crunchycat Arc User

I have every class. No matter which path you take (axe or aps), you will always under-perform compared to other classes whom are equally geared. APS does however have a lot of distinct advantages; however, it is not designed for the class.

I'll be happy do demonstrate otherwise if you don't mind making a trip to lost city.

A barb isn't a good way to kill a sin (or any other class really). You will get stunned and then APSd to death before the stun wears off. The best class to kill a sin is a psychic with high gear. Sin's will kill themselves on soul of vengeance, stun themselves on soul of stunning, and get sealed over and over again with a…

Karley :3. Barbs can't tank on our server with the high level APS squads that you will be in, so you have to choose whether to be a tank or a cata barb. If you choose a tank then you will want to go demon and APS with a balance of dex/str/vit. If you want to be a cata barb then you will go want to go sage with all free…

Every discussion of becoming a claw barb is a barb who is not happy with the default character. Every discussion of not being able to hold aggro is the same. Every discussion of people getting fed up because they can't win in PvP or tank in PvP is the same. Reading the forum means nothing if you are not listening to what…

Fuzzy, you have exhibited a long standing trend of "agreeing" with... how shall I say... bull****. Step up to the plate. Real players are giving you very negative feedback about barbarians on this sub-forum. You can pretend that everything is rosy and these are just "naysayers" or you can actually try to address the…

I am posting on my barb. Visit me on Lost City. PM CrunchyCat.

Jek, if you play for pvp or pve then make an assassin. High HP won't do anything against APS or magic damage, your mdef and pdef suck, your aggro skills wont hold against high DD, and your damage is beyond weak.

End-game barb here saying that barbs really suck. Seriously, the are pure sh.it. The only reason to have one is because they are cute n fuzzy. But that's it.

Come to mine fuzzy, I promise you will enjoy it ;3

hehe kook, i iz the one and only original harmless kitteh :3. If you want to see what I am talking about, don't watch me pvp. Watch all the other barbs pvp ;3.

Come to Lost City fuzzy and make yourself a level 100 +10 barb. Use any weapons you like. I'll take an equivalent of all other classes (except mystics and seekers because I don't have any at that level range) and I will bet that you will not win once in pvp against any of them.

What can I say AntiCreed, they are simply fodder.

No. With equal gear compared to any DD class, barbs suck at pvp and pve.

You don't even need a squad to do this. Here is how it's accomplished: * Pull everything together. * Turtle (invoke). * Triple spark. * Slam. * Triple spark. * Armageddon. (By now all the mobs should be dead, but if they are not one more Slam will do it.) * APS the boss to death. * Hunt any remaining harpies.

You're a barb. No matter what you do, you will suck at PVP; however, you will perform better with interval gear and high dex.

As a PVE or a PVP class, barbs are pure s.hit. As several people have pointed out, you can make a barb significantly better by going the path of interval fists/claws; however, it's very expensive and other classes with equal gear will still outperform you in PVE/PVP. My advice is if you want to make a tank for pvp/pve then…

No sense in sending your wish list to PWE. They don't care what you want.

Wow, Furries... sorry you had to go through that ****. I hope you get a chance to pk them.

I know a lot of people in game who have been **** in the past couple of months and PWI has done little or nothing to help them. Additionally the phishing scam isn't the most popular scame. The one people are falling for the most are keyloggers that get installed through fake PWI programs on facebook. Email accounts and PWI…

This is partially true as barbarians are nerfed to quite an extreme. At high levels they aren't really useful except for delta runs in PVE and they are far to weak to compete in PVP against other classes whom are equally geared. Barbs are cute n' fuzzy (which is why I keep mine around), but they really are an excessively…

I like barbs because they are cute and fuzzy. As a PVE/PVP class, they really are **** unfortunately.

I have yet to see evidence of that ;3. Twilight Temple 3-3 is very challenging now. Try the last boss with a barb tanking and see how far it gets you. [sarcasm] Why not go and tank Nirvana? I am sure barbs are popular because they can hold aggro in there. [/sarcasm]. That might work if your squad is fundamentally weak on…

I've noticed that people who use the phrase "I think" tend to do very little of just that.

Couldn't say; however, those are 3 barbs that aren't tanking. What I can say is that I see many barb-less squads form for everything and if you walk out into any PVP zone, there are usually no barbs around (although a surprising amount of assassins are usually present). Additionally, I am in 8 different factions on alts…

Barbs are a fail class. Their skills can't hold aggro in PVE and they cannot do enough damage in PVP to compete. It's a horrible design by PWI. The *only* way to make a good barb is to make it 5aps. Anything else sucks. Barbs are becoming scarce in PWI anyway. Most other classes can tank just fine with some good armor and…

I am sure the Devs can simply fix TT the correct way. Rather than jack it up again, ask them to correct it for the next patch.

frankieraye, any updates?

I suspect the biggest confusion from aggro stealing DDs is the notion that Barbs can hold aggro. They can't. The class isn't designed for it. Barbs have a few skills to steal aggro but not hold it. This means that if a DD want's a barb to hold aggro then it's HIS responsibility to not do too much damage. The other option…

That's an accurate description Darksylph. The end result is that the vast majority of Western players distrust and hate PWI (especially the GMs). Even when they fix the issue, that hate will likely long outlast the game's life cycle.