Barb skills

True: barbs aren't longer "tanks", they are fistbarbs with aps or just buff-biatches, nothing more. Aps ruined their class, cuz with the best equip you can get (Nirvana etc) its nearly impossible to hold aggro all the time against a 4 or 5 aps (or lower) DD.

In old times, it was a fight to hold aggro against wizzies, but with the knowing of your skills you could! Now, you can be the best barb, knowing all your skills etc (whats a rare thing in a world full of FF-noobs...)- it's impossible to be a striped tank anymore...

That's sad, pls give our kitties their origin duty back

Btw: I heard that other servers got a reswap or update for barb-aggro skills- are we going to get same? I hope so!

Greetings, A Babybarb, who wish to can hold aggro against sins on time....

Obviously to solve the barb aggro problem we need something like this:


WTB flesh ream level 12

procs for it include - deals base damage + 100,000 physical attack increase for 5 seconds.
Adds 60kbleed damage over 10 seconds.
Makes user immune to damage for 3 seconds.


Ty pwi.

b:shocked

Guys Its right the thing about barbs, we are almost like useless now and for be honest I dont like to that!!!! come on fix us! I been barb for 3 years now since PWI came out!! I really want as a veteran player, something addtional for barbs!!!! b:angry









Note: I been 3 years a barb my lvl is low because I got banned on firts barb I maked x_x

I agree with you wolfi barbs are becoming less important nowadays when i left for a long deserved break barbs was useful come back and barbs are basically useless unless they restat and go claw. our agro skills need to be updated. my 70 barb cant hold agro from my 74 1.67aps unless i constantly use agro skills which means it takes along time to get enough sparks to invoke to take less damage. use to before i left i could invoke do couple agro skills and invoke again while letting chi build. I had to take off my -int gear just so i wouldnt steal agro from my barb. which means he still takes more damage.

Its true... they should improve our aggro skills nobody needs barbs after lvl 90 or 80... just for buffs

I do recall hearing somewhere, some time ago, that china was getting a patch in the near future that buffed barbs aggro. -crosses fingers-

IBaMBii - Heavens Tear wrote: »

to be honest...

never use roar after you use ream it resets aggro level again.. so roar, ream and devour, ream.. but you are just using chi.

Marok - Heavens Tear wrote: »

its nearly impossible to get aggro with spamming Flesh Ream+Devour + Roar and again..

Devour would increase the damage of the people you are trying to keep aggro from more than it would do you any good for keeping aggro, as well as consume chi.

I agree with Wolfi that we need better aggro skills, or a modification to how the bosses recieve dmg. Maybe instead of increasing our aggro they should lower aggro from dmg/crits. Or increase boss defense levels so that bosses take longer than 10 seconds... Topic derail on how to fix the aps problem.

I went demon because it has better aggro skills, and no dmg reduction in tiger form where we are supposed to tank (whats the point of going tiger to tank and losing more aggro ability?). I also have debated back and forth on whether my 5.0 barb should have as much vit as I can get and still stay 5.0, or as much strength as I can get and have slightly lower hp. Now that I can do Full Delta's uncharmed with 15.5k hp and tanking WBs is not a problem I've decided full strength it is with 3 vit. Once you see 8k sins tank WBs you realize 30k hp is kind of a waste. My suggestion to all the 250 vitality "tank" barbs that haven't had aggro of anything since level 63 is strength and aps until PWI is willing to fix the game back to its original mechanics. No point to playing in a way you know wont work just because its "supposed" to work.

welp my barb has no problem holding aggro..i can hold aggro just fine no matter the dd, now thats a different story if the dd wants to play superman and demon spark...if they do that they deserve to get aggro and cry about it

I totally agree with OP, barb aggro skills do need to be revamped. People say "just go claw", that is NOT the answer. Why have sage or demon skills or any skills at all if while having claws equipped you cant use them? ohh I know spark and spank right? Ive said it b4,any well trained circus monkey can spark and spank bosses to death, some of us who happen to have a higher IQ than that of your average circus monkey like to use the skills we have learned and believe it or not some us barbs even know what they do. Having aggro is in the job description of a barb on the character creation page, but yet we barbs dont seem to have any. We havent played the barb class for 90+ lvls just so we can be buff bots. Its a simple solution increase the "hate value" of our main aggro skills, otherwise barbs will continue to disappear from our servers.

honestly, the equalness of the game has changed, more fast passed, everything is bigger and better at a higher price. with that, comes to bigger, better, faster farming. why have a 100+ sage barb who can keep aggro off a 5.0 +10 sin, when the sin can still tank?
the barb damage is low.. not needed anymore. you can just replace the pure axe barb with a +10 5.0 hfing bm and kill the boss 2x as fast.

People don't need Barbs, and I don't need ppl. b:cool

In-game, I'm pretty much a loner, even though I am 5.0 aps, I rarely do anything involving a squad. I just solo all my stuff. Only time I do squad is when I'm asked to run Nirvana from my friends or faction members, which in most cases, I tend to decline. I only run Nirvana for my 99 keys anyways.

Most of my time in game is either soloing TT, or FF.

Being a lone wolf is kinda......fun.

b:cool

Im a lvl 87 barb i agree with wolf i did a barb cause i wanted to do a tank now hes not much good now in the higher lvls, come on people who make this game help get the barb back to a tank

I 100% agree with wolf, barbs for sure need a revamp. Just because sins "can" tank doesn't mean they should be the one to tank. I have a 64 sin in the making atm, and idk about other sins but I sure don't like aggro and love avoiding armor repair fees. Even when and if I get it to lvl 100+ I don't want to be a tank on it XD.

I made my barb around a month after the game was out because I wanted to be a tank. This was before 5 aps became a craze and sins existed. I still love my barb and I love tanking and yes I'm sage. I like having high hp, and for tw the best str and hp sounds better then high attack for a barb if you ask me.

I seriously couldn't care less about -int and my attack, I mean I have always believed in "The dps should avoid aggro, the tank should not attempt to dps" most games I know follow this and I will forever follow it.

okay.. with all the barbs wanted the aggro change and lets say pwi does it.
TRUE AXE BARBS CAN NOW TANK AGAIN. do you guys honestly believe you will get farming squads in nirvana and farming TT squads, when the aps have ALREADY adapted to tanking?
this thread is just for QQs, even if there was a change, barbs will still only be wanted for RB, BH, and maybe lunar. hah.b:bye