barbs have the ability to get 4.0/5.0 which makes it a bit easier, casters cant even do that.

    Getting into BH as a barb shouldn't be hard at all tho, no matter what build or gear you have as tiger. People just want buffs <_<
  • krittycat
    krittycat Posts: 4,187 Community Moderator
    edited November 2010
    The only problem with the point of view that "at least they get squads because of their buffs" is that many of us (barbs) played the class for so long to be able to help. We didn't grind our hardest with the worst grinding class in the game to become buffers. On top of that, how long will it be until you see in WC:

    Xxxxxx: Paying 100k for barb buffs for (name your instance)!

    Barbs, especially tank barbs (even more for sage) have been slowly phased out since the beginning of the game (hercs were the start) with the final blow being the 5 aps craze (which wouldn't even be so bad without Bloodpaint).

    Anyway, good topic. I'll be interested to see where it goes from here.
  • EVANISHER - Archosaur
    EVANISHER - Archosaur Posts: 17 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    More than reporting a problem we should propose measures of solving it so here are my thoughts:

    first: Add aggro enhancing skills to non tanking classes (for example clerics ) which wont be able to be casted on the caster its self but to the desirable tanker. More cooperative play and more steady tanking

    second: make aggro be related not only to attack speed or p attack but to hp as well(hp could be a threat to a mob or boss so it figures in my point of view)

    third : add minus interval stones (0.01 or 0.02 value) which could be used obviously by other clases including barbs to regain their lost usefullness
  • BLOODMYSTIC - Archosaur
    BLOODMYSTIC - Archosaur Posts: 1,842 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    More than reporting a problem we should propose measures of solving it so here are my thoughts:

    Noone who can do anything about it even reads these forums, ijs
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  • EVANISHER - Archosaur
    EVANISHER - Archosaur Posts: 17 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    You are probably right Blood and i feel as one of the last 100+ active sage barbs of this server since nobody bothers to comment or so....:D
  • Proski - Archosaur
    Proski - Archosaur Posts: 936 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    best advice: find others with the same unfortunate disposition as you

    most factions on our server have a high level clique of interval players and that mentality of what is needed to farm trickles down to the rest of their guild....but elusive was made for tw so we have tons of traditionally built classes farming together with little to zero complaints, even if it takes longer
  • KaiserNeko - Archosaur
    KaiserNeko - Archosaur Posts: 192 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    sage barbs only purpose is tanking and cata pulling, u take tanking away and all we have is cata. all that i can do with 1 5 APS bm around is take aggro and then lose it again. barbs need another spammable aggro skill, or a way to tell how much aggro u are drawing in. from what ive heard about the expansion, 5 aps wont be removed. it will be "less effective" not neccesarily sure how but thats what was said.
    5 aps needs to be removed from the game, its basically a no skill way to win the game. this is all u have to do to be a 5 aps (insert your class) REMOVE ALL SKILLS FROM U BARS!) place auto attack on 1, place demon spark on 2,auto attack on 3, demon spark on 4, auto attack on 5, and so on, then smash your face, against the key board and continue to roll, (this is the hard part) make sure to be accurate in the placing of your forehead. You gotta hit all the numbers!. its the worst way to play the game, yet the most efficient...

    if u are 5 aps it means your are bored of the game and all of its machanics. and having a good time.

    in PvP u are just a hitting machine, u try to hit them to death, before someone 1 shots u. which is why u have axes pole or sword, but some 5 aps bms dont carry these.. idk why they just dont. lvl 0 highland cleave wtf?

    this game used to be fun as a barb because maintaining aggro was possible even over a wizard hitting for 100k + damage. now u have to be demon fist or sage fist to get anywhere above them in aggro. one method that i have found effective though. get a weapon with Provoke. it increases your threat lvl upon a succesful hit. this + flesh ream and devour will allow u to tank alittle better against a 5 aps DD.

    PvE in PwI is almost non-existent, because of the lack of it. the devs messed that up for us when they started messing with RIG's aka random item generator's or what we call "the packs". i havent had any fun in PwI since back when i was on malaysian servers. it was challenging and fun. instead of a big rush to lvl 100 and then a big flop that nirvana turned out to be. there are no fun instances in PWI. the bosses are nothing special. the TW's are no fun. the game shouldn't be called a MMORPG, its a internet chat site only roll u play is the man or woman or beast thing sitting in archo complaining to people. thats all it really is. the content in this game was ruined when they introduced the CS way of lvling (oracles and hypers). when they removed TW pay. there is no honor or worth of the land. this game is not what it was supposed to be. this game has become a peice of trash. ffs they even disabled an entire instance that was for farming gear. they did a major **** job when they removed FC as a gear instance.

    ill always be a sage barb even if i am only stuck for buffing the sht out of people.

    hopefully sometime ill be able to be the best tank i can be. atm that is impossible for any sage barb. the genesis expansion looks nice. just hope it does better than this horrible TB expansion. if not im out of this game for good. atleast the pay to play games keep their **** balanced lol.
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  • Kaste - Sanctuary
    Kaste - Sanctuary Posts: 1,353 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    The title of the thread says it all:

    End of the game for sage barbs.












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  • RioNHale - Archosaur
    RioNHale - Archosaur Posts: 566 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    sage barbs only purpose is tanking and cata pulling, u take tanking away and all we have is cata. all that i can do with 1 5 APS bm around is take aggro and then lose it again. barbs need another spammable aggro skill, or a way to tell how much aggro u are drawing in. from what ive heard about the expansion, 5 aps wont be removed. it will be "less effective" not neccesarily sure how but thats what was said.
    5 aps needs to be removed from the game, its basically a no skill way to win the game. this is all u have to do to be a 5 aps (insert your class) REMOVE ALL SKILLS FROM U BARS!) place auto attack on 1, place demon spark on 2,auto attack on 3, demon spark on 4, auto attack on 5, and so on, then smash your face, against the key board and continue to roll, (this is the hard part) make sure to be accurate in the placing of your forehead. You gotta hit all the numbers!. its the worst way to play the game, yet the most efficient...


    rofl couldnt have said it better myself, theres not much skill involved with high aps, I rolled a bm, myself to see what the big deal was, currently on a 4aps bm (borrowed Wagya's tome to try 5aps b:dirty) and although it makes you feel like a god of damage... I dont seem to be doing much but tab>autoattack/sparkmacro>tab>autoattacksparkmacro...

    With my barb, he has 15 sage skills.

    With my bm, I need 0, maybe demon fist mastery and aura... but I have demon spark and no number of sage skills make up for that 20% attack speed increase of demon spark. b:sad


    When I got sage spark on barb, it was like, hrm.. thats nice, a bit more damage b:cute

    The split second I hit 89 on bm and got demon spark and used it with a pair of tt80 fists, there was such a massive increase in speed and power I felt like the game suddenly got 10 times easier.


    Right now the game is not suited to us sage barbs, I dont have trouble finding squads for my barb not at all, he is nearly always welcomed to any squad in need, although I am noticing people seem to prefer to ask for buffs from my barb but my bm to attend the instances, example nirvanas. *cough pulse cough* >_>

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  • Nefertia - Archosaur
    Nefertia - Archosaur Posts: 20 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    I ask direclty all gms ,devs and players wtf end game sage barb is able to do as this game has progressed? really do you wanna disband us all? ppl dont tt with sage barbs 5 aps are better ,ppl dont delta with sage berbs cause delta is boting and dc imminent,ppl dont nirvana with sage barbs they need fast runs , ppl fc with sage barbs but this is useless at 101 ,ppl dont zhen cause packs are easy to Open, ppl dont bh with sage barb cause dd outcome sucks.....PPL DONT SQUAD SAGE BARBS CAUSE THEY CANT HOLD AGGRO (TANK CLASS CANT HOLD AGGRO THIS A NEW ONE... XD)

    Will you make any patch to our skills and weapons to make us at least the same important as everybody else in this game or if not plz answer this post so to go elsewhere with our heads up and dignity high...

    ps1 i wont sell my car to become 4 aps sage barb or 5 aps demon barb!!!!
    PS2 I hate to beg ppl in order to play!!!!

    Um barbs are useful through the game I would rather have them then some stupid assassins who get the party dead within a few seconds after atking a boss. They may be dd's but the ones I have met are stupid dd's who will nvr replace bms and wiz's, just get in the way and they beg for more cleric buffs than the barbs, run at the first site of trouble instead of getting invisible, and are ugly to boot. You may think we do not need barbs but we really do b:shockedb:pleased
  • Nefertia - Archosaur
    Nefertia - Archosaur Posts: 20 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    best advice: find others with the same unfortunate disposition as you

    most factions on our server have a high level clique of interval players and that mentality of what is needed to farm trickles down to the rest of their guild....but elusive was made for tw so we have tons of traditionally built classes farming together with little to zero complaints, even if it takes longer

    UM lies all lies what was it must be over 70 to join when farming begins at lvl 5. TW builds what a laugh anyone can go in and destroy a crystal.

    By farming do you mean you are the bank and you take all the good drops for armor and weapons then give us the less desirables therefore we have to beg others to help and hope the item randomly selects us again or you run back and fourth on our subs then try to sell us the item we received randomly at astronomical prices knowing we cannot afford it.

    Oh wait people like me who can not even get into your faction because we are independent, speak our minds, and cannot be controlled.

    Just curious which lie is it lol b:shocked b:angry b:shutup
  • EVANISHER - Archosaur
    EVANISHER - Archosaur Posts: 17 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    In Fact The Outcome Of All Opinions And Of Some Calculations At Pwi Calc Indicate That We Are Really More Useless Than We Would Even Imagine. If New Update Doesnt Bring A Patch To Equilify The Situation I Will Surely Quit Game Cause I Feel Deceived And Really Understrengthed. I Couldnt Even Complete My Tt3-3 Bh Yesteraday(we Didnt Have Aps Dds) And I Am Most Discouraged To Continue. I Ll Just Wait The Patch To Arrive... No Modifications To Our Skills - No Game For Me And Sooner Or Later All Sage Barbs Will Do The Same.(and I Wont Reroll To New Classes Xd)

    (it Would Be Polite To Read An Answer To All That By A Mod)
  • KaiserNeko - Archosaur
    KaiserNeko - Archosaur Posts: 192 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    if there is no patch to make barbs more efficient in their abilitys. WITHOUT the use of claws. i am quitting this char and rerolling. and i will wait till everyone has NO barbs and NO hp buffs. then its game on for selling them at 100k a buff :P 500k for squads of 5!
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  • Smokesalot - Heavens Tear
    Smokesalot - Heavens Tear Posts: 81 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    i havent personally been excluded yet for being sage.
    but just like poster i got a good faction who works together.
    i have noticed alot of barbs that i know made other classes.
    like someone previously mentioned not all people are soo eager to only get aps squads
    theres alot of classes that suffer from this and you need to work with them to accomplish your goals.
    dont let our classes die out completely people.
  • Proski - Archosaur
    Proski - Archosaur Posts: 936 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    UM lies all lies what was it must be over 70 to join when farming begins at lvl 5. TW builds what a laugh anyone can go in and destroy a crystal.

    By farming do you mean you are the bank and you take all the good drops for armor and weapons then give us the less desirables therefore we have to beg others to help and hope the item randomly selects us again or you run back and fourth on our subs then try to sell us the item we received randomly at astronomical prices knowing we cannot afford it.

    Oh wait people like me who can not even get into your faction because we are independent, speak our minds, and cannot be controlled.

    Just curious which lie is it lol b:shocked b:angry b:shutup

    the lie where someone told you your opinion matters at level 73
  • Jandira - Sanctuary
    Jandira - Sanctuary Posts: 82 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    My lvl 100 sage barb bf has quit the game because he feels so useless.

    But what do you do? QQ is about all we can do, as PWE isn't going to fix it ... ever. They will bring out something new first. Which of course is NOT a fix but they don't seem to care about that.

    b:sadb:surrenderb:bye