Deaths >:D

What lol no if u have low hp expect to die a lot I say... is not so hard to make a barb since you have to set a build that is a tanker please set the points on the correct points dont add to magic though -_- also the build is 3 on vit and 2 on strenght while every 2 lvls setting 1 point on dex if u want to make a tanker

Yes, you will die quite a bit since you're facing magic mobs a lot:P Good luck. If you manage to pull thru it will get better with time!

Not to try to sound pro or whatever (I'm not), but no, my barb only dies against dungeon bosses or if I'm dumb and go AFK in a hostile area. What's killing you? How is your barb built? We can offer more specific advice with that info.

Be sure to take on one monster at a time. If you do get swamped, just go True Form and flee. No shame in that. Learn what monsters in your area is aggressive and which ones aren't. Most monsters aggro after 10 meters, which is roughly half a caster's range (obviously depending on the caster, skill level, and spell, but most attack spells seem to be 18-25 meters in range, hovering around 20ish).

Alacrity is good because most magic mobs that are aggressive will start casting when you get close because they sense you enter their aggro radius before you get within melee range. Some run, learn which ones these are and try to control them so they don't run you into a group of monsters. Runners usually go directly away from you, so put yourself between them and an aggro nightmare and they'll run away from it.

You can guess the style of new mobs by their evasion. If you're a tank barb with minimum Dex, you'll notice a huge difference in your chance to hit. Against melee mobs you will have 70-80% chance to hit, while against magic mobs you will have 80-90%.

Max out Feral Regeneration when you can. It will help ease some of the damage you're taking (since you'll regenerate during the fight) and drastically reduce your downtime.

Try not to solo in true form. It may not be fun, but simply auto-attacking in human form is faster, especially once you hit level 3 True Form and it's cutting your damage in half. Find squishies like assassins and casters. They'll appreciate someone else taking the damage and you'll appreciate killing monsters in a quarter of the time it will take to do it yourself.

Resign yourself to the fact that you're going to spend a ridiculous amount of coin on gear. Not only do you need to buy new gear just like everyone else, but the sheer amount of hits you'll be taking will cost you. You can handle the beatings just fine; your armor can't. It's not something most characters consider, but a dungeon run is much more expensive to a barb than other classes and even the barb himself might realize. Assuming he's doing his job and no one else is getting hit much, his armor has suffered the durability damage of an entire dungeon's worth of monsters. That is not cheap. You won't kill monsters very fast, since you're not a damage dealing class, so you'll be taking a lot of durability damage. Just suck it up and do your best to keep your gear in tip-top shape. Because the warnings appear on the right side of the screen, under the hotkeys, you might be wandering around with broken gear, which can severely damage your survivability.

Mostly, though, it's situational awareness. Take one monster at a time, rest when you're about half life, and you should be able to handle just about anything level appropriate. Slow and steady is the barb way, not blam blam crit crit crit aoe.

Pro tip, improve gear.

I literally started in Closed Beta, so I got to level before hypers existed and also before Frost was an EXP instance. Did I mention that BH's did not exist either?

I had no will to cash shop, and farming seemed boring, and so did questing, so I would PVP the day away.

Now albeit I leveled using mostly crazy stone, literally, like 90% of my exp to 70 was crazy stone. I did quest, and I would LITERALLY wear armor that I would buy from a tailor in any town until I was level 80. Which is roughly when BH's came out. (Yes I was slow to level, only crazy stone remember?)

I would die a BUTTLOAD. It really, really, really sucked. My friends list was literally 80% clerics. It didn't help that I had 3 vit, and a zerk poleaxe that I had found from some mob.

At 80, this lovely guy Sinep gave me full HH80 gold, and we full socketed it with G8 Cits and +4'd most of it. I had never had refined gear before... Boy does it make a difference!

I literally went from hourly deaths to biweekly deaths, in PVE.

Now, with +12 2nd cast axes and GoF, I only die in PVE when I try to be a champ and tank entire instances. Or when Amour doesn't heal me when he says he will, when I tab out of game, grrrrr,



Blade_Aether
Hope for you yet.

Dying to one mob means something's wrong. Only handful of reasons exist for dying prematurely - (a) aggroed too many mobs (b) you didn't click on attack b:shocked

Solutions to both: (a) HP Pots at low levels (b) meditation - i know it takes time but loss of a few seconds is better than loss of exp (c) run away when in danger - you got 4 legs for a reason (d) use skills effectively - by skills i mean your barb skills and genies - as other barbs had pointed out, cancelling mag attacks helps (alacrity ftw) and secondwind/ToP on your genie will save your tail almost always.

Conalll - Archosaur wrote: »

**Barbarian contract. Chapter 1, page 4, paragraph 4.**

Fuzzy had to laugh at that. b:victory