Why 5 Aps?!?

1) ability to keep aggro except for other 5 aps users or sins.
2) much faster helping guildies out with bosses / bhs
3) no reason not to, unless you're a cata barb or can't afford decent gear

plus.. If you get the refines high you can have 18k buffed again. so youre a barb, just with claws who can farm. b:victory

because regicides look cool b:shutup
(yeah i know...barbs generally stop at deicides, but i had nothing else to spend money on)

okok seriously though...

ItsAWolf - Archosaur wrote: »

1) ability to keep aggro except for other 5 aps users or sins.
2) much faster helping guildies out with bosses / bhs
3) no reason not to, unless you're a cata barb or can't afford decent gear

^ this

and also because BMs dont get buffs; i dont want to have to spend time running around looking for a barb to buff me
if done right, barbs can actually be more efficient at solo farming than sins (assuming one is willing to refine)

To the OP, a 5k hp difference is pretty extreme. Most people lose about 1.5-2.5k on the switch and thats it. I really think it increases your survivability in multiple other ways and an aps barb can survive way better in pve than a vit barb.

ItsAWolf - Archosaur wrote: »

1) ability to keep aggro except for other 5 aps users or sins.
2) much faster helping guildies out with bosses / bhs
3) no reason not to, unless you're a cata barb or can't afford decent gear

This. I get a kick out of how many barbs call the game or aggro broken, but still continue to play it the old way. If its broken, change to adapt to it. Don't continue to be useless and qq about how it "should be". With gear as it is there is nothing in pve that takes more than 16k to tank or pull, and 16k is well within the aps barbs attainability. Beyond that their hp is a perk. May as well do damage and help in many other ways where you can since there is no reason not to change to aps barb once you have 16k hp+.

Aps barbs can farm gear quicker and pay for better refines/gear.
They can spark resist magic attacks.
They can invoke and triple spark very regularly. In a 40 second period they can spend about 26 seconds either immune or 90% dmg reduction, and start again 20 seconds later.
Bloodpaint can heal about twice as much as a lvl 100 cleric spamming IH after IH on you. Its like having two or 3 clerics spam healing you.
Never are without chi for any skill.
BM's need to use 2 sparks to 50% debuff. We can do it and triple spark easily.
Tiger form is still an option because using fists takes nothing away from a barb. Just adds to it.

ItsAWolf - Archosaur wrote: »

another point, I'm not sure BMs have a way of doing this, but barbs do no miss in PvE ever once they have their first devour/penetrate armour in. So no need for accuracy rings unless you PvP b:pleased

This only works on mobs, I believe. It doesn't work with bosses (or players).